Two Seeing Eyes

Haha, get it?  Because 2c-i?

So, about a week ago I took some 2c-i.  I’m a little more experienced with psychedelics now, as I’ve done acid a few times, 2c-b, shrooms, salvia and 2c-i once before.  This time, however, was MUCH different from the last time I did 2c-i.  The last time I did 2c-i, I took about 20mg, and experienced very subtle visuals, a heavy body load and almost no alteration of thought process.  The most intense the visuals got were that patterns seemed to be flowering outwards, and spiralling around.  Other than that, there wasn’t really much worth noting, except the duration, which was about 6-8 hours.  The 2c-i this time, however, was from a different source, and I took 25mg instead of 20.

T + 0:00

2c-i is ingested around 2pm, inside my friend’s house.  There are 8 of us at this point, I will refer to each of them by a letter in their name from now on.  The people involved were myself, E, B, P, K, T, R and U.  E, B, P, K, T and I all took our 2c-i at the same time, but R and U had to go somewhere, and would be taking theirs a bit later.  The 2c-i went down pretty smoothly, but I took some gravol at this point just to eliminate any possible nausea that might happen later.

T + 0:40

Starting to feel something.  My body feels heavy, and colours seem slightly brighter.  No sign of visuals or mind-alteration yet, but I can tell that it’s coming.  At this point, I’m still expecting not much more than what happened last time on 2c-i, but man, was I ever wrong about that.  We decide to go wander around the forest in the backyard to kill some time while waiting for it to come up.  R and U leave, and are coming back later in the day.  We walk in a direction for about an hour, talking and laughing and having a good time, but I’m still not really getting much from the 2c-i, other than a slight body load and some brighter colours, which might’ve just been from the weed I had smoked earlier.

T + 2:20

4:20!!!  

Woooooo.

We’ve been wandering through the forest for some time now.  Everybody else is already tripping (or so they said), but I still wasn’t really feeling much yet.  It’s 4:20, so we smoke a small bowl to celebrate.  This bowl seemed to be the kicker that made me start to trip.  I’m starting to see mild visuals now, somewhat like the last time I did 2c-i.  Looking at the snow beneath me, there seemed to be waves moving across it, and parts of it were expanding while some parts contracted.  The bark of trees seemed much more “earthy” than usual, and whenever I touch them, I felt somewhat connected with them.  We decide that it’s time to head back to the house, as we’re getting pretty cold and we don’t want to end up getting lost in the forest and tripping really hard.

Walking back felt amazing.  I always find the movement of objects in 3 dimensions very interesting to watch when I’m on psychedelics, especially trees, because they’re so intricate and detailed, and without any leaves on them you can really see every little detail of the tree.  This is mostly a body trip for me at this point.  My legs feel like they aren’t really there, and I’m just floating along down the path.  There are still some mild visuals when I stare at one thing for a long time without moving, but as long as I’m moving, there seems to be no difference other than the enhancement of colours.

T + 3:30?

I’m not sure exactly what time we got back to the house, but when we did, we sat at a bench that was outside for a little while.  This was when the visuals started getting really intense for me.  The entire bench was covered in fractal patterns, and was entirely yellow.  I didn’t really think much of it, until it started changing colours.  First, it slowly faded into red, and then purple, and then back to yellow.  It seemed like it was pulsating into all these different colours, all the while with fractals moving around the entire surface.  This was the first point that I stopped and realized “I’m tripping”.  It was also very hard for me to keep my head upright, and I found that I was swaying back and forth while sitting at the bench.  After a little bit, we got cold and decided to go inside.  We went into the basement and sat down and just relaxed. 

T + 4:00

I want to listen to music.  For some reason, I’ve never done it while on a psychedelic before.  I never really got the chance, because I either didn’t have my headphones, didn’t get a chance to relax, or entirely forgot that music even existed.  But this time, I was just lying down on a bed, and I had my music and my headphones, so I decided to give it a try.  I lay down on my back, close my eyes, put in my sound-blocking headphones and listen to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylVRGttEW4 on full blast with the bass all the way up.

The song starts, and as it’s building up, reality ceases to exist.  I feel like I’m falling into an infinite blackness.  Suddenly a small, dark red diamond shape appears in the center of my vision (I’m assuming the dark red is due to the small amount of light that was getting through my closed eyelids).  Then, more and more of them appear as the song gets more intense, until my entire field of vision is covered by a checkerboard of dark red diamond shapes.  

I don't know what to put as the caption for this.

