Thank you for the welcome!
I would like to write a small exert. Well, I will try to keep it small at least. I have processed and benefited certainly from what I presume to be a rather mild experience with Changa. It was my first time.
I had been in a position to jump for the last 4 months yet had not found a moment to indulge myself. Partly due to there being no one to take the plunge with, partly due to being a bit busy with regular stuff and finally since the end of the world lockdown I expect partly due to trepidation and perhaps fear.
I am quite well experienced in many if not most other ways to alter consciousness but not this avenue.
The night arrived when I was certain to make a foray. I had nothing to smoke it in so I made a pipe with a wrench socket, a pen tube and some modeling clay.
Everyone was asleep. 04:00 in the night. No responsibilities or disturbances. Perfect I felt.
I had 0.5g of changa. I loaded the pipe with about 0.1g as this was what I had been advised, lay on the sofa with a blanket, put a glass of water within reach and turned off the computer. Peace. I was now acutely aware of my anxiety of the coming commitment and being alone exacerbated it. I recognised my breathing and heart rate were a little up and calmed myself for a good five mins. Then I lit the flame, touched the bowl and took a big breath in. Immediately I felt the tingling. Another puff and it was empty and I lay back.
What followed I would describe as the greatest visual distortion, very similar to mushrooms or lsd. The fractals danced between me and the ceiling, each individual molecule of air stroked my face. I was still in the room but grinning like a complete idiot. After a couple of minutes (maybe it was an hour, a day, a lifetime, I couldn't be absolutely sure) I felt right back in the room but certainly not back down. But I wanted more. I got up, loaded another 0.05g rapidly and inhaled it. I was hoping to reach something deeper and without the fear was greedy to top up before the first one was 'wasted'. Probably naive logic.
This time the visuals absolutely blew me away for at least 5-10 mins. After the fractals resided a bit I looked at my hands. Blue, yellow, pulsating smoothly. I made a tunnel with my palms in and looked through it. The little fingers on the other side of the tunnel seemed to be so far away and so tiny. I closed my eyes for the rest of the experience, wonderful fractals returning on the inside of my eyelids, however I was firmly locked into my body still and unable to travel anywhere deeper. Perhaps the marvel of the visual fun was too enticing. Don't get me wrong, I certainly was not straight enough to see other people of walk around in public, I was gone, but not very far away and still tethered.
After an hour I was completely back to normal. I figured I had better try again. So I searched about repeated use, found this place, read for another hour or so and came to the conclusion that another try would not harm me and would probably have a chance to be as potent.
The second time I loaded 0.15g and tried to ignite it with a slightly more gentle flame appliance rather than keeping the fire on it as I toked like the first time. Instantly tingling, closed my eyes right away. This second time was pushing my window of opportunity and just as I felt that I was drifting away from the sofa I heard a door open upstairs. Someone moved to the toilet and back and one of the dogs came and sniffed my hand before leaving again. The loving and unimposing disturbance might only have been 25 seconds but I was certainly back in the room again. Great visuals, blue and orange hands, dancing air. A few minutes later I stood up, still extremely affected, decided that I was going to roll a ciggy and go outside.
The roll up looked strange but tasted delicious, which is unsual as I had expected the typical tripping sensation of smoking filthy carcinogens as the reality check I often get on other types of adventures. The early morning day light was astounding and the plants around me were warping and bubbling away happily as I smoked. Usually when I am on this side of the narcotics family I have distinct awarenesses of things I truly feel but am suppressing, people I need to see or speak to, actions I have been putting off. But this time nothing. Happy, warm, free of physical pains.
I went back in after sometime, went to the bathroom, decided to have a shower to see how that felt, then didn't and went back to sit down. In due course I was back fully and came here to sign up, to say hello and to prepare myself to maybe share this experience. I don't assume my brief moment to be anything special or new. However it is helpful to me to write and puke out this stuff in a place of wisdom and understanding.
I have, I suppose 0.2g left now. I was thinking to make that the last one all in one bowl. Is that wise? Is there anything I am doing wrong that could be minimizing the effect? Or is it more like to be me that needs to let go of the fun visual environment and prepare myself for a different experience? Any and all advise and opinions are most welcome and thank you for listening.
cheers!
As a side note. today I had a nap in the middle of the day and found myself vividly on a planet with 7 moons, one orbiting very close. It was stunning! Vivid and lucid dreams have always been a part of my life but perhaps a small correlation and afterglow, I felt.
I don't know much, but I do know this. With a golden heart comes a rebel fist.