Does anyone else ever hear this?
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The DMT Sound
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CatholicPsychonaut
"Nature loves courage"
parabowl said:
Yep. I assume that is a common occurrence that most, if not all people hear on DMT. Terence McKenna always described it as "the sound of cellophane ripping... I wouldn't have described it this way had I never heard him do so. To me, it sounds like cicadas or crickets rubbing their wings or speaker/microphone feedback, but with an "overtone" quality. It it also quite similar to the hum one hears after a loud concert or when one suffers from chronic tinnitus.
In fact, now that I reflect on it, I think it IS tinnitus. Some researchers have said that tinnitus doesn't actually have anything to do with the ears, but is the sound of an electrical "feedback loop" of neurons in the brain firing back and forth in the absence of sound input from the ears.
DMT shuts off the brain's contact with the ears and eyes and turns it all inward. The sound you hear is the sound of your brain working, the feedback hum of the electricity coursing through your brain cells. Building on this, perhaps the "chrysanthemum" (again a McKenna word I would not personally use to describe the image) many experience at the beginning of the trip is the visual equivalent of tinnitus... Seeing the activity of brain in the absence of ocular input... But I don't know.
One thing I do know, is that recording you linked to, although recorded at FAR to low a volume, is an excellent simulacrum of the actual sound (at least as I have heard it). I'd be interested in knowing how this recording was synthesized.
In my own trips, it has always seemed like all the sounds I was hearing as I went under (a fan, the kids playing upstairs, the dehumidifier) all seemed to "melt" into THE HUM, like all sound is somehow the "child" of this sound and is born out of it, and that when we enter The Dome, we are allowed to return to the beginning of sound (and of everything else). I have also heard this sound many times while under deep meditation, although nowhere near as loudly or all-devouring as is heard on DMT. It is this reason that I am convinced that this sound is "The Word" of St. John's Gospel("in the beginning was The Word and The Word was with God and the Word WAS God" in Latin, "In principio erat verbum et verbum erat apud deum et deus erat verbum") , the OM of Hindu Mysticism... The Sound God chanted to bring the world into being. Paramhansa Yogananda called the sound "The hum of the cosmic motor."
It is interesting that the phrase, in Latin says "the Word was with God and God was the Word" but is is most often, or classically translated as "the Word was with God and the Word was God" The Latin order of the phrase is also present in the original Greek. This, to me, is significant. If it said the Word was with God and God IS the Word, then the order of the two synonyms (The Word and God) aren't important. Since, however, the tense is past, (was), then the implication is that those things are no longer in that state. IF the Word was with God and WAS God, it implies that God is in the position of primacy, because the Word has somehow stepped down from being at one with God and is now something somehow different than God. If The Word was with God and God WAS the Word, then it is The Word that is the FIRST THING, the source, the thing that God steps down from. I think that the next verses confirm this idea, as they glorify and expand on the idea of the Word being the FIRST THING, the Source, the Place of Primacy.
Wow... I had never really considered that stuff about The Word until just now... The idea kind of formulated itself as I was typing. I LOVE it when that happens! THE WORD at work in the world! I did get quite a bit off-topic from the DMT hum, though, didn't I?!
CatholicPsychonaut
"Nature loves courage"
A great audio example of this "all melting into the hum" I described from my own trip experiences is captured quite well in the middle of the song "Funk Soul Brother" by Fat Boy Slim. Start playing about 1:50 onward to see what I mean.
I've definitely heard this. To me its the sound of the universe, that sound that's always there, we just don't always pick up on it.
TheRawringDinosaur
Rising Star
Jesus that's a scary sound. Forgot all about that detail :| thrum thrum thrum thud
Does this sound stop when|if you break through?
Does this sound stop when|if you break through?
I am glad that some other people hear that too. I was very curious if this was a shared sound and was also curious as to other peoples insights on it. It depends if it stops or not on a breakthrough for me, I have had both. Usually they seem to be the darker ones when I keep hearing it.
2:48 is a very familiar/common sound I experience. I wanted to see if I could recreate it and I think it is a pretty darn close representation.
It was actually recorded through a guitar. Had to keep the volume low because the hum of the amp. The sound is a guitar going through a reverb pedal then into a delay pedal, just tapping on the strings for some parts but most was just done off of the natural hum.
2:48 is a very familiar/common sound I experience. I wanted to see if I could recreate it and I think it is a pretty darn close representation.
It was actually recorded through a guitar. Had to keep the volume low because the hum of the amp. The sound is a guitar going through a reverb pedal then into a delay pedal, just tapping on the strings for some parts but most was just done off of the natural hum.
Honestly, I thought that sound was pretty strange. Sounded like a helicopter in a metal gear box. I don't know if dmt has it's own 'sound' but while on it I've had sound 'spread out' into higher frequencies, if that makes sense. Like the sound of a water droplet, I hear the lowest tone flow out to the highest as it plops.
My first time ever smoking, my laugh was broken and stuck on this looping acceleration. It would start out normal and pick up pitch with each chuckle, and the whole thing was so bizarre it would only make me laugh more.
