so anyways, thanks for reading, i wrote this at 345 am so i didn't have to go to sleep and forget it, which i mostly have already. I will probably edit in the morning and clean it up as i know its a bother to read in it's current state… I also will upload a buttload of pics i took including the process. (insert 'OP will deliver' comments here) hahahaha....
3 people - all first timers.
The first time, i tried vovin's tek. And failed. The only thing i can rationalize is that immediately following the basicfication procedure i added the naphtha too soon. I also did my pulls to soon. And i chose to do a solvent wash with bicarbonate that didn't really go so well, and i ended up with water droplets in my evapping naphtha which made it really difficult to discern what had happened and if they were frozen water drops or xtals.
Feeling frustrated i was back to the forums, where i was helped out by a few, specifically valura, hostilis, universe cannon, cyb ringworm and others.
I ended up the second time using cyb's method, and though it did not produce a particularly large yield - probably my error - it did produce enough for 3 of us to take 2 turns each at approximately 30mg each once we sorted out how to make a mint leaf sandwich for a small bubbler bong we affectionately named 'ernesto'.
We saged the house, declared that we appreciate that spirits occupy our space with us but we must ask that the negative ones leave as they are currently not welcome to participate. We had also heard that sage was excellent for purification and to be honest, the smell was fantastic. We also lit up a number of candles, pulled the mattress off the bed and into the living room where we made a crash pad full of blankets, bottles of water and vitamin water, a sage pile of incense, and some light cheese in tortilla folded in half and baked things with guacomole to dip. We also brought out a small tibetan singing bowl to guide the journeyer and an amethyst pendant to be worn for travel.
I had spent the entire weekend laboring in the kitchen over the process of extraction and found it to be really exhilaration fun. In fact i have found what i like to consider a new fun hobby to explore (and look forward to posting content soon).
Okay, so to the good stuff, here was the procedure, spice scraped from the sauce tray into a small green bottle and into the freezer.
Take spice out, tap it out onto our scale, and measured about 3 mg - yea i know… what can i say? I was nervous, my heart was racing and i had to psyke myself up. I was the gineua pig and i had to test the spice too to make sure i didn't do something wrong - and i didn't want to be immediately smashed into the universe, so i smoked it in short breaths, waiting and waiting, as i caught a really really slight patternization with my eyes closed but really nothing to report. I saw a gentle black and white web that seemed to breath with me when i had my eyes closed, i swear a voice said "come in…" in a welcoming yet someone ominous voice… it all faded quickly though and so i don't know what to make of that but it was mild anyways.
Next try, 7mg - nothing at all, still getting smoking technique down.
17mg - yep - definitely warmth in my chest, increased visual acuity, colours accented, lips slightly numb, leathery taste, concern over whether i was breathing or not, but didn't seem concerned as body drifted away. Wavy patternized lines with eyes closed, no voices, no breakthrough, trip duration 4minutes 19 seconds.
Girlfriend is up next and i pack for her 20mg at her request - she launches immediately into a world of colour and patternizations. She has a permanent grin on her face, followed by bouts of laughing and slight writhing on the mattress, her legs gently kick and she seems to be in the throws of magnificent happiness. She claims to have been 'in a kaleidoscope of moving colour and faces' and saw a giant purple woman standing above her with a kaleidoscope of colour. She comes back to baseline at 6min 4 seconds, while fantastic she did not feel she left her body completely and wouldn't call it a breakthrough - i immediately realize that on my next turn i have to go deeper.
Up next is a good friend of mine who was on the fence until he saw the girlfriends trip, he jumps in at 30mg and launches in after 2 pulls. He falls back, smiles and remains motionless. "dude, i've never seen anything like this" his trip he would later describe as a networking ribbon of pattern and colour that seemed to be holding together ordered chaos, for some reason i decided to take the singing bowl from my girlfriend as i was closer to him and in this transition he feels like he became distracted - his trip changed directions at that point and while not for the worse, he preferred where he was before.
He came back at about 5min 19seconds.
Okay, i'm back up, in i go at 30mg - yep - i'm launched, i fall back and say "i'm gone" start to perceive my girlfriend as a glass like shifting line version of herself, almost similar to the film a scanner darkly in terms of the tracer lines - i then look to my friend and his posture and position above me makes him look like some type of painting in the same scanner darkly style. I comment "oh, you have become a painting of yourself" just in the way i saw him in an 'art style' , not to say he was a framed painting.
Anyways, i then feel a coldness on my lips, the bong water had splashed and so when i reached up to wipe it off it felt cold but more importantly my arms were fading away in terms of i could move them, but they were at least 1/18th their actual weight, and i felt a slight drifting into a different place, i was in the room still, but the world around me was shifting and breathing as if the very foundations of reality had started to break down, as if what was happening was a stripping away-ness. It's hard to describe but it felt as if it was being lightly dissolved. Though i never completely left my body or the room, i definitely knew of a distinction between my reality and the dmt realm. In other words, i was in my world still but could see that there was another world that i had yet to enter. No voices, no entities, didn't break though, came back and noticed that it has a gradual fading off effect that seems to happen in waves… as i was in the tail end of the trip, i noticed a distinct afterglow effect that seemed to force me to laugh. I spoke aloud 'its funny because i don't want to laugh but i feel like i have to so that i can release the pressure" and each time i laughed it felt light and motivated by a different type of inner essence, in other words i haven't ever laughed like i did. Definitely interesting, definitely not a 'state' changing experience in the sense that you feel dopey, or high. You go off, come back to baseline and aside from a strange weirdness of being back in a body - your sober and ready to take calls, as mckenna says.
We each took a break and enjoyed some of the food and talked about what we saw. The gf wanted to jump into the mix one more time, and his would essentially use up all the spice. Oh, and for the record we also saged the spice each time and put intent into it. For her last trip of the evening she had asked the spice to show her true happiness. ( i found out her intent later )
she loaded up 30mil, blasted off instantly and fell into a non-stop laughing fit. She had a permanent grin and writhed around again for 5minutes (that she would later claim felt like 20) she said that she encounter a number of little blue elves, dancing and inviting her to play with them, as if excited to see her, they were of a different type than the previous woman butterfly kaleidoscope nymph - as she put it. She was shown a blue electricity type of energy that was moving all around and claimed that she was in a state of total bliss, in other words - intention granted - she also would later fall forward from her sitting position and began to move her head around the singing bowl, as if to catch the sound with her left ear, then switch to right with her eyes closed. She said it was her ground.
Anyways, we sat and talked and tried to rationalize and come up with our understandings, all walking away having a really interesting experience but we do not yet feel like we have been re-aligned with a new perspective, or at least while i can admire its power and velocity - i have yet to see its full form and breakthrough. I'm looking forward to refining my method, improving quality etc and a bigger batch perhaps
much love, thank you to all who helped, and if i forgot to add someone let me know and i'll add ya
it's been an honour, i plan on sticking around and again thank you - this place has been amazing for me to learn and make this dream a reality, i know that sounds hokey, ugh. Ok enough backslapping.