DOSE: T+ 0:00	1 bump	insufflated	2C-B	(powder / crystals)
T+ 0:45	1 bump	insufflated	2C-B	(powder / crystals)
T+ 1:30	1 bump	insufflated	2C-B	(powder / crystals)
T+ 2:58	1 line	insufflated	2C-B	(powder / crystals)
T+ 6:15	15 - 30 mg	insufflated	2C-B	(powder / crystals)
T+ 6:22	2 hits	insufflated	2C-B	(liquid)
T+ 0:00	repeated	oral	Alcohol - Hard
T+ 9:17		oral	Alcohol - Beer/Wine

BODY WEIGHT:

75 kg

Unexpected Full-on Trip From 2C-B

To preface this (and I admit this in the conclusion), I went into this experience head first thinking the 2C-B headspace is easy. I'm writing this report for all the people who are misled same as me.

I managed to obtain a sizeable amount of 2C-B HBr powder recently and I wanted to experiment with it because I think what I have now is much better than the HCl variant I had before and it wasn't even a powder, the consistency reminded me of butter (which I attribute to impurities but nevermind, this is not about the quality of my sources).

Overall, I thought (and until about 23:30 it was true) that 2C-B doesn't affect the headspace at all, basically and that's what I expected this day. My intention was to get as strong visuals as possible with just 2C-B.

This was a Friday evening when my friends cancelled my previous plans to go out party and I thought it's a good evening as any to do what I wanted to do for a while - arrive to as strong visuals as possible with 2C-B. As mentioned below, I used it a few times already (10-20 times in total), including pretty heavy doses (50-60mg orally). I had a few 330ml (5% alcohol) gin&tonics during the experience (I think 4) because I like the taste.

17:00 starting to snort small amounts of 2C-B, with gaps of around 45 minutes, 3 times in total (I think in 15mg range each time). I've been working (from home) at my computer for a while until the visuals and body load started distracting and pissing me off.

19:58 I make a line of the stuff as if it was cocaine and I wanted to take a pretty fat one. Again, not measuring because I'm an asshole to myself. I was pretty sober at this point and it was not easy to make a new line already but I didn't really know what's about to come. I snort it in two parts. Shit hurts and tastes awful. I think this line could've been around 50mg but it's possible I sneezed a lot of the stuff out later.

21:30 attempting to make another line of 2C-B on my black cup warmer that I usually snort my drugs off of - the substance I have is a beige powder (HBr) and I've made a very small hole in the vacuum baggie I received so I don't spill too much of it. However, my eyes deceive me and I've spent around an hour trying to dump a little bit more of the powder on the cup warmer so I can snort more. It looked like I had crushed pepper on it (red, green, black) and sometimes it switched into looking like a snowy mountain, with details like feeling there are other people in the snow around me. Every time I shaked the baggie, it LOOKED like a shitton of the powder was spilled on the black circle below but it was just hallucination. I've tried to deceive my brain by using a flashlight on my phone from different angles to tell how much powder I have. It's just fucking impossible. In the meantime, I'm casually chatting with a few friends on my laptop which is way easier because me pressing the buttons has a discernible result of letters appearing on the screen when I press a button, in comparison to my brain telling me I've poured a SHITTON of powder on the cup warmer even if nothing AT ALL has happened. You can tell my visuals were strong as shit. I think my mental facilities were almost intact at this point though especially when reading the messages.

23:00 I've come down a lot since I've started trying to snort more. At this point, I was still convinced the headspace of 2C-B is pretty manageable and clear - close to being drunk compared to LSD. I start making a nasal spray instead because I'm now capable to simply start shoveling the powder with my razor blade and put it into the empty spray bottle. It's also way easier on the nose and gets into the bloodstream easier. I start weighing the powder and it turns out I've poured out 400-500mg onto the cup warmer while tripping lol.

23:15 I snort the leftovers after making the spray from the cup warmer, estimated 15-30mg. Hurts like hell after all that I've put my nose through this night. No real difference to how I feel otherwise. I feel pretty sober otherwise, visuals are pretty weak (I see patterns in the paint on the wall, some slight drifting in items on the shelf).

23:18 The spray doesn't work because I didn't cut the "hose" short enough, I take another one and cut it shorter.

23:22 I took two sprays of around 0.15ml of spray at estimated concentration of 18%. IMMEDIATELY, things start drifting and dissolving into dancing shapes. Hurts like hell, I try to resist the urge to sneeze.

