welcome to the nexus..
in my early 20s i went from first hearing about DMT, to extracting it from plants in about 1 year!
i'd kinda heard references to it over the years (Leary's infamous "buisnessman's luch trip", or the kundalini hippie in Woodstock film)
but i hadn't really taken notice. also, where i was, it was never around, anywhere...
then i read my first Terence McKenna interview in which he said: "If aliens landed outside Buckingham Palace, it still probably wouldn't be
as astonishing as your first big DMT trip!" The skeptic in me just could not leave that one alone!
so i learned fast, too.
look forward to hearing of your entheogenic learnings soon...