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Euphoria at the Edge of Chaos
3-MeO-PCE
Citation:   Zirconium. "Euphoria at the Edge of Chaos: An Experience with 3-MeO-PCE (exp118738)". Erowid.org. Jul 15, 2025. erowid.org/exp/118738

 
DOSE:
12 mg oral 3-MEO-PCE (liquid)
3-Meo-PCE, 11 mg oral. The 3-MeO-PCE comes in a 1mg/ml solution in vodka. For the most part of the trip I'm alone in my room.

Prior exposures to 3-MeO-PCE: I did about 8 mg oral one month before this experience.

t+00:00 I measure out 11 mg of 3-MeO-PCE solution (11 ml) using a syringe. Put the solution in a shot glass and proceed to drink it. Taste is dominated by the vodka, however it burns a bit more than a regular shot would.

t+00:30 first Effects. Nothing specific dissociative, just the general feeling that something is up.

t+00:43 clearly distinguishable dissociative effects. Slight feeling of being energized.

t+00:57 Dissociative like a light dose of Ketamine. Astonishingly little bodily impairment. Very clear headed. Have a look into mirror. Extremely small pupils. Nice feeling of physical euphoria.

t+01:24 Even stronger physical euphoria. Mentally a very reminiscent feeling of a light dose of Meth. An overarching feeling of 'whatever I do appears to work out, the future will be great, I will easily solve all of my problems in life'. Vision is slightly blurry in the typical dissociative manner. On the physical side not very stimulating. No noteworthy impairment either. I'm very content with just sitting in the chair at my desk and being happy.

t+01:43 still in the same state. Maybe some slight delusions of grandeur, about how my life will be really fucking fucking great. I start to feel the urge to do something and start pacing around my room.

t+01:55 My attention falls on the syringe I used to dose the 3-MeO-PCE with. It came in a small box together with a needle. I proceed to attach the needle and extract some juice from a lychee that was laying on my desk. (Because why not.) The procedure doesn't really work but its still very fun in the situation. I manage to pull about 0.1 ml lychee juice and begin to inject it into an orange that was also laying on my desk. For some reason this is extremely entertaining to me and I begin to maniacally laugh. I repeat the experiment on a cucumber and a pomegranate. Here it doesn't work at all. I am not discouraged by this failure but instead very amused by my own stupidity.

t+02:00 I am so proud of my scientific achievement that I decide to take a video and send it to our friend-groups chat. Two friends, lets call them Bob and Sasha, want to join in on the fun and make themselves ready to come to my place.

t+ 02:14 Quite suddenly, there is a abrupt change in felt effects. The mental euphoria completely disappeared and a rather strong dissociation takes its place. This comes with disorientation and some confusion.
The mental euphoria completely disappeared and a rather strong dissociation takes its place. This comes with disorientation and some confusion.
I see the syringe and suddenly get the intrusive thought to take a blood sample. I am a bit scared of myself thinking that and end up placing the syringe in another room.

t+ 02:25 The dissociation becomes somewhat unpleasant. I'm physically still only slightly impaired but mentally it begins to feel like I'm loosing the grip on reality. It feels strange as I am still very clear headed. The voice in my head which is usually the voice of my thoughts suddenly goes quiet and whatever I do I can't get it back talking. I get the strong impression that all of this human life stuff is just one big illusion and that fundamental reality is something completely different. From the point of view of things 'living' in the fundamental reality, all of this human stuff is completely made up and in the realm of science fiction. I feel like I'm at the crossroads of either going into the realm of fundamental reality (which kinda implies of losing my physical form) or staying in the world of human fantasy. There is a strong force pulling me towards the fundamental reality, but I decide I want to hold on to the fantasy world. I really don't wanna go yet, there are so many human adventures to be played.

t+02:53 The battle in my head has been going on for quite some time. I get pulled out of it by the ringing of my doorbell. Bob and Sasha arrive and I'm very happy to see them. My mood instantly lifts and I feel tethered to human reality again. I am still very disassociated and can't really form coherent sentences but I proceed laughing like a maniac. The weird thing is, that I'm still quite lucid in my own head so I sort of see myself behaving in this whacky way, which makes me laugh even more. Bob and Sasha make some jokes on how I have gone mentally insane and they now have to take care of me. I find this very amusing, just sit there and laugh my ass off.

t+ 03:10 The dissociation slowly subsides, I'm capable of talking again. There is still some background confusion present but also the mental euphoria returns.

t+ 03:57 the effects are rapidly decreasing now

t+ 04:15 All effects have decreased by about 90% from the maximum

t+ 05:00 Mentally I'm back to normal. Physically I feel a bit wobbly on my legs and my vision is still a bit impaired. Not really blurry but I can't read the text on a bottle 1 m across the table from me.

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Similar as to my first experience (8 mg) I could feel that there are two distinct phases to the experience: One very euphoric, energetic phase in the beginning followed by a confusing, dissociative phase in the end.

Exp Year: 2023ExpID: 118738
Gender: Male 
Age at time of experience: 23
Published: Jul 15, 2025Views: Not Supported
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