I'm thinking I don't like this substance much, mainly because of it being so neutral and lacking in the visuals.
I feel the same thing. To me 2C-E was just very "blah" and bland. No positive mood, flashes of insight, nothing worth notable mention. Of course it could all be attributed to things just not clicking at that time.
FWIW I find trypts far more direct and truly psychedelic in nature. Phens I find are more for having a light, euphoric trip, and tryptamines are for real trips. I am guaranteed to get intense, detailed, intrinsic, moving visuals and very often reach profound states with tryptamines.
I like to think of phenethylamines for "psycholytic" trips and tryptamines for "psychedelic" trips.
All besides one 2C-E trip were like this for me. No explanation, and it isn't like that for everyone, but I just don't get anything out of it. And I've tried REALLY hard to just let it do it's thing, and learn its personality.
I find 2Cs in general shine in situations where there is interesting sensory input to play with - outdoors, etc. The complexity of nature shines through. If you do them inside in a room with four flat walls - well, don't be surprised if your brain can't do much with that.
Where did you do it?
I find 2Cs in general shine in situations where there is interesting sensory input to play with - outdoors, etc. The complexity of nature shines through. If you do them inside in a room with four flat walls - well, don't be surprised if your brain can't do much with that.
This is in contrast to trypts which I find shine in sensory-deprivation environments - ie the classic dark room mushroom trip.