I'm a former software engineer turned I.T. guy.

I've long been interested in psychedelics in general, but only heard about DMT when it was mentioned briefly in a book a mate lent me - "Storming Heaven - LSD and the American Dream" by Jay Stevens I think (when I think back the description sounded more like 5-MeO-DMT than what's going on in our freezers).  Then I saw a documentary about Alexander Shulgin brewing psychedelics in his garden shed, and that made me even more curious about psychedelics, which led me to Erowid, which led me to years of wondering what DMT would be like, after having experienced just how valuable a good psychedelic experience is.

So recently i'd been feeling the call for just such an experience, I had some time off work, had some cash for some root bark,  found Norman's tek, and I hadn't found any psychedelics in about 5 years and desperately felt like it was time for a thorough cleansing of the third eye, so everything just sort of came together quite easily.

And the experience was what I got.  Wow.  Absolutely astonishing.