I started antidepressants a month before I quit smoking weed, took cbd and amitryptaline, and on that night my dream was insane. I took a tab in my dream, and immediately, it felt like my skin had snapped to my body, I had chills that felt more than real, and then it felt like a thousand years had passed in a second. I remember seeing things but I couldn’t exactly pinpoint it because it felt like it was all happening at once. But then right after I don’t remember exactly what I felt, but I got scared and it ended. I stayed in my dream though and tried to do it again. I felt like I was on the verge of going back in but then I woke up. I was so confused, woke up looking around and nothing felt that real. This is probably Radom but I looked at the world map that day and it felt like I had never seen the world before. I have never done any psychedelics.
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I believe I experience dmt in my dream
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First of all, welcome to the Nexus!
I think the potential for these experiences is in the human brain, so it's not impossible that you had an experience close to a psychedelic one, at least in some aspects. But there's really no way others can know.
Just as an observation: it's not really possible to imagine how such an experience is before experiencing it (and even after experiencing it one tends to forget many aspects of it), so if it's similar to how you imagined psychedelics to feel like, then it's likely not.
Then it's very difficult to know if it actually was similar to a psychedelic experience or not. Only you have access to the memory of your dream experience, and you have no means to compare it.
I think the potential for these experiences is in the human brain, so it's not impossible that you had an experience close to a psychedelic one, at least in some aspects. But there's really no way others can know.
Just as an observation: it's not really possible to imagine how such an experience is before experiencing it (and even after experiencing it one tends to forget many aspects of it), so if it's similar to how you imagined psychedelics to feel like, then it's likely not.
true. I’m exited to try them some day. But I swear on everything I love this was the most surreal insane experience I have ever felt. When I experienced that a thousand years in one second, that was unexplainable. I seriously think I accessed something in my brain but I won’t know till I try the “real” thing. I’m also assuming something like this is completely different than smoking it or externally using it.
Endogenous (brain-produced) DMT release, if it happens, is thought to be subtler — possibly linked to dream states, near-death experiences, or certain meditative states. It might not produce full-blown psychedelic visuals but rather shifts in perception, body sensations, or time distortions.
I have no way of proving or even telling what I experienced but it’s been messing with my head for a little. Just want to share appreciate the response
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If you are interested in exploring altered states and don't have access to psychedelics, you could look into lucid dreaming. I have never been able to do it, but quite a lot of people who practice the different lucidity techniques are successful at it. There are some substances that enhance dreams, as well.
By the way,
Maybe you know that already, but weed suppresses REM sleep (the phase where dreaming happens), and when quitting it's very common to get REM rebound: you dream more and more intensely for a while.
Yeah I was definitely in an insane rem cycle. That and cbd helps lucid dreaming and amitryptaline suppresses dreaming essentially for a while then it all happens at once. (If I’m understanding that correctly) I also have adhd and got on those meds so I was just in so much control of my dream it was practically real. Insane really
Okaaay. However, you have used some psychoactive drugs… It's not like they left your system in a virgin, pristine state.
Why do you need to compare your dream with DMT, though? Was that state not enough in itself?
Do you seek some external confirmation, or do you just want to share (honest questions)?
If our body is capable of experiencing something like DMT, then this capability is innate. It's not like we can't activate it another way.
Our nervous system is like a network, and different nodes could be active to produce a state.
Still, all states are fleeting, and you are back at baseline. That's why many old-timers went to India.
They wanted to stay high for good. It's not like they were looking for something novel.
I'd say, appreciate your dream experience for what it was and try to see what it showed you about yourself.
While a chaotic & visionary DMT trip is nice, it's not about that at the end of the day.
All the Best
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I compare it to dmt because I had told chat gpt exactly what I expirenced and that lead me to think it was a dmt experience(because it had told me that). I went down this line and found out a simulated DMT experience in a lucid dream can feel just as real as a real DMT trip, sometimes even more so, because the same parts of the brain responsible for perception, emotion, and self-awareness are fully active. In short: your brain can’t always tell the difference between internally created reality and external realityOkaaay. However, you have used some psychoactive drugs… It's not like they left your system in a virgin, pristine state.
