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DMT music ?

When going on a journey do you prefer silence(or sounds of nature) or music(what kind)? I'm still on the fence being as i'm still in single digit trips. Can you even hear(or are you aware of) the music you're listening to when you break through?


Skeemer
 
I like music most of the time, usually some Grateful Dead can put me in an extremely positive mood when going in to my journey. The music does not distract me, it becomes part of the numerous sounds I can hear, but is not distracting and is def in the background. Without the music works as well, I feel like nothing distracts me when I breakthrough.
 
Skeemer said:
When going on a journey do you prefer silence(or sounds of nature) or music(what kind)? Can you even hear(or are you aware of) the music you're listening to when you break through?
Skeemer
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I prefer to begin with silence and then just go with the beautiful sounds that is Hyperspace.

I have listened to music many times on pharma and aya. The other night I sat on my back patio in front of a small fire under a beautiful starry night and had an awesome aya experience. The very unique thing about this experience is that I had the radio playing the local SouthWest Washington classic rock station- Rocket FM 107.1 , anyway I got sooooo gakked out that I couldnt or wouldnt get up to turn it off. I found it anoying at first and wanted to turn it off, but then some killer tunes came on and, well it was good, commercials and all. At one point I remember hearing a double shot of Bowie/Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Killer stuff...... on aya......

No really!

You know the tune ..... Ground control to Major Tom....... Yea well. I guess you had to be there, it was priceless.

I definately love listening to Tool on Pharma. Blindfold earphones and turn it up.
Sometimes I like some classical music or opera, like something from Wagner. I can go in any direction sometimes. It just depends on how I'm feeling.
 
SWIM has tried it with music going a couple times and really didn't like it at all, it seems to try to keep you grounded in this reality. I prefer as little light and noise as possible, an isolation tank would probably be cool as hell to try it with.
 
Thanks everybody. it seems like a personal preference that i'll have to figure out thru my experiences. I did try 40 mg while listening to a psytrance track called "Infinty" by Sonic Species....The perfect track in my opinion for where i went and saw and i thought the music enhanced and went pretty good with my trip(not quite a breakthrough)


Skeemer
 
I think music is absolutely wonderful on medium to low doses of any psychedelic. On high doses though, i.e. a breakthrough with DMT or 5+ g of cubensis, I feel music is a bad thing. In these dosages your counsciousness is totally in another realm, having some elements from the physical realm like music leads me to feel trapped between two worlds. But I think you are right, this is a personal thing that you have to feel and understand through experience. Safe travels! :)
 
My ideal music experiences with smoked DMT have been with a circle of 3-4 friends, everyone else drumming, rattling, rainsticking, and playing the calymba while the person smoking went under. Live, instrumental music and humming can be so beautiful, uplifting, and guiding. :d
 
ms_manic_minxx said:
My ideal music experiences with smoked DMT have been with a circle of 3-4 friends, everyone else drumming, rattling, rainsticking, and playing the calymba while the person smoking went under. Live, instrumental music and humming can be so beautiful, uplifting, and guiding. :d
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Oh man, I was in a drum circle at a festival. That was an incredible experience. It was night around a fire and everyone was on something.
 
I feel i like music when i just take 2 hits just to get a good Threshold 2 - 5 mg just to ware a close my eyes and see awesome lights
Strong doses u will here audio with a stronger trip I like both although when your take a strong dose 50-100mg it wont matter...
 
I usually do like music if it's not too intense of a trip. Artists like Desert Dwellers or Shpongle tend to enhance rather than detract. If I don't listen to music, the idle chit chat of others around me can become a distraction. If however I'm in complete silence, or outside with the sounds of nature, the silence can turn into music of it's own.
 
I find sometimes the situation requires music, sometimes not. I personally find stuff with too much of a human feel (real instruments/voices) or too heavy a beat too grounding. Too much volume can actually stop me from being able to completely break free of this reality at times, but at other times the enveloping effect can help.

I have a playlist with very carefully vetted tracks that are proven to work well (for me at least) for journeying. Most of it looking at it seems to be early to mid-90s ambient, but then that is the music I started my journey to.
 
