Welp, I am officially done with my small supply of this molecule so I thought I'd share a few things about my experiences with it.
I wrote a trip report about the first one, on 33 mg, so I won't go too much into it here. Shortly after that occurred I took a break from writing reports or posting in general though and simply enjoyed getting lost in my trips without taking notes and such for a while, and in that time I had three more trips: one on 40 mg, and two on 25 mg. My experiences were kind of all over the board it seems at least as far as 2C-C is concerned, which is part of the reason I want to share them here now in retrospect even though there's already plenty written on this one....
So, first as a brief recap, my 33 mg experience was highly pleasant and euphoric, extremely chill for a psychedelic, and filled with lots of beautiful and intense but still not overwhelming geometric visual effects in line with the Persian rug pattern style that is spoken of for these molecules, but nothing particularly hallucinogenic or intense in general beyond that. I guessed it felt maybe somewhat like mescaline did based on what I have heard of it though I cannot speak from experience, though some of the visual aspects did remind me in particular of synthetic tryptamines compared to the few other phenethylamines I have used so far. I was not particularly impressed compared to many other psychedelics but I did find it highly desirable in the sense that I would like to repeat the recreational experience at least.
I was thinking about experimenting a bit with my few other small phenethylamines stashes before returning to 2C-C, but I have to admit, there was something about it just calling me back, and I ended up taking my second trip on 40 mg shortly after the first. My hope was that it was basically just going to be like the 33 mg but a bit better, but it actually ended up being a fairly harsh experience without much reward.... The euphoria never appeared, I was still clearheaded but always felt tense rather than chill, the geometric visuals became more intense specifically just in a way that made them more annoying and hard to manage rather than more beautiful, some interesting 3D hallucinations were beginning to develop with eyes closed but I could never get comfortable enough to really bring them out much at all, and part of that was because there was also suddenly a strong body load that never developed for me on the 33 mg, but was broadly comparable to any other particularly physical psychedelic I've ever taken, same kind of physical stiffness and whatnot. I thought the closed eye visuals showed a little bit of potential but not enough compared to everything else going on, none of which was redeeming in the same way. I didn't lose faith in 2C-C entirely after this, but I must say, my enthusiasm for it was significantly dampened, and I no longer had any desire to try to push the dosage any higher, but rather to just accept working with what I could get from the lower dosages.
I went a while without tripping after that while focusing on other aspects of life, but finally decided I wanted to jump back in a bit, and I still couldn't shake that feeling that I wanted to explore 2C-C a bit more, even after that last setback, and even given that my supply of it was quickly dwindling while I still had those other phenethylamines to work with, so nonetheless, I ended up taking the 50 mg I had remaining that had been prepared for my highest dosage and splitting it into two 25 mg piles, and took the first one for this third trip with it. This time I didn't go into with many expectations since it was a lower amount than I had taken twice before, and as I would have imagined it did largely turn out to be similar to the 33 mg experience, and wholly positive as that was, but weaker in some ways, a very satisfying but generally mild experience. However, there was a part of the peak where I decided to do a balloon of eight chargers of nitrous oxide, and the experience was decidedly more hallucinogenic and therapeutic than even the most of my nitrous oxide experiences have been when combining with things like tryptamines instead.... I had been listening to music while inhaling and just thinking about the way my life had been going as of late, when suddenly I found myself amongst a crowd of shadow actors at a party where I came face to face with myself in the third person, and went through a complex inner dialogue of addressing various social insecurities and baggage from life I had been holding on to, resulting in a very meaningful and significant experience of finally letting go of some of those things. Following this release, I suddenly found myself as a point floating in a void inhabited by colossal statues lining the walls of ancient psychedelic temples extending far up into the sky and back into the horizon out of view, simultaneously representing myself and all of humanity and contributing to lessons related to acceptance of the basic self and the connectedness with others that still remains, and other similar things, until the release became great enough that there was nothing left in my perception but a feeling, and then that feeling began to fade as I returned to just the 2C-C trip. Afterwards the trip itself was not particularly notable, but I barely even payed attention because of how much I was thinking about what I had experienced, though I do think the 2C-C helped with that analysis as well.