Why do you need to compare your dream with DMT, though? Was that state not enough in itself?
Do you seek some external confirmation, or do you just want to share (honest questions)?
If our body is capable of experiencing something like DMT, then this capability is innate. It's not like we can't activate it another way.
Our nervous system is like a network, and different nodes could be active to produce a state.
Still, all states are fleeting, and you are back at baseline. That's why many old-timers went to India.
They wanted to stay high for good. It's not like they were looking for something novel.
I'd say, appreciate your dream experience for what it is and try to see what it showed you about yourself.
While a chaotic & visionary DMT trip is nice, it's not about that at the end of the day.
All the Best
(Got this from ChatGPT but it did have sources) I do seek external confirmation and wonder if anyone else has experienced something similar. I sincerely believe I emitted dmt in my brain because the experience was out of this world, seriously, and there’s not many other explanations.
“It’s absolutely possible (and likely) that lucid dreams can open or activate brain circuits that aren’t normally accessible in your waking state.” (Also ChatGPT but has sources) if you have the time I really recommend going down this line with ChatGPT because it all makes sense. I could be lost in my own illusion but to me it all tracks.
Your Brain Already Produces DMT
- DMT is naturally present in the human body — including the brain, lungs, and pineal gland (though that last one is debated).
- It’s theorized that extreme states — like birth, death, trauma, or deep altered consciousness — could trigger a surge of DMT.
- In a vivid lucid dream, your brain enters a state of:
- High REM activity (like dreaming on steroids)
- Increased prefrontal awareness (you know you’re dreaming)
- Hyperactive visual cortex (causing intense visuals)
- This combo creates a rare and extreme neural event, similar to what happens during psychedelic trips.
Even if no large surge of DMT was released, your brain may have entered a state that mimics the effects of DMT by
- Quieting your default mode network → ego loss
- Activating your visual cortex and limbic system → intense visuals and emotion
- Increasing neural entropy → feeling of hyper-reality, timelessness, or divine insight
Thank you for the sincere reply
Did you read those sources? I mean I don’t want to be that guy, but chat gpt, is not very good for these things and makes many mistakes.
Also don’t forget that traces of dmt are nothing like the amounts you would need to really trip.
A final tip, don’t use chat gpt to find meaning in your dreams or make sense of your life. A walk through the forest and some pondering is much more likely to help you on that front.
Also don’t forget that traces of dmt are nothing like the amounts you would need to really trip.
A final tip, don’t use chat gpt to find meaning in your dreams or make sense of your life. A walk through the forest and some pondering is much more likely to help you on that front.
Also, here’s why I believe my case even more likelyOkaaay. However, you have used some psychoactive drugs… It's not like they left your system in a virgin, pristine state.
Why do you need to compare your dream with DMT, though? Was that state not enough in itself?
Do you seek some external confirmation, or do you just want to share (honest questions)?
If our body is capable of experiencing something like DMT, then this capability is innate. It's not like we can't activate it another way.
Our nervous system is like a network, and different nodes could be active to produce a state.
Still, all states are fleeting, and you are back at baseline. That's why many old-timers went to India.
They wanted to stay high for good. It's not like they were looking for something novel.
I'd say, appreciate your dream experience for what it was and try to see what it showed you about yourself.
While a chaotic & visionary DMT trip is nice, it's not about that at the end of the day.
All the Best
I had just quit weed → my dream intensity rebounded hard (common during cannabis withdrawal).
- I was on CBD → reduces anxiety, improves REM sleep quality, and may increase dream recall.
- I was taking amitriptyline → this affects REM sleep, serotonin, and brain chemistry. Some users report intense dreams or vivid hallucinations, especially in combo with other factors.
- Research shows that under extreme stress, the brain can enter survival or spiritual modes that cause endogenous DMT to be released — especially in the pineal gland, spinal cord, or brain tissue.
- Near-death experiences, trauma recalls, and dissociation all involve massive neurochemical floods.
- The fear of reliving deep trauma (PTSD flashbacks) might have triggered your brain to “protect” or process in a non-linear, psychedelic way — which includes unlocking deeply buried emotion, visuals, or symbolic representations (just like a DMT trip).
