PRE-CONDITIONS
(mind)Set: having a great day
(physical condition) Set: healthy
Setting (location): living room sofa
time of day: afternoon-evening
recent drug use: pot
last meal: can't remember. home cooked though

[u]PARTICIPANT
Gender: man
body weight: 61kg
known sensitivities: alcohol
history of use: had a few sub-breakthough moments

BIOASSAY
Substance(s): fb DMT, pot
Dose(s): throughout the session in order; 5mg(2x), 7mg(2-3?x), 10mg, 15mg, 20mg
Method of administration: vaporized sometimes with pot


EFFECTS
Administration time:started around 2pm. didn't keep track of time. tried to space doses a minimum of 30min. not too sure when I stopped, wasn't too concerned with time
Duration: 3-4 hrs ?
First effects: right away
Peak: 5-25min range
Come down:
Baseline:
Intensity (overall): 4

OPTIONAL
Pleasantness: 4
Implesantness: 2
Visual Intensity: 4




AFTER-EFFECTS
Hangover: 1, exhausted mentally and a little physical.
Afterglow: 4, still feeling the effects of the afterglow. very happy with a new positive view of life.

REPORT

so it's 3-4-2012 the day after my birthday, I was planning to have a session on 3-3 instead but wasn't really feeling the call....
I start the day as usual, take time to wake up and relax, eat some food and smoke some grass and drink some tea, except today was going to be different and I knew that and did my best to contemplate love, peace, and take time to reflect on what I have been shown from the spice.

anyways this is where my memory starts to get a bit fuzzy...I vap some small puffs and try to get used to the vibrational pressure(not sure how to explain it) in my head and body, it's crazy but I try to appreciate it for what it is...my female friend is setting next me on the couch smoking weed with me and chillin, same thing we always do.

I close my eyes and float around in my head some light swirling masses of colors and my thoughts are becoming more profound(seemingly) and I start meditating and definately reach a level where the room and everything in it are amazingly enhanced in an exaggerated fractal way, I wish I could explain it...of course I could now float through what seems like hyperspace...I think this is around my second 10mg puff...I notice that I can perform thoughts/tasks like flying at full speed and then stop myself at any time, I could manipulate the "jim jam" into shapes but nothing I would think of sober. The jim jam itself was nothing short of amazing, it's glimmering colors with a gold and red shimmer and an atom like structure, like I percieved objects as a whole of their own molecular structure, swirling and flowing as they do. I have seen the same type of thing with LSD and mushrooms. I am very pleased with that realization amongst others I associate with being in the spirit realm/psychedelic dimension.
the day is progressing well. I have had a great time exploring hyperspace I am positive I have broken through at this point, I keep taking puffs when I am able and reload with another measured dose when no more vapor comes from my pipe. I will assume I have started the last 10mg dose around now. I'm still playing around with the jim jam and notice something is trying to tell me something, I try to get around what is going on and it's showing me the spinning diamond thing Mckenna spoke of, right away I figure out I can do the same thing so I do it too, it was so immersive, seems so real like some of those dreams do, I hear the babble of the tv through out the session and distinctly hear "motor head" from some commercial, I started laughing, the whole concept of "motor head" in my state of mind was a mind blowing thought....if they only knew what that meant to me right now.
I am also talking to my friend throughout all of this and she does decide to take a little taste, 5mg she's very delicate about most everything and complains about the body buzz, whatever, I'm not gonna push it on her.
I tell her, while my eyes are closed, about making a diamond thing and I can spin it on my fingertip like a basketball, in any direction I want and even flip it forward and backward, I then throw it up in the air and it keeps going, haha holy shit it's gone....wow, that blew me away. I continue trying out other things and I notice that some one is suggesting that I do what I am doing, I engage in conversation with it and figure out that it's myself, am I the entity that showed me how to play and did I "remember" what I thought i was being told, things about myself, nature, society and the negative path it has followed and alot of other stuff I wish I could recall details.
I have been going about this session for few hours by now and decide that I will start to step things up a bit, I take a big pull off the 15mg I loaded up and feel like I sobered up quite a bit, weird, I've done 15mg before so I smoke it up and enjoy more of what I already had for a few hours except for the strong desire to smoke more, so I measure out 20mg and put it in the pipe to smoke when I'm ready....
ok I think I'm ready....It's been about 20min since the last puff....I take a hit...not bad...need more...take another hit......hmmm sharp taste that one....put the pipe down and exhale....close my eyes and thought about that last hit and the rush starting to come on...it's very intense....too much....I want to get away from it....shit this sucks I don't like this...it will be ok it will be over in a half hour or so....it rapidly increases in intensity gotta accept it and it will be ok.......first real wave of insanity hits me and what must be real panic, again another wave and the sensation of fizzing out accompanied with an electrical feeling, the waves keep coming I noticed another 3 maybe 4. the waves were more like my impact on/through a white layer like the surface of water.
something snaps me out of whats going on and I look at my friend and she says "what the hell" while she's being overtaken by the blackness that took over the rest of what I saw with my eyes open, I reply "what the fuck was that" and try to get back into whatever that was. I cannot, I try to tell her that I'm ok and that whatever that was was insane, I can barely think about putting words together to form a simple sentence...back to trippin out... I feel weird, I need to throw up I think, maybe the feeling will go away, she is telling me that I was convulsing and it scared her and she was tapping me and calling my name to get me to snap out of "it". i was surprised by what she said and told her I was being hit by waves of immense power and like my body was fizzing out of this and into there. I try to assure her that I'm ok and not to call cops, the worst part is over.
I get up grab my jug of water and find my way to the bathroom usually seen perfectly from my spot on the couch, assume the puke position and nothing, try, nothing. I do feel like I need to purge from the backside though. that was by far the most entertaining fit of diarrhea ever, I just sat there enjoyed the oev/cev's and thought about what just happened. I was mostly concerned with my friend having to see someone have convulsions she seemed more freaked out than I was. I also noticed that I was wet and clammy feeling with a slight chill, the wet feeling was weird, like all of my pores were utilized. reminds me of something Mckenna mentioned...that the "sweat" substance was a ectoplasm of sorts involved with the transition between dimensions. I'm not to sure about that, that was read almost 10yrs ago. strange sensation whatever it is. ok it's over, get up. tell her again I'm ok, and see if she's ok, she's concerned and a little ticked so that's good.

