What expectations do you bring to DMT?

[AlpineXplorer]

I wonder, do people go into the DMT experience with direct questions they want to explore, or as an open slate? With some expectation that something grander will be accomplished, or just for the experience itself? Clearly for some people it’s one and done.

I don’t think I bring many expectations myself, although maybe some of that is happening subliminally.

And if you do bring expectations with you, are they usually met? If they aren’t, how does that affect the way you feel about the experience afterward?

Personally, I think it’s something I can’t really explain that draws me back. Call it the WOW factor, and that overwhelming love that leaves me dripping with gratitude, often just repeating “thank you.”

 

[TheGreenPhantom]

I go into the experience without expectations. I've tried bringing questions or concerns in with me, but I feel it's like talking to a tree or the ocean. No response.

The experience almost always makes me laugh and feel better and more optimistic about everything if I go into it with a Zen mind – no mind.

The Sun has no concern for your foibles... yet sunlight fosters and supports everything. You need only experience it for what it is....

 

[northape]

I expect a full-on enlightenment with complete liberation from the cycle of birth. God should appear and walk me through the process while angels sing praises and celebrate the occasion. Then people should talk about me for ages, write books, and make statues. I expect at least a 30m tall white marble statue showing my supreme physique and intellect. Something like that is to be expected before any trip.

Seriously, why expect anything at all? I may set an intention for the session, and that's about it. We're not computers, but organic representations of life. The nature of medicine is balance, and it'll bring you there if you let it. Intention could set a direction, but even then, you may end up with a result you couldn't see before. That's why we partake, imo - to look beyond our usual stories. The person who sets out on the journey and the one coming out of it are not really the same. Yes, we share the same flame, but the vessel kind of changed in the process. Expectations just create an unnecessary resistance and chain you to one version of yourself. Get loose, get wild, get mad for a while. It'll do you good

 

[Voidmatrix]

I expect something will happen, but that's it. It's too much of a crapshot every time to be able to have consistent expectations. I like telling people "forget everything you think you know," before getting into hyperspace.

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