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After the snot and pain in my nose is unbearable, I blew my nose but while I was doing that, I had a scare that I'm also about to puke. I wasn't sure if that's happening or not so I stood up and went halfway to the bathroom. I saw sad and crying faces on everything (not exactly emoji but comics-like) - the door, floor, etc. After a few moments, I convince myself it's not actually happening and I sit down back on the couch, while being quite scared and I decide to not take more 2C-B that night, it's not worth it.

I set my laptop to not turn off the display in front of me and I started playing some songs, whatever. The room was pretty dark otherwise. I hear weird mechanical noises behind me and I'm pissed I started the dishwasher before taking 2C-B because it's killing the vibe (but at this point, it was long finished). I'm starting to realize the headspace is not as clear as I thought it would be.

In a while, I realize something is off, I stopped understanding what I see on the display in front of me. I had a distant memory of what Spotify is but it was mixed with whatever Steam is and maybe some other apps. In a moment, I also stopped being able to understand letters.

Latin and unknown letters were covering a lot of my vision and in a while, I simply stopped understanding anything. I thought I'm going absolutely crazy and this is how things are about to be. Me not understanding the concept of written word and the objects around me and listening to that creepy mechanical noise that sounds like a pressure hose against a piece of sheet metal.

I had a lot of thought loops during this time and I was forcing myself to look at different things to break the loops. Sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't. Songs progressing and switching were changing the mood a lot too.

This lasted for way longer than I felt comfortable and I then arrived at feelings of roughly "oh shit, I'm a new person now, now I understand why people who went through a strong trip are a different breed and now I'm one of them. This new person that I am now is someone completely different to the person before and there's no coming back." I saw "pages of reality" turning in front of my eyes as if I turned a new page of my life. After that, I had a brief moment of feeling like the trip is over (while not actually realizing I'm tripping balls for a long time because I didn't expect this from 2C-B AT ALL) and I went back to my laptop.

23:52 I let my best friend who I tripped with a few times [know] I had an ego death from 2C-B (which is probably not totally accurate but I was tripping balls, you'd be able to convince me of anything).

0:15 I'm still tripping balls but I'm able to grasp reality and understand who the people that I'm chatting with on my laptop are. I was luckily only texting people who participate or at least know of my interest in psychedelics.

I still have delusions or hallucinations or whatever you call it - I "see" images of things like comics faces with moustaches and goatees in front of me, explaining how "my style is being almost perfect but not really - you know, realistically" (what the fuck, I don't even read comics and this aspiration is total bullshit, not mentioning I'm a total slacker). Then I had a few more "revolutionary" thoughts that were totally detached from reality. I couldn't really really see them but I "had their image in front of my eyes". Odd to explain.

1:14 At this point, I was able to chat with my pals again, but I don't really remember being back to myself at this point at all.

1:44 Reading through what I was chatting with my friend, I was still in hard trip mode, really OVERTHINKING 2000x times what I was about to write and hyperfocusing on "creepy" passages of songs that were playing through my speakers.

2:17 Starting to feel more or less sane, finally. There are still some visuals but pretty weak.

Starting to drink beer and gin&tonic a lot more now. I chatted with a bunch of friends who were still awake for various reasons.

3:45 I fell asleep according to my watch.

In conclusion, I arrived at a few decisions after this experience, all of which stem from my misconceptions or being reckless.

First, for experimenting with heavy dosages of anything, I HAVE to have a trip sitter. This experience was really on the verge of turning into something ugly but in the end, I was able to calm myself and realize that I'm tripping like a motherfucker and just "power through it".

Second, 2C-B SOMETIMES is NOT easy on the mind. Up until now (I've had it for about 10 times) the headspace always was almost unnoticeable or it felt like being drunk rather than tripping. I can have a full psychedelic trip from 2C-B alone. I apologize for thinking otherwise (although I never actually told anyone).

And third, this was not actually really pleasant. I wouldn't call it a "bad trip", too, but the flashbacks I sometimes get are not exactly pleasant. I'm not jumping headfirst into future opportunities to trip, regardless of on which substance.

Overall, I think I had 150-200mg of HBr 2C-B in total and during the peak, I dosed at least 60mg at once nasally before the absolute peak, while I still had some in my system. I'm sorry I didn't weigh the doses but as mentioned previously, I tend to be an asshole to myself and I didn't really go into this with the intention of "fully tripping".

The only lucky thing is the peak of the trip lasted around 2 hours, otherwise I'd probably have broken down. Experience this strong on LSD would've been soul crushing.

Exp Year: 2023	ExpID: 117377
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 32
Published: Jul 20, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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