Interesting to see people have opposite opinions and reactions to just about everything here!
It is indeed. It seems the older I get, the more and more all of the psychedelics are starting to do the same thing. The differences between a PEA and an indole are becoming less and less.
I took some 2C-D last month, and I normally associate it as being a gentle, forgiving psychedelic…but this time I was hit hard in a very LSD-like fashion. All of the things I tend to prescribe to one category of psychedelic…I am starting to see it in all of them. I don’t know if it is a factor of age, the fact that I rarely trip these days, or what. But they are all starting to just be plain-old mind-expanding. And all that really varies is the length of action…the 2C-D still lasted for only 4 hours.
Adding to that, I shared 2C-D this fall with a good friend who is quite a bit older than I. He came of age in the 70s when the psychedelics to choose from were LSD, and the rare button of peyote if you knew a source, and that’s about it. He said 2C-D reminded him of LSD, and that if I had told him it was LSD he would have never known the difference (until we started coming down during the 3rd hour.) So he never had the chance to try all of these analogues until now.
He never had any expectations going into 2C-D, so he didn’t come out of it with all of these noted differences as compared with LSD, or something else. Dunno the point I am trying to make except to say that the variance we see, as shown in this thread, probably has less to do with the actual drug ingested, and more to do with set, setting, and general expectation.
A BLer I somewhat know, who is very familiar with LSD and DOB, ate DOB-blotter and was convinced it was LSD (until GCMS showed differently.) Hoffman said only the very experienced could distinguish between mescaline, psilocybin, or LSD. As time goes on, I am begining to believe it more and more.
