windyshaman
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Yes, I did try to post it before, but I had some second thoughts and decided to re-write.
First, lets clear a few things out of the way:
- there's visual priming
- there's psychological priming
- I want to concentrate this topic on priming of the body
Here's a bit of background and what brought me to create this topic:
- I seem to have really hard time breaking through. In a sense that once the "honeymoon" brightly-colored CEV-s were gone - I wasn't getting anywhere "astonishing" or comparable enough to what others are describing. Like - yes - every once in a while I'd have a decent trip and fluke out into some amazing OEV-s... but - in over 6 months I only have experienced the presence of other entities about 3 weeks ago when I accidentally pushed my Change dose a tad too high.
- It also became quite evident that I'm one of the lucky ones with a high tendency to develop a tolerance for spice, so I had to ease up on the sessions frequency in the last few months. Trying to keep it to no more than once/two-three weeks
- that last point was triggered by the diminished overall quality of the experiences I started to get, not a stonewall lockout yet, but - I feel - it was heading that way
- on a typical "DMT session" day - I would usually have 1-2 rounds in the morning and - sometimes - another one later in a day
Observations:
- once past the "honeymoon", I would almost never get to breakthrough in the first round of a given day. And even if I do - it always felt too gibberish and incoherent.
- admittedly, I can't quite recall when re-loading and going for another round right away was ever really worth it - if anything - these were probably the worst experiences - including the few occasions where I found myself just hanging in the absolute black nothingness of a psychedelic limbo.
- it is - what sometimes happens on the other round - later in the day (4-6hrs later) - that I started to have a rather peculiar dance with.
- when it happened for the first time - I clearly remember attributing it to me going a little to strong on the dose. Nonetheless - it threw me into an experience like never before, of a very different sensory and visual quality - only to come out to OEV-s which left me further speechless. This definitely felt like a breakthrough alright.
- second time it happened - I do remember using a lower dose and it still took me totally off guard by the experience's intensity.
- at some point I connected the dots and figured - there's something to having that long pause between the rounds.
- well, my last experience following a quite long break - started off rather bleakly with Changa, but - again - decided to give it another "go" about 5hrs later with freebase - and I can definitely attest to having had yet another most amazing trip ever.
- a rather surprising part about these "primed" trips - is how organic these feel. It is like coming home, so fluid, no jerkiness, no weir buzzing sound. So was the return back and OEV-s and the afterglow to die for... astonishing...
- remembering what I see is a whole different matter - but I can definitely say that when I do breakthrough - it has more of a outer world, divine beauty (or beauty of divine) quality - vs what others are reporting. No brightly-colored tricksters, machine elves or jesters.
- in an odd way - my DMT sessions take almost just as much time as a cubes... totally different paces and experiences though.
So here's what my engineering mind is figuring: these initial one-two rounds of the day are somehow priming the body and nervous system - making that consequent trip a few hours later so much different.
I don't know - what is the actual time threshold / window. All my experiences happened within 3-6 hours.
Is this the only way I am able to have worthwhile trips? Time will tell - I suppose - but there's only so much experimentation I can do at once / every 2-3 weeks.
Is it just me or there are others who had made similar observations?
First, lets clear a few things out of the way:
- there's visual priming
- there's psychological priming
- I want to concentrate this topic on priming of the body
Here's a bit of background and what brought me to create this topic:
- I seem to have really hard time breaking through. In a sense that once the "honeymoon" brightly-colored CEV-s were gone - I wasn't getting anywhere "astonishing" or comparable enough to what others are describing. Like - yes - every once in a while I'd have a decent trip and fluke out into some amazing OEV-s... but - in over 6 months I only have experienced the presence of other entities about 3 weeks ago when I accidentally pushed my Change dose a tad too high.
- It also became quite evident that I'm one of the lucky ones with a high tendency to develop a tolerance for spice, so I had to ease up on the sessions frequency in the last few months. Trying to keep it to no more than once/two-three weeks
- that last point was triggered by the diminished overall quality of the experiences I started to get, not a stonewall lockout yet, but - I feel - it was heading that way
- on a typical "DMT session" day - I would usually have 1-2 rounds in the morning and - sometimes - another one later in a day
Observations:
- once past the "honeymoon", I would almost never get to breakthrough in the first round of a given day. And even if I do - it always felt too gibberish and incoherent.
- admittedly, I can't quite recall when re-loading and going for another round right away was ever really worth it - if anything - these were probably the worst experiences - including the few occasions where I found myself just hanging in the absolute black nothingness of a psychedelic limbo.
- it is - what sometimes happens on the other round - later in the day (4-6hrs later) - that I started to have a rather peculiar dance with.
- when it happened for the first time - I clearly remember attributing it to me going a little to strong on the dose. Nonetheless - it threw me into an experience like never before, of a very different sensory and visual quality - only to come out to OEV-s which left me further speechless. This definitely felt like a breakthrough alright.
- second time it happened - I do remember using a lower dose and it still took me totally off guard by the experience's intensity.
- at some point I connected the dots and figured - there's something to having that long pause between the rounds.
- well, my last experience following a quite long break - started off rather bleakly with Changa, but - again - decided to give it another "go" about 5hrs later with freebase - and I can definitely attest to having had yet another most amazing trip ever.
- a rather surprising part about these "primed" trips - is how organic these feel. It is like coming home, so fluid, no jerkiness, no weir buzzing sound. So was the return back and OEV-s and the afterglow to die for... astonishing...
- remembering what I see is a whole different matter - but I can definitely say that when I do breakthrough - it has more of a outer world, divine beauty (or beauty of divine) quality - vs what others are reporting. No brightly-colored tricksters, machine elves or jesters.
- in an odd way - my DMT sessions take almost just as much time as a cubes... totally different paces and experiences though.
So here's what my engineering mind is figuring: these initial one-two rounds of the day are somehow priming the body and nervous system - making that consequent trip a few hours later so much different.
I don't know - what is the actual time threshold / window. All my experiences happened within 3-6 hours.
Is this the only way I am able to have worthwhile trips? Time will tell - I suppose - but there's only so much experimentation I can do at once / every 2-3 weeks.
Is it just me or there are others who had made similar observations?
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