"The ultimate reality is a fractal partnergame"
Those are the words that I finally chose to describe the experience I had during my first dmt trip. But I didn't tell them to my partner (let's call him Jack) because it seemed like such a silly sentence, I had announced that I finally found a way to describe it and this seemed an almost embarrassing way to put it. The next day I became obsessed with describing it, and paradoxically, I forgot what it is I was trying to describe, the key element of the trip.. Zoom forward a month. Today, I had another toke with friends, and although I did not breakthrough, it's as if I 'saw' that space again, the elves wanted to lead me to the partner.. and I remembered. So I'd like to share this experience because it makes me feel quite emotional and very confused. I'd be grateful if you could comment, especially if you find that you have had some common experiences.
This trip report is about my first trip. Although I have had a small quantity on two further occasions, I feel that those have mostly served to make me remember key elements of my first trip. I'm not sure how much we had. I think I had 2-3 tokes. We had come back from a party where I had a quarter tab of acid, and when that put me in a contemplative rather than party mood, I took quite a lot of mdma to counteract it. In fact, by the time we smoked the spice the Mandy was definitely still working, as I remember tripping off the sound of the kettle before we went upstairs.
We started by meditating for about 10 minutes sitting across from each other. Then I had my first toke. It didn't make me cough like I expected, but one feature I've noticed is that it makes me swallow a lot in the minute after first having it. Reality changed IMMEDIATELY. Everything became kind of stylised and fractal, and everytime I moved, it was as if that part of reality was dividing itself in order to do so, dark orange and purple colours, borders dividing in order to shift. So movement felt like creation in a way. I was absolutely taken aback, looking around, felt the sensation of sitting up straight, looked down at myself, my hand, it was also like that, then I looked up at Jack, completely startled that he was still there. I looked down, he was prying me with the pipe. I remember thinking: I have no idea how to smoke this. But I felt that I was expected to, so I attempted, and succeeded once, it felt strange, cold and smooth. The next day Jack told me he actually had to force the pipe out of my hand in the end, which I found hilarious since I interpreted it as him wanting me to take more and more at the time. Anyway, after that second toke, the fractal atoms making up reality started to divide again and me with it whenever i move, I remember feeling a strange feeling, almost sexual, I remember actually thinking: are we having sex? And then realising that that's impossible. I was holding my cup of tea with my fingers, the feeling was so smooth, the feeling in my whole body was like.. the feeling of feeling itself. I can't describe it any other way. I decided to close my eyes.
Zoom. Across from me was this entity, I knew he was giant sized, sitting in a meditative pose in space. Background black, he was mostly phosphorescent green and blue coloured. He had one main face but I saw that he had side faces too even though I was facing his front. The contours were very clear, like a Luke Brown picture, not the stylised fractals that were turning everything into some kind of comic. Was this god? This is the situation I ended up associating with my description of the ultimate partnergame, this tuning into the entity and meditating across from each other peacefully. But now I remember it's what happened next.
I opened my eyes. By this time I started to associate Jack with the DMT. It was as if it was speaking to me through him, I was reading its intentions, it was teaching me things. Jack slowly and precisely went out of his sitting pose and lay down. I watched him do it. I decided to do it as well.
Zoom. Suddenly I was in the "ultimate partnergame". Jack was there already, waiting for me to join him. Jack and I were entities, or we took their place for the duration of the trip. I don't remember what I looked like, I think I was mainly orange coloured. He was coloured pastel blue and purple and white. His shape was kind of like Shiva, in that he had a similar hairstyle, bunched up above his head and long. This partner was humanoid but definitely also in some way a creature. The way I perceived space and the room is completely differently from normal. There was no "space" as contrasted with things or entities in it. Everything was filled out, the room was all encompassing, things flowing back and forth, there did not seem to be any borders because there was nothing beyond the borders, yet the space seemed finite. Everything was kind of stylised, not extremely detailed, like a cartoon.
