2c-e - medium experience - tale of three journeys
01
18.20 30mg of 2c-e in gelcap.
19.30 Walking around the natural preservation area, sun is setting. It is like golden lava going behind the lake. We sit on a bench and I am hit by IT. My thoughts begin to shoot of tangentially. Very clear and clean. Fantastique. Visual distortions are there, but are not very strong. People's faces are surprisingly normal. Perspective changes. Going to J's. Moments of clarity, I see all the basic principles of my life crystal clear. Divine moments of clarity. To see eternity. This was very strong (propably strongest trip so far), very clear and extraordinary evening. Simply superb material, perhaps the best I've seen yet. No physical symptoms, some visuals, some auditory hallucinations. But the time and tangential thinking is excellent.
02
24mg of 2c-e in cap, a small chunk of space cookie and two small tokes around t+1.5h and t+2h.
First signs of real effects came when a mosquito landed on my left arm. I quickly glanced it and it seemed enormous. I startled.
photo 1. Sitting on grass.
Magic and fantasia
I sat there (photo 1) on high grass watching nearby forests over the field. It was half cloudy and the sun came out from clouds every now and then for a few minutes just to go back behind clouds soon after. Air was thick with magic. Any minute a unicorn, a fairy, troll, goblin or any fictious creature could step out of the shadows. The grass and flowers were glistening in the sunlight. I had entered Fantasia, the magical fairy tale land from The Neverending Story. The music was essential for my magical mood. I took off my earphones to test it and indeed, the feeling changed from magical to some other kind very quickly. The album at that time was Namlook: Air II, melodic ambient moods.
photo 2. Forest.
After some walking along sandy side roads, I climbed up a cliff to see views. Climbing up was propably the most confusing part of my trip. At points I wasn't sure at all which way was uphill and which was downhill, but I somehow managed to get atop the cliffs. It was a familiar place to me, I had been here several times as a kid. Bare cliffs and lots of lichen growing everywhere. I climbed atop of a big rock and sat down to listen to the music again. I closed my eyes. Music took me over and I drifted somewhere along with Namlook & Richie Hawtins moods at "From Within 3". To my surprise, album was over after a moment I thought was a mere five minutes, but which apparently was over half an hour.
photo 3. Views.
I walked along a ridge that had lots of pines and views over the surrounding landscapes (photo 2, photo 3). There was a brief storm with heavy rain. Nature showed its might. I had come at that same place dozens of times when I was a kid, but I still seemed to be lost. I just trusted my instincts. All places seemed somewhat familiar yet I couldn't orientate myself at all. When the storm ceased, air seemed extraordinarily fresh. I sat down on a rock and closed my eyes again. This time I was overwhelmed by the closed eye visuals that were first overlapping and quickly moving fractal images, but soon turned into full three dimensional fractal caves with the shift in music. Perhaps one day I can replicate one of those images in short animations. I was swimming deep in the music. Music rhythm was like an echo of some constant theme that captured all of my consciousness. I can safely say I was unaware of my surroundings during that time. Images brought some feelings to me that I can only describe as "ancient tribe consciousness". I have no better words for it. The images, the music, my thoughts, all were in a flow that was something I had never seen before, yet it seemed familiar as if brought back from my earlier lives. If I hadn't spent years with sciences and thinking of my view on life, I might have turned into believing rebirth or similar things. I am still an atheist, but that experience was a test for my beliefs. Again I listened the whole album through, this time it was Namlook & Spyra "Virtual Vices", the third track was especially
imagery provoking.
photo 4. Plant.
I finally found my way back from hills. I was coming down now and I tought I could head back home. I stopped to lay down on some fields that were blossoming with tall grass and flowers (photo 5). I was tired and fell into half asleep state. Again I saw some incredible CEV's. One of them was a flash of what looked like a "shadow" creature from Babylon 5. This creature came with a strong association of being one of the two "pets" living inside my mind. This might sound scary or crazy, but it was not, just very strange flash. The two pets had a pet of their own, also living inside my head, but I was not high enough to see it. After this flash I snapped out from my half-sleepy state.
photo 5. Field.
I walked back to my parents where I was staying just to find out that my daughter had got a serious fever. The rest of the evening went quickly as I took care of her. Around t+12 hours I was down enough to sleep.
