Delsym Reality [2009]

It was October 2009, and I had horrible allergies. I was coughing a lot (I can't remember how many times an hour or day)...and therfore,my mom went out it the drugstore to get a powerful cough syrup called "Delsym". I didn't know that the active ingredient in the medicine called dextromethorphan (DXM for short) was a hallucinogen in the dissociative class. To make matters seem even more disasterous, I went to school the morning I took the Delsym for my cough. In addition, I hadn't eaten anything before I took the Delsym. The Delsym was grape (Purple).

I went to school feeling fine at first, but by the time lunch rolled around (11:35AM),I felt dissociated and not in reality. I even forgot I was in school, and began to see this Purple image when I closed my eyes. I was in a dreamlike state, feeling half awake and half dead (sleepy/tired). Everyone's loud talking seemed slowed and slurred, and I felt kinda high (in reality,I was robo tripping my brains out w/o my knowledge at the time). I told someone that I forgot I was in school,and that person said "You're lucky!".

By band time (which is directly after lunch),I almost fell asleep on the bass drum. My band teacher began to get a fiery temper upon seeing me almost fall asleep, calling it "disrespectful", but she probably didn't know about the Delsym thing. I promised her it wouldn't happen again. As I went up to my locker my good male friend tried to scare me, and I felt this strange sensation all over my body that replaced the normal scared/shocked feeling I got when he would "scare" me. It was a numbing sensation that was hard to describe...yet easy to remember.

The Delsym high wore off by the time I got home, and I told my mother about the Delsym high over the phone. My mom was angry that no one notified her about the fact that I almost fell asleep on the bass drum. Also, she said I probably took too much Delsym on accident.

I still take Delsym for a cough, but not too much. Here's a psychedelic Smashing Pumpkins instrumental to go with the nature of DXM and this blog: