Last night I took ayahuasca for the first time. I cooked it up about 6 months ago and put it in the freezer waiting for the right time to take it. I was really a bit scared to try it.
I was planning on making 2 batches so I used 100g B Caapi and 20g MHRB.
I cooked them seperately in a crock pot with about a gallon of water and some lemon juice. After straining out the plant material I added a pack of gelatin to each and reduced to a drinkable amount over a low fire while stirring and removing out all of the gunk that the gelatin pulled out. The gelatin didn't do much for the caapi brew, but I pulled a lot of stuff out of the MHRB brew.
Then I stuck them in the freezer and forgot about them.
Several months later I unfroze them to break them down into doses. Some nagging feeling was telling me that the MHRB dose was way too high, so I split it into thirds rather than half, each dose about 7g MHRB rather than 10g.
Then I refroze them and forgot about them.
Last night I decided was the time to take the, and it was really spur of the moment.
I took the Caapi at 7:15 pm and was really feeling effects from it when it was time to take the MHRB at 7:45. Since it was my first time and I was doing it solo, I thought that it would be prudent to cut the MHRB dose in half, this turned out to be a good idea. They didn't taste near as bad as I feared, I guess drinking cactus juice and pod tea desensitizes you to foul tasting concoctions.
I started tripping around 8:30 and I was really nervous at first, since this was my first time I had no idea how intense things would get. I figured out that slow deep breathing worked really good for keeping things calm and after 45 minutes I lost all nervousness and was able to relax and enjoy it. I tripped pretty good for 2 hours but never went into deep hyper space since I reduced the dose. It was slightly more intense than one hit of really good clean acid.
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By 10:30 I could tell that I was coming down, so I set up a folding chair and table in the backyard and had a cigar and glass of absinthe. When I came back in about midnight I was just feeling the Caapi afterglow so I got on shroomery and started playing youtubes from the psychill thread for an hour and went to bed.
I was still feeling a lingering Caapi afterglow when I woke up, but it's mostly gone now.
It was a hell of a good trip once I got past the nervousness and the gelatin eliminated the purge, I didn't have any nausea at all.
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