pachanoi-roy
by on July 26, 2021
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I promised someone a while ago that I would do a trip report on my next cactus experience so here goes nothin
I went to a festival last weekend with the idea of having a nice big peak while my favorite band played a 3 hour show. That's exactly what happened.
As soon as we got our camp setup and got settled in, I drank my cactus brew. Just before I got the bottle of huachuma out to imbibe, a very gentle guy came up and had a genuine but light conversation that settled my nerves a bit beforehand. I was already feeling encouragement all day beforehand, and that conversation was just another good sign about the night to come.
As I finish drinking I notice how little nausea I'm feeling, as if the viscous teacher had plans to stick around. It did end up sticking around longer than usual but it ended up coming out after a while. That didn't matter much though.
I think when I first noticed any effects was after my first portopotty visit. The shift in environment from the claustrophobic, hot portopotty to the outdoors with smiles and pleasant smells was uncanny and hit me hard. I was coming up rapidly and switching back and forth from body numbness to extreme tactile sensitivity. I had to sit down at the tent for a while.
As my favorite band takes the stage I see them through tunnel vision. Every time I close my eyes I see the things I was seeing almost exactly what I was seeing when my eyes were open, only with "inverted" colors. Kinda like an andy worhol painting or something. That's the best I can explain it. What happened when I laid down was even more unexplainable.
After the music we went to the car to grab some edibles. At that point I did about 1500mg of edibles (I have a high tolerance). Once they kicked in I was pretty much unable to walk. It was already hard to walk because it was dark and my vision was just a deluge of flat, matte colors. But then the weed caused me to be physically stoned.
So I laid down and closed my eyes while the late night tent played some seriously crunchy tunes in the not-so-far-off distance. Before I knew it I was in a swell of geometry that was colored the same weird matte colors as I mentioned earlier. The morphing and speed of the geometry was unlike anything I had ever been shown before. Ill do my best to explain it.
The shapes were round and sharp at the same time. Almost like those tribal tattoos that the tough guys used to get in the early 2000s but not really at all. If you can imagine drawing a backwards c starting from the bottom, then going up and immediately hooking down, that was how the shapes morphed.
I was also zooming in and out of the geometric worlds. I could zoom in past the scenes I was being shown to get to the next deeper "layer" of the visions. I could also zoom out and get a giant panorama of what was happening. It was so incredible. Whenever I reach that level of tripping with tryptamines I am almost never lucid enough to remember what was happening. With this trip I was fully there.
So much of the night is getting skipped because I don't want to write this for 4 hours, but suffice to say some of the intentions I set for my trip were tested while we were there. I believe I did a-ok, which means I'm really making progress in my life and with my character. I'm also totally grateful for my wonderful partner who is everything I need in life. I didn't need help realizing that but it was something I felt deeply the whole time.
I was kind of on the fence about taking this specific sacrament at a festival but I guess there are ways to do that which are still respectful to the experience. If I was disrespecting the medicine I would not have been given its visions. I plan soon on taking an even higher dose while laying down and just listening for the messages.
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Shaboy
Thanks man, beautiful story. Ive never had any kind of cactus and patiently await my turn!
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