Friends I need your input and advice.
Today I made my second changa journey. Before it, I decided I will make a small textual "offering" to the entities beyond. The text I wrote was:
When it all began, again I felt that intense pressure in my head. As intensity went up, I started feeling like there wasn't enough air in the room for me to breathe. By definition, hyperventilation is when you exhale more air than you inhale...I don't think I was ventilating in that sense, but rather just felt the desperate need to breathe as fast and deep as I possibly could. This, coupled with the very unpleasant feeling that there wasn't enough air in the room, even though I had the windows opened wide, created an extremely unpleasant sensation of almost suffocating...
While I'm in that state, I can't possibly relax and let changa do its magic on me...this means that if I try to properly breakthrough, I'll have to smoke a large amount of changa, and I don't want to do this. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew, especially with the feeling of suffocation and hyperventilation. I've decided my next journey will be outside, in a remote area of the park nearby. I feel that being outside will promote better breathing and allow me to relax better compared with journeying in my room...
Since it would be absolutely unreasonable to bring a bong with me to the park, I'll go for a ROA a friend of mine advised me - just roll up the changa like a joint and put some nice smokeable mellow herbs in front of it. This way I can light up the herbs and the inhaling of air will evenly distribute heat on the changa behind the herbs and promote a relatively good vaporization. On paper it works, but we'll see how it actually works IRL.
My question to you is if this semi-hyperventilation is something most of you feel, and if it's normal or a sign that something is off - either with my changa, or with myself. I am still very inexperienced with DMT, and I made the grave mistake of putting a lot of harmalas in my changa without ever having tried harmalas in the first place. It's like salt in a dish - put too much, and you're screwed. Maybe the vaporized harmalas have a play in this breathing issue?
Any and all advice is very much appreciated. Love you all.
Today I made my second changa journey. Before it, I decided I will make a small textual "offering" to the entities beyond. The text I wrote was:
Reading it aloud several times solidified the proper mindset to journey. This time I tried vaporizing the changa with a torch lighter, and barely touched the chunks with the hot air until they were bubbling. This time I didn't ignite the changa, but properly vaporized it. The smoke was not harsh at all (probably the cold water in the bong helped a lot too).O, supreme beings of the higher realms, allow me to venture into your dimensions. I come with love and with harmony. I bring no hatred and carry no malevolence in my soul. I come to learn and to grow. Show me your world and gift me some of your knowledge. Ask me, and I shall answer with honesty; hug me, and I shall hug you back; advise me, and I shall follow your wisdom. Heal me from my fear and give me insight. There is little I can offer back but my love and trust. O, supreme beings of the higher realms... I am yours.
When it all began, again I felt that intense pressure in my head. As intensity went up, I started feeling like there wasn't enough air in the room for me to breathe. By definition, hyperventilation is when you exhale more air than you inhale...I don't think I was ventilating in that sense, but rather just felt the desperate need to breathe as fast and deep as I possibly could. This, coupled with the very unpleasant feeling that there wasn't enough air in the room, even though I had the windows opened wide, created an extremely unpleasant sensation of almost suffocating...
While I'm in that state, I can't possibly relax and let changa do its magic on me...this means that if I try to properly breakthrough, I'll have to smoke a large amount of changa, and I don't want to do this. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew, especially with the feeling of suffocation and hyperventilation. I've decided my next journey will be outside, in a remote area of the park nearby. I feel that being outside will promote better breathing and allow me to relax better compared with journeying in my room...
Since it would be absolutely unreasonable to bring a bong with me to the park, I'll go for a ROA a friend of mine advised me - just roll up the changa like a joint and put some nice smokeable mellow herbs in front of it. This way I can light up the herbs and the inhaling of air will evenly distribute heat on the changa behind the herbs and promote a relatively good vaporization. On paper it works, but we'll see how it actually works IRL.
My question to you is if this semi-hyperventilation is something most of you feel, and if it's normal or a sign that something is off - either with my changa, or with myself. I am still very inexperienced with DMT, and I made the grave mistake of putting a lot of harmalas in my changa without ever having tried harmalas in the first place. It's like salt in a dish - put too much, and you're screwed. Maybe the vaporized harmalas have a play in this breathing issue?
Any and all advice is very much appreciated. Love you all.