Greetings!

I joined the Nexus a few days ago after a terrifying experience with DMT.
I was at a friends house, who I had been speaking with for some time about trying DMT, and he had recently come across some one way or another. I was under the impression that we were both going to try it at the same time, so we prepare for what we have heard to be the most intense experience in a lifetime. We lock the door to the room and sit down with it. We are both insanely nervous because neither one of us has tried it before. He is about to take the first of three inhales, but stops and asks me to go first, assuring me that he will follow after me. This immediately made me feel nervous because he is far more experienced than me in psychedelics and he still has second thoughts on trying it. So I smoke it and pass it off to him before laying back in the chair. But instead of following after me and smoking it, I just see him staring at me which made me feel terrified. I do not remember much about the experience other than the lead up but I remember feeling like I was about to die, specifically about to die from terror and the feeling that he would attack me, despite him being a very close friend. I kept hearing him asking how I was and what I saw which freaked me out even more than I already was. Overall the experience was almost PTSD-inducing and I don’t remember.ever feeling that scared in my life.
But I joined the Nexus to try to gain some insight from others about a better way to experience this molecule and rectify the terrifying experience I previously had.

Dmt can scare the crap out of you. Idk how much experience you have with psychedelics but if you wanna try again and not be so overwhelmed try eating the freebase with some rue tea. The slow come up eases you in and if you have a mg scale you can take a light to medium dose and hopefully not be to far gone lol... as much as I play with dmt nowadays you’d think it wouldn’t be scary anymore.... wrong... vaped dmt almost always starts off with fear and anxiety... you only get to the good stuff when you say “fck it, I guess I’m just dead” ... then your met with the feeling of complete bliss... Good luck guy

If you're going to try it again, concentrate on your set and setting. It sounds like the fear got the better of you and your buddy. That fear can certainly translate into your experiences. These experiences should never be taken lightly, as you have found out, but you can now integrate and try to find a positive. Give it some time and I think you might find the pieces fall back into place.

As far as your friends goes, don't be too hard on him. DMT with others can be and enjoyable experience. Psychedelics do require a certain mindset and skill set, if those sets are not in place it can become difficult for those involved. As I mentioned before just try to find something positive about the experience. Sometimes it helps just to laugh it off!

Peruse through the DMT Nexus, read through some experience reports and do some research on psychedelics. A little knowledge goes a very long way in fear reduction. All in all, you just have to take things as they come. Accept everything that comes your way and take responsibility for your own experiences.




This. ^^^^^