bip norris
Bluelighter
I don't know if I posted this before - I couldn't see it but someone was asking for info and not surprisingly not many people have tried it so worth posting again
The initial effects were a form of well-being and mood elevation, not entirely unlike the emotional effects of a mild MDMA state, although with no particular desire to communicate. Music sounded good and for a while I listened unapologetically to pop music of a light and happy nature.
Although iboga is used as an aphrodisiac & stimulant in low doses, at no point was it at all like amphetamine as I had expected, apart from, latterly, insomnia and some anorexia (I must note here that I had a bad stomach through out the day although iboga was certainly not the primary cause if at all to blame). In fact at about two hours in I just wanted to lie down, as mild ataxia and an odd intoxication set in. This seemed almost disassociative.
There was only moderate pupil dilation and I was fully able to communicate, but for the most part just lay and experienced it. I shut my eyes to see if any visionary phenomena would occur; I caught a vague flash of a stone circle then for sometime I saw stationary pair of eyes exactly in line with my own looking back at me almost like the reflection one gets of ones own eyes when wearing glasses; I could open my eyes and shut them and still return to this over and over again although at one point they seemed like two mouths or black mans heads or were seen from the side briefly. These effects were only just discernable and not hugely compelling.
I also noted a strange electrical buzzing sound all day; my partner could not hear it although it ceased when I put my fingers in my ears- it seemed part of the trip even if it was external. Sometime later when I opened my eyes and got up to visit the toilet, I found my balance uncoordinated, and found strong after images and flashes in the visual field whenever I moved or looked around rather than a heightening of the visual (and other senses) that is common with many psychedelic compounds. This effect got stronger and indeed continued for the rest of the trip, eventually becoming annoying, and making moving around unappealing. When I did move, for instance, through a doorway I was inclined to stop since the after image of the doorframe would briefly cause an obstacle in front of me.
For several hours I lay and mused but although my thought processes were altered and quirky ideas and interesting viewpoints came to me and chopped and changed I did not really feel them to be heightened to quite the same degree as some compounds although they may quite possibly be heightened further with a larger dosage. At many points I lost track of my thoughts but many effects were very curious indeed; at several points I found a profound empathy/understanding of the internal reality of other species for example. The validity of such feelings is of course not provable but there were impressive on a personal level.
Iboga allowed me to better understand the culture and religion around it, but I did not feel this compound to be the most psychedelic compound I have encountered. The effects had no obvious tryptamine character, were unlike anything else tried and wore off very very slowly; eventually I just became tired and bored with it all, wishing an end to my stomach pain and a cessation of the intense palinopsia.
Sometime after midnight Diazepam allowed three hours sleep, upon waking and eating a little I took a second dose of Diazepam (there was still a lot of visual trails) and slept three more hours and woke with no residues. The next day my body felt good as did my mood although I was a little languid due to benzodiazepine sedation. I was happy with, and somehow changed by the experiment but had no pressing urge to repeat in the near future.
In retrospect I have a keen respect for Ibogas potential, consider it an ally, all be it an odd one and would consider another union some day.
[Added paragraphs -Splatt]
The initial effects were a form of well-being and mood elevation, not entirely unlike the emotional effects of a mild MDMA state, although with no particular desire to communicate. Music sounded good and for a while I listened unapologetically to pop music of a light and happy nature.
Although iboga is used as an aphrodisiac & stimulant in low doses, at no point was it at all like amphetamine as I had expected, apart from, latterly, insomnia and some anorexia (I must note here that I had a bad stomach through out the day although iboga was certainly not the primary cause if at all to blame). In fact at about two hours in I just wanted to lie down, as mild ataxia and an odd intoxication set in. This seemed almost disassociative.
There was only moderate pupil dilation and I was fully able to communicate, but for the most part just lay and experienced it. I shut my eyes to see if any visionary phenomena would occur; I caught a vague flash of a stone circle then for sometime I saw stationary pair of eyes exactly in line with my own looking back at me almost like the reflection one gets of ones own eyes when wearing glasses; I could open my eyes and shut them and still return to this over and over again although at one point they seemed like two mouths or black mans heads or were seen from the side briefly. These effects were only just discernable and not hugely compelling.
I also noted a strange electrical buzzing sound all day; my partner could not hear it although it ceased when I put my fingers in my ears- it seemed part of the trip even if it was external. Sometime later when I opened my eyes and got up to visit the toilet, I found my balance uncoordinated, and found strong after images and flashes in the visual field whenever I moved or looked around rather than a heightening of the visual (and other senses) that is common with many psychedelic compounds. This effect got stronger and indeed continued for the rest of the trip, eventually becoming annoying, and making moving around unappealing. When I did move, for instance, through a doorway I was inclined to stop since the after image of the doorframe would briefly cause an obstacle in front of me.
For several hours I lay and mused but although my thought processes were altered and quirky ideas and interesting viewpoints came to me and chopped and changed I did not really feel them to be heightened to quite the same degree as some compounds although they may quite possibly be heightened further with a larger dosage. At many points I lost track of my thoughts but many effects were very curious indeed; at several points I found a profound empathy/understanding of the internal reality of other species for example. The validity of such feelings is of course not provable but there were impressive on a personal level.
Iboga allowed me to better understand the culture and religion around it, but I did not feel this compound to be the most psychedelic compound I have encountered. The effects had no obvious tryptamine character, were unlike anything else tried and wore off very very slowly; eventually I just became tired and bored with it all, wishing an end to my stomach pain and a cessation of the intense palinopsia.
Sometime after midnight Diazepam allowed three hours sleep, upon waking and eating a little I took a second dose of Diazepam (there was still a lot of visual trails) and slept three more hours and woke with no residues. The next day my body felt good as did my mood although I was a little languid due to benzodiazepine sedation. I was happy with, and somehow changed by the experiment but had no pressing urge to repeat in the near future.
In retrospect I have a keen respect for Ibogas potential, consider it an ally, all be it an odd one and would consider another union some day.
[Added paragraphs -Splatt]
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