Every time before blast off, I spend a considerable amount of time in a bejeweled alcove, watching an alien dance very strangely, and the feeling I get is that they are dancing around and preparing my brain by reorganizing or shuffling everything in it. Not pleasant but not too scary. I saw one other person mention something similar.
Just wondering what are the most common visions pre-blastoff.

For me it happens whether oral or smoked. But I imagine this step would be skipped if injecting? Not that I would try that. I read a report of one guy who injected himself and found himself days later selling tangerines on the freeway with a stranger..

its pretty awsome watching my room literally become an alien eviroment. I love it, i watch all the objects around me morph and change into bizarre alien shapes. I feel that I am witnessing the room in various dimensional states that it exists in. For me the blast off is like a remote constantly changing channels , the state of reality keeps flipping deeper and deeper, its horrifying, fascinating, and enlightening. I also sometimes (who knows...everytime?) see symbols and alien like letters as this process begins.

By “before blast off” I assume you mean immediately prior to breakthrough and not prior to ingestion/smoking. (If you’re seeing bejeweled alcoves and dancing aliens prior to smoking, then maybe you need a break! )

Most of the time, my entire field of vision is filled with a “thing” that has the texture of a cloud or smoke, but whose surface is incredibly detailed. This “thing” seems to have immense intelligence, so I guess I can properly call it an entity. It approaches me, moves closer and closer to me, and as it does, I can see more and more of the detail on its surface. It is in constant motion, billowing like smoke, and its color often is a good indicator of the type of experience I’m about to have.

Once it reaches me, one of several things can happen:

On rare occasions, it passes through me and “into” me. There is a kind of “transformative merging” which leaves me with an incredible euphoric feeling, but this feeling isn’t exactly euphoria. It is a feeling I’ve never experienced in ordinary life – it is very alien. The cloud is often shades of deep red when this happens, and the breakthrough is often very deep and spiritual.

On many occasions, the “cloud” passes through me without forming any kind of connection. The color is also usually red, so I don’t know if a “connection” will form or not until it passes through me.

On some very rare occasions, when the “cloud” reaches me it does not pass through because it is solid. It slowly comes into contact with me (it is a very tactile experience) and continues to move forward. It begins to crush me, but there is no pain. As it is crushing me, I can feel both my body and my mind/ego fade out of existence (no pain, but not a pleasant feeling at all). At some point, I eventually black out, and when I regain awareness I have already broken through. The color of the “cloud” in this case is usually blue or grey, so when I see a blue/grey cloud approaching, there is often some anxiety that I must deal with. This kind of experience is the closest I’ve felt to what I imagine it feels like to know you’re about to die.

On very rare occasions (maybe 2 or 3 out of hundreds), the cloud was bright orange, and moving very rapidly toward me. When this happens, I know I’m in for a rough ride. My last thought before it passes through me is “oh no! what have I done?!” These have been very difficult experiences.


In all cases, once the “cloud entity” passes through me, the journey begins.

lol wow! this ting of the clouds is fascinating! very nice you know the different colours of your different entities and what they bring to you!

I have a similar experience. As the buzz frequency queues up, everything shifts alien, kinda flickers, and then gets more intense with the buzz, then boom you're outta there.

I usually have an incredibly hard time remembering what the pre-blast off images look like because the transformation of images is usually so much in such quick succession that by the time I'm 45 seconds in to the whole thing, I probably couldn't remember where I started.

I don't see anything anymore.

It used to be a beautiful arrangement like coloured oil floating on water... now it's nothing.

Weird.

I know the cloud thing your talking about . The colors are
Similar as well . Different shades of red . The more opaque
The color or the more light shining through the more uphoric
The experience . I have entities made of opaque panels
That get right up close and float checking me out and filling me with
Electrical energy . Sometimes its the plastic nurse . These are weird bright Orange
Plastic characters that are honey comb rooms at the same time .
Darker reds have a more forbidding intense quality .
I usually tell those things I,m not digging they,re vibe .
The dark red can morph into a lighter and more uphoric
Experience with subsequent doses I discovered.