so the thing with the convulsions...
I had no idea that was going on
I have had that happen before. once with pot(alot of it) I was 17. more like a seizure I guess.
another time while watching a movie. I had a strange feeling got up to get some water and woke up on the kitchen floor. another seizure I think
another time on mushrooms. I was in my late 20's. felt like I was going to throw up an suddenly got that sweaty feeling and sort of blacked out. feeling went away and had an awesome trip. must be some rare side effect?
I have read something about the seizure threshold being lowered from substances like LSD and other psychs. I have taken a good share of acid starting at 14yrs old. that could be an explanation

I am very pleased with the immensely profound experience I had that day. I am a different person since then. I honestly can't remember the last time I was so at peace with myself. alot of aspects of my life and perspective of myself and the world around me have changed in a caring, respectful, and positive manner.
I have been sorting things out as far as my experience goes a little everyday. I want to have more sessions but I'm afraid of the whole convulsion thing. I can get someone to sit with me in the future. I want to finish my break through. I know for sure I was right there. for now I will smoke a small dose once in awhile, anything beyond that is a bit much...

thanks for taking time to read this. I regret not writing down some details right away. feel free to say something

Sounds like a nice trip.Are you concerned about your seizure/convulsions,and have you ever talked to a doctor about
them?

I'm not really concerned about the convulsion/seizures, they rarely happen.

I asked my girlfriend that was sitting next to me about the recent ones and she said it seemed to go with the wave thing I would describe to her. like it didn't appear to be an involuntary episode, that and the groan/moaning sounds.

I never mentioned the issue to a Dr., never really occured to me when I had to go in for something.

I haven't taken any thing over 10mg lately, I will try a 20mg dose eventually and see what happens, my conclusion so far is that I was so immersed that there was some reaction to what I was seeing. even in my trance state

I'm so glad I stumbled across this thread. I have had similar experiences and so I thought I would share my insight.

I died when I was 4 years old, drowning in an above ground pool thanks to some stupid cousins. Obviously and thankfully I was resuscitated but the main thing I remember from the experience was the now all too familiar sound of the carrier wave. In many ways I believe that I had my first DMT trip at the age of 4, though it was a naturally occurring near death experience version.

Fast forward a few years and I'm about 7 and I begin to have night terrors. I would be sat upright in a trance in bed, experiencing a trip of sorts and according to my parents speaking a garbled language. I would always snap out of it after about 10 minutes and again the memory in my mind that stands out is the high pitched tone that accompanies the average dmt experience. I was also bombarded with visuals and contact with entities. My mother recalls that I would often say, "he's here again" whilst I was in the trance. When I came out of it my first instinct was to tell my parents that I was okay, I had to keep reassuring them because to be honest I felt amazing afterwards, albeit a little shaky. I was taken to doctors, tests were run, nothing unusual was found and the doctor told my parents that he had night terrors as a child and that it's usually a sign of high intelligence and is something I will just grow out of. Around this time I do remember distinctly having an imaginary friend who told me all sorts of things that I don't think I could have known on my own. (but that's another story).

