humbling 2c-i experience
So I thought I was pretty experienced with using 2c-i at a range of doses in a wide variety of settings, felt like I knew it pretty well, etc.
I decided to take ~25mg at the red rocks flaming lips show last night; love the lips, love red rocks, was with a good group of friends, so thought everything would go swimmingly.
I took 2 10mg caps and 1 5mg cap. First problem: Thinking about it later I realized the 10mg caps were actually somewhere between 9 and 12mg, and the 5mg cap was 4-7mg. So, the actual dose I ingested was between 22mg and 31mg. Small errors in dose multiplied make a large error in dose.
Usually 2c-i takes about 2 hours to affect me, so I didn't eat all day, and opened the ends of the caps before swallowing to speed absorption. Perhaps for these reasons, I was tripping HARD a half hour later, which took me by surprise.
Although 2c-i is usually a silly fun drug for me, at the dose I took circular thinking and head games began to take over. Nothing nearly as serious as a head full of mushrooms, but the intense overstimulation from the lights and sounds of the show plus the massive throngs of people make it hard for me to lose myself in the show, as I was busy being intensely lost in my own head. I also had a cramp in my side for some reason, and 2c-i was making me hyperfocus on that as well.
All in all it was a very confusing but eye-opening experience for me: one minute I'd be thinking 'this is way too intense there's no way I can handle it', and the next minute I'd convince myself that 'I'm not really tripping at all! Whats even going on here?'
Anyway, turned out ok, show was awesome, didn't have the fun and carefree experience I was expecting, but I did have a very powerful experience and did a lot of mental work about myself, where I am in life, where I want to be going, how I use psychedelics, etc. No negative lingering after-effects.
I do however have a vastly renewed respect for 2c-i as a "serious" psychedelic
