In the hopes of keeping this thread alive...my experiences with ecstasy and MDMA have been very different. Not entirely, but different. I remember when I used to take ecstasy tabs back in the day and it was awesome. Full of body love and peaceful notions. But Then later on in life I took MDMA thinking it would be the same but it wasn't. It felt good, but lacked some of the characteristics that I remember of ecstasy. Like it wasn't as round or rounded off the way ecstasy was. If that makes sense. I didn't feel the overwhelming sense of loving everyone and everything that I used to on ecstasy.
I did some research and found out that they are in fact not the same thing. Ecstasy in earnest is a mash up of different drugs with MDMA being the most prevalent. Among the drugs that went into the ecstasy tabs I used to take were heroin and speed. MDMA is the isolated molecule itself without the other stuff included in what is known as ecstasy. To make it even more confusing and blurry lined, today people are starting to call MDMA ecstasy, which it is not. But whatever, tomorrow it'll prob be called something else...