Cypheriax wrote:From what I have heard on this site and others is that music and other noises can play a very large role in the experience one has on DMT. It is clear that one's auditory sense is in full effect, so my question is about the community's experience with other sensory input. Sight is obviously VASTLY altered and warped, but has anyone noted a change in a DMT experience that might come with:
* Hot/Cold sensations
* Vibrating Massage (Chair, Pillow, LayZboy)/Actual Massage
* Good smells/Bad Smells (What's it like smelling a ripe fart on DMT?)
* Tastes in your mouth, sweet, sour, bitter and so on.
I often perceive the objects/entities that float around through the air to have a magnetic-like feel to the touch (they attract/repel). Sometimes, and I haven't figured out yet why it's only sometimes, they seem to have a distinct temperature element to them where they are very warm to the touch. They're like floating biomagnetic psychothermal things. It is very clear that the perceived heat is localized to their immediate locations, so they don't leave behind trails of heat, and the only place that heat will be sensed will be when my skin makes contact with their "bodies". In several non-dual experiences, I have felt hot and cold simultaneously. There is no sense of alternation - just this paradoxical feeling of being in two seemingly contradictory states simultaneously.
I do smell and taste things as well, but it's hard to pin down how much of those sensations have to do with residual stale DMT vapor lingering in the air, and having just inhaled a bunch of DMT vapor through the mouth. I do recall one synesthetic experience in particular in which I was tasting my visuals. That is to say it was like seeing with my tongue. I don't know how else to describe it. Hallucinated tastes seems something that's more likely to happen when I take LSD for some reason. Whenever I take it, I usually get this metallic "carnival" taste in my mouth. It's not too pleasant.
As I get this far in writing, I realize that the sensations you're referring to are those from consensual reality and how they affect the experience. Allow me to revise some of what I've said in that light. I find that there is a tendency to be cold on DMT, so if it's slightly cool in the room, expect to be cold. Smoking DMT when it's hot out will tend to lead me to sweat instantly and profusely. It can affect the experience both in terms of comfortability as well as mood. There's nothing like staring down a dark entity with beads of sweat running down your face.
I have little experience with vibrating chairs as I do not own one, or it most likely would have quickly made its way to the top of my list for experimenting with different settings. It seems to me that any phenomenon that is vibratory has an intrinsically profound effect on hyperspace from light to sound, etc...My guess is that a vibratory chair would elicit a similar effect. There are already buzzing, vibratory sensations in hyperspace, so I imagine that new external vibrations would alter and entrain the vibrations, and that hyperspace would probably work most optimally if the vibrations of the chair just so happened to match the vibrations that hyperspace would have normally been putting out anyway. You might want to read my recent article in the second issue of the
Nexian on page 55, where I go into a lot of this kind of stuff in detail.
Smell and taste are definitely heightened. It's almost analogous to the way sound can be perceived in hyperspace - where what normally sounds like a single sound can reveal itself to be well-spaced multiple sounds, or how different layers in music can seem to garner more space between them, making the layers seem more individual than just a wall of sound. In the same way smells and tastes can be dissected so that a sweet drink that you might normally perceive as having a single flavor, reveals itself to be a multitude of combinations of distinct flavors.
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