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Compound: 2C-I or 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Iodophenethylamine
Other compounds used: Nitrous oxide
I had not eaten for about 10 hours prior to taking this drug.
I take the 20mg (weighed by 0.001mg scales) of 2CI out of the small plastic bag and place it into a small glass of powerade (a sports drink). I quickly drink down the drink, noting a slight chemical taste, but not massively overpowering.
...and it starts...
6:45pm
(T+0). I swallow the drink of substance. On first looking at this substance it appears very fluffy and white, almost very much akin to "fairy floss" or "Cotton Candy" which dissolves easily into a water based drink with no issue.
I've arrived at O's house with the intention of some tripping up a nature reserve that is close to both our houses. Much to my surprise, about 9 people are there instead of the 3 that I was expecting. Originally, we had intended to walk up the mountain for some introspection and general discussion while under the influence of LSD. However with this many people the group dynamic changed significantly. I announce that I will be trying a new compound to the interest of a few people there. We all dose, with everyone (except me) taking 2-4 blotters of LSD. After hanging around O's for a bit and just generally having the come-up jitters, it is decided that I "must see" the GI.JOE videos and we watch these as I start coming up. The videos eventually end, but meanwhile I have been checking my mobile phone to see what the time is but it keeps saying 7:11. After a while I realize that it has crashed and frozen, so I restart it and it says 7:45.
7:45
(T+1)
I'm definitely feeling the chemical at this stage. A bit like amphetamine in its stimulation, with physical and muscular effects comparable to Dramamine in its body-load (lots of 'pent-up' or 'there-but-not-really-there' energy). I must mention the body load at this stage was getting pretty significant, perhaps even overwhelming for someone who was not as comfortable with phenethlyamines. The speed and strength of the come up was quite intense and I almost found myself overwhelmed by the sheer visual activity during a few early moments. Burping helped this, although I felt as if I needed to maintain conscious though to actually get my digestive system to work. Blue Dolphin mentioned that he thought that 2C-I basically "shuts down" the digestive system while you are under the effects and I agree - even if physiologically that does not happen it certainly feels like the case.
At this stage I decide to try a nitrous bulb. I inhale the bulb and am overwhelmed by an almost "flooding" of my senses with information especially sight. As the bulb starts to wear off, I can tell that it has definitely kicked visuals up a notch. Visuals at this stage are largely swirly, a breathing of vision with somewhat of a sense of either loss of depth, or gained depth-perception. It is akin to the other phenethylamines I have tried (MDA, MDMA and 2C-B), with colour perception being slightly enhanced or changed, but no full effects yet.
A decision is made to walk to my house. Our giant gaggle of trippers set off on a journey through the suburbs between O's house and mine. The walk shouldn't take us long and it doesn't. I'm noticing the stimulation at this stage to be quite intense - it has shifted however, away from a very rushy amphetamine like high to a much more trippy-but-stimulated kind of feeling. It's easy to move or dance on though, not like 2C-B where I can sit down and watch everything pass by, this more of a "here is energy to use" kind of feeling.
I lose time at this point, but I find it later on in the night.
Eventually the group reaches my house. We go inside for a moment and I drink some water. I've been sweating a lot and had lost quite a bit due to the walk. I also check myself in the mirror - it's very interesting and I almost get lost looking into the pools of my eyes. It's decided that we should go for a walk through the bush, up the local mountain so we can get a better view of the stars away from the city-lights. No sooner have we reached the base of the mountain when fireworks start! I remember that the city has a show every year and included in that are fireworks. Suddenly, it’s a mad dash to get to the top with the best view. Running through the Australian bush in the dark with no torches and a rocky path tests both our mettle and coordination. One of the people in the group starts making war-noises (like bombs exploding and machinegun fire) and we start running around and pretending we're soldiers [hey, it seemed like a good idea and was very funny at the time
] We eventually reach the top of the mountain we were climbing, just in time to see the last 2 mins of the firework show.
