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WittyUnwittingly t1_irbhr6x wrote

Reply to comment by penicilling in Why do some antihistamines make you sleepy? by [deleted]

This. 1st generation antihistamines are full-blown psychoactive drugs, usually considered "deleriants."

Eating 8-10+ Benadryl will get you high asf for 6 or so hours, but like... Not a good high: Itchy, confused, and sleepy but unable to sleep.

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shaftshaftner t1_irbtxfa wrote

To discourage the curious, benadryl is not to be messed with. People can die from overdosing. It’s rare but there have been cases of children taking 5 adult benadryl tablets and never waking up, usually due to negligence or ignorance from the caregiver.

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WittyUnwittingly t1_irbveyv wrote

Yup. Even if drugs are your thing, you're not missing much by skipping out on the Benadryl.

I think this is one of those fringe cases where the distinction between "psychoactive drug" and "recreational substance" is meaningful. Benadryl is a psychoactive drug, but it is not recreational. You would not have a "good time."

Oh yeah, there's nausea too. Lots of nausea.

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TripleXAfro t1_irbwxnt wrote

I took 450mg in a sitting , I remember passing out for an hour and waking up with the proportions of everything being extremely messed up and a weird shine on everything. I didn't have a negative experience which is interesting.

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TripleXAfro t1_irbx9aa wrote

Unlike drinking grapefruit juice and then Consuming 100mg of dmx. That was the worst experience I've ever had.

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YoureSpecial t1_irc3fao wrote

Grapefruit juice fucks all kinds of drugs up. Can make them last longer, lose effectiveness, activate the active ingredients all at once instead of over time, inhibit active ingredients, make some drugs toxic, etc.

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Blakut t1_irewtfg wrote

Yeah what is up with that?

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YoureSpecial t1_irf13av wrote

It’s true of all citrus to some degree, but grapefruit’s effects are waaaaaay more pronounced. It’s some sort of flavonoid or something. I can’t remember just now.

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loefferrafael t1_ircukr4 wrote

I appreciate and find it important that you wanted to discourage the curious because I was curious

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KanyeWaste69 t1_irbkqdp wrote

It's terrjble. Eat 30, you'll be experiencing real life terrors for the next 6 hours. Never again

It's like giving yourself full blown dementia, yet every hallucination you'll see in the dark feels as real as life

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HowRiskyIsDatClick t1_irbqgll wrote

Why are there so many spiders crawling down the wall

And also realistic hallucinations that are impossible to distinguish from reality

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CeeArthur t1_ird15ps wrote

Yeah I experimented with them a couple times with increasing dosages as I was mostly curious, and there really isn't anything fun or enjoyable to it. At best, you'll just feel a bit out of it and maybe have a good nap, but at a higher dosage it's straight up paranoia, hallucinations, twitching, pure terror, and no sleep.

The last time I took them, I thought there were people trying to break into my apartment at 4am, I had a wrench and was standing back to a corner with all the lights on just waiting. The thing is all the auditory hallucinations are so real that you can't really talk your way out of it. I thought these guys had just kicked in my neighbors door and beaten him to death, and one was waiting by my living room window for me to look away for a second so he could pounce. I eventually sort of ran how ludicrous this situation was over in my head a few times and realized it wasn't actually happening.

I did learn an important trick from this experience though, having had some scary hallucinations (not all drug induced) since then. When you start hearing things and you aren't sure if they are real or not, focus on either a phrase or maybe tv show theme song you know really well. If you start to HEAR one of those things (as if real) then odds are, you're suffering from auditory hallucinations.

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