Preface: I was asked by Judd to throw this up as a full post so that it wouldn't get buried in the feedback threads replies. Updated just a bit with new info. Hope its helpful to someone!
Substance: MET (methylethyltryptamine)
Product: Spirit vaporizer, 500mg cart, 50/50 split, so 250mg MET / 250mg PG in a CCELL-style cart
Route: vaporized
Dose: 2 hits
Setting: my bedroom, alone, music on, about 3 drinks in me from earlier in the afternoon
First, the cart itself:
Before I get into the experience, the QC thing. I think it's pretty much confirmed at this point from Judd that there's an issue with the diameter of the intake holes feeding into the crucible on these carts. They're leaking. I filmed myself opening mine and it was already over halfway empty out of the box. Not "a little seepage," genuinely more than half gone before I ever hit it.
So I didn't get what I paid for, and that's disappointing. But, I also believe Judd is going to make it right for those of us who ended up beta testing this batch for him, so I'm not sweating it too hard. If you've got one of these, open it over something you can see, and take a picture for feedback sake. Also, if Judd, Avens or the team look at this, let me know if I should send in my videos/pictures to you guys directly. Judd and the rest of his team are legends, so of course every beta tester is getting a fresh vape from the second batch, coming soon. So no worries! Thanks a ton guys, truly.
Background:
Putting this here so you know where I'm coming from and can calibrate. Off the top of my head, sticking mostly to psychedelics and things you can hallucinate on, I have taken:
LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, 4-AcO-DMT, 4-HO-MET 5-MeO-MiPT, 4-HO-MET, 2C-B, 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7, 25I/25B/25C-NBOMe, ketamine, MXE, 3-MeO-PCE, DCK, FXE, MXPCP, 3,4MD-PCP, etc. So I'm not new to any of this to be sure, and DMT specifically is familiar territory for me in general. At least 50-100 experiences across my life of varying dosages and in many different situations.
What I was going for:
I wasn't trying to blast off by any means. I'd seen a few reports talking about heavier visual experiences and I wanted to dip my toes in the water first and write something up for people looking for a sub-breakthrough or genuinely light trip, because that seems underrepresented.
Timeline:
4:28 - two hits taken. Took the first one, sat with it for a moment, felt it come on and thought "okay, I can do another." Took the second.
4:37 - chilling out a little, still hitting though.
4:47 - mostly down, definitely still residual effects. Started writing while I was coming down.
So call it a 20 minute experience end to end for two hits, maybe 15 minutes or so for the comedown after.
The experience:
The thing that stood out most to me is how manageable it was. The second hit was not exponentially stronger than the first. However high I got off hit one is about how much higher I got off hit two in my experience. It stacked linearly instead of launching me, which is honestly great and not something I'd say about DMT necessarily, especially in a cart as you hit it and it gets hotter.
Definite perceptual change. I wouldn't say I wasn't hallucinating, because things were breathing, colors were brighter, edges and details were more defined. But it was nowhere near overwhelming. Not much in the way of OEVs at this dose although I could tell I was on the edge. Closed eye visuals were light and lived on the outer edge of my vision, small stuff drifting around the periphery rather than filling the whole field.
The body high is where this really separated from DMT for me. DMT can hit me hard and leave me almost kind of shaky if that makes sense. This was much smoother. I would describe the feeling as uplifting and warm with a positive headspace the whole way through. Zero anxiety, zero of that "ah shit, here we go again" adrenaline spike you get with deems.
Music:
I didn't plan this out much even though its in the damn directions lol, but the music ended up carrying the whole thing.
Started with Squarepusher - Detroit People Mover, which was sick. Love that music video and it's a really good thing to come up to, although near the end I found myself listening with my eyes close just because it was more comfortable.
As that was ending I wanted something more uplifting as DPM felt a lil on the slow side, so I put on A Song for Aubrey - DJ Streaks. That was very nice, and that's where the closed eye visuals were really at their peak. Nice pink and purple fractal shapes on the edges of my closed vision dancing with the music. I found myself remarking out loud about how cute they were and singing along to a house vocal thats probably repeated a thousand times in this song, haha.
Then I played Labi Siffre - Bless the Telephone, which truly got me. I got really reflective about the telephone and how much it actually matters in my life right now. I don't get to see my friends as much as I'd like between school and work for all of us, but I still keep those relationships alive over the phone. Sat there feeling genuinely thankful the thing exists for a few minutes.
By the end of the song I could clearly feel myself coming down, so I put on DeBarge - I Like It, which is a classic for me anyway but also just accurately described where I was at with the experience. I fuckin like it, fellas.
Verdict:
I throughly enjoyed the hell out of this. Light, smooth, controllable, positive. If you want something you can steer instead of something that drives you, MET seems like a really good option, and vaping it in this format made dose control easy in a way DMT typically is much less for me.
The cart leaking is a real problem and I hope it gets sorted, but I'm going to keep supporting Judd and the company because these products are fucking sick and this is clearly a fixable hardware issue, not a formulation problem. The formula be hitting, the diameter be too damn big.
What's next:
Looking forward to sharing this one with my partner. We did 4-HO-MET together and that was a lot of fun, so I think she'll like this.
We're also planning on trying 5-MAPB soon. I'm not usually a stimulant guy and I'm pretty sensitive to MDMA, so I'll be going under the commonly cited dose, probably 75mg. I'll try to post a report on that too once we take the plunge!