Strigiform
Rising Star
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Hello all,
So several years ago I was in my university library and stumbled across a book on peyote (mescaline). I had no idea what it was about, decided to read though it because I was curious. Since reading that book I've been quietly fascinated with psychadelics, their effects and potential benefits. The fact that these substances are ancient, used by a large range of cultures and capable of giving users very real benefits was astonishing.
I came upon DMT in a discussion with a friend over some coffee, who recommended that I read more about it. His description of it sounded terrifying (brief and ferocious like Salvia Divinorum) and I didn't really look into it more because I made a faulty assumption that it was unpleasant, brutal dissociative. Of course I was wrong, but I was not ready anyway.
A few years later, marijuana is legal in my state and I'm over the legal age. I started smoking, but then I started vaporizing marijuana on a regular basis. I have found that my academics have not suffered as I've been told, my mood has greatly improved (I was taking stimulants for ADD and anxiety) and my sleep got better (although I remember my dreams far less frequently). The great success I've had with careful, controlled use of marijuana in my life was a great boon, I have even stopped taking my stimulant medication and wow, I feel great! Over the summer I picked up lifting and I was in the best shape of my life and was rocking my internship. Then school started and weather got cold, but weed has allowed me to sleep far better at night than I used to, keep cool and collected (I would often get massive anxiety near exams even though I was perfectly ready).
To say the least, I decided to dust off my research on psychadelics, seeing that I benefitted from one (marijuana) in my daily life. I returned to reading up on DMT, reading things here, on BL and the psychonaut wiki only to learn some really interesting things about this substance (previously I could not research on the internet because it was being monitored by my parents). One by one the assumptions I had made were overturned with facts, primarily the fact that DMT is not synthetic, but pervasive in nature.
The more I read about DMT the more I wanted to explore it personally. However, I am aware that as far as psychadelics are concerned, DMT deserves a lot of respect and should be used very carefully. Even though the effects are brief, they are dramatic, totally encompassing and the experiencer undergoes a profound shift in perceiving the passage of time, really stretching out that half-hour. I have read about how one could extract the chemical from a variety of plants, I have also read that it is against the rules to discuss purchasing MHRB. As a result, I have considered growing my own plants and extracting from them, but that's a separate discussion. The more important thing I'd like to ask the community here is this: what is the best way to work up to taking DMT? That is, should I try other hallucinogens first, or should I just go right for DMT?
Anyway, thank you for reading my post. I hope to learn as much as I can.
So several years ago I was in my university library and stumbled across a book on peyote (mescaline). I had no idea what it was about, decided to read though it because I was curious. Since reading that book I've been quietly fascinated with psychadelics, their effects and potential benefits. The fact that these substances are ancient, used by a large range of cultures and capable of giving users very real benefits was astonishing.
I came upon DMT in a discussion with a friend over some coffee, who recommended that I read more about it. His description of it sounded terrifying (brief and ferocious like Salvia Divinorum) and I didn't really look into it more because I made a faulty assumption that it was unpleasant, brutal dissociative. Of course I was wrong, but I was not ready anyway.
A few years later, marijuana is legal in my state and I'm over the legal age. I started smoking, but then I started vaporizing marijuana on a regular basis. I have found that my academics have not suffered as I've been told, my mood has greatly improved (I was taking stimulants for ADD and anxiety) and my sleep got better (although I remember my dreams far less frequently). The great success I've had with careful, controlled use of marijuana in my life was a great boon, I have even stopped taking my stimulant medication and wow, I feel great! Over the summer I picked up lifting and I was in the best shape of my life and was rocking my internship. Then school started and weather got cold, but weed has allowed me to sleep far better at night than I used to, keep cool and collected (I would often get massive anxiety near exams even though I was perfectly ready).
To say the least, I decided to dust off my research on psychadelics, seeing that I benefitted from one (marijuana) in my daily life. I returned to reading up on DMT, reading things here, on BL and the psychonaut wiki only to learn some really interesting things about this substance (previously I could not research on the internet because it was being monitored by my parents). One by one the assumptions I had made were overturned with facts, primarily the fact that DMT is not synthetic, but pervasive in nature.
The more I read about DMT the more I wanted to explore it personally. However, I am aware that as far as psychadelics are concerned, DMT deserves a lot of respect and should be used very carefully. Even though the effects are brief, they are dramatic, totally encompassing and the experiencer undergoes a profound shift in perceiving the passage of time, really stretching out that half-hour. I have read about how one could extract the chemical from a variety of plants, I have also read that it is against the rules to discuss purchasing MHRB. As a result, I have considered growing my own plants and extracting from them, but that's a separate discussion. The more important thing I'd like to ask the community here is this: what is the best way to work up to taking DMT? That is, should I try other hallucinogens first, or should I just go right for DMT?
Anyway, thank you for reading my post. I hope to learn as much as I can.
