My first trip report here, this, as well as being my first time with 2C-C. I'm sure I've given too little or too much detail on various aspects. Please do ask questions, if anything needs fleshing out. 
Dose, substance, route
I took 36 mg (+/- 1 mg) of 2C-C, orally.
Circumstances
I took the 2C-C alone in my flat at 10.15 pm on a Saturday evening, having been awake since 08.00 am and having spent a mostly pleasant day with my girlfriend, and with the prospect of not having to worry much about getting up the next day, since I wouldn't be seeing her again till Sunday evening. A small amount of (not hugely urgent) academic work hovered over me: I hoped to get some work done on Sunday, but it wouldn't have been disastrous if I hadn't been up to it.
So the circumstances weren't ideal for tripping: some responsibilities existed in the next 24 hours, and I was relatively tired; but I've had much worse circumstances in the past - I was basically feeling quite relaxed and positive about the experience. I was prepared to be up all night, and happy to see where the trip took me.
Expectations
Based on my reading, I anticipated an experience not unlike 2C-B or 2C-E, but perhaps with less stimulation, and maybe even some sedation, and with a longer come-up. I didn't know what to expect from the dose, as reports are rather inconsistent, with similar doses producing everything from nothing to fairly intense effects in different observers. However, it seemed to me that - possible, but unlikely, idiosyncratic reactions aside - this should be a dose that wouldn't be excessive, given I was ready and willing for an intense and long trip, should one present itself.
Commentary
Wonderful
Two possibly related things delighted me about this trip: the extraordinarily slow but steady come-up (effects growing and changing and developing and peaking at over three hours after dosing, despite relatively empty stomach (three hours empty)), and the entactogenesis/empathogenesis noted during the early and late stages of the trip.
I say that these may be related, because I have read others saying that any (or most) psychedelic can be entactogenic/empathogenic at low doses, but it is something I have never really noted, myself. Perhaps I have too rarely attempted low doses, and the low doses I've had haven't been low enough. But 2C-C's slow and steady come-up allowed me time (about 30 minutes) to explore that low-dose effect before the effects increased enough to obscure the empathogenesis with true psychedelia.
I should also note that current issues in my life may have inclined me more to empathic insights under any circumstance, but it is interesting that this effect was noted only at two symmetrical points on the triangular trajectory of effects of 2C-C. This seems to suggest the effect was 2C-C-related.
The slow come-up was great. A really friendly, gentle way to enter a trip (aside from the physical/motor issues discussed below), although I have to say that the 2C-C did wrestle me to the sofa in much the way that 2C-E tends to do to me (at around the time the physical/motor issues were at their height). But it was much less of a leap from the nonpsychedelic to the psychedelic mindset.
Ah well
Two other, again possibly related, things mildly disappointed me about it: the relative mildness of the peak (a mere taster of the full psychedelia I expect this substance can offer), and the brevity of the peak. The slow come-up was leading me wrongly to expect a good few hours at or near peak before coming down, whereas in fact the trajectory of the experience seemed to head downwards pretty much as soon as it had stopped rising.
I'd guess that a larger dose would make the triangular nature of the trajectory less disappointing, since more of the triangle would be at a satisfyingly high level. However, a higher dose would also likely make the empathic phase even briefer than it was on this occasion, and might exacerbate the one thing I really didn't like about this trip...
Oooh, not so nice!
I don't know whether it is mere stimulation, or a toxic side-effect or a result of actual (not just perceived) temperature change, or whether it is a sort of motor psychedelia (with neurons in the motor cortex being activated in similarly weird ways to those in the sensory cortex), but the jitteriness in my legs was quite disturbing. I've had it on 2C-E and DiPT to an extent, but this was the worse I've ever had it (despite being more cautious than usual with caffeine). Likewise, I don't know if the temperature changes were real or were thermoreceptor psychedelia. But they too were fairly disturbing. I would be interested to know if these effects scale with dose, or if they don't get much worse.
