Well, I don't mind calling it "foxy." A tryptamine by any other name...
As for foxy, I had been told before using it that it was similar to ecstasy. Of course, I took too much trying to get it to feel that way and had a somewhat lengthy trip, though it turned out to be pleasant in its own way. Then I started criticizing everyone who compared foxy to mdma. Then I did some more with a friend. Afterwards, he was explaining it to other people and he said the closest he could compare it to was ecstasy. What the hell?!! I thought. And I realized there must be a reason people keep comparing it to ecstasy even though it is so different. And so I thought about this.
I concluded there are really two types of trips:
1. Mental and sensory trips.
2. Purely sensory trips.
Mental trips are when you starting thinking in strange, alien ways. You can't really shut your mind off. Your brain is thinking differently and that is the main component of the trip. Mental trips pretty much always include a sensory trip, meaning you are getting weird sensory input simultaneous with your weird way of thinking. I don't know if there is any drug out there that provides a purely mental trip... Maybe something like salvia.
The purely sensory trips are different. You get altered/enhanced sensory input but your thinking processes are not altered so much as they are suppressed. You get stupid rather than introspective. Ecstasy and foxy do this. You will be forgetful, kind of like when you are stoned.
People compare foxy to ecstasy because, if you are asked to describe foxy, you try to think of any other sensory trip that does not have a mental trip component or much philosophical introspection and you will probably think of ecstasy. Here's an example: On acid or shrooms, I look at the stars and see a bunch of geometric patterns in the twinkling lights, so it almost seems I understand the path of the stars and they are all in sync or maybe it seems like the whole universe is a ceiling of twinkling lights ten feet above my head or I could see the stars in some completely different weird way that I can't begin to describe when sober. On foxy or ecstasy, I look at the stars and see a bunch of pretty lights I have trouble focusing on and that's about it.
But, though foxy and ecstasy are similar in that they are purely sensory trips, ecstasy gives you a built in "buffer" by providing you with a super-positive mental attitude for the trip. Foxy does not do this. With foxy, you have to bring your own puny mortal mental attitude, positive or negative, to the experience. Unlike ecstasy, foxy will not make you so happy you overlook the nausea, the chills/heat, the little muscle aches, etc. Is foxy overall an enjoyable trip? I think so. But you have to bring your own positive mental attitude. And don't expect it to be euphoric like rolling because foxy, unlike ecstasy, does not come with built-in euphoria.
~psychoblast~