Don’t be put off by the initially prickling feeling in the back of the head. It’s a tingling sensation, but it’s pretty strong for the first minute. SWIM has what he believes to be 98% pure bufotenine, and this is one of the physical effects you get from smoking it. This tingling starts in the back of the head, and then spreads throughout the body as the experience progresses, and becomes a very pleasant tingling sensation.
He’s never experienced any nausea at all from smoking pure bufotenine, but does get nausea from it when taken orally, so I don’t recommend oral use at all.
The experience is unique. There is nothing else like it. It does share some common attributes with others psychedelics. The visuals are a little like 5-MeO-DMT at first, very swirly and lack color, and then there’s an ayahuasca like visionary stage where full blown visions are possible, and then they are more like psilocybin towards the end. As the trip unfolds, its character changes, the visual effects change, the body feeling changes, the tingling sensation changes, etc. This is perhaps one of the most unique things about bufotenine. It’s starts out as one thing, and ends up as another. It’s as if the molecule is changing right in the body and you can feel it.
The overall feeling is relaxed, after the first few minutes pass. It’s easy to lay back and daydream. You don’t feel rushed or over-stimulated like you do with so many other psychedelics. This is another unique characteristic of it.
During the main part of the visionary experience, you tend to see a lot of movement. Traveling at high speed is a common phenomenon. If you’ve ever seen movies where they have a computer generated scene of someone passing through a long tunnel of cyber space at fast speed, you’ll recognize this as being part of the bufotenine experience.
The visuals tend to be very sharp outlines of objects, and tend to flash or pulsate and move at great speed. It’s like neon light or lightning in its character.
SWIM specifically gets very strong auditory hallucinations from bufotenine. They almost sound real. This effect seems more specific to SWIM though.
The visionary stage which happens shortly after the onset, can be very dramatic. However, there’s a sense that you are watching a movie and not taking part in it. There’s a detachment from the visions.
The effects are almost entirely visual. There’s little effect on the mind. The mental effect is mild, but present. It’s a light forgetfulness, but nothing close to the mental confusion present in most other psychedelics at visionary doses. Even mescaline has more psychedelic “mind fuck” than bufotenine.
SWIM has found that THH makes bufotenine far more like DMT, but doesn’t introduce any “mind fuck”. The visuals are softened and more DMT-like, and the body feel is also more DMT-like.
It seems like some people can’t have visual effects from bufotenine without first training themselves to let the visions happen. The visual effects are not forceful like they are with some other psychedelics. SWIM sometimes can at will cause them to stop. SWIM can’t do that with any other psychedelic. If you learn to go with the flow of the visions you’ll have a great time with it. But if you can’t relax and let the visions flow, you’re likely to have NO VISUAL EFFECTS at all.
