Hello everyone!

I discovered this site while researching alternative medicines to treat migraine and cluster headaches. Through this research I learned that mushrooms, which are said to help reduce the frequency of these types headaches, contain
O-phosphoryl-4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine ... a form of DMT.

What really amazed me was reading about the experiences and interactions others have had while influenced by DMT. It has been my experience and belief that there is no such thing as coincidence. I have had similar experiences without the use of entheogens or any other substances. I have only had 5 or 6 experiences like this but it was enough to convince me there is a lot going on outside of the realm of what we call "real" and beyond the limits of this consciousness. There is a lot more out there...other places and beings just as real as the computer screen or whatever gadget you are using to view this. I don't know where those places are, what they are called, how I managed to get there or why I was shown...but I would really like to go back there if they would have me again.

Some of what I have seen was lost when I came back through the "veil of consciousness". I don't know what you call this as I haven't heard anyone describe this phenomenon on this site but I know others must have experienced it. This may not be something one experiences on DMT. It is like when you have a "dream" and you wake up and say to yourself "that was weird" and go to tell someone about it or write it down. When you think about the details of what you just experienced they are suddenly gone, vanished... and only flashes or fragments of everything you saw, learned and felt remain. You can remember that there was far more to the experience but it's just gone. This is the phenomenon I am referring to.

To have had experiences that were never shared with anyone and later discover others have been to the same places and drawn or made pictures of what they saw...and to know you've never had any interaction with these "strangers" yet been to the same place and seen the same things... how is it possible...and why are we being shown these places... what does it mean? These are things you can't really talk about to just anyone...unless you want to be deemed crazy. I imagine this must be very similar to what it is like for those that have seen a UFO. How can one claim to interact with things that "cannot exist" on this plane nor this planet, right!? I don't think it is possible to fully convey an experience so profound and amazing unless someone has had a similar experience themselves.

I am eternally grateful to those that took the time to attempt to describe their experiences and share them. Without these people posting their experiences I would not have made this connection and would not be here writing this now. Please consider documenting and sharing your experiences, you could change someone's life for the better.

I do not know where DMT takes you, or if those places you describe are anywhere I have been before or can visit again...but if they are I hope to see you around.

Hello cruetmixer,

Welcome to the Nexus, .

Your introduction essay was a fascinating read. I know there are probably as many opinions on hyperspatial entities as there are Nexians, .. Certainly it is a topic that garners a lot of debate off and on around here. Who/what are they and what does it mean?

And yeah, DMT trip memories are rather elusive and difficult to recall. I have literally laid on my bed as my consciousness returned to my body and watched my thoughts (of my trip) take what appeared to be physical form, then float/flitter away, never to be retrieved, .

I do believe folks can train themselves to recall DMT trips better just as folks can train themselves to recall their dreams better, but it takes time and effort and does not always work.

Regardless, I am glad you have found this place - you will be able to speak more freely here without being labelled as "crazy," or whatever.

Warm Regards,
Pandora

Thanks for your post Pandora I wasn't sure I was going to get a response for a minute there!

I am so thankful that I found this site...I had no idea what a gold mine of information is here. I'm so excited I feel like a little kid again. (I'm over the hill otherwise.)

I thought I was pretty knowledgeable about psychedelics but it turns out I didn't know much at all and what others told me was just wrong. It was such a relief to learn about "ego death". I have experienced this several times while on LSD (never on mushrooms though?) and thought I was having a bad trip each time, it is after all very difficult to go through and I fought with all my might to hang on instead of letting go. Nobody ever told me to let go and go with it, I was too scared of losing control and I never knew it was just part of the experience. I really thought something was wrong me this whole time and I've kept a "fear" of LSD ever since the last time I took it. (20+ years ago.)

I finally had a chance to try DMT last weekend and it immediately reminded me of LSD, it had the same strange altered and artificial feeling to it. I was almost panicked because although I knew of what effects to expect I didn't quite expect the LSD feeling or how quickly it came on, WOW!! I just laid my head back and closed my eyes. I only had 8mg of goo but it was the perfect "hello how are you doing" introductory dosage, my head didn't hurt for about 4 hours, it was like heaven not being burdened with pain. In 4 weeks, except for when I sleep, it was the only time I have been free of pain.

