Experience:15mg 4-AcO-DMT (oral) - the trees looked cool at least

Experience index — 4-AcO-DMT

• Substance(s):4-AcO-DMT, Alprazolam
• Dose: 15mg, .75mg
• Route of Administration: Oral

Subject

• Age: 18
• Sex: Male
• Height: 165 cm / 65 inches
• Weight: 50 kg / 110 lbs
• Date: 07/2022
• Location: USA / California

Background

I have smoked weed many times before this but stopped fully around 4 months previously because I decided I just didn't need it in my life. I have also done a microdose of 4-HO-MET about a month previous to this experience, which was pretty cool, but without visuals or anything. I didn't set any intentions before, it just never crossed my mind to do so. I was feeling really positive and not anxious at all about the experience while driving down.

Experience report

  I decided I wanted to take it at a botanic garden at a college campus near where I lived, which would require me to drive there right when it opened so that by the time it closed and I had to leave I would be able to drive. Arrived at the garden, no intentions were set as I didn't even think of doing that beforehand. Once I got there I went into a porta potty with the stuff and consumed it. Afterward I started walking around and looking at the cool plants, even without having taken the psychedelics it would have been an interesting experience as it hosted plants from all around the world.
  Around 40 minutes in I started to feel a little nauseous, but it wasn't that bad at all, and I didn't think about it again afterward because around then I started getting the first warning signs that I was starting to trip. Everything started feeling wavy and walking felt weird. It was already a really nice and colorful day out but it only got more colorful. The start of the effects was very fast and it for some reason began to overwhelm me. I think this was because, even if it wasn't busy at the time, I was tripping in a public place when I haven't even tripped before in the first place. I was planning on going on a hike around the college campus once I started to feel the effects but I almost entirely forgot about the idea. Even if I hadn't forgotten I would have had no idea how to get out of the garden at this point anyways. Anyways, I got more and more anxious so to try to fix it a took ~.125-.25mg of Xanax I brought with me in case the trip went south. About five minutes later still in my scared mindset, I took another .5mg, which was then all I had with me.
  I was obviously still feeling overwhelmed so I went back to my car to breathe a little bit. The only problem with this was that I would get distracted by something random every 10 seconds so trying to chill myself down was very hard. My mouth was also extremely dry at this point and I ended up drinking half of the water I had with me, which I regretted later on. The car was way too hot to be in without the AC on, which I didn't want to have to turn on so I decided to go and try to find a bench outside, which I ended up sitting on for around an hour, just looking at the visuals and being scared as fuck. I remember one point while sitting down on the bench when I looked up to the sky and saw the moon and a plane above me which gave me extremely intense deja vu, which I have experienced to an extreme amount on weed. Thankfully that was the only time I did experience it because I really don't like the feeling. Aside from the visuals, which made everything more saturated, and wavy and lead to some weird patterns on the plants that I would not be able to explain in words, sound was also REALLY FUCKING WEIRD, which I had no idea was a thing to this extent. The bench I was it was near a road and cars passing by would sound extremely strange, sometimes like spaceships or something. People talking while on their walks around the garden also sounded really weird, to the point where I couldn't understand what they were saying, I also couldn't make out anything about the way they looked. I also remember trying to text my friends for some guidance on what to do, even though none of them have tripped before, but it would be really hard to read the text, it each letter would become bigger and smaller and go in circles, this was the same when I tried to read a book I brought with me to chill myself out. Also, my body felt really weird, it's hard to describe it.
  Sometime later I really needed to go pee so I had to get up and go back to the porta potty. Which was very weird to do, especially now that it was far busier than it was before. Halfway through peeing I forgot what I was doing which was really weird. I decided to go and find another bench to sit on a chill, as I was feeling much less scared now, probably due to the Xanax. The visuals were a bit less than before I think, but I don't remember this portion of the trip as vividly as I do the previous, I think due to the Xanax. I do remember that by staring at something for a while stuff would start to look even more trippy which was pretty damn cool. After this, I started walking around a little bit and even listened to some music, which was really cool.
  After I got tired of the garden and remembered I wanted to take a hike in the first place I attempted to find the exit out to where I wanted to go, which took me a little bit to do. At this point, all feelings of anxiety were fully gone and I was feeling awesome. I walked up a hill to the college campus, which at the top had an amazing view of the ocean, which only looked way cooler due to the psychedelics. I started walking around the college a little bit, which had really interesting architecture, at least in the part of it I was at. At one point I sat down on some stairs and could see geometric patterns in the floor, and each little piece of texture in the concrete would move around. Once I started walking again after this I walked towards a wall a couple of times, which was surprisingly fun, as it would magnify itself in a really interesting way. It started to get later in the day and I decided to walk back to the top of the hill and lay down. I did this for maybe 30 minutes, just looking at the tree waving around and the view out to the ocean.
  By the time I had to go, I was at baseline level thankfully, except for normal afterglow and a feeling of holy shit. I don't remember what I did when I got back but I remember when trying to fall asleep there were a little bit of closed-eyed visuals, probably at level two. 
  
  Overall this was a very cool trip visually, even if it was pretty damn scary at first. But interesting, I didn't feel much for a psychedelic mind space and any revelations about my life or anything else. I attribute this to probably being a mix between me having taken the Xanax to chill myself down, and me not setting an intention beforehand. If I were to do it again, I would probably either take less of the Xanax or not take it at all, or maybe take half of the dose of 4-AcO-DMT at one point, and then the other half 30 minutes later to make the come up less abrupt, but I have no idea if I work like that. I also should not have done my first full-on trip in a location like this, out in the public. Comparing it to my last trip it was very shallow, as this was almost entirely visuals, while the 5mg of 4-HO-MET, a microdose of a substance that has been called a "shallow" headspace, lead to a far more interesting headspace. 

Timeline

T+ 0:00 - Take 15mg 4-AcO-DMT oral

T+ 0:45 - First effects begin

T+ 0:55 - Take ~.75mg Alprazolam oral

T+ 1:15 - Peak of visual effects

T+ 4:00 - Start walking around college campus

T+ 7:00 - Effects 95% gone

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