Yopo is a fucking bat outta hell

Mother of god....

Set/Setting: Evening around 10 past 10. Optimistic but anxious

Method: Three seeds crushed and basified with baking soda to a fine powder then dried under a lamp for 10 minutes. Snorted all at once in both nostrils. Jesus. It tasted god awful and had a terrible burn. The drip was also disgusting and made me want to gag. The taste seemed to remain for a majority of the time. After 2 minutes I felt stupid cause nothing happened then WHAM!

I peaked like a son of a bitch and the vertigo was insane. I went immediatly from my chair to lay down on the couch. After another 30 seconds I felt real dizzy with some slight head pressure so I got up to get a drink and realized I needed to re-route to the bathroom. Didn't quite make it to the toilet (missed by 6 inches) and did a little porcilen praying. Sat there for a little while longer, still not tripping, just feeling euphoric and ill. The ill overpowered the euphoria, and composed of mostly head pressure and dizzyness. I started to panic a little because my research described visuals but I just felt sick. I talked myself down reminding myself that I did not take a lethal dosage and that no matter how bad it was it would go away. I soon became calm again.

The vertigo was still unbearable and the light was a little to harsh so I went to my room with the light off and shut the door. Instantly I started to panic so I opened the door again. My fear of the dark was inexplicable. I layed down and felt really hot so I took off all of my clothes and laid there for a while. Then I started to notice some odd things. The hallucinations were mild but somehow intense. No color differentials but there were no shadows anymore and VERY high contrast in everything. Everything I looked at was blocky and a single solid color. No gradients at all. I laid there for a while and realized I couldn't keep track of time so with some effort, fighting off the naseua, I got up and turned on Dark Side of the Moon. As the first track fired up I remember reading about intense close eyed visuals. I closed my eyes and saw nothing at first. I made note that I was indifferent to the music which I considered odd because I usually love the album on psychedelics.

Then visuals began to materialize. There were no colors but I could definatly see shapes. The start looked like one of those old movies where the credit screen burned away from the city. The illness began to fade as I focused on the images. It was like I was standing on a sidewalk and these silohettes were passing me by. I couldn't see them clearly but somehow I knew that they weren't human. One of them approached me and came closer to me. It was strange but I felt remarkably close to it emotionally, like a friend I hadn't seen in a long time. There was a longing to put my arms around them. Sufice to say being a simple closed eye hallucination this was impossible. Soon the images began to fade and I made more note of the room. I still felt a little nauseous and the music could no longer hold my attention.

I got up and felt the vertigo again, walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower. I let the water fall on me trying to keep the dizziness from forcing me to vomit. Soon I became bored with the shower and plugged the tub and switched to the tap to fill the bath. I layed back as the water ran and was a little confused because I still felt the shower hitting me on the chest. The tub was full and I put my head under the water and kept my mouth above the surface. 5 minutes passed and this time I saw a bright white light. I thought it might be coming from outside the curtain and checked. It blocked out the light so I went back underwater and tried to focus on the light. I had no control over what I saw. It was quite unlike LSD where focusing could produce results. I layed their watching the light blip come and go until the water felt cold. I got out and checked the clock. It had only been 15 minutes from the time I entered the shower until I got out of the bath. It had felt like much longer. The naseua had been reduced to a simple motion sickness feeling. The visuals were no longer present and I began to feel more relaxed. I cleared my sinuses of any remaining powder.

As the trip was for the most part over, save some afterglow, I began to review the experience in my head. I figured that I may have taken to much and that may explain the intense sickness. Future plans with yopo would be a lighter dose and possibly the incorperation of marijuana as it has been a psychoactive activator for me in the past. I believe I would either have to take it orally or smoke before hand because I dont believe I could have the energy under the drugs powerful effects.

Conclusion: Definatly not a party drug and should be used with a profound respect and cation.

 

whats yopo? a legal plant? sounds a bit sketch.

 

Yopo is a seed used by native american shamans. It was ground with limestone dried, then insulfated for its psychedelic properties.

 

Just curious but Did you ever try to smoke the toasted yopo seed? Might be easier.

 

DarkLunacy, let me guess the color of your visuals... blue to indigo.

trippedelia, yopo contains DMT...in fact, I believe it was the first plant discovered to contain N,N-DMT.

and yes, DMT requires that much respect. it's by no means a recreational drug, but a serious tool for ego-check.

 

yeah ok just never heard of it, i know DMT isnt "sketch" just needs to be severely respected, is yopo legal?

 

When I closed my eyes the images were like glowing darkblue wireframes

 

yeah, that's the odd thing, the inconsistencies of these drug laws.

mimosa root bark, psychotria viridis, yopo, and the phalaris grasses are all legal to order and possess...it's when you attempt to consume them, or extract, that a legal infraction is committed.

McKenna was right...it would be absolutely absurd to illegalize a plant.

 

I have tried to smoke and insuffulate yopo. I have to say I agree. The smoking thing didnt do much, but when i did get it to work it was soo weird. i also got REALLY dizzy and fell over. I j ust kind of lay on the ground until it was over though. weird shit.

 

yopo contains blends of three tryptamines, dmt, 5meodmt and bufotenine. the ratios of the three vary with different batches of seed. i suspect based on your trip report that 5 meo dmt may have been the dominant tryptamine in your seeds. seeds that are higher in dmt, produce an immediate flood of visuals.

i might be wrong i havent read up on snuff in awhile