IME no, you cannot dose "beyond" the body load.
At my most intense DOC dosage (for me 4mg), I was in a good headspace and wanted to just lay still, but I was doing back bends on the floor, doing every stretch I could possibly manage in my state, in order to release the body load. Eventually I wound up taking a Flexeril, then later several benzos, just to get physical relief.
For me the body load scales seemingly linearly with the psychedelia.
Ah, that's a shame! That's pretty much my fear for dosing higher as well, as even on that 2.5 mg I was already taking the occasional alcohol shot to help manage the body load. I'm still hopeful that I might be able to find a better way to avoid it, but my experience so far leads me to believe that my reaction might be a lot like yours.
If you don't mind me asking, did the Flexeril significantly impact the trip in any way? I've got access to that via family members, but I never cared for it on its own. It gives me a weird, almost Benadryl-like sedated feeling.
Although I haven't tried DOC yet I find this to be the case with every other phen Ive tried. For example when 2c-c got boring for me, I upped the dose and found the body load to get more intense where the trip itself was stronger but I for sure felt more physically uncomfortable. Same with 2c-e for me to.
That's too bad, though interestingly I haven't had any problems with body loads with the basic phenethylamines I've tried yet, primarily 2C-I, even in huge doses. Have you taken that one to compare to those?
Yeah DOC's headspace can get pretty manic, it's definitely ego-boosting. I find the highest level of mania to occur during the second stage, post-peak.
My favorite way to take DOC is with a friend, doing something cool and engaging. I have had some interesting experiencing turning inward with it and listening to music, but all of my best experiences have been with my favorite tripping partner friend, on a river hike. We end up getting into the most amazing conversations, the kind where you both can't stop talking about anything and everything. DOC really helps to facilitate my words, and my mind feels like it's working very efficiently, it's very natural and easy to make new connections and understand what someone else is proposing very quickly. The sense of humor is greatly enhanced too, and I find great amusement in complex things. We end up talking a lot about the human condition or the development of life. I always gain something from these trips, bouncing ideas off another person. To me DOC is not a psychedelic for inward journeying, but for interacting with the external world.
Then again my first trips with it were all by myself, in my room in front of my computer, and I enjoyed those a lot too. I just think tryptamines, or something like 2C-E, are better for that.
As for spending time outside... you gotta just make opportunities for yourself.
Every aspect of my life feels better when I have a strong relationship with nature. Perhaps you live somewhere where that is difficult, if so, I sympathize because I lived that way for some time (as a young kid we lived on the edge of Chicagoland and I actually got to explore cornfields and forests to my heart's content, but as I got older it grew around us until the edge of town was miles away).
Yeah, I remember that river hike report, haha. That kind of experience does sound pretty awesome, I could definitely see the appeal. Unfortunately though I do live in sort of a difficult area for that, there's not really anything like that around here. There are of course a few parks and such, but they're almost all man-made and honestly pretty boring once you've been around them a few times, they don't seem to really hit that nature instinct in me like some genuine parks I've been to on vacations. Not to mention, they're all mostly open fields or forests with shallow paths, so I've never really been too comfortable with the thought of the limited opportunities for actual privacy when tripping at them in the past. Some day I'll be somewhere with those kinds of places though.... Good natural scenery is definitely going to be a top priority for me when I do finally move away from here. When that happens I'll certainly make as many opportunities as I possibly can.
Notably though, the way you describe DOC there does remind me a lot of my earlier experiences with MDMA, which for me does get pretty psychedelic in the later hours at higher doses. I actually did go walking around a local park with friends for a lot of those times, and that was pretty great, both socially and surprisingly also hallucinogenically, probably because of mixed psychedelic and stimulant effects I'm sure, as it sometimes got pretty delirious. For instance, I remember once staring up though a tree and seeing the branches arrange themselves into a ribcage with the leaves forming a beating heart at the center, and the friend I was with saw the exact same thing at the same time. We would talk at length about these beautiful things we were seeing and other aspects of life as the headspace was completely clear and focused despite that intensity, pretty much until the sun came up (it was always at night) and then we'd head home. Those were really cool experiences... but I just haven't really had the desire to go back to that particular place in a while, mostly because I've walked the same couple paths there hundreds of times already, and most of my friends who would go with me feel the same way. But, so, I definitely understand the appeal to it all.... I think I just need a change of scenery more than anything.
But, nonetheless, I'm still going to try to see how much an inward journey I can get from DOC.
I'm not going to argue that there are better substances for it or that DOC might be better in a different context, but it's just not really about those things for me. When it comes to psychedelics I live for the inward journey, and I'm generally going to try to seek it out on anything that seems even slightly promising for it. And, even if DOC is better suited for other things, I would still say that its promise in this way was considerably above slight for me. Though, I have been thinking a lot about this, and I've also been realizing that my expectations I think have indeed been a bit too colored by tryptamines lately, as I've done almost nothing else for years. Specifically, I realized that I am putting too much stock into the idea that an inward journey and a meditative mindset go hand in hand.... That may be the case with a great many of the tryptamines I've used, but with LSD for instance it's not necessarily true at all. I've had plenty of LSD trips where I went deeper into myself than almost any other substance has taken me despite the fact that I spent the whole time pacing and running and jumping around the house, the trip was just strong enough that that didn't really matter anymore. So, based on what you and others have said, I'm now starting to think that this may be my best plan of action with DOC... rather than trying to find a way to avoid the body load while relaxing, instead try to find some way to bring out the stimulation my first experience lacked. Pretty much, if I can get it to go a bit more like my LSD experiences, I think I might be able to get a good bit more out of it than I was able to before.
2C-E would be nice though too. :3 But unfortunately that's not really an option for me right now!
I don't doubt that it helps a lot, and I'll certainly make use of it sometimes, especially whenever the time comes that I actually do have something like a good hiking opportunity. At the moment though, I suppose you could just say that I have a curiosity that needs to be satisfied....
Don't think I've forgotten that we still need to catch up.... I'm finally, at long last, going to be moving back into my apartment over the next few days, so things should be settling down again. I am mercifully feeling pretty much normal again now too, minus the occasional itch with I think is just psychosomatic at this point.... Anyway, I'll be in a better place to talk again soon. 
