Yesterday was my first time taking 2cb, and the experience was simultaneously underwhelming and overwhelming. I’ll do my best to explain in the hopes that I too can better understand what happened!
14:10 - I dropped one 25mg pill on an empty stomach (I’d eaten some toast around 7 hours before) and walked to my friend’s house, where a few other people were going to be taking LSD. No feelings of nausea on the come up apart from general butterflies from excitement/anxiety.
15:10 - I started to feel ‘fuzzy’ (similar to being slightly stoned but without the groggy body load or headspace). I was smiling a lot and getting a tingling sensation all over my body. I felt happy, but not anything close to the euphoria of MDMA. My pupils weren’t dilated and I wasn’t getting any visuals but I was having a grand time just listening to music and chatting with the people around me.
16:10 - I looked in the mirror and my pupils were MASSIVE, which was a surprise because I didn’t feel that high at all. I was getting impatient to really ‘trip’, so I watched some videos on my phone, trying to trigger some visuals. I noticed my keyboard was ‘wiggling’ which was very amusing, and colours did seem to be more vibrant.
17:00 - The visuals didn’t get much more intense, although I had a strange 5 minutes staring at my face in the mirror (I couldn’t believe the way I looked!) and the tingling sensation was slowly disappearing. I was able to think clearly and engage in serious conversation, and my perception of time was the most precise it’s been on any drug. I did also start to get a quivery jaw, so I chewed some gum.
17:50 - My friends who took acid started to trip but I felt completely sober, so I smoked some weed despite originally planning not to, as weed is often overwhelming for me. This is where things got weird and confusing. I got VERY high VERY fast. I don’t remember much except the feeling that everything was melting and becoming separate and different, especially language and the way we communicate. I felt like I understood nothing, then learnt to understand everything and how it all fits together. It’s impossible to describe but I could see the way my brain worked? At one point I stuck my head out the window and saw the cosmos, and got so freaked out at seeing the ‘astral plane’ that I had a bit of a panic because I was convinced my soul was leaving my body. I managed to calm down quickly with help from my friends, but then I couldn’t stop talking about how it was the single most profound moment of my life, and that I was ‘complete’. It was probably the highest I’ve ever been, and I didn’t even have any visuals, just a feeling of utter unfamiliarity with the world.
19:00 - I felt a lot more chilled out, no particular desire to be ‘deep’ about anything, so I gave into just being silly and messed about with my friends. Had a lot of fun.
20:00 - I went home and hung out with my cat. Still slightly stoned. I ate some pot noodles, watched a few episodes of a comedy, and slept deeply for nearly 10 hours straight.
Today I woke up feeling rested and just... normal. I do believe that yesterday was a deeply significant experience for me spiritually, because there’s no denying the intensity of the emotions that I felt, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s normal to feel normal. I wasn’t expecting a huge transformation but the only thing I know is that I want to experience something similar again, and maybe try to record the thoughts I have in more detail, because they might offer a lot of insight to my psyche.
Also I’m not sure how much of the trip was actually due to the 2cb, or if it was purely down to the weed, or if the weed caused the 2cb to ‘come up’ again. I’m definitely not writing off 2cb despite how initially underwhelming it was, because I’m pretty sure my 25mg pill was probably only dosed around 10mg.
Congratulations if you’ve made it to the end of this extremely long post, I’d love to hear your thoughts (especially if you’ve ever experienced something similar!) and I’d appreciate any tips on what to do for my next trip!