Greetings! Hi everyone, I just wanted to say Im glad and excited that I have the chance to share and learn with like minded people on our ever so crazy quest. A little background about myself and my journey:
Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated with space, dreams, math, science, piano (classical music mostly, been playing Chopin nocturnes since I was 12) ancient civilizations and yes psychedelics. I was brought up Lutheran and I always struggled with the logic of the Bible and religions in general and actually decided on my own early on that I didn't believe any of it.
I learned about DMT at the age of 18 right around the time I was really into lucid dreaming and dream exploration but didn't really pick up research until recently. I successfully extracted dmt using Gordo Tek last week and have been using nexus as a reference for well over 3 months now. I would also like to share with you my experience extracting it and making changa, as well as the 2 trips I've had since extracting in order to gain some insight. I know that safety is of the utmost importance in the nexus, which is why I apologize in advance for my carelessness.

The extraction was a success altho not that much spice yielded from the first 2 pulls, my current problem is that I don't have a scale to properly weigh out the crystals. That didn't stop this explorer from trying stuff out. The total spice looked like 300-400 mg worth of crystals which I placed in a small jar and I threw in some ground dried b. caapi leaves on what looked like 1:1 ratio. I then proceeded to heat up some water in the crock pot to do a warm bath. I had read about a way to simply melt the crystals in the warm bath and let them recrystallize on the leaves, but I was worried this wouldn't distribute the dmt evenly on the leaves so I actually poured about 5-10ml of Heptane (bestine) solvent in the jar and put in the crock pot for a warm bath. I stirred and arranged the leaves in a way that they were soaking evenly in the solvent as it evaporated. after about 25-30 mins I took it out and put it in the freezer for about an hour my thinking was whatever didn't get on the leaves will crystallize in the jar. I then took out and dried with a fan directly on it for 2 hours. I was excited to try my spice so I packed some dried b. caapi leaves and then put a couple of the changa leaves (without measuring) and I just wanted to know if I had gotten it right. I torched the bowl and smoked all the the contents in the bowl and had a very light euphoria paired with pleasant visuals which confirmed to me that I had done it right. This is where I got greedy and wanted to go for a second trip which turned out to be an intense ego death. I scraped some of the crystals on the jar still and combined that with some more changa and packed a bowl with more dried leaves. There were several mistakes to my approach: 1. improper bowl pack (no scale) 2. I chose a weird soundtrack which combined binaural beats, Om chanting, tibetan bowls, and rhythmic drumming. 3. My mindset was more of a kid arriving at a theme park rather than proper mindset preparation. Luckily I wasn't alone and my girlfriend was with me just in case I had a bad trip (which I was too naive to think wasn't a real threat)

I torched it in a similar fashion as the previous trip but I could already feel it coming hard before I finished the bowl. As soon as I finished the hit I laid down on my bed with my headphones on and was immediately thrown off my body, I felt my consciousness being ripped apart and I began to lose grip with reality and my sense of self. I had forgotten who I was, where I was or that I had even smoked DMT. An overwhelming feeling of fear and awe overcame my sense of self as I freaked out and tried to forcefully pull myself back to the waking world. I was finally able to open my eyes and felt my girlfriend's embrace cradling me telling me everything was going to be ok and asking me what had happened. While I was still coming down being cradled I could see that my room was circular instead of rectangular, all the colors seemed brighter and the images almost blurred mixing with each other but still individual. My mind was racing thinking of so many things at the same time and barely getting out the same phrase over and over "I must've done it..." Thinking that "the music threw me way off", " I didn't measure it out!", " I've scared my girl into never doing this" and "What the hell was that?" Apparently not even a minute after I had taken my hit I yelled "what's happening?" and my girl asked me if I was ok and I said in a forceful tone "no! turn on the light" and I told her to hug me and squeezed her tight before slowly coming back which is when I remember opening my eyes. It was profound, I felt in that moment what was for sure for me an ego death and a crazy amount of time elapsed (not the couple of minutes).
I'm not super experienced and am currently still in the early stages of learning and exploration, this however does not excuse my mistakes. I'm currently waiting on a scale I ordered online and will patiently wait to continue my journey till then. Thanks for your attention and responses.

First off, I'd be honored to welcome you to the DMT Nexus RevoEmag28!


I have to say that your intro here was just as impressive as the ballsy way you jumped into the "deep end" of DMT. For some, it is a good way to do it, for others it is not. Your story grabbed me because it was very similar to my first time, however I was flying solo at the time and just hung on for dear life! I did laugh my ass of at the end of it because it was so horrifyingly awesome and muttered to myself something like, "you have GOT to be kidding me!! WTF?"

From reading what you wrote above, it seems to me that you have a pretty good grasp of how to do it all correctly, you just got a little too over-zealous, or in your words, "greedy".

Believe me, do I understand how that is!!!

I can't even count the amount of times I've either been somewhat disappointed at a mild trip and then, thinking that there was nothing left in the bowl, "cleaned it out" just to be met with a DMT experience on the WAY upper end of the scale!!! !!!

Or, in other cases, getting frustrated with others who can't inhale properly and saying hastily, "here, give me that pipe! You've probably wasted all the Spice not knowing what you're doing!" Then grabbing the pipe and torching it only to find that there was PLENTY left in the bowl and OOPS!!!! Here we go again with a WAY stronger trip than I'd really even prefer! (This hasn't happened too often since I generally always journey to hyperspace solo, but there has been a couple times and I certainly learned my lessons well, lol!)


Anyway, again, welcome!

Now you know to be more careful.


May you enjoy your time here at the Nexus and contribute to the knowledge, critical thinking, wisdom and beauty that make their home here.


Peace

Great intro! Very excited to learn more of your experiences and knowledge!

WELCOME! peace and love

At the end of it, when I fully came back I both cried and laughed. Dude! I was like that with my girl! "You're not smoking it right, tilt the ligh...no not like that!! Gimme!"
Now I know. Thanks for the love and encouragement. I will do my best to share in detail my experiences so I can get proper feed back and impart knowledge through them. Thanks!;

Thanks! I sort of rambled a bit, and I realize you guys might not care about my piano nerdness.