Chronology of effects
t+/-0.00 36 mg 2C-C taken orally.
t+0.30 Mild euphoric relaxation
t+1.00 Feeling cold
t+1.30 Subtle, controllable psychedelic mental state
t+1.45 Auditory enhancement, controlled psychedelia, tactile enhancement, empathic and entactogenic insight.
t+2.00 Brief stimulation, perceived temperature fluctuation
t+2.15 Visual disturbances begin. Breathing, shiftiness.
t+2.15 - t+2.45 Stimulation, jitteriness in legs, bed seemed necessary.
t+2.45 Relaxation returns, but visual distortion is increased, with haloing, and skipping about. Quite 2C-Eish feel arriving.
t+3.00 Tracers become fairly common
t+3.15 Peaking now. Very shroomy dry facefeel, stimulated but in the psychedelic way. Previous visuals persist.
t+4.00 Visuals are reduced, and trip is returned to mostly controlled state.
t+4.15 While visuals remain present to a degree, trip is 100% controlled now. Food begins to be eaten.
t+4.45 Calm, moral empathogen/entactogen state accessed earlier returns. Visuals almost entirely gone.
t+5.00 Ate well. Exceedingly close to baseline, but disinclined to sleep.
t+5.45 At baseline, essentially, and inclined to sleep.
Reinterpretation of effects as consisting of stages
I seemed to pass through several distinct psychedelic stages, generally with intervening bodyload heralding a new stage on the way up; and then passed through the same stages in reverse at a similar rate, but without the bodyload:
-1. ----- t - 0.00 36 mg 2C-C taken orally.
0. t + 0.00 Baseline 30 minutes
1. t + 0.30 Subtle euphoric relaxation 60 minutes
------ t + 1.30 i. Perceived temperature fluctuation (for first 10 minutes of 2)
2. t + 1.30 Tactile and auditory enhancement; Calm, clear entactogenesis/empathogenesis. 30 minutes
------ t + 2.00 ii. Perceived temperature fluctuation; mild stimulation (for first 10 minutes of 3)
3. t + 2.00 Auditory enhancement, mild visuals of shifting and breathing; controllable psychedelia 30 minutes
------ t + 2.20 iii. Stimulation, uncontrollable jitteriness (overlapping perhaps last 10 minutes of 3 and first 20 minutes of 4
4. t + 2.30 2C-typical haloing and skipping about of vision; psychedelia sometimes unavoidable, sometimes near-avoidable 45 minutes
5. t + 3.15 Psychedelically stimulated; psychedelia unavoidable; tracers added to visual mix 30 minutes
4. t + 3.45 Visuals reduced, more controllable.
3. t + 4.15 Quite controllable, but still altered.
2. t + 4.45 Empathogenesis revisited.
1. t + 5.30 No longer in a psychedelic state, but sufficient enhancement not to want to sleep.
0. t + 5.45 Baseline, and ready to sleep.
-1. ----- t + 6.15 Slept.
Experience
This was my first dose of 2C-C. Previous experience with other psychedelics (including a few debatable psychedelics) includes:
2C-B (twice at 25 mg, once at c. 15 mg),
2C-E (half a dozen times, at 18 to 25 mg),
LSD (a few times, a long time ago, mostly fairly low - but not precisely known - doses),
4-HO-DMT and 4-PO DMT (both in the form of mushrooms, at a wide range of not precisely known doses, on many occasions, ranging from threshhold to intense trips),
4-AcO-DMT (four occasions, ranging from 10 mg to 30 mg),
DiPT (about a dozen occasions, ranging from 60 mg to 100 mg),
pFPP (one occasion, 60 mg)
Salvinorin A (in the form of smoked Salvia divinorum perhaps a dozen times, range of not very precise doses, from threshold to intense in effects)
THC (in the form of smoked cannabis, innumerable times, wide range of doses)
MDMA (perhaps three times a long time ago, at 120 mg to 150 mg doses, I'd guess, and more recently one 80 mg dose)
MDMC (more than a dozen times, at doses mostly between 180 mg and 240 mg)
My apologies if this is too much info for a trip report, but I figured this would be relevant to how people interpret how I felt about 2C-C. I suppose it may also be relevant to know what my current taste in psychedelics is, to compare my assessment of 2C-C with. Essentially, I am finding that, of those I have experience with, the phenethylamine psychedelics are my drugs of choice, both for the nature of the visual effects and for the more positive and reflective head-space I find they tend to bring me to, but with a notable exception for DiPT, whose auditory and psychedelic effects have not yet failed to delight and intrigue me. (If I had access to LSD, I imagine that might be favourite, based on my loose memories of long-ago trips.) I also use cannabis regularly, though I think sometimes there is an element of psychological dependency, as well as genuine preference, in that.
