Thanks

[nathos]

hello nexians,
first and foremost thanks to Q21Q21 and all who added to his tek #2 which is super simple.
the idea of general consistancies helped tremendously to give me a pure white spice end result without the need for any measuring along the way just guestimation.
thank you thank you thank you.

about me and dmt, i have dabbled in all recreational drugs, cannabis being a main stay, but only once before have i ever encountered DMT. being young and stupid, when i was young and stupider i read erowids brief explaination of its affects and thought doing the most powerful hallucinagen was gonna be fun. so when a friend from out of town had a gram of this yellow crystal for me and around 4 others to smoke i was very excited. i loaded what i now realize was probably more than 100mg in a straight glass pipe and got a very harsh plastic taste and maybe what some would describe as the threshold experience. colors, geometric patterns, black and white checkered floor nothing spectacular and this was the same for all my friends who smoked it. what i now realize is that my smoking tek destroyed most of the dmt and saved me from having a 100mg trip, which was meant to happen, had it not im sure i would be deathly afraid of this substance and never touched it ever again. my mind was not ready then, and probably isnt now, but with my recent curiosity in ayahuasca and my explorative nature i have decided to open the door once more, just not for hours on end, so i will stick with just the dmt. only this time i have all of your collective knowledge and experience to guide me. having just tried a small amount of my spice that i made yesterday i got the same effects as i did years ago. i plan on continuing to up the dose until i breakthrough because i recently have also been exploring my spirituality and now strongly suspect that there is a reality greater than that of just the material world. i hope that my experiences to come could benefit the community as much as theirs already benefited me. thank you nexus for being here i couldnt have done it without you.

 

[endlessness]

Welcome to the Nexus!

Can you expand on why you have decided not to go for ayahuasca? Personally I find it serves itself much better as a 'spiritual/introspective/self-improvement tool' than vaporized DMT (though that is also amazing). It's not really a 'dmt experience for hours', its different than that. Also you can of course gauge your dosage, you dont have to take a massive dosage at first. Caapi is also a very important aspect of it, it goes beyond just activating DMT.

So what will be your method of smoking dmt now?

Be well!

 

[nathos]

So what will be your method of smoking dmt now?
Can you expand on why you have decided not to go for ayahuasca?

i used a glass pipe and put alot of screens in it, but plan on making q21q21 machine since the extraction tek i used went so flawlessly. and as far as ayahuasca, i do plan on trying it at some point in the future when i have a couple of days of free time to prepare/recover from the experience. the self inflection aspect of the brew is highly appealing to me since i spend little time in this world thinking about who i am, or how i should live. i understand interpretation is highly stressed here and agree that such a journey is pointless if not used to integrate the knowledge learned with daily life. i am an often lucid dreamer and also spend a little time after each dream trying to convey metaphors from within the dreams contexts. so ayahuasca is something i do plan on experience at a later date i just thought that 10 min journeys would be easier to digest than a full days trip. maybe im looking at it backwards i dont know.

i was wondering if while on the huasca if you can bring yourself to a semi sober state as i do not want to have to ride out a bad trip, i can handle the purging aspect or any other physical symptoms but i feel that i may get trapped in the trip with no escape and if that is the case i would like a few short dmt trips under my belt before attempting such a long commitment.
also is there a big difference in intesity between the two, ayahuasca brew/dmt alone?

 

[olympus mon]

i was wondering if while on the huasca if you can bring yourself to a semi sober state as i do not want to have to ride out a bad trip, i can handle the purging aspect or any other physical symptoms but i feel that i may get trapped in the trip with no escape and if that is the case i would like a few short dmt trips under my belt before attempting such a long commitment.
also is there a big difference in intesity between the two, ayahuasca brew/dmt alone?

Welcome to the nexus thank you for sharing about yourself.
You can at times to some degree be clear headed while taking aya but with high doses you are pretty much along for the ride. However, the difficult ones are imo where the real healing happens. Its not easy but after many ceremony's I would always feel happy for people that were having a rough ride. That may sound strange but after I was cleansed and liberated from my fears and insecurity from difficult journey's I now feel good for someone going deep into their consciousness and facing the things that enslave them.

Aya gave me a life beyond what I knew was possible. That and meeting my girlfriend have been the single most important events of my life.

 

[endlessness]

Multiple screens is not good enough, dmt can melt through it. Add some bed of herbs or thick layer of ashes on the bottom to help prevent it from melting. Also adding a thick layer of ashes on the top helps buffering against the lighter's heat, so DMT doesnt break down as easily.

As for ayahuasca, I think "bad trips" is a bit of a misleading term. I think mostly a difficult trip has to do with bad choice of set and setting, or it's some experience one can learn from, for example regarding one's weaknesses, etc. The hard ones are the ones you can learn the most from, IMO. Do a search on the forum 'headers' with keywords such as "oral smoked" or "ayahuasca smoked" or similar, there's many threads on it.. In any case, ayahuasca can get incredibly intense but usually only if you go to higher doses, you can always start lower and work your way up as you feel comfortable. In general it has a slower pace, visions come and stay for a while instead of moving so fast, and it's more personal. It feels more healing and easier to integrate and digest IMO than freebase DMT.

Be well!