The physical, visual and mental components of a Delirious trip

Deliriants are the third and final subset of hallucinogens for me to categorize and are even further removed from the classic psychedelic trip than a dissociative experience.
Deliriants are generally considered by everybody who has tried them to be a horrible experience that should not be recommended to anybody. There is zero enlightenment or insight to be gained from a deliriant, just a wide spectrum of neutral to horrifying hallucinations and a body high that consists of intense dysphoria.
These drugs work by their ability to block the chemical Acetylcholine which has been known to prevent people from dreaming as they wake up. It’s this effect that produces incredibly realistic hallucinations that are completely indistinguishable from reality which are generally negative and where all of the visual and mental effects stem from.
I am talking about the effects of DPH, Datura and DMH here and the people who enjoy these drugs are not nonexistent but there are very few of them, this is an extremely unpleasant experience and should be viewed merely as a thing of interest, not a viable alternative to the psychedelic experience which many uneducated people make the mistake of assuming.

Dysphoria:

One of the first things a person generally notices whilst gradually coming up on a deliriants is how absolutely terrible and miserable they feel.
There is not a single deliriant that does not have multiple negative side effects that will leave you feeling sometimes unbearably terrible, they do however seem to die down at very high doses but only because you are so delirious and distracted by the intensely realistic hallucinations that you forget about how shitty you are feeling. These feelings are commonly experienced as:

  • Sensitivity to sunlight.
  • Loss of coordination.
  • Dry mouth (sometimes to the point where it becomes impossible to swallow).
  • Abnormal heart beat.
  • Temporary Erectile Dysfunction (your penis will be smaller than you’ve ever seen it).
  • Dizziness.
  • Drowsiness.
  • Muscle cramps.
  • Nausea, violent vomiting (at higher doses).
  • Having to urinate every 15 minutes.
  • Feeling like there is cement in your urethra when you do try to urinate.
  • Loss of fine motor skills.

It’s these sensations that render deliriants completely useless as a recreational drug and it’s all these dysphoric bad vibes that help contribute to making sure your hallucinations are very unpleasant.

Delirium:

Delirium is the mental state that this class of hallucinogens puts you in and it not exactly a pleasant state of being either. A high dose delirious trip is usually accompanied by:

  • Mild to Extreme panic.
  • Depression.
  • Partial to complete loss of ability to speak.
  • Extreme confusion and disorientation.
  • Agitation and Nervousness.
  • Complete or partial loss of ability to reason.
  • Memory loss
  • Feelings of impending doom.
  • Feelings of regular doom.

Although all of these effects are quite pronounced and have a large influence on the trip itself, from personal experience it’s the loss of ability to reason that is one of the most important aspects of delirium and as it forces you to accept without question any hallucination that the trip can throw at you in exactly the same way that we often accept the bizarre and nonsensical plot lines to our dreams until the moment after it’s over.

Hallucinations:

The hallucinations experienced during a delirious trip are by far its most fascinating and overpowering quality. These hallucinations are completely different from any visionary experience or entity contact you can experience on a psychedelic or dissociative.
There is not any extremely complex non Euclidean geometry, fractals, interdimensional travel and entity contact to be found here and although the hallucinations can be anything there are still many hallucinations that are commonly experienced by most people that try these substances, these hallucinations are generally but by any means not limited to:

  • Spiders everywhere, often pouring out of everything.
  • Insects, often fantastical and crawling over everything in the room.
  • Shadow people.
  • Voices and imagined sounds.
  • Pet Dogs and Cats that you do not own.
  • Your Mother, often upset with you for taking drugs.
  • Human beings that are usually behaving completely normally.
  • Drinking imaginary cups of water and smoking phantom cigarettes.
  • Ripples and strange moving textures in certain objects.
  • Smoke and distortion in the air.
  • Floating inanimate objects like mobile phones that appear out of nowhere, only to disappear after your hand goes directly through the object while trying to grab hold of it.
  • Every day conversations with friends, family members and fictional people that aren’t really there.
  • Literally anything your imagination can come up with.

Dreamlike states:

During a delirious trip it is not uncommon to experience sudden flashes of short realistic dream like states. These short breakthroughs into delirium happen frequently and are usually mundane and everyday events such as getting dressed to go to work only to suddenly realize half way through that none of it ever happened and you’re actually lying down in bed. During high dose trips these dreamlike states become hallucinations within hallucinations as people commonly find themselves snapping out of them and thinking “well it’s a good job I’m out of that now!” only to find a couple of minutes later they never even made it back into reality and simply transitioned into a different scenario, this can continue for hours during very high dose trips and contributes enormously to making it even more difficult to determine what is real and what isn’t during a trip like this.

There really isn’t much to be said about this sort of trip, it’s sad that there is no such thing as an enjoyable deliriant since they are just as limitless as any psychedelic at high doses but in an inherently unpleasant way. I tried them just so I could give an accurate description but to be honest it was exactly what I was expecting and I could have written this guide without a single truly delirious trip to my name as indirect experiences on MDMA, Mirtazapine and random states of hypnogogia had already taught me much about how hallucinations and dream like states work without the memory loss.

Nobody is going to stop you from trying this but if you’re completely set on it at least wait until you have had a large amount of experience being out of your mind on psychedelic and dissociative substances first.

Obscure Hallucinogen Review 1 – Mirtazapine

Mirtazapine is an anti depressant that you won’t be able to find online or through a dealer, in order to obtain this drug you’ll need to have a connection with somebody who has a prescription from a doctor as its recreational use, although interesting and worthy of exploration will never take off enough for it to become popular and available on the black market and it’s not exactly something you can grow or extract yourself.

The effects of this drug are somewhat bizarre and after the initial onset of roughly 15 minutes to half an hour leave its user feeling as though they haven’t slept in days alongside an increased appetite and mild but definitely psychedelic closed eye visuals. Once the person inevitably gives up on fighting the drowsy effects and decides to go to bed they are greeted by an intense chemically induced state of hypnagogia and hallucinations as they drift off to sleep.
These hallucinations typically involve completely random but realistic short scenarios that swap between each other and are remarkably similar to the hallucinations some regular psychedelic users often experience when trying to fall asleep after a night of buzzing on MDMA.

For occasional recreational use this drug is very safe as overdoses up to 50 times the recommended dose have been shown to be relatively non toxic and show no significant cardiovascular effects. However repeated prolonged use with this drug as a prescription anti depressant has been shown to cause addiction and tolerance. It’s interesting to note that very little information exists online regarding the psychedelic properties of this drug and even on Erowid the highest dose trip report is roughly only 90mg which gives me and other Psychonauts who have access to it an exciting opportunity to actually break some new ground.

If you are considering trying this drug you should take a starter dose of 30 – 60mg taken roughly an hour or two before you plan on going to bed combined with as much Weed as possible. It’s not recommended that you try this drug on a work night if you are a commuter who tends to sleep on the train to work as you will find yourself once again tripping balls the next morning as you drift in and out of a hallucinatory state, this drug stays in your system for roughly 20 – 40 hours and will create a cross tolerance to the effects of Serotonergic psychedelics such as LSD and Mushrooms causing their effects to be greatly diminished if taken before the Mirtazapine is out of your system.

EDIT: After an intense trip I have found that this drug has certain aspects closely related to deliriants. At high doses this drug produces realistic auditory hallucinations and intense psychedelic visuals.

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