The partnergame involved the following: Sitting across from each other, and with our many arms and hands, making movements that looked like grabbing things from the air and putting them in a different part of the air. I interpreted it as "making decisions". It was extremely serious business. I was shocked, even felt a bit violated, in being suddenly used for this purpose, yet I knew the decisions we were making were of utmost importance and I got on with the task at hand. It was almost as if we were deciding the mathematical formulas that were to be the physical laws, describing/deciding them with our signlanguage, which were then to be used as the basis for the reality I usually experienced. I remember realising that if one had mastered this game enough, then you could make decisions to change 'normal' reality, in specific ways.
I have to mention here that the whole trip lasted about 4 hours. The proper part of it was probably the normal length of a DMT trip but the ebbing away was extremely protracted. And it always began with me making some realisation or other that had some sort of bearing on 'normal' reality, and as soon as I made that realisation, a certain percentage of the trip subsided. So when I realised that there is a 'normal' reality apart from the partnergame (even though at the time I had no conception of what it was), I think that's when it finished. In hindsight, I can't imagine it to have lasted more than 10 minutes but it felt as if conceptions of time just had no place when I was there. For all I know it lasted forever, and at several points in my trip, I saw it not as exploring something new but COMING BACK to somewhere. I was coming back to the partnergame, after so long!
So then during my long subsiding period, all sorts of thoughts were going through my head. Did Jack have the same experience? He must have, after all he took the place of the partner! What were we doing? How can I describe this? This is indescribable! Perhaps because what we were doing was the essence of describing itself, or reality was describing itself... I got stuck in a loop. Throughout this time, I still associated Jack with the DMT. So for example, after a few hours, when I was finally coming down decisively, he asked me how I was. And I said I'm good. And then suddenly I had a thought: How about I ask him how he is back? And he said good, but to me it sounded as if the DMT was saying "good, you've progressed to be able to do this!". After a while it became clear that Jack wasn't feeling it at all and I still was, so I just decided to go to bed. This confused me even more by the way, because how can he ask me "are you still feeling it" - the whole partnergame thing wouldn't make sense at all if he wasn't feeling the same way!
Now, the next morning, he didn't really talk about it. I think by that time I might have forgotten the crucial part of the experience anyway, but it made me conclude that he must not have experienced the same thing, which I couldn't describe properly anyway, so how could I ask him? Then today, I did some again not enough for a breakthrough, but enough to see the room the elves were beckoning me towards, a black space with red and blue phosphorent things and beings in it, and it made me remember the partnergame. I was finally able to describe it, and I phoned Jack, and I asked him "is this what you felt?" and he said "yeah I think everyone feels a kind of similar thing".
But rather than a feeling of closure, which I felt initially, I feel even more confusion. What IS the POINT of this game? It's not especially pleasant, and what's worse is that I seem to go back to this space everytime I do DMT. I kind of hope not to, and am astonished everytime I do, because everyone else seems to have very varied, even fun experiences and mine just seem to all lead towards this partnergame, which is very intense and serious. I feel like reality is replaced 100%, my experiences just create confusion, no answer, no teachings. I mean, I've had some insights, but they all tend towards: Now I know why x religion says y, about sacred geometry, about this and that that I've read, what it refers to. Not what the point of these teachings actually is, why the history of the human race is filled with people wanting to experience this realm, when it is not overtly pleasant and it's clear I'll be stuck in it for eternity when I leave my life on earth anyway. The only thing I can think of is back to when I had the insight that if you mastered control of the partnergame you could change normal reality. But I'm not sure I ever could, or even want to. It's not like I haven't had positive experiences as a result of doing DMT, my mood is usually elated for the rest of the day, I have realised areas of my personality I need to fix, am more calm, closer to my friends, synergies have started to emerge.. but that seems to have nothing directly to do with the actual experience while in the realm.
Anyway, I've started to ramble now. But I hope someone can give me some insight. Maybe I need to enter the realm with questions and intentions? I realise now that implicitly I wanted to know some kind of ultimate truths and meet an entity during my first trip, which is certainly what I got. But I really don't see how the experience could be any different but for degree..
EDIT: Just wanted to add that at some point, I felt my third eye chakra warm up, but only for a few seconds. And that I'm not sure whether the partnergame happened while we were sitting or lying down because I remember actually feeling my hands move and being convinced that we were making these movements - impossible of course because the partner had more than two arms.
Thank you for this great community of DMT nexus by the way! Looking forward to being a part of it