I noticed that the big and dandy 25i thread was closed. I recently had my first assay camping with my best friend. Here are my initial impressions, not quite amounting to a trip report:
1. I prepared a solution with ~1/12th polysorbate-20, 1/12 ethanol, and 11/12 water, at 1 mg/ml / 25i. In retrospect, that much polysorbate was overkill, making an outright sudsy solution that also tasted pretty soapy, but that was also quite tolerable.
2. Holding the solution in my mouth for 1/2 an hour led to opulent salivation...gawd, to the point of there being like 10 ml of saliva in my mouth near the end of the requisite half-hour.
3. I went with 1 mg as my attack dose, which...well, it would have sucked if I ended up super-sensitive to the vasoconstriction (I actually experienced none that I could perceive), but I'm in damn good shape from bike-training. It ended up being nearly the perfect level of effects (well, I like to trip moderately).
4. This kicks in a lot more slowly than 25c taken sublingually. With 25c, visuals begin to manifest for me about a forty minutes after administration of the drug (yes, just a tad after I swallow the solution). With the 25i, it took more like 1.25 hours, but there were clear alerts and bodily effects prior to this point.
5. Nasal redosing with two consecutive .5 mg boosters about 1.5 and 2 hours into the experience was pretty effective (with some notable tachyphylaxis). Pain was quite mild and brief...and the soapy drip was minimal.
6. The ratio of mental effects to visuals is a great deal higher with 25i than with 25c. While I find 25c mostly silly, I found the 25i to lead to very hearty fits of laughter and occasional cosmic insights (mostly concerning the fundamental properties of being that condition our place as observers of and in the universe as a total system).
7. The body feel was lighter than with 25c (and WAY lighter than with 2ci)...but somehow more stimulating. My epidermis was often electrified, this electricity often spilling into waves of laughter and visual 'pulses' that were an aspect of 'trailing'.
8. It was really clear-headed (nearly as much as sobriety)...until it came time to decide to do something. At one point, I felt totally collected...but then noticed that I couldn't handle deciding what, exactly, to do first when trying to wash some dishes in a basin (already containing soapy water!).
9. The visuals were really pretty but quite dependent on existing input (of the kind that allows visual-cortical feedback loops, eg speckled dirt and leaves or asphalt). Once night fell, or when I closed my eyes, there were nearly no visuals. However, shining a flashlight at the ground, I was compelled to note, "The patterns were hiding from me the whole time!". Near the peak, if I 'zoned out' staring at something, the patterns from given objects would 'decouple' from those objects, merge with a translucent, spiderwebish membrane of patterns, and sweep around, as a pattern that pervades everything.
10. I'd say that the entire experience lasted about 7 hours, with things getting quite subtle at the 4.5 hour mark. But I also enjoy etizolam near bed time at the end of my psychedelic experiences.
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