The Devil Stole My Thoughts During an Intense Changa Trip

By Charlene Stanley, Scotland

I tried changa for the first time last weekend as a prelude to my first experience with DMT the following day. I researched hard beforehand and the person I got the changa from was super helpful and informative. However, nothing could have prepared me for what happened.

I sandwiched some changa between a little weed and smoked it through a bong. I was holding in the smoke and hadn't even exhaled before my entire body locked up and I couldn't move. I remember staring at the bong thinking, I shouldn't have done this… then suddenly I lost all awareness of what I had taken, where I was or even who I was. I tried so hard to remember what I'd done, while staring at the bong like it would give me the answer.

I saw the most incredible visuals I’ve ever seen while tripping

I didn't have too much time to ponder though, before the most incredible visuals started. I felt like I had been ejected from my body and was travelling at high speed through a tunnel of insane, vivid, cartoon-like shapes and colours. I hate how hard it is to describe! I am a seasoned acid and mushroom tripper but I didn't know this kind of tripping was even possible. 

I couldn't quite handle the rapidly changing visuals, so closed my eyes thinking I'd escape them. Ha! I was so very wrong, as I'm sure you all know! I can only describe the tripping as violent. Not unpleasant, but ever-changing and exhausting. I had the sense of entire lifetimes passing by.

Things took a sinister turn and I met the Devil

Out of nowhere, the hallucinations became unpleasant and menacing. I started to feel anxious. I was then greeted by the Devil, who was blue with a forked tongue like a snake. I had no control over my thoughts at all and I was very sure I had died and had arrived in hell. I became very frightened, overwhelmed and sad. Devil dude was absolutely delighted by my fear and kept laughing at me.

Fortunately, after a while I regained some ability to think and told myself to open my eyes to make it stop. I did, and my whole living room was filled with bright, colourful geometric squared patterns. They were somehow deeper than 3D, and they seemed infinite. I had this feeling of sadness that I could have seen God, angels or aliens and yet my brain decided to throw the Devil at me. Like, cheers… but the infinite geometrics were so beautiful, I felt peace wash over me.

As I returned to my body, euphoria took over

I literally felt myself come back to my body and my vision and thoughts began to level out. I was overtaken by wonder and euphoria. The euphoria lasted for hours afterwards. It sounds so cheesy but my soul felt relieved. Cleansed, even. I had been so ready for my trip to be over, but almost immediately I was dying to go back in. When I realised how short the trip had been I was mind blown! I'd have bet my last penny I was in there for days not mere minutes.

I haven’t been been able to stop thinking about it since. I gave my friend a bong of it so he could experience it too, and so we could discuss it… and he just didn't get the same experience at all. This was one blast of a bong, and my very first time taking it so I'm extremely excited to try the DMT next.