Smoking - Vilca - What did I do right?

[MusclesJensen]

SWIM hadn't had a psychedelic experience for a few years and having done some research online decided to give Vilca a try.

SWIM pretty much read every word written about Vilca/Yopo on the net and had read a lot of contradictory information about it, but had settled on a method. Here is what SWIM did, with fanstastic end results, which seems to contradict a lot of what SWIM's read. SWIM would be very interested to hear what SWIY's have to say about his experience.

SWIM received some Colubrina seeds through the mail. SWIM's first attempt at heating a couple of seeds ended up with them being burnt and stuck to the bottom of a pan, so to save further catastrophes SWIM decided to microwave just ONE seed instead, thinking that if the prep went well then SWIM could gauge the infamous nose-pain. SWIM gave them a minute in the microwave and on getting them out the shells came of easily and the inside material was brittle enough to powder with the back of a teaspoon.

SWIM then powdered the inside material, added edible lime and went to add water. As there was very little material in the bowl SWIM probably added too much. Instead of dough he had very wet sand with the odd puddle. SWIM mixed and swished this around with the handle of a teaspoon for a few minutes and then put the mix back in the microwave for 30 seconds. The mixture looked dry but to be sure he put it in for another 30. SWIM then left the mixture for ten minutes before adjourning upstairs to snort it.

On seeing the powder laid out in a line SWIM bottled it completely and thought as it was a test run that SWIM would try smoking it instead. He got a very small wooden pipe that he had and made a custom gauze with tin foil and a very fine needle (from SWIM's craft-obsessed g/f) and made sure it only had holes above the line where the powder would be so it would minimise the amount sucked through, if not eliminate that happening.

SWIM then tried a tiny taster of it, no more than a short breath in, more concerned with possible nausea than any percievable effects. To SWIM's surprise at about the three minute mark SWIM noticed a flickering of vision. No negative effects were noticed. At around five minutes he was seeing what was central in his view repeated several times in SWIM's peripheral vision. SWIM then took at larger toke. Another minute later and SWIM had incredibly intense visual effects that only grew larger as the second toke took hold. SWIM had a third fifteen minutes later and played some keyboards, but SWIM digresses . The Vilca then took on a sedative effect and SWIM laid down in bed for another thirty minutes and experienced equally intense close-eyed visuals before getting up and returning to normal in about an hour. No nausea was felt thoughout.

SWIM's experience was truly marvelous with none of the nausea or nose pain attatched with Yopo/Vilca. The experience surprised SWIM as he wasn't expecting such positive results.

What SWIM would like to know from the people here is-
a) Do people think that SWIM has got a batch that is high in DMT rather than bufotenine? It seems others have had very negative side-effects of which SWIM had none. SWIM is unable to say whether the visual effects were DMT-esque through lack of experience.
b) If smoking the mixture was what made SWIM experience no side-effects then why are people burning their noses and vomiting on their shagpiles rather than smoking it?
c) SWIM probably used way more lime and way more water than what is recommended. Is there a downside to doing this?

Thanks for reading, SWIM is trying the method again tommorow and will post here the results as SWIM feels that he could save a lot of burnt noses. Also great thanks all the SWIY's on the forum who have been discussing Vilca/Yopo in such depth as the threads were a great help to SWIM.

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Great post.