Now visuals are visuals, but I have 3 very fond memories of watching fireworks while under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This was one of them; coloured tracers lit up in the sky from nowhere, fireworks would explode then linger in the air for what seemed like an eternity. It was truly a breathtaking experience. After a bit of deliberation, I got out the bulbs again and decided to have a few more sitting on a spot I like to meditate, overlooking the surrounding bush and suburbs near where I live. Visuals from these proved to be most intense - while looking at the Milky Way I became lost and completely forgot I had a body. Not like an OBE, I just 'got lost' in the stars and all their magnificent glory.
9:45
(T+3)
I check my phone at this stage and it reads 9:45. So with 3 hours passed, this must be the peak/plateau right? No, I'd come up harder and faster than the reports or anecdotal evidence had led me to believe. I thought the route of admin via the drink orally would most likely be the cause of this.
Visuals at this stage are probably as much as they were going to get. Colour enhancement, warping/breathing and melting. I didn't once close my eyes for the entire trip save blinking so I didn't get the chance to check out what CEV's could have been like. Mentally, there is no confusion and there hadn't been for the whole trip up to this point. I have the acid trippers try to analyse me but I laugh and coerce them into a loop. It's very different to the other phenethylamines in terms of mental effects; I found it had little or no introspective value. It felt very safe - like I could try and think about things that made me paranoid or gave me anxiety and 2C-I would say (in a very tv-infomercial voice) "But wait, here's visuals" and those thoughts would drift away.
After the bulbs were finished, we headed down the mountain back to my house. The walk down proved to be as much fun as the walk up, more so even. I notice I'm starting to feel the chemical slowly slipping away at this stage. The visuals are stating to subside, but the perceptual 'trippy ness' is still there.
10:45/11:45/12:45/1:45-3:00
(T+4/T+5/T+6/T+7/T+8)
We arrive back at my house and I produce half a watermelon from the fridge. It is quickly sliced up and eaten amongst the people there. It tastes delicious but causes me to burp a bit. Visuals are subsiding around this point and I am starting to feel tired. I lament the fact that I have no marijuana for the point as a booster but feel good cause I’ve been trying to cut down on the damn* stuff for a while. The trippers make lots of noise around the house and eventually it is revealed that someone has a United States Army MRE (meal ready to eat) that his mother brought back from Iraq. 9 Trippers peer at this amazing piece of food-technology, and it's quickly opened and analysed. "What the hell is Xanthan Gum?" I wonder in a post psychedelic mindset. There is even a little bottle of Tabasco sauce, amazing. 2 of the trippers decide to cook the food and we have a good laugh at the instructions which make mention to a "Rock or something" to prop the MRE up with while it is cooking. Everything in it gets eaten except the cooking part.
The stimulation has calmed down at this point and I feel a little sluggish but post-exercise, with the potential for more energy if I desired. Visuals have pretty much subsided at this point. No mental effects except for a racing mind that stops me thinking of sleep
Eventually everyone decides to leave and I bid them all a merry farewell. At this stage the stimulation is still present and I can't get to sleep. I walk around the house fiending for a smoke of some good chronic but to no avail. I talk to some friends online and this lasts till about T+8 where I bid my goodbyes and head to bed. Some sexual stimulation crosses my mind at this point but my partner is asleep so I inhale the last of my bulbs and slowly drift into unconsciousness.
The next morning I awake to that familiar feeling of post-phenethylamine fun - sort of a head sketch but not, like the brain is just very sluggish and needs a jumpstart. These effects wore off about 12:00 however and I was fine mentally for the rest of the day.
*Damn good stuff
---------------------------------
Conclusion:
Interesting, this will certainly go on my list of recreational compounds. I'd not expected as much stimulation as I got, but it was useful for all the walking around I did. I think this would be a wonderful compound to go for a bushwalk around in the day on. I found the lack of mental stimulation to be a bit boring - I think this compound would synergise very well with LSD (stunning visuals with interesting mental perspective) but I’d be a bit worried about the strain to your body, psyche and soul.
I don't however think it will become "the new ecstasy" as mixmag and some other people have reported. In my opinion, it’s too "Trippy and psychedelic" for a vast-pill munching populace but with the lack of mental effects and stimulation, who knows? 8)
Comparisons (to this compound):
2C-B: More mental ‘fog’ than 2C-I but less stimulated overall.
