DMT was very alluring.

One day about a decade ago I was super depressed, I broke up with a girlfriend of almost a decade and was moving out.
Something came over me to pray, something I never did, something I did not believe in, still do not. And WHAM, it was as though I was about to fly right through the universe, my hands trembled and I was locked into a trance. For hours it were as though I was having a natural psychedelic experience. I wondered why? The why led to finding information on DMT. I thought at the time it was due to DMT being released under stress in a meditative state? I have no idea and still do not.

Then I had other questions. What if I put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger, would it really have no consequence? The near death, afterlife scenario people were describing seemed interesting, but I was not going to believe what other people had to say about it. I HAD TO KNOW.

LOL.

To see what all the fuss was about.I was not disappointed.

I remember when I was a teenager in the mid-90's, DMT was like the holy grail of psychedelics. It was sort of spoken of in this hushed, reverent tone... I had lots of mushroom and lsd experience, knew quite a lot of psych users, but no one who had even come across DMT. I had no realistic hopes of finding it, these were still the early days of the Internet, and there was no nexus back then .

Anyway, it had been over 7 years since my last trip when I came across mushrooms again on a trip to San Francisco. It was like coming home, such a powerful return to the ineffable places psychs help you access. My fire was rekindled and I started growing them again as soon as I got home. I was determined to find a way to extract DMT, and the rest is history.

I decided to take my time and develop a relationship with this molecule. I learn something new and go a little further with each experience.

As a side note, since my intro to DMT, I quit smoking cigs, greatly reduced my cannabis intake, and my views on nearly everything have lightened in heart.... The real joy of DMT for me so far has been the integration and the lessons learned

I hadn't even heard of DMT until about five or six years ago. A guy I used to hang out with was into his drugs and we used to talk about our experiences. He told me about this weird drug called DMT that takes you into a weird, alternate reality. He actually said everyone went to the same place, which I later found out was wrong, but my curiosity had already been piqued.

I've done various 'recreational' drugs, but have always had fascination with psychedelics/entheogens that goes much deeper than simply getting off. I guess we all spend our lives asking questions about existence, the universe and our place in it etc, and for me psychedelics offer at least some clues as to the bigger picture. To me, DMT represents the ultimate psychedelic.

I had a serious suspicion that it could be something very special.
It turned out that I was not that wrong.

I first came across a mention of it in a book that went behind the inspiration for The X-Files TV show. It mentioned how DMT could completely replace our consensus reality with a new, much stranger reality. That same chapter had quotes and theories from Terence McKenna also. Both things piqued my interests massively as an inquisitive, psychedelically minded teenager.

Fast forward a good few years and an older friend of mine was recounting to me and another good friend his experience with the still rare drug at the time, the description of alien contact, etc had me further intrigued plus research of it on erowid.

Fast forward another good few years still and a local headshop was selling a mixture under the counter called "DreaMTime Blend" and I finally got to sample this molecule that had had me intrigued for so long. The experiecne was very strong (though not a breakthrough) and completely had me sold on it's amazingness and started an intense interest on psychs in general all over again

{Warning this may be a long story}

I have always been interested in psychology. Ever since I was a kid it was my favorite science. The reason for that is because I have always kept that old Rene Descarte philosphy in the back of my mind, long before I knew who Rene Descarte was. The idea is that we only know the world through our perception and nothing else, we could be a brain in a jar, or in the Matrix and we still can't know anything. This though has always intrigued me. Maybe our lives our actually the dreams of something greater. So through this I started studying psychology through school and in my spare time. I read Freud and especially Jung. I looked at how our memory is tainted by emotion. I looked at what emtion was. I looked at how symbols can shape our perception. This lead me to a few existential crisises, however over all I think it has given me a better perpective on the world.

