The different components and stages of a DMT trip

DMT is a short acting smokeable psychedelic tryptamine that provides a trip of only five to ten minutes in length but is still universally considered by anybody who has tried it in a positive environment to be the most incredible experience a human being could ever possibly go through.
It is so vastly different from anything else a person has ever experienced that not even the most extreme of sober circumstances could ever come close in terms of profoundness and intensity.
DMT is the drug that people are looking for when they buy and smoke Salvia without knowing what to expect and is in my opinion the pinnacle of the psychedelic experience yet despite this very few people outside of the psychedelic community have heard of it and even fewer have actually gone ahead and tried it. It’s said that DMT is not only stranger than you suppose but it is stranger than you can suppose and there is literally nothing that could ever truly prepare you for it until you’ve tried it for yourself.
In this guide I will do my best to describe in as much detail as I can manage the different stages and effects of a typical DMT breakthrough.

The Visuals:

To ensure as clear of an understanding as possible I will first have to describe the specific style of Closed and Open Eye Visuals attributed to DMT that are found throughout every stage of this trip but as usual I can only describe them in comparison to other psychedelics.
These visuals are unsurprisingly extremely similar to Ayahuasca and are in my opinion the most complex and intricate species of visuals known to man as they simply have so much more detail and structure to them when compared to anything else. In comparison to the visuals found on LSD and mushrooms they are just as bright and colorful as LSD but with the depth and structure of Mushrooms and more. These visuals appear to be much more solid and less abstract as they look so much more like physical 3D shapes floating in the air or layed out on the back of your eyelids as opposed it’s flatter more ill defined (but still incredible) cousins.
It’s these complex geometric shapes, imagery, fractals and colour that almost all of the hallucinations and structures experienced on DMT are based on as they seem to be made entirely of a condensed solidified Closed Eye Visual based material.

Now that I’ve at least vaguely discussed the basis material for everything seen during such a trip I can walk you through the 4 different stages of a DMT trip and explain to you what they are like:

  1. Taking Off
    The first step of a DMT trip is the come up that leads onto breaking through and this is something that seems to have at least a few different ways of presenting itself to a tripper as they start to smoke DMT, for example the first thing that a person notices is that it looks as if all the air has been pumped out of the room leaving everything in sight crisper and clearer than you could possibly imagine. Outlines become extremely well defined and it feels as if your sensory filter has immediately been eradicated.
    This is followed by a sudden onset of high level 3 visuals and a warm tingling sensation and the feeling of your body being pleasantly tugged in all directions at once from the inside.
    This is often but not always accompanied by the soft crackling sound and an extended tone that quickly increases in volume and pitch proportionally as the visuals increase. This sound becomes all enveloping and sounds like some sort of interdimensional rocket launch that abruptly ends as one of a few different take off options are experienced.



    These include but are certainly not limited to feelings of suddenly being pushed through and onto the other side of a membrane, the room infront of you splitting in two down the middle leaving a gaping infinite chasm filled with incredibly fast moving visuals as you separate from your body shooting directly into it at light speed and often enough the slightly simpler experience of visuals simply becoming so all enveloping that absolutely nothing of the room is left anymore. This all happens within the space of about 30 seconds to a minute and leads directly onto the next stage of a DMT trip which I have taken to calling…

  2. The Waiting Room
    Immediately after a person has smoked enough DMT to have taken off and have now broken through they often find themselves spending a brief amount of time in what feels like some sort of cosmic waiting room. This can take any form but generally takes the shape of a tunnel or space comprised of fast moving visuals that lasts approximately 10 – 20 seconds and feels distinctively different from the main bulk of the trip and starts off quickly but immediately begins to slow down and form into the next stage.
    Personal experience has led me to speculate that this is some sort of psychedelic loading screen and its during this moment that the trip ahead of you is being generated and planned out.

