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First time taking experience, advice needed

Kegrler

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Hi all, so had my first try of DMT last night. Took sensible amount first. Got very light visuals when eyes closed but had to concentrate on seeing them. Nothing really. So went again a hour later, with more on and took the toke better. I’ve got a e-mesh vape so can do it in one toke and it’s not harsh at all just smells funny but smooth and easy to take. (Is the fart spray smell normal)? Second time was crazy when I controlled the toke rate like, everything was like that picture but all moving around me focused on a centre point, like the centre point contained something, always watching me and moving everything that existed around me. No where near blasting off but very very crazy, my breathing was erratic but I concentrated on not panicking and managed to control it, I was aware I was me and where I was, but kind of scared at the same time. Is this considered a mild trip? When I opened my eyes the room was kind of filled with cubes, blue/purple but eyes closed it was very yellow, only opened eyes for a second here and there the room I was in folded away and ended. I’d estimate the 2nd go was around 15mg. Almost makes me scared to try anything like 30-40mg because of how different it was on the second compared to the first just by adding a little more. Anyone got any advice? Appreciate any response.4382B0BA-A262-43E2-A9E3-AACECB8C237A.png
 
Hi, welcome!

Some level of fear is absolutely normal. And yes, DMT can smell like that due to impurities of indole and skatole.
Do you have much prior experience with other, less abrupt psychedelics?
Meditation is a helpful skillset to develop when exploring these realms.
 
Hi, welcome!

Some level of fear is absolutely normal. And yes, DMT can smell like that due to impurities of indole and skatole.
Do you have much prior experience with other, less abrupt psychedelics?
Meditation is a helpful skillset to develop when exploring these realms.
Hi and thank you for the reply. I’ve had salvia a good few years ago but that’s about it as far as psychedelics go. I did try to do some controlled breathing, meditation music was on etc but the sheer level of uncontrolled movement was scary and nothing like that bothers me usually. I just can’t imagine what upping the dose could do, like rather than me getting spun and thrown around a yellow room of squares, does it completely change? Going from 10 to 15mg was sooooo much more intense (granted I inhaled it a lot better and controlled) that going from 15 to 20mg for example is daunting. I think taking it alone, no one close to me wants to try it so I don’t know how to compare or what do to next.
 
Is that considered mild? Yes and no. No in the sense that subjectively feels intense. Yes in the sense that there is so much more as you up the dose. However, there is usually a dose limit that provides diminishing returns prior to blackout doses. It's different for everyone.

Your 'breakthrough' dose may vary from the average, being a little lower or a little higher.

Your fear is normal. Very normal. That can be hard to get used to, but just know it's not you. It can be easy to turn feeling the fear and panic into self doubt. Keep going. You got this.

As for what to do next and who to talk to, peruse the forum, there's so much quality content and conversation on a plethora of topics, and no shame in resurrecting old threads.

The molecule is nuts, and in being so, it is implicitly daunting/terrifying/intimidating. Think of it as resilience training. It scares the hell out of me too. For years I've rarely gone past 15mg. However, for me, the spice will take me when it wants. There have been plenty of times 10mg was way stronger than it "usually" is. Then there's the unforgettable 6mg journey where I ended up in some hyperspace carnival.

Surrender, let go, just be, breathe (provided you're still in touch with your body, otherwise don't worry about it, the autonomic nature of breathing will take over).

One love
 
you could consider upping your dose during the experience and trying to slowly ladder your way up, although that's much easier with a vape. psychedelic bungee jumping is scary. of course it is. and there's no urgency to force an experience. get to know the state space, build trust with yourself and the intelligence, and gradually work your way up <3
 
If you get good at vaping that 15mg you can have even stronger experiences. takes time to learn emesh or any vape. skunk spray smell likely due to abit of burning.

I never go over 10mg, averaging 8mg. I have a volcano vaporizer though and its very efficient. I enjoy low doses now after i had my breakthrough awhile ago, and prefer the visual lower doses.
 
