A Group-trip experience
Okay, I've been doing dxm for the past year, and for most of that time, it
has only been me and my girlfreind tripping on it, as I want to keep it
quiet. Anyway, I finally started to tell a few other freinds about it, and
introduce them to low dosages of dxm. Of the 8 people I gave the stuff to,
only one person didn't like it, so he never went on to a higher dose.
Anyway, the others wanted to try their first third-plateau trip, so I came
along for the ride. Now, usually, high level trips involve being in nice
comfortable surroundings, with trippy music on, and eyes closed, watching
the visions. This time, just as we were coming up, everyone decided that
they wanted to go for a walk. Most people would say that when your
expecting to come up on a third level dxm trip, you should stay indoors,
and I used to be one of them. Not so any more. If you walk around, in a
group, it is the most chaotic, bizarre, exhilarating experience you can
possibly imagine. It's like it's a totally different drug. At one point, we
were all walking through highfields, one of the most dangerous areas of the
city, holding hands to keep the "bubble" together. I remember visiting a
freind, and we had to walk down this long alley way, still holding hands. I
remember the alleyway twisting away in front of us, into this black space
beyond the orange street lights. It was totally fucked up.
The "bubble" was one of the strongest influences on the trip. It was like
we were all one body, or entity. If we split up, everything seemed to
change, and we would all have this urge to get everyone back together. The
person who had separated from the bubble was usually fine about it, but
everyone else in the bubble would constantly be feeling as though someone
was missing. When we got back to the flat, everyone just collapsed on the
floor, entwined amongst each other, still holding hands, and everyones
consciousness sort of melded together. It was really like we had become
one. Sometimes we would all just start laughing, and even though their was
nothing funny, we all knew we were laughing at the same thing. Then Helen
decided to put on this CD a freind had lent her. She didn't even know what
was on the CD, but it was the most perfect music you could ever have chosen
for that situation. At one point I was visuallising the music as three
dimensional, with a flat base, like a huge plain, and with the rest of the
music coming off this base like multi-colored mist, kinda like the northern
lights. When we were well over the peak, we were all lying on the floor
drifting off into our own world, when I turned my head, and it kind of
rested against my girlfreinds heads. Immediately, it felt as though our
brains had melted together, and liz, who has a lower tolerance than me, and
so was still getting very vivid visuals, started to send me halucinations.
It was so weird, because I had previously stopped getting much in the way
of visions, and all of a sudden, my mind was flooded with abstract pictures
and colours. When liz would ask me what I was seeing, I would tell her, and
it would be exactly what she was trying to send me. She would ask for the
colour, and it would always be right. Sometimes the images were very
complex abstract patterns, and I would be able to describe them in detail,
and it would match up exactly to what she was sending me. Nothing like this
has ever happened to me before, and it absolutely blew me away.
I sent a message just recently to the guestbook, saying that I thought dxm
trips were very inward looking, lonely experiences. I don't take that back,
as they sometimes can be. I now realise that it was my state of mind
causing the trip to be as it was. This trip was one of the most amazing,
bonding, empathogenic experiences I have ever had. It has brought me closer
to my freinds and my girlfreind in a very real sense, and in a way that
ecstacy never has. Ecstacy, much as I love it, does cause a degree of fake
emotion, and although it's good for making new freinds, it has never really
brought me closer to anyone in the long run. This caused all of us to be
under very strained, scary conditions, and we got through it together. This
naturally made us much closer afterwards, in the same way that any
traumatic experience would do. The thing was, that even though it was a
hectic, and sometimes difficult trip, it ended up in the most amazing
feeling in the world. It is a feeling that I hope everyone on earth has at
some point, with or without drug use. Wow.
-Dan
©1998 The Third Plateau
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