MDMA: Same kind of stimulation, but different perception (not as ‘trippy’)
I hope you enjoyed reading this
Other compounds used: Nitrous oxide
I had not eaten for about 10 hours prior to taking this drug.
I take the 20mg (weighed by 0.001mg scales) of 2CI out of the small plastic bag and place it into a small glass of powerade (a sports drink). I quickly drink down the drink, noting a slight chemical taste, but not massively overpowering.
...and it starts...
6:45pm
(T+0). I swallow the drink of substance. On first looking at this substance it appears very fluffy and white, almost very much akin to "fairy floss" or "Cotton Candy" which dissolves easily into a water based drink with no issue.
I've arrived at O's house with the intention of some tripping up a nature reserve that is close to both our houses. Much to my surprise, about 9 people are there instead of the 3 that I was expecting. Originally, we had intended to walk up the mountain for some introspection and general discussion while under the influence of LSD. However with this many people the group dynamic changed significantly. I announce that I will be trying a new compound to the interest of a few people there. We all dose, with everyone (except me) taking 2-4 blotters of LSD. After hanging around O's for a bit and just generally having the come-up jitters, it is decided that I "must see" the GI.JOE videos and we watch these as I start coming up. The videos eventually end, but meanwhile I have been checking my mobile phone to see what the time is but it keeps saying 7:11. After a while I realize that it has crashed and frozen, so I restart it and it says 7:45.
7:45
(T+1)
I'm definitely feeling the chemical at this stage. A bit like amphetamine in its stimulation, with physical and muscular effects comparable to Dramamine in its body-load (lots of 'pent-up' or 'there-but-not-really-there' energy). I must mention the body load at this stage was getting pretty significant, perhaps even overwhelming for someone who was not as comfortable with phenethlyamines. The speed and strength of the come up was quite intense and I almost found myself overwhelmed by the sheer visual activity during a few early moments. Burping helped this, although I felt as if I needed to maintain conscious though to actually get my digestive system to work. Blue Dolphin mentioned that he thought that 2C-I basically "shuts down" the digestive system while you are under the effects and I agree - even if physiologically that does not happen it certainly feels like the case.
At this stage I decide to try a nitrous bulb. I inhale the bulb and am overwhelmed by an almost "flooding" of my senses with information especially sight. As the bulb starts to wear off, I can tell that it has definitely kicked visuals up a notch. Visuals at this stage are largely swirly, a breathing of vision with somewhat of a sense of either loss of depth, or gained depth-perception. It is akin to the other phenethylamines I have tried (MDA, MDMA and 2C-B), with colour perception being slightly enhanced or changed, but no full effects yet.
A decision is made to walk to my house. Our giant gaggle of trippers set off on a journey through the suburbs between O's house and mine. The walk shouldn't take us long and it doesn't. I'm noticing the stimulation at this stage to be quite intense - it has shifted however, away from a very rushy amphetamine like high to a much more trippy-but-stimulated kind of feeling. It's easy to move or dance on though, not like 2C-B where I can sit down and watch everything pass by, this more of a "here is energy to use" kind of feeling.
I lose time at this point, but I find it later on in the night.
Eventually the group reaches my house. We go inside for a moment and I drink some water. I've been sweating a lot and had lost quite a bit due to the walk. I also check myself in the mirror - it's very interesting and I almost get lost looking into the pools of my eyes. It's decided that we should go for a walk through the bush, up the local mountain so we can get a better view of the stars away from the city-lights. No sooner have we reached the base of the mountain when fireworks start! I remember that the city has a show every year and included in that are fireworks. Suddenly, it’s a mad dash to get to the top with the best view. Running through the Australian bush in the dark with no torches and a rocky path tests both our mettle and coordination. One of the people in the group starts making war-noises (like bombs exploding and machinegun fire) and we start running around and pretending we're soldiers [hey, it seemed like a good idea and was very funny at the time
] We eventually reach the top of the mountain we were climbing, just in time to see the last 2 mins of the firework show.Now visuals are visuals, but I have 3 very fond memories of watching fireworks while under the influence of psychedelic drugs. This was one of them; coloured tracers lit up in the sky from nowhere, fireworks would explode then linger in the air for what seemed like an eternity. It was truly a breathtaking experience. After a bit of deliberation, I got out the bulbs again and decided to have a few more sitting on a spot I like to meditate, overlooking the surrounding bush and suburbs near where I live. Visuals from these proved to be most intense - while looking at the Milky Way I became lost and completely forgot I had a body. Not like an OBE, I just 'got lost' in the stars and all their magnificent glory.
