The DPH (Benadryl) Iceberg Explained 

"if you're addicted, please get unaddicted" lol that's a good one man

Abused Benadryl as a kid because of extremely severe allergies and it gave me terribly trippy “naps/dreams” that still haunt some of my nightmares now, and contributed to a lot of my irrational phobias and sensory issues (feeling tingles, pinching and odd pain just under my skin)

I accidentally tripped on dph after drinking because it was cold, I had a runny nose, and I didn’t read the label on the bottle since I never thought much of allergy pills. My vision became yellow tinted and there were centipedes and spiders everywhere in my room. Everything started to sound distorted and it literally felt like I was in hell. Probably one of the scariest experiences in my entire life.

Hey! My video is at 16:34 thank you. I myself am personally 135 days clean and have stopped experiencing Hppd. Although for a while I would see bugs or objects worping in my daily life. It’s a drug your better without.

i was forced to take two pills every night when i was a kid, watching this video really made me realize a bunch of symptoms i have that are still current and i feel less crazy now

After watching this, the phrase "If you do drugs, you go to hell before you die" feels all the more true.

as someone who works in pharmacy, i dont even feel comfortable taking a regular dose bc of how bad it is for you in the long run

41:00 timestamp in case anyone wants to skip the Hatman creepypasta reading

Yeah, spiders and whispers for sure… piles of laundry standing up and walking out of the room, talking to mumbling shadows, it’s literally like making yourself experience psychosis.. used to take Benadryl and NO2 together, fished out a couple times and woke up in a dystopian nightmare, awfully fun and scary at the same time imo. I was in a very dark place in my 20s when I abused every substance I could get my hands on. The hallucinations ended up lasting for a day or two after some heavy heavy doses and shocked me out of the pattern of abuse. I eventually stumbled into a better place by finding new people and influences that made life worth living and haven’t been back to the Benadryl hole since.

Subreddit: "we do not recommend DPH abuse in any form" Also subreddit: *glorifies the abuse of DPH in every form*

This was a fascinating video. At first there was a faint sense of curiosity, a "Y'know, I do have this stuff on my desk" (allergies), but the more I listened the more rapidly that kind of thought evaporated away. Then it became an increasing pit and anxiety in my chest as I listened on and was just shocked and somewhat amazed at how bad some of this could get, and the levels of addiction that gripped some people. Genuinely one of the most fascinating iceberg videos I've seen.

I still find it insane that DPH is legal in many places and is an over the counter medicine, while personal use weed is banned and will land you in jail for 10 years.

I took benadryl in inappropriate doses and with meds i wasnt supposed to and now im stuck with having seizures for the rest of my life. Dont abuse benadryl :')

it sucks. the hallucinations are bad and the constant extreme restless feeling is arguably worse. stay far far away from it guys it seriously changes you

I accidentally took too much Benadryl one time...and all I saw was a glowing, shimmering butterfly thing sitting on my couch. It was beautiful! First, I looked around to make sure no one was around to witness me being weird...then I tried to touch it just to see if I could. When my hand went right through it, Inknew it was a hallucinationnthat only I could see. But that was the ONLY time I took too much, and it was the ONLY thing that I hallucinated. This was a long time ago, but I have never forgotten about that shimmery butterfly, because it was easily the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

I think the most important thing is when we have kids to tell them very early about drugs and how they affect you after the fun part is over.

In 9th grade I got into a fight and got suspended for like 15-20 days. My parents were making my life miserable so I literally tried killing myself by taking a handful of Benadryl tablets. About 30 minutes later I was talking to myself in my bathroom with the lights off 😂

“Hatman’s” description of _person B_ and having empty epiphanies and becoming a pseudo intellectual is a perfect description of so many people I’ve met or read posts written by them. That part is brilliant and hilarious

1:50 tbf diphenhydramine is also contained in sleep aids like unisom and in PM formulations of common OTC pain medication, so it is an approved use to take it for sleep (dosage is the same). I spent a lot of my life researching and disseminating online harm reduction information including among people taking OTC medications to get high, and Benadryl has been an issue of safety in that space for long before the infamous online challenge. In that spirit, I commend you for making this video to inform more people (especially a new generation) about the phenomena as well as the dangers.

