Yesterday I had my first 2C-E experience, 10mg snorted. The reason I snorted it was the shorter duration; LSD lasts a solid 8 hours for me, which leaves me exhausted, mainly because I can't really eat while I'm on it. Wasn't really looking forward to a 12 hour trip on 2C-E, especially since I didn't know how I'd react. The fact that you need less of it when snorted was a nice economical bonus. Of course, I was 'warned' for the intense burning and bodyload, but that didn't really bother me. In fact, I enjoy the burning when shooting quite pure amphetamines up my nose, so I thought this would be something like that. Boy, was I wrong

The burning was really bad (I could even feel the particles that got in my throat burn) and was followed by a nasty throat drip. In my log I described it with a combination of swearing I don't think I've ever used in my entire life. Bodyload was also intense, as foretold, and had me lying on my bed for the first hour. After that, it was mostly gone and I could comfortably walk around my room and do stuff. Now I'd be fine with all that if what followed was also what I expected: intense visuals, the main reason I choose 2C-E. The only thing I got was what I described as an 'ASCII-rave': all the characters on my screen were dancing around nicely (without getting blurry), like they were floating in rippling water or something. This was also observed in other patterns, like my ceiling and the carpet. However, that was all, for the full duration of the trip. No colourchanges, no 'visual distortions/ripple-effects' like I get on LSD and no fractals. None of the weird cartoony stuff that others described either. Just the ASCII-rave.
I'm not saying I had a lousy trip: my other senses were greatly enhanced. Music would send shivers (the good kind) down my whole body, food would smell and taste amazing. In fact, the smell that came off a hamburger when I flipped it (and this was low-quality meat) gave me an orgasm-like feeling. Also I had no trouble at all eating a full meal, which is definitely a plus. The visuals just really disappointed me, so next time I'm going to up the dose. I'm just not really sure how much I should take next. I read that snorting is about twice as effective compared to orally and since I'm not going to snort it anymore, I'll have to take at least 20mg to get equal effects, right? I was thinking of upping that to 25mg, hoping to get some real visuals. Or would you guys recommend going even higher? Or perhaps lower, since the dosing curve is quite steep, but I feel 25mg shouldn't be too much of a problem.