TrustLoveMan said:
ms_manic_minxx said:
My ideal music experiences with smoked DMT have been with a circle of 3-4 friends, everyone else drumming, rattling, rainsticking, and playing the calymba while the person smoking went under. Live, instrumental music and humming can be so beautiful, uplifting, and guiding. :d
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Oh man, I was in a drum circle at a festival. That was an incredible experience. It was night around a fire and everyone was on something.
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Same experience here, first festival I went to I got feeling real good on mushrooms and sat in a drum circle with 10 other people and we call connected and found eachother's beats, it was amazing to say the least
 
I think something is telling me to stop playing light music to smoke DMT with.:lol:
Music used to help set the stage for me.
Usually I have my pipe loaded w/ some mullein and Spice and turn on some light ambient music to calm me and then I take off.
Well I had added a couple Brian Eno tunes to my playlist for DMT on Youtube.
The last two times I smoked w/ it the 2nd song comes on and Chong comes in and starts talking really loud. Freaked me out the first time and I forgot to remove it from the list so did it to myself again the next time I smoked.
Now, after having removed that particular tune from the lineup, I should have been good to go.
I had scraped the top of the bowl clear of ash and found a lot of oily looking mullein so I knew there was a good hit of Spice melted in there. I turned on the playlist and turned down the lights and away I went.
I wasn't sure how it would taste or hit as it was several hits that had melted and run down to the bottom of the bowl but figured whatever, lets go for it. Sure not going to toss it out!
I hit it and it seems the body load comes on fast this time. faster than normal. I take another hit to bring the visions a little clearer and suddenly they are very clear and busy when the music I am listening to keeps stopping to buffer for some reason. ( never does this ) After about 3-4 times of this I want to shut it off as it is distracting me. I am still able to get up and function so I shut it off. But the act of getting up and opening my eyes gets the visuals going in the real world and it seems like everything is upset that I got up to shut the music off. I go sit back down and the trip has picked up considerably. Seemed like it was ending when I got up but not it is back and all the visuals snap open and seem to hiss at me and the weird noise/music I usually hear on Spice is real insistent and buzzing in my right ear loudly like it is drilling in. I just relaxed and let it all go on and tried to explain that I only wanted to turn the music off because it was interrupting me from enjoying the experience.
Everything died down and the threatening aspect went away and then the trip ended as it always does, w/ lots of yawning.
All in all a crazy, weird experience. But still an interesting one. And as soon as ATHF and Squidbillies is over with I think I am going to go again!
 
Yesterday first musical inspired trip for me..
I listened Slackbaba and enjoyed a very "modern" trip with CHANGA.
It as a great experience.

I think wheater or not you should use music is up to your gut feeling !
 
I enjoy both. Mostly though I use music. It seems to guide the experience so I understand how the stop and start of music wopuld be very upsetting. I like native american pan flute or shpongle. Check out "divine moments of truth" or "monster hit". "Monster hit" is my favorite.

Its beautiful when you breakthrough yet you still hear the music, or a form of the music. The entities usualy love to dance for you.

Safe journeys friend
 
With my first 15-25mg hits i had some slow quiet ambient/trance on in the background and it was very nice
but when i went up to 35-40mgs i found music distracting.

Havnt had a lot of DMT experiences but this is what i feel about music at the moment.

I guess it depends on the person traveling.
 
I can relate to what you are saying Hyperspacing. My first really good/enjoyable trip w/ DMT was listening to the 13th floor elevators version of Baby Blue by Dylan.
The soaring, floating sounds of that song just made for some beautiful visuals and I felt like I was floating along w/ the music.
It was then that I started using music to calm me and to set the mood for the experience.
That is why I have found it so odd lately that things keep happening to mess up the music. Or even one of my last flights where the music played normally, the music seemed to be at about half the time the visuals were moving at so the music seemed slowed down and out of step. :lol:

As for Shpongle, I will listen too the 2 tunes you mention and see what I think. My favorite Shpongle for tripping or otherwise has been Shiva Space Technology and I can never seem to find it again on the internet or any of their albums. I got it on my MP3 player somehow and have never been able to find it again. :lol:
Guess I better make some copies huh? haha

Thanks for your replies everyone.
 
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