I want to thank you for this presentation about dph I am a 58-year-old woman and I've been taking Benadryl to sleep since I was about 25 years old because I'm such a bad insomniac. My doctor put me on Xanax as well I've been on it for 20 years I take 2 mg Xanax and then I take 50 mg to 100 mg dph at night to sleep. I haven't experienced any of the awful side effects that you've described here but it is definitely put me on alert and made me not want to take more than two at night and I do believe it's something I should discuss with my doctor. Because I do go through some short-term memory loss and I'm sure it has everything to do with the Xanax and the dph again thank you so much for your presentation I think you may have stopped me from doing something I would have regretted.

The "eh this drug sucks" and "light recreational use" entries are more than likely the levels of DPH addiction. So you try it, it sucks. Then you try it again and it's okay, so you do it every now and again. This progresses (obviously bc DPH is addictive) until you're a vegetable who can't remember shit. However, brain damage and long term side effects can occur from NORMAL usage as well AKA "Therapeutic" doses. DPH is a horrible drug y'all. If you do try it, please be safe and drink lots of water.

I almost forgot about this brief period of my life. I used to describe this type of trip as "Dreaming With Your Eyes Open". Although the trip was sometimes far more intense than LSD, there was NEVER any sort of Euphoria or sensations of "Enlightenment". It was empty, colorless, and void of all emotion or intellect at all. The girl who got me into it would often refer to "waking up", referring to the successive times that one would seem to "wake up" from whatever dream you may have just been in. But this waking up was not like coming out of a trip. It was only transitioning from one dream-scape to the next. One consistent experience that we both had, which was not mentioned in the video was the ability to see through solid objects, and "Dream Sharing" between others that you may be tripping with. I only did it with one other person than her, and that friend said that he never wanted to ever do it again. I don't think that we had a "bad" trip. But it was a very confusing day for both of us, and it felt like getting stuck in a never-ending dreary day. I think that was the last time that I did it as well. I honestly don't know how someone could actually "enjoy" doing it. The first time I did it I was also on LSD. That was how I met this girl (at a Grateful Dead concert). She just walked up to me and asked if I wanted to trip. I was already tripping on Acid, so it seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do (plus, she was cute). But then she handed me six pills. I didn't know that Acid came in pills (because that's what I thought she meant), but I took them without asking any questions anyway. We then got "stuck" in the bathroom of a 24-hour chicken & waffles restaurant, just staring at the spiders coming out of the filth in-between the tiles of the bathroom walls. I really have no idea how long we were in there, or how we got out. I guess the addition of the LSD and being with this girl made that trip less "dreary" and emotionless than a "normal" DPH trip. But the few times I did it after that, was not really enjoyable at all. At best, it was merely interesting. But for that entire period that I was with that girl doing DPH, it seemed like the sun never came out, and it was always cold & wet. Like being in that movie "River's Edge". I do not recommend it to anyone. (Although I know saying something like that can create intrigue - it seriously is like stepping into a freakin' horror movie. There are far better ways to trip.)

So I actually take hydroxyzine to help me with anxiety and sleep and I was always told it’s essentially just Benadryl but it’s actually way safer and less addictive because it basically slows down the effects of histamine in the body, causing it to think it’s time to go to sleep. So if you need something to help with sleep, I would highly suggest talking to a doc or psychiatrist about hydroxyzine

I used to be a very sickly kid with frequent bouts of night terrors and my parents had me take DPH to help me sleep sometimes. Occasionally I saw the man in the hat but considered him a funny imaginary friend. The whole experience sorta helped me overcome my fear of the dark, so I actually remember him fondly.

Shadow people and Hatman can show up when functioning on very little sleep for extended periods of time. I saw plenty when I was pulling 75-80 hour weeks at Coca-Cola, and that was Mon-Fri I got weekends off. Shadow people are a really weird thing to see, once you see one you suddenly start seeing more. And when you make it obvious you've seen/noticed them, they suddenly start to notice you too. Feeling them stare at you is so creepy too. Hatman was weird for me though. Always saw him at a distance and only ever outside. Usually just sent a shiver up my spine (definitely up my spine and not down) but sometimes filled me with dread making me stay inside and away from the windows. I don't smoke, drink or do any sorta drugs. Sleep deprivation is not recommended, and anything that causes hallucinations is usually a bad idea. Don't go looking for Shadow people. Make for cool stories but it's so disturbing actually seeing them, and my experience they are not friendly

I abused dxm for years and I would mix it with dph sometimes... Everything they said is true. I was charged by a ghost spider (which I tried to burn), my dead dog told me "it's okay" and people with no faces showed up to berate me.

