hi all..

[Peppe]

Hi all ,
I'm 25, male, italian, student and kinda psychonaut.
I've been lurking around for few months before actually writing here. My interest in serious altered state of consciouness is less than 1 year old, so I'm far from being an expert. I'm an everyday ganja smoker and I've experience of different drugs (cannabis, cocaine, mescaline from san pedro, MDMA, ketamine, ephedrine, DMT in different forms, n2o).
My first san pedro trip was the one who changed my life and brought me into the psychedelic path. Being an atheist and a pretty rational person, I was impressed from the spiritual feeling given by mescaline and I've been strongly motivated to open the doors of perception as wide as I can. During the same experience, I understood the differences between the drugs that can open your mind and make you a better (or at least a little wiser) person, and the drugs that lead you to the opposite way (alcohol, cocaine, etc IMHO).
I'm actually working on extractions, and I'm astonished from the wide spectrum of experiences that the same molecule can give, in different forms (pure crystals, oil, oxides, jungle spice, enhanced leafs).
My next extraction will involve harmala alkaloids too. I'm planning to use them for changa, to potentiate marijuana and vaporized alone, even if I'm still concerned about the safety of vaporized MAOI and food interaction. I couldn't find so long info about the precaution to follow with smoked MAOI, in terms of time to wait before eating, taking coffee, etc after smoking them, neither I understood how long I should stay clean before..
I'm actually studying also the different ways to vaporize the spice and, being an industrial design student and a craftsman, I plan to realize some bongs on purpose (I've already made some prototypes).
That said, I'll do my best to contribute to the forum.
I apologize for the grammar but this is not my mother tongue..

 

[endlessness]

Welcome to the Nexus

This might be of your interest: FAQ - DMT Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting Guide - DMT-Nexus Wiki

Regarding method of smoking, if you'd like to design something yourself, I suggest you base yourself on heating by convection instead of conduction or direct flame, in other words, check how the vaporgenie work, and get inspired by models such as the Inspirator MKII from amorfati (check the wiki). DMT is much smoother this way

Whats your favourite way to extract? Do you like oral dmt too?

Your english is just fine

 

[Peppe]

Thank you Endlessness

Regarding method of smoking, if you'd like to design something yourself, I suggest you base yourself on heating by convection instead of conduction or direct flame, in other words, check how the vaporgenie work, and get inspired by models such as the Inspirator MKII from amorfati (check the wiki). DMT is much smoother this way

I'd like to vaporize the spice with an electric heater at controlled temperature. I found that the size of the vaporizing chamber is as important as the heating medium, so I'm now looking for the right chamber volume for a given spice dosage.
I used the machine, few pipes, a lightbulb oops: ) and a bong, and I prefer the bong so long..
I didn't actually tried the MKII, but just for lack of time.

Whats your favourite way to extract? Do you like oral dmt too?

I've done only 2 STB extraction so long and they are satisfied from the result (yield >2%). I use hexane for the first extractions, to get cleaner spice, and warm toluene for the last extractions, to get the full spectrum of alkaloids.
When the solution seems to be exausted of pure DMT, I can still obtain a lot of Jungle spice in this way.

I've never tried oral DMT since I don't have MAOIs yet. I plan to make pharmahuasca in future, but I have to wait for a little more positive state of being in my life, and maybe a companion. I don't like too much to trip alone.
I've snorted dmt once (40mg) and the experience was awful. I didn't know yet that I had to convert it to fumarate, so I snorted freebase and that was a bad idea.
I'll probably try again in future, if I can find fumaric acid.
My experience of long trips are limited to mescaline so long.