TL;DR the crazy closed eye visuals start after smoking weed (down a bit)

A classic instance of "This dose won't be shit" after a long break from psychedelics. Wasn't a huge dose but it was my first time trying 2CB.

I pulled the capsule open and prepared 2 bombs with about half of the content in each. I also swallowed the empty shell which still had some inside.

Come up

It's always hard to tell when you've started experiencing the effects but the first sign I usually notice is a body high. I can't remember exactly how my body felt but I think at one point I just wanted to get up and move around. We both spend some time looking at various objects trying to work out whether or not we were hallucinating. I remember staring at a photo of a galaxy on my phone saying "I've never been so disappointed at an image for not moving before."

We then both became transfixed on a pizza box. It had a black and white sort of Aztec pattern on it which appeared to be blurring and changing colour in areas when we moved it, although it may have just been an optical illusion because of the high contrasting patterns.

My first "woah" moment was when I looked out of the window and the whole view seemed to move away from me as I moved towards the window. I did this a few times and I think in my head I was expecting the view to come closer as if it was a photo stuck on the window rather than a view outside.

For a couple more hours we just did random stuff, laughed, looked at pictures and didn't get any noticeable visuals. We lay in bed for some time and my gf said she thought the trip was wearing off and it wasn't as strong as before. I agreed and remembered weed makes the trip much stronger so got up to light my bowl. This was when I realised I had only just reached the peak.

Peak

I stood up, looked down at my hands and simple said "no way... those aren't my hands." I've gotten this kind of dissociation before from acid where it feels like my body doesn't belong to me but is a robotic suit instead but it had been so long since I'd experienced that it took my by surprise. I waved by arms around for a while and realised I probably shouldn't smoke weed yet since I've probably just reached the peak. So about 10 minutes later I decided that I actually did want make the trip even more intense so took a few tokes from a pre filled bowl.

After smoking weed (weird visuals start here)

A few minutes into being decently stoned my gf wanted me to check if she had something stuck in her hair so I turned my phone light on and shone it down. As I shone it closer my vision seemed to zoom into the hair which took me by surprise. I think what happened was the shadows became bigger when I moved the light closer which made me think I was "zooming in".

I lay back in the bed and started seeing things in my head when I closed my eyes. They were like thoughts or which I hadn't purposely thought of. Shapes, patterns, all quite vivid. At one point I saw a kind of sphere which was full of galaxies and nebula all connected. It was all really cool at first and I could just choose to concentrate one them.

The visual then started to get quite immersive to the point where I struggled to focus on my surroundings and I started to realise things could go bad if they got too much and feel too suffocating. I've had this before during acid trips and I've always made the mistake to clutch onto reality. I did this at first by just trying to talk to my girlfriend but eventually decided I would only freak out if I tried to clutch on so I did what everyone talks about on reddit and tried to just "let go". It was hard and scary, my heart was racing and it felt like I would never return, but I knew it was just a drug and things would return to normal eventually so I tried to just breath and let the trip take over.

The only way I could describe the feeling was sitting at the top of a water slide and letting the water pull me down into the darkness. I saw a tunnel made up of a kind of fractal of wooden stair cases, a bit like the moving ones from Harry Potter. There were also chessboard unfolding and chess pieces. I saw loads of geometry which was just impossible that I'd never seen before like viewing shapes from multiple different perspectives simultaneously. Pictures like the impossible triangle and "Relativity" by Escher (the one with all the staircases and people walking upside down and things) bring me back to the sort of things I saw. I wish I could remember in more detail the stuff I saw but it was all to complex.

Comedown

I eventually started coming down (probably from the weed mainly) and I could focus on my surroundings again. At this point I tried explaining to my girlfriend what I'd seen and that's when I started gurning. I didn't notice at first but she asked "is your jaw alright" and then I noticed. So I put 2 pieces of gum in my mouth and chewed for deal life. It just felt so good. I couldn't stop chewing.

I then started to feel a bit sick so crawled out of bed and went into the bathroom. I soon forgot I was trying to be sick though when I looked in the toilet bowl and saw how the light was refracting through the water. Still hallucinating, it looked like a web of transparent, slightly multicolour tinted strings. I stopped feeling sick after a while and went back to bed.

Not sure what would have changed if I'd taken the whole capsule or whether I would have wanted to. The whole experience and all the visuals just amazed me since I'd never seen shapes like that before. I'm glad I was able to stop my trip going bad too by allowing it to take over instead of fighting it.