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MDMA is not capable of making you forget who your friends are, except maybe in serotonin-syndrome inducing doses.

Primarily it is an empathogenic[1] drug, not a hallucinogen.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen-entactogen

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MDMA absolutely is. I am well aware that it is not ordinarily associated with hallucinations or disassociation. I can also absolutely say that you do not need a serotonin-syndrome inducing dose to forget who your friends are, who you are, or have no idea why you have are sitting on a bed (your own), or who it belongs to. It can also make you hallucinate and "disappear" into your hallucination for several hours, before you pop back into reality. Finally, and not really disassociation and more hallucination, it can make the faces of your friends morph into other peoples and even appear featureless.

Or so I have heard.

All that from E?

I'm sorry but that is complete bullshit. Granted each drug has a subjective and unique experience due to the nature of your biochemistry, but by and large the experience of MDMA is relatively harmless. [0]

The serotonergic effects are a completely different matter.

[0] https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...

"Or so I have heard."

Someone has misinformed you. Please do your own research. There is absolutely no mention of anything remotely like what you are describing in the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA

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