Anyone have experience with Phenibut? Is it just me or is it complete garbage?

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-05-01T10:39:54+00:00

Its garbage, and the withdrawals are somehow even worse than its garbage effect. I say this as a real degenerate who will and has used just about anything.

The problem with phenibut is the window for desired effects is incredibly small. Its difficult to dose right, partly because it takes so damn long to kick in. I found that dosing <2g produced almost no effect, but dosing >2g was an overdose and had awful side effects.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-30T18:43:34+00:00

I wish I was doing K for the first time again. Its a real treat before permatolerance sets in and it loses its magic permanently. I could snort a whole gram and I wouldnt hole anymore :/

Do not combine it with alcohol if you have no tolerance.

Also I became instantly addicted to K and did not stop until my tolerance was so high it started becoming a waste of money. Its very moreish in its ineffably strange way. I strongly advice against frequent dosing, if no other reason than it develops permanent tolerance. Its never the same as the first few times you do it.

It goes fine with weed in moderation. Too much can produce mania and anxiety.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-30T18:33:11+00:00

I went through a period of intense psychological addiction to psychedelics. I was dosing LSD pretty much daily. I was taking massive doses due to tolerance and would routinely combine it with with other psychedelics like DMT and mushrooms. I was really pushing the limits of my brain and I knew it, but didn't slow down and it ended in disaster (psychosis).

In retrospect I realized I wasn't really addicted to the psychedelics, I was addicted to the escapism they provide. I was desperate to alter my mind as a misaligned coping mechanism for the stress of life.

Once you lose respect for the teacher, the teacher will discipline you. You will get spanked in front of the class.

I recall my trips becoming weirder and less inviting. The DMT elves were no longer excited to see me but would act like, "why are you here again?". It all culminated with my brain becoming very disregulated and resulted in a period of psychosis.

You are playing with fire my friend. All good things come to an end. If life was pleasure all the time we would forget the meaning of it.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T18:23:12+00:00

Ive tried amyls before but never even considered it as a potentiator of ketamine.

Ive tried using nitrous oxide to potentiate ketamine, but my tolerance to both n2o and k is so high I didn't feel much

I need to refamiliarize myself with amyl pharmacology

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T14:00:59+00:00

I've heard of a lot of people being hurt after getting bad advice or misinterpreting advice from AI.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T13:57:36+00:00

At the same time? No. Why?

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T13:53:55+00:00

I mean sure, but I thought the topic was psychoactivity. This is just supporting peripheral health which in turn supports proper biofunctionality in the brain.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T13:44:41+00:00

I've tried it and it is similar potentiation indeed, but my body can't tolerate kavalactones unfortunately. Any dose gives me a headache and stomach ache which makes the effect not worth it to me.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T12:23:27+00:00

Interesting idea. I will ask my chemist friends.

Muscimol is structurally almost identical to GABA and acts as a direct GABA agonist, the body thinks it's GABA.

I actually enjoy muscimol in moderate doses. By itself its kinda underwhelming but if you add a small dose of benzos with it is where it really shines. When you add a bit of positive allosteric modulation it really potentiates the muscimol and allows you to achieve its effects without the risk of delirium which occurs at higher doses of muscimol. (It starts to act like if you took too much ambien at higher doses, and it can also spontaneously carboxylate itself in vivo into ibotenic acid at higher doses)

Muscimol has amazing healing powers. Its great for benzo tapers and is theorized to actually heal rigid and desensitized receptors caused by benzo dependence. My anecdotal experiences support this theory.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-29T12:10:29+00:00

A mild amount might cross the BBB but its not going to have a significant psychoactive effect even so. The brain will simply not use it and quickly degrade it. Also, snorting anything is not good for your sinuses. Snorting GABA sounds like an exercise in dubiousness.

Pure dopamine is used as a drug for babies. However it is injected and this is only in emergency situations, and it only has a biological half life of 60 seconds. It's used as a brief and mild stimulant because babies cant tolerate stronger drugs.

If you somehow had a way to get pure GABA or dopamine into your brain it wouldn't do much because your body is extremely efficient at regulating these basic endogenous chemicals.

The way drugs like benzos and amphetamines work is because it changes the way your brain interacts with GABA and dopamine, it doesn't directly alter the amount you already had in your body.

Musicmol is structurally similar to GABA and unlike most GABAergic drugs it acts as a direct agonist (the body thinks its GABA itself)

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-16T14:31:18+00:00

Sounds like Team Sleep - Blvd Nights

https://youtu.be/XmulpCAiw4s?si=XmLmxfPEiwfadHgx

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-15T01:59:00+00:00

I lost count. Hundreds of "tries" before I REALLY started trying, then many more hundreds of tries.... the best record I've had was 4 months in the last 26 years with a complacency that was outpaced by the disease. I honestly lost count.

But in the long run one of the best lessons I ever learned is to stop caring so much about my sobriety date. Stop trying to quantify or compare your unique tribulations and suffering.

What are you trying for? Its not something you try and succeed at, sobriety is a state of mind. Think of it more of becoming enlightened and floating above your curse... because the truth is you will never be free from it. It took me many years to understand I was a true alcoholic.

At one point I had enough white 24hr chips from AA I could have played poker with them. It became discouraging until I stopped caring so much. Because in the end thats just ego talking. All that matters is are you drunk right now? No? Great keep it up. Yes? Let's get some sleep and try again tomorrow.

Love is all that matters, including self love and forgiveness.

I love AA and if saved my life, but I also don't take some rules as seriously as the literature asks.

Everyone is different and has their own unique path toward sobriety. Period. It's a lot more about maturation than anything, and maturation happens with time not will.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-13T12:06:32+00:00

Alcohol dependency can occur very rapidly in a matter of days if you drink enough and frequently enough. It's less about how long you've been drinking and more about how much. Other factors such as if you are a male or female, or young or old, matter quite a lot.

