I’ve found that coming down off of a DXM induced trip is very unpleasant. Not in the hit-by-a-cement-truck physical pain and general lack of well-being sense. I often feel like while I was high someone kicked off the top of my head and vigorously stirred up its insides with a very large stick.

Every thought, sensory experience, and emotion seems to be re-routed after consuming copious amounts of dextromethorphan hydrobromide and allowing it to course through my head doing its dirty work. DXM fucks up all pathways, and it always seems far too long before reconstruction takes place and I feel like a human again instead of a very poor facsimile of one.

From what I’ve heard and read this reaction is atypical.