Age: 24
Weight: 135 lbs
Dosage: 25 mg oral in gel cap
Setting: Around the city, my apartment
I had to pick up an online order for someone at the grand Macy’s
department store right in the heart of the city. I figured I would dose, run my
errand, and then walk around the city as I came up. I went to a nearby 7/11,
got myself a drink, dosed outside the Macy’s and began the timer.
T0:00- Dose taken. I walk across the street and find the counter
for picking up orders. Thankfully I am not feeling any effects yet.
Unfortunately I find out the order is not yet ready and I will have to come
back later in the day. Oh well. I decide to keep walking around the store
because it’s warm inside and so very cold and windy outside.
T0:08- I start coming up, the first notes are felt as pangs of
nausea and feeling ever so slightly lightheaded and off balance. An anxious
stimulation and tension begins to build in my muscles. I decide to go hide in
the bathroom for a bit.
T0:15- The world is rising around me in faint tessellated
colors- for now, fairly subtle but still wanting to make themselves known. The
nausea builds along with a sweaty stimmy discomfort. There is a general sense
of unease relative to the world around me and I am anxiously hiding in a bathroom
stall plotting my next move as it builds and builds. I think I am just going to
rush out of the store and walk home, I imagine I will not be in any state to
ride public transportation.
T0:20- I break out and start walking through the store. Standing
up and walking catches me very off guard- my balance and equilibrium are highly
distorted. I am surprised I didn’t stumble and fall. I feel so light and
floaty, almost like it’s a dissociative. Despite this my chest and muscles all
feel tense and tight. A psychedelic fog envelops the world, bending around me
like a gravity well, its residual energy pulsing through my body and overtaking
me. I float and flit through a fluid world bathed in intricate interlocking
patterns of warm colors, trying to avoid the glances of strangers and hoping
loss prevention doesn’t notice how anxious I look. I am sweating profusely but
the doors are in sight. I burst out into the city like a bullet exploding from
the barrel of a gun, into the shock of the cold grey windy November air, biting
and dense with the odor of the city.
T0:30- The walk home felt like rushing through a billowing cascade
of falling leaves, each leaf flashing with concentric neon colors. It was a
sense of a busy world swirling around me, bouncing on frantic gusts of wind
that battered off my warm glowing core. There is a low rumbling sound
burgeoning in the back of my head as I march onwards, and the ambient sounds of
the city around me ripple and bubble in my skull. I slip in and out of crowds of people and waited
patiently for traffic, praying no one would look too closely at me, see how
sweaty I was, see my wild eyes, see my teetering off balance, sense my pounding
heart. I wasn’t particularly anxious but there was a sense of urgency to return
to the safety of my home and panic as the experience grew more and more within
me. In motion the trip felt suppressed by my physical activity and sense of
objective- however every time I stopped, it felt like it descended on me,
crashing over me like a flash flood I had been slowly outrunning. Each time I
stopped it came back stronger and stronger, and by the time I had arrived at
home it had all but swallowed me into its twisting tessellated gullet. I had
been overcome with its power and I was so glad to be somewhere warm and safe
and familiar.
T0:50- As I walk up the stairs to my bedroom, the most notable
effect becomes prominent- a sort of personification of all of the sounds around
me- it is as if my brain is recognizing every bit of auditory stimulus as a
sentient being. There is a sense of presence that people often carry, a chimera
of their other senses that synthesizes into the idea of detecting another
sentient being in their proximity. It feels as if my circuits have been
scrambled and my sense of presence is being distinctly activated by my sense of
sound. Each footstep is fluttery, jovial, laughing. The sound of my jacket
rustling as I take it off is shifty and brooding, perched above me, gently
watching. My sound of my backpack zipper is stretching and yawning and
reclining in the aether. There is no other sensory detection of these sonic phantoms,
just this distinct sense of presence and sentience. It is extremely weird.
Aside from that, this trip is extremely active and energetic- I
feel like I am radiating heat and energy, and there is noticeable hyperthermia.
Despite it being a cold day, I am content to sit in my room in just a t shirt. I
want to curl into a ball and think and think and just emit fractal heat into
the world around me, but I also want to zoom around my space as quickly as
possible, bouncing off of the walls and vibrating the air to shreds. I am
thinking about dogs a lot, about how their excitement and energy matches mine
right now. I feel like a wild animal, frantic and high strung.
The visuals are kaleidoscopic, buzzing, stepped and zigzagged.
They are dominated by warm colors and adorned with pulsing concentric patterns
in stark contrasting colors. They too radiate heat and energy, baking and
glowing like the coils of an electric stove. Every part of my existence is
cooking with a splendid energy right now.
The trip itself feels active and alive and sentient- a trickster
spirit lording over me, shocking me, glowering and grinning, it dances around
me, casting me with ribbons of light and vibrating my hot hot bones to their
core. There is just so much going on at once, it is not exactly overwhelming
but is fairly mentally exhausting. But I still have the energy to enjoy it for
now. I keep getting pangs of familiar feelings, hearkening back to my first
ever experience with mushrooms, an overwhelmingly powerful trip that set the
standard for the rest of my explorations. That was a terrifying and jarring
experience by all measures and these little nostalgic flutters carry that same
sense of anxiety.
The nausea is fairly standard for a tryptamine, though I find
myself on the brink of throwing up several times. It is punctuated against a
mild nauseous background. I almost threw up on the street several times walking
home, but I can suppress it.
