Feebase vs Changa vs temperatures - I'm puzzled... again...

[windyshaman]

Sooo... an "accident" happened yesterday. Normally I practice with freebase - reserving Changa for when it's called for - given the respect it deserves.
But Yesterday, I decided to "warm" myself up to the main ceremony with some Changa leftovers - literally had a pile of very fine dust left in the bag.
Added extra screens into my old dry herbs vaporizer and emptied the bag into it.... admittedly - there was a tad more of that dust than it had the appearance of... whatever, these are just leftovers - said I, packed it down a little more and hit the ON switch...

Then my reality swirled into a singularity and I got thrown not only into my deepest changa trip yet - but it also happened to be the trip which redefined the term "breakthrough" for me. Turns out - I haven't seen anything yet. Again...
Ironically and sadly - during that trip I was more pissed about "wth just happened?" - than astonished by what is happening. Absolutely nice trip nonetheless, loved the rhythm of it. For the first time I've met actual entities who's presence I happen to remember.

One of the first indications of things not going as planned - was the time shimmering. In that moment I realized that I haven't felt this effect when practicing freebase for a reaaaaalllly long while now.

This left me really puzzled and strongly suspecting that I'm doing something wrong when vaporizing freebase.

Question is - what? Am I going too cold and the vapor is simply too thin? So I just keep tip-toeing on crumbs in the sub-breakthrough lobby?

The thought process goes as follows:
- for that changa trip above, I used my old portable vaporizer maxed out at 221C - this is below what changa normally requires (230C) and well above 190C I was setting it to for freebase.
- if a much lower %ge of spice in changa - albeit - slightly "miss-dozed" was able to propel me that deep at higher temperature - why am I not achieving similar depths with freebase on much higher (80-90mg) dosages?
- should the temperature be higher? Right about where it becomes harsh and a real effort is required to keep the vapor in?
- can the freebase I'm getting simply be of a sh@t quality? Wondering because that changa breakthrough actually felt different enough.

Spice always keeps surprising...

Side note: I've been experimenting with overloading on creatine on trippy days - and it does seem to help with the hangover (if any). Changa trip that heavy - never felt so light the day after.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Combust changa. The vaporization point for harmalas is substantially higher than DMT, so when changa is vaped you're not getting an even burning and dosing of both the harmalas and dmt infused into the herbs.

And yep, DMT always has something new to show you.

One love

 

[Voidmatrix]

To add a little more, I notice a substantial difference in the nature of a changa experience when I use my GVG vs my bong or bubblers. In the GVG, it's mainly a DMT experience with a slight harmala augmentation. But when we float the lighter over a bowl and burn it that way, it seems to be more "fully" a changa experience.

One love

 

[windyshaman]

See - out of the gate I never expected changa to take me that far. Granted - my experience with it has been very limited and varied.
- first time i got nothing out of it other than a sensible body load + slight hangover
- second time it actually took me pretty deep-ish, I vaguely recall flying by a futuristic mega-city, but it was very dark - the whole trip felt dark, psychedelic and foreign. The little visions I had - felt more like dreaming rather than spice-tripping. Came out of that one with a very dark aftertaste and the heaviest hangover yet. Didn't want to touch changa for a while thereafter.
- had a couple more tries down the road, with not much to report as I was - most likely - short-dosing and under-committing.

One thing with changa i'm getting constantly - dmt part of it feels quite different to the usual freebase I've been getting up until now.

Surely - I'll be using my desktop setup next time at higher temps.