Sorry, I'm basically just copying and pasting what I wrote over at the aya boards. To summarize, the sweetness is stronger, there is still a "different" effect going on, but so far it seems more centered in the head than the heart, but this head-centeredness may also be a result of heavy cannabis use the day leading up to the ceremony. I still felt "high" rather than "stoned," which is not typical of my cannabis/vine experience, so the "rush" effect was still very strong; it was just totally concentrated in my head; whereas my experiences with MDMA and mescaline (and the honey cappi last season) have all been undeniably focused on my heart. More bioassay is needed, and shall be done, probably this week.
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So.
I kept the cold-water soak separate from the boiled brew, and reduced both. I'm still not done brewing yet, but I have measurable, reduced amounts at this point, and man I could not wait, so I drank last night.
The boiled brew is normal. It is the color of black coffee when it's reduced and hot, then the color of slightly creamed coffee once cold. It has the consistency of creamed coffee; the same viscosity. The cold-soak, which was a two-day soak and a one-day soak, reduced, was bright yellow but with a blue tinge to it in the light, like an oil. It looked exactly like antifreeze. Once I started heating it started turning color, and by the time it was reducing it was the color of red wine. It also smelled exactly like red wine, minus the alcohol smell, while reducing. Now that it's reduced and in a jar, it looks like Chianti or grape juice, almost black but seems like a purple-maroon for the base color, until you hold it in front of a light and "roll" the jar back and forth, and see that it's actually a gold color. Instead of milky coffee, it has the consistency of very clean, very thin oil.
The boiled brew is normal. It is not sweet.
The cold-soak brew is even sweeter than last time. Five mL of it made 30mL of chacruna tea ridiculously sweet. It is like the sweetest bad wine (it tastes like wine, as well) that you have ever had in your life, followed very very quickly by the worst bitterestest alkaloid taste you have ever had in your life. Like, "uh, this is kind of weird/niceOHMYGODYECCHHHH."
The numbers first, then the report:
Total amount harvested/soaked: 2 Kg (two washes totaling 72 hours, 30mL distilled white vinegar added to each liter of distilled water used, room temperature, agitation five to ten times a day for thirty seconds.) I ended up with 550 mL. So let's call that 3.5g/mL. I drank thirty mL, which would be just over 100g cold-soak.
Total amount so far boiled: 1,200g (three washes of eight hours each, vine broken down after each wash, 30mL DWV for each liter distilled water used, brewed on high heat with lid on.) I ended up with 400mL. So let's call that 3g/mL. I drank 20mL, which would be 60g boiled.
So my dose, then is between 60 and 100 grams, fresh. More of the "goody oil" than a standard dose will be, unless I keep everything separate (and you know I will!) I still want to tinker with just the oil, but I wanted to try it all at once at first in case the thing in the oil needs an MAOi and the cold soak wasn't long enough to get any (I wonder if the oil has the sugar and the extra stuff, but isn't really ayahuasca, in other words).
So.
I feel tired and sluggish, and consider just going to bed. At 9:10 I drink both shots of caapi. 9:20 I feel something starting, but it's more in my head than in my heart. I smoke a bowl of c*nn*b*s and dance for a few minutes outside as Orion rises. I feel refreshed, invigorated, excited, like I'm at the airport going on vacation. The head is still the center of this energy, not the heart, but it's getting overwhelming. I go inside to sit down in front of the altar.
9:35 (25 minutes) I feel like I've taken 200mg of MDMA. Light closed-eye visuals, neck/base of skull pivoting, eyes rolling back and blinking in strange ways, bad nausea. I put some Santo Daime hymns on the headphones for a while, then some Deadmau5. The Deadmau5 kind of "peaked" whatever the rush-component is, and by 10:05 I feel like I'm back to baseline. So, once again, this "MDMA rush" feeling started rather early (by fifteen minutes) and then peaked and subsided at the hour mark. I can still "peak" at this point by focusing on my breathing, but I have to work on it. This intoxication did not feel like a typical ayahuasca intoxication, at all. Again, it feels like MDMA. I like listening to EDM during this phase, which usually bothers me when I drink (but it's all I listen to on cactus!) and the Daime hymns seem nasal and whiny, which is totally unlike my usual aya experience. Right around the "come back to baseline" phase, music becomes altogether intolerable, which is also typical for me. The rest of the night is silent.
10:45 (1 hour, 35 minutes) I drink my usual dose of 40 chacruna leaves (30mL of tea) which I combine with 5mL of the honey oil. The whole 35mL is made very sweet.
11:20 (2:10 after caapi, 35 minutes after chacruna) Purge. Sweet, wonderful purge!
11:40 (2:30 after caapi, 55 minutes after chacruna) The light hits, hard. I feel it slurp into my intestines, and am "gone in sixty seconds," to take Jees's phrase. Everything is pretty much the usual ayahuasca journey after that.
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Again, these numbers represent fresh material here, so this dose of let's say eighty grams, would be the equivalent to ten grams of dried vine. This was not only ridiculously potent on its own, without any light, but was more than enough to provide full MAOi for the light.
So I still have the "honey oil" and the "ayahuasca" separate, and am more than willing to send some off for testing. Lemme know.