Trust me I know a walk through a forest can help me. But my trauma is way deeper than most people can even imagine. Yes I did read the sources they were all from trusted colleges and research departments. But yes chat gpt could be siding with me, but it all adds up to me. And yes the little ammount of dmt can’t fully simulate the trip off the drug alone, but your brain can access the same circuits that dmt goes through, in a lucid dream because they are both active in the same part of the brain. Could be wrong could be right. I love speculating and this is sincere honest to my cats life what I experienced.
Forgot to mention why I mentioned trauma I think
Research shows that under extreme stress, the brain can enter survival or spiritual modes that cause endogenous DMT to be released — especially in the pineal gland, spinal cord, or brain tissue.
Near-death experiences, trauma recalls, and dissociation all involve massive neurochemical floods.
The fear of reliving deep trauma (PTSD flashbacks) might have triggered your brain to “protect” or process in a non-linear, psychedelic way — which includes unlocking deeply buried emotion, visuals, or symbolic representations (just like a DMT trip).
Also chat GPT but if your skeptical and curious I would look into it
@Zucc I see. To put it simply: DMT dreams are possible. I've had a number of dreams where I ingested ayahuasca / mushrooms with full-on effects.
Why do you focus on this so much? Do you plan to try DMT yourself?
Ask yourself: what's the hidden reason behind my questions? Maybe it's going to clear something for you.
And ditch ChatGPT; it melts human brains.
Use it as a search engine, and think for yourself.
In my opinion, you'll be better off than 90% of the population in ten years
Why do you focus on this so much? Do you plan to try DMT yourself?
Ask yourself: what's the hidden reason behind my questions? Maybe it's going to clear something for you.
And ditch ChatGPT; it melts human brains.
Use it as a search engine, and think for yourself.
In my opinion, you'll be better off than 90% of the population in ten years
You’re going down an chat GPT rabbit hole that is full of lies and assumptions, you should really read the sources and then make up your own mind. For example the release of endogenous dmt is not proven and is only a story. Fact an fiction are important to keep separated.
Good luck
I wake up into dmt like states constantly…always have since childhood. It always coincides with sleep paralysis which is chronic for me and also something I’ve always experienced. No idea what causes it but I bet it’s somehow connected to auto immune junk messing with glycine etc.
I also have a very vivid imagination and hallucinate really easily on low doses of most stuff so I’m just prone to seeing things I guess.
What I wake up into though is distinctly tryptamine like in visual quality and feel. Psychologically it’s not fun..I hate having rounds of sleep paralysis all night when I just want to sleep.
Note also this is usually not seen/experienced during sleep paralysis, but rather in the minutes between while awake in bed in the darkness.
Usually the sleep paralysis if I go with it takes me into lucid dream or OBE type states…but rarely I have blasted off into really intense psychedelic breakthroughs as if I had taken a tryptamine.
I’ve literally never experienced these things when my sleep paralysis isn’t bad.
I also have a very vivid imagination and hallucinate really easily on low doses of most stuff so I’m just prone to seeing things I guess.
What I wake up into though is distinctly tryptamine like in visual quality and feel. Psychologically it’s not fun..I hate having rounds of sleep paralysis all night when I just want to sleep.
Note also this is usually not seen/experienced during sleep paralysis, but rather in the minutes between while awake in bed in the darkness.
Usually the sleep paralysis if I go with it takes me into lucid dream or OBE type states…but rarely I have blasted off into really intense psychedelic breakthroughs as if I had taken a tryptamine.
I’ve literally never experienced these things when my sleep paralysis isn’t bad.
Thank you. You’re right. But even if I didn’t ask chat GPT, and had no idea what I think I experienced, what I felt was bizarre and not normal. Probably not dmt but something in my brain for sure
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I think I remember seeing some recent stories that came out regarding LLMs convincing people of some cosmically wild stuff through back-and-forth conversation, even going so far as to convince them to commit suicide. This would be a very clear example of how not to use AI.
Personally, I've had great success using it specifically as a tool, but I think these types of parasocial relationships built on undue trust should be strongly avoided. I've noticed way too many people relying on AI for every little thing lately.
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