My first time ever smoking, my laugh was broken and stuck on this looping acceleration. It would start out normal and pick up pitch with each chuckle, and the whole thing was so bizarre it would only make me laugh more.
hardonfordrums
Rising Star
You know I personally hear about that noise quite frequently. But more recently i heard that there is no general sound in place, but more like a patterned overall over the general vision that occurs before you let go. Whether you listen to music or not after the fact.
What I've heard doesn't sound quite like that, but I understand where you're coming from. In my first white light experience, there was this sound of a rocket engine going off, only 50x smoother, and it was all-encompassing, coming from everywhere at once while having this constant and perpetual sense of elevation.
The sounds I usually hear on DMT, however are not of this category of large drones. Most often it's these sequences of high frequencies, as if a computer or musical sequencer were churning out these lovely codes. In the same aforementioned white light experience, there was simultaneously the rocket engine sound along with the computeresque electronic sounds.
I was being flanked by these two golden puzzle-piece satellite entities and they sounded like two computers talking to each other, but the sounds in this experience were much more heightened than usual in both volume and complexity.
Most rarely, I've heard actual music. On at least two occasions that I can remember, while in my physically silent room, I've heard music as clear as day. It sounds like some hybrid of a harp/music box and each chime is like a tickle on the soul. Unlike the computeresque frequencies which are largely atonal, this enchanting music is very much tonal. On one experience I was hearing this full-fledged lullaby in perfect 4 part harmony with excellent voice leading. On another experience where it was as if I was soaring through the heavens with sunset colors abound of oranges, pinks and purples, and clouds were parting as I heard the most spectacular harp arpeggiations. It was the most stereotyped heavenly experience, and I was soaking up every minute of it.
The sounds I usually hear on DMT, however are not of this category of large drones. Most often it's these sequences of high frequencies, as if a computer or musical sequencer were churning out these lovely codes. In the same aforementioned white light experience, there was simultaneously the rocket engine sound along with the computeresque electronic sounds.
I was being flanked by these two golden puzzle-piece satellite entities and they sounded like two computers talking to each other, but the sounds in this experience were much more heightened than usual in both volume and complexity.
Most rarely, I've heard actual music. On at least two occasions that I can remember, while in my physically silent room, I've heard music as clear as day. It sounds like some hybrid of a harp/music box and each chime is like a tickle on the soul. Unlike the computeresque frequencies which are largely atonal, this enchanting music is very much tonal. On one experience I was hearing this full-fledged lullaby in perfect 4 part harmony with excellent voice leading. On another experience where it was as if I was soaring through the heavens with sunset colors abound of oranges, pinks and purples, and clouds were parting as I heard the most spectacular harp arpeggiations. It was the most stereotyped heavenly experience, and I was soaking up every minute of it.
TheRawringDinosaur
Rising Star
Ooooooooh. It exactly turned into that and the bleeps were strangely spaced out.
Psychonaut In Orbit
Ancient Futuristic Organisms
DMT has a very strange effect on the sounds I hear... most of the time when I'm breaking through and that moment when everything slows down and my vision starts to go into extreme fragmentation mode... everything gets REALLY quiet. It doesn't matter if music is blasting or anything.. it gets super quiet,,, like my head is covered by a plastic bag and those faint weird sounds that the op shared are similar to the little whispers of sound that I hear... then whatever music I'm listening to at the time starts to slowly creep back in but with a flanger like effect but still muffled and then something strange happens... it's like the DMT is remixing whatever I'm listening to at the moment. Multiple delays.... multiple skipping.. parts of the song I didn't notice before are almost unbearably at the forefront only to melt back into the song and pop back out with a slight variation. The auditory hallucinations that come with DMT is almost as extreme as the visuals themselves!
It is interesting to read about all of the different sounds that everybody says that they hear. I am interested in that as much as the visuals. I have also heard some basslines before like DeMenTed said. They were pretty badass actually.
Wow, thanks a lot for these recordings. They are uncannily similar to what I sometimes hear during my travels. Every now and then the sounds blend into my thoughts and visuals which makes for an interesting but generally unintelligible trip. It feels as if all my thoughts are lumped together, shaken, and then returned completely scattered by the noise (kinda like bitfog 
). I generally experience heightened creativity afterwards.
). I generally experience heightened creativity afterwards.
Damn.
That first one, for about the first two minutes, sounds almost exactly like what I've heard. It had always came to me from the fan I have going. But, it was in lower and higher tones as well. It sounded like I took a single note from the fan, and that just kept replaying, over and over, and sped up, stabled out at around this sound, and flowed up and down. Each trip was normally a different tone though.
It usually comes on right as I'm counting, a few seconds before the exhale. That instant, that sound. Kinda sounds like a broken record, off all the sound in this space for a few, and then distorts, and bends into that new sound.. Always so familiar though..
That first one, for about the first two minutes, sounds almost exactly like what I've heard. It had always came to me from the fan I have going. But, it was in lower and higher tones as well. It sounded like I took a single note from the fan, and that just kept replaying, over and over, and sped up, stabled out at around this sound, and flowed up and down. Each trip was normally a different tone though.
It usually comes on right as I'm counting, a few seconds before the exhale. That instant, that sound. Kinda sounds like a broken record, off all the sound in this space for a few, and then distorts, and bends into that new sound.. Always so familiar though..
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