Saymonsez
Rising Star
Greetings fellow Nexians!
A few things about me, and how I got to where I am right now - just to provide some context for my following posts. The physical aspect: male, late 20's, 6 feet 3, around 200 pounds, kinda athletic, but no six-pack :? .
It all started soo really promising... In high school I was one of those, who never had to learn a word, and got 5-s (like A-s in the states) all the time. I enjoyed those years quite a bit - I had all the free-time in the world, good looks and a decent amount of money too. Never too much, but I could afford 2 movies a week, and a billiard session in the pub every once in a while. I liked to drink, but I only managed to get tooootally wasted only twice so far - not experiences I'd like to repeat. I also couldn't get myself to enjoy either coffee or smoking, and I still don't know what people find attractive in it. Caffeine and cigarettes had no effect on me whatsoever, and the latter made me smell utterly awful. I have a very heightened sense of smell (I can recognize girls only from their natural scents from a few feet away :d ), which proved to be very nice since I discovered wine-tasting but i simply can't stand to be in the vicinity of heavy smokers.
In my experimentation with different smoking herbs (bidis, some eastern-european smoking blends - nasty) I stumbled on weed, and it seemed like a good choice at the time. I wouldn't smoke it more than 1-2 times a week, so no unbearable cinder smell, but it made me lightheaded, giggly, and really mellow. The only thing I missed was the visuals some of my pals claimed to have. I always had a thing for hallucinations, but I never got them myself, no matter what. I gave up on weed in half a year, because of the side effects (total demotivation, and the i-don't-give-a-shit-about-anything attitude), and a very bad trip with some pcp infused stuff I was given as clean...
After that I let the drugs go, and went to college, but it just wasn't the same. The attitude stayed, and I started noticing my short-term memory lacking a bit. It took me some time to change that, and it involved a very pronounced spiritual change, something very private but enlightening. Unfortunately I always had the need for "addiction" - not really substances, but something to really focus on. I went through lot of things, including drawing, computer games, CCG-s, WoW (the worst IMO
) and recently I'm stuck with this internet thingy.
The craving for altered mind states never stopped, this special kind of curiosity always stayed with me and bugged me from time to time. Unfortunately in Hungary LSD and shrooms were REALLY scarce recently, and from some of my friends experiences even if you found them, most of the times the blotters were fake or not LSD, and the shrooms could get REALLY nasty - permanent liver and kidney damage nasty :shock: . After like 4-5 years of a brake, I just stumbled upon some ebay sellers offering an enormous selection of "natural high" herbs, and I looked some up on erowid, and then later even experimented with a few. The only one I found promising was lady Salvia, using self made extracts, but the smoke is so damn harsh, that I don't play with her more than once every two months. I am aiming to become a scientist, and my thoroughness with research before use was always a must. That is how I found out about DMT, and after reading quite a few of Erowid exp reports, I decided this to be my best choice for the type of journey I always dreamed about. I acquired some MHRB from a mexican seller, and tried to extract some of the spice for the first time - and I failed miserably. At the time my lab experience was still a bit lacking, and time was also scarce, so I decided to go with an STB extraction, but the tek I worked with had some intrinsic flaws, and I ended up with some nasty naphta emulsion on top of some barely hidrated, not basic enough root bark. I decided to abandon the project, and focus on learning for some time, but school was getting harder, and I just forgot about the 50g-s of unprocessed MHRB in the freezer - I hid it too well .
Recently I found myself with three whole weeks of free time, and started to rearrange some of my stuff in the lab freezers, and then I found the almost forgotten bark. I took it as a sign, and this time I looked even more carefully into things, and since fumarate just seemed to be unavailable to me, I decided to go with Vovin's Tek, with some slight mods. I used analytical grade citric acid for the A step, and a much lower volume of the basic solution - the freshly calibrated, quality pH meter made things so much easier. After 4 naphta pulls (3rd warm, 4th overnight, then warmed) and some freeze precip I ended up with 258mg-s of yellowish-white xtals, from the 50g MHRB this looks like 0.5% - not so bad for root bark nearly 2 years old.
This should be quite enough for background info, and the intro too, kinda wall-of-text-ish, but hope it's not so bad. My english is also not perfect, so apologies if some things just don't make sense.
I will post some pics of my xtals, some notes on the xtraction and a few words on my first experiences tonight CET, but I need to go birthday-present shopping now. :d
Happy tripping!
