Out of curiosity, to what extent do you all experience nostalgia that reflects your experience?

I am wary of using the term 'flashback'. My experiences with being reminded of hyperspace seem much more profound that anything I could define as HPPD.

I have found myself experiencing seemingly random bouts of memory associated with my last (and only) DMT trip.

(An account of which can be found in my Intro Essay here; https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=40431 )

One thing I have noticed is that this sensation is not accompanied by hallucinations or anything particularly tryptamine-like. It truly feels as if I am vaguely perceiving the connection between my reality and hyperspace for a split second. There is no associated sensation other than my own distinct feeling that this is occurring.

Anybody else wanna chime in?

Everyday.

Sometimes it will come to me, in the most subtle realization. Just enough for you to be aware of its existence, such a simple thought, yet omnipotent.

I fear it.

When I have broken through I have had hyperspace sensations days afterwards. I have also had side effects such as waking up from deep sleep as I was emerging from a mandala and coming out of a portal into my body and into my room. I loved it but it is a side effect.

Not sure how much it is spoken about on the Nexus but there seem to be side effects related to the use of spice. I think it ought to be spoken about more openly and more often because I think there is a misconception that this experience lasts for only so long and then one has an afterglow for a hour or more. In my experience a breakthrough is not this simple.

" I have also had side effects such as waking up from deep sleep as I was emerging from a mandala and coming out of a portal into my body and into my room. I loved it but it is a side effect."

Yea i also have had stuff like that happen for years. its wild how thoroughly psychedelics have impacted my dreamlife, and waking for that matter :]

i love it, but to call it a 'side-affect' isn't really doing this sort of thing justice or painting it in an accurate light for me. Maybe after-affect is a better term, since side-affect is often portrayed in a negative light...

These sort of permanent consciousness changes could be looked at as a 'main-effect', really: since they aren't merely a random side-effect, or even negative consequence of one too many dips into hyperspace (although at times i suppose they can be..). I mean for example, is an increased sense of empathy or connectedness with others, and expanded view of oneself and the cosmos- which can occur due to psychedelic work- just a 'side-effect'? or the progressive growth of ones awareness?.... but of course its way more complex than i can say, and there is endless variation in how this sort of thing is experienced in people

i don't intend to put words in your mouth, since our internal dictionaries can differ greatly... and by 'side-effect' you might have meant something pertaining to what i said, as opposed to something neutral or negative- which it can be at times, for sure

this whole area has been talked about quite a bit and is very interesting, especially since so many nexians report 'after-effects' of all sorts ..i'm listening to an interview right now so i'll just copy some of my responses to similar threads posted here over the past month or so that i found via search

"neuroplasticity is probably relevant

many people have experiences of psychedelic states while 'sober' after having a lot of experiences with these plants and substances. Life just gets more intense and strange, and you can get to some far out places, or in some trouble at times. For some reason, some people are different and experience these 'after effects', for lack of a better word, whether 'good' or 'bad', much quicker than other people and to different degrees of intensity and anxiety"


"i experience stuff like that everyday

flashbacks just a term with a lot of stupid cultural connotations attached to it... no one even knows what it 'is' anyways. i wouldn't focus on it or get hung up on words and categorically placing experiences into mental slots of designated meaning

but fact is, you can deliberately build the neuronal connections (or whatever the mechanism is) to altered states of consciousness to the point where you can get to some pretty far out states without ingesting anything at all, and sometimes spontaneously. this is what people have done for millenia in the amazon and other places all over the world. its just like building any other muscle, skill, or practice"


"sounds normal, i wouldn't worry. a lot of us here 'hallucinate' all the time. you can push this sort of thing with practice and enter some very dmt-ish visionary places. Staring with a certain relaxed focus is one way to do it...especially in mirrors

this probably all relates to how some good ayahuasca shamans eventually learn to bring in the visions with the icaros, while not even taking the brew. many on the nexus report this sort of thing"

I am so humbled by the responses that I get here on the Nexus. They are always so sincere and informative.



I completely agree. There are few of us here on the Nexus that would consider these recurring experiences to be negative... however, I can not speak for anyone else but myself. There may be others that require more of an anchor to this realm and would feel that this would be detrimental to re-integration.



Funny, I was recently speaking about exactly this with the friend of mine that had given me my first dose of spice. We both feel that there is the potential that the experience allows one to develop new neural connections that relate to the next step of the experience; to be explored during your next dive into hyperspace. This is all obviously only speculation though!

Neurons just get in the way.
Like stones in a river,
throw too many and it dams.

Love your profile pic, lol.