  3. The Other Side
    Once the chaos has cleared and the trip has been generated this means that the tripper has finally broken through onto the other side. It is here where literally anything can happen to you but despite this most trips seem to follow some extremely common themes and plots that happen across pretty much all people who try DMT.
    These generally consist of coming too in an alternate reality so real it feels better defined than real life with a single or multiple external entities in front of your line of sight. These entities are usually completely unsurprised by the trippers sudden appearance into their dimension and immediately begin to greet and welcome you with open arms giving off a sense that they are deeply concerned with what they have to show you in the short amount of time that they have before you comedown.
    At this point it is pretty common for the tripper (unless they are very experienced) to be completely overwhelmed by the nature of what is happening to them despite feeling completely sober mentally, often screaming and shouting in amazement as the entities encourage you not to give into astonishment and simply try your hardest to pay attention to what is happening. It’s here that they start to communicate with you using a variety of different methods such as directly manipulating what you can see and view, by telepathically beaming information into your thoughts, by using a visual language comprised of pure linguistic meaning and mathematics or any combination of the above and it’s through these that they teach you their message or show you what they want to show you.
    This message is often something personal to you or something that only applies to the logic of the universe in which it was taught in making it impossible to integrate and apply it into your everyday life. 
    These entities often appear to be all knowing and although they can take any form there are definitely more commonly experienced entities present and these generally include bodiless super intelligent humanoids, Aliens, Elves, Insectoids, Giant Spheres, Beings of light, Plants and complex robotic machines.
    If a lower dose is taken however but a breakthrough is still achieved these entities will always manifest themselves as an obvious but difficult to put your finger on sensed presence of the Other. The Other feels as if it is somewhere in the background of it all, capable of hearing what you tell it but incapable of telling you what it has to say due to too low of a dosage.
    This stage of the trip can last anywhere between five to ten minutes before heading onto the next and final stage of a DMT trip.

  4. Coming Down
    Just as quickly as the DMT hit you after several minutes it begins to leave you at this final stage of the trip. This is experienced as the sensation of being pulled further and further away from the scenario in which you were placed as the entities wave good bye and encourage you to come back as soon as you can.
    Once this is over you immediately find yourself back in the room tripping extremely hard as an incredible sense of euphoria and confoundment washes over every part of your mind and body, the moderate to mild visuals stay for a further 10 – 15 minutes before disappearing completely leaving an afterglow that stays for up to an hour. This afterglow feels like a warm fuzzyness and leaves behind a sense of well being and clarity that can last up to weeks after a good trip.
    Before trying DMT keep in mind that it’s best to record what happened during your trip immediately after it is over via either telling somebody or through a voice recorder as DMT trips can sometimes be extremely difficult to remember in exactly the same way that dreams are often difficult to retain.

The things experienced on this drug are incredible and completely logic defying, if a single object could be somehow brought back into the real world from such a place nothing would ever be the same again as the sheer impossibleness of these things would instantly break reality for the better.

Misconceptions:

Before I finish this article off I am going to address the extremely common misconceptions and borderline mysticism that surround this drug all over the internet. These misconceptions are the widely held belief that DMT is naturally produced in the Pineal Gland and is routinely released every night when we dream, at the moment of birth and at the moment of death. There is not yet any conclusive scientific evidence that this is true yet despite this many people on the internet claim it to be fact on a regular basis.
These ideas were first hypothesized by Rick Strassman in the book DMT: The Spirit Molecule and have since been popularized by the likes of Terrence Mckenna and Joe Rogan.
This is not something that the scientific consensus supports but it has been conclusively proven that trace amounts of DMT have been found in the blood, urine and cerebreal spineal fluid of some mammals, including humans and a great little list of them can be found here.
Stopping the spread of psuedoscience and misinformation across the psychedelic community is important if we want our position to be taken seriously so this is not something that should be tolerated.

If you are motivated to try this drug it is completely possible to make it through some very simple kitchen based chemistry found here that requires only legal and freely available ingredients all of which can be found on Google. Keep in mind however that this is very very illegal and I am in no way responsible for your actions.

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