last night i made some mistakes and i have been punished/educated. i wanted to share my experience so here i am.
i was drunk, stoned and in a bad mood. most people including me would say that was a bad time to do DMT, but i slipped up and my judgement was off.
i often smoke a mild amount of EL when i go to bed at night, but last night i decided i wanted to go deeper, so i put my regular amount of EL in the pipe then tried to weigh a small amount of freebase to go on top of that, but the scales would not register anything (will be investigating that today), so i just eyeballed a small amount. i then tried to melt it into the EL but a piece of leaf set on fire, which made me think i must have burned a load. not wanting to be disappointed i eyeballed another small amount and put that on top then sprinkled a little more EL on top to sandwich the freebase.
i should have recognised at this point that i was making an error, i am never this disrespectful of the molecule, but i was drunk and boisterous and for some reason thought a strong trip might cheer me up. i knew it was strong, but i had no idea how strong.
i laid in bed next to my partner (already asleep), propped my pillows up and started my usual routine (smoke half a joint, smoke the DMT, then reflect on my experience while i smoke the rest of the joint). it took 2 tokes to finish the bowl, before i had even blown out my second i knew i was in for a ride.
i barely remember blowing it out and the room started to dismantle itself with everything opening up and tearing apart.
i think at this point i realised what i had done and started to fight it, which i believe is the biggest mistake i made out of the quickly mounting list of mistakes i made. usually at this point i would close my eyes, sit back, and enjoy the journey, but instead i seemed to try to stay grounded.
parts of the room were being thrown around the place and destroyed and rebuilt all over the place at extremely high speeds. it was all so fast and overwhelming i just could not comprehend what was going on.
something else happened after that involving an entity but i cant remember what. all i remember is where in the room it was. that was another weird thing about it, it all happened in my room, i did not go anywhere.
after the blackout section i remembered who i was and where, and that i had done DMT, but i was still stuck in this chaotic scene where everything was being destroyed and rebuilt at extremely high speeds. at that point i started to think it was not going to end.
i thought to myself "i have done DMT. this will feel like a long time but it is not. it WILL end, just be patient". but it did not end, it felt like hours.
eventually i started to think something might be wrong because i was not coming out of it (classic mistake i have read about many times in other peoples reports). so i called my partners name. i knew there was movement in the direction she was in so i knew she sat up and i just said "i need help".
she knows me well enough to know exactly what had happened and she did the exact right thing, she held me and made me feel safe. it was exactly what i needed to show me that i was not gone forever.
slowly things started to return to normal. at first i could not look at my partners face because it would tear her apart and put her features in weird places, but i knew it was just another minute or so to go.
once i was completely back and trying to piece everything together (just had a mental image of me trying to put the things in the room back together after they were torn apart
) my partner told me that earlier on in the trip i had sat upright, woke her up and told her to "time this". i do not remember that. i guess it was at the point where i realised i was tripping and it would feel like a long time. apparently it was 15 minutes between those points so the trip was slightly more than that. thats pretty long, but it felt like hours and hours!
looking back i know everything i did wrong. it was the scariest experience of my life, not because of the visuals necessarily, but because of the feelings that came with it, most of all the feeling that it was never going to end.
i will not be treating DMT with such disregard again, but for some reason there is a part of me that is extremely happy that i got to experience it. it was amazingly wonderful in a scary way.
it is going to take me a while to integrate this. i am thinking about taking a break for a while, maybe a month or so, at least a few days to see how i feel. i need time to get my head around it.
i just wish there were words to describe it all better than the ones available, and i really wish i could remember what happened in the void with the unknown entity. maybe there is a good reason why i forgot that.
thanks for reading. i hope this can help others avoid making the same mistakes i did. there are plenty of mistakes to choose from in this story!
safe travels psychonaughts! <3