ibogaine as a tryptamine

[bravedog]

Ibogaine is a long-lasting tryptamine with interesting traditional and anti-addiction uses. I've read quite a bit about it and am struck by how differently it is described than other tryptamines. In fact before reading TIKHAL I thought of it as a separate class of hallucinogen and was surprised then to learn it is a tryptamine.

I am curious as to how far these differences in description actually derive from the way it is used [set and setting] and how much of its uniqueness is intrinsic. I would be most interested to hear from anyone who has used ibogaine who has also used other psychedelics. I understand that the ibogaine experience as currently structured tends to focus on internal imagery of one's important life experiences - but other psychedelics can also have this effect, especially in a therapeutic context. Does ibogaine identifiably have the characteristics of other tryptamines, such as visual patterns, motion of surfaces, deepening of color, visual tracers, sense that the "doors of perception have been cleansed", etc? Or is it in your opinion intrinsically qualitatively different from other tryptamines? Thanks

bravedog

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Top-notch question.