Introduction, Extraction Success, Future Experiments

[biohazard72]

Well, I suppose I'll post a bit about myself, and what brought me to do DMT, if only to organize my thoughts on the subject.

I didn't become interested in entheogens at first. My first experience, with 5g cubensis mushrooms, was quite nice coming up but then it became too overwhelming and I went to a negative space. Luckily I have strong resolve and knew I'd come down, so I didn't have a bad trip, just an overly intense one for a newcomer. Trying hallucinogens again didn't cross my mind again, but because of their safety I was open to their use.

Several months later, I tried LSD on a whim while drunk. I found it quite enjoyable; visually interesting yet not completely overwhelming. I also had some epiphanies over aspects of myself as a person that I am quite thankful for. So my interest in entheogens increased both as a fun, safe drug as a way to better understand myself.

Since then I've tried LSD once more, but the batch was not nearly as potent as the previous time. However, I still got some good insight into myself and consider that experience worthwhile. However, I also wanted to try something new.

Around this time I extensively researched a myriad of drugs. Even drugs I had no interest at all in using (heroin, cocaine, meth, etc.) I found interesting as a subject to research. Through this, I decided I wanted to try many entheogens.

First on my list has become DMT, which has many different variations, all of which seemed interesting to me. The fact that it could be extracted from organic sources without going through a dealer was also very attractive.

I ordered 500g of bark with the hope of trying smoked DMT (for fun), ayahuasca (for healing), anahuasca, pharmahuasca, and enhanced DMT leaf. I figured these experiences would be an interesting view into my consciousness. While the bark came, I assembled the extraction ingredients.

Last friday I began an extraction tek on 160g bark (adapted from Vovin's tek). My first issue was heating in a water bath. While heating my two jars during the acid extraction, one broke in the water bath! I learned then to put the jar lid down, and to let the water bath cool a bit so the bottom of the pot isn't so hot.

Filtration was also an issue. I ended up using double coffee filters to decent success, but in the future I intend to construct a homemade vacuum pump. Monitoring pH with papers was also suboptimal.

Separation using 1L Mason Jars and a 25mL pipet wasn't easy. I ended up learning to suck up as much naphtha as possible from the separation, then sucking out the bottom. When most of the bottom was sucked out, I sucked the mixture and put it into a test tube, from which I collected as much as the separated naphtha.

So, I ended up boiling down the water bath that the jar broke in and combining this material with that obtained from the other jar. I boiled this down slowly, defatted, basified, and extracted hoping for the best.

I got 1.3g! The spice is slightly off-white and smells flowery. I am very happy. I measured out the 27 doses and stored them for future smoking. I'm building a machine later.

On Saturday I intend to brew an anahuasca brew, with 40g syrian rue and 150g bark (and using gelatin to remove tannins). I'm intending on having 12 doses (about 3g rue and 12g bark per drink) and having a ceremony. But I'm going to try a smaller amount (half dose) to assess the strength before I give any to others.

After this, I will be extracting 100g of syrian rue (hopefully using a new vacuum filter). In addition, I'll be extracting the remaining 200g of bark, hopefully getting 1.5-2g (I'll also have a sep. funnel and pH meter to make things smoother). With these extracts, I intend to partake in pharmahuasca (probably alone).

Leftover DMT will be used for an enhanced leaf mix with dream herb or blue lotus. This will exhaust all of my supplies.

Those are my plans. Following all of those, I hope to try true ayahuasca and get enough pure DMT and harmaline alkaloids for many pharamahuasca experiences or enhanced leaf.

So that's my little blurb about me, what brought me to DMT, and what I hope to do with it. First time smoking goes tomorrow night, wish me luck.

 

[rake]

welcome, and good luck on your journey tomorrow night.

 

[rOm]

I wish a constructive journey !

 

[damiana]

Welcome!

 

[Booshibonton]

How was your first time?

 

[biohazard72]

Okay, here goes. Loooooooooooong story.

Smoking:

First night made a "machine" for smoking out of a tabasco sauce bottle and #3 grade steel wool, using a 3/4" drill bit to poke the hole. Of note, the best way to make the hole in that bottle were to drill a bit with a small bit, use this groove to drill with the 3/4" bit, then when the glass was almost drilled through, poke with a hammer and nail. Then drill more to smooth out the hole.

I dosed 50mg first, I got visuals but didn't quite break through. This was because I was operating the torch lighter (couldn't get that last hit), and the lighter itself was low on gas and had trouble lighting.

I proceeded to give 50mg breakthrough experiences to 8 of my friends who were there (the one who I didn't dose due to exhaustion from my trip didn't break through). All but one liked it a lot. Most said they would, or have, done it again. I felt like Andy Dufresne from "The Shawshank Redemption," basking in satisfaction as my friends enjoyed the fruits of my labour.

People learned that having a comfortable and interesting setting really helped, so I thought of something interesting: playing Metroid (NES) on DMT. Considering I'm good enough to come very close to world record times, I figured I may be able to play on DMT. (Other games I'm extremely good at and have considered for future trips: Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Resident Evil 4).

So my friend operates the lighter and I inhale just before starting the game. The room was cold, and I felt like I was on Zebes exploring the dark corridors. My vision became "framed" with images of me at roughly ages 15, 12, 9, 5, and toddler/baby, which I found quite odd. The image came in from the left of my vision with the older me and ended with the baby sitting next to the TV. This odd frame lasted for around 15 minutes. I have a feeling that it was caused by a misinterpretation of the images of others in my peripheral vision caused by the epicness, "it all comes down to this" nature of the event.

I was deep into the game. As I cleared each room, a time would pop into my head representing what a good time for that part of the game would be if I were doing a record attempt.

