The past couple of days I've had my first 4 DMT trips. I like to start small, so the doses were between 15-25mg smoked with a GVG (even though I can't compare with anything else, it's great). I'd like to share my experiences before moving on to higher doses.
The very first trip was still the most intense, although the dosage was the same as the others. A couple of moments after inhaling it felt as if my head were imploding. I've read this description in other people's trip reports, but the most interesting to me was the feeling that I've been here before! I've had this feeling before several times during my sleep. I quite often have lucid dreams, but these 'head implosions' most often precede quite short very intense dreams over which I have almost no control, very much like little psychedelic trips.
I must say I was quite overwhelmed by the entire experience: I closed my eyes because visuals were too intense and just hoped it would be over. However, when I started "just letting it happen" and enjoying it was already pretty much over.. I was left mostly confused.
The following trips I was much better prepared for what was about to come, and they were much more pleasant and not overwhelming. I was moved by the intense beauty of things. Still it's very hard to say anything about the first (most intense?) minutes: before I know what's going on I'm already coming down.
Overall I find DMT to be a "difficult" drug, mostly because of its incredibly fast onset and shortness of duration. My experience with psychedelics is otherwise limited to psilocybin mushrooms (about 10-15 times) and LSD (2 times). With these substances there is a definite build-up to the plateau, while DMT just launches you right in it. Also it is much easier to hold on to a thought and integrate it, simply because it lasts so much longer. When I look back to my DMT trips they are almost hard to recall, a fleeting memory. But they do leave me with a feeling that there's more out there.
Before I move on to a higher dose, perhaps some of you more experienced some advice on how to deal with the quickness of it all? How to deal with the onset? Or do I have to approach it very differently from LSD/mushrooms?
The very first trip was still the most intense, although the dosage was the same as the others. A couple of moments after inhaling it felt as if my head were imploding. I've read this description in other people's trip reports, but the most interesting to me was the feeling that I've been here before! I've had this feeling before several times during my sleep. I quite often have lucid dreams, but these 'head implosions' most often precede quite short very intense dreams over which I have almost no control, very much like little psychedelic trips.
I must say I was quite overwhelmed by the entire experience: I closed my eyes because visuals were too intense and just hoped it would be over. However, when I started "just letting it happen" and enjoying it was already pretty much over.. I was left mostly confused.
The following trips I was much better prepared for what was about to come, and they were much more pleasant and not overwhelming. I was moved by the intense beauty of things. Still it's very hard to say anything about the first (most intense?) minutes: before I know what's going on I'm already coming down.
Overall I find DMT to be a "difficult" drug, mostly because of its incredibly fast onset and shortness of duration. My experience with psychedelics is otherwise limited to psilocybin mushrooms (about 10-15 times) and LSD (2 times). With these substances there is a definite build-up to the plateau, while DMT just launches you right in it. Also it is much easier to hold on to a thought and integrate it, simply because it lasts so much longer. When I look back to my DMT trips they are almost hard to recall, a fleeting memory. But they do leave me with a feeling that there's more out there.
Before I move on to a higher dose, perhaps some of you more experienced some advice on how to deal with the quickness of it all? How to deal with the onset? Or do I have to approach it very differently from LSD/mushrooms?
) and the duration will be slightly extended. Also the more you journey, the easier it will be to remember what happened. There will always be a bit of amnesia, but I think that should be expected. Just think about it like this: you go to see a really far-out sci-fi flick that had amazing, really out-there CGI. Now when you leave the theater, sure you may be able to conjure up some rough visuals and audio by memory, but you probably wouldn't do the greatest job of remembering that either. Much of what we remember is based on expectation, as opposed to remembering it the way it really was. If you haven't journeyed much, you have weak expectations.
