On second examination my batch is indeed grainy, I just glanced and it looked powdery. It does sparkle in the light, but it's a bunch of opaque grains.
I bioassayed it last night... I took 12mg orally. After about an hour I started feeling a light, wonderful sparkly/floaty feeling. It was quite physically euphoric and I started talking quite profusely with my friend, periodically describing how great I felt and how I like this better than 3-MeO-PCP. There was indeed some hypomania, I felt fully in control of myself at all times (even after redosing as I will explain in a minute), and fully with it, but my mind was whirling with activity. I felt a definite energetic push, moreso than with 3-MeO-PCP or MXE. There was no classic stimulation, and no overstimulation whatsoever, but I felt propelled into motion both physically and mentally. After about 2 hours I decided to redose 7mg, in the nose. This redose started to hit me pretty quickly and before long I felt dissociated, but in a very light, non-dissociated way, if that makes sense. The euphoric feeling grew, and I was reminded of LSD. I had a warm glow emanating from inside and radiating outward, and I felt light, uplifted. 3-MeO-PCP makes me feel sort of focused forward, as if in a tunnel. The energy is not directed upwards at all, but with 3-MeO-PCE, the energy was definitely upward-driven. I found myself smiling almost constantly, and wanting to be funny. I redosed another 4mg eventually (bringing my total over the night to 23mg), and everything reached a peak probably 4 hours after I had eaten my first dose. I was reminded of aspects of MXE very strongly. One thing that reminded me of it a lot was that as I moved, it felt sort of like I was standing still and everything moved around me. That's not exactly accurate, but I don't think I can explain it better, but it's one of the really consistent effects I get on MXE. I felt immersed in a psychedelic sort of sparkle, but my mind wasn't going anywhere profound, unlike with MXE or psychedelics. I was simply in a really great place, pretty trippy, interesting and prolific thoughts. I noticed I would occasionally stumble over words like I can with MXE, where it seems like my mouth just can't quite do it for a second and I slur over a word. Throughout I remained exceptionally clear-headed but hypomanic, more clear-headed and less seemingly mentally altered than with 3-MeO-PCP and certainly far moreso than MXE. My friends and I jammed together for an hour of it during the peak, it was very creative and like with other dissociatives we all felt that they were partly there too (they knew I was on it but I find with dissociatives that group trips even with people not on them are common as long as they're receptive people who understand altered states). I had a more difficult time making my hands do what I wanted them to than I expected, though. It was like there was a layer of fuzz over my fine motor control and I had to battle through it. Really good practice for me, but I was hoping for it to be more like 3-MeO-PCP in that regard. Recently on 3-MeO-PCP I jammed with my friends and I felt like I had all the time in the world to react and perfect muscle control, I had never felt so connected to my mind and body while playing music. Either way with 3-MeO-PCE the creativity was absolutely flowing.
I started drinking beer and ended up drinking a fair amount by the end of the night (I had had some when we jammed too so that may have contributed to the difficulty I described, though I had also had some when I did it with 3-MeO-PCP). The alcohol made it feel more sloppy but also more euphoric. It was fun, but I think next time I'll take just 3-MeO-PCE and go for a day hiking adventure without the alcohol. After the last beer I felt a little more intoxicated than I had wanted to get, my really good friend came over who is in a traveling band now and I hardly ever get to see these days, and I wasn't fully able to talk to him like I wanted to because I was finding talking a bit difficult and I wanted to lay down and look at the sky mostly. At the end of the night I took 2mg of etizolam and passed out hard, to the point that I barely remember actually getting in bed. So I can't speak to whether I would have been able to sleep or not without it. I can imagine sleep being really hard on just 3-MeO-PCE, but I was on 2 depressants by the end.
Throughout the whole experience it felt exceedingly comfortable, in fact quite beautiful and euphoric, in my mind and body. It felt very natural. I like how 3-MeO-PCP feels too, but it can be kind of sharp until the peak ends, kind of uncomfortable/unnatural sometimes, and it feels exceptionally neutral in the body, not a positive or negative feeling. But 3-MeO-PCE felt really great in my body, in fact coming up was almost a bit of a rush (albeit a slow rush), I just started feeling so nice that I had a smile plastered on my face and I had to tell people about it. Aspects of the 3-MeO-PCE "personality" remind me strikingly of MXE, but it's missing that whole intense psychological/psychedelic/confusing/profound layer. I figure that, like with 3-MeO-PCP, this one just isn't for trying to hole or have out of body experiences and the like. Both of the 3-MeOs seem like they're best suited for being in-body and working on self-based things.
All in all, A+ stuff! I can't wait to explore it again. Today I am feeling a really nice afterglow, and I don't usually get afterglows from dissociatives (unlike many, it seems).