Black and grey are bad news for me . That's been my worst
Of all time. The dreaded black checker board , hold in for dear life when you see that

This being said I am presently at a different point in my journeys .
No more plastic nurse etc . For the time being
Just profound direct connection to the fabric of the hyoerspacial
Realm . There is an evolution over time

Often it looks like the static of a tv screen for a moment which then materializes into visuals. The visuals are hard to describe ofcourse, I can hardly remember pre-blastoff visuals, often just odd landscapes and patterns. Often though, the visuals in the first few seconds I can use to determine whether I am going to 'breakthrough' or just chill in the headspace.

It all really depends on what my surroundings are. What I see in my room, for instance, is not even close to what I see in nature. Everything does its own thing.

At small dose levels, I see a lot of movement, breathing, and waving. Things will be tinged with color and light. A bit further, things in front of me (especially trees, grass, clouds, etc.) will arrange themselves into forms -- faces, figures, silhouettes. Everything dances and vibrates.

Right before a break through, if I happen to open my eyes, everything in my range of vision will dissolve into fractals. Basically, that chrysanthemum that I am on the verge of passing through now envelops everything, whether eyes open or closed. This is often too much to see with my eyes open, so I just shut my eyes and go there. After I'm "back", things will be incredibly textured in patterns (as McKenna puts it, looking like an Amish quilt). I will often see eyes and faces in the patterns and there will still be a rich sense of presence around me.

In nature is by far my favorite, because I believe I am able to get in touch with more forms of consciousness and life, which stands to reason. One earmark of my outdoor experiences is that I almost *always* see faces -- in the moss on a rock, in the leaves, in streams and ponds, in grass, in rocks. Everywhere, faces of all different types of expression and emotion. It is truly incredible.

I always see a dark netlike pattern ( much like Hermeticshamans avatar) that on a lighter dose stays for a while or on a very strong dose pulsates rapidly and comes at me like a freight train.
From there I'll go into a dreamland, but if I really breakthru I'll go to a total alien world.

Interesting that you ask.

I have a very specific one.

My field of vision is covered in beautiful dancing geometric patterns, BUT there is a clashing "centerpiece" that disrupts what would have OTHERWISE been a perfect work of art. The centerpiece is often something very odd and aesthetically abrasive, like a gnome with a missing arm, or a giant grin with missing teeth, or something like that.

Haha, yea, I get this often as well. Centered on the chrysanthemum, present as a greeting party of sorts.
I usually pick up a very specific vibe from the greeter as well; sets the mood for the rest of the experience.

Helper beings. Thin long fingers. Pouring a medicine into my mouth. (method is VG) It is always swallowed reflexively and felt to run down the spine and fill the entire world ... then launch. Often beings are giving thumbs up. Kind-of astronaut 'good to go signal' ... lines up nicely with the concept of launching. Some times they show chemical diagrams or wave excitedly as if to get me to remember some piece of information. Surely most is forgotten.

For months there is almost always beings and the medicine when with Caapi. In the past fear has seen the brew as alien radioactive waste. Now it is always seen as love, inspiration, knowledge ... a sharing.

Peace

I think I know what you're talking about. I never considered the fact that they were actually entities until a couple months ago it occurred to me that these "centerpieces" though without words seem to have these personalities. They each have certain tendency traits motion-wise and there's just something about them that makes them seem intelligent (even though they never say anything to me). Sometimes I get the feeling that it's they who are running the scene when they're present.

I usually see one of three things:

- Fairy-like creatures with "breakthrough meters", basically thermometers that go up to show how close I am to breaking through
- Double-helix DNA shape that spins and rotates until I breakthrough
- Waves of light that slowly get brighter and brighter until a portal forms in the center

This of course is all before the real craziness begins....

Peace and Happy journeys

Pretty much everytime i feel a vortex of visuals take over/purge my mind, it goes faster & faster and usually feels really good, then at times there's a huge pressure followed by a 'pop' and all sorts of things can go on visually, it's usually quite unpredictable by that point... until i come back down & laugh.