DOSE:

oral

4-AcO-DMT

(powder / crystals)

BODY WEIGHT:

140 lb

This trip report is a description of my first experience with 4-Acetoxy-DMT (which I will just call 4-aco-dmt), this is my first experience with psychedelics in general. A couple months before the events described here I had becomes very interested in psychedelics. I had almost no experience with drugs of any sort other than alcohol and prescription opiates, so psychedelics struck me as being very exotic and interesting. After visiting several forums, I learned about research chemicals, and I was told that 4-aco-dmt was an enjoyable substance, so, I went ahead and purchased a small amount. After this I continued reading advice/experiences on the internet and started to make some preparations.

I collected music that I liked and arranged it into a playlist that I could listen to during the comeup and the trip itself. I also went around collecting some “trippy” images that I thought I might enjoy looking at and some videos that I thought would be cool (Specifically the TV show “Off the Air.”) To be honest, I was very nervous about my first trip. I decided that I would go for a walk along the beach near my house during the experience. I didn’t have anyone who could trip sit for me, and I wasn’t entirely sure exactly how lucid I would be while I was tripping. Still, I was set on doing it anyway.

Now for the first trip itself.

[Erowid Note: Two samples of powder (even of the same chemical) with equivalent volumes won't necessarily weigh the same. For this reason, eyeballing is an inaccurate and potentially dangerous method of measuring, particularly for substances that are active in very small amounts. See this article on The Importance of Measured Doses.]
It was a Friday night, and the weather was very pleasant (I had settled on night time because I was worried about going outside during the day while tripping.) I sat down at my computer desk and took out the 100mg baggie I had acquired. At the time I did not have a scale capable of measuring milligrams, so I did my best to divide the powder into five even lines for a 20mg dosage. I scraped the drug into a small and thin slice of cheese, balled it up, and then swallowed it whole as if it were a pill. I was extremely nervous, my hands were shaking and my heart was racing. I turned on the playlist I had arranged and sat back breathing deeply to calm myself down.

My stomach was empty, so I started to really feel effects after about twenty minutes. I was hit by a wave of euphoria and began laughing for no particular reason. All the anxiety I had previously felt was gone, and I just felt wonderful. I looked around my room and saw that the white door to my closet was now tinted a greenish color, which I found very funny. After some time, I began to notice slight tracers from my hands moving, and decided it was time to go out. I got up, went to the door, and opened it, which made me feel proud of myself for properly operating a doorknob. I walked down the stairs and stopped to pat my dog, all of which made me feel very good about everything in general. I was feeling very happy and content, like all was right with the world.

I opened the front door and immediately noticed that everything was very bright, despite the fact that it was around 9:30pm. Street lights seemed much brighter than normal, and the glow of the lights over the city were also very bright. The sky was beautiful. I went to the beach and stood on the sand marveling at the ocean and the sky. It seemed like every time I looked back at the sky the clouds and the glow from the city lights had changed color. The stars in the sky seemed to be moving around and I was amazed at how...large the sky as a whole was. I was laughing uncontrollably, and I was aware that there was a young couple sitting on the beach wall about 40 yards away. I didn’t really care at the time, even though I felt like they were watching me. I heard the girl laugh, which made me laugh even harder. At the time I believed she was laughing for a very long time, and the sound was very loud, as if she was standing right next to me. I estimate that this went on for about 30 minutes. My perception of time was pretty warped, and it felt like a much shorter period of time.

I suddenly decided that I wanted to run. There’s a spot on the beach where the beach and the street diverge so street level is much higher up, so the beach wall is about ten feet tall.

I would estimate that I was probably about 150 yards away from there at the time. I started running as fast as I could towards that area, and I felt amazing. I felt like I was moving at an incredibly high speed. The beach seemed to stretch on forever in front of me, and I started to wonder how long it was going to take me to reach the end. Suddenly I looked to my left and saw a man walking along the street by the concrete beach wall. This startled me for some reason, and I realized that I was acting very strangely. I slowed down and tried to pretend that I was just jogging or something. At this point I was right at the area I had been trying to reach, so I went to the base of the high wall. While I was walking over to some of the large rocks at the base of the wall, I spotted a piece of driftwood. I said out loud “Is that a cat?” and went over to investigate it. I had previously been thinking about animals (specifically my dog) and I had wanted to touch a cat as well. I was interested in sensations in general. Despite sprinting 150~ yards I didn’t really feel worn out, but I was breathing heavily, which is interesting to note because I’m not exactly fit.