I'd like to experiment a little more when I have more material available, cleaner material, and a proper tool to vaporize it to see if a session of microdoses (4mg or so) will break this cycle I'm in.

Thank you all for being so kind to share your knowledge here, I am eternally grateful to you for this!!

I might not be as "crazy" as I thought I was after all, and apparently an old dog CAN learn new tricks, lol!!

Don't be strangers.... I promise I won't bite

Cruetmixer welcome to the Nexus. I'm sorry to hear about your cluster headache, I know they suck, I have them too. There is at least one other Nexian who has those and more with migraines which suck also.

I find indeed DMT aborts cluster headache, and mushrooms are perfect for a follow up, since vaped DMT stops the pain quickly, and mushrooms keep it away long enough usually to break the cycle.

Imitrex / sumatriptan, the first triptan medication to abort migraine and cluster headache, has the chemical name 5-methylaminosulfonyl-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, second part sound familiar?

The 5-methylaminosulfonyl makes it orally bioavailable, non psychedelic, and patentable.

I was reading about the Shipibo squeezing chacruna sap into the eye to abort migraine. I found about ways to extract and vaporize on this website after google searching about DMT, and was pleased with the high quality information. Then I got curious about going beyond microdose to abort the cluster. I wanted to experience hyperspace. I did... like many have said, you really can't use human language to describe it, though some do an amazingly poetic job attempting it, that does convey a lot of their experience to those who've been there. Don't feel you have to though, experiencing it is a life changing experience.

Mustelid -

Thank you for finding this and responding! I'd love to hear any information you could share on how you have been treating your condition and what you find to be working for you. What dosage do you take, how often, and how many mg of mushrooms are you using? I know what works for me may be different but anything you would be willing to share would be greatly appreciated. Have you heard of the new LSD-bromine concoction they are researching overseas?

I've had migraines since I was in middle school until about age 20 or so. I'm going to skip over a lot of stuff and fast forward to the past 5 years...(The entire world can read this afterall.) Fast forward to 2009 and out of nowhere BAM! As soon as the temperature outside would get around 80 degrees I would keep a terrible headache.

Fall approaches and everything eases off, winter comes (thank god) and no issues... I'm pain free and LOVING LIFE AGAIN, I feel like a human being and I can think and laugh and play with my children like I am a little kid again myself. Wintertime feels like it is a gift from GOD!!! It even snowed here this past year, it was amazing!!! All is well until spring comes and BAM the cycle starts again!

This cycle has progressed each year, getting worse and worse a little more each year. This past month has been the most challenging in the past 5 years... constant migraine progressing to clusters. Something has got to give, I am to the point where I will (obviously) try almost anything now.

I have medical insurance at the moment, so I'm using maxalt / rizatriptan benzoate to abort the pain. For cluster prophylaxis I'm taking verapamil since I also have hypertension, and also amitriptyline (don't mix harmalas with antidepressants, it dangerous, I gave em up for now) since I suffer depression and it's also a cluster prophylactic, and a much better one than verapamil for me.

When I was using DMT for aborting the headache, the dose was about 10mg, I'd be anywhere from having the room color hue change to having amazing detailed CEVs and the pain would subside.

Mushrooms aren't an exact science since their alkaloid content can vary a bit, but I'd say somewhere around one to one and a half grams dried cubensis would do the trick.

Clusterbusters.com had a great dosing recommendation for mushrooms that went something like this.

If colors are a little brighter, jokes a little more funny, like you've had a few beers, you're where you want to be. If trees sprout multicolored spinning flowers that shoot laser beams into the heavens, illuminating the face of God, you overdid the does a bit.

Thanks for the info, I'm going to do some more research.

Wonderful intro essay. Welcome to Nexus, we're glad to have you here.

Thank you oversoul1919 I am really glad to be here.