Greetings esteemed members,

Due to recent events, SWIM has decided to express his intent to join this community, for many reasons. For growth; he needs help integrating my experiences and being more social and friendly. For learning; He'd like to learn more about how his brain works and how receptor agonists and antagonists influence his sensations and perceptions. For practice; If he could learn to talk about ineffable experiences such as the DMT experience, then learning to make small talk should be easy in comparison, shouldn't it? For support; DMT can reveal startling aspects about yourself which may be easier to integrate with the help of social support. For practical reasons; SWIM is on the lookout for any useful knowledge, ideas, thoughts, or mantras that he can find in his encounters with hyperspace. For fun; SWIM enjoys having it.

SWIM has chosen not to break through at the moment; he wants to get a feel for the lesser doses before blasting off into hyperspace. An experience report will soon follow describing his encounter with a threshold dose. SWIM hopes that he will be able to join this fine community and learn of other members' experiences with hyperspace. He has already become fascinated with a few experience reports.


Kindness and warmth,

Newfound_wonder

Those look like very good reasons to join the Nexus

Hope you find what you are looking for.

Welcome

Welcome! Nice intro.

Just one thing.

"For practice; If he could learn to talk about ineffable experiences such as the DMT experience, then learning to make small talk should be easy in comparison, shouldn't it?"

I'm not sure about this. Honestly, one downside of DMT for me is that I think about it so often, I wish I could talk about it with other people, but I know very few who have tried it. I can't talk about it. That's a good part of why I'm here. Not that I'm isolated, don't get me wrong, my social life is great in fact. But wanting to talk about it brings me here, and being here can lead to a certain form of anti-social forum addiction. Nothing to be too worried about, just a heads up

Many thanks kind sir. I'm glad to have been met with friendliness. My friend's friend mentioned posting some findings on low dose experiences, so here goes.

After ingesting a threshold dose SWIM noticed that he was detecting letters and words all over his bedspread. It was as if his pattern detection equipment had become hyperactive to the point where even a plain white bedsheet could pass for a string of greek letters. If there was a network of neurons in his head that sends a signal whenever he sees the letter T (or a line with a longer line under it), then it seems like this network is much more prone to fire from an identical set of stimuli after ingesting a sub-breakthrough dose.

SWIM wonders how ingesting spice seems to prime his feedforward recognition processing such that it sends signals more easily. He knows that the central nervous system is way too complicated for him to ever understand, but it's fun to try.

SWIM also experienced the cusp of a breakthrough dose. He felt overwhelmed and scared as the experience began, and felt as if there was a mysterious force pushing the lower part of his brain upward (definitely not what happened, but that's how he felt at the time). He felt as if he was hanging on to the lower part of his brain. As if he was hanging on to his sanity. Perhaps he could have decided to let the mysterious force take him away. He can't help but wonder how the experience would have differed had he not tried so actively to hold on to everything that he thinks keeps him sane. During this moment realized that this substance could be a direct pathway to madness if he isn't careful. SWIM just gripped the covers tightly in the half hope that holding onto the ground would keep him from flying off into space until the experience was over. Either SWIM needs to prune his fears before breaking through, or SWIM needs to treat this more like jumping into a cold swimming pool where the best tactic is to simply plunge right in. For now he'll take the safe route.


So far, SWIM's encounters with spice have been insightful, humbling, and entertaining. SWIM hopes to do everything he can to make sure his future encounters are of similar, if not better quality.

Ah, your second experience sounds like my first. Did you keep your eyes open for that one too? I would suggest to close them, lay back, and yes, let go of sanity, of reality, of your bodily sensations, and trust that you will be brought back here just as you were every other time. It sounds to me like that's all that was missing to make it a breakthrough experience - not so much the dosage, but the ability to abandon and go with it.

Safe travels!

Welcome, Newfound_wonder! With those interests and intentions, I am certain you will love it here. Please continue to share your experiences!

Welcome to the Nexus! Looking forward to your experience report.