DMT: Break on Through to the Other Side (Trip Report)

Today was my first experience with N,N DMT. For a little preface and background to the experience. This is an experience that I consider 8 years in the making. Ever since I first heard Shpongle's "Divine Moments of Truth" and heard the otherworldly but organic noise coming from that song my curiosity on what the hell they were talking about was immediately piqued. The following year I actually started experimenting with psychedelics and I naturally started researching many different psychedelics after my first couple mushroom trips, most of which I had no intentions on trying at the time except for LSD and Mescaline. DMT was one I stumbled across and the trips seemed far different than anything I was reading regarding mushrooms, Mescaline or even LSD for that matter. I started exploring various other psychedelics eventually some of which I had no plans on initially trying such as Ecstasy but I always kept reading up on DMT. I would go to the bookstore and read DMT passages from Terrence Mckenna books and loved the flowerly language and alien imagery he presented, I also bought The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman since being in college I figured it was the closest thing to a scientific method of studying DMT use and again many of the participants used very mindblowing imagery to describe their experiences. I started exploring various different psychedelics and kind of had the mindframe to have DMT be the last one I try (Save the best for last type thinking). Recently time and repeated exposure has made me indifferent to some compounds that I may want to come back later too and realizing how many various different psychedelic compounds there are, the idea of saving DMT as the last trip has kind of gone away. So finally with a little help from my friends I finally got to explore this amazing chemical and here is my following account.

DMT Trip:
I tried an inital trip at 10:00 am and I considered it a failed attempt even though it was still probably about as strong as 5 hits of strong acid but I had trouble inhaling the smoke, which i've heard tasted like plastic, I can't really compare it to plastic but I will say it's harsh especially for someone who doesn't smoke weed that often like myself.

I looked up how long tolerance may last, I saw some places say an hour, some say 4 hours, some say wait a day. I decided to take my chances and settle for the 4 hour interval as I was eager to give the experience another go. I took a short nap in the meantime. I wake up around 2:30 and at about 2:45 I decided to give it another go, I sandwiched the DMT in between pieces of a Mugwort mixture. I used roughly 60 mgs I would say, my scale sucks and I need to invest in a new one.

I smoked in my room with the lights off and only a slight amount of diffused sunlight piercing through the slits of the shades in my room covering the window. I inhaled the smoke this time very successfully and I could feel the harsh smoke gathering up in my lungs, I held the first hit in for a good few seconds before blowing out and then coughing right after, I immediately went back to the bubbler for another hit and the 2nd hit was not all that great, at this point my vision got somewhat fuzzy and there was a trail from the lighter, I gathered myself quickly and went in for one more hit which was quite successful. I dropped the bubbler on a table and held in the smoke and laid back on my bed. I held in the smoke for a good 10 seconds I would say before blowing out. My vision became increasingly fuzzy and my body felt like it was vibrating or radiating energy. I looked around my room and everything was covered in cubes that almost looked as if they were boxing me in and everything else such as my dresser, tv, etc was outside of the cubes. Their was various colors like faint reds and greens most notably circling around these cubes. I closed my eyes and this is where the truly spectacular visions occurred. I saw this room that had quite a bit of depth to it which I rarely see with CEV's on psychedelics and certainly nowhere near this strength. I actually felt like this was a place and I could almost peak around the 'walls' of the place if I moved slightly. As the intensity gained I turned over from my back to my face, I never had the feeling of leaving my body but I felt a slight pressure as thousands upon thousands of various geometric patterns were covering my closed eyes and every few seconds another bunch would rush up and replace those ones and this happened a few times until I went back to that room that I saw and now those walls were still there but DNA looking strands appeared between them, dancing and wavy in synchronicity and again moving as I moved my head. There was some faint color to this room as well which mainly consisted of red but DMT was actually less colorful than I was expecting. I proceeded to try opening my eyes again and for a split second there was absolute beauty as the whole scene and place that I had just witnessed with eyes closed appeared as an after image of sorts with eyes open. To see those DNA strands in my room was pretty damn amazing. They quickly dissipated though and again I felt like I was surrounded by the cubes blocking the walls of the room and closing me in. The experience ended shortly after this. The most intense part was in the 5-10 minute range and surprisingly it actually felt short, I didn't feel like I wanted it to end and while some of it felt overwhelming there was nothing scary or frightening about the trip. The after effects were my head felt rattled and one of the first things that popped into my mind was the lyrics "My head Feels like a frisbee" from a Shpongle song. I also noted that my lungs felt as if they just took a beating but other than that I was left with a pleasant afterglow that still slightly remains even now a couple hours later. One of the things I felt extremely intensely at the time but I dare not try to recapture the feelings or imagery through text is a very strong female component with the DNA strands appearing. The female component almost felt vocal and like a yin/yang type thing with the DNA strands like another half of myself was present in that room yet is not present in my physical body. Very hard to describe and it's something I dare not try to make sene out of on my initial breakthrough with DMT.

Summary and Afterglow: So one of the first few things I find myself asking myself is DMT all it's hyped up to be? Well Yes and No. I think Terrence Mckenna gives it too much hype with comments like "It's the most challenging, beautiful, scary, joyous things in the world" and he was kind of my main idol in regards to psychedelics so I clung onto his words and imagery. Granted this was only 2 experiences and I'm sure I did not probe the absolutely deepest depths of the DMT experience but i'm sure I could say that about many other compounds i've tried as well. I do have this sense of relief and like accomplishment though. My psychedelic curiousity has been fully satisfied and I feel any explorations from here on out with various new chemicals (some in mind 4 aco dmt, Ayahuasca, DPT, and possibly 2ct7) is icing on the cake to me. I certainly plan on returning to some of my favorites including DMT, but I feel as if a chapter has been closed on my explorations and journey with these compounds and it sounds weird considering the subject matter I am talking about but it truly does feel like an accomplishment in life and I feel lucky to have experienced such a thing.