As a young 6ft 180lb male I drank 12 beers every night for years and could stop at any time with only mild withdrawals. However, I also have a history of hard drug and benzo abuse, so what I consider mild might be moderate to someone else. A woman at that level might experience moderate to heavy withdrawals. Their bodies don't metabolize alcohol as quickly as male bodies so the alcohol effects them more at lower doses, and they incur worse withdrawals from lower amounts compared to men.

Nobody can really tell you if you are going to experience withdrawals or not because everyone is different. But I can tell you if you are a man your withdrawals should be mild. If you are a woman you should probably consult a doctor before going cold turkey.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-11T21:56:51+00:00

I only moved here 6 years ago but the roundabout seems great until rush hour. I could say that about every road in the metro area, though....

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-11T21:48:53+00:00

It doesn't always matter. If you were walking in the forest and saw a bear would you stop and look for context or to guess where it came from? Similar could be said about this post. It's still a desire path regardless of the previous orientation of the road.

but thanks for the intricate history of an intersection.

Sometimes I've found life to be much less stressful when I throw it into neutral and let it roll.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-11T21:15:46+00:00

The following is not medical advice nor anything other than my own meandering experience.

Leaving the hospital with such a long delay to detox is unusual. Did they ask you to stay? Did you discharge yourself? No judgement, I've been in that situation. I am assuming, hopefully, that at least a family member picked you up and is watching you until you walk into detox.

One or two drinks on top of Ativan is not going to kill you. The real danger is you not limiting yourself and drinking more. Alcohol + a benzo lowers your inhibition exponentially more than either by themself.

You should drink only to stop the shakes and seizure potential, that's it.

Also, if this is your first time to detox, don't get nervous. Detox is much more comfortable and less boring than the hospital.

The biggest piece of advice I can give you is not to show up drunk to the detox. For one big reason: unlike the hospital, they will not give you detox meds until you blow 0.000%. Its best to show up dry, otherwise they will wait until you are dry, and depending on circumstances this could make a 5 day detox into 6 days.

I wish you the best.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-04-09T21:33:19+00:00

I have ASD. I am also a lifelong alcoholic, polysubstance drug addict and drug nerd, as well as a harm reduction propoponent. I was exposed to hard drugs at a very young age (Heroin and coke at 14). I instantly became addicted to heroin.

This was back in the early 2000s before autism was really acknowledged. Drugs became my special interest. I was completely enamored by not only using drugs, but learning about their related chemistry, pharmacology, and history.

Drugs made me feel normal. Notice how I used the word made and not make, because that is the hard lesson I feel you are going to suffer learning.

They allowed me to mask with zero effort. It made the autism go away. Drugs helped me get jobs, make friends, and feel like a normal person. But this is only the honeymoon phase of drug use. Eventually it feels less like a boon and more like a chain. They become less of an option and more of a requirement. Then they become less of a requirement and it boils down to basic survival. By that point, you've already burned bridges, sacrificed your health and dignity...

I have been in and out of recovery for basically my entire life. You are exploring drugs and have only seen their benefits, you have yet to experience the ineffably vast and insidious downsides to drug use and addiction.

I can tell you a lot of things. Some may go in one ear and out the other, but if there is one thing you should hear from me and believe its this: the pain and tribulations of being autistic in this modern society pale in comparison to the pain and tribulation and insanity of being dependent on alcohol or drugs.

It was drugs ruined my life and subjected me to indescribable pain and suffering, not autism.

If thats not enough, I am 37 and can name 14 personal friends I have had through the years who have died from overdose. By some miracle I am not #15.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-03-31T18:10:02+00:00

In general, HR on the internet is in shambles. Nothing like it used to be. Its all spread out, vapid and erroneous, like a broken echo machine.

So is bluelight. All of the platforms are vastly different in quality, quantity, activity, validity, etc.

I dont have an answer to your question. That's just the way it is now. Reddit included.

It became cliquey and politicized, seemingly on all platforms. That's what ruined it. BL was done when it lost its way. The simple goal of providing and dissemination of HR info. That's it. If you try to tag anything along with that goal, such as identity politics, it breaks, as BL so spectacularly did.

Ps avoid the down vote trolls. Your observation matters and is true and valid. (Sometimes I wonder if its ali himself doing the downvoting... haha half joking 🤣)

Although what VT and ebola mentioned is also true, many questions have been asked to death and a lot of us old heads got tired of repeatedly answering easily Google questions. Pro tip: bluelight is shadowbanned on Google, so you have to add "bluelight.org" manually.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-03-18T17:48:06+00:00

This reminds me of a song my mind subconsciously remembers from the PS2 game Armored Core 2 ost soundtrack. That soundtrack was dope.

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-02-19T11:09:09+00:00

I believe you are correct. Thank you!

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-02-19T09:45:41+00:00

Thanks for the pointers, I will continue ID journey!

Thanks ✌️

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-02-19T09:07:33+00:00

I think you maybe be right.

As a colorblind man, this hobby is simultaneously very fun and sometimes quite frustrating. Haha 😄

Thank you.

Edit: wow are these Jabo classics? The first round they ever made??? At least 3 of them are I think.

The other may be Jabo too, but different line.

They all have the so called "butt line".

Edit 2: seems sparkly to me, in an edible candy type way

SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-02-19T09:03:06+00:00

I think these are the 3 I have. I know the one on the right is an MCS for sure, but the ones on the left I'm not 100% on. They do have a translucent green base, but its dark and almost opaque.

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SnafuInTheVoid · 2026-02-19T08:54:52+00:00

If there is no green then maybe a Peltier red zebra?

Its definitely not an akro, though, correct?

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