Is that considered mild? Yes and no. No in the sense that subjectively feels intense. Yes in the sense that there is so much more as you up the dose. However, there is usually a dose limit that provides diminishing returns prior to blackout doses. It's different for everyone.

Your 'breakthrough' dose may vary from the average, being a little lower or a little higher.

Your fear is normal. Very normal. That can be hard to get used to, but just know it's not you. It can be easy to turn feeling the fear and panic into self doubt. Keep going. You got this.

As for what to do next and who to talk to, peruse the forum, there's so much quality content and conversation on a plethora of topics, and no shame in resurrecting old threads.

The molecule is nuts, and in being so, it is implicitly daunting/terrifying/intimidating. Think of it as resilience training. It scares the hell out of me too. For years I've rarely gone past 15mg. However, for me, the spice will take me when it wants. There have been plenty of times 10mg was way stronger than it "usually" is. Then there's the unforgettable 6mg journey where I ended up in some hyperspace carnival.

Surrender, let go, just be, breathe (provided you're still in touch with your body, otherwise don't worry about it, the autonomic nature of breathing will take over).

One love
Very helpful comment, thank you. I think I was just seeking other people’s opinions and thoughts of how actually scary it is. I never thought I’d be worried at all but when it came to the minutes before I was going to go I was shitting my pants for some reason, even though I’ve wanted to be at that point for a long long time. It’s a bit crazy. But you’re explanation is great I genuinely appreciate it
 
If you get good at vaping that 15mg you can have even stronger experiences. takes time to learn emesh or any vape. skunk spray smell likely due to abit of burning.

I never go over 10mg, averaging 8mg. I have a volcano vaporizer though and its very efficient. I enjoy low doses now after i had my breakthrough awhile ago, and prefer the visual lower doses.
Did you have your breakthrough with the volcano? Do you mind me asking what quantity it was for you that got you that experience?
 
Did you have your breakthrough with the volcano? Do you mind me asking what quantity it was for you that got you that experience?
my breakthrough was VERY weird. I mean exeptionally weird even as far as dmt breakthroughs go.

it was my first week or two of smoalking dmt, as i had a gram of it. I was a super noob to any type of vaping at this point, so i invented the RAMSHORN
it was a green twisty cfl bulb broken in half, so just one half of the spiral. think of a curly macaroni noodle. I cleaned this well, and attached a suitable mouthpiece to it.

that was my hand pipe for smoalking dmt in the beginning. was easy to use, as i could just pack dmt rocks in the one end, and suck the lighter flame through the device, causing the dmt to coat the walls of the pipe while vaping it decently well without any metal mesh in it. just a twisted glass tube. I enjoyed most of my gram out of this, though using my dab rig for precise smaller doses. the RAMSHORN was strictly for fun hitting and leisure, because it was so simple to use. it was simple enough, that i could hand it to someone, and they could take as big or as small of a hit as they wanted, without much instruction. Ide hand it to people that seemed to like their small dmt dose out of the rig. (5 ish mg)

This led to multiple people using the RAMSHORN, melting many hundreds of milligrams of unused and ready to be activated dmt in the pipes bends, creating pools of melting and re crystallizing dmt (i remember watching it melt and recrystallize intently while tripping hard when i used it before this night for smaller tokes, it was GORGEOUS). I was always mindful up to this night not to torch the pipe so much as to melt ALL the built up dmt.

One night i was alone in my room, which at the time was a rarity for me as i had friends living with me, and constantly had about 5-10 people over every day. it was a sunday night, and no one was around. this was my chance to do the terrence mkenna thing in darkness i thought and then i would be a true psychonaught!!!!

I hit the pipe after packing it with about 30mg, going abit past where i would normally stop drawing, hoping to finish my first full large 30mg dose for a breakthrough. Little did i know i became so inebriated that i was roasting the whole pipe. feeling the dmt's effects while i was still activley inhaling. I figured this was going to be a BIG ONE.
I remember my lungs going completely and comfortably numb, when i would usually be coughing a fit leading to a yarfing. But this time was different...

