So great that this really 'lo-tech' process is getting more attention!
Good to se your photos of the different shades of blue. If I would have said something without first reading that is 'should' be blue, I would have said that my brews are turquoise.
But regarding how much that tells about the ratio Harmaline/Harmine, or for that sake the effects on you, I don't know. I have only roared one batch (50g of witch I right now are doing an extraction).
But holy moly, harmine really is strange. I want to write something about my last journey with dark roasted rue yesterday but first there is a caveat.
Every time I've taken dark roasted rue brews, it's also been the first trips on newly extracted DMT from a new source. I have also not tried this DMT without the dark roasted rue.
(the source is the same plant MHRB but from two different vendors and countries of origin of the plant)
So my experiences can also be affected by this...
Anyhow.
Yesterday I wanted to see how it was if I took almost my usual oral dose of my extracted Harmaline/Harmine mix (don't know the ratio) and how little dark roasted rue I could take and still notice the clearheaded-ness of a Harmine+DMT trip.
So I brewed 1 g of ground Dark Roasted Rue (DRR) with a pinch of citric acid and took that with 140mg of the mixed extract (I normally take 200mg). Waited 2h and then took 20mg DMT (*3).
Well... Wow! ... and Wow?
As I just wrote, I don't know if it the different DMT (anyone knows if DMT extracted from what is labeled and looks like MHRB can be really different?) or if this DRR-brews are really potent. This trip(s) was also remarkable different that from what I'm used to. So clear-headed and ... really weird. None of the usual patterns and textures (OEV and CEV), the sounds, the places, the 'high' and feeling out of ones head and especially none of the strong emotional response. Just really here, open eyed, with normal awareness.. but in a strongly altered and expanded reality.
I'm amazed that I can be so clear-headed, to really look around and move a bit, and to somehow reason with my self about what I'm experiencing. But what I see/experience is sooooo far out. It's not the places of 'high-weirdness' that DMT normally can open up for, no this is in our consensus reality of everyday, witch makes it, for me at least, somehow more confusing and strange.
The first of the three * 20mg took me most by surprise. My room got duplicated, like in a half-transparent mirror, copies of the place were stacked but centered around the middle of the room. Then I know that this connected other times and places, that this was simultaneously happening somewhere else, and that we shared an eternal now. This kept going for a bit longer then what I'm used to in the dream-like states that normally happens to me when taking mixed harmalas and vaped DMT. It was really strange and my sense of size and proportions were very .. different so to say. But I always were present and in the room.
This was not meant to be a trip-report but what I want is to share my experiences of DRR and Harmine-dominent DMT trips and hear what experiences other folks might have. For me this is really another trip.
DRR compared to what I'm used to (the extracted Harmaline/Harmine mix) I can characterize the mix as if your consciousness are going into your dreaming mind for a tour, with strong emotions (love, fear, sorrow, happiness etc.) and strange places. And DRR as if its going to a higher reality, wide awake.
My o my, how to integrate this