i've broken through three times, but this time i have some foreign (like, not anywhere on earth ever) language in my head lingering. something kept repeating over and over when i was at my peak and the light i saw was brightest. i don't know if it was some sort of mantra or they were simply repeating something to me in their language, but it was so fucking bizarre.

you guys were right about coming back with more questions than you went in with, but that's what i wanted. so a couple questions that actually could be answered - the first two break through experiences i had i came back crying. i haven't really cried much in the past few years and keep a lot bottled up, so i sort of assumed that was just an emotional purge.
this time my eyes teared up when i came back but i was just laughing a lot because of how remarkable and confusing what i saw was. pretty fantastic. any reason for the tears?

i'm really thankful for this forums as a resource - thank you all for putting up with newbie questions and i look forward to reading and hopefully contributing more in the future.

i can't personally offer any physiological reason for the tears, but i do know that when i come back with tears in my eyes i know i've done it right...

i've got a buddy who enjoys a little bit every once in a while, but he is very insistent upon complete privacy, because he comes back with tears in his eyes every time, & he's just enough of a tough guy that it bothers him to be seen like that...

ticking the "it was so beautiful it made me cry" box was a happy day for me, but then it opened the flood gates and now im quite often left curled into a ball in a teary mess hiding under my duvet, and i love it

i was like you, i wasnt a very emotional kind of person before DMT and if someone had said to me that i would end up like this i would have never believed them, but i am glad it has happened to me as i dont believe keeping everything bottled up for whole life was very healthy and thanks to DMT i dont do this any more, not just when returning from a journey but in my every day life.

embrace the eye purge.

I still cry from breakthroughs occasionally, and I've broken through a lot.

Honestly, the first time I came back from a breakthrough and there was tears in my eyes, it was a really awesome experience I think my mind was just so blissed out that there wasn't anything else I could do haha. Loved it tho! Now it happens every 4-5 times, pretty consistently, and I am thankful for the experience every time I also was not one to cry really, in fact I hadn't for several years before my first "breakthrough bliss" moment. Now it happens every month or so!

If you don't cry you're not doing it right (or you're trying really hard to hold back as to not embarrass yourself )

But for real, I've cried a number of times coming off DMT. Something that beautiful is very hard to not be moved by.

Agreed. There are tears of joy and tears of sorrow. These are tears of awe.

It is common that my eyes water profusely, and for my sinuses to drain, while I am travelling.

It happens so regularly, that I don't travel without having tissues and a glass of water next to me before I am ready to go. The water is a grounding thing that is an anchor back for me.

Regularly when getting back, my sinuses are draining so much, I have both mucous dangling out of my nose, as well as my eyes watering to an excess. Very bizarre! Probably not a pretty sight!

I don't believe there are emotional reasons for this.........seems to be a physiological change that happens.

^^ same.

Of course there may be plenty of reasons to cry, emotionally, after an experience with spice. But I have cried every single time in a pure reflex, teardrops reaching my neck. Add that to the expectorating effects of vaporized mullein, and I've thought about it as Changa's Little Purge. Even with plain alien, shapeshifting, lightning-fast experiences with barely any strong emotional content.