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2C-I (15mg) - First Experience - "That Time We Did 2C-I"

yardbirdrc

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Date: January 2009
Time: 4:45pm - 9:00pm
Drug: 2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine)
Dose: 15mg
City: Pittsburgh


Preparation:
15mg of powder procured from the grey market and dissolved in kool aid.

Experience:
T+0:00 - We opened 2 of the little wax paper packets that contained (supposedly) 15mg of the research chem each, and dissolved them into 2 cups of kool aid. We then drank it and headed out to the cafeteria to enjoy the come-up with some food. Our original intent was to then go to the Andy Warhol museum. That was pretty naive.

T+0:30 - We are sitting in the cafeteria when I realize that i’m starting to trip. My girlfriend brushes against my arm and it feels strange. “Wait, do that again” I say, and I spend a few minutes poking my arm and exploring the entactogenesis. Things begin accelerating really quickly and we are soon tripping relatively hard, and i’m finding it hard to speak in anything but fragmented, hurried sentences. “wegottagetouttahere”, “getyourcoat”, “hereholdthis”. I notice that the lights behind my friend’s head are warping, and we decide to leave, as the effects were only getting stronger. As I walked through the cafeteria I felt like I was in an ocean, the air around me seemed heavy and fluid. I’ll never forget that feeling, its one of the few things I really remember from the trip. After this things started getting too hot to handle.

T+1:00 - We walk through the cold back the dorms - apparently. I don’t really remember this but we had to have gotten to the dorms somehow. I do remember a few flashes, and telling my girlfriend that we should just “follow Hardware, and everything will be ok” as we followed my friend Hardware back. After this, deciding that things were too heavy to be facing alone, I asked Hardware if he wouldn’t mind letting us stay in his room. I took my pants off so I was just wearing sweatpants and a soft shirt, and began riding out the trip. The visual effects were much more pronounced than any hallucinogen I had done, except salvia I guess, but that's sort of in a league of its own when it comes to visuals. There were dots of color everywhere, and stereotypical warping of everything, and it just kept getting stronger and stronger. What really made the trip uncomfortable was the excess energy. I’m a generally twitchy person, and I was seriously tweaking on this stuff. There was constant, very strong energy building in my chest, making it hard to breathe. I felt like I needed to just let it all out or I would soon seize up or explode. I found the only way to do this was by dancing. Now i’m white, and subsequently not very good at dancing, and I don’t particularly enjoy it enough to do it on a regular basis, in fact the last time I danced was at prom. Despite all this, there I was dancing my ass off with no music, nervously muttering to myself that somehow this would keep me out of the hospital. “Mandi you have to dance with me, its the only way, you don’t understand, its the only way” I kept muttering, as I swung my limbs around and sweated profusely. I called the dealer I got it from, who was also tripping at the same time, and asked him how he was feeling, and told him to try dancing. In fact I called a lot of people and told them to dance. Eventually my friends took my phone. I got a bottle of water to make sure I was hydrated, and realized I had become the stereotypical rave kid. Now my friend Hardware’s room is covered in japanese posters, and at the time he was playing Katamari Damacy, which is a trippy ass game with trippy ass music, so the visuals started to take on this techno sort of theme of neon tubes that would grow and spread. Drinking the water hurt, in fact my insides were generally in pain, which was really concerning. Breathing felt difficult, like my torso was filled with sand. I started getting a new visual which was smoke. The room looked like it was filled with smoke, i’ve never had this before on any drug. There was just like visual white noise filling the room. When I wasn’t dancing I sat on my girlfriend (probably not very comfortable for her if we hadn’t been on drugs that make everything feel good) and rubbed her sweater which felt amazing. Her trip was completely different, she was plastered to her chair for better or worse and didn’t really feel the excess energy I was feeling. Everything seemed really alien at this point, and everything felt weird to the touch.

T+2:15 - Time seemed to be going really really slowly, the trip felt like it would never be over. I felt sort of hollow, this weird over-chemicalled head throbbing that I get if I smoke too much weed, but much cleaner. Very difficult to explain. Its just a general feeling that you’ve pushed your body too far. Anyway I finally worked up the nerves to stumble my ass into the bathroom and take a leak. As I peed a shadow on the wall reminded me of the devil, and I rushed back to the room. As we started coming down, I started to enjoy myself. I looked down at my water bottle and saw how the droplets of water clung to the sides. It looked beautiful somehow. By this point I was able to recognize the overall feel of the drug and I knew that what I was looking at was distinctly “2C-I”.

T+ 3:15 - Once the threat of ending up in the hospital and having to tell my parents how insane I was by putting a random ass chemical from china into my body, and like dealing with all the shit associated with doctors not knowing what the fuck I was on, and maybe having long term health consequences was over, I was more able to enjoy the trip. All the anxiety seemed to melt away and I knew everything would be ok. We walked back down to my room, something that would’ve been impossible an hour earlier. The hollow feeling was all that was left really, and we tripped mildly while laying in bed talking about how ridiculous our day had just been, and how we were crazy to want to go to the Warhol museum as was our original intent. That could’ve ended up badly. Eventually, the “internally broken” feeling left, and the only thing left was a surprisingly mellow afterglow and some strange pain on the insides of our teeth. We both experienced it, it was like our teeth were about to explode. I popped 2 benadryl and ordered a pizza, so grateful to be in my bed with my girlfriend when just 3 hours beforehand I was on the floor talking about how this was such a mistake and all I wanted was to be sober and in bed.
 
