Hello Greetings and Welcome,
This is the question that I wanted to ask for a few days but have been forgetting over and over.
What are the kinds of places that you have found work for smoking the Spice? In an airplane? Passenger seat of a drive on the highway? Stormy weather at the ocean front? Where Where Where

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Swimming - No offense intended here, but your examples are quite odd I must say! I can certainly imagine settings such as an airplane or car for a lesser psychedelic like mushrooms or LSD, but for Spice?! Whoa! IMHO these settings sound horribly distracting and not at all conducive to something as powerful as a DMT experience. The ocean front however I think could be quite nice, but you'd need some kind of hidden nest that you felt safe, protected and isolated from the passing beach-goer in. That or a private section of beach all to your own.

SWIM's favorite setting is in his own house, on his easy chair, sitting in a cross-legged Buddha position. SWIM prefers very dim light, no sound except for maybe a gentle trickle of water, no other people in the room, and a high quality, relaxing incense burning. The fewer earthly sensory distractions the better for SWIM, after all they'll mean nothing once he's in hyperspace, so why have external Earthly bindings to overcome?

That's just SWIM however...

Peace
-idt

Any particular incense you'd like to recommend, idtravlr?

Palo Santo is absolutely my favorite for calming my being and letting go. If I am lucky enough to have some menthol crystals I will make a blend of the two. This blend is absolute bliss for me. I'm not sure what SWIM prefers however.

Yes, that wood is amazing. I also used to use white sage, but found that it was a little too strong. Palo Santo is perfect for calming the mind and clearing your space.

Everybody seems to agree about Palo Santo, it's just a heavenly aroma.
On some occasions it completely took over the smell of a substance I was inhaling, wonderful!

I heat it 4-5 inches on a piece of alu foil above a flame to gently evaporate the oils, rather than burn it.

I also like benzoe, myrrh, copal, Poikar, labdanum, campher, menthol crystals... but no heavily perfumed insences please!

yeah swimming your places seem a bit odd, and could lead to some trouble, but the ocean front could work. Swim could only imagine the sound of a wave crashing with some spice in his system. swim has a hard time smoking the spice due to asthma, but some aya on a mountain top sounds like bliss to me.

Oh yeah... Good call acolon. Sages and Junipers are wonderful for their calming effects as well. I agree, they can get kind of heavy in a confined space however. Now some sage or juniper in an outdoor setting surrounded by nature! That'd be really, really nice.

Peace
-idt

I'm a copal man. I think I must have smelt it earlier on in my life, then I received a free sample with a plant order, a coal and let it go. IT all came back.

Very nice.

It looks like I need to jump on the incense boat. I have only ever used nag champa, mainly because I have never really had any good recommendations for anything else. I guess I do now.

My favorite place to smoke spice has to be in the floor of my studio. It is just where I feel the most comfortable at. I also enjoy sub breakthroughs out in the woods. A friend of mine took me out to this awesome place with a spring fed creek in the middle of a National Forest for my first good hit of DMT and it was fantastic.

i like to smoke dmt and look at anything that i find intresting...... smoking dmt and looking at a sunset or clouds i find amazing.... sub breakthough doses are blasphemy to some.... im into it myself.

Well, I don't have many options, but for now here is what I do.

I get a turn the lights and tv off. I dim down the laptop screen. I sometimes put very spiritual tribal music on, and sometimes no music at all. I put a blanket over my back, and sit indian style on the couch in the living room.

I stop and think about what's going to happen, I ask the spice if I can smoke it, and I thank it, and wish for a good journey.

Either at home sitting in a good comfortable position or finding a really beautiful forest and just sitting with my back against a tree and blasting off through the trees

In bed with a duvet wrapped around me

I always do it in a natural setting as far away from people and distractions as possible.
Immerced in a magical forest realm is the best for me.

In a dimly lit, clean room with blankets nearby for the return.

swims favorite places to smoke the spice would be deep out in the forest with the sun shining through the leaves. (even better with water nearby)

-when the weather does not permit him to be outside swim likes to make his bed real nice then add more blankets/pillows to it, sit cross-legged in the middle and blast off.

-sitting out in a wide open field on a nice day with good clouds to watch is equally amazing.

anywhere far away from distractions and surrounded by nature is great for swim.

I like to do it outside if possible, or with the windows open on a nice sunny morning.

Has anyone had a bad/scary trip in a way that gives them negative feelings about the place where they had the trip? For example, it would be terrible to have a bad/scary trip in your bed and afterwards be scared about lying in your bed in case you got a flashback or something in the room reminded you of the bad trip.