A few months ago, I concocted a nice LSA extract using the non-polar to polar tek on some hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. I kept it in rum and the dosage is really simple: 100 seeds in 200 ml, so for every 2ml of liquid, there is 1 seed. Until recently I've never really had a chance to test it.
I have tried out a really small dose before (2 seeds worth), but did not feel a thing. Yesterday, I took another try and went with 10 ml or 5 seeds worth. It wasn't the most amazing trip ever, but that's not what I was going for anyway. I wanted to see if it was active and what the general vibe of this stuff is like. I had just come home from work, which includes heavy physical labour in the evening hours. While driving home, I got to think of the extract and how I should still try it.
I take the little bottle out of the cupboard and notice the colour of the potion has changed dramatically since I made it. It used to be this milky, slightly brown colour. Like tea with a cloud of milk. Now it's coffee or cola coloured. "Fuck", I thought, "I've probably waited too long and now it's gone to waste.." Still, I try it anyways. 10 ml, down the hatch!
It didn't taste too bad. In fact, it was quite okay compared to most psychedelics I've taken. The effects took a while to come on. I sat in my bed, upright and cross legged. I noticed I was getting quite calm, a bit of a meditative state. Instead of it getting more difficult to maintain, I seem to get deeper in this trance. By now my stomach was getting a little uneasy, but I wouldn't really call it nausea. My mind was dancing along to the music I had put on.
I decide to lie down. My legs feel a little muscle-achy or stiff, but not cramping. It was very doable. I close my eyes and drift deeper into this calm, meditative, dare I say sedated state. Slight visuals (light patterning) start to appear.
This next part is a bit harder to describe, but I noticed a clear distinction between what I was seeing and what I was imagining or thinking. When you imagine something, you see it in your mind, right? Like the mind's eye. That kind 'sight' got quite vivid. However, at the same time the vision behind my closed eyelids, vision I felt as if perceived by my actual eyes, also started to get more pronounced. In fact, sometimes the 'vision' from the mind's eye started to turn into a vision in front of my physical eyes but behind my eyelids. Like the distinction was slowly blurring.
At this point I was getting very tired and I doze off into a deeply relaxed sleep. I haven't slept this good in a long time. The dreams during this sleep were exceptionally vivid, though not pleasant. In the morning I woke about an hour later than usual, feeling tired yet rested. If that makes sense. I still feel a slight, happy afterglow.
All in all, it was a very relaxing experience. Not as uplifting as mushrooms or as baffling as DMT, but again, that's not what I was looking for. I liked the calm and meditative trance and will certainly try it again. Maybe with a slightly larger dose.
-------------------- To do: sclerotia, DMT, mushrooms, LSA, mescaline.
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