So I finally got a chance to sample this substance and I had quite a good time. The TR section of the site seems to be denying me access so I will post an abbreviated version here.
I dosed ~25mg (±5mg because my scale and capping process are not what they would be with proper funding)
The Come-up was unusually smooth. Over the course of two hours, my mind slowly expanded to fill the air around me. My body was a languid set of limbs, hanging down form my head. Movement was loose and cartoonish. I seemed to drift in an out of attention to what I was doing. As I was listening to music, suddenly I realized that I had missed a minute of the song in a daydream. There was however a distinct lack of visuals to look at.
That changed when I went outside to take a solitary walk through my neighborhood. On the way out I had an easy conversation with my anti-drug girlfriend who seemed to have no clue as to my psychedelic state. Outside my surroundings become much more fascinating. The wet ground reflected the reds and greens of the streetlights, creating a festive christmas light show on the ground. The 4-HO-DET was most certainly enhancing those colors. Walking by a house coved in Christmas lights and sparkling snowflakes was magical, though only for a moment. Like most shiny things, It was only interesting the first time you looked at it. It was at moments like this that grim thoughts tried to invade my brain; Anxiety and depression try desperately to ruin my trip, But cheer, optimism and good humor always prevail.
I guess it's appropriate at this point to note that I have been taking Clonazepam (among other benzos) every 2 or 3 days for the last month, and two nights in a row before the trip. The reason I mention this is that I felt tremors in my heart throughout the trip. This could have been due to the 4-HO DET or mild benzo withdrawl which I quelled at T+3:00 with 1mg Clonazepam.
I had heard much on both sides of the argument about whether benzos cancel out a trip, or whether they just calm a person down so that the trip is not as overwhelming, so testing this out for myself was part of my motivation for dosing the Clonazepam. It seemed to me that the Clonazepam did not really impede the visual aspect of the 4-HO-DET. It did however dull my mental processes as usual. This reduced the clarity of each moment and took away from the feeling of profundity that comes with any good psychedelic experience. However, it seemed that my ability to judge the 4-HO-DET's effectiveness, which seemed to drop off pretty quickly around the fifth hour, was not significantly impaired by the Clonazepam.
Overall I think 4-HO-DET is definitely interesting and I will give it another go. It is not as powerful— and in your face, as Mushrooms or 4-AcO-DMT; but it did have some sort of unique magic to it. Perhaps I will dose it with a phenethylamine at some point it hopes that they will compliment each other nicely. I believe they will.
