Has anybody here ever experienced (or witnessed) elliptical pupillary dilation? I took some photos of my eyes earlier, very close up after coadministering 28mg of methamphetamine, and 750 micrograms of DOB in a gel cap, an hour later insufflating ~35mg of noopept, and within 30 minutes after that taking a photo that clearly shows my pupil dilating far more vertically than it is horizontally, creating an oval sort of dilation. Upon noticing, I asked my fiance if he could see it, and he sure could. The pupillary dilation became circular ~4.5-5 hours after taking the DOB, approximately 3.5-4 hours after the noopept was administered, meaning that right as the noopept wore off, the pupillary dilation returned to normal.
I've both experienced and been around noopept potentiating LSD for folks, does it also have an effect over DOB? Tonight I was testing this hunch that my fiance and I have where we feel like DOB cuts straight through LSD-induced-tolerance for some reason. Since our initial encounters with the drug, it's one of the only things that we can take a day or two after a large dose of LSD and feel it the same as if we hadn't taken that LSD recently. Acid's biggest downfall is the tolerance it induces, so DOB was a breath of fresh air amongst the weeks spent not tripping to atone for my acidic sins. I've tested this in one other person, and I measured BP/pulse changes as well as pupillary dilation and they reported effects, DOB at least appears to be able to cut through an acid tolerance, but I don't know why. I hope others here will read about this and, if they can, experiment with it to see if this idea holds water elsewhere.
I've been taking LSD (in pretty comically huge doses) every other day for the past 12 days like it's some sort of multivitamin. It's done wonders for my wellbeing and mental health, I'm genuinely happier and more lively than I've been in about half a decade. I had asked one of my closest friends which drugs seemed to have had the greatest impact(s) on my personality, and the first thing he said, immediate and without thought or hesitation, was that pre-acid me vs. post-acid me are two totally different people. And he's right, I was taught an enormous amount by that molecule even upon just my first exposure, and since then I've used it hundreds of times and within my own social sphere, I'm probably the most acid-stained person I've met so far, even among traffickers I know of who have quite strictly dealt with LSD. The way that specifically LSD, even moreso than harmalas or DMT or anything else, has an impact on my personality is not just something I feel, apparently it's noticeable from the outside too. I became a lot more mentally stable, emotionally open, clearly motivated and cognitively engaged with the world around me.
DOB has never offered me a single morsel of value, not anything even in the same ballpark as LSD nor DOM have. DOC has been useful too. 3C-P, on my single trip with it so far, even alluded towards being a more profound substance, for some reason DOB is, much like 2C-B, kind of an ambiguous seasoning you need to mix into your meal alongside other things that lead the dish. Today it's been methamphetamine, memantine, bupropion, caffeine, THC/HHC/THC-B, and then the DOB about 20 hours into the whole ordeal (alongside a reup on the ice). In the presence of memantine, DOB seems to come more correct, it feels like I could learn more from this headspace than usual, but it's also got me possessed with a fervent vigor and manic spirit akin to 3-MeO-PCP, I would easily end up doing foolish shit for no reason as a result of this specific altered state. I spent almost three uninterrupted hours talking to (at?) my fiance about math rock and adjacent genres tonight, showing him so much mediocre music, it's a fucking tragedy. What kind of headspace does a grown man have to be in to care that much about time signatures?
As I'm sure is apparent, I'm obviously still deep in the shits. I took the DOB 5.5 hours ago, and while 750 micrograms is a noticeable amount that's marginally over threshold but still not very impressive on its own, the memantine I took 20 or so hours ago will last a total of 36, so I'm still swimming in the same pharmacological cocktail as I was this past morning somehow, except now with DOB. I also feel as though DOB, 2C-B, 25B-NBOMe and 25B-NBOH share this ineffable set of characteristics that I can only assume is related to their shared 2,5-dimethoxy-4-bromophenyl structures, my fiance has noticed this but I do not know anyone else who's used at least 3 of those 4 drugs who I could ask. DOB is one of the only drugs I ever take that can interrupt sleep, I'll sleep clean through LSD or meth but not DOB. Taking it at 9PM was a foolish move, but I've committed to the bit already, fuck it. My hunch that 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenyl compounds are also irregularly impacted by cannabinoid coadministration has been reinforced by my trip today, but I'm curious if others here have noticed that 25B-NBOMe/25B-NBOH/DOB/2C-B seem to become amplified more heavily by cannabis than any other 2,5-dimethoxy-4-[not bromo]phenyl drugs, I have experience with 25I-NBOMe, 25E-NBOH, DOC, DOM, and 25C-NBOMe as far as those go. All of those respond how a psychedelic phenethylamine normally would to cannabis, but if the 4 contains a bromine a small amount of cannabinoid activity seems to go much further as far as potentiation goes, but I have no idea as to why. The understudied receptors that are possibly cannabinoid receptors (GPR55, GPR18 and GPR119) are believed to have some relationship to 5HT2a receptor density, possibly they influence one another via biochemical circuits we have yet to fully map out, I'm not sure. If this were the case, I would suspect it to also occur with 4-fluoro substitutions, but the only good reports I can find are for DOF and that one sure does seem like a peculiar compound.
For as much as I consider DOB's headspace to have been rather useless so far, the same could be said of 2C-B. What they lack in body though they make up for in how interesting they are as seasoning on that main dish, so to speak. DOB and 2C-B both feel like they are best cast as side characters in a film, never truly the main focus for too long dare the audience notice how shallow their character truly is. This stands in stark contrast to DOM and DOC, which are both fantastic compounds I would like a milk jug full of them at the side of my desk. As far as these all go in the 25B-NBXX space, I feel like 25B-NBOH and 25B-NBOMe still have a character similar to 2C-B or DOB, but with noticeably more body, only the superficial trappings of 2C-B/DOB remain in the -NBOH and -NBOMe compounds, in my opinion. I have only vaporized 25B-NBOMe, and have only sublingually administered 25B-NBOH, but have used both 10-20 times each, occasionally in tandem with other drugs like LSD or 2C-B. 25B-NBOH mixed well with 25I-NBOMe, and 25B-NBOMe mixed well with 25E-NBOH. It was a bit much when I put all four of those aforementioned drugs together though, in very small amounts all four were coadministered last summer, the trip was of an intensity that borders upon the inscrutable, I don't think there was much to take from it in the first place but whatever there was to take, I probably didn't care for, so I left the trip just puzzled, generally confused over what it could have possibly been trying to communicate to me. 2C-B has been catching a lot of strays in this comment of mine, but I really do adore it, it's just a shallow, empty headed bimbo psychedelic (bimbodelic?) that needs guidance and direction, lest it fall off into being as useless as to have just got me to refer to it as a bimbodelic haha.
Oh man, the word count is 1402, I don't think it's record setting for my BL account but it would fill around 5 pages of a 5"x8" book, so that's something.