Welcome to chemical-psychedelics page www.drugs-forum.com. This page is about DOC, STP, DOB, 2C-B, 2C-T-7, 4-ACETOXY-DiPT, DMT, 5-MeO-DiPT, 5-MeO-DMT and other chemical psychedelics. See also XTC , LSD and mescaline . Chemical psychedelics ( see also psychedelic )refer to "mind-expansion" or mind-manifestation--the ability of the mind to perceive more than it can tell and to experience more than it can explain. The major characteristics of the psychedelic state are: (1) heightened awareness of sensory input, experienced as a flood of sensation , (2) undergoing especially vivid but unreal imagery, typical of ones childhood (3) enhanced sense of clarity or clearness (4) diminished control over what is experienced (5) persistent feeling that one part of the self is a passive observer while another part of the self participates and receives unusual sensory experiences (6) perception of the environment as novel, beautiful, and harmonious (7) pre-emption of the users inward-focused attention by the seeming clarity of his or her own thinking process (8) assignment of profound meaning to the slightest of sensations (9) lessened capacity to distinguish the boundaries of one object from another and of the self from the environment (10) development of a sense of union with all humankind or the cosmos itself
As a group, psychedelics tend to distort the users perception of objective reality, decrease logical thought, heightened sensation, and change or modify ones state of consciousness. These drugs invariably bring about a central nervous system excitation that affects the senses--especially time sense--feelings, moods, experience, and mental processes. Stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system also results in a rise in pulse rate and blood pressure as well as sweating and palpitations of the heart.
In very large or toxic doses, psychedelic drugs also produce hallucinations and delusions, although these are relatively rare. More commonly produced are illusions and so-called "pseudo-hallucinations." As a consequence, some people prefer to describe the psychedelics as illusionogenic rather than hallucinogenic in nature. While mimicking some naturally-occurring neurotransmitters of the brain and disrupting others, individual psychedelics have subtle, unique effects that are especially attractive to users. These may include speed of onset, duration of the psychedelic "high," and the particular sense that seems to be altered more so than others, whether it is visual or auditory.
Commonly shared properties are also part of the psychedelic allure. One of these is synesthesia. This is a drug-related effect in which there is a mingling of the senses, in which one sensation may be translated into another. For example, sounds may be seen, smells may be felt, and colors may be heard.
Although the changes in perception, mood, and thinking usually are interpreted as euphoric, sometimes undesirable psychological effects do occur. Among these are acute anxiety and panic reactions or "bad trips"--the most frequent adverse effect--characterized by terror, confusion, dissociation, and fear of losing control over oneself. Such reactions last less than 24 hours in most instances, but they may occasionally persist for days and eventually progress into a chronic, toxic psychosis. In some instances, depersonalization and depression become so severe that suicide is a distinct possibility.
Another psychological hazard is the flashback reaction. Long after psychedelics have been eliminated from the body, partial recurrences of psychedelic effects may be experienced, such as the intensification of a perceived color, the apparent motion of a fixed object, or the mistaking of one object for another object. In effect, the flashback is a free trip--a repetition of a drugs effects without using a drug.

This sometimes alarming situation may be either spontaneous or triggered by physical or psychological stress, by medicines, or by use of marijuana. While the precise cause remains obscure, flashbacks are probably psychological in origin and may involve a "conditioned response" to a previous panic attack.

2CB TRIP REPORTS
(with 16 mg) A day at the Stanford museum. Things were visually rich, yet I felt that I was reasonably inconspicuous. The Rodin sculptures were very personal and not terribly subtle. I saw Escher things in the ceiling design, when I decided to sit in a foyer somewhere and simply pretend to rest. Walking back, the displays seen in the bark of the eucalyptus trees, and the torment and fear (of others? of themselves?) in the faces of those who were walking towards us, were as dramatic as anything I had seen in the art galleries. Our appetites were enormous, and we went to a smorgasbord that evening. A rich experience in every possible way.
with 20 mg) The drug effect first became known to me as a shift of colors toward golden and rose tones. Pigments in the room became intensified. Shapes became rounder, more organic. A sensation of lightness and rivulets of warmth began seeping through my body. Bright lights began pulsing and flashing behind my closed lids. I began to perceive waves of energy flowing through all of us in unison. I saw all of us as a gridwork of electrical energy beings, nodes on a bright, pulsating network of light. Then the interior landscape shifted into broader scenes. Daliesque vistas were patterned with eyes of Horus, brocades of geometric design began shifting and changing through radiant patterns of light. It was an artists paradise Q representing virtually the full pantheon of the history of art.
(with 20 mg) The room was cool, and for the first hour I felt cold and chilled. That was the only mildly unpleasant part. We had been hanging crystals earlier that day, and the visions I had were dominated by prismatic light patterns. It was almost as if I became the light. I saw kaleidoscopic forms Q similar to, but less intense than, when on acid Q and organic forms like Georgia OKeefe flowers, blossoming and undulating. My body was flooded with orgasms Q practically from just breathing. The lovemaking was phenomenal, passionate, ecstatic, lyric, animal, loving, tender, sublime. The music was voluptuous, almost three-dimensional. Sometimes the sound seemed distorted to me, underwater like. This was especially so for the less good recordings Q but I could choose to concentrate on the beauty of the music or the inadequacy of the sounds quality, and mostly chose to concentrate on the beauty.