October 19, 2011
Well after I returned from my first unsuccessful ayahuasca experience on early Tuesday morning I went to bed since I didn't sleep the previous night and got up at 1pm in the afternoon. I headed down to get a coffee at one of the popular gringo places and stopped in to see if Megan and Eugene were at their hotel since I thought they would be gone on one more day tour before they leave for Lima the next day and surprisely they were there and Eugene was feeling the same way I was. Partying all night and drinking huge quantities of gasoline can give you a bit of a hangover lol!
We get our usual places at the coffee shop outside and during that time all my "homies" are coming by and pointing at me, waving, or saying Hi. There is one young guy that speaks good english and he tells me that I should just have one glass of ayahuasca should be enough. I tell Megan and Eugene that I will be like Dr Jekyll tonight as I experiment with my ayahuasca that I bought at Belen Market and they joke around saying they are going to try to break into my hotel room tonight at 10pm and trip me out! We say our good-byes as it will be the last time I see them and they are off in the morning to Lima where they will make their way back to Quito Ecuador.
The day before at this restaurant there was an older American there with his younger Peruvian wife and his sister. I guess they were in their 60's. Because he lived in Chiclayo Peru I asked if he spoke spanish and he confidently said he did and that he speaks good spanish but can't understand a single word the Peruvians say. I laugh thinking it is a joke but he says he is serious and can't understand a god damn word they say. His one sided conversations must get a little tiresome.
On my way back to my hotel I stop and pick up some ayahuasca items for my gringo kit which are clorets and milk. I still don't feel fully rested from the previous nights activities so head back to sleep for a few more hours.
At 8:30pm I decide to try my ayahuasca. After remembering what Eugene and Megan said about a 10pm visit I decide to take precautions and lock my door and windows. I prepare everything so it is all ready to go with toothpaste already on my toothbrush and the glass full of ayahuasca and the milk is open and everything is within arms reach after chugging the ayahuasca.
As I am in the bathroom about to chug the disgusting ayahuasca I hear the character "Cypher" from the movie "The Matrix" say "Buckle your seat belts Dorothy. Because Kansas..... is going bye bye!". As I am chugging down my ayahuasca every cell of my body is revolting at this foreign liquid and can almost hear my body telling my brain "Ummm... can you please tell this guy to stop pouring this shit into his mouth because we are giving him the discomfort/revolting feeling and he obviously isn't listening to it".
I immediately brush my teeth and scrub them clean of the ayahuasca "after taste" and have some milk and some clorets and then lie on the bunk bed. It is only the first half hour and Sammy is downstairs studying and he has the lights on which I can't do anything about since they are for downstairs and shine up to my room and through the glass and I realize this will not help the effect since you need complete blackness so your mind has no distractions so to fix this problem the only way I can is that I grab my dark blue towel and put it over my eyes as I lay on the bed and can feel my body vibrating and then I begin to hear a very high frequency tone ringing in both of my ears which "sounds" like a super fast game of PAC MAN as he eats all the dots.
With the towel over my eyes I can focus into the darkness as there is absolute no distractions but complete blackness from the towel and I begin to see geometric shapes and then they start rotating in a clockwise fashion and with my body vibrating and losing feeling/awareness of it I begin to feel that I am spinning counter clockwise from the mental geometric images. As I am focusing on these images more and more I see that the visions are getting more clearer and I am losing awareness of my body and physical environment and feel that I am lifting or my consciousness is beginning to project and for a quick second I wonder if I will return safely back to my bed tonight when a thought quickly flashes into my mind which is that tomorrow morning I am on the cover of every newspaper in the world with a picture of myself lying on my bunkbed with my towel over my eyes and a pile of human excrement in my shorts!
"The investigators now believe he drank 1/2 a liter of ayahuasca! What a stupid gringo moron he must have been!".
CNN: News at 11pm
Well I begin to get clear visualizations and see myself in the sky around the stars and then going through a city and sometimes it got really bizarre at which point I just took off my towel and everything seemed normal again. I should add that my stomach feels upset from the ayahuasca the whole time during the effect and everytime I begin seeing bizarre images I feel even more nauseated so just take off my towel. At this point I realize I left out one important item from my "ayahuasca gringo kit" and that is a big bottle of Peptal Bismal!!
This is probably why you use a shaman when you start, just to guide your thought processes and concentrate and not let a bunch of information overwhelm and preoccupy your mind since it is basically just babble. It feels like you are plugged into the universal internet. The A/C is feeling a bit cold so I shut it off and beginning to feel I am getting the "runs" so immediately jump on the toilet. As I am looking at the wall with my eyes open I see myself! It is like I am looking at myself from a 3rd party perspective and seeing my exact body movements that I do as I move around in the wall and can see the back of myself perfectly and my room is fully lit with the lights on.
Within 10 minutes my room is very warm due to the Iquitos temperature taking over from the A/C and I can't feel my body because it is the same temperature as the room now. The ayahuasca continued for the next couple hours and as my body began feeling better was when the ayahuasca was wearing off. It is a bit of a catch 22 where you are having visions when your body feels sick and the visions stop when your body feels good again. I guess if you do it enough times your body adjusts to the substance and you don't feel sick but you always bring a vomit bucket just in case!
Well I have the other 1/2 liter of ayahuasca left so I will take a break for a couple days before I do it again. Going to head out for coffee now and check out some day tours into the jungle possibly and look into airline flights as I continue traveling around Peru.
