SWIM extracted from 115 grams mhrb using noman's tek last week. Initially he wasted much of the spice through improper dosage/technique, but eventually had a breakthrough. After SWIM broke through he wrote this:
"1st breakthrough dose
-- "Intense" is a good word to describe the experience, as it was one of sensory overload. I was in a mainly black "space" with color everywhere - don't remember specific patterns anymore - fleeting like a dream. I felt conscious of so many things at once, conscious of many colors and interconnected patterns - like the differential distribution of smoke in a room - all at once. It was almost slightly unnerving - the fact that I was conscious of so much at once and yet it all flowed through me so quickly it was hard to retain any of it. I am skeptical of the idea that DMT hyperspace is anything beyond the self - beyond one's own brain. I felt as if I saw unadulterated "brain language" - surely the human brain doesn't think in English! I was privy to pre-thalamic integration. The extent of my consciousness was moved from external/filtered sensory input to a chaotic intermixing of signals that may have differing origins/purposes in the brain, but manifested themselves as a complex visual/auditory/tactile input.
I felt like their was some knowledge to be gained from the experience, the extent of which I gathered is enumerated above. Gathering it was no easy task. Imagine trying to have some essential truth communicated to you through dialogue with another human, all the while with people screaming in your ears, touching every part of your body and flashing lights in your eyes. It would be difficult to gain anything from such communication - but such is the DMT experience. However, the essential difference is that instead of a message through dialogue, interrupted by a sensory overload, the sensory overload itself is what carries this intimate truth that we must decipher, nothing as straightforward as dialogue. So a sense of being overwhelmed seems almost inherent in the experience."
"1st breakthrough dose
-- "Intense" is a good word to describe the experience, as it was one of sensory overload. I was in a mainly black "space" with color everywhere - don't remember specific patterns anymore - fleeting like a dream. I felt conscious of so many things at once, conscious of many colors and interconnected patterns - like the differential distribution of smoke in a room - all at once. It was almost slightly unnerving - the fact that I was conscious of so much at once and yet it all flowed through me so quickly it was hard to retain any of it. I am skeptical of the idea that DMT hyperspace is anything beyond the self - beyond one's own brain. I felt as if I saw unadulterated "brain language" - surely the human brain doesn't think in English! I was privy to pre-thalamic integration. The extent of my consciousness was moved from external/filtered sensory input to a chaotic intermixing of signals that may have differing origins/purposes in the brain, but manifested themselves as a complex visual/auditory/tactile input.
I felt like their was some knowledge to be gained from the experience, the extent of which I gathered is enumerated above. Gathering it was no easy task. Imagine trying to have some essential truth communicated to you through dialogue with another human, all the while with people screaming in your ears, touching every part of your body and flashing lights in your eyes. It would be difficult to gain anything from such communication - but such is the DMT experience. However, the essential difference is that instead of a message through dialogue, interrupted by a sensory overload, the sensory overload itself is what carries this intimate truth that we must decipher, nothing as straightforward as dialogue. So a sense of being overwhelmed seems almost inherent in the experience."
