Let's talk about one of the most important factors to any trip, specifically DMT in this discussion though. I would like to hear about everyones favorite places or settings to blast off. I mean everything from what do u keep around you and for what purpose, and how do u feel it has affected ur journeys. Do u like well, lit dimly lit or dark rooms, do u like being outside or inside. Just everything, anything. Candles, incense, rocks, tapestries... Whatever. Let's hear about it. Peace Love and Travels.

there was a thread about this not too long ago right here https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/d...aspx?g=posts&t=32253 but since I never contributed to that one I'll share mine here...

My very own porch is a great setting. I'm right next to a creek with trees all around it and especially now in the spring/summer the foliage is greener and thicker and so alive. Birds are always around. Vines are wrapped around trees. The bird sounds have a magical quality to them. I can still hear them even when I break through, although I can't remember that they are birds until I come back down, lol. The way the leaves sway in the wind...the open-eye visuals are really amazing out there. Only downside is right on the other side of all the growth, is a road where I can hear cars whizzing by and engine noises. Really distracting stuff. Commercialism is such a bummer. I mean, I accept it as part of my day to day reality but while trying to have a journey it's an absolute buzzkill. I have to try to overlook it and melt into the trees...

a few days ago during a comedown a cardinal flew up and landed on the rail right in front of me. At first I wasn't sure if it was real or not.

tell us yours, thEorEtical

Mine is the guest room in my apartment, which is unused. I have a large peace sign tye dye tapestry that covers an entire wall. I have a small rug I sit on in front of a table where I have 3 candles and an incense stick. I like to trip mid day the best, around 3, that's when the sun shines through the window in that room the best. I also keep a glass of juice or tea and a bowl of grapes beside me for when i come back, I like to have something juicy to eat and after the trip the grapes just explode in your mouth and the feeling is surreal. Thats about it, but I love it, serves me well

The watery explosions of grapes is the absolute best after a journey... for sure.

Here lately I have been traveling to a friend's backyard. There are some large oak trees surrounding the perimeter whose canopies come together perfectly and create a little keyhole to the sky. I set my hammock up between these two metal posts that used to hold a clothes line back when that was necessary. The colors of the hammock swallow me up leaving just enough of a field of vision to see that keyhole and the surrounding canopy. I love it.

We started a fire in his fire-pit a few days ago and night tripped. The orange glow from the fire danced on the trees and created this really calming gradient up the trees to the darkness where the keyhole sits. I can't get the image out of my mind.

I ring my 9 solfeggio tuning forks 9 times each. I have a small variety of crystals and orgonite structures as well as a wooden frame of a pyramid in proportion to the Great Pyramid at Giza. I know that so many people prefer dim or indirect lighting, but I prefer well lit rooms to accentuate and clarify color and detail.

I enjoy the enclosed space of an indoor room (usually my bedroom) as I've noticed it has a very direct effect on my experience because even with closed eyes, the closed-eye space retains the boundary dimensions of the room I'm in. I even have preferences for how close or far away I am from specific walls in the room, as it can create quite the difference which way I'm facing even if my eyes are closed. If I'm outside, then all the energies and DMT objects are gigantic and expansive (which can be nice in itself), but it feels more purposeful and intimate inside.

Although I've had numerous ecstatic experiences with music, I've come to prefer silence because if it's gonna be a special trip such as contact with a deity or if there's important "verbal" information to be gathered, much of it will be overpowered by the music whether that means not being able to hear the information or that it domineers hyperspace in such a way that the experience doesn't unfold in the way that it was originally intended to which can mean not ending up where you were supposed to (which may turn out to be vitally important), so as a result, I just prefer not to travel with music much anymore.

That's all I can really think of right now in terms of the setting. I know you didn't ask about set, and perhaps most think it's somewhat obvious that one should be in a good mood, and clear-headed and this and that before going into an experience, and I don't intend for anyone to go overboard with this information (and it's not a suggestion - just information about my own experiences), but I've noticed recently that it seems like not having the "perfect set" seems to be working wonders for me. Often times, I can be in an "ideal set" and things will go terribly awry. Lately, I've been purposefully traveling when I feel not that fantastic, a bit run-down, exhausted, fatigued, and this has been taking me miles. It seems that some of the most positive and sacred experiences are immediately preceded by negativity. I feel like I use this highly charged negativity as a sort of fuel to allow hyperspace work its positive magic. This seems to run counter to traditional set/setting theory, but I figured I would share my observations.

@Global. I like the way you've explained how uve been going about set. A lot of people try to focus a lot, and meditate and things before they indulge... Myself included sometimes, but a few times its been totally spontaneous, like I will leave some fresh on my oil pipe and leave it in the room I trip in, and unexpectedly, unplanned, just walk in there and sit down and hit it, and I've had some amazing experiences doing it in this manner =]

hammock out side under the oaks

Hammocks are always nice, Ive loved them since I was a little kid