4:15 a.m. 12/17/08
+0:00 - Diet Mountain Dew with shot of syrian rue tea. Tastes like vomit. Next time, remember to buy more mixers.
+o:05 - MAOI effects felt. Clean, alert high. Swimmy-ness and slight intensification of muscle soreness.
+0:15 - Rue reality has 'set in,' operation is controlled with little dyspesia.
+0:25 - Have been meditating for past 10 min. Felt as young as 18 again. A slight nausea has crept in but is quite under control. 5 minutes until blastoff. I say another short prayer for healing visions.
+0:30 - Dose taken with Diet MD 1.5 T (6 g) cacao powder pudding eaten with sunflower seeds. (powder, T of oil, scoop of pb, mixed well)
+0:45 - My trip-sitting friend, A, sober, is telling me about Conway's Game of Life, whose patterns of alternating white and black tiles can be made into cellular machines with 100,000s of tiles. 1000 simple generations = 1 complex generation
+0:50 - The 'Light' is back...
+1:10 - First *burp*
+1:30 -
+2:00 - thoughts become fried fish patties and horseradish sauce
Soon after, I puked and it was relieving. I forgot to write notes subsequently. I had some interesting CEVs, but my OEVs were mostly rubbery tracers and color intensification. The trip, thus, was profoundly visual, but that could be because A and I spent a good deal of time talking philosophy. It did, however, have a very distinct feel of existential journey, meaning it is all for something, but not on the level of my simple ego. A also recorded our convo, so I could put that up too if someone was interested.
Overall, I didn't feel like the cacao powder added much punch, though I felt more warm and there was no chilly come-up. I'll have to perhaps try it again, taking the powder with the rue.
Also, A, a meditator and fairly sober guy, felt as if I gave him a contact trip. He may have been loopy a bit from 5 1/2 hours of meditation previously, though.