People talk about the hallucinations but they don’t talk about the fear you feel. You know how you get that sharp and painful feeling in your chest and the sickness in your stomach when you are paranoid? When on DPH you feel that consistently, unwavering, and INTENSELY throughout the entire trip

This drug gave me a permanent irregular heartbeat.

No one over 15 could sit thru that Hatman story, smh.

i can’t believe i used to take 16 at a time in early high school just to have a really shitty trip and then pass out. It was absolutely horrible for my body and mind

Can confirm. Developed a quickly devolving benadryl addiction a few years ago. Started the same as anyone else, just some allergies then a little to help me sleep. became routine. routine needed more and more then one day i wake up feeling like my heart temporarily stopped. I was ice cold and my lips were still blue when i looked in the mirror. I don't care if that was a hallucination or it actually happened, the results are the same. I threw it in the trash and never allow it in my home anymore. Didn't even think I could become addicted. Scary, scary stuff.

Saw him years ago. Way before social media. Blew my mind when i started seeing that it wasn't just me

Chubbyemu has at least one video recounting the effects of dph overdose on the body. He also has a video on dextromethorphan, which was mentioned as well. Though benadryl is not meant to be used as a sleeping aid, years ago my dad's primary care doctor repeatedly suggested he use it for such, assuring us it was safe, and my family had to deal with my dad developing a minor dependence on it. This was incredibly frustrating as my dad had dementia and was a kidney transplant recipient, so he was in no position to be experiencing any further confusion from its drowsy effects, or potentially toxic doses of anything. My dad was also prescribed amitriptyline by this doctor for his mood. Both benadryl and amitriptyline are anticholinergics that are associated to increased dementia risk and activity! They were actively making his brain function worse. We were able to fix the dependency by having his medication reviewed and adjusted with a pharmacist and his transplant team, which helped some with his sleep patterns as well, but I still hold a grudge against that doctor for contributing to my dad's decline.

I take DPH for insomnia but if I take more than 1 pill within a 2-4hour period, I start getting these weird random itches all over my body. That alone prevents me from being tempted to take more.

I used to trip on DPH a lot when I was younger. I’d take 2 boxes of 20 50mg pills and towards the end my body would start retching as soon as I put the first pills in my mouth, it was like my body was begging me not to do it again. I remember that the first symptom before the full hallucinations would kick in was seeing these jelly spiders all over the walls. Then the invisible people would turn up, but by that point the dissociation was so bad I didn’t know I’d taken anything or that I was tripping or who I was. It was always a distinctly unpleasant experience, a very ‘dirty’ high. I was a smoker, and I would often have ‘ghost cigarettes’ appear in my hands - they weren’t real, but I could see them, then I would think I’d dropped them and panic that I was going to burn the house down. My legs would also tend to go numb and take on a blue tinge; I’ve now heard about a lot of people who have died due to their hearts giving out under the influence or shortly after; I guess it’s really hard on your heart, which makes a lot of sense and lines up with the symptoms I experienced. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend it, even if you’re someone who likes hallucinogenic substances. If you’re just looking to get high, seek out weed. Honestly I think no drug is worth it, but if you’re determined, then that is a far better option. If you can get a clean supply, almost any of your ‘classic’ safer drugs would be a better option; pot, x, murhrooms, acid. DPH isn’t safe, it isn’t pleasant, it isn’t fun, it isn’t an eye-opening or spiritual experience. Because it’s a dissociative deliriant, many people have wound up in the hospital, after worrying family and friends and being fully incapable of saying that they’d taken such-and-such, and completely impossible to calm down. Sometimes they’d get violent or just do stuff that was dangerous.

"growing better at keeping your bodies alive but worse at creating a life which would desire anything but the release of death" Brutal.

Dph is gnarly. I never did it too often, but I'm also not a delirient fan. I used to like dxm, one of the few dissociatives to give me a euphoria (ket was dysphoric). One thing people don't mention is that delirients cause true hallucinations, meaning you see things that are grounded on the layer of reality, rather than having fractals and so on. I have smoked datura a few times too. Dph is no joke. Even if you are experienced in hallucinogens, delirients by nature are confusing

I love how casual but yet still formal your videos are!

Really interesting video, man. Well done. I had no interest in taking DPH, and this video reinforced my lack of interest, and made me grateful for never venturing down that path.

I do take Benadryl for allergies, but I try to avoid taking it at all because it knocks me out for almost an entire day. It's horrible stuff for this reason, but definitely helps with my allergies. I refer to it as a last resort for allergies for me.

