Speaking of mescaline...so I got around to trying that mescaline I acquired. Due to some schedule changes, I ended up tripping on the 14th rather than last weekend as planned, and chose a 300mg dose.
Wow. I have read a lot about it being an exceptionally kind and gentle psychedelic, and it absolutely lived up to that reputation for me. Entering the mescaline headspace and body high was like gradually wading into a warm sea. I honestly couldn't pinpoint where I started coming up;maybe two hours in I realized that I was actually pretty high. While I wouldn't call it sedating, it felt warm and dreamy compared to the boundless energy I'm used to from metocin. Fairly subdued visually, but the colors were beautiful and I did get some fractal patterning. I can't comment much on CEVs since they were pretty faint, but they did seem more angular than the more curvy, sunflower-like CEVs I get from metocin.
The headspace is by far my favorite aspect. Metocin has a very fun and whimsical headspace and some stunning visuals that have ensured positive trips for me every time, but I've never taken much away from it. Mescaline was much more of a peaceful, "guiding" psychedelic for me; there were certainly confusing, "stoning" moments, but for the most part, I felt as though I was able to think through my problems and concerns with life, with utmost clarity. (I'll spare you the details;in short, I"ve always been a very introverted person, and fearful of taking risks.) And the payoff for articulating those problems was transcendent. It felt as though a burden had been lifted after simply writing out my thoughts on my phone. And with resolution, there was an indescribable sense of pure joy and liberation that brought me to tears.
I would like to come back to mescaline some time at a slightly higher dose, but it feels like it would be doing myself a disservice not to make an honest effort to work on the solutions the trip guided me toward. That, and 2 grams isn't a whole lot so I'd like to save it for really special occasions.
Amazing stuff.