Substance: 2,5-dimethyl-4-bromophenethylamine OR 2C-B / Nexus
Amount: ~40 mg (not weighed, friend said the capsules were 20 mg each)
Ti: 10:30am
Tf: 10:30pm
Background: Nothing to eat since yesterday. Went to bed around 11pm last night, got 10 hours of sleep. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, I had a 10mg IR Adderall yesterday (around 10am) and then a bong hit around 3pm, then some alcohol around 10pm (not a ton but enough to be more than highly buzzed). Got final exams in a couple of weeks, haven’t tripped since some mushroom tea back in July. Previous psychoactive drug experiences include LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, MDMA, weed of course, alcohol, Adderall, caffeine, and I took some AlphaBrain nootropic supplement one time when I was like 14.
Report
T+00:00 Took the capsules.
T+00:30 Body feeling loosey-goosey, got a funny feeling in my stomach/lower abdomen. It’s not nausea per se, but sort of like if nausea was pleasurable. I get this same feeling from LSD. This overall feels more tingly than LSD though, especially in my limbs. Going to meditate for at least 11 mins with Sam Harris.
T+00:45 Effects intensifying, going to lay down on my bed and listen to a psytrance playlist my buddy threw together. Using some V-MODA headphones.
T+02:15 Shit got intense there for what was probably about 10 mins, but who knows. Now I’m just breathing really deeply and surrounded by a rapture of pleasure. Every breath feels like the embrace of a lover, like there’s a thousand little kisses all over my body.
T+03:15 Going for a walk outside. Just been dancing alone in my room to Black Moth Super Rainbow and contemplating life/feeling my body/looking at myself. I realized when I looked in the mirror that I can see my reflection in my pupil which is quite large at the time. It’s really trippin me out. If you look in a mirror, and then you look specifically into one pupil (just pick one), you can see yourself (whole body) looking at that pupil, in that pupil. Pretty cool, huh? I tried to take a picture of it with my phone but like always, doesn’t do justice. Still looks pretty trippy though.
T+04:30 Just got back from the walk. It was very pretty outside. Contemplating a bong hit...Yeah lets see what happens:D
I got the most visuals around T+02:15, all visuals gone by T+03:15. What visuals I did get were quite subtle, almost tactual more than visual if that makes sense. You know how a lot of times on weed you get a synesthesiac criss-cross between touch and sound (i.e. you can feel music)? With this I got a criss-cross between sight and touch (i.e. I could see my touch-feelings). It was like all of my bodily sensations were translated into a visual image that was presented back to me, and then every moment, with every change in sensation, the image would change.
T+05:30 Taking that hit now. Definitely I’m on the comedown, even mostly down I’d say.
Weed bringing it back now, of course, but the interaction isn’t particularly notable. On the comedown of LSD, weed typically ramps the high back up to near peaking, and you’re definitely still on LSD (accented now by cannabis). On MDMA I’ve gotten some of my most memorable visual patterns from smoking weed on the comedown. That mixture created a new, unique experience that was only available to me through that specific mixture.
With 2C-B I feel mainly the weed high. It feels like I’m high on marijuana but it’s slightly intensified, though not overwhelming at all. If anything the euphoria is more pronounced and persistent than in smoking weed alone, and the headspace is a bit brighter or clearer than normal.
I might take another hit to further investigate.
T+06:30 Just took that hit. My face looks weird, especially my lips.
T+08:00 Gonna listen to a Terence McKenna lecture
T+12:00 Took an unexpectedly long nap, gonna go get chinese food and ice cream.
NEXT MORNING: Don’t seem to be any residual effects like I tend to get with LSD, also I ended up taking 3 or 4 bong hits so that might have obscured any potential after-effects.
TLDR: 40 mg 2C-B trip, first time taking it. Overall very pleasurable, intense euphoria for about 3 hours straight starting 45 mins after I took the capsules, with residual euphoria after that. Subtle visuals and slight nausea coming up/beginning of peak but overall nothing negative to report. Tripped for a shorter period of time than with LSD, mushrooms, or mescaline.