James and the Giant Peach

[Nighthawk 0]

I've just watched this on a third plateau DXM trip and it will take me the rest of my life to work through what I learned. Whatever your vice is, I strongly advise you to involve James and the Giant Peach in it.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

I've just watched this on a third plateau DXM trip and it will take me the rest of my life to work through what I learned. Whatever your vice is, I strongly advise you to involve James and the Giant Peach in it.

I've been wondering...what's with that plate o' food in your sig?

[Nighthawk 0]

It's deep fried alligator. Tastes mostly like chicken with some fish mixed in. Bit like Mahi Mahi.

[dutchse.cx 0]

I'm more interested in what you learned.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Excellent 1000th post, Dutch!

[Nighthawk 0]

I learned that I want to marry a French woman.

[dutchse.cx 0]

I was hoping for something a little more mindblowing.

[Nighthawk 0]

When your heart is in the right place, matey, your mind will be blown by Scrooge McDuck.

[dutchse.cx 0]

I think I'm stuck at 1000 posts. Interesting.

[Nighthawk 0]

JFK's presidency lasted 1000 days.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

You going to try 4th?

[Nighthawk 0]

I find it highly amusing and probably fit into the pigeonhole easier than I thought, but Jingus still does it way the hell more than me. If he does it, I'll see what he thinks. Otherwise, probably not.

[Jingus 0]

I'm not exactly sure if I've ever made it to 4th. I've been reeeeeeeally royally fucked up on a few occasions, but don't know exactly where you'd put the cutoff mark. Especially since I rarely just do straight DXM and usually mix in other various cold meds, antihistimines, and other crap.

 

Oh, and almost everything seems more nuanced, deep, and meaningful when you're robotrippin. Try watching some of the better Firefly episodes while you're in that state and you'll really see what I mean.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I first had alligator on my, I believe, 4th trip cross country (LA-Miami or vice versa) in Baton Rouge. The stuff is REAL good, quite like Mahi Mahi (or shark for those who don't know).

 

I get hungry looking at IDRM's sig, actually. It is good enough to salivate over. I haven't seen a good place to get a quality plate of alligator like that around here, though.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

It's deep fried alligator. Tastes mostly like chicken with some fish mixed in. Bit like Mahi Mahi.

I almost had some of that tonight. The restaurant I was at tonight offered it as an appetizer. I instead opted for clam chowder as a prelude to my 2.6lbs Maine lobster. The fried oysters were great. Not that the lobster wasn't great. The lobster being great should go without saying.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

I'm not exactly sure if I've ever made it to 4th.  I've been reeeeeeeally royally fucked up on a few occasions, but don't know exactly where you'd put the cutoff mark.  Especially since I rarely just do straight DXM and usually mix in other various cold meds, antihistimines, and other crap.

 

Oh, and almost everything seems more nuanced, deep, and meaningful when you're robotrippin.  Try watching some of the better Firefly episodes while you're in that state and you'll really see what I mean.

My friend in Cali is borrowing my Firefly set. Everyone I show that show to asks the same question...

 

"Why was this canceled?"

 

Just a few more months until Serenity!

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'm not exactly sure if I've ever made it to 4th.

Then you haven't. I haven't either, but I'm positive that statement is correct.

[Matt Young 0]

I've only tripped on DXM a few times, and I just felt really spaced out and stuff got distorted. I expected a lot more after reading up on Erowid.

 

I haven't done any of that in a couple years, but maybe II'd try it again. What's a good, cheap source of DXM (preferably not cough syrup if at all possible) that will get me a good, strong trip? Shrooms won't be around for a few more weeks and I have never found acid in all my years of searching, so why the fuck not try robo-trippin' again?

 

Also, I saw that James and the Giant Peach was on HBO2. I taped it for future stoned viewing. Seems like more of a stoned movie than a drunk movie, and those are my only intoxication options available.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Dexalone or Robitussin gelcaps. Robitussin Maximum Strength Cough Syrup is the most reliable way.

[Jingus 0]

Supposedly you can boil it down some kinda way to just straight DXM itself, but I've never bothered trying.

 

Some of the stuff on Erowid was kinda interesting, but a lot of it was just subjective junk that doesn't hold true for every different user. Plus the formatting & organization of the posts was really bad.

 

On the subject of other hallucinogens, I want some shrooms sooooo bad. I've only done them once, and then it wasn't much, but goddamn it was fantastic. Best body buzz I've ever had. Always wanted to trip acid, but never got around to it. Used to want to try Xstacy, but then had a friend who OD'd and died from it so that kinda killed that urge.

[Matt Young 0]

Shrooms are so great. I want to try pure shrooms sometime. The 2 times I tripped (August of 2002 and February 2003- been too long) were with chocolates.

