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Erowid Experience Vaults Report Id: 56700

Not Unlike a Velvety, Saucey, French Dish

by Acrimonius Funk

Dose: T+ 3:00 repeated smoked Salvia divinorum extractT+ 1:30 0.25 mg sublingual Pharms - AlprazolamT+ 0:30 0.25 mg sublingual Pharms - AlprazolamT+ 0:00 26 mg oral DiPT

Body weight: 165.00 lbs

Dosage Time: 12:30 PM / No other meds or supplements

Today, Im walking around my office with an extra spring in my step. Unbeknownst to my rigidlyconstructed employees, this is a direct result of my first experience yesterday with DiPT.

Despite an excellent mental set and a comfortable setting, Im always a bit nervous my first timewith any substance . . . I mean, even though my sample came from a reputable supplier, who reallyknows what is in the package? I certainly dont have the resources to get an independent evaluation,no matter how prudent such a step might be. I suppose my risk tolerance or na[U+FFFD] confidenceoutstrips my inclination to hire an independent lab. So, once again I threw caution to the windand set about my day by weighing out a relatively conservative 26 mg dose of the white flour-likesubstance on my precision scale. My faithful girlfriend sat nearby, reading aloud various DiPTexperience reports, which is my preferred method of preparation for a new experience. The fewavailable reports were as varied in nature as the dosages administered, but one thing seemed clear,a 25 mg dose was less than likely to present any significant problems, and who better than I toadd to the public pool of knowledge by subjecting myself once again to this noble pursuit?

Taking a psychedelic is rarely a fun venture for me. In the na[U+FFFD] days of my youth I couldtake a hit of acid or a few grams of mushrooms and go to a party and laugh my ass off. Since gettinginto them primarily as a personal study rather than an attempt at escape or entertainment, Ivebecome more acutely aware of the difficulties they present both psychologically and physiologically.Rarely do I have a trip that doesnt come with a certain amount of discomfort, and body load issomething of a routine for me, phenethylamines and tryptamines alike. DiPT was no different.

The first two to three hours I had the usual body shakes, the irritability, the aching joints and rawfeeling throughout my belly and intestines, and as I sallied around my apartment determined topretend that I wasnt uncomfortable, I found myself once again asking the question, why the helldo I do this to myself? In an roundabout response to my question, I took 0.5 mg of alprazolam in

two 0.25 sublingual mg doses to help calm the negative effects. So, although I was feeling sick andthat is a relevant point to be made in any experience report, I wanted to get that out of the wayfirst, because it was not a dominating characteristic of the experience, and it almost completelysubsided by the three hour mark. The rest of the trip is the focus of this report and my overallexperience was nothing short of outstanding!

Exp Year: 2006 Added to Database: Oct 19, 2006

Gender of reportee: male

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I took a shower within a half hour of dosing and noticed the first alerts come on as the water rushedover me. A slight lightheadedness and speedy stimulation were present. Returning to the livingroom, I had an all-over body flush as if I were coming up on MDMA, no doubt initiated partiallyby the shower. The leaves on the trees outside were blowing in the wind, and they appeared tobe moving as if slightly sped up on fast motion film. The effect was subtle, and otherwise my

vision was normal. At T+0:45 I checked in with my girlfriend who was making some lunch in thekitchen, and I was both surprised and delighted to hear my voice had attained a distinct loweringin pitch. She responded with a similar effect on her voice, as if she might have grown taller andbroader, and I was now conversing with an Amazon woman.

I digress for a moment to say that apart from the sickness, both physical and psychological changeswere minimal throughout the duration of the experience, although there were subtle visuals. Whilesitting on the toilet gazing at the floor tiles, the speckled surface was swirling not unlike a low doseof mushrooms, but the effect was only noticeable while staring. I felt slightly confused at times, asI can from smoking weed, but all in all I felt quite normal. I was able to assist a neighbor in loadinga large TV into his car without incident, both physically and emotionally, and conversation wasboth easy and comfortable, albeit strange sounding. I feel I could have driven an automobile, butas stated in Shulgins Glossary of Terms that would have defined me as an Idiot, so I prudentlydeferred that task to my girlfriend.

