I have broken through twice and both experiences were amazingly beautiful. Since then I have had extremely vivid realistic dreams. I never use to talk in my dreams but now I have had full conversations with people and it feels like I am able to make judgements/decisions while in them. I also never use to remember much of my dreams, though now they feel so real and I have woken up quite confused multiple times. Does this happen to some people, or am I going nuts? I loved my experience with freebase but this is really confusing me.

After my first breakthrough a couple of weeks ago I noticed seeing some very realistic faces and sounds as well as DMTesque patterns when I was just drifting off to sleep. I just woke up from the most intense dream I've ever had that felt like a DMT trip in itself without the lucidity (however I knew I was having a DMT trip in the dream).

This is common. After I started smoking DMT, I started regularly having dreams where I would think I had woken up, only to discover I was still dreaming. I would even get out of bed, go look in the mirror, make funny faces and all of that to test the accuracy of the mirror, and everything would come back as entirely realistic. It wouldn't be until I woke up again that I would realize that I had still been dreaming. Lots of nested dreams. I've always had vivid dreams, but I become lucid in them more often. In other words I'll be dreaming and I'll be aware it's a dream, and usually it's not enough shock to wake me, though I can decide to sit up and peel myself out of a sticky, frightening situation if need be. I haven't smoked any DMT in the past few months, but these past couple of weeks if I wake up while dreaming, and don't actually sit up, I can relapse back into the same dream while completely conscious and having other thoughts, it just comes back on.

This has been happening to me also. It's actually very interesting, the main difference I've noticed is a smoother and more intergrated transition to and from my waking and dreaming states. In this I mean my dream recall upon awaking is more vivid and I fall asleep in a much more relaxed meditative sleep. I also mean that my dreams are more integrated into my thoughts and life. I'll see something in my wakimg state and it will remind me clearly of something I have seen recently in a dream. Also , I will have dreams that are a sort of continuance from what was happening that day and I will sometimes recognize in my dream that this reminds me what was happening when I was awake.

I have also started having lucid dreams much more than I have in the past. And I have had strange experiences, just like yours Global, where I will be awake in every sense of the word except then I wake up and realize it was ... a dream. And this can happen repeatedly sometimes. This is very fascinating for me.

this is very common not only with dmt but other psychedelics as well

Thanks for the replies! This is very interesting, but after searching around I can't seem to find why it happens. Is there a known reason/theory as to why this occurs?

I feel like psychedelics (and for me and a few others I know, mushrooms and dmt especially) allow you to become more in touch with that eternal, personal and impersonal source of all things or whatever you want to call it. You really can't call it anything, words can't scrape the surface. It is what they call "the self" in the hindu texts the Upanishads .I feel like dreams bring us there and so can psychedelics or meditating or living and thinking a certain way. It is different for everyone but also the same..