 

The first time, I had about a half of a chocolate with chunks of shrooms inside. Needless to say, I'm unsure of the dosage. I didn't have any mindblowing experiences, but my spinning colored light ball deal entertained me for hours, and my eyes and faces swirled and morphed into something alien when I looked into the mirror. Unlike most people, I love staring into mirrors while tripping.

 

The second time with the chocolates, my friend John got a big batch of shrooms, boiled them down to extract the psilocybin, and then made the chocolates out of that. I got majorly fucked up from that shit. The 2 girls I was tripping with puked- one off of a single chocolate, the other off a half. We took the doses at noon, and I wasn't back at baseline or able to sleep til 4 A.M. I had a badass spraypainted/tie-dye purple and blue pattern on my bedroom walls, too, and that was entertaining for a long time.

 

I wonder if my $5 will buy me some Robotussin Maximum Strength. If I can hold it down, what level trip should I expect? At least, how many milligrams of DXM are in a full bottle? Most cough syrups I encountered, if I remember correctly, contained approximately 33 mg per tablespoon, I believe, but I could be way off.

[Jingus 0]

Okay, robotrippin' primer: $5 might get it, depending on how much it costs in your particular local plus whatever sales tax. There are generic brands available, but selection varies on a store-by-store basis. Your average bottle of Max Strength Tussin has a 118 ml volume with a dosage strength of 15 mg DXM per 5 ml of the solution, which works out to 354 mg of Dex. That's a respectable dose, should get you nicely to the second plateau, but don't expect a Woodstockian world-altering mindfuck. It feels more like being drunk than anything until it really kicks in, which can take anywhere from forty-five minutes or so to two hours depending on a variety of factors, so give it time. The effect will last a few hours, hard to gauge exactly how long because it's pretty random. Eating a little something beforehand is strongly recommended, cuz puking is par for the course with this stuff. While you're tripping, you'll be thinking a lot of Deep Meaningful Thoughts but articulating them is difficult; I keep meaning to get a tape recorder and keep a trip diary of sorts, but have never gotten around to it. Robotripping is best done alone, except for other fellow trippers, cuz otherwise everyone will laugh at how stupid you're acting. Truth be told, your best trip companion can often be just a stack of DVDs to watch. If you feel some depression on the way down, don't worry, that happens a lot. Oh, and don't expect to be able to get a decent erection for at least a day or so afterwards. That's about it.

[Matt Young 0]

Man, you're a fucking pro. I never expected that from you. What you described sounds like the same dosage/effects of my trips back in the day. I'd like to get to the 3rd plateau.

 

On a random note, I've been up all night and I'm about to go smoke some chronic with a crazy Mexican named Alberto. He's some sort of cousin to Veronica. The dude is insane in a hilarious way, and he just spent 2 minutes playing some rap song which sampled the theme from Cheers over the phone while improvising lyrics about smoking weed. I'm scared.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Jingus, you know a wrecked libido is a sign of your brain rewiring itself?

 

Matt, you're a skinny little bastard, drink around 3/4 of a bottle for 2nd plateau. That's what I recommended to Spoon, and he got gourded as hell. ! to 1.5 bottles would probably kick you up to 3rd, easy.

[Jingus 0]

Yeah, but the effects are always just temporary, and it's been happening since the very first time I tripped, so I figure it can't be anything too terribly traumatic. IDRM said it happened to him too. And even if I did go permanently impotent, well, it's not like my sex drive has kept me out of trouble over the years, if I went eunic maybe I'd finally get a real job and move out of my parent's house.

[Art Sandusky 0]

What about the gelcaps? How many would fix me up? I don't think I could ever drink the stuff again after I made the mistake of drinking some milk last time while tripping.

[Guest Quality Poster]

As I said before, extract it.

 

And the decreased sex drive thing is common. I couldn't get off either. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dxm/dxm_effects.shtml

[Nighthawk 0]

IDRM said it happened to him too.

Whoa whoa whoa. I can get it up. It just takes three times as long.

 

One bottle of gelcaps equal one bottle of syrup, about, so divide from there. I ate a bottle of the caps and it took (no shit) five hours to kick in, but was a little stronger once it got there. My tolerance is high, I wouldn't expect a five hour delay for most people.

[Nighthawk 0]

By the way, I've quit taking the full dose at once. I'll do one bottle, then when the first plateau starts to wear off, another, then when the second plateau first starts, a third. Find I get the most out of it that way. Continuing that pattern through the fourth, by the way, is supposed to be how to reach the mythical fifth plateau.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Try mixing up some lean. Make it more palatable. Plus, you'll end up drinking more through the course of a night if you sip it.