antrocles said:
might i humbly suggest that the next time you journey you try to keep your eyes closed for the entire breakthrough....it has been my experience while turning fellow travelers on to the spice that opening one's eyes is usually done in an attempt to "anchor" or "ground" onesself in the familiar. not that seeing this world through spice-tinted glasses ain't cool, but without any of "this" world to get in the way, "that" world is allowed to complete open to you.
Definitely!!
In fact, opening your eyes to ground yourself, usually just makes things get more whacked out as you sometimes see the room your in & the "DMT-room" (
or whatever) superimposed on each other. Or the normally familiar room, now looks completely foreign to your DM-Tinted eyes, which can cause one to get even more disassociated & freaked out.
Taking away as much of the "real-world" stimulus (
hearing, vision, touch, etc...) before going into the Spice-Space, will allow the DMT to fill all of your senses & the experience really begins to take on that "
separate reality/dimension" that everyone's always speculating about around here!!
I prefer silence, a dark room (or one candle) & laying back on my bed with a blanket within arms reach, in case I get the chills.
I even make sure to lay my arms at my side, rather than on my chest. Because I've noticed how the weight of my arms folded on top my stomach, or chest, causes me to feel held down by something and even makes it seem hard to breath.
Laying down with my arms at my side, I can feel like I'm floating above my body, weightless!
DMT can definitely make music sound very cool and make the room around you look really wild & all, but to me it seems a bit sub-par compared to what spice can do when its
all by itself, if you let it!!
We all have our preferences.
WS