Kallisti23
Bluelighter
Yesterday I had the house to myself so I decided to take 20mg of 2cb (ended up being more like 25mg) and have a nice little trip. I had taken 2cb only two nights prior but didn't think much of it as it was a only small amount (aprox 14 - 15mg), but the peak of this trip and the visuals lasted substantially shorter than usual. it worth noting as well that although the duration was reduced the peak itself wasn't much weaker than usual.
Anyway here's the report, plus some thoughts on 2cb itself.
T+0.00: Consumed the 2cb. Last time I voyaged I got some good glimpses and insight into the subconscious response programs and games that influence and affect my thinking and perception, and I am hoping to delve a bit further into this today with the hope of being able to eliminate negative thought programs.
I decide to lay some tarot to see if I can uncover any subconscious will to which direction my investigation will take.
+0.35: Starting to notice effects. Tingling up my spine, colours getting brighter and typing getting harder.
+1.00: effects nice but not quite as strong as I had hoped. Go upstairs and take another aprox 5.
+1.30: I can feel that this is going to be a more earth-focused trip than my previous ones, my plan to delve analytically into the nature of thought has gone out the window – The nexus has other ideas. I was out in the back playing with my cat, watching the plants shimmer with radiant energy, and I started thinking about how I lost my connection to nature.
All my life up until very recently I felt a strong affinity with nature, specifically forest. As a child I used to often play in the woods with my friends, and I loved fairy tales set in mysterious murky forest. The forest always represented the unknown, the mystery of life and was the pinnacle of my inherent escapist mentality.
In my teenage years I would spend most of my spare time with friends either wandering the streets or sitting around in various fields and partly concealed wooded areas where we could smoke and drink and do other things we where not permitted to away from the eyes of the adult world. This constant immersion and contact with the natural world formed and maintained a natural affinity to it.
Once I reached adulthood and no longer had to hide any of my activities there was no need for my friends and me to sit outside in unfavourable conditions when we could just stay in our homes.
Working a regular job also encourages just going from one indoor environment and back home to the other. Over time this connection has faded and become lost, there is still a glimmer of it lodged as a fantasy of a not long lost golden age. I really need to get out in nature more and reconnect with Gaia. Nature provides the most easily accessible and open source of love and energy.
When I sit out in the back garden smoking a joint, the small tiled patio before the grass has a shimmering of little red and green coloured dots, in fact everything is shimmering with a saturated almost cartoon like energy. There is a definite positive push to 2cb, reminiscent of the rounded cosmic giggle of the mushroom, but less deep and dramatic.
For the next hour or so I spent lying down with an eye mask on in a state of womb like comfort and pleasure focusing on energy flowing trough my body, experiencing various intricate trains of thought, most of which I cannot recall.
+2.40: As I lie down in my bed listening to Rainbow Dome Musick the 2cb rolls in on wondrous waves of positive psychedelia - a cosmic ocean of bliss, penetrated by touches of interstellar consciousness – my walls, books, and posters are all undulating with a radiant glossy sheen, all colours are wonderfully vivid.
I notice that my thought process is affected by the slight stimulant push of 2cb, making it difficult to focus for too long on any one particular subject or idea. This is its one major flaw compared to the classic psychedelic compounds; it is a bit too speedy and impatient, always looking for a new kick. People sometimes complain of 2cb being a bit shallow or a bit too easy, but I think the easy and benign nature of the compound should not have it written off as not suitable for entheogenic work.
It is in my experience very possible to have profound psychological and spiritual insight through the use of 2cb, it just requires a bit more focus and intent on your part. It doesn’t grab you by the scruff and thrust you down the corridors of consciousness or hyperspace like LSD or Psilocybin can, but with some gentle goading you can certainly gain some valuable results.
+3.00: At around this time the visual effects begin to diminish, I am certainly not ‘down’, just sort of mellowed out to a gentle plateau. Colours are still bright and thinking intensified but very manageable.
Also around this time I start to become distracted by influences from the outside world. My mother is calling me about something to be organised, I have also ran out of weed so decide to try get some more.
+3.40: My dealer calls and I decide to hop on my bike and cycle the 15 minutes or so to pick up, I feel fine enough by this stage to manage the cycle, and even if this wasn’t such a wise idea I make it fine and have (what I think anyway was) a perfectly inconspicuous conversation and coffee with my dealer. I didn't mention that I was tripping out of anxiety that this would make him not know how to react and make things awkward, but I think I got away with it. Something which would've been a lot harder had i taken mushrooms or LSD.
Mild residual effects persisted for the next three to four hours or so before I would have considered my self ‘down’ proper.
