Still have to write a report - just like for the 25E-NBOH trip, which is highly relevant to this trip as well, but I recently took 28.7 mg TMA-2 HCl and it was anything but a light trip.
50 min after ingestion, I was already very well into the experience. Nausea was comparable to any standard psychedelic phenethylamine, not worse, not much better. Some strange muscle twitches in the legs, similar to what DOM was like to me. Closed eye visuals present, although I have a hard time differentiating them sometimes from regular closed eyes fantasies. Most of the beginning of the trip was spent with headphones on, eyes closed. Felt like I was melting/unifying with/dissociating into the environment. But at a certain point, my hand and arm felt numb, and upon inspection, looked blueish/dead. This was a continuation of my 25E-NBOH trip, where I was convinced I would die due to vasoconstriction and called the ambulance. Now the problem is, I was never brave or honest enough to tell my girlfriend about this happening. So here I was, on TMA-2, my girlfriend as (inexperienced and drug-naïve) tripsitter, undergoing retraumatisation of a trauma she doesn't even know about. Fortunately, unlike with the 25E-NBOH, I was trusting enough of the drug's inability to kill me or do any major damage that I could hold it out. Watching animal documentaries while cuddling was enough to distract me from the effects (temporarily, it seemed to me as I was passing out here and then, TMA-2 really is a weird one). There also seemed to be some temperature regulation issues.
All in all, it seems clear to me that I have to tell my girlfriend, that I do need a break, that I can't continue assaying exotic/novel compounds "accurately" due to heavy psychosomatic interferences, and to start titration of new to me compounds right at the beginning (to be fair, I had assayed TMA-2 at a treshold dose earlier before my problems).
I would like to hear some thoughts from people who had similar issues and how they resolved them. There is no day I don't spend thinking about the pharmacology and chemistry of psychedelics, and I don't want to stop with this kind of personal exploration.
And, I guess, given the right (or wrong) circumstances, don't take TMA-2 lightly. This was likely due to my mindset, but it was incredibly psychedelic. My plan for going forward is confiding to my girlfriend, and hopefully with her blessing, to continue at psychedelic exploration with my most trusted companion, 2C-B. It will help me untangle pychosomatic from real effects, and I 100% trust the compound to treat me as I deserve.