43 minute mark; this is true, this is what it’s like, I’ve never heard it described from someone else. One thing missing is what I call “the mumble”; the apparitions you see are indistinguishable from actual people, and when you speak to them in a normal tone your voice roars in your own ears (this didn’t happen with real people I spoke to). I was diagnosed as full blown paranoid schizophrenic for a full three days, I’ve experienced LSD and shrooms after this incident and they are laughable in comparison, like comparing SpongeBob to Saving Private Ryan. The worst part is, it happened to me unintentionally, as I was still a kid and had no idea what to expect and I didn’t even know what a high was. If you’re one of these “edgy” kids who think that talking about this stuff like it’s going to earn scene points or make you intriguing, you are wrong; where I went for three days is something I wouldn’t even wish on a war criminal or even Vlad Tepes himself. This is not a drug, it’s an unguided tour through Biblical Hell that will tattoo itself onto your brain for the rest of your life. I don’t feel cool after experiencing it.

The "this drug sucks" is just reference to the insanity of us doing it expecting a good trip but nonetheless get to know the drug enough to say it sucks while also continuing it's use

I used to take dph in extreme amounts for years. Sometimes I would lose the ability to speak coherently. It's like dementia symptoms. Struggling for every thought and word, forgetting what I'm talking about a word or two in, and then panicking as i try to not sound like an insane person to whoever I was talking to, it felt like trying to run through waist high mud. SCARY.

I once accidentally took a dose of two pink pills, forgetting that I'd already taken two half an hour earlier. Whoa. It was very unpleasant. I'm a weed lightweight, lol, and it felt very much like one of the times I forgot to pace myself as the bong got passed around, and I went from being giggly-stoned to feeling like total crap. That was only from 4 pills. I can't begin to imagine doing actual high doses of allergy meds. I DON'T recommend. I was able to tame it a bit thru downing 2 or 3 glasses of water.

The fact that shrooms and LSD is safer than overdoses of DPH 😭

Those "spiders" are tiny bits of your brain, taking flight, never to return.

I had no clue! I do occasionally take this for sleep. But, thankfully I have a fear of taking too much. Thank you for the information, very well put together. 💜💜💜

Those dph trips are nuts, I remember seeing a streak of lightning go across a mirror, a friend said my eyeball fell out, we saw the spiders, I remember my friend told me not to the leave the room, shadow people wrestling in the hall, a friend went into a park car and talked with people as if he was on a road trip with them. No one else being in the car.

i once purposefully tried to overdose myself on diphenhydramine when i was really depressed. mid-attempt, my friend called the cops, who took me to the hospital. this is EXACTLY what it was like. they wanted to ask me what was wrong, to sign forms, to tell them what happened… i was hardly conscious.

Spiders and shadow people don’t come from this drug! They’re a symptom of waking terrors with paralysis. The drug just amplifies it where you notice it more. It’s a anxiety trigger.

I tried using DPH to end my life. Thank you for explaining the dangers of this drug.

Interesting video Substances like psychedelics when administered temporarily and in the minimum and safe dose can save life (prevent suicide), yet..long term all of them are NOT the answer (solution to the problem). self honesty, emotional and spiritual healing (done correctly) produce safe and lasting results..health happiness, inner peace

Funny enough, the symptoms at 8:02 are extremely similar to the type of hallucinations at 2-3 days of no sleep.

I find the writing 'from the Hatman' really damages the legend for me. Its one of those attempts to ground the horror in reality (presumably to make it scarier) but IMHO these things are spookier when theyre vaguer.

“Mom, I want to get the Screwtape Letters.” “We have screwtape letters at home.” Screwtape letters at home: that cringe Hatman story

I took benadryl to help sleep one night, then the next morning, I had an unknown allergic reaction (weird bumps and hives on my legs and arms). I took another dose after breakfast, and it sent me to the hospital. My limbs were very shaky. I was scared because I thought I was going to have an epileptic seizure - something that I've never experienced. My thoughts were also muddied and dark. Some were suicidal, some were about me running away out of the emergency room, and some were borderline psychotic. It also sounded like I heard static in the background the while time. After I woke up from this state, I kept this secret to myself. After that, I've never touched benadryl again. This was back in fall of 2023.

