ok, took 2mg of it now its ~3 hours later. I was not expecting much and did not get a knock you over the head trip. I'm feeling good still, I understand where the PIHKAL comment in the 5mg entry where the guy said afterward he felt empathetic/very nice. Here is a PIHKAL entry for comparison's sake:
(with 5 mg) The initial hints of action were physical--warming of first the legs, and then a comfortable warmth spread over the entire body. Intense intellectual stimulation, one that inspired the scribbling of some 14 pages of handwritten notes. Which is a pretty good record for an experience that is almost entirely non-verbal. The afterglow was benign and rich in empathy for everything. And by the sixth hour I was quite hungry.
I will say it came on quickly, by about 30 minutes I was feeling effects. I felt spaced out and happy and for a moment thought it was going to develop into something stronger (it had that feeling like coming onto a good MDMA roll). It did not though. It felt a lot like AMT around 10-15mg oral minus ANY jitteriness. The effects were entirely consistent of EUPHORIA. I told a friend as I was coming onto it that this chemical is like a euphoria pill, clean and simple and honest euphoria.
I took a walk in the sunshine and found a bench eventually to watch the sunset and think my little happy thoughts about life. As I was sitting along a cat meandered up to me and sat down beside me while I petted it. It kept purring while I petted it. Eventually it jumped down and meandered away. I thought about my life and crystalized an insight I've been working through recently (I think thanks to the Aleph-1's positive push).
Minus were ANY visual effects or weird psychedelic thoughts, etc. Just euphoria. I honestly won't be surprised if this one comes out to not be very psychedelic at all in the classical sense and more like MDMA.
I simply cannot wait until I get a chance to try 5mg soon! This drug felt so wonderful that I was tempted an hour in to redose and go higher, but I decided for the sake of the experiment not to.
A +/++ on the Shulgin scale.
Peace!
samadhi
ps I will add that ~three hours before dosing this I took my usual gram of piracetam with coffee. Also, I had taken a large dose of fentanyl/xanax the night before and had woken up the morning STILL miraculously being effected by it (pinned pupils). I'm almost positive by the late afternoon when I took the Aleph-1 that these factors were negligible if at all.