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Swim15

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Wanted to get some feedback on experiences after seeing the MDA thread pop up and reading through it.

Thinking about giving MDA a shot even though I absolutely love MDMA because it seems to have an atypically short duration for me.

The last time I dropped it was a single 160mg dose that lasted, in full, about two hours. The time before last, I dropped about 180mg of extremely pure MDMA (lab tested) followed by a ~100mg redose at about +75min and barely lasted 3 hours if that.

Timeline
7:15 180mg dose

7:35-40 first effects/come up

8:30 redose 100mg

8:00-8:30/45 full effects/peak

8:45-9:15 plateaue with less stimulation

10:00 well into the comedown and very lightly rolling if you could really call it that, stimulation gone


This seems to be fairly short compared to a lot of people I know given that I only drop about 3-4 times per year.

I might be off base but mostly just wanted to hear experiences on roughly how long MDMA lasts for someone vs how long MDA lasts for the same person.
 
I had very strange experience with this i dropped ~100mg and five minutes from that i felt extremely tired and fell asleep on couch. after about 1hr of napping i suddenly woke up energetic. Then i started snorting small lines to get to the right effect like i usually do with this. ive seen when eaten it can take upto 1.5hrs bfore it starts working. And for the basic mdma users dont redose at the 40minute mark if you dont see the effects. this is potent drug.
 
For me this is much longer lasting than mdma with slow onset and slow offset. duration is easily 8hrs.
 
MDMA has a very unique and very noticeable affect on mood so it can seem quite apparent and abrupt when it starts to wear off. I found MDA seemed more gradual in its' decline. A quarter gram on my 18th and I was still at the casino at 8 in the morning.. and I usually hated the casino so it must have lasted a while lol.

Pihkal originally said 8 hour duration but it was changed to 3-5 hours. Probably varies a lot from person to person.
 
Also if you do alot of mda youll start hallucinating. not tripping but hallucinating. thats why i find its awesome combo for psychedelics better than mdma IME
 
Yeah I'd say it definitely lasts a lot longer. I'm not sure on the exact timings but you could expect to be hallucinating well into what most people would consider the MDMA comedown period.

If it's the DNM stuff that's been about a year or two in Europe then I'd highly recommend testing it because I'm yet to see somebody really describe a typically MDA-esque experience. The thing that really sets MDA apart from your average empathogen is its unique psychedelic/hallucinogen/MDxx delirium inducing properties, and I'm yet to see anybody mention them with this stuff.

Of course, it could simply be that the people in the reports I read didn't dose enough to experience the typical MDA hallucinations, but IME it really doesn't take that much. I remember walking back from a club after an MDA pill and I thought a guy that went passed on a bike was a borrower; he looked about a foot tall. My friend genuinely had to remind me that borrowers didn't exist (I forgot, then remembered as soon as he said). We got back to his house and there was a cat in his back yard, and my friend kept thinking it was various different animals (badger, dog, fox, rabbit, hedgehog etc), and every time he 'realised' it was a different animal he blurted out the name of the animal ("actually it's a fucking badger, look there's a fucking badger in the yard!!", etc), and as he did so we would both see the animal in the garden, 100% clear as day, until he blurted out a new amimal name and it became that. A very fun yet very confusing substance. I have a very deep and dear love of MDA. =D

The comedown is certainly more pronounced and the comedown generally consists of a kind of altered sense of being right into the next day. It's a comedown, but it's also the very tail end of a drug experience; music still sounds slightly enhanced, emotions are greatly enhanced etc. I can remember sitting in a barber shop getting my haircut when I was about 17 and nearly bursting into tears for no reason other than because I was suddenly so overwhelmed with emotion. I kind of like the MDA comedown; it's very powerfully nostalgic and certainly makes for a good night in listening to old tunes.
 
The last experience i had with this substance- my trusted friend said its 75%mda 25% filler. And i have no reason to not believe him cos hes very clear about what hes products are, for years. I dont think he labtests himself but buys from someone who does. I was aiming for those delirium feelings, but kinda failed at my attempt. i had ~0.4g of this and thats 300mg mda. so i dosed around half of it and was feeling good enough no need to rush it. So i took small redoses of this bag for about 4-5hours? , Anyways the bag went empty and i was in very happy mood, and started to see some small visual distortions. Nothing like you described above. So i thought hmm.. i have one 100ug blotter, maybe this can make the wanted effects happen. So i dropped this blotter. and i have to say it was my first acid ive done this year maybe 1.5years. And that 100ug hitted extremely hard even for experienced tripper. The bodyload was massive i could only lay doown for first 4-hours,and the sound of my computer fan sets me on nice trip :) around halfway poinnt in this trip i fellt mda comedown and this trip felt that it was missing something, without the mda. So the rest of trip was just chilling out and waiting for baseline. Still that mda+mdma combo sounds awesome. probabply next year i try it out.
 
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MDA definitely lasts a couple hours longer than MDMA. Like Kaden_Nite said the comedown is a lot more gradual. It's a solid like 3.5-6 hr before you start coming down, but it can take some time before your completely back to baseline. I think that's why there's such a discrepancy with MDAs duration.

I ate a bunch of MDA one night and was thrown into a full blown trip the next night after smoking some bud. It wasn't the same happy rolling trip but very visual with a massive amount of mindfuckery. Pupils were so big that everybody thought I was rolling again. Goes to show how long it can take before it's completely eliminated from your system because it had to have been around 18 hrs since I last dosed. But i was binging on huge doses at that time and rolled 2 nights in a row before that so that could explain the build up.

MDA is typically said to be harsher in regards to body load the next day too. It's not terrible at moderate doses but it can feel draining from larger doses and with redosing.

Pretty much everybody I've asked prefers MDA over MDMA though. They're both absolutely great but I feel like MDA is more fun. To me MDMA seems like it would shine better in a therapeutic/personal setting whereas MDA would be better for partying or going to a rave since it's more stimulating.
 
^^^

That sounds cool. I have never tried either but I really want to try each once then try each one once with an acid trip.
 
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