Substance: 2ct7 Dosage: 75mg oral
This is my attempt at documenting my experience with 2ct7 at the level where I felt that I actually achieved a real psychadelic experience. Prior to this dose, I had taken dosages of 25mg and 50mg. Both of these lower doses provided little more than nausea and an uncomfortable body load w/ slight auditory alterations and visual brightening. After speaking with the person that I procured the t7 from about my trials to that point, he suggested I try this dosage. He had done a similar dose, as well as a higher dose.
This trip occurred in the spring of 2001? I believe it was in march or april. At the time I was living at home with my parents in the basement of their house in PA.
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At around 10:30pm I swallowed three capsules of 2ct7, each containing 25mg. It didn?t take long to notice a feeling similar to indigestion. I began burping and I could taste the sulphuric flavor of t7. My stomach began to tighten and I felt a buzzing sensation in the pit of my stomach. Approximately 1 hour after dosing I went upstairs and vomited. It was a violent bout of vomiting, but immediately after finishing I started to notice a warm, tingly body sensation and visual distortions.
About 2hrs after dosing I started to notice that the visual distortion was becoming quite great.. but in a different way than other psychedelics such as LSD or mushrooms. I was seeing objects fly across my field of vision that weren?t there. On LSD or mushrooms, I often have movements of color, but never creation of foreign flying objects. In the sides and corners of my vision I would see movement that I was sure was one of my cats or some sort of animal, but there was nothing there with me.
The body load at this point was quite intense and completely different from anything I had experienced before. It was as if I was plugged into some sort of generator? I could feel a pulsing, electric vibration in all of my limbs? in my fingers, in my toes, in my head.. everywhere..
I was also having auditory hallucinations.. I would hear cat?s meowing or hear my name being called from upstairs.. but there was never anyone there. I also heard a buzzing that seemed to fit with the body feeling.
I can?t really keep to a timeline from this point on.. the experience became too intense to really keep track of time.
I was in my room, lying on my bed. My room at the time was pretty small.. probably about 10?x10? or so. It had really low ceilings.. about 6? high only? and I had painted a design on the ceiling in blue and red paints. It was a sort of weird connected design of spirals, dots, dashes and other shapes? I have pictures somewhere that I may be able to scan in to give you an idea. I also had a tapestry w/ a similar theme hanging in the entrance to my closet.
As I was lying in bed, I would close my eyes and picture myself somewhere? it could be anywhere? someplace very ?earthy? and normal, like a beach? or I could be in some futuristic inside of a starship or something. I would close my eyes and be in a world that was exactly as I imagined it. I would explore these worlds for several minutes that seemed like hours. It was as if I was inducing a super lucid dream state, for lack of a better description.
The trip became very disorienting. I would open my eyes from one of these ?induced dreams? and forget that I wasn?t sleeping or dreaming.. and forget that I had taken 2ct7.. I would just think that my room was doing crazy things and I didn?t know why. Luckily, I had read of memory loss problems w/ t7, so I had written in a sketchbook next to my bed, ?you took 2ct7 at 10:45pm.? Once I saw that I would remember exactly what was going on. But, each time it happened I would only remember by reading the words.
During the time exploring my inner visual world(s), my open eye visuals had become quite intense. I had a sea of 3D floating orbs swirling about my room. I looked at the pattern on my celing and it dropped down.. it sort of pulsated and then sprung free of the ceiling. The orbs would rotate and go into a spiral and appear on the other end as a dash?constant movement. The same was true for the design on my tapestry. Along with these, I had orbs and objects that were in no way connected to my room zooming across my field of vision at all times.
I started to play with these objects? using my mind I would look at a stream of orbs in that was out in the room, I would draw it out and closer to me.. I would slow down it?s rotation.. I would peer into individual orbs. I could pull an orb out of the sequence with my mind and see it right in front of my face.. they were like red and blue crystal balls. Inside the orb I would see a sort of trailer to what was inside.. some were just pretty still landscapes that I could immerse myself in by kind of mentally jumping into the orb. Some were situations with my friends.. we?d be out dancing or talking or walking on a beach.
After a while of this, as I pulled an orb free to look at it? it was like it sprung loose and just shot right into my face. I felt it hit me in the face.. it was like a strange, soft and wet sensation. But, as it hit my face I was thrown into the contents of the orb. This was my discovery of the ?tactile hallucination.? I realized that I could use my mind to slow the orbs down and draw them closer.. but when I wanted to look at one, rather than stop the whole rotation and pull out one orb to look at.. I could actually reach out with my hand and just pluck an orb from the sky? I could hold it in front of my face and lean into it? I could peek my face halfway into the reality of the orb or lean completely into it and then just exit out by sitting back.
This sequence of visuals basically kept me busy for the duration of the trip? I would say I had these hallucinations for around 5-6hrs. Each orb was a different experience for the most part.. though there were a few favorites that I kept on the bed next to me for repeat viewing.
During this time my cat also joined me on my bed? I was lying on my back looking up at the ceiling and out at the walls, and the cat came and layed down on my chest. She was a serious purrer and was vibrating on my chest and softly kneading the base of my neck. When I looked her in the face it was as if she was trying to communicate with me.. so I would try and communicate back with her. I would think as intensely as I could about a message to send to her.. and focus on transporting that message to her. I have no idea if it worked.. but the cat and I seemed to somehow be on the same page.