This interest is what lead me to drugs, and like a totem rising from the ashes I started my conscious exploration in humble beginings. My dad was a drug addict first of all, and this turned me off of drugs almost entirely, though I in my youth had never had a drug experience. However my interest in psychology made me keenly facinated in drugs. How can a molecule cause so much change in a persons behavior. You can bring joy in a pill. Courage in a bottle. Lust in a powder. What sort of wizardry was that? Nontheless I was determined to stay away, to resist the temptation. At least that's what I told myself. I was a good Christian suburban white boy and determined to stay that way. Until one day I was at the dentist and I had to get a cavity filled.

Nitrous Oxide. I was strapped to the dentist chair and left for an hour and a half with minimum oxygen and maximum nitrous. Things started to get weird, I could hear an arcade machine in the background warble and jumble and echo with a strange noise. My whole body vibrated in a strange way. My vision shuttered. My first thought was, so this is what a drug feels like. It feels awesome. I remember hallucinating pixalated images when I closed my eyes. It was really cool.

A few months later I turned 16, got a job and a car. At the time I was reading from Erowid on the internet. Having no black market connections I decided to explore the drugs I could get a hold of. I got a few whip cream cans to try, just to recapture the fun I had at the dentist. Then I started trying Robotripping. It was an odd semipsychedelic. My gait crew stilited and awkward, I remember dots moving in my popcorn ceiling. I also remeber that when I watched TV while on a high dose of Robo it would feel as if I was watching a show for the first time.

A few months after that I started sneaking liquor from the liquor cabinet, as I'm sure many kids do, who live with alcoholic parents. I snuck a beer here and there to hoard it for when I could get drunk. I realized that even at 16 I had a rather high tolerence. I would wait until my mother and stepfather would go to bed and I would pound down 8-12 shots of whiskey/tequilla/vodka/whatever else was in the cabinet mixed with water so I could chug it and not get sick from the alcohol taste. I gleened from the cabinet a shot here as shot there and stocked up in empty 20oz coke bottles.

Then years later I went to college. Marijuana. I started hanging out with disc golfers, and as most people already know, amatuer disc golf at least in certain areas is just an excuse to walk around the woods and get stoned. I gravitated to this culture and quickly became a stoner, mooching for a few years before I decided to start buying my own.

While in college I tried salvia, because it was legal at the time, and I lost my mind. I didn't really like the drug but I was curious as to it's intensity. I was also reading a lot about DMT while on this breif salvia experimentation.

A while later a friend of mine, tricked me into trying shrooms, which pissed me off. I though he was giving me a peice of chocolate as a snack, I didn't know he was giving me a peice of "chocolate". During this trip I say patterns on a tapestry rug shift and melt. I also saw a friend of mine smile like a Cheshire cat. What I mean by that is that he did not have a face. Just blackness lips and teeth. I was floored. I went home pissed off, at that point I was curious.

Just before I graduated I got 1 and a half hits of LSD. My trip report for that is the first one under The Ying and Yang of LSD

After that a friend of mine (who I had been having a discussion on drugs about a week prior text me that a buddy of his a practicing Wiccan had some DMT) and the rest is history. My First Experience With DMT

My journey into the world pf psychedelics started young. First i started smoking marijuana at age 13, and by 15 I was using very potent mushrooms, I loved the experiences and started reading everything I could about psychedelics on the internet. I was surprised about the safety profile they have. I read alot about DMT at age 15 and was fascinated by everything I read about it. It sounded so amazing!! Although I wondered where I would ever find some thing so rare. Reading about extractions at that age felt like a pipe dream lol. I really longed to try it one day as I felt that it was the pinnacle of psychedelics.

I was intimidated by LSD(probably due to the negative rumors about it) and upon deeper research and more exPerience with mushrooms I couldnt really find a reason not to try it. At age 17 I gave acid a whirl, absolutely loved it...
Psychedelics have been a great and positive thing in my life and I love them!!

Finally got the chance to try DMT at age 21, and jumped right on it. It really is the pinnacle of psychedelic experience. Wow, its so perfect!

So I guess I tried it and still use it because I love psychedelics and it is one heck of a glorious experience!!
Amazing!!!

