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2C-I - Exp. - WOW!!!!

slippy sleeveen

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I am very experienced with 2C-I, having over 30 experiences with it over the course of a few years. I usually take between 18mg and 25mg in the evening, within my apartment that is very trip conducive. The highest amount I have used at once is 32mg, which was an intense experience but not overwhelming. I've always regarded 2C-I as a more recreational psychedelic, more for having fun and enjoying the company of friends and listening to music. It has never provided me with any real astounding answers to complex questions, like LSD or 2C-E for example.

My girlfriend and a couple of friends and I decided to take a trip to Panama City Beach for Spring break this year. The city is not exactly to my liking...a bit too white-trashy for my tastes and full of pushers. This is not to say that the beach itself is not beautiful. I decided on bringing 80mg of 2C-I dissolved in some tea so it would not look suspicuous. I thought it would be beautiful to take in the sea with this compound, as the sun provides a very unique, electric energy when I am on 2C-I. (kind of similar to the energy that mescaline provides)

I wake up at 8am on the saturday morning. My friends decide they would like to go to the pier and go fishing later in the morning. This sounds fine to me, and I take 21mg of 2C-I at 10am. My girlfriend gives me that usual smirk when I take psychedelics and ask if I will be alright. Of course I'll be ok.... this is only 2C-I, after all.

At 10.30 we take a drive to the pier, about 10 minutes away. The music in the car sounds amazing and each drum beat is like an audio orgasm in my ears. I can feel the compound taking hold as my body seems to be full of this electric energy and my head feels a bit heavy. The typical onset feeling. I had not eaten anything since last night so this could be why I was feeling the effects so soon.

As we park the car and walk to the pier, I am beginning to feel more and more floaty. The physical effects were intense but pleasant. My friend goes to rent some bait from a vendor and while I stand there, I notice the shadows beginning to shift. The vendor was an old man with a strange looking face...it reminded me of a goblin. Luckily my sunglasses were on or else everyone would have been able to see my huge pupil size. The walls were beginning to breath and I felt like I could hear and understand every conversation going on around us simultaneously

The wind was cutting into my skin. While walking down the pier I was getting extremely cold, even though it was 70 degrees out, the cool, ocean air was a bit overwhelming to my senses. I looked up at the sky and it was morphing and shifting. Everything seemed to be patterning into a face. The entire sky was full of faces that were chatting to eat other. I looked at the ocean and felt like I could see the shadows of whales everywhere I looked. Every wave was beginning to look like a dorsal fin. My mind was racing faster than ever...and this was only 45 minutes after taking the substance.

Everything was beginning to get uncomfortable. Everything was happening much too quickly. The visuals were astounding and kept becoming more intense every second. I wanted to lay down but I couldn't since this was a public pier and it would have been odd. I was feeling EXTREMELY light-headed and I felt like I was fighting the IMMENSE feeling to pass out. I felt like I would black out any minute now. I saw myself as a spinal column and brain driving around this body of mine. All while becomming more disocciated from myself, I felt more connected to the outside world. But I was not ready for this..not now....

I sat down on a bench and closed my eyes. This made things worse. I would simply see a blinding white light when my eyes were closed and it hurt. My brain was simply being overwhelmed with all of the sensory input. I felt like I was going to pass out any second. This was going to be a long and agonizing trip now.

Luckily for me, the intensity of the effects came and went, but each time they came back, it was much more intense. I was clenching my girlfriends hand like a young boy would with his mother if he were to feel threatened. My friend was unable to catch any fish and was getting hungry so everyone decided to leave. The second I was in the car I felt a little better. While driving back to the hotel, I was watching the cruisers passing us by, blasting their (c)rap while hanging out of the windows trying to pick up girls wearing american rebel flag bikinis with cowboy hats on. My girlfriend was driving and as we would drive by some of these cruises on the othe side of the street, they would wink at her and stare. I am not the jealous type but for some reason at this point in time I started to feel angry at these twats and this anger turned into me screaming explitives.

We arrived at the hotel and I threw myself on my bed. The entire ceiling was bending and morphing, while the walls (which were white) seemed to have persian artwork dancing on them. We went out to the beach and as I lay on the warm sand, soaking in the sun, I felt a strong positive push. My mood seemed to go from the "PCP comedown" level to "MDMA peaking" level in half a second. I looked up in the sky and it bended down. I was convinced that the sky was an inch away from my face. I started to laugh for some reason, of which I have no reason why, but I began to laugh hysterically and was crying from laughing so hard.

I spent the rest of the trip (until 8pm) immensely happy, although that feeling of blacking out came and went during the entire day. Let this be a lesson that 2C-I is not always so gentle.... it was quite furious with me and I have much more respect for it now!

Thanks for reading
 
I had a nice surprise with 2C-I as well. My first time was at 26mg, and I had a lovely time. Nothing special or out of this world.

And then my second time I took 25mg, and I had a very rare and blessed +4 that blew away qualitatively and quantitatively almost all other prior experiences. Yes it is true, 2C-I can produce the elusive +4.

