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charmian_rests
19 Sept 2026
So this is what it feels like...huh
Whoa! 600mg of iboga and this is what it feels like so far:
Anxiety, perception distortion, elevated heartbeat, and dizziness; it definitely snuck up on me. Luckily I am riding things out for what I am assuming is going to be a little while. But I am reaching the conclusion that certain things are not meant to be played with. Reading all of the posts on Erowid and Ibogaine.club I assumed what I needed was some profoundly vision filled quest for 28 hrs. Frankly speaking I was full of shit; 600mg is going to do it for me because this is not nearly as fun as I had in mind. Iboga is extremely powerful! Wait, let me repeat that IBOGA IS REALLY POWERFUL!
I'm suddenly reminded about how surreal it is to experience plant medicine like this. It's like the mental equivalent of the tv show "Scarred Straight" where I have the distinct feeling that iboga is showing me that it is not my path. I'm starring at the clock on my computer and the past 12 minutes have felt like an eternity, thank you for freaking me out time dilation! At this point I don't feel like touching anything more psychoactive than caffeine. Maybe that's exactly what iboga intended in the first place. The paradigm of the "modern" world is one of addiction, and dependency on consumerism, external reliance. If anything could be considered "The Antidrug" it would most undoubtedly be iboga; I personally never want to touch it again or anything else even slightly reminiscent of it.
Gotta mention how cathartic writing feels like right now. It's like a free form discourse of my thoughts transcribed for educational awareness. What I really want to make abundantly clear is that this is not a toy. It is not cannabis, mushrooms, coke, whatever...pick you poison. Based on earlier experiments with my biochemistry I didn't think that I would experience this level of effect with such a low dosage. 600mg of rootbark, not Total Alkaloid extract, or Ibogaine HCL calculated at 78.9 kg body-weight is roughly one third of the efficacious "pure Ibogaine HCL" dosage. I received such a miniscule dosage of active alkaloids yet experienced a massive effect. Yet I am glad that I now have firsthand knowledge and don't have to rely on others to describe the experience to me.
In the time that it took to write that last paragraph I am relieved to find myself coming down. Although I am still experiencing slight visual perception distortion (i.e. "trailers") the overwhelming sense of anxiety and terror is completely gone. Hat's off to those with the balls to take a flood dosage, I could easily imagine that you get shown the fabric of reality as it appears to Iboga.
And this definitely goes out to all of the cosmonauts out there who are thinking about using iboga because it is an "intense" trip; don't do it just to do it, have a reason, have a damned good reason! Used by shaman who live where the plant grows, and have esoteric knowledge revealed to them by their ancestors and iboga itself is an entirely different story.
In closing; I want to be abundantly clear that I advocate usage of any plant that grows out of the earth, "God" put them there for a reason that eludes anyone past present or future. Their wisdom is an invaluable aid to humanity; they clean our air, they filter our water, they nourish us. And if necessary, they will profoundly freak your shit out! Use wise judgment when it comes to iboga, you may not "need" the flood dosage. You can manage your own life, most of peoples problems are gross exaggerations of the real issue. Being addicted to the idea of yourself having all kinds of massive problems is an identity in and of itself. I know this because I am entirely guilty of it myself. I love me, when the hell did I decide to give up on me and sabotage my efforts in life?
Thanks for pulling a fast one on me iboga you crafty sumbitch! You definitely gave me the quick tune up I needed.