This video is really well done. It’s horrifying yet truthful enough to hopefully spread awareness. When I was in a really bad place, I would take about 5-6 to have a deep sleep because it was something I struggled with and I liked the “lightweight” feeling. One night I took too much and almost felt like I was falling. I would wake up in a panic and it felt like someone was there. Like I swear I could hear someone talking to me but nobody was there. And in the corners of my vision I would see the little blobs of movement (spiders). Luckily I didn’t see anything too horrifying but that was enough for me to stop.

It’s been over 14 years since I’ve abused DPH. I’m 31 now. I still experience spider hallucinations at times when I’m beginning to dose off. It’s seemingly permanent and fully engrained into my psyche.

I took a few benadryl and 6 ambien once. I wasn't trying to get high, I just wanted to sleep. I've had severe insomnia since I was 5 years old and after a while it feels like you're going insane. So I took them and I don't remember the transition but at some point I shifted from consciousness to not conscious but still active. I woke up the next day sitting upright on my couch with an empty plate on my lap and another empty plate on the floor. I didn't know what that was all about but I figured it out later when I got on Facebook. Apparently I had made two taco salads from scratch and with all the fixings. Then I took pictures of them and posted them on Facebook. I wish I could remember eating them because they looked pretty damn good.

If anyone here is considering taking Benadryl or already has, know that it isnt too late to turn back. When i was 16 or 17 i took a gram of Benadryl one night. I dont remember if it was a suicide attempt or not. When i awoke it was evening the next day. Apparently i had walked out of my room naked and i was talking gibberish, apparently i got scared of a non-existent spider at one point. And dont even get me started on the shaking. I couldnt hold a glass of water to take a drink. I only know this because my parents had to take care of me like a baby that day, and they told me about the things i did. I remember nothing from that day. I'm almost 20 now and i still get tremors sometimes. I dont know how many memories I lost that day. Sometimes i wish it had killed me, but it didn't. Since then i have noticed I'm also a much more angry and violent person, and I've lost a quarter of my body weight. Please avoid this drug at all costs, I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart when i say this.

Did DPH once and Dramamine once, they're similiar chemically and effect-wise. Besides the most uncomfortable body load on both, I had a full 30 minute conversation with my friend and gf at the time that never actually happened and she wasn't even there. Saw giant spiders, cats when I didn't have a cat, and kept getting jumpscared by nothing at all. Once my chest started hurting and my heart started racing I panicked and went home to sleep it off. Worst thing I ever chose to do and good luck to anyone else who decides to try it.

As someone who was addicted to benadryl and now heroin I approve this iceberg 👍🏻

that hat story is the most ridiculous and cringe i've ever heard, it is very obvious the one who wrote it has no idea at all about how demons and negative entities work even though it is pretty easy to have even some what close image of it by looking at psychopaths for example.

really good video, i loved it! keep this up because its awesome

my former commanding officer owes the hat man $4,500

Mind altering drugs can be very scary. Never did DPH but took a high dose of acid once and was real intense. Watched myself lay on the couch and the room I was in floating in a black void, hallucinated friends talking to me, when the trip started time warped and the world looked like it was melting like cheese. Was with a group of friends but right before we started another guy came on a whim and decided to do it but ended up having bad compatibility and had a really bad time. Glad I enjoyed my time with it but still think about how bad it would've been if I didn't

Could you please do a dxm iceberg? I think it'd be really informative as it is similar yet wholeheartedly different as a culture

I had a ton of experience with these and it's a pretty dirty drug. You get extremely sick before anything kicks in, roll of the dice as to what happens next. I was kinda lucky to only have a few minor incidents, its no surprise people get hurt since you're entirely out of it and don't feel pain. It's been many years, but I remember thinking I was in a party boat lounge room when really I was lost on the staircase. One time I was in the rainforest except it was my friends closet. While binging wilfred seasons 1-3 I began thinking my entire life was just a dark comedy reality TV show and the directors were about to show themselves like Truman show. I was devastated to realize my life was in fact NOT an elaborate joke. Somehow always picked both the worst and best movies, like Enter the void, the conspiracy theorist and John dies at the end. I mostly like to talk about all the dumb and funny stuff from my past, but those were dark times and I could've ended up in a bad spot. Anyone thinking of doing this stuff needs help, prob have some deep issues going on.

That's one drug I was really really addicted to for a long time. It wasn't so much Benadryl but it was still in the cold medicine kind of family like DXM stuff like that I freaking loved it. Thank God I'm clean now though and I have no desire for that stuff again. May God be with all those people that still are cuz that can be one crazy trip.