All follow up experience with 2C-I involved smaller dosages (14mg-16mg) and I had some nice experiences, but nothing like the second. As time went on and I tried 2C-B, 2C-C, and 2C-D…I ended up dropping 2C-I from the roster completely. The headache factor was too much. All in all, I was one who had high praise for it but with things like 2C-B and 2C-D around, why bother? Who wants a 3-day headache?

Here is a report of that +4 experience….

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=16728
 
how can you measure 21 mgs in a tea containing 80 mg?

it seems like 2c-i is dose sensitive. you had an overwhelming trip at 21 mgs, but at 35 it was a little intense? it doesn't seem like setting would play a factor here.


EDIT: sorry, morningglory answered my question a second before i posted
 
Yes, I am roughly 98% sure of my dosage. I had 510mg of 2C-I diluted in 100ml of ethanol and put 16ml, or 80mg 2C-I, into the tea in a manner that produced 20mg per 3 ounces of tea. A bit of it poured over when I measured my first ounce and I licked it off of the counter, which I guestimated upped my dosage somewhere between 20mg and 21mg, although it was hardly any. (probably closer to 20mg)

Yes morninggloryseed, I have actually found the past few times I have done 2C-I to be far more transcendental in nature. It can produce the +4 experience if you know how to utilize the substance accordingly. I have always been lucky with not suffering headaches from 2C-I, but rather I have lingering visuals for a few days. Thanks for the link.

Jorder, I know it sounds a bit odd, but I do think setting plays an important role with psychedelics. 2C-E never offered me much insight with doses ranging from 16mg to 32mg and then I took 20mg in complete darkness with music surrounding me and I had my ego annihililated. While doses are importent, setting is extremely important as well.

What do I think happened after reflecting on all of this? I do have a deep fascination with the sea. I also have a rather irrational fear of large sea life. I think that a combination of this, being out in public and the effects ramping up quickly overwhelmed me. Like I said in report, I felt like my senses were being overstimulated, and most importantly, since I was fighting it, it only made things worse. I knew that there was no way I could stop the trip and for whatever reason, I could not think myself out of the negative thought spiral. I think that anyone that is a psychonaut will have ventures like this... I had always been lucky up until now.
 
2c-i is the shit. I found it just as special as 2c-e, just with a friendlier presentation. Terrific visuals, too.
 
To contradict what I said earlier, I don't really believe any drug can 'provide a +4.' Everyone has their own spin on things, and my spin is there is more to a mystical experience than just X mg of X drug. Shulgin said something alone the lines of the experience not being in the drug, but within yourself...and I feel that says it all. When it is your time, it just happens.

Then again, 5-MeO-DMT has been associated with a +4 100% of the times I've smoked it. So maybe that one is the one.
 
i realize setting is very important for all psychedelics, but you described it as more of a happy, recreational psychedelic. i assumed that this meant setting wasn't as important as the dosage.
 
Has anyone measured their blood pressure on 2c-i. I was wondering if that could account for numerous "migraines" or the uncomfortable effects you may have experienced.
 
It is definitely not an issue of dehydration. I tend to drink plenty of water anyway, but pay special attention to those things when I use phenethylamine psychedelics.
 
I feel 2c-i is a far happier psychedelic than most. However, this doesnt mean that its less serious! Potent realizations abound.

As far as it being more recreational, yes, I think so. The amphetamine edge keeps me happy and euphoric. I never experienced any unwanted side effects either, besides a distaste for processed/overly flavored food.
 
2c-i can make me feel rather dissociated, like my body is numb and I'm sort of dispassionately involved with the world, a sense of hyper-objectivity. People will talk to me and I will listen very seriously and I can consider what they are saying without getting emotionally connected with them, really.
I take it to go dancing because I got sick of how E makes you want to be friends with everybody--I feel too old for that scenario. Now I just want to chill with my friends, dance and relax when I go out.
2c-i is wierd, but I like it.
 
2C-I also seems to have the ability to cause a contact high that is far above that of any other drug I've experienced. Shulgin and myself agree on this. 2C-I seems to open up some sort of psychic channels in my mind, which makes for some very unique effects, such as the ability to see spirits and transmit my mental state temporarily onto others. I once took a low dose which turned out to be stronger than expected and went to a party, and ended up becoming the focal point of this party since I brought my vaporizer. By the end of the night, everyone was hyper-aware of the social vibes travelling around the room, and people with psychedelic experience were wondering why they felt like they were tripping.

Personally, I find it shallower than most of the other psychedelics I've tried, but it definitely has a very bizarre quality to it that I enjoy.
 
Xorkoth said:
2C-I also seems to have the ability to cause a contact high that is far above that of any other drug I've experienced.

Yeah it contact-highs people in ways im not comfortable talking about because its just impossible, what i've witnessed.

I feel like I'm lying when I tell the truth about this shit. :\
 
awesome report bro. I just took 2C - i for my first time about a month ago, and I loved it ! Cant wait to try it again, would like to combine with MDMA.
 
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