Nice report, thanks for sharing. I hope that the next time you take 2c-i (if you choose to do it again) won't be as overwhelming as your first time. It is odd that you were tripping so hard off 15mg but I guess everyone reacts differently to psychs. My first time I did 20mg and never once felt out of control, but the stimulation was too much for me so I ended up walking around my house the entire time because it was too uncomfortable to sit still. Since then I have enjoyed it several other times, with 25mg being the highest dose. I really enjoy mixing this substance with pot and/or a low dose of mushrooms as I find that it helps to get rid of the negative body load which 2c-i often causes. Thanks for sharing and I am glad that you didn't attempt to get to the museum haha
 
thanks for the input sunglasses! if you've noticed the explanation at the top of my other report "the butterfly room", i've actually posted this report before but I switched usernames and had to repost everything. For this one I forgot to post a preface that I had written for bluelight but didn't have in my local copy of the report, i'll add it here:

Preface: I wrote this report several years ago during my freshman year of college. I'm not sure the times are accurate. I've since come to realize that either we were dosed innacurately, or I didn't have enough psychedelic experience under my belt to handle the situation, or both. I don't have anything against 2C-I after this experience, in fact I look forward to getting acquainted with 2C-E now that I know a little bit more about what I'm doing. I consider this venture a failure on many levels, and I'll pardon the 2C family of this bad first impression.

I'll be re-entering the 2C realm with a low-ish dose of some 2C-C that I've acquired, from what I've read its generally less stimulating than 2C-I and pretty easy to manage. I also have a lot more psychedelic experience under my belt now, I feel a large part of my negative reaction was due to fact that this was the first time I ended up in a full psychedelic head space and I didn't really know how to fend for myself (I had done LSD prior to this but at a relatively low dose). I've got some 2C-E as well if the 2C-C suits me, but as for 2C-I, my girlfriend would probably kill me if I tried to order it (knowing what a scary time we had it on it), and I don't have much desire to revisit it anyway.

Anyway, perhaps the worst part of changing user IDs is that I lost all the feedback and discussion I had on these reports, so I really appreciate your comment.
 
As far as 2c's go I have have tried 2c-i, 2c-e and 2c-d, all a number of times. My favourite is 2c-e by itself and 2c-d goes wonderfully with other substances as I find it is rather empty on its own. Adding 2c-d to a LSD trip was great and it really gave the LSD trip a deeper layer. I like 2c-e a lot better than 2c-i because it has more depth. I find it to be somewhat similar to LSD in the thought patterns that it causes. I have dosed up to 25mg of 2c-e, I want to take a higher dose but I don't think that I would be able to handle any nausea worse than I experienced on 25mg. Next weekend I will be trying 2c-e with shrooms, I have done 2c-i with shrooms before and the synergy between them was fantastic - and the shrooms got rid of the negative bodyload which 2c-i seems to cause. I will write a trip report about it once I have a few days to reflect on it. I hope that you write a report about 2c-c when you try it because it is a 2c which I have wanted to try for some time now, it is really lacking in the trip report department, both on BL and erowid.
 
I can kind of relate to this. I tried 2C-I recently again my dosage was around 25mg. I found that I was never close to losing it mentally but oddly I had extremely unpleasant physical effects for over 30 hours. Even 6mg of Xanax was not able to put me out of my physical misery.

I was impressed with 2C-I visually but a bit disappointed. I have tried other PEAS and not really enjoyed them much because they were not very euphoric and was hoping 2C-I would be a bit more euphoric, it wasn't very euphoric or introspective at all. The only positive thing about it was the nice visuals, body wise it was TERRIBLE for me and mentally there was never much of anything going on.

Having tried 2c-p, 2c-t-2 and 2c-I and not really enjoyed any of them. I am confident at this point that my experimenting with PEAs is over.
 
I've tried 2c-e and 2c-i both over at least 15 times.

2c-i blows 2c-e out the water imo
i'll make a imo pros/cons of them

2c-e:PROS:
More visuals
Less dose needed (slighly)
More intense
When snorted, burn is less then 2c-i
CONS:
More intense
Heavy body load


2c-i:PROS:
More euphoric
Less body load
More 'speedy' feeling
CONS:
Less visuals *only slightly and taking a higher dose will give me visuals just as good or better then 2c-e.


IMO 2c-i beats 2c-e by alot. It feels alot *cleaner* to me and more euphoric, and the body load is hell of alot more managable then 2c-e.
 
I have read 2c-c is pretty easy on the body. How much easier then other 2c's is it really? I have not found a 2c I really enjoy and 2c-c seems like the best hope, I may not even bother with it at all though, im pretty disappointed with 2c's in general.
 
I have read 2c-c is pretty easy on the body. How much easier then other 2c's is it really? I have not found a 2c I really enjoy and 2c-c seems like the best hope, I may not even bother with it at all though, im pretty disappointed with 2c's in general.

I'll let you know when i try it but that might not be for a while (probably about a month at least). morninggloryseed has written at least one nice and detailed report about it IIRC, i think maybe more than that, and the B&D thread is somewhat informative. erowid doesn't have much. it's not super easy to find either unfortunately, and its expensive when you consider the dose is 30-60mg.
 
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