I remember taking around 700mg of DPH and expected to see insane visuals, but it just gave me extremely short term memory and anxiety. I just assumed that still wasn't a high enough dosage.

How is this drug legal...

that awkward moment when the bit at 7:40 describes my normal day to day life and i always thought i just had an overactive imagination, but i really should probably talk to someone lmao

this hatman story was the edgiest anti drug psa i ever heard, someone really likes to sound like a cynical god

I’m not a druggie nor some Creepypasta bro, but I’ve had to stop using Benadryl when i have allergies in late summer because I would have really vivid and sometimes nightmarish dreams. Some were silly like it being 90 degrees in reality but i was dreaming I was playing Fallout New Vegas in a Blizzard, but there was one that kept me up all night Afterwards. There was a girl i was aware of in Highschool, a floozy, always in trouble, trailer trash. I knew she existed but l mainly kept to myself in school because I hated the cliques. Anyway, a decade later, i took some allergy meds after my allergies started getting really bad. That night, I had a dream where this girl found me at my house and was knocking at my door. I open it, confused as to what was going on, and get broadsided by a baseless and false accusation of sexual misconduct from a highschool party i never attended. I deny it, but before i can shut the door, I get ambushed by a film crew from a True Crime tv show who essentially shove their way into my house. That was a bizarre trip. Hope it never happens again.

I had a haunting for 6 months in my house in Oklahoma. It started after I messed with a ouija board. Also, the lady I was dating at the time said she had a demon that she communicated regularly with. (Pretty red flag lol). So, I lived with my cousin at the time and it was smaller track home from the 60s with a crawl space and a crappy attic. I also had two dogs, Embyr and Elliot (toy aussie & greyhoud lab). Well, after messing around with the ouija board, things got really really weird. I noticed small things at first. Books would fall off the shelves and I would hear bumbs in the night. Eventually, around 3:30 it got bad enough, I felt compelled to "clear" the house with my gun and a flashlight in my underwear. I didn't see anything but my dogs, who were normally in my room, were shaking dramatically in the furthest corner of the house. I invited them to my bed and we stayed awake watching the hall from my bed all night. Well, this type of stuff went on for a few weeks, on and off. In the mean time, the strangest things occured over the next few weeks. I had walked to my back yard from the ktichen once and called for my dogs, they were gone. I looked behind me and every single drawer and cupboard door was open and a strange feeling of like emptiness or distance from the house happened. I would walk to that same door again the next week and there at leat a thousand crows in my back yard. not a sound was made. they just stared. I walked out and the just sort of cleared a way. I went to tell someone and I think later they were just gone. My dogs were usually missing. I knew them to sometimes escape over the fence. After that, I would come home to them in the crawl space, in the deepest part of it. Also, just staring at me. Like it makes me shiver thinking about going in there with a dim flashlight and calling them over and over just to see their poorly lit faces just glaring at me. I loved those dogs, but damn it just hit me. They would go down there alot. Like they were watching for something , It seemed to glow red down there one day. I opened the plywood door to take another look and there were my dogs again. But, there were some bones. larger but I never did follow up on the one I got a hold of. Well. At any rate, the mood was tense as of the 3rd week or so of this type of stuff. I was constantly waking up at 3:20-3:30am. Always something bumping. Not to mention a book was tossed across the room one time. Hell, I had 3 different people walk in there and each one said it was haunted without any coaxing or previous talk. I showed my house to one of the three and could literally see my own breathe in the heat of June. I hate that my screen flickers while I type this. I am not someone, by the way, that had taken any drugs. I'm a hypochondriac and two ibuprofen knock me out. So anyway, So I wake up again one night. This time its different. I feel controlled by some sort of feeling. Like a straight jacket of my emotions as I space out staring at the hallway. Then suddenly it was as though a man appeared in the doorway. I was frightened so much without fear. A tall man, with red eyes and a black jacket, old timey hat. standing. I got the impression I was being told he was a watcher. That I shouldn't be scared. He/it was so tall. this staring contest went on for a good 20 seconds. Then nothing. Just a blankness. I freaked out afterward. Found my dogs and just stayed up til dawn. This wasn't the last experience. Again night would confine me. Only this time, it was far, far worse. I can't hardly type it. My room is dark, the life seemed to be drained away and some confusing evil presence overtook like a headache of the room. The corners grew dark like tendrils of a black shadow. It got cold, a rising buzzing filled the room and my head. At the foot of the bed slowly lurched the dark entity. growing larger and larger over top of me. I was paralyzed. I thought "just kill me you bastard" It leaned further over me until its presence was fully in my face. a warbling black spiky figure with no eyes. just ghastly void. The buzz grew so loud I couldn't think. A cacophony then all at once an ultra bright light flooded the room rapidly and in an instant it was gone. I breathed finally. it was as thought god himself wiped the room with his hand. I to this day think it was my grandmother's spirit. Not a single thing after that day like it. just regular life. I will never forget it.