I flashed from "I am speedrunning Metroid on DMT" to "I am Samus, fighting on the surface of Zebes" after about a minute. It's difficult to explain what it's like to be the protagonist in a game, but it was incredible. I took some damage and had 016 health remaining, and the game started beeping. I thought I would die if Samus did, so naturally it was quite intense. When I picked up the first energy tank I was elated.

After about 5 minutes I started coming down, returning to playing the game. It was then that I first noticed the visual flowing of the ground. This effect lasted another 10 minutes or so.

I played quite well during the trip and ended up beating the game in around 35 to 40 minutes, after deciding to take a safe route through the game.

Oral:

The next day I brewed analogue ayahuasca with 50g syrian rue and 150g mimosa hostilis (doses of 3.33g rue, 10g mimosa per person for 15 doses). I decided to boil this in 2L dH2O + 1L 5% vinegar. Performed this boil three times (2 hours, 1.5 hours, 2 hours), filtering through a fine towel. I added 2 packages of Knox gelatin (should have added more) which made some gooey mess at the bottom of the pot (but very little - I could have removed more tannins I think). I filtered this through a finer cloth. The remaining solution looked like milky coffee.

I reduced this to what I estimated (using measurements I etched into my 1L Mason Jars) at 1.6L. A friend and I decided to take 110mL (measured with a 25mL pipet, and taken all at once, washed down with water). The friend volunteered to be a guinea pig for all my experiments, so I don't have to go alone

I could feel it almost right away. Two friends and I smoked some weed to deal with the nausea but it didn't help me much. Around a half hour in, my friend pukes. I feel okay still - nauseous but not in serious danger of puking. However, I kept a puke pot nearby for safety purposes.

Around this time, I feel it come on. It felt like a plane taking off, where gravity was enhanced. From this point until about 45 minutes later, I could just let my mind drift and colourful flowing visions and fractal patterns would appear. However, I could still function.

I started watching Dexter in a room with many friends and the emotional tone of a scene controlled the trip. It was the episode where he confronted his mother's murderer. The scenes where he explored his Dark Passenger brought me to an unhappy place. Sound from the show felt like it was coming from inside my brain, a cool effect I've had on every oral hallucinogen I've taken.

I could feel the presence of people very strongly, in that their presence affected my emotions in very defined ways. Since I was oriented away from where people enter the room, the sounds and vibrations of people entering were very noticable and I could identify people by these alone.

At some point here I become quite tired and curl up with a blanket, mostly alone in a cold room. I just want to sleep now.

For a long time, I was in that room. Breathing above the blanket made me cold, but if I stuck my head into the blanket and got warm, I was afraid the CO2 would build up eventually if I fell asleep that way and it wouldn't be healthy (plus breathing the warm, stale air was less than optimal as well). Plus all the thought of breathing made me have to manually breathe the whole time. I was caught being uncomfortable, still tripping absolute balls (never purged so I got the whole dose), and extremely tired. The movie "Fargo" was on, and the sinister nature of it was disturbing me. This is where the trip bad.

I stayed in this condition until I slept (was still tripping a little when I slept, 4 hours after dosing). The things that kept me sane:

1. Periodic interactions with others.
2. Mental resolve knowing it would end.
3. Mocha, the house cat that jumped up on me and slept with me that night (and was there with me for every uncomfortable part of the trip). Petting the cat kept me happy.

The visuals were very intense (changing colours, dimensions of the room, and fractals were the most prominent). My ego took a beating but I never quite lost it, probably because of periodic interaction with people. I had some nice insights too into what's truly important in life.

I should also mention that I was quite aware of my stomach for the first hour (nausea), and for the last two hours (hunger).

For next time:

1. Be warm and comfortable, with a place to lie down.
2. Take 2 small shots (~80mL), 20 minutes apart to reduce nausea and intensity to comfortable levels.
3. Have bland, hearty food ready for hunger!

My friend had a similar although slightly weaker trip (because he puked). He still said it was the most intense hallucinogen he'd ever taken (he's had shrooms, LSD, mescaline, and HB Woodrose, a few in very high doses). He was also quite reassuring, giving me a nice hug while I was tripping.

Oh, and another friend took the dose about an hour after me (showing him how to measure was very difficult while tripping). He was tripping like crazy and didn't seem to enjoy it, because it gave him mad diarrhea (6 shits)!

Summary/Future Directions:

Smoked a bit more DMT later while playing Smash Bros... it was intense and very visual but not even close to that of Metroid. Again, the skill wasn't diminished greatly. Haven't touched the ayahuasca again yet.

Still have 11 50mg doses of freebase. Hoping to save these for special occasions, until I do a much larger extraction (750g? 1kg?) at a later date.

Will extract the remaining 200g of Mimosa hostilis (hoping for 1.5-2g DMT). Extract 90g of syrian rue (Manske, then A/B), hoping for 2g of alkaloids.

Ideally then it's attempting pharmahuasca (in Coke or OJ) with 150-200mg harmalas and 100mg DMT. I'll be doing this with the same friend, and possibly others if it checks out (hopefully I'll have enough material for 5-10 doses).

I'll also be working with my ayahuasca analogue to determine the best way to use it. Worse case scenario, I'll attempt to extract the harmalas from it via Manske then basify and extract the DMT, or just extract the DMT. But I think there's a scenario during which it would be quite pleasant.

DMT-enhanced leaf will be made (1-1.5g of 1:1 or 1:1.5 DMT:blue lotus) with acetone. I'm very excited about this method especially.

Hopefully I'll have a little bit (250mg?) left over for freebasing to add to my stocks.

After this experiment, I'll know exactly which forms of DMT are enjoyable for me. From this (and using the knowledge and extraction materials I've used), I will order much more product in bulk and have it ready for future experimentation and group use.