First of all, thank you guys (especially Ice House) for the nice work and for breaking old (mis)conceptions!
I cannot help finding quite strange the fact that insufflated dmt worked for you, Ice House. SWIM and other have tried snorting the fumarate salt (in quantities as much as the equivalent of 200mg in freebase) and "it works" - shrug, but it's not as pleasant and it doesn't feel nearly as close to the vaped breakthrough experience. It would be nice to describe (unless I've missed it in your posts!) how does it compare to vaped dmt in terms of the depth of experience.
I do not remember well, but I think that in the past some people in this forum reported that snorting freebase is so painful that its' not worth it. Most certainly those who reported snorting freebase did not go into details re the experience.
It is important to note at this point that the freebase absorbs better through the nasal mucosa, which may be the reason it worked for Ice House; I think he was among the few people who tried such a big amount of freebase. I suspect that most of people that played with the freebase just tested the water with smaller doses (e.g. 50-60mg) and the burning (at least the burning compared to the fumarate salt) just put them off any further experimentation.
I cannot help finding quite strange the fact that insufflated dmt worked for you, Ice House. SWIM and other have tried snorting the fumarate salt (in quantities as much as the equivalent of 200mg in freebase) and "it works" - shrug, but it's not as pleasant and it doesn't feel nearly as close to the vaped breakthrough experience. It would be nice to describe (unless I've missed it in your posts!) how does it compare to vaped dmt in terms of the depth of experience.
I do not remember well, but I think that in the past some people in this forum reported that snorting freebase is so painful that its' not worth it. Most certainly those who reported snorting freebase did not go into details re the experience.
It is important to note at this point that the freebase absorbs better through the nasal mucosa, which may be the reason it worked for Ice House; I think he was among the few people who tried such a big amount of freebase. I suspect that most of people that played with the freebase just tested the water with smaller doses (e.g. 50-60mg) and the burning (at least the burning compared to the fumarate salt) just put them off any further experimentation.
This is weird, especially since others (amor_fati and q21q21 just come to my mind) have reported very strong experiences with sublingual acetates (please correct me if I get this wrong!)...which brings us to my second point. DMT if administered via routes other than vaping and IV, seems to have a very variable threshold among different people. In pharmahuascam sme people have a full-on experience with just 30mg, other need at leasr 200-300mg. I am inclined to believe that individual physiology is a very strong determing factor for whether a certain dose of oral, sublingual and insufflated dmt will actually work or not.nen888 said:SWIMfriend wrote:
if snorting works, then sublingual should work too
not by any usual means in my experience.
I'm surprised at the surprise at the snuffing report!
Thought the Yopo etc snuffs would have made this obvious...