Hello kindred internet spirits! I am Yoho, a fellow explorer of the psychedelic seas.
My exploration began many years ago when a friend offered me a dose of LSD. Being at that time a person who had never tried any psychoactive beyond alcohol, I told my friend that I would think it over. I spent my free time for the next week on the internet, reading everything I could find about LSD and psychedelic experiences in general. After all those tales of impossible visual hallucinations and profound life-changing experiences, how could I really say no?
After the trip I realized what a waste of time much of that reading had been
. The experience was far beyond anything I had expected. Ordinary things became extraordinary and beautiful, I came to see my life and personal relationships in a new light, and never had I been more grateful to be alive and breathing.
I was hooked. Forward a few years and I had tried a wide range of psychedelics: Fungi, MD(M)A, Cactus, LSA seeds, some 2C's, and a DOx or two. Some I loved and still love. Some I loved at first but gave them up after difficult experiences. Some I hated from the start. One (LSA seeds) was pretty much a bust. Over time I realized that mushrooms and mescaline cactus had become my favorites, so I wondered: what other naturally growing psychedelics are out there that I could try?
I found out about DMT. I got some root bark and attempted an extraction to no avail. Either the bark was bunk or my method was no good (I'm sure you guys can guess which explanation is more likely
). In typical noobish frustration I dumped the whole thing without even attempting to salvage something out of it. Eventually I cooled off and went back to the drawing board. I searched and searched, and finally I came upon a bubbling fountain of DMT knowledge: the DMT Nexus.
I read, read, read, and then I read some more. Eventually I felt that I had absorbed sufficient wisdom from the experts on the Nexus. I tried again, and this time it worked. The goopy wax I ended up with didn't look or smell particularly appealing, but I was itching to try it anyways. I remember reading somewhere (maybe here) beforehand that when the DMT kicked in it would be like being shot out of a cannon. That was the one expectation I had that wasn't completely shattered by my first DMT breakthrough. DMT was to the psychedelic experiences I was used to as the psychedelic experiences I was used to were to normal everyday reality: an entirely new level of consciousness and perception that cannot be guessed at until you actually experience it. I was hooked again.
This post is getting long now so I'll just say that I'm glad to be a member here, and I hope that through my contributions here I can repay you guys for the light that you have helped bring into my life.
Cheers~