In the aftermath of that experience I found myself in a place of extreme emotional vulnerability and contemplation of my entire life from novel perspectives, and it didn't take me long to rack up so many new thoughts and ideas and revelations that I felt my experience was in dire need of a part two, if you will, to reveal just how much of me had changed inside and what still remained in my way of fully integrating these amazing feelings of release and clarity. Because I was still in the same psychedelic mood that I had been all this time and because it was the only bit of my supply remaining anyway, I decided to take my last 25 mg of 2C-C and see how it hit me. As I was waiting for it and considering all the psychological tension I had built up lately just from having so many revelations without rest and feeling like I was on the verge of some big self-realizations, I suddenly felt it, just as I have plenty before on the base tryptamines: the purge. No nausea, just an immediate understanding that I was about to puke and all I had to do was let it out, so I did, and returned comfortably to where I had been sitting, suddenly feeling totally released of all of that tension that had been on my mind. As the trip began to set in more fully, this time the differences were hugely obvious.... At first I was overwhelmed with a buzzing bodily euphoria so intense to be nearly incapacitating, but entirely positive and pleasurable, and then I spontaneously began getting mind's eye visionary imagery that was vivid enough to be "seen" of erotic male entities of a kind I have seen before on DMT reaching out to me and touching and grabbing me intimately, sending rushes of euphoria through me when they did, while the room around us became increasingly covered in patterns and distortions highly similar in color and texture to the previous trips but larger, more three-dimensional, and more so beginning to form fantasy imagery as they pulled back away from me. I ended up doing another balloon of nitrous oxide because I was so euphoric, and that pushed me into an almost totally orgasmic state with lots of writhing and moaning while watching reality around me get ripped apart into salvia-like madness with beautiful female entities constantly spinning all around me and wrapping their arms in from the peripherals to get my attention though not quite breaking through, but after I opened my eyes again the top of the blanket I had on me suddenly transformed into nothing but a field of their hands still reaching out to me as they slipped back into the world of my subconscious. Afterwards I got up to go lie down in my bed and meditate, being followed by the erotic males now positioning themselves amongst the patterns and multiplying their forms to resemble Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man as I went, and put some more familiar music to accompany it. While lying there with my eyes closed my mind very easily carried me into the world of the music and projected flawlessly in lifelike detail the music videos I was familiar with into the space around me, moving me from one persona to the next and allowing me to live out the musical expression of the artist, and still allowing me to fully move my body and sing to the music without disrupting the stability of the hallucinogenic projection. The 2C-C peak does not last long for me however and shortly after I was satisfied by this meditation session most of the stronger effects began to fade significantly, but I still enjoyed the lingering versions of all of what I've described for at least another couple hours and felt absolutely amazing for the rest of the day, and beyond.
There's more to the story of what I was going through relative to these trips, but that's about it with regards to the actual 2C-C information. It's been a few weeks now since that last trip and the afterglow had definitely largely passed now other than the lasting positive impact the experience had on my mind, and I feel that I've had enough time to integrate a lot of it at least on a preliminary level, so I felt it was good time to share some of it. I'll also share just a few thoughts on 2C-C itself now that I am sadly through my small supply of it, though certainly not feeling that my experiences were in any way lacking all things considered....
For me, the main takeaway from my experiences with regards to the effects of 2C-C has been that it seems to operate on my biology in the exact same kind of way that DMT and other base tryptamines do, just in a somewhat hollowed out and smoother way that compares more to some of the bulkier synthetic indoles more so than the natural base. In fact, I would have to say that my last experience on it by far reminded the most of my 50 mg oral experience with MiPT, which also started with a purge without nausea, projected into extreme bodily euphoria and erotic entities, and then carried me into a dissociative experience of blending with music videos before leveling off into a blissful peace that lasted the rest of the day and following week. I also specifically recall feeling my first time on it that it reminded me quite a lot of EPT, which I had just used, particularly with respect to the more geometric visuals on top of the other general base tryptamine similarities as they were much more satisfyingly full-bodied and complex but also more modern or technological in a way comparable to LSD which EPT also is for me much more than MiPT. Likewise, that experience I had using nitrous oxide my third time with it only furthered these thoughts when it brought me to that out-of-body space with the ancient temple and giant statutes, it had an extremely breakthrough-esque feeling for me that was distinguishable from the majority of my psychedelic experiences aside from those that work in the DMT-like space. In general I would also have to say that I simply find the very calm and grounded feeling along with the specific types of healing, particularly including the purge, to be very much alike DMT and other base tryptamines overall, at least compared to the other types of tryptamines and lysergamides which I am more used to taking. And finally, even the fact that the trip's hallucinogenic nature became significantly more immersive for me as I experienced those various emotional releases and learned how to appreciate them reminded me very much of how DMT has operated for me in the past, with each push deeper into hyperspatial territory seeming to take me deeper than the last. Nonetheless, 2C-C does undoubtedly feel like a lighter psychedelic overall than the base tryptamines do for me, one that I would much more readily take for recreational psychedelia even if it's still going to be quite powerful objectively regardless, and it does have a few unique qualities compared to the base tryptamines that I very much enjoy and find more comparable to other phenethylamines and LSD instead, especially certain aspects of the analytical headspace and more playful and gentle but at the same time more widely present neon geometries, all of which add up to make it a quite fascinating and worthwhile and distinct enough substance at least for my own purposes, and I would gladly take it many times again in the future if given the opportunity.
Sadly, that is all of it that I had, so that is where my descriptions end for now... but I am certainly quite happy and grateful to have had the experiences with it I had already.
