DOSE: T+ 0:00	24 mg	oral	2C-B	(pill / tablet)
T+ 1:00	27 mg	vaporized	DMT	(powder / crystals)

BODY WEIGHT:

58 kg

For background, I only use psychedelics, reversible MAOIs, and salvia, as well as very small amounts of caffeine. I've previously used cannabis, alcohol, and MDMA but no longer have any interest in drugs beyond the limited set above. I play it very safe with drugs. I use drugs entheogenically and therapeutically, occasionally recreationally. Hallucinogens just blow every other drug out of the water for me, nothing else competes for the sheer awe and wonder they fill me with.

This is about one of the best DMT trips I've ever had. I view each drug as having a kind of spirit with their own forms and personalities, I talk to them and interact with them when they’re inside me. It helps me connect with each of my medicines and helps protect me against bad trips because I’ve come to respect and trust them, so when I see something challenging I reach out to the spirit to help guide me through what they are showing me. When you get to know them, I think it helps understand why things are the way they are. While I’m a deeply religious person, you don’t have to believe they really have a sentience or a personality, you just have to be able to suspend disbelief while tripping and run with the idea.

Now I’m going to tell you about the time I met 2C-B for the first time.

I’d been investigating 2C-B as a replacement for MDMA. I like MDMA but I was worried about cardiotoxicity and neurotoxicity, even with the 3-month rule. I first tried 2C-B at a festival but it had no real effect on me except stomach upset (I was still drinking alcohol then and now think that had had just blocked the 2C-B even though I’ve never been a big drinker).

I wanted it to work, I wanted to give it another go, so I acquired some additional pills. Glad I did. My wife was away for a week over Christmas, I had the flat to myself and a week off work so decided to have a week of psychedelics. I planned it out to do a session of ayahuasca, a session of 2C-B, another ayahuasca session and then finally a psilohuasca session, each involving vaping DMT during. It was a really, really fun week. Some people say overuse of psychedelics can cause psychosis but I’ve not had any issues from periods of quite heavy use. If I get a lot I need to integrate I’ll take a long break, otherwise a lot of it is beautiful aesthetic and spiritual experiences.

So I took my 2C-B on an empty stomach and for a while felt nothing. After about ~40 minutes, I started to feel a cramp but no effects. I thought maybe I was immune to 2C-B, which saddened me until I started to feel flush and could feel a change to my headspace, a kind of mental warmth and mild happiness.

Realising it was kicking in, I put on some electronic music to dance and started to get the hallucinations. It was very different from tryptamines or acid, multicoloured electrical lines that formed shapes and swirling patterns. When I closed my eyes, I saw strange machinescapes and a being that looked liked a character from Alex Grey’s painting Godhead. After a short while, I decided to force myself to throw up to ease my stomach after I read it helps. It worked.

I decided I wanted to vape on this around 2 hours in, I felt like I was peaking at that point. I loaded up my vape, sat before my altar and put on the album Frigga’s Web by Hagalaz' Runedance (may your soul rest forever with the gods, Andrea, you were taken from us too early and too cruelly) and vaped.

I drifted away as the DMT (freebase) took me gently and found myself in a wooden boat on a beautiful, shimmering river. I could still hear the music as The Crossing from the album played and it felt like the river was my crossing to the divine. There were weeping willows on each side on the river. I travelled down the river, through the willow branches, watching the fish and gazing up at the beautiful, golden sky.

By the time of the third song, Frigga’s Web, I reached a bank of the river and found myself among some reeds. There was a shining, almost blinding, golden light among them. It was like finding the child Horus among the reeds on the Nile as I found the golden light and reached out to it, absorbing it as the line “Will the goddess speak to me?” was sung. I felt intense joy and inner peace then.

I emerged from that vision and sat before the altar, thankful for the vision. As I prayed, I saw electrical lines again from the 2C-B which began forming into a snake’s face. I slipped back into another DMT-like dissociative state (DMT often drags me back in a second time while on other psychedelics or a RIMA like harmala alkaloids or moclobemide).

I saw a gigantic, beautiful snake with green scales and eyes running down her back. Her head was larger than me and possessed these wise eyes, full of warmth and compassion. She moved around me, coiling into a circle before leaning down to speak to me. I knew immediately that I was face to face with a manifestation of 2C-B herself. It was like I intuitively knew.

At that time of my life, I was very worried I was abusing psychedelics, becoming dependent on them or going to develop psychosis. In retrospect, it was a bit of a silly fear but it had a strong grip on me at one point. 2C-B warned me not to use psychedelics as a mere escapist tool and start taking longer breaks from them. She told me I fought too many battles and finally reached too good a place in life to sacrifice it all because of my depression. I agreed and opened my eyes again. I felt such peace and relief after meeting her.

Every time I do 2C-B now, even by itself, I see snakes and I know it’s her, reminding me of her presence and guidance. Some of us more spiritually orientated psychonauts look down on synthetic and semi-synthetic psychedelics but if you open your heart to them, they can have as much wisdom to impart as psilocybin, DMT or mescaline. 2C-B has as much reverence from me as any of the others and she's worthy of it.

Blessed be.

Exp Year: 2024	ExpID: 119228
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Sep 24, 2025	Views: Not Supported
[ View PDF (to print) ] [ View LaTeX (for geeks) ] [ Swap Dark/Light ]
2C-B (52), DMT (18) : Glowing Experiences (4), Music Discussion (22), Entities / Beings (37), Depression (15), Combinations (3), Alone (16)