Well, I am obviously new here, and I figured I would say hello and share a bit about myself. I actually believe I made an account on the site years ago, and I tried to see if I could remember it, but my attempts were unsuccessful. I've been lurking the site on and off for years, as DMT has always intrigued me. I had my first experience when AFOAF informed me his buddy had some DMT for sale. I know, I KNOW, but at the point in time I was very eager and not able to perform the extraction myself because of my living situation. Anyway, my first experience was actually the night before I went to get it, I was talking to a friend and he informed me that he actually had some at his house, and offered to introduce me. So we went back to his place, and I smoked from the glass bowl he had it in. It was actually more like a resin that had coated the pipe, but worked well enough. He had me sit down and played some videos on youtube for me, introducing me to the artist Lowkey. In retrospect, it was a very strange experience, I felt as if I had 1080 vision, and wasn't quite sure why he was showing me these politically charged videos. I can't say that I broke through then, but I had a very pleasant experience.
So the next day, opting to have a more unique, more ideal experience, after getting my own I went home and attempted to vaporize it. I had lost my pipe the night before, so I ended up doing something akin to heating it on tinfoil from beneath, using a thin strip of metal I had shaped to hold it. The crystals themselves were a yellowish orange, with a waxy kind of feel to them. I did a little at first not having a scale, and the initial dose was similar to eating some mushrooms. I upped the amount I put in the second round, inhaled and closed my eyes. It was very strange, I ended up in a checkerboard dimension, with a strange being that resembled the image in this
http://1.bp.blogspot.com.../major+accident+001.jpg picture popping in and around me, seeming to tell me to follow him, but at the same time telling me to look around. I repeated my tests but cut them short because I realized the upstairs of the house smelled quite strong and people would be home soon.
I don't feel as if I had a breakthrough, although I'm not sure how others would define it. I know the amount i had vaporized that time was between 60 and 90mg, which may have been a but much, but I was still learning.
Later I brought some to someone's house, and we shared it, I put well over 1/10 of a gram into the bowl on top of cannabis, and we passed it around between the 3 of us. I had a rather strange experience: I took a massive hit and held it in. I was in a college house that had a beautiful mural on the wall, and upon exhalation the mural came to life, and for some reason I instantly jumped up and walked out the front door. Not knowing what was on the other side of the door, when i opened it I stepped into another dimension, and immediately thought "oh, shit, wrong door" and turned around and tried to walk back inside, i think when I did this I accidentally opened the door to the house next door (row houses) and the same thought popped back into my head, and i turned around. There were people on this shared front porch and they were asking me if I was tripping, and it sounded to me as if they were screaming the question at me, so I kind of ignored them and went back inside. I sat out the rest of the experience on this chair, wondering why I was at this strange house with these strange people. When I had gotten up and walked around it seemed that reality was repeatedly folding in on itself and then folding back out, it seemed that I was doing flips while standing still, as was everyone else. I don't completely remember or care to share the remaining details, but it was a unique experience indeed. I knew then that what I had was very special, sacred in fact, and that I must treat it with more respect. I thought I had already known this, but man did that experience show me my own ignorance.
I had ordered some ACRB and syrian rue seeds awhile back, I made an aya variation one day, consuming the rue first, the root bark tea an hour later, I had tried to clear my mind but by the time of consumption I had not. So I lessened the amount that I poured for myself, and went for it. It wasn't a bad experience, but I felt the darkness at the time, and was pretty concerned about things that affected my state of mind and experience. My fiance was asleep in the other room, and after laying on the bathroom floor and vomiting for sometime, I crawled into bed with her. I just sat there enjoying the visuals, waiting for it to end because I had been hasty and thought I was ready for something that I wasn't. In retrospect I was ready, and I needed the presence of someone/something telling me of my insignificance to put me in place.
I've recently imagined attempting an extraction using said bark that was solvent free, using vegetable oil, vinegar, and sodium carbonate and water. The result was the realization that I should wait, because of the use of too much oil and difficulty separating. I stumbled upon the IPA/sodium bicarbonate method, and attempted that.
Should I ask if there is even a way to salvage the black mess that would be left from the failed attempt. Naptha would be a waste of time it seems.
I've been to 44 states in the US. I play guitar, but have recently been messing around on the bass and banjo. I have 2 dogs that I love, but technically one is my fiance's. Mine just turned 2 on the 29 of November, and as of December 1 of last year, she had been with me to 39 states. I work a minimum wage job, listen to Mischief Brew, and almost died in February as a result of double pneumonia, a sinus infection, a drug overdose and septic shock. THAT was a trip. I love life, hate control freaks, and am glad to be amongst you all.
**in the above I state vaporizing 90mg, I put so much to account for that fact that I didn't have a proper vaporizing device, and some was being burnt.