9:45
(T+3)
I check my phone at this stage and it reads 9:45. So with 3 hours passed, this must be the peak/plateau right? No, I'd come up harder and faster than the reports or anecdotal evidence had led me to believe. I thought the route of admin via the drink orally would most likely be the cause of this.
Visuals at this stage are probably as much as they were going to get. Colour enhancement, warping/breathing and melting. I didn't once close my eyes for the entire trip save blinking so I didn't get the chance to check out what CEV's could have been like. Mentally, there is no confusion and there hadn't been for the whole trip up to this point. I have the acid trippers try to analyse me but I laugh and coerce them into a loop. It's very different to the other phenethylamines in terms of mental effects; I found it had little or no introspective value. It felt very safe - like I could try and think about things that made me paranoid or gave me anxiety and 2C-I would say (in a very tv-infomercial voice) "But wait, here's visuals" and those thoughts would drift away.
After the bulbs were finished, we headed down the mountain back to my house. The walk down proved to be as much fun as the walk up, more so even. I notice I'm starting to feel the chemical slowly slipping away at this stage. The visuals are stating to subside, but the perceptual 'trippy ness' is still there.
10:45/11:45/12:45/1:45-3:00
(T+4/T+5/T+6/T+7/T+8)
We arrive back at my house and I produce half a watermelon from the fridge. It is quickly sliced up and eaten amongst the people there. It tastes delicious but causes me to burp a bit. Visuals are subsiding around this point and I am starting to feel tired. I lament the fact that I have no marijuana for the point as a booster but feel good cause I’ve been trying to cut down on the damn* stuff for a while. The trippers make lots of noise around the house and eventually it is revealed that someone has a United States Army MRE (meal ready to eat) that his mother brought back from Iraq. 9 Trippers peer at this amazing piece of food-technology, and it's quickly opened and analysed. "What the hell is Xanthan Gum?" I wonder in a post psychedelic mindset. There is even a little bottle of Tabasco sauce, amazing. 2 of the trippers decide to cook the food and we have a good laugh at the instructions which make mention to a "Rock or something" to prop the MRE up with while it is cooking. Everything in it gets eaten except the cooking part.
The stimulation has calmed down at this point and I feel a little sluggish but post-exercise, with the potential for more energy if I desired. Visuals have pretty much subsided at this point. No mental effects except for a racing mind that stops me thinking of sleep
Eventually everyone decides to leave and I bid them all a merry farewell. At this stage the stimulation is still present and I can't get to sleep. I walk around the house fiending for a smoke of some good chronic but to no avail. I talk to some friends online and this lasts till about T+8 where I bid my goodbyes and head to bed. Some sexual stimulation crosses my mind at this point but my partner is asleep so I inhale the last of my bulbs and slowly drift into unconsciousness.
The next morning I awake to that familiar feeling of post-phenethylamine fun - sort of a head sketch but not, like the brain is just very sluggish and needs a jumpstart. These effects wore off about 12:00 however and I was fine mentally for the rest of the day.
*Damn good stuff
---------------------------------
Conclusion:
Interesting, this will certainly go on my list of recreational compounds. I'd not expected as much stimulation as I got, but it was useful for all the walking around I did. I think this would be a wonderful compound to go for a bushwalk around in the day on. I found the lack of mental stimulation to be a bit boring - I think this compound would synergise very well with LSD (stunning visuals with interesting mental perspective) but I’d be a bit worried about the strain to your body, psyche and soul.
I don't however think it will become "the new ecstasy" as mixmag and some other people have reported. In my opinion, it’s too "Trippy and psychedelic" for a vast-pill munching populace but with the lack of mental effects and stimulation, who knows? 8) Comparisons (to this compound):
2C-B: More mental ‘fog’ than 2C-I but less stimulated overall.
MDMA: Same kind of stimulation, but different perception (not as ‘trippy’)
I hope you enjoyed reading this
