Hi Everyone,

It’s great to be here and I’d like to introduce myself and maybe ask a few questions that have come up for me over the past few days.

I’m an engineering student at “………” University and have been away from the Psychedelic scene for a while. I’m in my 40’s and have been around the block a few times with pretty much everything under the sun when it comes to exploring new horizons. My first experience with DMT was in 2006. It was probably the best of the 6 or 7 times I have tried it so far. I was floating in a yellow light with the feeling of being cradled by some deity watching over everything. Over the following couple of years, I had a couple more experiences but somehow kept ending up in a cartoon land where the trees would turn into Disney style trumpet cartoons and things like that. More cartoony and funny than anything else but I was after the breakthrough and self-discovery event that never happened for me then. I spent a few good years in the emerald triangle enjoying the perks of life that the area had to offer before the financial aspect of it all began to fade away and led me to go for some grants and loans and give school a try.

Surprisingly the school thing went far better than expected and here I am six years later from High School dropout to about to graduate with a degree in Environmental Resources Engineering this May. I started out focusing on Chemical engineering and found that the field can easily direct someone down the wrong path which prompted me to switch my major. I did get the opportunity to take O-Chem though and am very grateful for the knowledge I gained there. During the past six years I have also pretty much abstained from most mind-altering substances except the occasional use of THC here and there. I have always had a love for psychedelics but felt they might hinder my ability to perform in the classes I was taking. Over this Christmas break a few friends invited me to go to Joshua Tree for a couple of weeks where I let loose and went on a few LSD, mushroom and other trips as well. Instead of hindering my mind I feel like it helped release a bunch of tension I had built up over the past six years and sort of freed me again. Oh, someone also had a DMT vape pen that I tried (and would like to find a tek for by the way) and it just got me to cartoon land again, meaning far from the breakthrough that I still want to experience. Which led me to search the web for these teks.

After searching for a while the best thing I felt I found was Cyb’s salt tek so I gave it a try. Then saw the Max Ion Tek which I will try next. The first attempt I just finished yesterday and pulled about 1.2% following the directions. Some of my background makes it hard to follow such a simple approach without trying to modify it a bit so I did a few things that may have helped or hindered the yield. I used a constant heat bath at about 70° C for the entire time while doing four separate shakes over the course of a few hours. I literally got about 80% of my yield on the first pull and the rest on the second with the 3rd 4th and 5th yielding nothing which brings my first few questions.

Is there a recommended temperature to keep the mixture at if a steady temp can be achieved or is there some benefit to fluctuating the temp a bit throughout the process?

How ‘bout using a hot plate/magnetic stirrer to keep a constant stir over a period with a constant temperature?

Is there a way to use a separatory funnel to separate the layers? I can see some disadvantages to this as the base is the dense layer and leaves traces on the walls as you drain it away. I found a 50mL volumetric pipette with a bulb to work quite well also.

There are a few tek questions so here are a few usage questions as well.

I tried a recommended process that involved vaping the freebase. It called for vaporizing an entire 100mg into a vessel and inhaling the entire thing at once….. This made me feel like I was going to die and hurt so bad that I didn’t really trip at all. I felt more like I was going to die for about 10 min. and gave it a rest. Today I tried 80mg and didn’t vape it all at once but still didn’t really trip very good (I think I’m trying too hard and analyzing everything too much) I did get a better experience than yesterday though and was able to keep re-vaping a couple time to get back close to tripping well but not quite, I did manage to extend the mild trip over a period of about 30 min by re hitting a few times, can this keep going indefinitely?

So Vape pen crystals….etc…. I can’t seem to get to the breakthrough point either because I take too much at once and make it miserable and painful or stop too soon because I think I did enough but didn’t….. any suggestions?

I will continue to experiment with teks and share anything helpful I might find while exploring this wonderful vault of information and look forward to being a part of this wonderful community and learning while sharing along this journey

Thank you all, and Namaste!

JP

Welcome to the Nexus.

If I smoke free base DMT the trips often have a cartoon like character. But when I take the ayahuasca brew I see a different part of hyperspace. More mythical and fairy tale like visuals.

Some time ago I made my own changa and in my first changa trip I was confronted with the most terrifying scenery ever. But it had the same structure and looked similar to the visuals seen in my ayahuasca experiences. So if you want to skip cartoon land, try out ayahuasca or changa.

Nomen’s tek is my guide for extracting DMT and I do not know the other ones. So I cannot give you any advise. Except for separating the layers. Apart from a separatory funnel I use a syringe. Effective and easy to use.

Good luck with your activities and let us know about your coming journeys.

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to give the changa a try and definitely planning on trying Ayahuasca when I get the opportunity. Interesting to hear someone else gets the cartoon land experience. I'll also check out Nomen's Tek. Thanks