Hello Nexites! Recently I’ve been traversing the area sharing the spice with anyone willing to take the step and experience a breakthrough dose. I’ve chewed through my two grams within two weeks and I’m not sure when it will be available to me again. I was really enjoying talking to my friend’s pre and post dose but I guess I ran out a little earlier than I had hoped. I was just as interested in what my friends could tell me, as my own trips, the input helps me process the info and ideas presented in that place. Perhaps a part of it was wanting to learn without having to go hard into it. I was really hoping to gradually climb back to the breakthrough level. In my area it was tricky to track down, but now that I’m down to my last 25mg I was hoping to develop some “speed pipe” technique in preparation for my next batch, solo I bought one.

So last night seemed like a perfect time to test out my new toy. I was going to be alone all night and had just revamped my spot. New stereo, TV, and music selection made for a comfortable and inviting space and with “The splendor of color” playing, it lit up my walls, ceiling, and eyelids with slowly changing ambient light. I had a few pulls of a weed pipe to relax a little bit as part of my nighttime ritual and took about fifteen minutes to gear down my brain in preparation.

I placed all 25mg inside the ball-ended style glass pipe for vaping the DMT and flicked my bic. I had done a lot of searching around about technique, things like distance of flame, rolling it back and forth properly, and inhalation tips. I had read about DMT being rough and I’m reminded of McKenna’s “Hash smoking leather lungs” comments, but in the past smoking it on top of Maryjane I had never really noticed the tingle/flavour. When I lit this baby up I slowly rolled the liquid back and forth keeping my flame back about an inch. I found it tough to keep the vape cloud twirling for whenever I had a puff the burn felt like being stabbed with pins in the back of my throat. It was very different compared to burning on weed. I felt like I messed it up because I could BARELY take little puffs while it vaped. I did my best to take one steady long haul to start but it hit my throat and as soon as I felt the tingle I convinced myself that I had a monster hit… However there was still a puddle in the pipe and I had only loaded 25mg anyway. Maybe that’s a result of second guessing, not letting go, or being afraid. My first dose was very intense and profound but I wasn’t really aiming for that again, not for now at least.

I’ve been stair stepping my way back to that place but I find it scary and unpredictable. I understand it requires a disconnection from standard thought processes, but these strong burning, very tasteful pulls were killing my focus as well as my confidence. I’ve toked down about 60 no problem before with only slight tingle but with this pipe only the 5-15 I vaped was too much. (Not trip strength wise but harshness and lung clogging. My chest got very congested and I was wet ammonia-like coughs) I’ve really tried to find more info on burning your spice and better vape technique (maybe time for a machine?) but currently the search menu is down and I’m sure one of you fine gentleman/ladies has a great answer. I just don’t know if I burnt it or not, during my hits I might have touched the glass with my flame but using it alone it’s sort of hard to see the other side of the mouthpiece. The remaining residue in the pipe is some crystallization like snowflakes and at the bottom it is now a darker more orange-colored puddle with three or four small black specks in it. They look like black little oil spots, perhaps fats? My lungs have had plenty of training and I vaped as slowly and steadily as possible in that position.

Is this harshness typical? I’ve had great attempts and success using this very same batch but now tasting that burning concentrated vapour sort of threw me for a loop. I wonder if the black is some impurities or maybe a burnt section? The puddle got noticeably darker in color but remained clear yellow/orange. With just one night of practice I’m sure my next attempts will be better, but does anyone know what I’m talking about? If this is pretty typical I suppose I prefer it on reefer, but if for some reason there’s a risk or danger to this method I’d love to know. My experience in the extraction field is very limited and I tried to dig around before posting so I’m hoping someone might have a lil input for me. Even a link to some related info would be much appreciated.

Thanks Nexus! You my fav! -Tonytone

Though I am still new to this world as well, I can certainly comment on the throat burn part.

It is VERY likely that the intense throat burn is caused from the scorching of goo. Though it is possible that there may be some scorching of the xtals as well, I believe that the fats and other whathaveyou's in the goo when burned ever too slightly are the reason for the burning sensation. It really is a terrible feeling.


More pure xtals have never burned swim's throat. But if there had been a little bit of goo mixed in with xtals, it seems that the goo scorches extremely quickly and easily.