So I've tried DMT once (wow), and I'm equally terrified and excited to go back and explore this realm. I did it around 3-4 weeks ago in freebase form, and now I have some Changa. I feel like I might do it soon, when the time is right.

It's incredible how much power it has. However, I've read reports about hyperslaps, and how it's nearly inevitable for anyone who desires to explore DMT to experience the hyperslap.

So I've accepted that it may be something that happens to me, but how can I really.. Prepare, at all? I'm good at accepting things and going with the flow, and I feel like that could definitely aid in going through absolute hell. I suppose it's that the more you see of heaven the more you see of hell hey? It's equally fortunate and unfortunate that there's this balance.

What do you guys think about this and the nature of getting hyperslapped?

Ur own will reigns supreme

Let's see, how can you prepare? I would repeatedly tell yourself in the days leading up to the experience how everything will end up ok, and that the experience will wear off within a few minutes. The reason why it's necessary to repeat this to yourself is a matter of conditioning. You want to make sure that when you are in the throws of a hyperslap, that instead of panicking, the first thought to reflexively come to mind is that "everything will be over within a few minutes."

DMT can play off your emotions as if it had a remote control for it; so if they hit the panic button, that will be the syndrome of emotions and physiological reactions that will immediately ensue. The thing about panic or fear is that it has two sides to it. One side is physiological, and this cannot be avoided so much. The other side of it is rational. These are logical reasons for being afraid of something. In everyday life, these two tend to go hand in hand, but they don't necessarily have to. In hyperspace, there will be times when your body will be telling you that you're afraid, but if you can remind yourself how it will all be over soon, and there isn't much to fear, then you can keep calm, and this can help shift the physiological reaction as well. Since panic can cloud your thinking, you need the thoughts to be reflexive.

In martial arts, they teach you how to fall. When you get into a car crash, there are more appropriate ways than others to promote your safety. You essentially want to "rag doll" allowing your muscles to go limp. This will minimize the damage even though your instinctive, reflexive reaction will be to tense up. So how do martial arts teachers get you to circumvent that reflex? They condition you, just like you want to condition your thoughts. If you're getting hyperslapped around, the best thing to do is take on that kind of persona that is useful in the dentist chair: "Yes this is uncomfortable. Yes this hurts. It's only just a little bit longer..."

Ultimately it is possible to thoroughly explore the heavens of hyperspace without much of a glimpse at hell...but it's like gambling; the more you do it, the more likely you are to eventually lose, but there can still be that guy who wins the jackpot on beginners luck, makes his fortune and decides to never gamble ever again, having gotten what he came for.

Lovely thoughts Global

Many people here who had a hyperslap could eventually re-brand the experience as a tough lesson they really needed to confront with, and be grateful for it. But that is after some integration works done. It's no layer of paint to talk it right or making some excuses for it. These things can really change your live for the better.
Though there are no statistics for such successful spin offs.
I mean to lessen weight of the term hyperslap as it can only be a bad thing.

Then there are the chances that post integration works were unable to detect the grateful lesson(s), while there still is a core of undiscovered healing-work done nonetheless.

Sometimes people only remember that slap. For the rest memory falls short on details, it all went so fast, so the slap-thingy survives the experience, hence the tendency to correlate the experience to what is mostly remembered, the slap. The potential gains were lost out of memory-sight inheritance, but I believe living memory is not an absolute condition for passed events.

This also works the other way around, protecting you, really nasty stuff can be "erased" by forgetting, just like life traumas can be locked out of your emotional memory.

So there are some parachutes (partly) saving your day despite a hyperslap.
Please read this thread fully:
Do What You Will, I'm Letting Go.

Having been hyperslapped many times, I must concur with Infectedstyle, Global, and Jees.

Being slapped is nothing to scoff at, yet it shouldn't be feared either. I can say that through experience I've realized that everything boils down to set and setting. In the post that Jees mentioned, I talked about how those are not just words to be taken lightly, among other things.

Every fiber of your being must be ready to accept what is about to happen to you and as always, that is easier said than done. Not to mention, how can one become "ready" if you've never been there before? Well, there are a myriad of techniques tailored for the average psychonaut but essentially it is learning the art of submitting yourself to the experience.

IME, if you do get slapped, there is usually a reason behind it that needs to be resolved. Mine were caused by an inner turmoil that I was hiding from myself. DMT brought these facts up out of hiding and flung them in my face for evaluation and it scared me. It shook me to my core...and for the longest time, I just dismissed the thought that maybe I needed to look deeper into myself for the solution. You'll often find answers in strange places and sometimes being knocked around is not only needed, but essential to the healing process.

Please don't get me wrong though. DMT is such a beautiful thing. Completely beyond words and has an immense ability to shed light on many things in one's life. It may be cryptic or terrifying. It may be astonishing beyond comprehension. It may greet you with open and loving arms or slam the door in your face...either way, you won't really know until you get there.

To summarize, try not to expect anything from a breakthrough experience because it will likely show you what you need to know, not what you want to know. But hey, we could go back and forth all day on the semantics of experiences but it wouldn't really get us anywhere. Your experience will be completely and 100% unique to you. Embrace it with an open mind and you'll be fine. Good luck to you, friend.

My most recent journey was definitely a Hyperslap! I didn't know it had a name, but the spice utterly overwhelmed and destroyed me.
In retrospect, I feel that I disrespected this process, and it made that very clear. On my usual journeys, I am met by very warm, magical vibrations that guide me and connect me to everything. On my recent dose, I was entirely too casual and as Purges said in this thread, it was bordering just recreational. I didn't prepare my setting in the living room, I didn't meditate fully or prepare my mind; I rushed into it, feeling brave from inspiring Nexus chat, and ripped a milked bong in 1 massive storm cloud of a hit.
The warm, loving vibrations I usually feel became shrieks and deafening screams. I didn't receive any valuable message or insight (except that something went wrong) and I honestly don't even really remember the visuals. Everything was so bright and fast, I felt as though this sound was tearing apart my being. It scared me.
This thread is very assuring. Even though "hyperslap" may be an inevitable possibility, it seems that it does not happen by chance, rather it's something that needs to be corrected in the user. I have the utmost respect for this medicine.

my last 3 trips were kind of hyperslap

Hopefully next time i get something else. But i got 3 times the same horroful feeling of complete annihilation and torture. I think the 3rd time i finally got it. It make me work the topic of DEATH. I m SO thankful for DEATH, so thankful that we are not trap forever in an agonizing pain. It gave me suddenly a completly different perspective on death, and made me equally blessed by death than by life. It grounded me more than any other trip (i give up on alien story, shaman new age, other dimensions) ; i m here in this dimension and it's a wonderful priviledge! It's my main mission to integrate THIS reality. And thanfully it have an exit door at the end. It's like i finally got it :
Birth is like a contrat ; "I exist therefor i will die" and if you sign the both part of it you get full access to the Experience of Life.