03
Around 2pm, me 42mg of 2c-e and my friend M 46mg of 2c-e swallowed in a capsule.
After t+1.30 trip starts. Relatively smooth come up, I felt just stretching, not much nausea nor other negative symptoms. I feel cold and I shiver constantly, but it doesn't bother.
We listen to Firesign Theatre - Live At Westbury Fair. I never knew anything could give experiences like this. The echoing sounds create kaleidoscopic looping patterns inside my head in seconds. The true trip starts. I snap out from deeper journey to put more blankets over myself a few times during the album, but fall back every time in a few seconds. I remember opening my eyes and watching the ceiling for a few seconds. It was a sea of patterns, ever changing, undulating back and forth. Real life seemed like a dream then and the new world created by the music was the real place with its diamond
shaped patterns. I seem to touch something mystical, something which seem like a well guarded secret that only listeners of this album with the right state of mind can achieve. This truth is ineffable, like a very clever trick revealed to me. I travel through places, but I cannot describe them anymore. There are a few moments where I wonder if this is too much, but those moments pass quickly and again I am no longer much aware of routine reality.
The album is over and I am amazed to the very last cell of my body. What was that? I have tripped before, but never like this. I take some fruit salad and we continue to sink into another album, Propeller Island - The Garden. This also gives me extraordinary hallucinations, mystical states and ever changing, emotionally charged vivid thoughts and visionary patterns. This album was much smoother and brought you back from the deeps sometimes during the album, but nevertheless I am again amazed from tip to toes. Those two out-of-this-world trips took a lot of energy and we end up just listening to more easy type of music, like Namlook, Steve Roach, Robert Rich and other classical ambient. The plateau ended around 7pm (t+5h) and long, slow and smooth transition back to normal consciousness begun. We smoked a good deal of weed during the landing period. By midnight I was relatively free from effects of 2c-e, but heavily stoned. I missed my bus and had to walk some 15km back home.
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There, three extraordinary occasions with 2c-e. I wrote more about the second trip than the first and third, since they were more difficult to put into words. One thing seems clear to me now. Music is the key, psychedelics are just catalysts. 2c-e is also the most neutral substance that I have had the priviledge of testing. Use with care and respect.
01
18.20 30mg of 2c-e in gelcap.
19.30 Walking around the natural preservation area, sun is setting. It is like golden lava going behind the lake. We sit on a bench and I am hit by IT. My thoughts begin to shoot of tangentially. Very clear and clean. Fantastique. Visual distortions are there, but are not very strong. People's faces are surprisingly normal. Perspective changes. Going to J's. Moments of clarity, I see all the basic principles of my life crystal clear. Divine moments of clarity. To see eternity. This was very strong (propably strongest trip so far), very clear and extraordinary evening. Simply superb material, perhaps the best I've seen yet. No physical symptoms, some visuals, some auditory hallucinations. But the time and tangential thinking is excellent.
02
24mg of 2c-e in cap, a small chunk of space cookie and two small tokes around t+1.5h and t+2h.
First signs of real effects came when a mosquito landed on my left arm. I quickly glanced it and it seemed enormous. I startled.
photo 1. Sitting on grass.
Magic and fantasia
I sat there (photo 1) on high grass watching nearby forests over the field. It was half cloudy and the sun came out from clouds every now and then for a few minutes just to go back behind clouds soon after. Air was thick with magic. Any minute a unicorn, a fairy, troll, goblin or any fictious creature could step out of the shadows. The grass and flowers were glistening in the sunlight. I had entered Fantasia, the magical fairy tale land from The Neverending Story. The music was essential for my magical mood. I took off my earphones to test it and indeed, the feeling changed from magical to some other kind very quickly. The album at that time was Namlook: Air II, melodic ambient moods.
photo 2. Forest.
After some walking along sandy side roads, I climbed up a cliff to see views. Climbing up was propably the most confusing part of my trip. At points I wasn't sure at all which way was uphill and which was downhill, but I somehow managed to get atop the cliffs. It was a familiar place to me, I had been here several times as a kid. Bare cliffs and lots of lichen growing everywhere. I climbed atop of a big rock and sat down to listen to the music again. I closed my eyes. Music took me over and I drifted somewhere along with Namlook & Richie Hawtins moods at "From Within 3". To my surprise, album was over after a moment I thought was a mere five minutes, but which apparently was over half an hour.
photo 3. Views.
