landfishd said:
I was going to ask before I noticed you got your sought after effect from eating the powder if you had much to eat that day you took the extract? I think Mesc is easiest to take in the morning because it works sooo much better on an empty stomach and I'm not very good with fasting so a night trip is more difficult for me. You have to actually digest the mescaline for it take effect and the more food you have already digesting the longer the onset will take and the longer it will take to peak. And neither the onset or the peak will be as strong.
I'm not particularly good at fasting but I have fasted for as many as five consecutive days in the past year. It took discipline, but at the same time I was admittedly using pseudo-ephedrine, which I still have mixed feelings about. Either way, it's a miracle substance, and I'm going to be resuming my diet/exercise regimen in the near future. On the one hand, I know from pervious experience that it works, but on the other hand, it makes me feel cracked out and makes my temperament volatile when I'm the most even-keeled person I know. It's only a recent discovery for me and I truly don't need it, but now that I've used it something would feel like it's missing...sigh.
Anyway, all I'd had that day was a tuna salad salad (no typo) in the AM. Otherwise I only drank water and iced tea up until nine hours after I drank the cactus, so taking that into consideration I believed the peak would have come along much sooner than it did. It was incredibly sneaky, and I had resigned myself to the fact that my trip was never going to soar to the heights that I had imagined. I was with a friend who was originally supposed to be a sober sitter, but he came through with an acid connection and even though this was hours after I drank the tea, he was up and down again well before I was baseline.
Berzerker said:
Congrats un-known-one, these cactus are amazing and now you know. The phens, however, do have long legs. I need to pre-plan all my trips because of duration. I have found that ambien will put me to sleep, but I'll wake up still a bit altered, but feeling sexy.
I originally created this thread for a trip I'd had on some poorly extracted mescaline HCl, which was very non-psychedelic, made me feel dehydrated, made me stimulated, and left me with an uncomfortable headache the next day. It was a failure, but at least I had an idea of what I was getting myself into so I was able to plan ahead. Curiously, I felt much more sedated from the cactus tea, which was from the same vendor. Since that has been my only other experience, it's nigh impossible for me to gauge what intensity/plateau of a mescaline experience this was or how much I had, but I felt that while it manifested itself differently and took me to a different place, it easily rivaled the power of ayahausca.