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(MDMA) - First Time - Discovering Empathy

Tyd

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In the morning of the experience I had my last exam of my 3 years of university, I was exhausted from lack of sleep and hyped up on caffeine but any tiredness evaporated the instant I was finished. My mood was a mix of relief and the building nervous excitement as I thought about trying mdma for the first time in the evening. I had 2 grams of crystal mdma, planning to share with 3 friends and keep the rest. Judging by the dosage recommendation on erowid, I thought 150mg each would be good for a first night as I was planning to have more at a house party 2 days later.

The mdma was white/yellowish crystal. I weighed them and put them in rizla bombs within gelatine capsules. I do this with dxm as I find it the safest way to not drop anything from scales to cap. There usually isn’t any issue with absorption I found with dxm, I figured the paper just unwraps when the capsule dissolves.

The night starts by drinking to ease my nervous tension (excitement) at friends place. We decide to have 150mg by my method and head to the club so that we could get in. There is no problem getting in so we end up drinking more and chatting while we are “waiting”. I start to feel uncomfortable thinking as if I had been ripped off even though it was from a trusted friend. It’s been an hour and half and only one of us feels slightly different than normal. We debate whether it’s a slow absorption from my method or whether we didn’t take enough or it wasn’t mdma. A solution appears, we should get the rest. We leave the club and head back to my house planning to push each of our doses up to 250mg.

I am walking with a friend, who says he is clearly now feeling the effects, moving around strangely and pointing out that breathing has now become the single most incredible experience in life. I feel really jealous for an instant, annoyed why it isn’t working for me, but then all those negative feelings completely disappear.

This is when it hits.

It begins with the utmost subtlety, you don’t even notice it, but then it is there, a complete serenity, contentness, energy yet calm, utter bliss.

We start walking so slowly yet we could sprint, I just want to savour every moment and movement because it is incredible. As my friend was pointing out breathing was unbelievable. Already I am running out of superlatives to describe the sensations I was feeling in that moment. It dawned on us the irony of leaving to get more but once we had gone all the way back it was fully upon us, we decided to take more of course :). It seemed that whatever we did was the most incredible thing we had ever done and we hadn’t even started dancing.

We take 100mg more each via the crystals dissolved in water (strangely enjoyed the taste now that I had associated it with :)). We head back to the club and all we can do for the next 2 hours is dance. I remember the clarity of my mind, it was so unlike being drunk and being drunk now seemed so stupid. I could spot those who were drinking, they seemed sluggish, uncontrolled. I felt completely in control yet any inhibitions were gone, everyone became my friend. Rather than completely lose myself in the music I sometimes just felt like swaying and letting the vibrations flow through my body, I could even feel my hair vibrate. I should also point out the music was a mix of beats n bass, drum n bass and some dubstep. I’ve never normally listened to this music but ever since I love it. It was the most perfect music ever; even though nothing could bring me down I don’t think I could have enjoyed pop music. Other things I noticed were how much we were chewing our jaws, and other strange things we would do, haha! I seemed the most normal apparently, even though I would just stand swaying with my eyes closed, rubbing my hand across my chest. My other friend kept making crazy faces because of his jaw tension and rubbing himself all over, the other had his eyes half closed and would constantly rub his hair. We all knew we were doing these things but it did not matter in the slightest, there were plenty of other people around clearly on mdma as well.

Since we came back to the club so late, we only had 2 hours dancing so we were still well in our peaks when we left. It was decided we should walk about 20mins to the riverfront/quay and wander around. It was the best idea possible, walking was no effort at all, in fact it was still absolute joy. At this point I started getting very strong but subtle visual hallucinations. I would see something like a wooden toy sword or a huge white tiger. Everything I saw I didn’t take much notice of, I just thought, “hm, a tiger” and just kept moving, not realising how bizarre it really was. We lay down on the grass and just rolled around or lay staring at the stars. We four were now so open with each other, we kept on praising one another, I got many undeserved thanks for acquiring the mdma and we all kept hugging haha. We created a new bond between the four of us that night, we were already good friends but this cemented our friendships into a lifelong friendship. This carried on for at least 3 hours, wandering, looking, remarking on the beauty of everything and exhaling in constant pleasure.

Eventually the sun started to come up so we headed back to a house to smoke a joint and wind down. The joint brought the high back slightly but also settled my thoughts somewhat. Throughout the night I was constantly comforted by the fact that I was so lucky to have someone I loved so much that loved me (girlfriend). When everything in front of me couldn’t have possibly been any more beautiful this thought brought unbound joy and happiness. I wish she had been there or that I could share this experience with her because I felt that everyone should know this happiness, if we all felt this how could there be any bad in the world? This is clearly flawed because it is impossible to stay in this state. However since I have now been there I feel that just the knowledge of this place has brought me more everyday happiness and calm. Sadly my girlfriend is not the drugs type person, she’s perfectly happy with my use as she trusts me but I think she is afraid deep down of things she doesn’t understand. Once I got home and to my bed I spent probably an hour listening to the morning birds thinking about how lucky I am and all the things I take for granted. I was overwhelmed with emotion, it was truly empathy, a word I had never understood until this point. The description that it is a feeling of love towards everything and everyone cannot do it justice. It needs to be felt to be understood.