T1:00- I smoke some weed to try and soften the nauseous anxious
edge. The visuals flare up and increase their velocity, and the steady burn of
this trip crackles and flares. There is just so much going on that I really
don’t feel like taking notes or stopping to think about it or type about it. So
many visuals to see, so many strange sound-people to interpret, so much
excitement, my mind is moving so fast! I feel like if I don’t fully immerse
myself I am going to miss something interesting. I close my eyes and bake in
the rays of the experience, I am greeted by a field of pulsing golden diamond
fractals, rippling outwards into an oblivion, both infinite yet entirely
encompassed by my nervous, darting vision.
The auditory-sentience effect is still extremely weird and I
cannot even listen to music by virtue of it because it’s so uncomfortable. It
feels fundamentally wrong. It is the same sense of phantom presences that other
very high doses of psychedelics or deliriants have brought about in me, which
is odd because otherwise I wouldn’t say I’m tripping extremely hard. These
phantasms are very ephemeral, they don’t exist long enough to develop
personalities or anything. They don’t necessarily feel alien either, but rather
oddly familiar. It feels like an amalgamate glitch in my mental machinery, like
assets from other aspects of my senses and mental processing have spawned in the
wrong places.
T1:30-
Everything has become extremely funny for me. This is an effect that usually
occurs on the comeup of certain psychedelics, but it seems to be burning strong
on the peak. Perhaps it has been here all along and simply made itself known as
the anxiety slowly recedes. Nevertheless, I am cracking up at internet memes, I
feel like I’m seeing so many layers into them (both visually and
metaphorically). I am laughing uncontrollably at silly weird twitter tweets and
at my own content, laughing until tears stroll down my face. I must look like
I’m having a fit of hysterical madness. I cannot pry the smile off my face that
impales into my cheeks making them sore. I don’t know if the experience is
necessarily euphoric, it’s more that I am being barraged with beams of mad,
unrestrained ecstasy, vibrating me into a tessellation upon impact. I am
finding myself clinging to my space heater now as the hyperthermia has steadily
slinked into the afternoon. I am curled up before it like a cat, laughing at my
own thoughts as they wisp out into the rising warm air of the heater. I am
content to languish here, big dumb smile on my face, nuzzling like an animal in
its nest, under the watchful but tiring gaze of a million golden eyes locked in
a warm incandescent fog. The same kaleidoscopic diamonds continue to radiate
concentrically from me like pixelated ripples on the surface a metallic iridescent
pond. I’m having so much fun doing absolutely nothing.
T2:00-
The sonic phantoms have faded away by now and I can feel the trip cooling off.
I bask in the glow of my space heater as the inherent heat and energy of the
experience recedes further. I hang out with my big Millipede, Shoes, and let
him run around all over me and all over my bed. I have such a big dumb goofy
smile on my face, I am happy thinking about him and the little world he lives
in.
An
empathogenic edge begins to bake into the trip, I just want to snuggle up in my
soft covers with all of my sweet pets around me and think nice thoughts about
pleasurable things. I feel glistening and glittery like I am riding a warm gust
of wind carrying a million little flakes of mica or maybe iridescent butterfly
scales. I am so happy thinking about my little critters, I am happy thinking
about my friends and people I want to be around. All of this riding the
coattails of still fairly intense visuals and a persistent off-kilter
dissociation.
There
is also this pervasive sense of this asymptotic approach to a maximized state of
goodness and comfort- I just feel like I can always feel more comfortable, I
can always feel better, and its hard to settle with what I have now, despite it
being absolutely ecstatic. It eludes me like a neon dragonfly darting away from
a net.
T2:30-
I fold laundry and watch Cowboy Bebop and smoke some more weed. I descend from
the trip through a hall of crystals, their adamantine fire catching the late
afternoon light and bathing me in a dazzling kaleidoscope of colors. But even
this latent energy still pales in comparison to the overclocked maelstrom of
the trip that preceded it. It is spectacular but relatively gentle and tranquil.
I feel so pleasant, like I am in the right place at the right time doing the
right thing.
T4:00-
Things wind down further. Feeling burnt out like the last wisps of steam are
rising from me. My brain feels like red hot metal cooling back to black. A headache
sets in. I play videogames.
T6:00-
Smoke more weed to see if it stirs things up more. It seems not to.
T7:00-
I am almost completely down and am just stoned now. I go back to Macy’s to pick
up what I meant to before, it is warm and dazzling but it’s usually like that.
Conclusion:
There is chatter about 4-PrO-DMT being a prodrug to 4-HO-DMT, similar to what
is conjectured about 4-AcO-DMT. I will say this one experience differed a fair
bit from most of my experiences with 4-HO-DMT or 4-AcO-DMT. (Though to be fair
it has been several years since I’ve taken either). Most notable differences
were its short duration, the degree of stimulation and hyperthermia, the jagged
and angular high velocity visuals dominated by warm colors and bright contrasts,
the empathogenic edge to it on the comedown, and particularly, the very strange
audio-personification effect, the “Sonic Phantoms”. I hypothesize that whatever
part of my brain typically recognized and registered human interaction and
presence had gained some sort of associative pathway with my auditory senses.
However, some sort of ancestral vestigial relationship to my experiences with
mushrooms was felt- there was a powerful sense of clear nostalgia and déjà vu
and simulation of sensations and thoughts and flashes from my most powerful
mushroom experiences. It definitely felt related in some way. All that aside it
is a warm and odd little psychedelic that delivers a fast and furious trip that
dazzles the senses.