Hello all,

I thought I would post a little about myself for anyone who is interested..

I am an extemely spiritual and open-minded person. I'd love to hear about anyone's journey who wants to tell about it. I actually may not quite fit in on this site completely as I do not normally do psychadelic drugs. However, I used to when I was a teenager and had some of my first spiritual experiences on psychadelics.

Recently I've been listening to Terence McKenna and got reinterested in the subject, as well as the culture. After finding this site, I was impressed with its gentleness and friendliness among the users. A lot of forums, as you probably know, are made up of psychobabblings and to-the-bitter-end arguments over matters of opinion.

What brought me to DMT-Nexus was a search for information on Silene Capsensis, which I found. (https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=995) Intrigued by the fact that it only affects you during the dream state, I bought some online recently. I have been recording my manner of preparing and taking it each day as well as my general experience with it so far as in depthly as I can. I plan on posting it on here after I'm done. I figured I should give back to the community since it seems that there is not a lot to be found on the plant.

Anyway, there is a lot to be said on spirituality and psychadelics but trying to type any of it here makes me feel a little like one of those tapes they'd show classes in high school. Midi drums, disorted guitar solos, weird narrator approaching from a beach... you know, the works....

So hopefully we can get some good threads going on the subject and keep everything moving in a positive direction.

I'm going on vacation to the mountains over the weekend which is where I'll be conducting my experiment (thanks to PHLUX who provided the information on how to correctly use the root). I will hopefully post about it when I get back.

Welcome to the Nexus!

I have no clue about Silene capensis, but indeed feel free to post more info about it here, it's always a good thing to share more knowledge

You say you dont 'normally' do psychedelic drugs, but that means you do sometimes? Or are you open/interested to trying them sometime again?

Be well! (and dont forget to show us pics of those mountains!)

I have some experience with that particular dream root with which you speak, how have you been preparing it? Brewed as a tea, processed into a foam, or something else? The way that I was told to use it was I would brew the roots for roughly 20 minutes (i forget how much per oz of water) and to drink it in the morning (the taste was bad and reminded me of chlorinated pool water), and also to avoid all caffeine as it apparently interferes with the compounds in Silene Capsensis to make it not work. The dreams would the become 'enhanced' that night, or at least that's what I was told would happen.

First night the dream I could remember was basically what I imagined taking acid would be like, only while dreaming. The next few times I began to take more control of the unusually vivid dreams until it got to the point where I was in a full lucid dream state and having all the fun in the world... I've since run out of what little I had. Maybe once I get some disposable money I'll get some, but I have other things to buy first

I find Silene Capensis an overlooked, fascinating plant. After experimenting with it I started growing it myself, and I am looking forward to your feedback and experience reports.

Have a great weekend and welcome to the Nexus!

Thanks for the replies!

So the trip to the mountains went awesome, but the trip with silene capsensis did not go completely as planned... I was on this trip with my girlfriend and apparantly was thrashing around a bit in my sleep one night and keeping her awake. She decided that this was because of me taking the root. I'm pretty sure it was just a coincidence, but out of respect for her I stopped taking it. I'm going to start it up again in a couple of days.

However... I did have some interesting effects before I stopped. I was putting it into tea for three days before I left on the trip. My dreams definitely had become much longer and stranger (it would seem like one dream went on all night), but I did not remember them very well and it wasn't anything that hadn't happened before on occasion. Since our dreams often do sort of blend into one another as they change, I feel that this was an effect of my awareness increasing of my dream state. Also interesting to note, I felt somewhat euphoric for a short period of time during the first day of taking it in the morning. Colors seemed perhaps a little more vivid.

After arriving in the catskills, I was using the method where you stir it into water and drink the foam it produces. It was somewhat difficult as the foam would quickly disperse back into the liquid. I took to using a straw to suck it up before it disappeared. This is how I will be doing it when I start back up. Didn't know about caffeine interfering with it so thank you for that WEM!

And finally, in response to endlessness, I don't do psychadelic drugs anymore. The last time I did was a few years ago when I took some mushrooms and ended up riding my bike on a pitch black trail at night, using just my intuition to not crash. If I felt as if I might crash, I would just adjust my movement to where I felt I was not going to crash. Very strange stuff ...
I still might be open to taking ayuasca, probably not anything else. I have a few hangups on taking psychadelics. The main one being that I think you can tear open doors that you are not ready to open, and once you have experienced something, it is always a part of you. I think that you can learn to harness energy and lead your entire being to profound experiences in a way that your monkey brain is ready to handle. I have no problem with other people choosing the path of psychadelics, sometimes it becomes very alluring to me as well. However, for me personally, I find that taking my organic brain head-on is not the best way. Also on this point, I think we can all agree that what our modern society believes our role to be on this planet is incorrect. Science has not caught up with the psychedelic movement and unveiled the truth behind mysterious spiritual practices. Recently a study was done that showed that magnetism could affect the brain in ways that unlocks hidden potential that we all possess. And so to me, just as taking psychedelics is a step into the unknown, believing in my own ability to individualize my consciousness may allow me to step into the same unknown and retain more of the knowledge. It can only hold what I believe it will hold.

Sorry if the answer is long-winded haha, but I am sort of hammering out the details of my own feelings on it as I write... as we do. And keep in mind, I am taking silene capsensis. And I am coming on this site to hear what all of you have to say. Both of those things, I feel, can only help me on my journey.