What else passed my lips that day?
Last food eaten: 1 pizza, at t - 3.00
Other drugs taken: caffeine (in the form of tea and coffee) during the day, but at a reduced level (perhaps a cup of tea and one of coffee in the last 5 hours before dosing); nicotine (in the form of smoked cigarettes) during the day (perhaps 10 roll-ups). Tobacco, cannabis and tea were attempted on a few occasions during the trip. On each occasion that they were taken on the way up, they appeared to enhance stimulation uncomfortably. On the way down from the peak, however, they were enjoyed fairly normally.
What other drugs had I used recently?
Most recent was a combination of 80 mg MDMA and 15 mg 2C-B oral, followed by an unknown (probably no more than 180 mg over an hour) quantity of insufflated methylone, 7 days prior to the current dose. No other psychedelic, empathogenic, or stimulant use (other than cannabis, tobacco, and caffeine) in the past month.
Would I do this again?
Oh certainly, it has so much to offer, as discussed above. Until the jitteriness arrived, I was thinking I might try doubling the dose next time, but in fact I shall increment much more slowly. I don't think it'd take much more to produce a fully satisfying trip, and I'm concerned the jitteriness will get worse at higher levels. It's almost like a 36 mg dose of 2C-C gives me the body load of a 36 mg dose of 2C-E (or what I imagine that might be like... I've not taken such a dose) but with the intensity of psychedelia of a much lower dose.
I think, in future, I will try to limit further my use of caffeine, nicotine, and cannabis on a day when taking 2C-C, to see if this reduces the uncomfortable aspects of the trip. I'm also considering getting a thermometer and bp/pulse monitor, to check the objective counterparts of the subjective bodyload.
After effects
For at least 5 days after the trip, tracers (temporal blurring of visual motion) are occasionally observed.
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Dose, substance, route
I took 36 mg (+/- 1 mg) of 2C-C, orally.
Circumstances
I took the 2C-C alone in my flat at 10.15 pm on a Saturday evening, having been awake since 08.00 am and having spent a mostly pleasant day with my girlfriend, and with the prospect of not having to worry much about getting up the next day, since I wouldn't be seeing her again till Sunday evening. A small amount of (not hugely urgent) academic work hovered over me: I hoped to get some work done on Sunday, but it wouldn't have been disastrous if I hadn't been up to it.
So the circumstances weren't ideal for tripping: some responsibilities existed in the next 24 hours, and I was relatively tired; but I've had much worse circumstances in the past - I was basically feeling quite relaxed and positive about the experience. I was prepared to be up all night, and happy to see where the trip took me.
Expectations
Based on my reading, I anticipated an experience not unlike 2C-B or 2C-E, but perhaps with less stimulation, and maybe even some sedation, and with a longer come-up. I didn't know what to expect from the dose, as reports are rather inconsistent, with similar doses producing everything from nothing to fairly intense effects in different observers. However, it seemed to me that - possible, but unlikely, idiosyncratic reactions aside - this should be a dose that wouldn't be excessive, given I was ready and willing for an intense and long trip, should one present itself.
Commentary
Wonderful
Two possibly related things delighted me about this trip: the extraordinarily slow but steady come-up (effects growing and changing and developing and peaking at over three hours after dosing, despite relatively empty stomach (three hours empty)), and the entactogenesis/empathogenesis noted during the early and late stages of the trip.
I say that these may be related, because I have read others saying that any (or most) psychedelic can be entactogenic/empathogenic at low doses, but it is something I have never really noted, myself. Perhaps I have too rarely attempted low doses, and the low doses I've had haven't been low enough. But 2C-C's slow and steady come-up allowed me time (about 30 minutes) to explore that low-dose effect before the effects increased enough to obscure the empathogenesis with true psychedelia.
I should also note that current issues in my life may have inclined me more to empathic insights under any circumstance, but it is interesting that this effect was noted only at two symmetrical points on the triangular trajectory of effects of 2C-C. This seems to suggest the effect was 2C-C-related.