The aural distortions were thoroughly fascinating. I am an amateur musician, and music has alwaysbeen a focal point in my life, so I took great pleasure in sitting back and analyzing my condition.Lower tones were distinctly embellished, sounding warmer, fuller and layered with harmonic toneswhile higher tones seemed to be relatively unaffected. If you have ever heard an electric instrumentsuch as a guitar played through an octaver, that was almost precisely the effect. The primary tonewas intact, but there were several lower harmonic and melodic tones resonating at the same time,giving sounds a slightly reverberated quality as if played with an echo device set at a very shortdelay time, somewhat metallic, yet soft and whispery as well. If the sound were a piece of poached

salmon, then DiPT was a covering of rich French, tarragon cream sauce. It was quite beautiful.

My observations were primarily undertaken around two pieces of music. Jack Johnsons, On andOn, and Brian Enos, Ambient 4 On Land. Jack Johnson sounded absolutely beautiful, albeit, theusual Jack was gone and he was replaced by a very large, probably obese, soft-spoken, black bluessinger. The older James Cotton came to mind, slumped on his stool grasping his harp betweenhis palms, but Fat Albert from the old 70s Saturday morning cartoon also danced through myhead, dribbling his basketball in all his former glory. Listening to Enos ambient work, which isbeautifully strange and unusual even in the soberest of states, the effects were less obvious, yetsounds were similarly warmer, more full, more luxuriant.

After a time I decided to test out the DiPT/salvia combo. Ill keep this short because the results

were unremarkable. Salvia often has profound effects on my aural sense. Sound loses all meaningas it becomes a landscape rather than a sense, a dimensional shape rather than a vibration. I tookseveral massive ego dissolving blasts of salvia over the course of an hour, going in and out of thepeak experience four times, and I was unable to detect any measurable differences in effects. Myfeeling is that the salvia experience is so powerful in itself that the subtle effects of DiPT are allbut lost in the void.




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After shaking off the effects of the salvia and returning to my sound-shifted but relatively normalworld, we spent the last of the afternoon with some friends over dinner. I was able to functionand socialize perfectly well, and had fun continuing my observations while satisfying a voraciousappetite with a dinner of free range chicken and garlic mashed potatoes. Our hostess voice,which is rather high and sometimes shrill during moments of zealous conversation, seemed mostly

unaffected in my altered state. In contrast, her husband who has a deep resonating voice, soundedlike ED-209, the huge machine gun toting, law enforcement droid in the movie Robocop. I alsonoticed that if I spoke quietly, my own voice sounded very deep and science fiction like, but ifI raised my voice, not in pitch but in volume, the effect was less noticeable. I suspect that as Iraised my volume, higher frequencies are more dominant, and changes are therefore less obvious.

The magnitude of this audio effect had slowly increased, peaking subjectively around the 2.5 hourmark. It remained quite constant for about 4 hours then very, very slowly tailed off from there.It was much milder but still pronounced when I went to bed at 9:30 PM, a full 9 hours afteringestion. This morning it was barely noticeable, but noticeable nonetheless at about 7:30 AM. Itis now lunch time and I am surely baseline.

There was no uncomfortable comedown or the usual cracked-out feeling I have after most trips,and I slept like a baby all night, awaking refreshed and more than a little excited about what Ihad experienced. I am chomping at the bit to do this again, and Ill up my dose to 35 mg I thinknext time, maybe 40. DiPT just might be the ultimate dream drug for the musician or the soundnut. Some might only find it mildly amusing, but Im really into music and sound, so I found itabsolutely astonishing and delightful. It is an aural toy-box of ear tickling proportions!

As I said, during the come-up I asked myself the question why the hell do I do this to myself ? Aday later I can answer that question with the same answer I always arrive at: because psychedelicsremind me of how transient and ethereal this reality is. At any moment we are only a raindropaway from death and the things we think to be absolute are really nothing more than figments ofour own imagination. Each time I return to earth I feel profoundly thankful for the world I live in,for the life I have, and for the five senses I have been gifted with. Psychedelics remind me neverto forget these things. Call it what you want, I find God in various powders and plants.

Today, once again, I feel much more grounded, and I know I will venture forth to leave this groundfor higher consciousness again and again and again. Be safe.




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