I walked along a ridge that had lots of pines and views over the surrounding landscapes (photo 2, photo 3). There was a brief storm with heavy rain. Nature showed its might. I had come at that same place dozens of times when I was a kid, but I still seemed to be lost. I just trusted my instincts. All places seemed somewhat familiar yet I couldn't orientate myself at all. When the storm ceased, air seemed extraordinarily fresh. I sat down on a rock and closed my eyes again. This time I was overwhelmed by the closed eye visuals that were first overlapping and quickly moving fractal images, but soon turned into full three dimensional fractal caves with the shift in music. Perhaps one day I can replicate one of those images in short animations. I was swimming deep in the music. Music rhythm was like an echo of some constant theme that captured all of my consciousness. I can safely say I was unaware of my surroundings during that time. Images brought some feelings to me that I can only describe as "ancient tribe consciousness". I have no better words for it. The images, the music, my thoughts, all were in a flow that was something I had never seen before, yet it seemed familiar as if brought back from my earlier lives. If I hadn't spent years with sciences and thinking of my view on life, I might have turned into believing rebirth or similar things. I am still an atheist, but that experience was a test for my beliefs. Again I listened the whole album through, this time it was Namlook & Spyra "Virtual Vices", the third track was especially
imagery provoking.
photo 4. Plant.
I finally found my way back from hills. I was coming down now and I tought I could head back home. I stopped to lay down on some fields that were blossoming with tall grass and flowers (photo 5). I was tired and fell into half asleep state. Again I saw some incredible CEV's. One of them was a flash of what looked like a "shadow" creature from Babylon 5. This creature came with a strong association of being one of the two "pets" living inside my mind. This might sound scary or crazy, but it was not, just very strange flash. The two pets had a pet of their own, also living inside my head, but I was not high enough to see it. After this flash I snapped out from my half-sleepy state.
photo 5. Field.
I walked back to my parents where I was staying just to find out that my daughter had got a serious fever. The rest of the evening went quickly as I took care of her. Around t+12 hours I was down enough to sleep.
03
Around 2pm, me 42mg of 2c-e and my friend M 46mg of 2c-e swallowed in a capsule.
After t+1.30 trip starts. Relatively smooth come up, I felt just stretching, not much nausea nor other negative symptoms. I feel cold and I shiver constantly, but it doesn't bother.
We listen to Firesign Theatre - Live At Westbury Fair. I never knew anything could give experiences like this. The echoing sounds create kaleidoscopic looping patterns inside my head in seconds. The true trip starts. I snap out from deeper journey to put more blankets over myself a few times during the album, but fall back every time in a few seconds. I remember opening my eyes and watching the ceiling for a few seconds. It was a sea of patterns, ever changing, undulating back and forth. Real life seemed like a dream then and the new world created by the music was the real place with its diamond
shaped patterns. I seem to touch something mystical, something which seem like a well guarded secret that only listeners of this album with the right state of mind can achieve. This truth is ineffable, like a very clever trick revealed to me. I travel through places, but I cannot describe them anymore. There are a few moments where I wonder if this is too much, but those moments pass quickly and again I am no longer much aware of routine reality.
The album is over and I am amazed to the very last cell of my body. What was that? I have tripped before, but never like this. I take some fruit salad and we continue to sink into another album, Propeller Island - The Garden. This also gives me extraordinary hallucinations, mystical states and ever changing, emotionally charged vivid thoughts and visionary patterns. This album was much smoother and brought you back from the deeps sometimes during the album, but nevertheless I am again amazed from tip to toes. Those two out-of-this-world trips took a lot of energy and we end up just listening to more easy type of music, like Namlook, Steve Roach, Robert Rich and other classical ambient. The plateau ended around 7pm (t+5h) and long, slow and smooth transition back to normal consciousness begun. We smoked a good deal of weed during the landing period. By midnight I was relatively free from effects of 2c-e, but heavily stoned. I missed my bus and had to walk some 15km back home.
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There, three extraordinary occasions with 2c-e. I wrote more about the second trip than the first and third, since they were more difficult to put into words. One thing seems clear to me now. Music is the key, psychedelics are just catalysts. 2c-e is also the most neutral substance that I have had the priviledge of testing. Use with care and respect.
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