Then, suddenly, at the 0:55 mark, something happens.  A strong wave of euphoria rushes down my spine and through my entire body, and suddenly, I am awake.  It kinda felt like I was in a dream state, in that the real world around me didn’t exist anymore, and I was myself in this other existence that was only in my head.  I like to call this state that I was in “trip space”.   I was lying there, completely immobilized, yet fully aware of my existence in trip space.  I’m looking at this checkerboard of dark red diamonds that’s in front of me, and it appears to be a thick glass ceiling that’s directly above me, blocking me from moving or going anywhere.  Then suddenly, one of the diamonds changes.  It opens up, revealing a bright blue and green eye.  Then another one opens, and another one.  All of the diamonds are just closed eyes, and they all randomly open and close, with about 6 or 7 of them being open at a time.  They’re all bright blue and green eyes, and they don’t appear to be looking at anything in particular, they’re just staring blankly forward.  Then, I start to see some movement on the other side of the thick glass barrier.  Shadows of huge figures are walking on top of it.  They look like very tall, lanky golem-like people, with a body shape similar to that of the gingerbread man character from Time Splitters.

This is the only picture of him I could find.

They seem to be walking in some sort of formation, like a large army of them marching forward to the beat of the song.  This kept going on until the very end of the song.  At the 4:20 (lol) mark, when the music stops, they stop walking, and all the eyes close.  All that’s left is the checkerboard from before, which morphs around for a bit, until the very last note at 4:34, when everything disappears.  It looks kinda like an old TV shutting off, and then suddenly everything is black and silent again, and I leave trip space.  I open my eyes and take out the headphones, and all I can say at this point is “holy shit, that was intense”.  It’s pretty much impossible to describe anything that happens on a trip while still tripping.

The rest of the night is pretty much a blur to me, because we spent the entire time just in the basement, and there were really no landmark events that were memorable.  For most of the night, I was confined to sitting/lying down on the bed, because the body load was just too much for me to even stand up, unless it was really necessary.  Visuals are mild for most of the trip, aside from patterns morphing and colours of things changing slightly. K and P both leave pretty early, and R and U come back at about T + 6:00, having taken their 2c-i about an hour prior.

T + 12:00

Something’s wrong.  It should be over by now, but it’s not.  Usually at this point with any phenethylamine, the trip is over, and anything that’s left is just residual effects that remain until I sleep.  But for some reason, the peak was just ending at this point, and I was just starting to come down.  Everybody else experienced the same thing, so maybe this 2c-i was just really potent.  Myself, E, T and another one of our friends who came later (H), decide to go outside for a bit and smoke some weed and a cigar to relax a bit, and it feels amazing.  I don’t even feel the smoke in my mouth, throat or lungs, I can just taste it, and it tastes so good.  After a while, we get pretty cold just standing outside, so we decide to go back in and try to get some sleep.  B and T also went home at this point.

T + 13:00

Sleep is impossible.  I close my eyes, and I see brighter colours than when they’re open.  Bright green and blue patterns are moving around everywhere, no matter what I do.  I can’t keep my eyes closed for more than a few minutes, and my body suddenly feels very energetic.  After a while, I just give up on trying to sleep, and just laid there and enjoyed it.

T + 16:00

Finally, I’m in a state that I would call “sober”, but it’s still impossible to sleep, so I just lay there thinking about what happened, and at least try to rest my body because I have to play a show with my band later in the day.  I go home at around T + 20:00, and when I get home, I can finally sleep (somewhat).  I sleep for about 3 hours, then go to the show, which I ended up playing perfectly, despite getting almost no sleep, and still feeling residual effects from the 2c-i.

T + 32:00

I smoke some weed after the show, and I can definitely feel the 2c-i again.  My body feels heavy, which might just be because I was really stoned and tired, but while I was waiting for the bus, I was looking at the ground, and I could still see waves moving along it, and the patterns shifting slightly.

Overall thoughts:
Fun as fuck.  Even though it lasted much longer than it was supposed to, I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Everybody had a pretty similar experience to mine, except for R, who had a pretty adverse reaction to the 2c-i.  R is a really smart guy, and he hasn’t done any drugs at all until pretty recently, he started smoking weed, and then started dabbling in psychedelics.  I don’t know if it’s because he’s so smart, or because he’s not really used to being in an altered state of mind, or maybe there’s actually some sort of physical reaction with something in his body, but whenever he does psychedelics, they seem to completely break his mind.  For a good 8 hours after taking his 2c-i, he was completely immobilized.  He didn’t move at all, and whenever someone said his name or tried to talk to him, he just stared blankly and couldn’t respond.  After a while, he started talking sporadically, but nothing he said made sense.  All he ever said was random combinations of the following:

-          Boner

-          Too legit to quit

-          One

-          Alphabet

-          Cold

-          4chan

-          Mortal Kombat

I have no idea what was going on in his mind, but it must have been spectacular.  At about T + 8:00 for him, he suddenly got up, took his pants off and started humping the floor.  The following is a conversation of texts between myself and B (who had left at this point):

As for the 2c-i, it was a really heavy body load, cool but mild visuals compared to shrooms or acid, and much less of a mindfuck than shrooms or acid.  It’s definitely an easy drug to start out on, but the body load is intense, so don’t plan to do much physical activity while on it.  Overall, the experience was pretty grate.