SPAWNmaster
Rising Star
Hi there! I'm wondering about the compared intensity of DMT to some of the stronger psychedelic experiences SWIM has had.
SWIM experienced a breakthrough on LSD that at the time would have been classified as a "nightmare trip". After integrating and contemplating the experience over the past four or five years, SWIM realized that it was actually the best trip he has ever had. It was a growing experience from which SWIM still is learning today.
One hit of pretty strong blotter. At the time SWIM had only tripped about 10-15 times on LSD but had a number of experiences with other entheogens such as peyote and MDMA. On the peak, SWIM smoked some cannabis. Immediately SWIM's visual hallucinations (typically mild for him on LSD) became quite active. X-ray vision, rearrangement of the 3D visual space, and the apparent sensation that SWIM was experiencing a preview of future architecture and future technology. A noticeable OEV effect- swim was looking at some sort of plant and it began to blossom roses which would then die and then reblossom in a cyclical effect. That hallucination combined with several aural phenomenon gave swim the feeling that something was wrong and he went to lie down on a sofa in another room. By the time SWIM made it to the sofa, he began experiencing a rapid hearbeat, sweating profusely and panic at the overall direction of the experience.
The transition to the breakthrough is something that SWIM cannot recall at this point. One moment he was dealing with the panic and the next he had blasted through to a full visionary space with ego steadily dissolving. SWIM experienced a vision of him flying into a vision of his eye which somehow had a 5 point star in it. He kept flying through the image of his eye and coming back out and back in similar to how the zoomquilt wraps around to the beginning. He then experienced another vision of a dancing machine that was also representative of SWIM in some way.
During these visions SWIM's ego was steadily dissolving and he was panicking the whole time, trying to make sense of what was occuring. And then he died. He was simply destroyed, nothing, non existant, and no longer scared for his life. At this point he blasted through the cyclical visions to a new headspace...or it seems like it was outer space. He experienced the sensation that SWIM was "one with the universe" (cliche, I know!) and saw the universe as a single sine wave. He was simply an observer of this event. After some time coming to terms and understanding this oneness, SWIM slipped back down to a lower level of experience whereby his senses were integrating along with his ego. It felt like SWIM was being born again. SWIM was worried he wouldn't be integrated correctly and the more he worried, the slower he came back together. After he sort of accepted what was happening again, his synaesthetic senses began to reorient and his ego slowly built back into it's fully intact form whereby he remembered he was human, learnt to speak again, etc.
After that eternity brought him back to the LSD baseline, SWIM found himself shaking uncontrollably and wanting to experience "normality" and force a comedown. Years later, the friend who was tripsitting SWIM noted that SWIM appeared to have been "sleeping" on the couch while SWIM was experiencing this unbelievably intense trance state.
Sorry for the length there! But my question is- will SWIM's low-dose first time DMT experience be comparable to this trip description? I read in some thread (I've been lurking for some time...) that LSD is "tapwater" compared to DMT. But SWIM's experience resembles more of the DMT type of experience from what SWIM has read.
SWIM just wants to be as prepared as possible for his first experience- he knows that it is not your everyday substance to be messed with, and in fact his own DMT extraction will be his first psychedelic experience in 3-4 years.
SWIM experienced a breakthrough on LSD that at the time would have been classified as a "nightmare trip". After integrating and contemplating the experience over the past four or five years, SWIM realized that it was actually the best trip he has ever had. It was a growing experience from which SWIM still is learning today.
One hit of pretty strong blotter. At the time SWIM had only tripped about 10-15 times on LSD but had a number of experiences with other entheogens such as peyote and MDMA. On the peak, SWIM smoked some cannabis. Immediately SWIM's visual hallucinations (typically mild for him on LSD) became quite active. X-ray vision, rearrangement of the 3D visual space, and the apparent sensation that SWIM was experiencing a preview of future architecture and future technology. A noticeable OEV effect- swim was looking at some sort of plant and it began to blossom roses which would then die and then reblossom in a cyclical effect. That hallucination combined with several aural phenomenon gave swim the feeling that something was wrong and he went to lie down on a sofa in another room. By the time SWIM made it to the sofa, he began experiencing a rapid hearbeat, sweating profusely and panic at the overall direction of the experience.
The transition to the breakthrough is something that SWIM cannot recall at this point. One moment he was dealing with the panic and the next he had blasted through to a full visionary space with ego steadily dissolving. SWIM experienced a vision of him flying into a vision of his eye which somehow had a 5 point star in it. He kept flying through the image of his eye and coming back out and back in similar to how the zoomquilt wraps around to the beginning. He then experienced another vision of a dancing machine that was also representative of SWIM in some way.
During these visions SWIM's ego was steadily dissolving and he was panicking the whole time, trying to make sense of what was occuring. And then he died. He was simply destroyed, nothing, non existant, and no longer scared for his life. At this point he blasted through the cyclical visions to a new headspace...or it seems like it was outer space. He experienced the sensation that SWIM was "one with the universe" (cliche, I know!) and saw the universe as a single sine wave. He was simply an observer of this event. After some time coming to terms and understanding this oneness, SWIM slipped back down to a lower level of experience whereby his senses were integrating along with his ego. It felt like SWIM was being born again. SWIM was worried he wouldn't be integrated correctly and the more he worried, the slower he came back together. After he sort of accepted what was happening again, his synaesthetic senses began to reorient and his ego slowly built back into it's fully intact form whereby he remembered he was human, learnt to speak again, etc.
After that eternity brought him back to the LSD baseline, SWIM found himself shaking uncontrollably and wanting to experience "normality" and force a comedown. Years later, the friend who was tripsitting SWIM noted that SWIM appeared to have been "sleeping" on the couch while SWIM was experiencing this unbelievably intense trance state.
Sorry for the length there! But my question is- will SWIM's low-dose first time DMT experience be comparable to this trip description? I read in some thread (I've been lurking for some time...) that LSD is "tapwater" compared to DMT. But SWIM's experience resembles more of the DMT type of experience from what SWIM has read.
SWIM just wants to be as prepared as possible for his first experience- he knows that it is not your everyday substance to be messed with, and in fact his own DMT extraction will be his first psychedelic experience in 3-4 years.
