Another universe

drug binge in the desert

Substances: MDMA, LSD, 2C-B, Marijuana

I figure if you are going to go on a binge, you might as well go all the way. None of this 1 hit of mdma and 5 hits of acid and call it a trip stuff for me!

A friend called me up and informed me that there was a VERY small desert party being held on Saturday. Not having anything better to do, I decided to tag along. I figured that this would be the perfect time to experiment with a severe drug binge. What better than to be out under the milkyway watching the galaxies dance for you.

Not wanting to be bored stupid on the 3 1/2 hour drive out I ate 5 hits of lsd. Needless to say, I don't remember much of the drive out there other than blinking lights, and strange lines of white and red all along the freeway. The party was being held in a small canyon 30 miles from anything. We had to offroad for 26 miles just to get there, which might have been fine for some but we were in a saturn. It felt like a ride through hell, we couldn't see anything(new moon parties in the desert.. woo!) and got lost at least a dozen times. Everyone was really pissy by the time we got there, I was just starting to peak and having a great time.

We proceeded to setup the soundsystem and tents and candles and all the required desert raving goodies. The sound started @ midnight with the very eerie sounds of Eat Static's Science of The Gods. I had never heard this on a big sound system before and it floored me :). The DJ spun 3-4 songs from this album over the course of his set and I was damn happy. I smoked 2 joints over the course of his 2 hour set. The next DJ came on (Jon Mark) and started to spin the really freaky desert psytrance that we all traveled so far to hear. The party went off. One great track after another pounding our fried minds into the dirt for 2 1/2 hours. Knowing the next DJ and the music he spins(REALLY sick psytrance, the more mind bending, less danceable stuff) I figured now would be a good time to start taking MDMA. I wanted to time it so I'd be hitting the second peak at sunrise. I was planning on tossing in 21.5 MG of 2cb as soon as the desert sky started to turn pink. I took a capsule of 125mg of pure MDMA and another 10 hits of acid as soon as the DJ started his set. About an hour into it I started to feel the warm waves of empathy crash over me. I danced around for a few hours in a blur of weaving sonic textures and melodies that seemed to be part of everything around me. I could see lines of different colors and textures shooting out from the speakers into the people dancing and from the people dancing to other people. Everything was connected by the intersecting lines... sounds, people, thoughts and emotions. I could see what people were thinking and feeling by the color and intensity of the lines that were connecting them to the sounds and other people.

The sunrise DJ started his set about 30 minutes before the sun started to peek his glorious face out over the desert. Not knowing how long 2cb takes to hit me(this was my first experiment with 2cb) I ingested the 2cb with 3 capsules of MDMA. The first hints that something was happening started when I noticed the sky was no longer purple but BRIGHT magenta. The sky went from magenta to neon purple to light pink to bright pink to light blue to blueberry in the matter of 40 minutes. I wasn't really sure what the 2cb was going to do. I had a general idea from reading trip reports but I wasn't sure how intense it was going to be.

When the sun finally came up and it started to warm up the desert came alive with color. The flowers were pulsing with the most vibrant purples and pinks and yellows imaginable. I spent most of the morning on the top of rock dancing to the music wondering if it was possible to feel any better than this. Little did I know :) The MDMA started to wear off and the visuals were starting to wear off. Still feeling quite bent from the acid, but not where I wanted to be I toddled off to the car to get some more 2cb. Finding the oral route to be a wee bit boring I decided that snorting it would be the way to go. I had been warned that it is painful to snort 2cb but that is the worst understatement ever. I took the 2cb, lined it out on a notebook and snorted to lines, half in one nostril half in the other. In 30 seconds my world became a world of pain. I couldn't see, I couldn't feel anything other than pain. My face was on fire for what seemed like an eternity(later timed to 13 minutes). Then slowly my vision came back and when I looked out into the desert it felt like I was in another universe. Objects were randomly morphing into other objects. It was impossible to tell where the ended and the ground started. Rocks were dancing along to the music, people had multiple dimensions and were leaving the most insane trails. I hopped out of the car with another 3 vials of 2cb and headed back into the crowd. First thing I noticed was a complete inability to communicate with people. I would see their lips move in multiple dimensions. I was hearing, seeing and knowing what people were communicating but there was so much information coming in I couldn't decipher what was what. Which dimension was the real person? Which stream of information was what they wanted to communicate? It was confusing and I soon gave up to pursue more interesting things. One thing I didn't expect with 2cb was the heightened sense of smell. I could smell EVERYTHING. Plants, dirt, people(ick), everything had a distinct smell. Now I know how dogs feel :) I was overwhelmed by the millions of smells in the desert.

The problem with snorting 2cb, other than the pain, is how short the trip is. Each vial would last for about 1 1/2-2 hours. The flip side to this is that there is no tolerance. You can stay high for weeks(as I later found out) on 2cb. Starting to come down? No problem, snort some more. Each time is just as painful as the last, but it's only 13 minutes.. it's survivable. So I did.. over and over and over and over, grand total of seven 21.5MG vials of 2cb snorted.

Somewhere in between the snorting I managed to consume another 200+ mg of MDMA and 20 hits of acid. The only reason I know this is because the drugs were no longer in my pouch, and I wasn't really in contact with any other people for the majority of the trip. Unless I fed some snakes a bunch of amphetamines and acid I must have done them myself.

Eventually I came back to planet earth. I had 2 more vials of 2cb, but my nose couldn't take any more punishment and I was in desperate need of food. I wandered back into the main camp and started making noises about heading out to go get food and get some sleep. After a few hours of rounding people up and saying good-byes we finally got our stuff packed up and left. After eating a marginal lunch at arbys I snorted the last 2 vials of 2cb. The ride home was fairly uneventful if you consider the road disappearing into cliffs and cars morphing into dogs uneventful :)

After getting home I took a grip of 5HTP and passed out for 12 hours. It took a little over 2 days to fully recover, but it was a hell of a lot of fun :)

Remember: Don't do drugs. Leave heavy drug use to the professionals.