Written during the experience


First MDMA experience, what an experience indeed. Never felt more alive before, or has pure happiness released their floods. Lots of fleeting visual disturbances, objects looking like animals seems to be quite popular, I saw a white tiger, butterfly and little wooden sword. (Very vividly). Was so content to do whatever in the world that was immediately possible. Pure bliss and amazing energies felt. The energy of a room full of people jumping up and down to BeatsnBass, The power of the speakers and sounds vibrating through my already oscillating body mass. Amazing synergies felt. Experience.

Time: 6:41AM.
 
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read that with the biggest grin on my face

nothing quite like the first time you meet Mandy
 
hahaa glad you had a good experience!

you say you were have some visual halucinations? that can happen with mdma, but it usually doesnt happen unless you dose higher/mix it with other drugs or other factors.

for myself; when i take a normal dose 1-2 pills, i usually only see light traces and things like that but no real halucinations. when i take 3-4 thats when things can get wierd lol.
 
It is one of the only drugs that I feel allows you to "get it" and fully understand it on the first try. The comeup is always a bit rocky and then you are greeted with a euphoria that is just so beautiful words can't describe it. The best I can do is....."Ahhhhhh" or"god I feel fucking good".
 
Good report. I also introduced pure mdma to my gf for the first time and she also fell in love with it. So glad pure is around as i wish this is what all munters could access instead of fake/rc/dirty combinations that pill have these days.
 
It's refreshing to hear the perspective of people's first experiences with MDMA, i haven't had any in 3.5 years but i do still remember those magic moments where people just connected.. the best moments for me were introducing friends of mine to it and watching the uncertainty in their eyes become lit up with a spark of pure awe.
 
Awesome report! Glad you enjoyed your first time. To me, MDMA was like recapturing the innocence and awe of childhood. I think you conveyed that feeling well in your report.
 
its one of those things that you love instantly but as you get older even though it gets you high, for me it has come to lack depth and has a high tendency to cause abnormally intense attachments to people i wouldn't be that close to normally.

recently on an mdma binge we all had 4aco-dmt at the same time and it made the whole experience more depthfull and mentally satisfying.

the longer in your drug career you take mdma the more obvious its just a slighty magical strong amphetamine. amt on the other hand feels like it has more to offer me these days but its harder to find the time to heave for three hours on the come up.

also mdma comedowns are not good for social interaction and rather than making me feel depressed i simply feel less connected to those around me than normal, and a little lonely. it feels hard to gain social satisfaction if that makes sense, i feel unbonded and that to me is not worth it anymore.

i'm quitting mdma for years once again
 
Not trying to grave dig (slightly :)) but I wanted to say thanks for all the kind words from everyone!

If it brought back the memory of your first time or the moment you first felt like this then this makes me :)
 
A solution appears, we should get the rest.
=D Yep. Good thinking Batman. 250mg first trip is good going!
Good read. Glad you had fun. I agree with Pofacedhoe. Having gorged myself on way too much crystal at a recent festival I definitely need to give it a break.
 
great report! i think this will have my vote for TROTM. its weird, i also have 2 grams of mdma i've just been sitting on, still never tried it. i hope my first time goes as smoothly as yours, and that i can take away as much from it as you did. so many people fail to draw any meaning from drug experiences, and just take them without any reflection or integration. but then what's the point really? thanks for "getting it", so to speak.
 
great report! i think this will have my vote for TROTM. its weird, i also have 2 grams of mdma i've just been sitting on, still never tried it. i hope my first time goes as smoothly as yours, and that i can take away as much from it as you did. so many people fail to draw any meaning from drug experiences, and just take them without any reflection or integration. but then what's the point really? thanks for "getting it", so to speak.

Cheers dude!

I agree with you, sometimes the most important and revealing part of trips I experience is the process of writing them down or reflecting on them a couple of weeks later. I stop and think, I really learnt something from that day. Today I am looking at a situation with calm and determination when maybe before I would have had a feeling of anxiety about it.

I respect your will power to sit on 2 grams of MDMA and not do it! MDMA is different in my mind than drugs such as weed that I find very easy to do whenever. Personally I don't feel the need to do MDMA because I know that it needs to be with the right people, at the right time (mentally). I found that rather than purely produce a 'chemical high', it made me happy from happiness in my life already. I could have spent my entire night dancing and feeling great but the part I really valued was the time bonding with people and reflecting on my life. By associating the amazing happiness from MDMA with real life happy memories and experiences I now have a huge appreciation for these things in my everyday life. I have so much respect for this chemical now that I don't really like labelling it a party drug (for myself), it certainly is and no doubt in the future I will end up taking it as such at some point. However, I'm going to reserve it for very special occasions from now on.

I hope as well that your first time goes great, though there's not much need for hope I am sure it will! But I recommend it to be with your best friends/people you love. You probably are waiting on the perfect time and will know yourself :).
 
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