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Consistent buzzing sound during Ayahuasca trips?

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ControlledChaos

ControlledChaos

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Out of my four ayahuasca trips this month (these were also some of my first psychedelic experiences) I have observed the same constant, resonant, omnipresent buzzing. It always occurs on the onset of psychedelic effects and remains there, getting louder and maybe modulating occasionally as it peaks and then quieter as it comes down in an almost perfect bell-curve. It sounds something like flies buzzing crossed with a weed whacker, like motorized insects almost. It does have an organic sound though. Due to the consistency of it (it's always the same on every trip and is the most constant variable in the entire experience for me) I have to theorize that it may actually always be there, and DMT might alter the auditory part of the brain to pick up on waves that it usually can't hear. Perhaps some sort of omnipresent "buzz of the universe". Like if the universe ran on a motor, this would be the sound it makes? Not sure but I'd be interested to know if anybody else here gets this.
 
Also called the carrier wave. Very common with DMT trips. Haven't had the experience with Ayahuasca though.

Sufi mystics had a technique to tap into this buzz and enter ecstatic states.

I have no idea what it is, but it certainly is commonly experienced.
 
Yeah, I know the buzz. For me it's actually a characteristic of the harmalas and not the DMT, but it's much more present when the two are combined. When the trip gets strong the buzz can exist in and of itself, but at calmer levels it's sort of like every other sound passes through the filter of this motor-hum buzz.

I have never experienced it on mushrooms... and I think it was rare when I had teas compared to when I smoked.
 
when I first got into psychedelics, I became totally obsessed with the whirring sound I picked up on during my experiences. it's like an insectoid, bubbling, murmuring oscillation-- deep deep deep inside my consciousness. but I can also feel it in the top of my solar plexus.

there can definitely be an ecstatic lunacy in putting all focus on the sound. there have been times when I let my face go totally slack try to match the sound in its undulation in the base of my throat. (waaaahwowwahwahwaaaahwahwahwahwahwahwowowowah and so on...) it lead to some seriously insane mental spaces that I don't think I have the vocabulary to illuminate.

anyway, yeah. dig the carrier wave. it's a big part of my love for tripping.
 
I’ve heard it called the hum of the universe which really resonates with almost all of my dmt experiences. Sounds like an auditory pixelation and breakdown of the landscape.
 
ControlledChaos said:
Out of my four ayahuasca trips this month (these were also some of my first psychedelic experiences) I have observed the same constant, resonant, omnipresent buzzing. It always occurs on the onset of psychedelic effects and remains there, getting louder and maybe modulating occasionally as it peaks and then quieter as it comes down in an almost perfect bell-curve. It sounds something like flies buzzing crossed with a weed whacker, like motorized insects almost. It does have an organic sound though. Due to the consistency of it (it's always the same on every trip and is the most constant variable in the entire experience for me) I have to theorize that it may actually always be there, and DMT might alter the auditory part of the brain to pick up on waves that it usually can't hear. Perhaps some sort of omnipresent "buzz of the universe". Like if the universe ran on a motor, this would be the sound it makes? Not sure but I'd be interested to know if anybody else here gets this.
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Yes I absolutely do! That’s why I found this post, I was looking up what that Particular sound is and I found your comment . I hear the same thing !
 
DMT appears to cause the most intense and immediate increase in global functional connectivity and global hyperconnectivity of any known psychedelic. In other words, DMT makes the brain light up with more widespread and fast communication between different areas.

Couple this with recent research using ultrafast fMRI that shows the brain behaves like resonance chamber, and it seems quite likely that we're hearing/experiencing something related to neural resonance. I'm not trying to reduce the mystery and power of consciousness/DMT...Regardless of the truths in that arena, they are going to have some neurological correlates either way. Focusing on the sound and relaxing seems to deepen the experience for me.

Increased functional connectivity between brain regions involved in social cognition, emotion and affective-value in psychedelic states induced by N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) - PMC

The modulation of social cognition is suggested as a possible mechanism contributing to the potential clinical efficacy of psychedelics in disorders involving socio-emotional and reward processing deficits. Resting-state functional Magnetic ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
Like @bismillah, I find that the constant buzz is very strongly associated with harmalas. An early day spark gap radio transmitter comes to mind. DMT's buzz seems much more modulated. Not that you can differentiate too much when they're combined, they're their own beast.

Several times with harmalas I've had an impression this buzz is always there, just biologically filtered out. Ive had experiences that led me to feel this buzz was external and others that it is biologically generated (which is where my leanings are). Either way it's fascinating and I find it strangely healing and comforting in my experience when in a brew. Less so harmalas just by themselves.
 
Why not the magic(s) flooding the cochlear nerve cells and induce increased activity therein? That could make the baseline white noise raise abnormally to tinnitus levels.

White noise being the aural equivalent of baseline entoptic phenomena. Tinnitus being the homologue of phosphenes.

Spice raises those up at the sensory level, though it also floods the telencephalon and scrambles interpretation, gives them strange forms and meanings.
 
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If you do enough DMT, ayahuasca and psilocybin(maybe others) it becomes apparent(ime anyway) that the sounds is a wave that can be amplified by vocalization and weird body movements.

Then once that’s all locked in and amplified I can start changing building up a lot of euphoric or positively charged emotional energy and do other stuff with it.
 
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