I have had good experiences with psilocybin before and, having recently done it again, I am now more interested than ever in trying DMT. I have been trying to do some self improvement and I figure what better way to learn how to improve the self than to momentarily annihilate it? I feel this will allow me to better understand my self, and in doing so better understand how to improve it.
I have two big questions, one about preparing for the experience and one about actually intaking the spice.
1. How do I prepare for ego death? I have been looking into psychedelics for years but I have never taken enough shrooms for anything close to ego death. I think I have some minor ego suppression my first trip, because I started thinking about how the self is an illusion and felt much more at one with the universe, but it was never to the point where I forgot my own name or anything like people describe a true ego death. I am very interested in killing my ego, or at least detaching from it, for a time to learn more about myself and my place in this crazy universe. I have heard people say the process of ego death can be scary and can propel you into a bad trip, and especially I have heard that the leadup to ego death when the ego can feel itself being removed and is fighting to remain can be very distressing. I have heard people describe "DMT Hell" and, although inhaled DMT trips are only minutes long, people being stuck in these moments for what feels like an eternity. This is partly why I am so much more interested in DMT than LSD, because I can experience all the same stuff in a much shorter order, and if it were to go bad, I would be on the hook for a far shorter bad trip than say, a 10 hour LSD experience. I really don't want to have a bad trip or scar myself by being stupid. Although I want to experience ego death to learn from it and master my self and my ego, I fear that I may not feel that way when the effects start to take hold and I may begin to panic as I feel my Ego dissolving. This is another thing that drew me to DMT, the fact that if you do it right, you can pretty much annihilate your ego in one go rather than having a big buildup and hours of waiting. It's not like LSD where you take it, have a comeup, effects slowly intensify, and you have all that time to psych yourself out and get nervous. To my understanding, you can take a big rip of DMT, and boom, you're there, pretty much immediately. No time to get nervous. I am very interested in this immediate killshot to the ego, rather than the LSD comeup leaving my ego on life support and fighting to stay. But how can I know I won't panic going in? What steps can I take to ease myself into ego death (as much as one can ease into a DMT trip) and prevent my ego from throwing a fit on the way out and spiraling me into an eternal hellscape of boundless suffering?
2. How the hell are you supposed to vape this stuff? I've read a lot and i'm just not getting it. Apparently you're supposed to waft hot air past the DMT to vaporize it, and heating it directly is a terrible idea. I also know it is ideal to be able to intake your full dose in a single hit because being high on 1-2 hits of DMT makes taking more very difficult. The machine is too harsh and you'll burn it, a crack pipe is even worse, the GVG thing is almost a hundred dollars and apparently has a "steep learning curve", the sanwhich method requires me to smoke other substances which I don't want to do (I don't and cannot smoke weed because my job tests for it, plus I want to experience the DMT without any other psychotrope effecting me)... So what is a psychonaut to do? I have heard people talking about non-marijuana smokeable herbs to pack the DMT in with, do any of you psychonauts do this? If so do you have any recs for what herbs to use. Is there a technique thing you can do with the machine to avoid burning the DMT and inhaling that wack-ass mothball smoke? I had the thought of filling the bulb of a crack pipe with coarse steel wool to aid in heat distribution, holding a lighter to the steel wool, and toking through that, but I have no idea if that would be any more effective in avoiding burning the DMT than a normal machine would. I also had the idea of preheating my oven to a bit above the vaporization point of DMT and placing some sort of closed container in there and just leaving it until it fully vaporized. I bet I could rig something up with a glass jar and a couple check valves. IDK. I also definitely do not want to ingest it or do any kind of ayahuasca brew.
The thread I was reading about intaking methods was a couple years old. Have there been any new ways to vape this stuff recently pioneered? It really seems like there's not any really good way to do it.
If I have gotten anything wrong, please correct me. I know very little about DMT, and barely more about shrooms and LSD. I'm just a lowly fragment of the universe looking back at itself, wanting to shed this ego and experience what I truly am.