As i inhaled, i forgot what i was. all i had to go off of was this weird green noodle in my hand, watching most of the built up dmt in the pipe magically dissapear in that one large toke, going from a distorted green clouded by matter, to a whistle clean green slightly glowing due to the flames light, and deep confusion as to why i was on my bed in an alien cave covered in green geometrics as stones and cave walls rose around me. I always thought dmt would fling me to another place, not bring the place TO ME!

As i let the disgustingly thick vapor waterfall out of my lungs like it were wet bread dough, i sensed that time had completly cease to exist. Not even on mega doses of lsd or shrooms have i had this COMPLETE STOP of time. I have had aloooot of time dialation before, but NOTHING like this. I realized i may have just breathed out my actual soul by how thick it was. It pooled on the floor, and obscured the cave as it was being assembled, from the smoke rising after it had settled on the floor.

I noticed a pair of dark purple, almost black legs materialize next to me on the bed. They seemed to be made of gently wafting and curling dense dark purple smoalk.
I followed the legs up with my eyes, genuinley curious and not afraid. My eyes passed over hips, and a torso, then finally i was met by the gaze of an entity with soft glowing purple eyes. When our eyes met, i experienced what felt like a few thousand years of time had passed, and i traveled somewhere. It felt like their eyes had opened into tunnels and i was walking down a gallery of time itself. I met and smoked dmt with many people throughout history. When i returned to my body, which i had never truly left, the entity gave me a subtle and encouraging nod of understanding. I gave a curt nod back. I was trying to be a big boy.... But after experiencing that, my ego was never the same. It was not a "rough experience". It was an experience.

I then remember breaking eye contact with the entity, and we sat with eachother for a very long time. The entity made me feel safer in this new alien world. I deeply appreciate that entity with every neutron, neuron, proton, nano tubule, and axion and or atom of my body and spirit. I feel i owe it my personal quantum foam. It did not tell me a single word, yet lent me what felt like an encyclopedia of the ages, via telepathy.

Any amount of dmt i now smoalk i am hypersensitive to, so 8mg brings me to a place where i can re-connect and check up on my entity friend who cared for me when i decided to jump off a psychedelic cliff, whether i had a parachute i will never know. How lucky i was.... The entity let me know i had somewhere to go, to call home if ever need be.

This was when i was 16 man... i am almost 30 now, and i still am processing this trip, and have realized i always will be. Its an unprocessable trip to describe to someone with what language we are given. I have grown more comfortable with what i experienced though, and thats all that matters.
 
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Very helpful comment, thank you. I think I was just seeking other people’s opinions and thoughts of how actually scary it is. I never thought I’d be worried at all but when it came to the minutes before I was going to go I was shitting my pants for some reason, even though I’ve wanted to be at that point for a long long time. It’s a bit crazy. But you’re explanation is great I genuinely appreciate it
I took a lil 10-15mg foray in your honor. No matter how you slice it, it's weird. And not to provide a spoiler but it only gets weirder, and in that way, it gets real.

I know there's some doubt and skepticism around the idea of sensitization, but it does seem to be a part of my experience.

I don't often get into the visual domain, at least not as often as I'd like. This one was more visual than usual, and I say thank you to you for that.

I went in just wanting to let go. I decided to listen to Divine Moments Of Truth by Shpongle. This is a very special song for me. I had been reserving it for years when I felt ready to 'breakthrough' again. I am instead deciding to use it to inchworm my way closer. To those depths. It also allows me to reframe associations and connotations of and in the space.

I didn't quite get all of my dose in the dosing portion, but I got real close. I ended up surrendering to the experience before managing to finish the dose. My anxiety triggers and spikes as soon as I feel certain somatic cues and as my vision starts to alter. I talked to myself, reminding myself to stay with it and that I got this, which is true.

As for the experience, it was weird, and I was mainly focused on just being there. Visuals were subdued, but they were there and present and liminal and elusive. But I feel good after. Part of the thing that makes it hard for me to feel more cool about doing it as often as I do is how weird it is. It's like my mind can't rationalize doing something so weird so often, but I do, and I am good in doing so, and so it's a process to work to let that sink in.

Hope this assuages some concerns and tribulations.

One love
 
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