The slow come-up was great. A really friendly, gentle way to enter a trip (aside from the physical/motor issues discussed below), although I have to say that the 2C-C did wrestle me to the sofa in much the way that 2C-E tends to do to me (at around the time the physical/motor issues were at their height). But it was much less of a leap from the nonpsychedelic to the psychedelic mindset.
Ah well
Two other, again possibly related, things mildly disappointed me about it: the relative mildness of the peak (a mere taster of the full psychedelia I expect this substance can offer), and the brevity of the peak. The slow come-up was leading me wrongly to expect a good few hours at or near peak before coming down, whereas in fact the trajectory of the experience seemed to head downwards pretty much as soon as it had stopped rising.
I'd guess that a larger dose would make the triangular nature of the trajectory less disappointing, since more of the triangle would be at a satisfyingly high level. However, a higher dose would also likely make the empathic phase even briefer than it was on this occasion, and might exacerbate the one thing I really didn't like about this trip...
Oooh, not so nice!
I don't know whether it is mere stimulation, or a toxic side-effect or a result of actual (not just perceived) temperature change, or whether it is a sort of motor psychedelia (with neurons in the motor cortex being activated in similarly weird ways to those in the sensory cortex), but the jitteriness in my legs was quite disturbing. I've had it on 2C-E and DiPT to an extent, but this was the worse I've ever had it (despite being more cautious than usual with caffeine). Likewise, I don't know if the temperature changes were real or were thermoreceptor psychedelia. But they too were fairly disturbing. I would be interested to know if these effects scale with dose, or if they don't get much worse.
Chronology of effects
t+/-0.00 36 mg 2C-C taken orally.
t+0.30 Mild euphoric relaxation
t+1.00 Feeling cold
t+1.30 Subtle, controllable psychedelic mental state
t+1.45 Auditory enhancement, controlled psychedelia, tactile enhancement, empathic and entactogenic insight.
t+2.00 Brief stimulation, perceived temperature fluctuation
t+2.15 Visual disturbances begin. Breathing, shiftiness.
t+2.15 - t+2.45 Stimulation, jitteriness in legs, bed seemed necessary.
t+2.45 Relaxation returns, but visual distortion is increased, with haloing, and skipping about. Quite 2C-Eish feel arriving.
t+3.00 Tracers become fairly common
t+3.15 Peaking now. Very shroomy dry facefeel, stimulated but in the psychedelic way. Previous visuals persist.
t+4.00 Visuals are reduced, and trip is returned to mostly controlled state.
t+4.15 While visuals remain present to a degree, trip is 100% controlled now. Food begins to be eaten.
t+4.45 Calm, moral empathogen/entactogen state accessed earlier returns. Visuals almost entirely gone.
t+5.00 Ate well. Exceedingly close to baseline, but disinclined to sleep.
t+5.45 At baseline, essentially, and inclined to sleep.
Reinterpretation of effects as consisting of stages
I seemed to pass through several distinct psychedelic stages, generally with intervening bodyload heralding a new stage on the way up; and then passed through the same stages in reverse at a similar rate, but without the bodyload:
-1. ----- t - 0.00 36 mg 2C-C taken orally.
0. t + 0.00 Baseline 30 minutes
1. t + 0.30 Subtle euphoric relaxation 60 minutes
------ t + 1.30 i. Perceived temperature fluctuation (for first 10 minutes of 2)
2. t + 1.30 Tactile and auditory enhancement; Calm, clear entactogenesis/empathogenesis. 30 minutes
------ t + 2.00 ii. Perceived temperature fluctuation; mild stimulation (for first 10 minutes of 3)
3. t + 2.00 Auditory enhancement, mild visuals of shifting and breathing; controllable psychedelia 30 minutes
------ t + 2.20 iii. Stimulation, uncontrollable jitteriness (overlapping perhaps last 10 minutes of 3 and first 20 minutes of 4
4. t + 2.30 2C-typical haloing and skipping about of vision; psychedelia sometimes unavoidable, sometimes near-avoidable 45 minutes
5. t + 3.15 Psychedelically stimulated; psychedelia unavoidable; tracers added to visual mix 30 minutes
4. t + 3.45 Visuals reduced, more controllable.
3. t + 4.15 Quite controllable, but still altered.