A few things about me, and how I got to where I am right now - just to provide some context for my following posts. The physical aspect: male, late 20's, 6 feet 3, around 200 pounds, kinda athletic, but no six-pack :? .
It all started soo really promising... In high school I was one of those, who never had to learn a word, and got 5-s (like A-s in the states) all the time. I enjoyed those years quite a bit - I had all the free-time in the world, good looks and a decent amount of money too. Never too much, but I could afford 2 movies a week, and a billiard session in the pub every once in a while. I liked to drink, but I only managed to get tooootally wasted only twice so far - not experiences I'd like to repeat. I also couldn't get myself to enjoy either coffee or smoking, and I still don't know what people find attractive in it. Caffeine and cigarettes had no effect on me whatsoever, and the latter made me smell utterly awful. I have a very heightened sense of smell (I can recognize girls only from their natural scents from a few feet away :d ), which proved to be very nice since I discovered wine-tasting but i simply can't stand to be in the vicinity of heavy smokers.
In my experimentation with different smoking herbs (bidis, some eastern-european smoking blends - nasty) I stumbled on weed, and it seemed like a good choice at the time. I wouldn't smoke it more than 1-2 times a week, so no unbearable cinder smell, but it made me lightheaded, giggly, and really mellow. The only thing I missed was the visuals some of my pals claimed to have. I always had a thing for hallucinations, but I never got them myself, no matter what. I gave up on weed in half a year, because of the side effects (total demotivation, and the i-don't-give-a-shit-about-anything attitude), and a very bad trip with some pcp infused stuff I was given as clean...
After that I let the drugs go, and went to college, but it just wasn't the same. The attitude stayed, and I started noticing my short-term memory lacking a bit. It took me some time to change that, and it involved a very pronounced spiritual change, something very private but enlightening. Unfortunately I always had the need for "addiction" - not really substances, but something to really focus on. I went through lot of things, including drawing, computer games, CCG-s, WoW (the worst IMO
) and recently I'm stuck with this internet thingy. The craving for altered mind states never stopped, this special kind of curiosity always stayed with me and bugged me from time to time. Unfortunately in Hungary LSD and shrooms were REALLY scarce recently, and from some of my friends experiences even if you found them, most of the times the blotters were fake or not LSD, and the shrooms could get REALLY nasty - permanent liver and kidney damage nasty :shock: . After like 4-5 years of a brake, I just stumbled upon some ebay sellers offering an enormous selection of "natural high" herbs, and I looked some up on erowid, and then later even experimented with a few. The only one I found promising was lady Salvia, using self made extracts, but the smoke is so damn harsh, that I don't play with her more than once every two months. I am aiming to become a scientist, and my thoroughness with research before use was always a must. That is how I found out about DMT, and after reading quite a few of Erowid exp reports, I decided this to be my best choice for the type of journey I always dreamed about. I acquired some MHRB from a mexican seller, and tried to extract some of the spice for the first time - and I failed miserably. At the time my lab experience was still a bit lacking, and time was also scarce, so I decided to go with an STB extraction, but the tek I worked with had some intrinsic flaws, and I ended up with some nasty naphta emulsion on top of some barely hidrated, not basic enough root bark. I decided to abandon the project, and focus on learning for some time, but school was getting harder, and I just forgot about the 50g-s of unprocessed MHRB in the freezer - I hid it too well
. Recently I found myself with three whole weeks of free time, and started to rearrange some of my stuff in the lab freezers, and then I found the almost forgotten bark. I took it as a sign, and this time I looked even more carefully into things, and since fumarate just seemed to be unavailable to me, I decided to go with Vovin's Tek, with some slight mods. I used analytical grade citric acid for the A step, and a much lower volume of the basic solution - the freshly calibrated, quality pH meter made things so much easier. After 4 naphta pulls (3rd warm, 4th overnight, then warmed) and some freeze precip I ended up with 258mg-s of yellowish-white xtals, from the 50g MHRB this looks like 0.5% - not so bad for root bark nearly 2 years old.
This should be quite enough for background info, and the intro too, kinda wall-of-text-ish, but hope it's not so bad. My english is also not perfect, so apologies if some things just don't make sense.
I will post some pics of my xtals, some notes on the xtraction and a few words on my first experiences tonight CET, but I need to go birthday-present shopping now. :d
Happy tripping!
