San Pedro trip statistics for the record; aka a fantasy in p minor

Swim's weekend experience. 6 twelve inch cuttings (12-13 inches long x 3) peeled, decored, white material discarded, green skins cut away and dried in the oven, after powdered yielded about 132 grams of powder. 3 straight pulls in an alcohol extraction using two large jars plus two speed pulls by boiling (carefully) alcohol under a vapor hood. Strained powder residue from liquid using paper towels. 3 solid weeks or more during extraction phase. Yield was 32-33 AA capsules; large side filled, then capped with small side (tarry residue tamped lightly into capsule to fill space).

Dose split by number (not weight) evenly between two people. Washed down with cranberry juice on empty stomachs (no food 6+ hours or more) around 3 pm ish. Each person took 7 capsules, waited about 50 minutes, took another 7 capsules, then waited about 35 minutes for remaining 3 ish each. Both begin feeling light effects around 40 minute mark (auras, color enhancement, warmish). Smoked a little weed to offset any possible nausea. Consensus was that this sped things up.

From that point things continued to ramp up to a strong or even very strong trip. Open eyed visuals: Walls melted and moved. Painting on wall becoming three dimensional. Print (high quality painting) on another wall showing river, grass, and animals became animated: river flowed, grass waved in a breeze, animals moved upstream slowly. Swim looked at his hand which seemed sort of to have eyes in the middle knuckles or to have red glowing coals in the joints of his fingers. Very warm, both of the participants with strong jack a lantern grins. Wild and colorful closed eye visuals strong enough to become lost in. Trip continued getting stronger, every time the participants thought theyd seen it all, it just turned another corner and unwound reality some more. TV on, and past a certain point we no longer could identify what was on tv even if we knew the program or movie, the distortions and hallucinations were so bizarre. TV seemed to be looped and playing same thing over and over and over, people on tv seemed to be cardboard cutout figures with faded old timey newspaper photo faces pasted on with a seperate cut out for a mouth and the whole apparition floating and bobbing in the weirdest way. The mouth bobbing seperately from the rest. Colors were often greenish and washed out on tv, or excessively rainbow. Strong feeling that what swim was seeing was some kind of well done intentional subliminal electronic message underlying the program, but no paranoia. Confusing, somewhat nightmarish, but reasonably never scary or uncomfortable. A very lucid trip but with the sensation of intervals of unawareness or timelessness. A lot of warm happy constant hysterical laughing and high pitched comments from the participants about what was happening. Felt like laughed the entire time, continuously. T+2 hrs, +3 hrs, +4hrs, trip remained strong with every indication of getting weirder and weirder. Much of the early part of the trip for swim was very physical; twitching and jerking while sitting, tensing up hands and arms. Hands and fingers curling over. When walking head was twisted off to the right and was walking in circles. Very wired physically, hard to sleep much, when the trip was cycling down at 2 or 3 am. Physically, the trip was much like being very drunk.

The participants wanted very much to go outside, but knew theyt couldnt handle it: far too much stimulation while light out. They risked going out on back porch a few times, but that became too much after only a few minutes; windy day, sun on leaves, way way too much, we'd start laughing hysterically and yelling how it was impossible or etc. Anybody seeing the participants couldnt mistake us for anything other than tripping, and swim and friend were completely unable to act any different. Like being immersed in hot water.

Trip seemed to phase in and out regularly, from timeless and almost unaware to faintly lucid and checking how much time had elapsed and whether participants were ok. A constant feeling of heat and pressure gave swim a faint and consistent headache in the back of swim's head, but not bad. Both of the participants commented on the feeling of "saturation", a not unpleasant, but thick taste/smell of cactus alkaloids appeared and disappeared often. Had some sense of waking up periodically to notice the sun was low, lower, and then gone. At 2 am still effects going on, though much lighter, but very burnt out and tired, kind of a cross between being very happy, and feverishly recovering from an illness.

Next day, tired and weary, but progressively fully recovered without problems. No vomiting (possibly because insect shield painstakingly peeled off cactus, and almost all white material omitted)( Also possibly because participants staggered the dose )(which they believe lengthened the trip), and/or because they smoked a small amount of pot. Other guy claims a lot of experience with lsd, but says he never has had a trip like that.

 

6 twelve inch cuttings! shared between 2 people.
So you took 32 inches if cactus? thats heaps, no wonder yo fried your brain!

 

What a trip report - how did you feel the next day? SWIM also notices the too speedy feeling of cacti - but it's a small price to pay for glory. SWIM has had 1/10 the amount of you and had a mild, but very good trip.

 

how much would 3 feet be equivalant to in a mescaline sulfate extract? i just took 2 feet this past weekend and was blown AWAY. it was the strongest trip that i've ever had. amazing

peace,
Steven

 

Next day wasnt bad, no real problems, tired. Swim estimates probably had around 500 mg trip. Swim one time boiled up one cactus and drank and had very lite threshold trip.Another time, 2 cactus (59 grams dried greenskins) from same US source thru alcohol extraction had very interesting, happy, glowy, warm, kool aid smile trip but no real hallucinations (perception changes and distortions only). 3 was maybe a bit too much, but delivered big time on very active and unavoidable hallucinations/visions. Wasnt thinking saw them, actually looking right at them. Youll get effects on lower doses, they become stronger as you increase dose. Also size of person makes a big difference. Swim and friend are 208-220 and over 6'1", many persons hipforums report 140 lb body weights. Also source is a big one, in UK or Amsterdam or peru the sources are or could be much stronger. Preference and sensitivity likely should also be considered. Weak trip for some, strong for others, etc. Setting and expectations also influences trip reports.

The trip described was Mescaline Carbonate.

IMO, swim continues to believe that US source cactus are barely able to deliver 125-175 mg of mescaline per cactus (actual yield), and bases doses on this belief. Think about it, 6 cactus between 2 people...neither of participants freaked, lost consciousness, vomited, or had diarrhea. Length of trip argues for the 500 mg range. From 132 g of pure greenskins only, that percentage of mescaline would ballpark .75%. Thats respectable but not excessive anecdotally...YMMV. Extraction time was nearly a month.

 

did you get the shakes real bad?? when i did 2 ft i was shaking like hell. i mean all out twitching and spasming. also really cold. i'm use to this from psychedelics, but it was a lot worse than when doing 1 ft.

i really want to get to that point with visuals, as it does take a lot of effort to get strong visuals at lower doses. when you see them, if you lose focus they just disappear and then you're left straining your eyes. i got so much more melting and ridiculous OEV colors. no forms of any sort, just colors. cev were very patterned and even more colorful. i think i got lucky with the potency of the cuttings. i'm aiming to do a 400 mg mescaline sulfate (or a variant) as that is what Aldous Huxley did and it brought about The Doors of Perception.

peace,
steven

 

Yes, Swim reacted very physically, twitching, shaking, muscle tensioning, etc. Wasnt painful, wasnt a problem; you just cant sit still, like a lot of nervous energy. But the other participant was just chilling out, laid out relaxing without much physical response.

3 cactus will do it for you, but get a good night sleep the nite before, make sure you have eaten reasonably recently, but not less than 6 hours before you ingest (take your dose on an empty stomach), and swim would recommend limiting extraneous stimulation.

Like Poltergeist, leave that tv thing outside...

Stay relaxed, dont fight it, and just let yourself go with the current...