DREAMS:Seeing that every single night we all "disappear" in to a dream dimension, how does it compare to the DMT experience? Are there any similarities? Yes, one of my friends immediately remarked that it was like a dream, and My deepest experiences are when it takes me that way. Its like going to sleep for a few minutes, waking up then trying to hold on to the dream where another version of you did some wierd stuff.
Has your breakthrough experience affected or changed this dream realm at all?I started recalling my dreams much more, and very recently I have noted that the dreams are less reality oriented and I seem to experience rather abstract situations or existences that I would not have been able to conceive of before.
As McKenna has suggested in some lectures, have any of you ever dreamed you were taking DMT and a powerful experience followed?Never dreamt of taking DMT. But I awoke in the middle of a dream that was definitely trip like with heavy geometry and meaning. My ego was rapidly trying to overlay it with anthropomorphism but failing and when I tried to push to recall it there was a voice in my head telling me to not do so. Real weird. Perhaps we always go to this place, and dreams are just a smoke screen for what really goes on.
DAILY LIFE, POST-BREAKTHROUGH:Did it feel like some kind of "line was crossed" after coming back from your first breakthrough? Has it changed you?Not sure what you mean by a line crossed, but I have not been the same since. Sort of like going from muggle to wizard, and falling into the wizarding world, but when you become a wizard you realise there were never any muggles, just lots of sleeping wizards.
Does the experience now permeate your daily life in some way?It started my journey into working out what this all is. And I think about it daily and find it a constant distraction from trying to get normal work done.
Are there any kind of "intrusions" (maybe too aggressive a word) in to your waking life from this DMT realm? I know, a bit vague but what I'm curious about is whether it feels like a some kind of gate was opened and now you can "see" or understand things you couldn't before.I can imagine things I could not imagine before, particularly in regard to what I am and what existence is (should anyone consider those separate questions). There is a certain feel I get in hyperspace where you can feel everything around you, there is no separation between yourself and other as it were. I spent a couple of weeks feeling that way about this reality, and if I focus I can return to it, its odd - its like feeling that my experience here is a trip. Otherwise it is probably just known as mindfulness.
Does this DMT hyper-reality feel connected to this waking reality? That whatever is happening on the "other side" is also somehow connected to our lives here?I feel that the experience I see/feel when using DMT is happening all the time, always. I was told during one that the experience is just a state of mind into which you can go just by thinking it. I am beginning to think this is true, but I have only so far achieved glimpses.
If I had to name it now and risk being completely wrong, I would say that our subjective existence is a deep landscape of abstract concepts, symbolism and emotion - and that if you look from the subjective point of view, material reality is just another layer of symbolism. Deeper levels have more meaning and exist simultaneously and in parallel mirroring everything. The interesting part is it seems to not be a closed system at all. We just tend to have our conscious focus on this Material level.
I speak as if it were fact, but indeed this is just the insane ramblings of my ego - but my inner self seems to be nodding.