Last night I had some free time and some materials but I wasn’t sure how hard I wanted to throw myself at the wall, so I ripped and ate 1/4 of a tab from our favorite source. I’m not convinced it was an evenly split 25ug but I’ve also found microdoses of ALD-52 to be more noticeable than LSD at the 10 and 20ug points, dosed with an oral syringe. I guess I’ll find out when I eat the other 75ug. Update: Dosed the other 75ug and can confirm the tab was likely evenly split.
Began by laying and watching TV with my girlfriend, big spoon, eyes closed behind her. T+30 a body high emerges, not entirely distinct from the already ongoing cannabis, but definitely another layer. This slowly grows over the next hour or so. At T+90 I go out for another bowl and come back and am honored with little spoon. :D Still good times.
I’d taken a therapeutic dose of Lorazepam around T-4h, and so topped up another 500ug around the T+90 mark. I wasn’t feeling super anxious but did this to prevent being surprised by a Lorazepam comedown while on psychedelics.
The thing about ALD-52 is the come-up is gentle. Like really gentle. Like, it was continuing to intensify at T+4H when I should be nearing peak, but “intensify” is the wrong word because it was still gentle. I didn’t get the electric tingling body high I do from LSD, more like my entire body was embraced in a warm hug. I don’t know if this comes from expectations from having read about it, because scientifically I would expect identical affects to LSD, but I’m not complaining at all and hope to find this again.
My girlfriend went to bed around T+4H. I went with her, cuddled, had sex (good but nothing like 100ug LSD25), and afterwards I went back down to the basement for lights out yoga and meditation. At this point the 25ug was working it’s very hardest. Experienced vibrating vision (I think due to eye twitching — never experienced this on LSD but have read about it on DMT/MET), and in downward facing positions the carpet would somewhat spin, as if a 6-inch circle was cut out and being rotated, but no characteristic warping. Listened to a 28 9 minute meditation video and while the headspace wasn’t much different from sobriety I was able to experience the totality of my sensory input without judgment for a few fleeting seconds at a time, which is my goal in meditation. When it was over I looked at my phone and realized I hadn’t listened to the 9m video, but the 28m video, but didn’t have the perception of a half hour passing. I checked my YouTube history just now. I did the 9 minute video and the other had begun auto playing when I looked at my phone, so no major time distortion occurred.
After I came back upstairs I enjoyed another bowl and straddled the edge between level 3 and level 4 closed eye geometry. Keep in mind I achieve level 3 on cannnabis very regularly, so this was only slightly more complex thanks to the ALD52.
Around T+7 I joined my partner in bed and the next thing I remember was her telling me she’s leaving for work. Apparently no difficulty falling asleep (had Trazodone on standby) and slept straight through her getting ready this morning.
5/5 would take this dose again, but I might be cautious about microdosing ALD-52. It does a lot in small amounts.