I got this blotter for free - so why not I thought. I actually did not quite understand the the difference between DOB and LSD, but I figured it should be fun for as long as the dosage is controlled.
Well, I know the difference now, although I can not in good conscience say whether my experience is caused by the nature of the substance itself or by environmental and personal factors such as being hungry and a somewhat tired. The "set" was fine - I had a nice date earlier and just thought "why not make the evening even better" (I was also frustrated for having so little time for myself lately, so I jumped at the opportunity). The "setting" was perhaps less then ideal, as I did not prepare visuals beforehand, thinking that perhaps sitting in front of pc screen would be just fine. It turned out that I was not feeling well while being seated at all - but more on that later.
Anyway, there was no serenity and peace in my trip, very strong visuals, wavering feeling of "high" and quite a lot of physical discomfort. I felt intoxicated and ill, one moment I was "there" getting familiar feeling of floating through time and space and another moment I was shivering in my bed trying to find comfortable position. I felt noticeable nausea (never had this in any significant amount on my trips on shrooms or LSD) and I peed maybe 7 or 9 times ( I drank a lot of water, too).
Overall I'd say the experience was not quite to my taste, because physical side effects were too strong to be ignored. I had a few "aha moments" and would really appreciate someone to have a conversation with (so maybe I should not trip alone on this or at least do this during the day so I can at least message some of my friends). I listened to music and found it appealing, but the distortion in sounds were very strong, so I could hardly recognize the melodies. I actually liked that part very much. I also noticed that my iTunes volume was very low (I usually turn it quite high during the trip) and on the coming down and later that day I found myself very sensitive to noises. Now this very day my neighbors needed to to have some renovation work done, so I spent some 30 minutes laboriously thinking about killing some humans. I still feel somewhat more aggravated by noise outside, although I am generally known for such things when tired.
On the good side I did quite a bit of reading (and enjoying the thought process itself).
I started to read Prometheus Rising and spent about an hour reading into MAOA gene expression, also did a bit of a catch up on biography of some prominent personalities and usage of psychedelic drugs in modern history by government structures. All of this was heavily intertwined with various thought and visual distortions which resulted in strong "my movie" kind of feeling. I wish I could study history with this back in school, lol.
Visual distortions included (a lot of) creeping patterns, shifting proportions, the walls were getting rounded and inflated, the light changed tone often. Black and white portraits were of particular interest - they would waver between being bw and full color, sometimes toned down like sepia, and the face on the picture would change constantly, sometimes even switching gender. It was amazing and fun. Colored portraits would animate and smile to me, and at one point I saw that a tree outside was constructed of random chunks or blocks of tree parts stacked up together, like a puzzle that was in a disarray. The same tree would sometimes flash grapes or blue leaves, and other times it would appear to be painted on a few pieces of cardboard placed one in front of the other, much like plane sprites in old pc games.
I am not totally against the idea of repeating this experience, but it definitely requires better preparation and good timing (no interruptions, no random noices, no annoying pets).
The trip lasted for about 9 hours.
