Hi Gang,At the risk of skirting a little too close to what could be perceived as a "fringe topic", I will say that I agree with the description of several of these sounds and have heard most, if not all of the sonic descriptives you folks have mentioned.
Not just with the poignant grace of DMT, but with other psychedelics/entheogens (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline and Salvia Divinorum)... and sometimes even in deepest meditation. More so with Spice than anything else, though. It's just a matter of the degree in intensity, eh?
And I also feel that it is only logical to conclude that, we would each have unique sonic experiences, given the diversity in human thought and the uniqueness of each individual.
I always hear the high-pitched oscillating tone of the Carrier Wave on the way up. It lifts my mind into a an interconnected Grid of pulsations of light energy. I hear sympathetic buzzing a crackling tones, in accompaniment to this wave of ringing sound. These pulsations seem to vibrate in rhythmic harmony with a number of sonic phenomena.
One of the most predominant ones for me is the whirring sonics of the OM vibration. It has a morphing, droning tone and seems to resemble dozens of low-pitched chain saws, all rumbling away in waves of raw current. Swelling and swirling in constant transformation and variable oscillations and vacillations in volume (and morphing timber).
That being said, there are several universal sounds which have been recorded throughout history and do not necessarily correlate to DMT experiences in specific, but supraconscious levels of awareness, in general. These sounds are referred to in the Upanishads of India and in the Tibetan Book of The Dead. Thus, many secretive Yogic schools list these sounds and label them with only slightly similar tones, which anyone could easily comprehend. :idea:
These sonics are to some degree, described symbolically and metaphorically. So, one needs to stretch the usual, literal definitions and boundaries for the typical connotations these words describe... to gleam the reasonable parallel to the psychic sounds we hear with our mind's inner ear.
For example, the deeply morphing rumble we name the OM vibration, is likened to the sound of thunder or the boom of a large drum. The Carrier Wave is likened the the high register of the flute. There are pops and shimmering hissing sounds which are likened to bells, gongs, crickets, birds, the wind, the rush of water. Or even the dripping sound of a falling droplet of liquid, which so seems like the sound of Amitra dropping from the activated
singular eye upon the back of the pallet.
I think that most of them are far more cosmic, abstract and electric in nature... but the need for humankind to relate, in terms of familiarity, one idea to another. This sound association seems to be freely utilized in these analogies.
The very current of our neuro-chemistry can be heard as we witness it within our subjective perception. One of my favorites is the high shimmering hissssssss... I hear befoee hitting a
whiteout expereince. this shimmering tone is almost immediately followed by the deepest silence I can attempt to describe. Upon disengagement from such a peak eclipsing with an entheogen, this can be followed by a popping or crackling, buzzing sound, as I re-enter "normal" reality, on this side of the looking glass.
I personally believe that these sounds each have a corresponding equivalent, a symbiotic response within the very consciousness of the witness who hears them. They are in alignment with shifts in our perceptual understanding of our existential paradigm and thought modality, in our search for new levels of reality.
BUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZ... POP!!!!!!!
There is no self to which I cling, for I am one with everything.