I witnessed my friend overdosed on benadryl, but i didnt now it at the time. I never had seen an overdose first hand, so i just thought they were having a psychotic break or just a really bad panic attack. They later apologized for putting me through that and talked about it a little. He said that he was freezing cold, and that it felt like bugs were crawling all over their skin. They also said that i had a third eye and was all misty.

Whenever I was withdrawaling from heroin or sometimes even while on heroin and/or benzos I would take Benadryl to either intensify the drugs or to help me sleep if I was sick. I would usually take 8 pills/200mgs if I just wanted to sleep or about 14pills/350mgs if I wanted things to get a little wavey. The most I ever took was 20pills/500mg but even on that I never actually experienced hallucinations. Things just got real heavy like moving around through fog. Anyways I'm sober now and no longer abuse myself in that way. To anyone reading this please be careful.

Really interesting lore around a really shitty drug. It also feels very nostalgic to me, remembering me of my teenage self which got so easily fascinated by things very mundane and very freakish at the same time- I feel like watching salad fingers now. :D

Excellent video! Very scary info. I've taken Benadryl, almost every night for sleep and allergies, for a decade or more. I told my psychologist about my concerns regarding the reports for dementia and he told me not to be. I still had him write me a script for Hydroxyzine and I alternate between them now :D I've taken it before. It doesn't knock me out as quickly as Benadryl but it tends to help me sleep more soundly and for longer.

When I was in uni, there was a time where I had a lot reoccurring dreams/nightmares, sleep paralysis, always heard steps inside my bedroom before falling asleep and frequently saw shadows through the corner of my eye. To this day I still don’t know what caused it, I wasn’t taking any drug other than alcohol (which I still do, but no longer have any such experience). I sometimes attribute it to stress, but I’m not completely sure. That was back in 2017. Like 2 years later I remembered I had those experiences and tried inducing sleep paralysis or OBEs for a week. I actually managed to have an OBE and took it as proof that I wasn’t just making up memories of those experiences. Haven’t tried anything since, but can’t shake the thought that there was something weird and unknown going on in my life for me to have all those ‘paranormal’ occurrences

You just did what an entire ICU could not do. About 13 years ago i took some Theraflu because i felt like i was getting sick. Hours later i was hallucinating like crazy and was in the ICU. They gave me a spinal tap but i couldnt quite tell them what drugs i had taken. It only just now occured to me while watching this video that it had to be the Theraflu! I was legit trippin balls and it scared me for years that it would return someday. Well, i will never take that stuff again. Never.

For 6 years straight i took on average 36 25 mg pills a day. Max was around 100+ pills and this was at the age of 44-50 😮 i twice woke up in the ER was toldy electrical lights was the lowest ever seen😢. And most days I would take so much i would be in the closet fighting to not go into seizures 😮 i have been clean for 9 months.

This is fascinating. I used to take benadryl as a kid (I'm now 40) due to extreme seasonal allergies. This was before Claritin was even a thing. My allergies were awful and I would just kerp taking it not knowing the side effects (the early 90s were unhinged). I remember shadow people but I just thought I was awake and dreaming....

this made me remember this era of my life, taking it every night to sleep and before school to sort of subside my anxiety when i didn’t have anything to smoke. i remember taking a crazy amount and how freaked out and scared i was, it was weird, like when youre on acid or maybe shrooms and you cant really tell what youre looking at. i was trying to watch a movie and genuinely couldnt understand what they were saying/what was going on or what i was even seeing. ontop of just hearing weird scary shit, also feeling a bunch of hair or seeing it on you lol. anywho it was the lowest point in my life i hope someone reads this whos going through the same thing to understand what its really doing to you, cause its nothing good and things will get better.

3:18 I've had extreme insomnia for well over a decade. I've taken 8 25 mg tablets of Benadryl to try and sleep. It put me down but it didn't last. Now if i take it i get odd sensations in my joints and muscles that are very unpleasant.