 

Another great report GB The more I read about DMT, the more my hopes and expectations for it are described. This certainly is one I want to explore. I'm glad it was profound for you.

 

interesting, i like the view peak around corners part..
i had some kinda same experience where i was just eyes and mouth and ears suspended in some maze, no body! In the maze was my mantel and there is glass bottles on it. I felt like I was on the mantel behnd the glass looking at myself around it. But I was lost I could find myself only a fabric of me was the. I recognized a song lyrics and they seem to bring me back.
"I left Rome and landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin’ muscles
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside" but this sounded like a morse code, or some kinda secret language that made up myself, I could tell where I was again. Somewhere in my mind Langoliers was playing in a loop..

 

nice report GBL. Mckenna is the man, dead or alive! dmt is an amazing substance and your report backs up my statement pretty well. red and green are very dominant colors while zoomin the hyperspace highway, I usually also see yellow and orange as well too though. do you think CEV>OEV at normal doses? it sounds like you had much more lucid and vivid CEV's although it sounds like you were having some pretty nice OEV's as well. I am very interested in a report about aya from you. 2-6 hour dmt trip sounds more than amazing to me..I need to take some aya myself but have been so caught up in RC's lately. anyway man lovely report and watch out those cubes are out to get ya.

 

At this dose I for sure preferred the cevs, though I was getting oev shapes and patterns too. With eyes closed it seemed to have alot more power and energy and was a bit more aesthetically pleasing. This had the best cevs of any drug, I just randomly thought its strange that the drugs whose cevs I enjoy the most (dmt and mescaline) are the quickest moving and the slowest moving.

 

:cheers2:

It's a wonderful moment of accomplishment, when the teacher you looked up to suddenly is not above you, but beside you, and you've got some things to tell him . . .

 

DMT only shows what we are ready to accept seeing. Do it for long enough and it will be all those things Terrence said it was.

 

As far as drugs go that may be but I have had and hope to have some real world experiences that I hold more dear. Ive used it a few times now and its hands down the most visually beautiful drug ive encountered but its still only a drug. I feel like It slingshots or rockets you out super quickly and then you boomerang back before you know it. I think I prefer LSD still overall as of now as I feel its more complete in terms of all around mental, visual, emotional and physical depth, The length of lsd certainly helps. No doubt Dmt is amazing stuff though and these first few trials have me eager to return and try ayahuasca.

 

ok now youve tried one method of ingesting a substance. pat on the back.

oral DMT is another story entirely my friend. you aint seen nothin yet.

 

you recommend ayahuasca or would about 125 mgs work with maoi's ?

 

ayahuasca is a bit more work, although i do reccomend it.

rue extract and 125 mgs will be more surefire, but you could easily overdo it lol.

 

smoked a dmt doobie this morning, damn cant remember shit!!.. really took a walk with my dog, for shrooms at the sub, passes out went to class. came home. im beat..

 

I think DPT would be of HIGH interest to you. Do you know much about it?

 

I don't know 'much' about it. I've read bits and pieces on erowid and from Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking open the Head book, and what the people post here.

From what i've gathered it sounds slightly less intense than DMT but longer lasting and a darker tone. The experiences that i've read about many don't seem to find it all that pleasant. From my experiences with a lot of these stronger compounds though I don't really try and care to dissect the experience to it's core because I've found they are usually quite different than the impressions I conjure up in my mind anyhow but I will probably get around to dpt soon

 

great trip report man, this inspires me even more to try DMT.

 

To say the least Dmt is interesting...still not sure if it is made up in the mind or it actually takes you to a distant place? I've smoked dmt well over 30 times and breaken through around the decade mark (ten times or so). My trips have contained colors I have never seen b4, the dome and/or some type of crystaline pattern in the sky, colors are much vibrant (my friend sees the color pink a lot)! So far my breakthroughs have contained pyramids, black holes, peace signs, robots with exact movements, the feeling of trees watching me, little ferry girl introducing me to old white bearded guy (almost like a wizard) playing a guitar (but he was not stringing it, he laid the guitar flat and played it that way...sometimes I feel like I am in this open vast area, and its like I just entered because the feeling of doors will be behind me like I entered them during the "burst"! Another trip which freaked me the f*ck out was when I traveled too a distant place and these people (they were human-white and black people, no faces tho) had there arms out (inviting me in, they were) and I was hovering (floating) into them and right when I hugged them, I started to get this feeling that I was dieing and all this people started looking @ me (they seemed alien like) I was like their savior and time literally froze and I was dieing and then I died and came back...honestly I thought this really happened and when I came back from tripping my buddy had is hit ready to go and I telled him to put it down because I seriously thought the world had ended...all other trips b4 this were great; however, this trip I think changed me in some way! it was almost too much, glad I experienced the death-rebirth thing but it honestly scared the bejesus out of me...I couldnt nor would trip until about 3-4months later...to say the least it put some type of fear in me! I think it is important to give Dmt a shot and too try it out for yourself...but honestly word of caution dmt should be respected and their is a sinister side to the drug IMO...but overall on a phsychadelic level and pure strangeness Dmt is head and shoulders above any other drug on earth (thus far)!

 

forgot to mention when I was in the dieing-rebirth part of my trip my friends said that I was crying and when I came back I had tears rolling down my face...very intense!!