Hi everyone,
This is my first post on Bluelight and I look forward to getting to know this community. After a few years of trying psychedelics mostly for shits and giggles, I made the decision about 6 months ago that I wanted to explore and study the psychedelic state more closely, carefully, and thoroughly, and this place seems to be full of like-minded folks so I have been greatly enjoying educating myself while browsing these forums. I was inspired by how great a resource this site is and so wish to contribute myself.
Anyways, I'd like to give a short trip report on a combination of 2C-B and 2C-C. I've been exploring psychedelics for about 6 years now, having taken LSD, mushrooms, salvia, 2C-B/C/E/I, DMT, 25C-/25-I-NBOMe, and 5-MeO-MiPT on various occasions, totaling about 40-50 experiences. Perhaps surprisingly, I have only recently found the nerve and desire to trip alone. I rarely had the desire before, and even if I did, I wasn't sure I could handle a +++ experience without a sitter. Anyways, with the help of various online resources and reading PiHKHAL I felt like I could handle a very strong experience alone. So, over the past couple of months, I have been testing larger and larger doses of NBOMe's, 2C-B, and 2C-C by themselves alone and seeing what happens. These have by far been the most easiest-going psychedelics I have ever tried and so I felt that they were great for someone who was at first afraid of solo exploration like myself.
I had a long weekend and decided to take 2C-B and go to a large drunken party on Saturday. I had a fantastic time and was still feeling extraordinary two days later, so I felt that I should take advantage of the long weekend and trip by myself to complement tripping at a huge party. Firstly, I believe that I am more sensitive than most to the 2C-X's. Generally, 'light' doses give me 'common' level effects, 'common' doses give me 'strong' effects, etc. I decided to take 21 mg of 2C-B HBr, followed by 15 mg of 2C-C HCl at T:+0:20. Thus far, I hadn't tried 2C-C at higher than 25 mg, and had been generally unimpressed with it - though I had not gone beyond a ++ with it. My highest dose of 2C-B has been 20mg of the HCl salt, which was a +++ visually but only a ++ mentally. This was my first time combining either 2C-B or 2C-C, so I was cautious with the 2C-C and didn't really expect it to add a whole lot, and I felt that tolerance from taking 2C-B two days prior would dull the effects even further. I was strongly expecting a ++ with visuals and not very much mental distortion, but I would be OK with a +++ experience.
T:+0:45, I started watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a movie I am incredibly familiar (and so wouldn't find the disturbing scenes disturbing) but I hadn't seen in awhile. T:+1:30, I was a bit disappointed by where the visuals were, so I decided to smoke marijuana. Very soon, I began to lose track of my ego. This has only completely happened to me once before, which terrified me at the time as I was completely unprepared. But this time, as I realized it was happening I remembered the advice I had read on these forums and found the experience of ego loss pleasant and enlightening. What really surprised me was that the trip was only a ++ visually, counter to my previous experience with 2C-B, yet a full +++ mentally, when neither 2C-C nor 2C-B had done for me alone. I continued to smoke marijuana regularly for a couple of hours, and experienced the 'waviness' of 2C-B that I have become familiar with, with the strongest effects coming and going every 5-10 minutes. It was particularly interesting watching myself forget anything I knew about myself or my location and then start to remember a couple of things about myself and where I was, only to see it vanish again minutes later, continually. I had stretches of +++ visuals, including a peculiar effect that I've never noted before on any substance - but it was rather fleeting and I think I would need a higher dosage to be able to explain it more clearly. I wasn't capable of paying much attention to the movie beyond the visuals, but I knew it so well it didn't really matter. At T+4:30, smoking marijuana no longer seemed to enhance the effects. Feeling mostly back to baseline at 6 hours.
So, that is my experience with this combination. Now some comparisons. It put me in a far more profound mental space than either two substances alone, yet visually lagged between a ++ and a +++, which was unexpected. Despite the ego loss, it never got terribly weird like it can with 2C-E or LSD. I would say that the deep insanity of 2C-E was more difficult to handle than this ego loss. This never made me feel particularly crazy. It was a great tool for self-exploration though, which was unexpected for me as I have previously felt that 2C-B and 2C-C were mostly good as party drugs. I would strongly consider trying this combination again for self-exploration purposes.
Edit: forgot to mention that both doses were taken in powder form dissolved in water.