I ended up taking my second 100 ug of this yesterday.... The body load was still rough at the beginning, but much easier than the first time I took it at the same dosage a couple years ago, and I have been healthier lately, plus I rode a recumbent bike for the first 45 minutes after dosing, then took a nice hot shower, and kept myself moving around a lot of the trip especially compared to before, so I think that helped a lot. It also almost completely dissipated other than a mild tightness after the first few hours during the heaviest psychedelic effects, and then it was pretty much all smooth. It's a bit challenging for me but I look forward to learning from it with future experiences and further increasing my comfort with this one.
The trip is insane.... This dosage didn't get me quite to the level I want to be at for it yet, but what I can see of it so far is incredibly powerful. With eyes open there was little in the way of geometric visuals or distortions, a small amount that was LSD-like though with a distinct color scheme but nothing particularly intense, but already I was seeing lots of actual hallucinations beginning to form particularly in the darkness, such as lots of insects and arachnids crawling over my kitchen counters or people walking passing my doorways in the rooms around me. With eyes closed I am beginning to see extremely large, three-dimensional patterns forming with detail rivaling mushrooms and DMT, and when zooming into the edges of these patterns I can see endless crowds of people perfectly aligned in rows all holding hands like on salvia. The scenes are not fully realized and the colors are still a bit dark but at this point I can already tell these are some of the strongest visuals I've ever seen, possibly when the strongest when I bring them out a bit more. Most of these disappeared after the peak however and left me primarily with the lingering open eye visuals for the rest of the trip.
The headspace had certain qualities highly overlapping with LSD but otherwise was quite distinct from it compared to, say, AL-LAD. Despite feeling quite powerful it seems far more grounded in reality than LSD and noticeably lacked many of the "getting high" aspects I tend to associate more with LSD like a greater resistance to enhanced bodily awareness or strain or any stimulant effects, and actually I ate quite frequently throughout the trip because smoking cannabis was making me really hungry in a way it generally wouldn't with something more stimulating like LSD. Perhaps because of this or perhaps just on its own there was also a somewhat "sinister" vibe to the trip, but I say this not to suggest that the trip was scary but rather that's just sort of the emotional attitude it seemed to take to express itself, not unlike how I have heard DPT described by some, and this combined with the more grounded quality and aspects of the hallucinogenic experience actually made ETH-LAD's relationship to LSD feel highly analogous to 4-HO-DET's to psilocin for me. As I thought about it I realized that ETH-LAD and 4-HO-DET both actually seem to touch upon a similar lesson for me so far, which is: things are about to get weird, but you still have to give in and go with the flow; as I had this thought I had a vivid mental image burst into existence of a woman wearing something between a sexy BDSM outfit and some kind of alien monster hide clothing involving long strings of eyeballs and sharp teeth dripping blood, similar themes to when I've smoked 4-AcO-DET in the past. There were also some mind's eye images earlier on of things with dark magic themes or dark fiction I've been enjoying lately which also reminds me of past 4-HO-DET trips.
It's also worth noting that the comeup took a while and there did in some sense seem to be two peaks as others have said, I was convinced I had sort of hit it for a while and then suddenly it started kicking in much harder a bit later. As I said I believe the peak then only lasted a few hours but the lingering effects beyond that I could feel for the rest of the day, it was at least ten hours after dosing before I really started to not be feeling them at all times, but that's also given that they were never overly intense to begin with. Sleep came quite easily at night and I got a full rest. Today I'm feeling both good but also a bit sore and smoking cannabis makes things spacier than usual though not much visual happens.
I think that's about all I have to report for now.... Definitely looking forward to my next experience with this one now.
I may wait a little longer than I had previously expected however, as I feel that I would like to take a little longer to integrate some of the lessons I extracted from it before returning....