Years later living in a different part of the world I had a black out, or a seizure. I was on my own at home, about 14 and I remember hearing a tone and feeling weird so I got down on the floor. The next thing I know I'm seeing a flash of images and the distinct impression that I had just been into space. I didn't tell my folks and it didn't happen again for years and years. 2 subsequent occasions afterwards I have fallen into a trance and been presented with imagery, flashbacks of my life etc. One one occasion I awoke to my friend throwing me around the apartment because he thought I was dead. This was all before trying or hearing about DMT. Once I did learn about it I defiantly felt a connection, like the spice was drawing me to it. Years went by and I didn't have the opportunity or the means to do extractions and so I waited... Needless to say a very good friend finally managed to aquire some very pure lab grade stuff and he called me up. It was translucent and they were big crystals, I was nervous but thrilled. I remember thinking just before I took the hit, "shit what if I have one of those things during this and what if..." Shhh I said to myself. And straight away that ringing noise made me turn to my friends and say, "this is where I went, this is where I went went I died." That trip was astonishing and it inspired me to learn as much as I could about the compound.

Months later after extracting my own I started to dip my toes into hyperspace. I explored, got blown away a few times by unmeasured doses and went through a couple of brain scrambles but nothing that didn't concern me too much. Then one afternoon I guess I overdid it. My sitter was there and all I can remember when I came back was that she was right in front of me with quite a concerned look on her face. She said, "are you alright?" She was holding my hand and checking my pulse. "Yeah ahh I think so..." I'm sitting there looking at her thinking to myself, "I don't know who this woman is... She's very pretty but I don't know who she is... Wait. Who am I? Wait... Where am I? What is this? What the fuck?" (this went on for about 10 minutes). Thankfully there was a small part of me somewhere up there that knew i was okay and that I'd be coming back. I dunno it felt like my personality and memories had just vanished and they didn't return until well into the afterglow. My friend then explained to me that I was convulsing like I was having a fit. I was very sweaty all over and I felt really weak. My pulse was normal. I started to realize who and what I was and then I started to consider that I perhaps had gone a little too deep. I didn't return to Spice land for a while.

I think we might have the same thing going on. I consider it to be something of a spontaneous DMT release by the brain. The similarity to the DMT state and NDE's is astonishing. Having a near death experience or two is one thing, taking DMT and then realizing that the two are indeed the same is quite an amazing revelation. In many ways I feel like I was prepared for DMT quite early on and it may be why I was always considered a bit of a weird kid. :-) I was tested for epilepsy and a host of other neurological disorders and they have all come up clear. I'm fairly relaxed about it these days (thanks to DMT actually) and to be honest I try to look at it as a blessing rather than a curse. One thing I will say for sure is make sure you have a healthy diet full of fruits and veg. I drink fruit and veg juice just about every day and I feel that it really helps out. I don't have any hard science to back this up but I think DMT is kinda like letting your brain go for a run or a surf, it can really take the muscle of your mind to its limits, so I try to keep my brain and body as fit and healthy as possible to maximize the experience and minimize the risk.

I hope you found some of this interesting and or insightful. I feel like I could talk about this stuff for ages.

Mush

thanks for your response mush

I like to find out about similar situations, indeed the circumstances involved in your life experience have more substance

interesting that your Dr. mentioned intelligence being a possible factor, I am certainly not among the masses as far as that goes. I'm not trying to say I'm any smarter than anybody else but my thought process functions in a different manner or something, my lack of "formal" education makes it hard for me to explain, the people that I encounter day to day know me though. weird dude but very intelligent

I can remember riding a 3 wheeled atv when I was 10ish and trying to go around a corner while giving it gas and went into a ditch and woke up in the truck on the way back into town, that might have been the brain trauma that would cause the episodes. idk so far I have never been too alarmed about the "situations"

I would like to hear from any body else if they have experience with convulsions/seizures(some I have already read on this site, thanks).
to some people it seems normal, like it is a rare side effect of the hallucinogens.
I would assume it's an acceptable reaction to a very intense event

take care

I was knocked unconscious twice playing sports and both times felt similar,it was like instant dreamland but
I could feel my body convulsing.And once when I was at a party a guy punched me and I hit my head on the side
of the road,all I remember is seeing stars and instant dreamland and I was told they had a hard time waking me up after that one.

I have never had a drug induced one though,just the blunt force trauma kind.I had two different dogs that took seizures
and I had them on meds for it.But both dogs only seemed to take a seizure when they were sleeping.The vet said it had something to do with different brain impulses when they were sleeping.Maybe the brain produces similar impulses when its altered by drugs and alcohol.

I did know a guy that used to take seizures when he drank and used drugs but I think his
main problem was he couldnt take his medication(epilepsy) and "party"at the same time.



Didnt mean to get off topic but thats my only experience with these things.