I went over to some large rocks that are right up against the base of the wall, and began touching the concrete to see what it felt like. I really enjoyed the rough feeling of it, so I spent several minutes just running my hands along the wall. Eventually I stopped and decided to sit down. I sat there staring at the ground for a while and touching the rock I was sitting on. For some reason I got a slightly paranoid sense that someone was watching me, so I kept twisting around to look at the top of the wall to see if someone was looking down at me from the street. I sat there for a while admiring the ocean and sky some more. I tried to close my eyes to rest for a bit, but my memory of the scenery around me was so vivid that it was almost like I was still seeing everything even with my eyes shut. I reached up to touch my face and verify that my eyes were really closed, and they were.

I sat on the rocks thinking about my life and the people I knew for some time (I was also talking to myself the whole time, but that’s not really unusual for me). I reflected on my personal relationships, and felt that I knew a lot of very good people, and that maybe I didn’t give them enough appreciation. My thoughts moved to a coworker who had recently quit. Despite the fact that I didn’t know him very well, thinking about this made me very upset. I almost cried when I realized I would probably never see them again. My thoughts took a more depressing turn from there, and I realized I needed to steer myself away from that sort of thing.

After steering my mind away, I started to think about the people online who had given me advice. I started thinking about how I needed to thank them for everything they told me. I got up and started walking to an area where the wall gets a bit lower again, and looked over it while standing on my toes. I believe I saw a black and white cat standing on the wall. It is possible that I merely imagined it, since it is a strange coincidence that I had been thinking about cats just a few minutes before seeing this one. I was very excited to see it, because I wanted to touch it and say hello. I tried calling out to it, but it just stayed where it was and looked at me. I then attempted to climb over a lower (5ft~) part of the wall, which should have been a pretty easy task. My coordination seemed to go out of the window though, because I ended up just sort of bumping into the wall instead of hoisting myself onto it. The cat then began to walk away, and I decided to go around the high area and back onto the street. Despite this, I suddenly noticed a clam shell on the ground and picked it up. I stood there examining it for a moment before I remembered what I had been doing.

By the time I got to where I had seen the cat, it was long gone (if it was ever actually there in the first place). I stayed standing on the sidewalk leaning against the wall, and I began to admire some trees on the other side on the street in someone’s yard. Their beauty was breathtaking, and while I was standing there staring at the trees they seemed to fill my entire vision, almost as if my eyes were a camera zooming in on them. I was seeing an illusion of faces in the leaves of the trees, and I remembered seeing a painting showing something similar. As I mentioned before, there was an enhancement of colors. Everything looked very pretty. Every color appeared bright and saturated.

While I was standing there I noticed that someone was approaching me on the left. I believe it was a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt, but when I looked up, he suddenly turned around and began walking in the opposite direction very quickly. I had the sudden urge to go talk to him and at the same time I wondered “Where is he going?” and I was concerned that I had somehow scared him. At this point I realized that I had been standing on the sidewalk for quite some time with my mouth hanging open (I had actually drooled on myself a bit.) I then started to get paranoid about being arrested and decided I should walk home. When the idea of being arrested/confronted by the police crossed my mind, I started to get very annoyed at the notion of someone trying to arrest me for harmless fun. I quickly put this out of my mind because it was bothering me.

I started walking along the sidewalk to head home. I was making a conscious effort to act normal, because I felt like people were watching me.

I was making a conscious effort to act normal, because I felt like people were watching me.

Still, while I was walking I noticed tracers out of the corner of my vision from my hands swinging at my sides. I began waving my hands around in front of my face to get a better look at them while walking. I realized that looked very odd, so I stopped. I continued to touch bushes, other plants, and grass on my way back though, just to see how they felt. Right as I was arriving home, I saw my neighbor stepping out of his car. This freaked me out, because I didn’t want him to know that I was on drugs. I started thinking to myself about what to say and how to act. This was pretty successful as far as I can tell, because I passed him and he said “Oh hi, what’re you up to?” and I just said “I’m just out for a walk. Have a nice night.” and then kept walking. I felt very proud of myself for not panicking and immediately went inside.

After this, I went back to my room and looked at some more pictures, listened to music, and watched some of the shows/videos I had prepared earlier. All of which were very interesting and enjoyable. Music sounded great, and it was easy to get absorbed in listening to it. The program I had chosen (Off the air) was very interesting to watch. It involves a lot of strange video clips full of bright colors and shifting visuals. I watched the episodes 'Color' and 'Light' which seemed appropriate. In total I would say the real trip only lasted about 3-3.5 hours, but I was still feeling a mild headspace for some time after that.

Overall, the trip was amazing. Other than the (short) periods where I felt paranoid or sad, I spent the vast majority of the trip feeling nothing but pure joy and amazement. I really couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to psychedelics, in my opinion.

Exp Year: 2014	ExpID: 108171
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 20
Published: Mar 15, 2018	Views: 1,280
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