Erowid Experience Vaults Report Id: 30481

Madness in a Bottle
by Me Dose: T+ 0:00 repeated oral Absinthe liquid Body weight: 130.00 lbs From the rst time I drank absinthe I was hooked on it. I had a friend who made it, so I tried some at a party and ended up buzzed. But I found the buzz only lasted intensely for about 5 to 15 minutes, so I immediatly wanted to go back and get more. And so I formed a habit. I ended up brewing a good amount of absinthe bottles myself and drinking them constantly. That was when I REALLY started to feel the eects. I think absinthe has to build in your system for it to really aect you. People who drink it only a bit here and a bit there will be buzzed but wont really experience it. I would generally put three table spoons of wormwood per 750ml of 80proof vodka. I found higher proofs dilluted the eects of the wormwood. The trips themselves, when they were good, were subtle. Its a hazy, arrogant feeling. Things dont look dierent but colors are more vibrant and patterns more interesting. If something emotionally or physically intense happens things start to stop making sense and the rst thought in your head starts to become what you accept as reality. I had an interesting experience with a physical relationship on absinthe once, I couldnt gure out how many girls I was with, even though I was just with one. After a while absinthe started to eect me. I realized that one absinthe trip ACTUALLY lasts with you for about a week, but I didnt necessarily notice. I just noticed things o here and there. The more I drank the more this happened, until everything was ALWAYS o. Thats when reality started to become a little dicult. And yet I LOVE it, I want to go drink absinthe RIGHT now. Everything started to remind me of the stu. Then the bad parts happened. I started feeling like I was being followed. I started seeing shadows in the corner. The room would start to shift and stu with just sorta of wiggle at random. Then I got anxiety attacks, things would just become REALLY awful. Id wake up with AWFUL dreams and couldnt stop shaking. Id see spots in front of my eyes. That was about when I stopped drinking it. The spots and all that went away within about a month or two, there wasnt much of a withdrawl but the symtoms persisted. It was like I didnt have to drink synth to trip on it. My tolerence for caene and liqour plummeted too. And when I got TOO drunk I would have boarderline violent delusions, I would literally not be able to gure out who people were, why they were doing things or how to do stu like cross the street. Even though I had done no absinthe, it was like it was coming back on me. When I started sobering up I wouldnt be able to close my eyes because the most vivid images of just horric and disturbing things would come about.
Exp Year: 2004 Added to Database: Dec 5, 2006 Gender of reportee: male
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Madness in a Bottle

by Me

I still drank it occasionally, it was VERY dicult to say no to when I was around it. The last straw was waking up violently shaking. I stopped then. But I still even want to drink it today. Thats even why I was on this website, just wanting to read about other peoples expierences with it. The absinthe made in Europe these days in no longer very strong compared to older or homemade absinthe. I drank homemade and that probably had alot to do with my addiction.

Exp Year: 2004 Added to Database: Dec 5, 2006 Gender of reportee: male
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