Tried 10mg of 4-HO-MET from my most favoritest vendor in the world. Came in little "microdots" stamped with a 'Droid' symbol. Kind of like an itty bitty E tab.
This was absolutely bar none the best psychedelic trip I have had in years, and it was quite benign compared to the LSZ trip I had just two weeks prior.
Before the LSZ I hadn't taken [RC] psychedelics since 2c-e was legal. LSZ was great and all. Extremely intense visuals, better than any psych i've ever taken before. But there was an insane paranoia with the whole heart-rate and blood pressure perception as well as the mental and physical restlessness.
With 4-HO-MET, none of this was present. I'll try and compile a sort of timeline of effects for you.
0:00 - 1 10mg tabled is ingested with water. empty stomach. A and I proceed to play xbox awaiting effects.
0:10 - is when i would say the first alerts started happening. nothing too obvious to my partner (first time tripper), but for me I knew that something was coming on. just a feeling i'm used to.
0:20 - definite altered perception. colors are slightly deeper. my body and head feel lighter. there's a fluidity to my movement.
0:30 - slight visuals begin. breathing/shifting textures: carpet/walls. partner also notices this
0:45 - everything is absolutely hilarious. we're both astounded at how quickly the drug has taken effect. wouldn't say we've peaked by now but we're definitely at a ++/+++ by now.
1:00 - we go for a walk, talking about all sorts of things. laughing all the way. i haven't laughed this hard on a psychedelic since the first few times i took mushrooms. this drug reminds me a lot of mushrooms, but with a lot less unforgiving, dark psychological effects or fear and uncertainty. nothing about this experience is threatening.
i'm sure i'm not the only one to have taken psychs and experienced this phenomenon with others, but there is an extremely frequent tendency for things that happen or that we say in conversation on this drug to become like catch phrases throughout the trip which instantly spawn bouts of uncontrollable nostalgic laughter. It's a hard thing to explain, but I'm sure anyone who's experienced it will know what I'm talking about.
For example: A's bust of Beethoven fell off the shelf and broke, leaving a bunch of pieces on the ground. When we found that his face was intact in one broken-off piece, we could not stop laughing for at least 45 minutes. Beethoven's facial expression on the bust added 10-fold to the hilarity. We keep his face piece to this day as a memory of that awesome time.
2:00 - we're back inside in awe of the visuals, talking less but still laughing hard. peak somewhere between 2 and 3 hours.
4:00 - start to notice a decline in effects.
6:00 - almost baseline. this is when we dosed 300ug of LSZ which is unrelated to this report, though I do think it is worth noting that there was significantly reduced effect from what I expected of 300ug of LSZ. I would suggest at least 10 hours before dosing 4-ho-met before dosing any other tryptamines. I didn't wait long enough between for the tolerance from 4-ho-met to disappear, as I had heard that the tolerance from such doesn't last very long.
All-in-all, this is my absolute favorite tryptamine RC on the market. I can't wait to get my hands on some more.