Thanks everyone!
This is meant to convey something that I often experience in my travels... But is mostly inspired by a single experience from a couple summers ago. I was offered the spice by a friend on a warm summer evening. We sat in the gazebo in the garden, with sounds of bugs and frogs mingling with the splash/twinkle of the waterfall... A rich but gentle tapestry of sound. I went first, vaping about 25 mg in two good pulls. Third hit and the bowl was cleared. I shut my eyes.
I've experienced many types of come-on, but I'd group them into two categories. One is like you take a toke and the chaos curtain is pulled away, immersing you in an intense kaleidoscopic world with no warning... Bang. This was the other kind, where I had a moment to put down the pipe, shut my eyes, shift into a comfortable reclining position. Visual field started out blank. I asked the molecule something I often do: Show me something I wouldn't normally think of.
The dark field of my vision took on a foggy kind of character, and then little bits of colored traceries, mostly blue and orange, began forming. As they formed they expanded and complexified. My visual field was clearly tracking upward, and as I looked higher and higher the traceries continued to weave themselves into elaborate multilayered tiles, forming a distinct room. I had a strong sense that the details in the tiles were linguistic expressions of the inner workings of my mind.
As I continued to look upward, I came to the ceiling. It was a place where the wall tiles converged into an intensely intricate fractal singularity point. The point in the middle was very hard to look at, and had a natural repulsion. It seemed to be a juxtaposition of the brightest light and the deepest black, competing for the same space, and it made my brain hurt. I sensed that I could look deeper into this point and would be granted a breakthrough of some sort, but then a familiar voice chimed into my head: "it's not the right time to do the deep work...". This voice has popped up during several trips, usually when I'm around other people. I think there's a limit to how far I'm willing to travel in the company if others.
So that's it... Basically a sub breakthrough journey that gave me a really clear impression of the anteroom. I conveyed it the best I could, but of course the image falls short of the actual experience.
Leading title candidate as of now: "Expansion".
