10 mg 4-AcO-DET IM - experienced user - feels like shrooms!
So after 2 trials with 20 mg oral 4-AcO-DET that didn't get me to full effects (felt like 1-2 grams of shrooms), I decided to up the dosage in order to confirm my suspicions of similarity to shrooms. Due to my workload (I am an undergrad at one of the top 10 universities in the US), I could not afford to spend 4-6 hours tripping, so I decided to utilize one of the syringes that have been gathering dust in my drawer for several months. I dissolved ~10 mg 4-AcO-DET (a high dose, but I had some tolerance due to a trial with 20 mg oral 64 hours before) in 40 units of water, drew it up into a U-100, and injected it into my upper right buttock.
I put on some meditation music (David Parsons' Parikrama) and curled up in my bed. I began to feel effects in about 2 minutes. At five minutes I was getting shimmery, fluid visuals very similar to those I get from mushrooms. CEV's began as 2-D but quickly became 3-D, morphing into a profusion of hollow purple and green tentacles. My ego boundaries were loosening very quickly, coinciding with the approach of the tentacles and I felt like I could let my ego dissolve if I wanted to. At 12 minutes my roommate came in and started to make noise in his room. At 15 minutes, I decided to go outside, as the stillness of my meditation had been disturbed by people coming in and out of my room with my roommate, who had just bought a new electric scooter.
The act of getting up and moving to the lawn of my house reinforced my ego boundaries, as I had to function as an autonomous organism in my environment. I laid down in the grass and drank in the warm, life-giving light of the sun, which gave me beautiful CEV's when I turned my head toward it. I felt my body's natural elated response to being outside in the grass on a warm sunny day and wondered why I normally spend so much time indoors on days like this. The blades of grass around me seemed so happy as they drank in the wonderful sun energy; I could almost see them growing. Shit was getting gnarly. The lawn started to swim in the characteristic "psilo-soup" manner that I get from high doses of mushrooms. Some pine trees in the vicinity were reaching out their branches toward me in the curvy meandering manner of shroom visuals. Everything was infused with the unique tryptamine sparkle of shrooms, as opposed to the bright, glaring vibrance of acid or the phenethylamine richness of the 2C's. My hearing was ultra-sensitive and I could hear every word that people within 100 yards were saying. Thus, I had to get up and move to a less chatter-filled environment, wrenching myself away from the grass with which I was merging and starting to walk along a path that circles an man-made lake near my house.
I was very impressed by the flowering bushes along the path, as they were bursting forth with a profusion of colorful blossoms that exuded marvelous odors. I realized that I should take more walks on this path during sunny days, when everything's full color is revealed by the power of sunlight. Over the past couple months I've come to realize how important it is for me to be exposed to enough sunlight, just because it lifts my mood. I walked around the lake, which is empty at this time of year, keenly sensing the wonderful positive energy flowing from the sun to the plants to the people that I passed.
Coming to the more developed side of the lake, I passed several dorms, which stirred in me the ambivalent, conflicting feelings that I have about my school. I decided that I was jaded with the academic, residential, and social structures in place here, and that I would have to work past these feelings in order to fully seize the opportunities available to me and make the biggest possible positive contribution to my environment. I passed the beach, with sand glimmering beautifully in the sun, and came back to my house. I then decided to go up into the hills that abut our campus on one side.
At this time of year, there is a mini-spring around my area, as the weather warms slightly and things start growing, presaging the coming of the real thing in a month. The hills were so wonderfully green, and once I had hiked high enough up, the air became fresher, as I was above the roads of suburbia. I looked out and saw my campus spread below me, savoring the detachment of being outside the campus proper but still in its awe-inspiring presence. Both literally and figuratively, I felt that I was above it all. Removed somewhat from the tumultuous energies of the place, I looked down upon it with greater appreciation and thankfulness.
