A Trip with 2C-E
Day 1
500 µg, sublingual.
I feel refreshed after a good night sleep. I eat a big bowl of oatmeal and take the city bus to S. It’s sunny with scattered clouds, 22°C.
10:40- After the bus ride, ingestion takes place in a fast food restaurant parking lot, then I set up for hitchhiking. I lift my little sing and instantly a nice couple gives me a ride to lake W right where the trail begins.
12:20- I am hungry and have lunch in the woods on my way to lake C. I feel the energetic effect of 2C-E. The three hours walk is easy and seems to be shorter than usual. I’m very calm and centered. Nature is beautiful.
15:30- Relaxing in the tent at lake C, I almost fell asleep.
17:30- After a quick dip in the crystal clear emerald waters, I fix a dinner consisting of dried meat and vegetable couscous that goes down easily. It is very calm by the lake.
22:00- After contemplating the stars, I’m ready to sleep. It was a very fine day, everything flowed easily.
Day 2
10 mg, dissolved in a cup of water.
At 08:00, some noise outside woke me up. I thought it was a squirrel but a big black bear was foraging 20 feet from the tent! I slept like a log 9 hours. After a dip and a good breakfast, I lied down to read Konrad Lorenz.
12:30- Ingestion, no lunch, taste is awful. It’s windy with some clouds, 21°C. I feel like I spent a month here, very aware of my primitive survival built in programs.
13:24- While I took photographs, suddenly the 2C-E hit my synapses. It’s still subtle without any physiological disturbances. I’m in an introspective mood.
13:57- The coming up is nice and even. The visuals blend beautifully with natural patterns and textures. I’m sitting quietly by the lake, looking at the ever-changing drifting cumulus and gazing at the sparkling water.
14:10- I’m lying down in the tent with eyeshades for a while exploring inner space. It’s purely abstract, devoid of any alien entities like on tryptamines. As there is no personal or familiar content, I can’t really say anything about it.
It’s my first full blown 2C-E trip since last fall. I sure learn a lot about this substance through the occasional use of micro doses during the last six months.
I feel more comfortable and at home here than in my city apartment.
14:50- Not in an introspective mood anymore, I open up to nature. In a very soft way I experience total synaesthesia. I feel healthy, calm and centered; quite remote from civilization.
15:20- I ‘m on the plateau now, a little bit febrile but calm at the same time and clear headed. I’m totally immersed in the Tao flow. If I let go, my ego dissolve easily. Writing notes is fun and easy. Visuals are great; eyes closed or open, there is no difference. What we call reality is just a mental construction based on the objective world.
16:15- I go for a dip in the lake with a loon family fishing nearby. The water is sparkling, sparkling, sparkling! The huge cumulus clouds are very alive and overactive. Snorkelling is spectacular, hyperventilation adds to the effects. Lying in the sun naked is very relaxing.
17:00- Appetite is building up so I start cooking dinner. I’m in a state of quiet euphoria, very powerful and subtle at the same time. I blend in the surrounding nature.
20:36- I’m in the tent relaxing after a good meal and a sunset dip. The visuals are extremely colourful with the candlelight. This is total bliss, a very slow coming down without any trace of discomfort, headache or psychological tiredness. Pure brain candy!
22:00- I’m sinking in a sea of paisley. Occasionally, I reach the shore of a surrealistic island and I dive back into the vastness of the Unknown again. It’s so quiet outside, no wind, only the chant of crickets and the frogs. Sometimes the loons and the owls go crazy.
It’s a very earthy trip, no sense of being in an alien world or experiencing the effects of a synthetic compound. I went down to the core of what a human being is. I feel that I saw the blue print of everything we know, an echo of the structures of our perceptual apparatus. This is paradise, eternity in the moment.
Day 3
After a good night sleep, I spent a quiet morning by the lake swimming and reading, weather is perfect. I felt refreshed without any aftereffect other than an ecstatic afterglow. Yesterday, the 10 mg hit me strongly; for sure there was no tolerance induced by the micro dose of day 4. I experience a close connection with nature. A very peaceful mood and the peculiar sweetness of 2C-E are still lingering.
I left lake C at 14:30, I felt very strong and the four hours walk back was easy. As soon I arrived at the hitchhiking spot a car stopped, a direct lift back to the city. It was a fine three days in the woods. Everything flowed effortlessly and easily, perfect days in the mountains. When I arrived in the man-made world, I still had residual visuals. It was a clash between natural fractals and the Euclidian geometry of the city. The psychedelic state feels normal in nature but not here.
2C-E is a very complex and subtle substance. It reveals a vast territory to explore and open up countless possibilities. I really love this compound, better than any other psychedelics.
This is part of my trip log book. It was taking place in the summer of 2012. Unfortunately, authorities in my country decided, last year, that 2C-E is an evil drug like LSD. Then, I had to get rid of my 2C-E stash to avoid the Health Canada Inquisition and persecution from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This is clearly an infringement on my religious freedom supposedly guaranteed by the section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Consequently I cannot use my all-time favorite psychedelic substance anymore and have to rely on the still legal lysergamides and tryptamines available at the moment. Up yours fuckers!