The "eh, this drug sucks" entry might be a parody of the "this edible aint shit" meme. Not sure tho

Benadryl separates the connection between the soul and body, it normally takes a few days for it to fully recover, assuming you take the recommended dose. Most people take beyond the recommended dose.

the translucent spider on the floor are 100% accurate for me at 14:15. they didn’t scare me and i could tell they were fake but the way they moved was so real

Watched this because I've been taking Benadryl for this annoying itch in one spot of my throat this past week and my bf told me some ppl use it to get high. I smoke pot and have experimented with a couple of drugs before but after watching this and finding out about possible long term effects I decided I'll just continue taking the appropriate dose only as needed, I don't feel like having any crazy trips, my life is crazy enough already. lol

I have a Benadryl addiction. I take 2 every night before I go to bed when I hit my dab pen. It gets me fucked up but the scary part is that its slowly killing you when you take it regularly. It starts out as really bad dehydration, then slowly turning from urine retention, kidney aches, kidney stones, liver problems and eventually memory loss and kidney failure. Benadryl will kill you if you dont read the label. Im trying to stop but its hard. Dont take Benadryl for more than 4 days straight. Dont take more than 2 pills in one day. Trust me. Its scarier than being addicted to coke and xanx, because its so easy to get and since its OTC its considered "safe", which it really isnt. If you dont want dementia and kidney problems later in life, stop taking it altogether.

Excellent show, gentlemen.

this is super nitpicky but why are you acting like Benadryl is not marketed as a sleep aid? It's literally sold as a sleep aid called Nytol and has been sold this way for several decades. taking it for sleep is one of the intended uses of diphenhydramine.

Good video buddy!

I remember when me and a buddy of mine were explaining the things we were seeing while tripping. Things got scary when we seen the same thing. For example, we were walking down a street and noticing a group shadow people at the end, i seen one of the figures walk away from the crowd and when i said it he stopped walking and said he seen the same. Makeing us believe that the state of delirium allowed us to see actual spirits of people. I believe we seen the same thing which would of been impossible if it were a mere hallucination. We both stopped taking dph because the drug really does suck. But we will never forget that night

Once I accidentally took 100mg on an empty stomach, and I’m a complete lightweight with any drugs and I’m not a regular user of anything(just coffee). I usually only take 1 or 2 pills for a runny nose, but on that particular day, I forgot that I had already taken 50mg and took 2 more pills. It was so scary. My hallucinations were of ghosts standing above me next to my bed, and when I was finally starting to fall asleep, I heard birds chirping at 12am. Never again.

As a psychologist, I beg that nobody go down this road! Even if you live and feel fine the next day, you’ve no clue how fragile you’ve made your psyche, the more you do it the closer you come to fracturing that psyche, and that’s only if you’ve not damaged yourself physically. The stories you’re hearing mainly and in regret. It’s something you’ll be paying for in your elderly years of you’re lucky enough to get that far. DONT ABUSE THIS MED!!!

That Hatman story pretty much read out like a creepypasta about a drug demon.

Literally the worst high/trip ever. I've done it 3 times with at least 25-30pills each time feels heavy and people will trip you out or basically any normal thing will trip you out you want to sleep but cant stop the restless leg feeling truly does feel like hell.

My childhood cat allergy was intense, so I started using two DPH pills pretty much once a week. Being very young at the time, I didn't have a lot of tolerance to the stuff. I was supposed to take one and be done, but one oversight from a flustered Dad was enough to get me tripping balls - and for me to repeat the experience for every serious histamine flare-up I experienced. Benadryl would make me drowsy at first, but then I'd typically enter a hypnagogic state that left me unable to move while being wide awake. Basically sleep paralysis, book-ended by absolutely bugnuts dreams. I always ended trips with something close to extreme sleep inertia, where just stringing words together was difficult. Later on in life, my idiot ass accidentally mixed up cannabis and Benadryl, which led to characters from the short stories I was working on manifesting in front of me to applaud or berate my decisions in regards to the plot I'd be working on. On the opposite end, dosing DPH normally and pairing it with meditation aids or ASMR content usually gives me the deepest sleep I can get - although I don't go out of my way to share or experience it.

Can not imagine what 700mg of benadryl would do. I start tripping after about 3 to 4 pills worth. Tried taking extra because of wickid allergies and horrible insomnia, and instead saw the spiders 😂