DMT

I've always being interested in altered states of consciousness since a child, I felt compelled to try and learn about as many mind altering drugs as possible. It was like a calling!
After my first DMT breakthrough I knew I had found what I was looking for

Joe Rogan.

I am planning an Ayahuasca and San Pedro Retreat vacation to the Sacred Valley in Peru this August. I have absolutely no interest in smoking DMT. It is my humble opinion that smoking DMT is the abuse of a spirit plant. I have heard to may opinions that a DMT trip is fantastic, but is way to fast to understand and intergrate it. I want to treat DMT like a loved one, spend time with them, quality time. Take the time to process and understand what is revealed and incorporate that into my life.

I used to be a very devout Catholic convert. Teaching religious education to the youth and the adults and deeply involved in youth ministry. Well, its along story that I will share in my Welcome Essay, but I became a gnostic.

For me it was a spiritual calling. DMT is, of course, the spirit molecule. Very powerful if used in wise hands.

I have been looking for said chem for a good 15 years, I was told by a old hippy a long time ago "You don't find DMT, DMT finds you when IT thinks your ready"

I worked my way through life & have just got over a long ass Heroin addiction (10 years) I asked the "God's" to give me some kind of sign where my life was going & asked for some kind of growth in my soul a few weeks ago & bang I found a source for 5MeO DMT.

I never really went looking for DMT. Before DMT I had never done psychedelics or any serious drugs. My best friend introduced me to it without my asking, I guess she sensed that DMT and I would make good pals. For me, DMT is more an extension of my being. Although the experience is very different to even the most transcendent encounters I get through deep meditation and dreaming, it is more of another facet of the same thing, I feel. I've had several profound encounters through meditation as well as dreaming, the most profound of which seemed to uncork my being, in a way, so that I felt I understood everything. Enlightenment, in a sense. Though I prefer the word transcendence. Impossible to explain properly, to be sure. The simplest way I could describe it would be to have been turned into light and to have been everything in one moment, to have felt the stars and lived a thousand lives. Every such experience I have failed to reconcile fully with the more corporeal existence we all face as humans. Still, I am no doubt changed because of them.

DMT seems to me another version of this. Less profound, perhaps, but not entirely alien (her-her). Another very good way to keep your ego in check, to stay in contact with other dimensions, and of course have a ball while you're at it. I don't do any other kind of drugs any more, simply because I don't feel the need and don't really have the time. DMT is blissful and with a busy schedule you only need spare an hour for it, or less for me since I usually combine it with pre-sleep meditation which I always do regardless. Apart from time constraints, DMT is also not addictive and not harmful. It's also easily disguised, not like weed for instance. In a word, it's the perfect drug.

Well, sorry for all that digression. I guess I answered the OP in the first three sentences.

I had an interest in psychedelics since I was about sixteen and tried mushrooms, then heard about DMT through a very good friend, researched it alot and it sounded amazing and something that I just had to experience. It took until I was 25, in fact it was on my 25th birthday that I got to experience it for myself, with the same friend that had told me about it years ago. Lets just say I wasn't dissapointed.

You have to ask yourself would anyone want to give a person with that kind of logic a job in the first place?.....

I know my answer but out of respect for the insane & crazy I refuse to comment

I once took the eucharist at church, put it in my pocket, and when I got home, put it in a bowl and tried to smoke it.

I heard some crap about "he who is the most high..", so I figured it was worth a shot.

I once dressed up as a pantomime horse to try & get some free Ketamine.

YouTube combined with losing faith in the holy bible, but nothing could make me an aethiest after all the spiritual and mustical experiences I have been blessedwith, so I am looking forwrd to encountering the spiritual realm as deeply as I can and continue to grow. My first time might be painful and scary, butI will face it with a humble heart and warrior spirit. No smoked DMT for me though, I will hold reverence for Madre Ayahusca on this journey. When I am comfotable enough, I will try my hand at making pharmayahusca (sp).