In advance, thank you all very much for your help.
KTX signing off.
I have two big questions, one about preparing for the experience and one about actually intaking the spice.
1. How do I prepare for ego death? I have been looking into psychedelics for years but I have never taken enough shrooms for anything close to ego death. I think I have some minor ego suppression my first trip, because I started thinking about how the self is an illusion and felt much more at one with the universe, but it was never to the point where I forgot my own name or anything like people describe a true ego death. I am very interested in killing my ego, or at least detaching from it, for a time to learn more about myself and my place in this crazy universe. I have heard people say the process of ego death can be scary and can propel you into a bad trip, and especially I have heard that the leadup to ego death when the ego can feel itself being removed and is fighting to remain can be very distressing. I have heard people describe "DMT Hell" and, although inhaled DMT trips are only minutes long, people being stuck in these moments for what feels like an eternity. This is partly why I am so much more interested in DMT than LSD, because I can experience all the same stuff in a much shorter order, and if it were to go bad, I would be on the hook for a far shorter bad trip than say, a 10 hour LSD experience. I really don't want to have a bad trip or scar myself by being stupid. Although I want to experience ego death to learn from it and master my self and my ego, I fear that I may not feel that way when the effects start to take hold and I may begin to panic as I feel my Ego dissolving. This is another thing that drew me to DMT, the fact that if you do it right, you can pretty much annihilate your ego in one go rather than having a big buildup and hours of waiting. It's not like LSD where you take it, have a comeup, effects slowly intensify, and you have all that time to psych yourself out and get nervous. To my understanding, you can take a big rip of DMT, and boom, you're there, pretty much immediately. No time to get nervous. I am very interested in this immediate killshot to the ego, rather than the LSD comeup leaving my ego on life support and fighting to stay. But how can I know I won't panic going in? What steps can I take to ease myself into ego death (as much as one can ease into a DMT trip) and prevent my ego from throwing a fit on the way out and spiraling me into an eternal hellscape of boundless suffering?
2. How the hell are you supposed to vape this stuff? I've read a lot and i'm just not getting it. Apparently you're supposed to waft hot air past the DMT to vaporize it, and heating it directly is a terrible idea. I also know it is ideal to be able to intake your full dose in a single hit because being high on 1-2 hits of DMT makes taking more very difficult. The machine is too harsh and you'll burn it, a crack pipe is even worse, the GVG thing is almost a hundred dollars and apparently has a "steep learning curve", the sanwhich method requires me to smoke other substances which I don't want to do (I don't and cannot smoke weed because my job tests for it, plus I want to experience the DMT without any other psychotrope effecting me)... So what is a psychonaut to do? I have heard people talking about non-marijuana smokeable herbs to pack the DMT in with, do any of you psychonauts do this? If so do you have any recs for what herbs to use. Is there a technique thing you can do with the machine to avoid burning the DMT and inhaling that wack-ass mothball smoke? I had the thought of filling the bulb of a crack pipe with coarse steel wool to aid in heat distribution, holding a lighter to the steel wool, and toking through that, but I have no idea if that would be any more effective in avoiding burning the DMT than a normal machine would. I also had the idea of preheating my oven to a bit above the vaporization point of DMT and placing some sort of closed container in there and just leaving it until it fully vaporized. I bet I could rig something up with a glass jar and a couple check valves. IDK. I also definitely do not want to ingest it or do any kind of ayahuasca brew.
The thread I was reading about intaking methods was a couple years old. Have there been any new ways to vape this stuff recently pioneered? It really seems like there's not any really good way to do it.
If I have gotten anything wrong, please correct me. I know very little about DMT, and barely more about shrooms and LSD. I'm just a lowly fragment of the universe looking back at itself, wanting to shed this ego and experience what I truly am.
In advance, thank you all very much for your help.
KTX signing off.