Well after I returned from my first unsuccessful ayahuasca experience on early Tuesday morning I went to bed since I didn't sleep the previous night and got up at 1pm in the afternoon. I headed down to get a coffee at one of the popular gringo places and stopped in to see if Megan and Eugene were at their hotel since I thought they would be gone on one more day tour before they leave for Lima the next day and surprisely they were there and Eugene was feeling the same way I was. Partying all night and drinking huge quantities of gasoline can give you a bit of a hangover lol!
We get our usual places at the coffee shop outside and during that time all my "homies" are coming by and pointing at me, waving, or saying Hi. There is one young guy that speaks good english and he tells me that I should just have one glass of ayahuasca should be enough. I tell Megan and Eugene that I will be like Dr Jekyll tonight as I experiment with my ayahuasca that I bought at Belen Market and they joke around saying they are going to try to break into my hotel room tonight at 10pm and trip me out! We say our good-byes as it will be the last time I see them and they are off in the morning to Lima where they will make their way back to Quito Ecuador.
The day before at this restaurant there was an older American there with his younger Peruvian wife and his sister. I guess they were in their 60's. Because he lived in Chiclayo Peru I asked if he spoke spanish and he confidently said he did and that he speaks good spanish but can't understand a single word the Peruvians say. I laugh thinking it is a joke but he says he is serious and can't understand a god damn word they say. His one sided conversations must get a little tiresome.
On my way back to my hotel I stop and pick up some ayahuasca items for my gringo kit which are clorets and milk. I still don't feel fully rested from the previous nights activities so head back to sleep for a few more hours.
At 8:30pm I decide to try my ayahuasca. After remembering what Eugene and Megan said about a 10pm visit I decide to take precautions and lock my door and windows. I prepare everything so it is all ready to go with toothpaste already on my toothbrush and the glass full of ayahuasca and the milk is open and everything is within arms reach after chugging the ayahuasca.
As I am in the bathroom about to chug the disgusting ayahuasca I hear the character "Cypher" from the movie "The Matrix" say "Buckle your seat belts Dorothy. Because Kansas..... is going bye bye!". As I am chugging down my ayahuasca every cell of my body is revolting at this foreign liquid and can almost hear my body telling my brain "Ummm... can you please tell this guy to stop pouring this shit into his mouth because we are giving him the discomfort/revolting feeling and he obviously isn't listening to it".
I immediately brush my teeth and scrub them clean of the ayahuasca "after taste" and have some milk and some clorets and then lie on the bunk bed. It is only the first half hour and Sammy is downstairs studying and he has the lights on which I can't do anything about since they are for downstairs and shine up to my room and through the glass and I realize this will not help the effect since you need complete blackness so your mind has no distractions so to fix this problem the only way I can is that I grab my dark blue towel and put it over my eyes as I lay on the bed and can feel my body vibrating and then I begin to hear a very high frequency tone ringing in both of my ears which "sounds" like a super fast game of PAC MAN as he eats all the dots.
With the towel over my eyes I can focus into the darkness as there is absolute no distractions but complete blackness from the towel and I begin to see geometric shapes and then they start rotating in a clockwise fashion and with my body vibrating and losing feeling/awareness of it I begin to feel that I am spinning counter clockwise from the mental geometric images. As I am focusing on these images more and more I see that the visions are getting more clearer and I am losing awareness of my body and physical environment and feel that I am lifting or my consciousness is beginning to project and for a quick second I wonder if I will return safely back to my bed tonight when a thought quickly flashes into my mind which is that tomorrow morning I am on the cover of every newspaper in the world with a picture of myself lying on my bunkbed with my towel over my eyes and a pile of human excrement in my shorts!
"The investigators now believe he drank 1/2 a liter of ayahuasca! What a stupid gringo moron he must have been!".
CNN: News at 11pm
Well I begin to get clear visualizations and see myself in the sky around the stars and then going through a city and sometimes it got really bizarre at which point I just took off my towel and everything seemed normal again. I should add that my stomach feels upset from the ayahuasca the whole time during the effect and everytime I begin seeing bizarre images I feel even more nauseated so just take off my towel. At this point I realize I left out one important item from my "ayahuasca gringo kit" and that is a big bottle of Peptal Bismal!!
This is probably why you use a shaman when you start, just to guide your thought processes and concentrate and not let a bunch of information overwhelm and preoccupy your mind since it is basically just babble. It feels like you are plugged into the universal internet. The A/C is feeling a bit cold so I shut it off and beginning to feel I am getting the "runs" so immediately jump on the toilet. As I am looking at the wall with my eyes open I see myself! It is like I am looking at myself from a 3rd party perspective and seeing my exact body movements that I do as I move around in the wall and can see the back of myself perfectly and my room is fully lit with the lights on.
Within 10 minutes my room is very warm due to the Iquitos temperature taking over from the A/C and I can't feel my body because it is the same temperature as the room now. The ayahuasca continued for the next couple hours and as my body began feeling better was when the ayahuasca was wearing off. It is a bit of a catch 22 where you are having visions when your body feels sick and the visions stop when your body feels good again. I guess if you do it enough times your body adjusts to the substance and you don't feel sick but you always bring a vomit bucket just in case!
Well I have the other 1/2 liter of ayahuasca left so I will take a break for a couple days before I do it again. Going to head out for coffee now and check out some day tours into the jungle possibly and look into airline flights as I continue traveling around Peru.