I walked on, eventually coming to a pasture filled with peacefully grazing cows. Their energy was very calm and pensive. I climbed up into a tree and sat, cradled by its branches. By this time (approximately 1.25 hours after injection), the effects of the 4-AcO-DET had diminished somewhat. As soon as I sat down, visuals again made themselves apparent in the spiraling of the tree's branches, but they were not as strong as during the peak (15-30 minutes after injection). I sat up in the tree for 15-20 minutes, looking out over the populated valley below me, the cows grazing in pasture, and the people bassing by directly beneath me on the path. No longer did I feel myself merging with my surroundings through a process of ego dissolution, as I had during the peak. The nearby cows, just chewing their cud, put me in a very ruminative state and I slowly mulled over my life as it stood at that point. Eventually I said goodbye to the cattle and walked on through more green hills punctuated by the occasional grove of gnarled trees that arched translucent green canopies over my head.
As I began to come down from the hills (at approximately 1.75 hours), I started to think about my tripping habits. For the past 12 weeks I have been tripping and/or rolling (only 3 times for the latter) every weekend. My last three trips have been kind of weak but fun because I didn't take that much of whatever I was on. This subtle frustration was what led me to do this substance only 64 hours after a previous oral trial with 20 mgs of the same. I thought about how my thought patterns while tripping become more predictable and controllable and less barrier breaking when I trip often. Perhaps it was also because I have to vary my set and setting more, a point that my roommate and I touched upon during our previous 4-AcO-DET trip. In hindsight, however, I may just have been having these thoughts at the time because this is when I really started to feel myself coming down from the plateau. Nonetheless, I still feel this reflection has some truth. Still, I feel that if I had been in a more properly meditative environment and had let my mind roam at the beginning of the trip and during the peak, I might have entered new territory. In fact, I think it was the fact that I was tripping on campus yet again, despite it being the daytime, that caused me to shy away from the ego dissolution that was initially encroaching on my psyche.
By the time I had come down from the hills and returned to my house (2.25 hours), I was more than halfway down. I took a short jaunt around campus and returned home for dinner at T + 3:00. By three hours I was pretty much back to baseline, aside from residual "afterglow" effects. It was a nice end to the trip, especially because I discussed it over dinner with some friends.
This trip confirmed my suspicions that 4-AcO-DET is a worthy substitute for mushrooms, putting one in a very similar mind state. I look forward to many future trips (perhaps after a break from tripping of a couple weeks) on this substance, and am happy at the prospect of not having to eat shrooms for the foreseeable future (I have a hookup for this that seems to be pretty continuous).
So after 2 trials with 20 mg oral 4-AcO-DET that didn't get me to full effects (felt like 1-2 grams of shrooms), I decided to up the dosage in order to confirm my suspicions of similarity to shrooms. Due to my workload (I am an undergrad at one of the top 10 universities in the US), I could not afford to spend 4-6 hours tripping, so I decided to utilize one of the syringes that have been gathering dust in my drawer for several months. I dissolved ~10 mg 4-AcO-DET (a high dose, but I had some tolerance due to a trial with 20 mg oral 64 hours before) in 40 units of water, drew it up into a U-100, and injected it into my upper right buttock.
I put on some meditation music (David Parsons' Parikrama) and curled up in my bed. I began to feel effects in about 2 minutes. At five minutes I was getting shimmery, fluid visuals very similar to those I get from mushrooms. CEV's began as 2-D but quickly became 3-D, morphing into a profusion of hollow purple and green tentacles. My ego boundaries were loosening very quickly, coinciding with the approach of the tentacles and I felt like I could let my ego dissolve if I wanted to. At 12 minutes my roommate came in and started to make noise in his room. At 15 minutes, I decided to go outside, as the stillness of my meditation had been disturbed by people coming in and out of my room with my roommate, who had just bought a new electric scooter.
The act of getting up and moving to the lawn of my house reinforced my ego boundaries, as I had to function as an autonomous organism in my environment. I laid down in the grass and drank in the warm, life-giving light of the sun, which gave me beautiful CEV's when I turned my head toward it. I felt my body's natural elated response to being outside in the grass on a warm sunny day and wondered why I normally spend so much time indoors on days like this. The blades of grass around me seemed so happy as they drank in the wonderful sun energy; I could almost see them growing. Shit was getting gnarly. The lawn started to swim in the characteristic "psilo-soup" manner that I get from high doses of mushrooms. Some pine trees in the vicinity were reaching out their branches toward me in the curvy meandering manner of shroom visuals. Everything was infused with the unique tryptamine sparkle of shrooms, as opposed to the bright, glaring vibrance of acid or the phenethylamine richness of the 2C's. My hearing was ultra-sensitive and I could hear every word that people within 100 yards were saying. Thus, I had to get up and move to a less chatter-filled environment, wrenching myself away from the grass with which I was merging and starting to walk along a path that circles an man-made lake near my house.
