Are you defining a breakthrough by entity contact? In my experience many breakthroughs lack any entities, that doesn't make them any less special though.

I am getting to think a breakthrough is if you are on spice and you have lost all control. You see things, hear things and your reality is changed so drastic that you couldn't function, to say... Answer a phone call or the door. Some might be able to get there to answer, but could not communicate properly.
Like when the visuals take over your view, or entities start popping out of the wall. But the nice glow you get like mushrooms or acid with slight movement and the carrier wave (slightly) would not be a breakthrough.

Well I'm making no judgement here about anyone's definition of breakthrough, because I've only got a couple months experience, but in this particular experience I wrote about, there would not have been any entities. It has taken me a few days of letting this assimilate with my core, but I was THE entity from which all entities including humans are spawned. I was everything. And believe me, there was no functioning, because this world was no longer, or hadn't happened, or just was not real from my point of view. I was multiple dimensions higher, I keep getting flashes of the ascent, where I was realizing that I was waking from a dream, this life here and now being that dream. This is why I had a hard couple days after. I was feeling trapped, but not like I didn't like this world, but that I love it so much, and yet I might be pulled from it at anytime, not knowing who or what I'd be, or what is remember on the other side, or within the next dimension I land. Its odd, because I had lost all fear of death before doing dmt, but it gave me a little back. Which I thank it for. After integrating it, I don't so much fear death, as much as just having that much more appreciation for the life we choose to live here. I think as some people would call what we do with DMT to be masochistic given how brutally it can kick your ass at times, I think as souls it is equally masochistic yet beautiful that we choose to be here and live this life, so disconnected from our source and the spirit we truly are. I think that separation from divinity is probably equally as intense on departure and return as what we choose to go through. Just my thoughts after a few days... I don't even remember what started me on this monologue... I think way too much lately... Happy travels friends.

Pistols, Thats interesting how you said you were saying to yourself. "I chose this I did this, I did this to myself" or something along those lines. I'm not too familiar with forums and seeing your post and quoting it. Hopefully I'll get better soon. Anyways, I was saying the same exact thing in my head, in my post that you read although i left it out. And you are very right in our similarities your trip does sound ridiculously similar to mine to the point I'm kind of awe stricken.

Edit: Ha, i'm retarded, i see the quote function now. Oh well.

Haha, it's cool man, I'm pretty new too. Yea, it was very interesting reading yours, it brought some flashes of mine back.