DMT Piezoluminescence - Any Observerations?

[entheogenic-gnosis]

^ Sand would still have produced the freebase during the synthesis at some point. Plus it need not have been freebase for the hotplate to provide the inspiration.

Your right...the inspiration could have simply been inspired by the incident.

Though the triboluminescence related to LSD and the piezoluminescence related to DMT still interest me.

With LSD, it is known, that as a pure salt, when shaken in a dark room, the LSD will emit small flashes of white light, this sounds like standard triboluminescent behavior...

However, this:

Sand and a lab colleague were the first people to notice that DMT exhibits piezoluminescence: when hardened DMT that had collected in a tray was being chipped out with a hammer and screwdriver in a brightly lit room, the blows emitted massive amounts of colored light. Erowid Nick Sand Vault : Extended Biography

sounds a little bit more incredible, and if DMT does in fact exhibit piezoluminescence, I am very curious about it...


I have not noticed emission of light in response to pressure regarding DMT, however, this could have been a salt of DMT, and it was obviously a decent quantity which was being struck, and I'll admit that I have not struck large quantities of DMT with a hammer or screwdriver before...



-eg

 

[downwardsfromzero]

I find it rather incredible that they managed to crystallise DMT to a state hard enough to require chiselling!

 

[entheogenic-gnosis]

I find it rather incredible that they managed to crystallise DMT to a state hard enough to require chiselling!

The bright flashes of light in a fully lit room seemed a little incredible...

However, This was someone writing about Sand's report, it would be interesting to hear what sand and himself has to say on this topic...

-eg

 

[SnozzleBerry]

Nick, himself, claimed that banging a jar of his freshly crystallized DMT emitted flashes of light that lit up a dark room with an "eerie blue fluorescence." It still seems like a stretch to me, and some of his other statements in the video don't meet my own standards for verifiable claims supported by solid evidence, but nonetheless, here it is:

7:40 for the DMT claim