General Discussion

2 grams. That is where for myself, I feel like I get a good feel for a new variety. It’s also the point that with most varieties I will start to get visuals more than colors just looking prettier than normal, even when others will get them at lower amounts.

I’ve tried three, absolutely amazing varieties from Skye, each with surprisingly different effects. Below are my reports on each at 2 grams. For each the fruit was ground and mixed with apple sauce and consumed.

Engima

If Engima had a persona, it would be an old hippie mother sitting on a log in the forest, holding your hand while you went on an adventure. The body load on these are way less than on any other cube I’ve taken – the whole trip is a buttery smooth glide from start to finish. But don’t let these ease of the body load fool you, these are potent. Mentally these were the first time where for a while I felt a bit detached from reality. Nothing near the out of body experience or ‘ego death’, but where I felt like time had in a way become frozen around me and I was an outside observer. Solid/static objects had a quality that reminds me of the stillness/sharpness of the bedroom scene in “2001: a Space Odyssey”. Natural things, such as the grass, had heavy breathing effects. Looking up at the stars, it was as if I could see the lines between the constellations. Fences, walls, had moving patterns but lightly.

I came out of the trip feeling so comfortable physically that I felt like I could have easily taken double the amount and been completely fine. My typical experience with other cubes in general is that come down is a bit harsh, where I feel like all my nerves are trying to figure out how to fire properly again and it can feel uncomfortable (and occasionally painful). Not with the Enigmas. I was physically tired, but well.

My last note here is that in most of my trips, I feel a wanderlust. At 2 grams on these I had enough presence of mind to stay within the confines of the house/backyard where we’ve set up a safe space. At a later time at a higher dose, there were more precautions made to ensure I didn’t decide to take a run out of the neighborhood and into a cornfield.

From ingesting to noticing effects was about 40 minutes, and very gradual. 95% back to normal after 5 hours.

Albino Bluey Vuitton

If a year ago someone would have told me that I would see hands/feet with 6-7 digits and be able to push the skin around on my body and have it appear as if it was clay at only 2 grams, I would have laughed them off. But yet here we are…

If the ABVs had a persona, this is the rich girl with a designer handbag to show off, who parties way too much. I have never before experienced such strength of both visuals and body load at only 2 grams. Amazingly clear headspace for just how wild things got. In addition to seeing more fingers and toes on myself and on my trip companion than is normal, patterns on the walls were very evident and popped out in a way when I put my hand or foot on the wall with the patterns, the visual was splashing through them and then the patterns flowing around me. Less breathing effects but the floor did get very rippled at points in time.

While fully present of mind, time distortion was a thing. What felt like an hour at one point was only 10 minutes. Typically this is a pretty cool effect because it makes a trip feel like it is lasting longer.

But the body load was very heavy, and 2.5 hours in both my companion and I kind of wanted off the physical rollercoaster. More than once I found my heart rate trying to match the beat of the music we were playing, and we had to change to a slower beat.

My last note here is that the Albino Bluey Vuitton’s need a warning label, even for the experienced psychonaut. But they are visually the most I’ve ever felt that I could manipulate what I was seeing by interacting with it, and in the visual sense are more in the realm of Pan Cyan than any Cube I’ve ever had. But body load? Make sure you don’t have much to do the next day.

From ingesting to noticing effects was about 25 minutes and came on strong once it did, and did not let up. 95% back to normal after 6 hours.

Starry Night APEs

If a year ago someone told me that only 2 grams I would have my concept of self be floating external to me, I would have thought they were out of their mind. But once again I would have been mistaken.

The persona of the Starry Night APEs is simply cosmic. The body load was like a weight had been placed atop me (not harsh, just heavy), and my companion and I spent the first half of the experience pretty much plastered to the bed, staring at the aurora and bubble lights we’d set up. We typically listen to music such as Pink Floyd or the like, but honestly hearing words was too distracting and we went for some mellow, earthy background noise. Walking was not a reasonable option as when trying to walk the visual effects included things pulling away, and other big changes in depth perception.

But this was visually stunning. The walls at one point just faded away and the lights seemed to continue into an endless abyss. At times it felt like I was looking up through water at the lights. There was a haze in the room with patterns floating with the lights. Not quite touchable, but close. Trailing after image of any movement was quite pronounced. Colors and objects lost the sharpness of their forms. The guitar across the room, appeared as if I was a blob of colored water in the shape of a guitar. This was beautiful, it was a very pleasant feeling. A little hard to think about much or put things into words at the time, but for the first half still very present of mind.

Then hitting the peak, I noticed the way I was perceiving my voice, and myself was not myself, but my grandmother. And then suddenly I layed back again and I was not. My name metaphorically floated out in front of me, and the important things connected to the name reached to it in lines, akin to a network graph. But that was not me at the time. I felt blank as a physical body – and I’d categorize it as ego death. At a certain point I felt like myself again, but not the self that was floating metaphorically, but like an older version of myself that I hadn’t felt like in a long time. In that state the concept of feeling tired or heavy ceased to exist. I had *ENERGY* and walked off to another room that was mostly dark, and saw what I could only describe as a very light veil getting close to what I have only heard described and seen videos of people describing as a DMT type space. Geometric twisting grids with eyes and wild color flowing as a light overlay to my vision. In that ‘not myself but an older version of myself’ space of mind I was quite pissed off things I felt like I was sensing was there would not come have a proper conversation with me. I was also annoyed that I had physical sensations that felt like snakes trying to slither up my ankles. Absolutely 100% out of my mind, but in a good way.

While absolutely stunned that only 2g could dive into the realm of ego death, I’d absolutely go higher and plan to.

From ingesting to noticing effects was less than 20 minutes. I hit the 95% mark with the visuals and body load (which felt surprisingly refreshing) at 4.5 hours, but this sensation of being hyper-aware and not 100% myself lingered for a few hours after. Even the next day still felt a little surreal.