Usually when I went looking for some experience to rival another I came out horribly disappointed. Just saying
This is excellent advice to people who constantly attempt to describe the subjective effects of one drug by comparing it to another. The first time I met Sasha Shulgin, he explained to myself and one of my ex-girlfriend's the folly of getting stuck in this frame of mind. He said that each and every chemical has a unique energy and feeling to it even though it may be almost identical in structure to another one. He compared thinking this way to always comparing one's current lover to past lovers. By doing this, you set yourself up for constant dissatisfaction with what you have instead of fully appreciating and immersing yourself in the moment.
He was such an extremely wise and enlightened Soul. He will be dearly missed!
Anyway, to the topic at hand: 4-aco-MET is one of my new favorite drugs. I found 20mg of the fumerate insufflated to be the perfect dose for me. It kicks in about 20 minutes after snorting it, and I'm completely back to baseline exactly 4 1/2 hours later. If I take it at 6 PM, I can easily fall asleep before midnight if I desire. Another reason I prefer 20mg to higher doses is that I can still physically function normally if needed, and others can't tell I'm even on a drug at this dose. One time after taking 60mg, my mother of all people decided to show up unannounced to take my wife and I out to dinner. I was practically catatonic at that point from the overwhelming vibrations that had consumed my body, and along with the disorienting, intense Visuals and Telepathic conversations with the spirit entities that showed up, the day became a complete disaster. I was doing extremely bizarre things in public (though at the time they made perfect sense, lol) that drew an inordinate amount of attention to me and almost got me arrested for public intoxication (my mother talked the pig into just letting her take me home), and my strange behavior and incomprehensible philosophizing centering around alien conspiracies pissed my mom off so bad that she didn't speak to me for over almost 2 years!
The effects of any given dose of this drug have always been consistent for me, without the unpredictability of other Psychedelics. With my usual dose of 20mg, colors become fantastically brilliant and mesmerizing, music aquires a unique depth that I've never had from any other substance, and I always have a profound sense of Oneness with and Empathy for others. These effects are way more intense for me than even several hundred mg of good MDMA. The music (I usually listen to Beck albums and watch his trippy-ass videos while in Hyperspace from any drug), and especially the musically sweet sound of my wife's voice and the powerful vibration of just her natural, NOT drug-induced Spiritual Potency usually move me to uncontrollable crying for a large part of the Trip, though on 20mg I can almost instantly snap myself back to some semblance of objective reality in an emergency.
It's an ideal drug for spiritual exploration, and the profound insights received not only still make sense after it wears off, but they stick with you permanently and inspire great changes in your life (this is from my own experience, as well as that of 9 close friends who regularly take this drug). So if you're not in the mood for a possible permanent religious conversion experience, or you're just content with where you're at spiritually right now, you may want to avoid this drug, or just use small doses.
