Giving how terrible that drip is you couldn't pay me to leave this stuff in my mouth!
i suppose i'm just not a snorter, but i'd rather have something dissolve under my tougue than drip out of the back of my sinus into my throat. maybe there is a particular technique to sublingual, but i never really taste it. i stick it under there and do something else to take my mind off it while it dissolves. comes on real nice, but i suppose everybody has their preferred ways of using drugs.
agree that the perspective it gives you is kind of mind-blowing. when i first got my hands on the stuff, i found it hard not to use as regularly as i could, say a couple of times a week.
the urge has decreased as i've gotten more used to it and experienced some really deep dissociative/psychedelic states. the clarity of thought reminds me quite a bit of the way i think on LSD, but the other effects of the drug - the dissociation, numb fuzziness, sedation - are almost the complete opposite.
i love it, but i respect it. i'd hate to think what kind of a basket case i'd become if i took it too frequently. it's like it switches on a whole other part of my conscious mind. the revelations can be a bit paranoid at times, but a strange perceptive paranoia, if that makes any sense?
i'm actually thankful for the afterglow's insomnia-inducing minic effects, because otherwise it would be very tempting to use at night; but as someone said earlier, it's more of a day-off drug than an after-work drug. not a sustainable option for me, anyway.
if it weren't for this, i might enjoy this stuff more than i should.
laying down listening to music on mxe is incredible - i can listen to a record i've heard a thousand of times, that i know inside out - and it sounds like something i've never heard before. the music pans in a 3D stereo effect and the sound orbits around my body, goes far away and comes back close and into my body. i hear every note as though it is separated from the one before it by a week. my hearing is so finely tuned that the compression of mp3 files is obvious and gets on my nerves.
listening to vinyl is sublime, even though i have to come back from outer space and get up to flip the disk every ~20 minutes, i do so with ease. walking 3 steps to the turntable is probably more challenging than lifting the needle, flipping or changing the record and gently placing the stylus back down; wobbly on my feet, but motor skills still fine.
the second i sit back down, i'm back in the hole. incredible.
i also had a very beautiful, composed jam with a piano player a few weeks ago who didn't know i was high on MXE. i was on a smaller dose than usual, but definitely able to tap into the same acute musical focus. not a very practical musical aid, but it was an interesting perspective-changer, which i think is this substance's most valuable quality.
i've never known a drug that allows me to go so far out but then to snap back into reality - and way back out again - at will. n
ot like waves of mushrooms or LSD. i've only taken ketamine a couple of times, and have little other dissociative experience except for n2o and a handful of DXM journeys - but to me this stuff is pretty fascinating.
overall i prefer psychedelics and opiates - but the experiments i have done with MXE have been most rewarding.