Yeah 2C-C is lovely stuff, I almost always have a very useful, warm, but deep and useful introspection. It's very emotional and can be confronting even, but in a gentle, loving way. It's also great for recreational purposes. Quite a bit gentler than 2C-B even. less visual, but rather similar. However I find 2C-C's emotional/introspective thing to be much more directed and useful than 2C-B's mental state. I also find it just around the same potency as 2C-B, maybe just slightly less potent. Old reports mostly seem to suggest it's worthless below 50-60mg, but I disagree. In fact I have never taken it that high, I think my max was 45mg once and I was tripping hard.
Yeah,
I have now a similar opinion/experience to yours,
I barely have experience with it, just one dose, of a pill that supposedly has/had 30mg..
I kinda like it, but the set/setting was honestly very deficient. I just had the typical psychedelic "craving" that one has when you have a new compound and you have been pretty busy, and then you're not... and even if you have something urgent to do, it's not urgent enough not to take the substance, I don't know if you can picture those moments..
I knew that the moment was not perfect, because I was going to travel next day, quite early, and the travel arrangements like the baggage was not completed.
But.. I thought that I could do it calmly even when on the substance, it happen that way, but it "killed" the substance character in a way.
I felt that 2C-C it's very "malleable", because I could feel sober and without visuals if I liked, and only during 30-40 minutes during the peak it was difficult for me to form thoughts or phrases/conversations exactly the same as sober.
I never tried any other psychedelic that does not change the mindset/thought form as little as 2C-C.
As you said, the main characteristic is the emotional openness that resembles MDMA or 6-APB, but in a psychedelic way, not very different than mescaline, the other only phenetylamine that I tried (well, calamus has phenethylamines too, but...).
I thought that I was almost sober, after 2 hours and a half and I started feeling pretty dissapointed as the visuals only lasted 20-30 minutes, during the end of the come-up phase that was pretty odd. I was wrong because I suddenly felt super sad, but not in a bad way, I was just confronting my grandfather death, that was like a father for me, as I was raised by him, instead of my real father (that flew by when I was very young). It was very very emotional and dramatic, because I felt that I was not really open emotionally talking, during the last period of my life, probably because I used kratom, and I realized it was because living with a BPD partner it's just too much for me, for my emotional stability, but that has also affected my emotional openness, needed to address certain very important events, like my grandfather death, that happent +3 years and a lot of other things...
I was alone for some days in my grandparents home, and it happen there, obviously the setting was crucial in that point but I guess it's something about the substance, that creates some body high and mental serenity/peace, that allows the difficult emotional shit to arise to the surface, which seems SUPER therapeutic, as other BL'er has said, I agree a lot on that.
It seems to me very therapeutic and I see that it can be quite deep in larger doses. I don't know if the pills were underdosed or what, maybe they are not, but I think I would enjoy more 40-50 mgs to have a broader, more complete trip.
For that same reason I DON'T think that it's the better substance as a introductory/first time psychedelic, because there's a lot of people with emotional traumas and shit like that that could go mad if suddenly confronted with it, even if the very nature of the substance is gentle and compassionate... I think low dose (10-15mg) of 4-ho-met would be better for a lot of people, and perhaps for others this substance would work perfectly, not for everyone.
The visuals were elusive and very short-lived but they were marvelous and like nothing I've seen before, covering all my visual field, very natural (in terms of credibility) and very intrincate, complex fast changing nets like arabesques and metallic/"sci-fi inspired" in feeling.
The body high was very interesting, warm and all-encompassing, with some kind of opiate like (but more "shield-like" and not "blanket-like") feeling.
At the beginning it was VERY sexual, with some curious sensation that started in the chest and quickly goes down to your genital area, like "waking up" your sexual urges, making you very aware of your "power" and inviting you. Strangely enough I didn't masturbate nor wanted to do anything sexual, like when I do NEP or yohimbe, but I feel that if I were with a woman, then I would have liked to do it...
Well, finally this comment seems more like a trip report, but I let it here, I guess. The trip was pretty short (maybe because of using low dose 3-FEA only 2 days before), around 3 hours n something. I would like to use it again, as I said with larger doses.
if you have some 2C-D to combine with you'll feel the 2C-C in there at a much lower dose.
