I tried a combination of 52mg βK-2C-B and 1mg DOC this past weekend. My plan was to write a full trip report but it was fairly uneventful so I will leave you with my notes and a brief epilogue:
10:21 AM
Ingest 1mg of DOC in solution and 52mg of βK-2C-B capped. I do some quick shopping before the drugs begin to take effect: some fruit and a meal replacement bar for mid-day snacking, a healthy dinner, some beer and junk food for late night snacking. I return home in under an hour.
11:21 AM
(+/-) Possible threshold effects. I begin to clean and perform some prep work for dinner with my headphones on.
11:31 AM
(+) Music appreciation is increased, there is a slight stimulation, and I find myself prone to smiling. There is a fuzziness in my head. I begin to sweat, but the temperature is objectively warm from the fireplace. I accidentally throw the recycling in the garbage dumpster. I don’t feel that bad about it.
12:40 PM
(++) Visual distortions have started to manifest with greater intensity than I would expect from either drug by itself at their relative low doses, but so far not necessarily more than I would have expected from the combination of the two. The world is blanketed in a sort of swirling, shimmery sparkle. If I concentrate, patterns begin to emerge. Music sounds deeper and layered with complexity. Is that echo an actual part of the song, or am I hearing things? My hands are shaking, but I don’t feel overly stimulated otherwise. My temperature seems to have levelled off, but I still feel a little warm. My forehead is covered with a light sheen of sweat.
I have just finished some cooking. The visuals and shaking make it difficult to maintain the focus necessary for cleaning up. I will open a beer to take the edge off and head outside.
2:02 PM
(++) I never made it outside and the beer didn't come until about an hour later. I was sidetracked in the kitchen by a bowl of fruit, then watched some TV with the wife. The intensity of the trip doesn’t seem to be increasing much, if at all. So far there is no insight to be had. The experience is pleasurable enough, but the two drugs seem almost in opposition to each other. The βK-2C-B is stimulating, but the DOC leaves me stretched out on the couch, fighting to keep my eyes open and focused. Fast-moving, moderately detailed fractals are easily observed with eyes closed, but otherwise the visuals are far from overwhelming.
11:31 PM
(+++) The addition of MXE brings it all together. The world is soup and I am a big, toasty marshmallow.
Epilogue
Shortly after the report at 2:02 PM, the intensity of the trip increased slightly. I may have reached a +++ at that time, but it's kind of hard to say since I was just lounging around the house with my wife. The combination of drugs produced visuals that were much soupier than I get from either chemical alone. There was no nausea, but the come up was a little rough physically. I would be hesitant to combine larger doses, and I do not see any compelling reason to do so. There is nothing to be had from the combination that couldn't be had with either drug in isolation. βK-2C-B seems to me to be a fine recreational psychedelic on its own, while DOC is complete and plentiful enough (owing to its potency and broad spectrum of effects) that if I were seeking a more profound experience I would simply take more. I suppose if one were attempting to "stretch" the comparatively expensive βK-2C-B a combination of something like 120mg βK-2C-B and 500ug DOC might be in order, but I'm not convinced doing so would yield the desired effects.
The trip was still going strong (at least as strong as it ever was) around 6:00 or 8:00 PM when I started adding MXE to the experience. I'm not sure if it was one drug or the other, or the combination of the two, or my growing dissociative tolerance, but this is probably the first time I have added MXE to a psychedelic without it overpowering the psychedelic. I was in an extremely euphoric and surprisingly lucid psychedelic state at around 10:00 PM, even after two 40mg sublingual doses of MXE. Physically I felt warm (in a good way, like being wrapped in the world's softest blankets) and very comfortable. I was dancing (horribly, robotically, drunkenly) in a state of bliss through the kitchen and living room.
Around the time of my last report, perhaps an hour later, my phone died and I turned to the internet for music and stumbled across
this phenomenal live video of Nine Inch Nails from the 2013 Tension tour. I was really into the music and felt very immersed in the video. At this point the evening turned into a bit of a free for all and I took something like 5mg of 4-AcO-DMT, 80mg of MXM, and 60mg of MXE, then turned off the lights and curled up on the couch with my shitty little 13" laptop and some headphones. For the next hour and a half I was
there, at the concert, bobbing my head, grinning ear-to-ear, quietly singing along. If I'd had a bigger screen and a quality sound system bumping the tunes it might have been better than the real thing. As the drugs began to fade away near the end of the show, I felt a little nostalgic for my teenage years and the friends I've lost touch with (we were huge NIN fans in high school). Surprisingly, I was able to sleep without chemical assistance by around 3:00 AM.
Despite not having had a particularly profound trip, I felt pretty emotionally laid bare the next day. Once or twice my eyes welled up with tears during a melancholy song. I have noticed that the afterglow from high doses of MXE does have this tendency to crack through my stoic facade on occasion