2. t + 4.45 Empathogenesis revisited.
1. t + 5.30 No longer in a psychedelic state, but sufficient enhancement not to want to sleep.
0. t + 5.45 Baseline, and ready to sleep.
-1. ----- t + 6.15 Slept.
Experience
This was my first dose of 2C-C. Previous experience with other psychedelics (including a few debatable psychedelics) includes:
2C-B (twice at 25 mg, once at c. 15 mg),
2C-E (half a dozen times, at 18 to 25 mg),
LSD (a few times, a long time ago, mostly fairly low - but not precisely known - doses),
4-HO-DMT and 4-PO DMT (both in the form of mushrooms, at a wide range of not precisely known doses, on many occasions, ranging from threshhold to intense trips),
4-AcO-DMT (four occasions, ranging from 10 mg to 30 mg),
DiPT (about a dozen occasions, ranging from 60 mg to 100 mg),
pFPP (one occasion, 60 mg)
Salvinorin A (in the form of smoked Salvia divinorum perhaps a dozen times, range of not very precise doses, from threshold to intense in effects)
THC (in the form of smoked cannabis, innumerable times, wide range of doses)
MDMA (perhaps three times a long time ago, at 120 mg to 150 mg doses, I'd guess, and more recently one 80 mg dose)
MDMC (more than a dozen times, at doses mostly between 180 mg and 240 mg)
My apologies if this is too much info for a trip report, but I figured this would be relevant to how people interpret how I felt about 2C-C. I suppose it may also be relevant to know what my current taste in psychedelics is, to compare my assessment of 2C-C with. Essentially, I am finding that, of those I have experience with, the phenethylamine psychedelics are my drugs of choice, both for the nature of the visual effects and for the more positive and reflective head-space I find they tend to bring me to, but with a notable exception for DiPT, whose auditory and psychedelic effects have not yet failed to delight and intrigue me. (If I had access to LSD, I imagine that might be favourite, based on my loose memories of long-ago trips.) I also use cannabis regularly, though I think sometimes there is an element of psychological dependency, as well as genuine preference, in that.
What else passed my lips that day?
Last food eaten: 1 pizza, at t - 3.00
Other drugs taken: caffeine (in the form of tea and coffee) during the day, but at a reduced level (perhaps a cup of tea and one of coffee in the last 5 hours before dosing); nicotine (in the form of smoked cigarettes) during the day (perhaps 10 roll-ups). Tobacco, cannabis and tea were attempted on a few occasions during the trip. On each occasion that they were taken on the way up, they appeared to enhance stimulation uncomfortably. On the way down from the peak, however, they were enjoyed fairly normally.
What other drugs had I used recently?
Most recent was a combination of 80 mg MDMA and 15 mg 2C-B oral, followed by an unknown (probably no more than 180 mg over an hour) quantity of insufflated methylone, 7 days prior to the current dose. No other psychedelic, empathogenic, or stimulant use (other than cannabis, tobacco, and caffeine) in the past month.
Would I do this again?
Oh certainly, it has so much to offer, as discussed above. Until the jitteriness arrived, I was thinking I might try doubling the dose next time, but in fact I shall increment much more slowly. I don't think it'd take much more to produce a fully satisfying trip, and I'm concerned the jitteriness will get worse at higher levels. It's almost like a 36 mg dose of 2C-C gives me the body load of a 36 mg dose of 2C-E (or what I imagine that might be like... I've not taken such a dose) but with the intensity of psychedelia of a much lower dose.
I think, in future, I will try to limit further my use of caffeine, nicotine, and cannabis on a day when taking 2C-C, to see if this reduces the uncomfortable aspects of the trip. I'm also considering getting a thermometer and bp/pulse monitor, to check the objective counterparts of the subjective bodyload.
After effects
For at least 5 days after the trip, tracers (temporal blurring of visual motion) are occasionally observed.
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). (ETA: Oh, well, except for when I took salvia on a mushroom trip, which was quite fun, more easy to enjoy than salvia alone, perhaps because the mushrooms eased the transition.)
), but I'll happily get some 2C-D next time I make a purchase. I did consider getting 2C-D recently, but plumped for 2C-C as seeming more uniquely interesting. May I ask what interests you in 2C-D particularly?
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