DMT enhances twitch reflexes?

[arcologist]

One thing I've noticed when coming back from hyperspace and at sub-breakthrough doses is that DMT seems to enhance the speed at which neurons fire. I am a drummer and so sometimes when I am coming down I have tried to see how fast I could play, and it seems like DMT significantly enhances my ability to play really fast punk/blast beats. In addition, I am able to rapidly vibrate/twitch my fingers and hands at will.

Does anyone else also get the DMT eye twitch, where you can (at will) rapidly 'vibrate' your eyes from side to side at >20Hz? Sometimes if I do this right as the trip is coming on it can dispel a breakthrough, other times it can enhance the experience.

All of these effects dissipate after the DMT afterglow goes away.

It would be interesting to measure DMT's effects on reaction time at low doses. I would hypothesize that it increases the efficiency of neuron communication.

What is everyone's experience in this matter?

 

[Global]

Yes arcologist, I can relate. As a guitar player, I recall taking pharma and decided to play the guitar. Physically, as far as my fingers go, it's quite a different experience than playing guitar on acid. With pharma, I recall noting that when I played the guitar, my fingers were much more "snappy" and therefore faster than usual. The DMT energy that has the ability to physically interact and move parts of my body responds and entrains to motion, rhythm, music and especially groove, so really getting going can establish a thorough flow in the fingers. I've actually managed to find that original post where this happened when I had taken pharma for the first time [a time when I apparently thought that vitamin C somehow enhanced the pharma experience].

I decided to try and listen to music, which could not have gone better. Something inside of me, something quite involuntary would happen when I would listen to music. My head would start involuntarily oscillating from one direction to another automatically to whatever the beat was. If my head wasn't doing it, my feet were. I enjoyed and embraced the automated headbanging and foot tapping. It was truly the hardest I had ever tripped in my whole life, but at no point did I actually feel overwhelmed by the experience. At one point at the peak of everything when I couldn't move and everything was going crazy, one of the thoughts that kept me sane was that I wouldn't die from it and that my body and mind would withstand the experience despite how intense and counter-intuitive it was in thinking that I wouldn't be blown to bits from the sheer intensity. Once I felt ok to move and stand stably, I hopped in the shower which felt amazing. I had a greater than usual body-image and self-esteem, and simply felt on top of the world. When I got out of the shower, I decided to sit down with my guitar and record a free-style jam that came out pretty well. It's a rather accurate audio representation of the way I was feeling at the time. I was also able to move my fingers more quickly than normal as the muscles seemed to have had some increased elastic energy in them.