Shpongled for shpongle [trip report]

Chemicals:
alcohol (about 10-12 shots through the night)
cannabis (a few bowls, and a few spliffs between 4 people, which is a lot for me, because i don't often smoke)
temazepam (about 65 mg, nasally )
hydrocodone (oral, 5 mg, because i have knee problems)
"MDMA" (oral, 1 hit of "molly" my friend gave me ages ago, suspected to be mde)
Ketamine (woohoo! [estimated] 120 mg through the night)
caffeine (400 mg, oral NoDoz)

setting: the harmony festival on saturday night, to see SHPONGLE!


driving to see SHPONGLE with my girlfriend "em", and two other close friedns "ma" and "mi" we all smoke a few bowls (i took some caffeine and a shot of vodka too!) on the car ride, preparing ourselves for an amazing night.

about 7:30pm, we are in the town, but driving to a gas station to get some chaser for the less than palatable vodka, i take take 2 5 or 6 mg bumps of temazepam...it comes on more quickly then i thought, and was at a REALLY nice buzz.

we arrive at the harmony festival at about 7:50 PM, and prepare our chemicals for entry into the festival.


Mi, Ma, and i drink the vodka that Em brought, i had about 6 shots. and they all [but not me] smoked another bowl.

we enter, and are not patted down[which makes me wish i had brought in more gooodies]. i immediately find the Erowid booth, and talk with the people for a few minutes...and got my picture taken [i'm such a nerd...hahah].

we see a Dub band play, and they were really good...i took a few more bumps of temazepam [finishing off the first 30 mg capsule], and Mi and i took a few more shots...very high at this point, and having a great time.

we walked around for another while, then went into the building where shpongle was to play, and i took a vicodin [being X dependent upon oxycodone, it didn't do anything noticable but make my bad knee hurt less]. danced for a while, just hung out...MI and i finished off his flask of vodka.

so, a few hours later (11:30) shpongle starts...time to REALLY get down take a good sized bump of K then eat the "mdma" then we smoked a spliff. it all hits me really fast, and i am EXTREMELY high. danced like i have never before, then as soon as they start spinning "nothing lasts" we do a few more big bumps of that delicious kitty...and HOLY SHIT! at a +++++++++++++++++++ HAHAHA

the mdma, which was supposed to be weak, is s hitting me pretty hard [though i've only done it 2 other times], and seems to be synergistic with everything EXTREMELY well. i was just existing, living in the moment...memory gets a bit fuzzy, as i'm on a kitty flip with a bunch on the side. i think we must have done some more k, because with the music, and other chemicals, i feel like i'm almost in a k hole, and for a while, i realize that i can't see anything but the music! music is my life, i love it more than anything, and shpongle is one of my favorites, and so this was amazing. getting heavy CEV's (seeing intense psychedelic patterns almost like a moderate dose of dmt, but certainly different than visuals k-holes have produced, though i could definately see that K was mostly responsible...this could have been shpongle's next album cover...hahah) and moderate OEV's.

shpongle was over, but we kept on dancing for another hour or 2, then walked around in the beautiful nighttime. i laid with my girlfriend for a while on some indian-looking rugs and it was really nice.

we left at about 3, got home about 405... and i took another bump of temazepam, and some melatonin and got the first good night of sleep i'd gotten in a week (it's been no more than like 5 hours for a few days)

i just woke up about an hour ago, and retrospectively, it was amazing.

still spacey [prolly from the temazepam] but what an amazing night!


[sorry about the probable grammar issues, and vagueness, but my memory is EXTremely fuzzy]

moral: if you have the opportunity to see Shpongle, you should go on a Kittyflip!

 

and i forgot to mention that i'd taken some caffeine throughout the night as well...but you get the idea.

and no bad hangover...just a bit spacey, and sore from dancing all night.

in fact, i think the anxolitic effects of the post-kitty glow are canceling out my post mdma anxiety [which had been bad before, as i have general anxiety disorder]

 

lucky! shpongle is classic trip stuff.

 

yes, it was absolutely bewildering.

 

Sounds really fun But shpongle seems really repeatative and I only like a few of their songs (shpongle falls, botanical dimensions), but thats just my opinion.

 

its repetitive because you're not supposed to listen to it, it's supposed to be the background mantra for your cosmic explorations

 

So when you're tripping and listening to it your not supposed to pay attention and just let it be backround?

Isn't the whole point of music listening to it lol?

 

I don't know what drugs or dosages you're taking where you can still listen to music

if you're talking about low dose stuff, just yeah, let it run in the background, it just adds texture to your reality, do you stare at everything in front of your face or do you let your eyes wander, your thoughts billow out, your attention swirl hither and thither . . .

 

i wholeheartedly love their music, as a music nerd.

i listen to it intently and actively listen to every note, but it is sort of repetitive like most electronic music.

to be honest, i REALLY like Younger brother (simon posford's side project with someone else) they're quite a bit different...their most recent album "last days of gravity" is my favorite mephedrone music; it's both environmental and captivating!

 

yeah that's a solid album too, great for ketamine

 

BEAUTIFUL music...they're supposed to have a new album released sometime this year...but now we're just off topic.:cheers2:

 

For me the music playing in the setting where I'm tripping has a huge influence on my visuals, both OEV's and CEV's.

 

oh my god, yes.

like, a + can turn into an epic journey with the right music