I was very impressed by the flowering bushes along the path, as they were bursting forth with a profusion of colorful blossoms that exuded marvelous odors. I realized that I should take more walks on this path during sunny days, when everything's full color is revealed by the power of sunlight. Over the past couple months I've come to realize how important it is for me to be exposed to enough sunlight, just because it lifts my mood. I walked around the lake, which is empty at this time of year, keenly sensing the wonderful positive energy flowing from the sun to the plants to the people that I passed.
Coming to the more developed side of the lake, I passed several dorms, which stirred in me the ambivalent, conflicting feelings that I have about my school. I decided that I was jaded with the academic, residential, and social structures in place here, and that I would have to work past these feelings in order to fully seize the opportunities available to me and make the biggest possible positive contribution to my environment. I passed the beach, with sand glimmering beautifully in the sun, and came back to my house. I then decided to go up into the hills that abut our campus on one side.
At this time of year, there is a mini-spring around my area, as the weather warms slightly and things start growing, presaging the coming of the real thing in a month. The hills were so wonderfully green, and once I had hiked high enough up, the air became fresher, as I was above the roads of suburbia. I looked out and saw my campus spread below me, savoring the detachment of being outside the campus proper but still in its awe-inspiring presence. Both literally and figuratively, I felt that I was above it all. Removed somewhat from the tumultuous energies of the place, I looked down upon it with greater appreciation and thankfulness.
I walked on, eventually coming to a pasture filled with peacefully grazing cows. Their energy was very calm and pensive. I climbed up into a tree and sat, cradled by its branches. By this time (approximately 1.25 hours after injection), the effects of the 4-AcO-DET had diminished somewhat. As soon as I sat down, visuals again made themselves apparent in the spiraling of the tree's branches, but they were not as strong as during the peak (15-30 minutes after injection). I sat up in the tree for 15-20 minutes, looking out over the populated valley below me, the cows grazing in pasture, and the people bassing by directly beneath me on the path. No longer did I feel myself merging with my surroundings through a process of ego dissolution, as I had during the peak. The nearby cows, just chewing their cud, put me in a very ruminative state and I slowly mulled over my life as it stood at that point. Eventually I said goodbye to the cattle and walked on through more green hills punctuated by the occasional grove of gnarled trees that arched translucent green canopies over my head.
As I began to come down from the hills (at approximately 1.75 hours), I started to think about my tripping habits. For the past 12 weeks I have been tripping and/or rolling (only 3 times for the latter) every weekend. My last three trips have been kind of weak but fun because I didn't take that much of whatever I was on. This subtle frustration was what led me to do this substance only 64 hours after a previous oral trial with 20 mgs of the same. I thought about how my thought patterns while tripping become more predictable and controllable and less barrier breaking when I trip often. Perhaps it was also because I have to vary my set and setting more, a point that my roommate and I touched upon during our previous 4-AcO-DET trip. In hindsight, however, I may just have been having these thoughts at the time because this is when I really started to feel myself coming down from the plateau. Nonetheless, I still feel this reflection has some truth. Still, I feel that if I had been in a more properly meditative environment and had let my mind roam at the beginning of the trip and during the peak, I might have entered new territory. In fact, I think it was the fact that I was tripping on campus yet again, despite it being the daytime, that caused me to shy away from the ego dissolution that was initially encroaching on my psyche.
By the time I had come down from the hills and returned to my house (2.25 hours), I was more than halfway down. I took a short jaunt around campus and returned home for dinner at T + 3:00. By three hours I was pretty much back to baseline, aside from residual "afterglow" effects. It was a nice end to the trip, especially because I discussed it over dinner with some friends.
This trip confirmed my suspicions that 4-AcO-DET is a worthy substitute for mushrooms, putting one in a very similar mind state. I look forward to many future trips (perhaps after a break from tripping of a couple weeks) on this substance, and am happy at the prospect of not having to eat shrooms for the foreseeable future (I have a hookup for this that seems to be pretty continuous).