I attributed the shortness of the peak experience to possible tolerance from having done 2cb only a couple nights before. Does anyone know any more about this? Usually with a dose of 20 - 25mg I would be getting good visuals for about three - four hours, this time it was only two.
Anyway here's the report, plus some thoughts on 2cb itself.
T+0.00: Consumed the 2cb. Last time I voyaged I got some good glimpses and insight into the subconscious response programs and games that influence and affect my thinking and perception, and I am hoping to delve a bit further into this today with the hope of being able to eliminate negative thought programs.
I decide to lay some tarot to see if I can uncover any subconscious will to which direction my investigation will take.
+0.35: Starting to notice effects. Tingling up my spine, colours getting brighter and typing getting harder.
+1.00: effects nice but not quite as strong as I had hoped. Go upstairs and take another aprox 5.
+1.30: I can feel that this is going to be a more earth-focused trip than my previous ones, my plan to delve analytically into the nature of thought has gone out the window – The nexus has other ideas. I was out in the back playing with my cat, watching the plants shimmer with radiant energy, and I started thinking about how I lost my connection to nature.
All my life up until very recently I felt a strong affinity with nature, specifically forest. As a child I used to often play in the woods with my friends, and I loved fairy tales set in mysterious murky forest. The forest always represented the unknown, the mystery of life and was the pinnacle of my inherent escapist mentality.
In my teenage years I would spend most of my spare time with friends either wandering the streets or sitting around in various fields and partly concealed wooded areas where we could smoke and drink and do other things we where not permitted to away from the eyes of the adult world. This constant immersion and contact with the natural world formed and maintained a natural affinity to it.
Once I reached adulthood and no longer had to hide any of my activities there was no need for my friends and me to sit outside in unfavourable conditions when we could just stay in our homes.
Working a regular job also encourages just going from one indoor environment and back home to the other. Over time this connection has faded and become lost, there is still a glimmer of it lodged as a fantasy of a not long lost golden age. I really need to get out in nature more and reconnect with Gaia. Nature provides the most easily accessible and open source of love and energy.
When I sit out in the back garden smoking a joint, the small tiled patio before the grass has a shimmering of little red and green coloured dots, in fact everything is shimmering with a saturated almost cartoon like energy. There is a definite positive push to 2cb, reminiscent of the rounded cosmic giggle of the mushroom, but less deep and dramatic.
For the next hour or so I spent lying down with an eye mask on in a state of womb like comfort and pleasure focusing on energy flowing trough my body, experiencing various intricate trains of thought, most of which I cannot recall.
+2.40: As I lie down in my bed listening to Rainbow Dome Musick the 2cb rolls in on wondrous waves of positive psychedelia - a cosmic ocean of bliss, penetrated by touches of interstellar consciousness – my walls, books, and posters are all undulating with a radiant glossy sheen, all colours are wonderfully vivid.
I notice that my thought process is affected by the slight stimulant push of 2cb, making it difficult to focus for too long on any one particular subject or idea. This is its one major flaw compared to the classic psychedelic compounds; it is a bit too speedy and impatient, always looking for a new kick. People sometimes complain of 2cb being a bit shallow or a bit too easy, but I think the easy and benign nature of the compound should not have it written off as not suitable for entheogenic work.
It is in my experience very possible to have profound psychological and spiritual insight through the use of 2cb, it just requires a bit more focus and intent on your part. It doesn’t grab you by the scruff and thrust you down the corridors of consciousness or hyperspace like LSD or Psilocybin can, but with some gentle goading you can certainly gain some valuable results.
+3.00: At around this time the visual effects begin to diminish, I am certainly not ‘down’, just sort of mellowed out to a gentle plateau. Colours are still bright and thinking intensified but very manageable.
Also around this time I start to become distracted by influences from the outside world. My mother is calling me about something to be organised, I have also ran out of weed so decide to try get some more.
+3.40: My dealer calls and I decide to hop on my bike and cycle the 15 minutes or so to pick up, I feel fine enough by this stage to manage the cycle, and even if this wasn’t such a wise idea I make it fine and have (what I think anyway was) a perfectly inconspicuous conversation and coffee with my dealer. I didn't mention that I was tripping out of anxiety that this would make him not know how to react and make things awkward, but I think I got away with it. Something which would've been a lot harder had i taken mushrooms or LSD.
Mild residual effects persisted for the next three to four hours or so before I would have considered my self ‘down’ proper.
I attributed the shortness of the peak experience to possible tolerance from having done 2cb only a couple nights before. Does anyone know any more about this? Usually with a dose of 20 - 25mg I would be getting good visuals for about three - four hours, this time it was only two.
