My eyes are up here, asshole.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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Who is she?
great execution of what? is this a cosplay of something?
It's referring to how using Benadryl recreationally will make you see the Hat Man at the end of your bed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person#The_%22Hat_Man%22
Ok, sure, but what do the giant knockers have to do with it?
Some people just have huge knockers.
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It’s to make sure you see Benadryl first.
I didn't realize people used it recreationaly. There are some interesting experiences documented here.
Thank you, I didn't know about Erowid. This is interesting as hell.
Erowid is a treasure! I’m certain I’m still alive because of that site.
It's been around forever. The "experience" section has a lot of gems. Check out salvia and jimson weed experiences sometime when you're bored and need a chuckle.
So you just drink & a friend pops up?
I don't need to go to a bar first?
Nice, this is introvert friendly knowledge.
Granted, I wasn't trying to use it recreationally, but responsibly, and triggered a withdrawal, instead. And it was profoundly awful.
I'm sticking the Hell away from any first generation antihistamines forever.
Some people use benadryl like a recreational drug. From descriptions I've read it just sounds horrible, your vision gets artifacts that look like spiders over every surface, some people see a man with a hat, which is what this cosplay is supposed to be, and I'm probably forgetting other stuff. There have been a number of deaths associated with people doing this to themselves.
I once took Benadryl for allergies, not knowing of its side effects. I took it on my way to a full eight hours of sitting in an overly warm room (it was on the second floor of an office building with a broken AC and an ancient projector was running in the middle of the room ... In August, IIRC) listening to someone lecture 20ish bored people about how to do our then-new job. The best I can say of the day is that I managed to stay technically awake.
I'm pretty sure that was also the last time I took Benadryl. I would not describe the experience as enjoyable. I've taken similar medications since then and have appreciated their efficacy and aid in getting to sleep, but I can't imagine taking them recreationally. No judgement to anyone who does, it's just not something I can interpret as fun.
edit: Though I never saw the Hat Man (unless he was incognito as the lecturer). Maybe that's the fun part.
You don't go delirious from low doses (that's what hatman is). I still keep some for emergency reasons (I take much newer allergy meds), and if you take as prescribed you'll only feel mildly crap. Visuals start at much higher doses, but you will feel some interesting (but dysphoric) stuff at ~100 mg which is double the recommended dosage I think.
The only "valuable" part for me was seeing how good the brain is at making me experience stuff that never happened.
IMO it's interesting to experience once, and never again. There are far superior allergy meds, and likely sleeping meds too, as for deliriants I doubt any of them don't feel like shit.
Fair enough. I just took whatever it recommended on the box, so that probably counts as a low dose.
I will say, though I'd never taken the pill orally before and never have since, the Benadryl spray has been excellent for de-itching bug bites throughout my life. I'm not sure one could make that recreational, though.
Very dose-dependent, although it's dysphoric as shit at any dose. You will experience closed eye visuals at medium doses and open eye ones at high. Basically it makes your brain see you've done something or seen something that never happened. Checking your phone, walking out of a room, speaking to someone, all of it extremely convincing, but in reality you never got up. That's on top of clouded and uncomfortable headspace, vasoconstriction, weird depth perception and machine-like control of limbs. edit: some people report music enhancement but that's rare
Obv if you aren't overdosing you won't get all of it. I've seen people combine very low doses of it with alcohol, but even to me, alcohol's biggest hater, dph is a step below. The only interesting part is realizing how convincing your brain is, whether it's producing dreams, delusions, or hallucination.
An insane dosage will kill you through liver failure and/or seizures iirc, and you'll be in trip hell the whole time you're dying. Look into how it's anticholinergic effects work, then look up popular nerve agents.
People chasing dumb "medals" like getting into 700 club (stands for 700mg of the stuff) is what got most of them hurt in my opinion.
Sorry. I came for the titties.
*to
That escalated fast.
Premature escalation
I’d need to see more to accomplish that. Internet porn ruined me
I see you.
But only when I'm not looking at the titties.