Hello bluelight, this is my first post on the forum, although I been using it as a reference for more than a year now.
I wanted to share my experience with 5-Meo-MiPT as it is was my first RC, but only recently I had the occasion to fully "enjoy it".
The first two times I took it, it was in dosages at around 5 mg (I measured 6 mg but both times I dropped a little of the powder

) and I felt that I didn't understand it's effects, but maybe it is because I'm not used to stimulants nor empathogens. My previous experiences had been with acid, mushrooms and a threshold 2C-P dose. One thing that surprised me was that unlike what most people report, the most prominent effect I got was visual distortion, I got crystal clear HD vision, and slowly developing patterning in certain surfaces, specially when looking at the clouds in which I would see "triangle-like" patterning and a very mild rainbow color layer. But apart from that I didn't get any headspace.
I did felt very anxious at one point though, and both times I tried the compound it was more or less at the middle of the trip. The first time it caught me off-guard because I passed from feeling almost-sober to feeling very very anxious and had an "almost blacked-out" sensation, it was very frightening. Did anyone else ever experience this in this or any other substance? I felt weak and dizzy, I've never had a panic attack but I guess it feels something similar to that. The second time I feared it would happen again, and i did, but as I was kind of expecting it I controlled it better and disregarded the feeling with deep breathing. It surprises me that this compound can do this to me, as the "mental" intensity of those trips was very, very mild. It still puzzles me.
I kind of put it away for a long time after that experiences, but two weeks ago I had a wonderful time on 7 mg of it. I was with my SO at a big park in my city, and I feel like the effects manifested much more clearly to me at this dose: A gentle energetic push, a pleasantly weird but completely controllable headspace, conceptual association was clearly stimulated, the visual aspect was mild, but very interesting and very unique, with lots of breathing and pattern recognition. Here it is the last days of autumn, so the trip was filled with a gentle sense of beautiful autumnal nostalgia, and the naked trees revealed us all their intricate internal symmetries, and the colors in the leaves and dry grass where astonishing. It was very gentle, fun, and connected us with the sheer beauty of nature and weather. In fact, I still feel the most prominent effect of this compound is visual, but in the sense that it acts, for me at least, as an enhancer of aesthetic appreciation. Every little detail seemed worth observing.
I can relate to the observation that has been already made that it feels like you come up and then come down, I didn't experience much of a plateau either. I always felt the effects where intensifying or diminishing, but that gave a "dynamic" aspect to the trip.
One "negative" side effect I noticed was that if we tried to sit down and stay in one place, some weird "negative energy" would slowly start creeping up on us and we would suddenly feel restless and uncomfortable. But it was easily fought back by staying in movement. We walked until our feet and legs where left hurting ! The next day I felt REALLY tired, but calm and happy.
Also, It did make me very hungry !!