I believe the best you can do is go with the flow and just follow the advice /thoughts /inspiration /insights /lessons /etc dmt /ayahuasca teaches /shows /inspires you.

Trying to understand the mechanisms of how and why it works can be interesting, to a point, but won't really get you anywhere, ever. Being obsessed about trying to understand how stuff works is an aspect of our western male dominated culture that has been indoctrinated to us. Not that thats negative, perse. Its just not the most effient mindset for working with something spiritual like dmt.

So don't confuse yourself, you'll get lost. Learn to let go. All you need to do is experience. And go with the flow. Its quite simple really.

THIS

All DMT is, is an incredibly strong mirror that reflects your self. The more you look away from the mirror and start to imagine/think instead of looking at what actually is, the more pain and suffering will come.

The ansver is that it depends, its different for everyone and at differebt times.
But usually its something about love and that were all one etc