As for the mental aspect of the trip? early on in the trip I was seriously worried about my health due to the extreme nausea and abdominal cramping, but, after vomiting, my mood changed greatly. The worry left me and was initially replaced by an energetic feeling.. I felt like I wanted to learn something.. I was very curious and had a million ideas formulating in my head.
This was by far one of the most enjoyable psychadelic experiences I have had. My emotions seemed so true.. I would get extreme waves of happiness and sadness.. moments where I felt like crying from either joy or pain. My mood would change with the setting of each new world I explored? each orb I peered into would alter my mindset depending on what I saw there.
The comedown I remember as me being quite jittery and having extremely sore muscles. I managed to eat a little food in the morning with my parents to help with my stomach. I also took a shower, which was a pretty enjoyable experience as I could stop the flow of the water running down the shower doors and sides of the tub and make it reverse up the way it came.
About 10-12 hrs after initially dosing I managed to fall asleep. I slept for the better half of a day and was left w/ a slight hangover feeling and sore muscles for a couple of days afterwards.
PT 2
Substance: 2ct7 Dose: ~37.5mg insuffalated
This experience was in the spring of 2001, as well, and was after-reported deaths related to 2ct7 had been reported. After my trials of oral dosages, I decided that I would like to try an insuffalated dose as well. I had not spoke with anyone that had attempted a dose this high.. the highest I had spoken with was 20mg.
I took two 25mg capsules of t7 and emptied an entire one plus around half of another into a small baggie? the approximate dosage was meant to be 35-40mg. I took the baggie to a park bench along the walking trail on the Charles River in Boston and snorted the contents directly from the baggie in one shot. Immediately I was hit by a burning and pressure in my head that I had never experience before. I also was hit with nausea and a terrible drip. I could do nothing but sit with my head in my lap for about 20minutes. Finally the burning and pressure in my head passed? and with the help of water I managed to take care of the drip. The initial discomfort actually did not last that long? and I as left with just a slightly unsettled stomach.
I walked down the river walk towards downtown boston and headed up into Kenmore square. The visual patterning and rushing objects had started already, as had the buzzing sensation in my body. I went into the Uno?s Pizza to use the bathroom and to snort some water to clear the rest of the drip out. I made my way to the bathroom, but the visuals were increasing so quickly that by the time I came out of the bathroom I could no longer find my way to the exit. The shiney interior of Uno?s was acting like a bunch of mirrors refleting the patterning that I was seeing. I was utterly lost in a world of moving, colorful objects.
Finally a waitress came by and asked me if I needed help. I explained that I was trying to find the exit.. and when she pointed the way, I asked that she please lead me as I had left my glasses and was having trouble seeing.
Back on the street the visuals continued. Orbs and rockets and all variety of UFOs were moving across my visual field. Crossing the street required waiting for someone else to come along and go first so that I could follow closely behind them. I couldn?t accurately see traffic. I would see cars, but the trailers behind them made it hard to figure out where one car stopped and another began. And, I would have stop motion type visuals? I would see a car in one point, and it would stall in that location. Then, everything would return to normal speed rapidly with the moving cars significantly ahead of where they had just been in my vision.
I walked down newbury street, the main shopping street in the back bay of boston. I went into a couple of record stores and listened to music for a while. While listening to records, I would take time to close my eyes. The patterns and visual creations in my head would come alive with the music. Explosions of color and constantly morphing fractal like images were running through my head. I did some thinking about a girl and extra terrestrials.
I was in a great mood for the entire trip and remember having intense waves of emotion similar to my other t7 experience.
For the duration of the trip I remember having the same electric type feeling as I did with the high oral dose. I didn?t have any serious nausea after the first initial bout, and was only left with a headache and achey muscles at the end of the day. The experience lasted about 6-8hrs total.. with peak visuals for about 4 of those hours. At no point during this experience did I forget that I was on 2ct7. I was able to eat towards the end of the trip and went to sleep easily that night.
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spiritual signifigance? i don't know about 'spiritual'... this was not a 'higher power' type experience, or letting go of myself to some greater force.. for the most part this trip was really about me, and enjoying myself and my friends..
at the time, i was waiting to go to trial for a bunch of stuff and was facing up to 40yrs in prison.. which i just realized puts my experience date wrong, it would have been late 2000... i was pretty much all alone in this small town in PA w/ no real plans or anything ahead of me since i didn't know if my future included freedom. This trip was sort of a way for me to visit with people that i may not be able to see again... to go out and have some fun w/out ever leaving my room... even though i didn't know it coming in, that's what it turned out to be.
2ct7 is a favorite of mine, but it's not really something i recommend. The experience is completely foreign to most people... the body-load unsettling. but, if you've done your research and think you want to try it, i won't say 'don't do it'.. but, i won't say 'do it!' either.. just, if you do, start low.. real low... t7 is notorious for having a very wide dose range.
I am a hard head for psychadelics and should generally not be used as an example.

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