Hi all,

Just thought I'd write a little thank you note to, basically whoever here reads it. This forum guided me through every step of the way, from obtaining supplies, to extraction, to knowing what to expect. I've been taking it nice and slow, due to my go-it-alone strategy and not being in any particular hurry. I've just returned from my first true breakthrough.

I used a home-made pipe and some brown goo spice I extracted by following the Q21Q21 tek. I took really low doses the first few times, with increasingly more substantial effects, but no breakthrough. I found these all to be very pleasant. I had been listening to a track on youtube called "Norma - Icaros", which really kept me grounded and calm.

Tonight I took a much larger dose. I debated if I should go with silence or the music (I found Norma-Icaros part 2 on youtube) and opted for the music since it had been so nice to me in my sub-breakthrough trips. I told myself that if I was still conscious after the first hit, do it again. The first one was big and the room got that fantastical tinge to it that I had been becoming familiar with from past experiences, so I tried again. I was quite out of it, and I couldn't quite remember what I was supposed to do, and the lighter was sending dazzling sparks all around me. I got a mouthfull of vapor but started laughing. So I mustered my senses and tried one more time, and bingo.

Nothing really to put into words here... I had no thoughts I had simply become spirals of color (the orange really stuck out for some reason, I think I was surprised to see it there) with indescribably intricate detail. But the music was playing and at first I thought it was some incomprehensable (alien?) language (no, as it turns out, it was just Spanish, haha.) But it started making me have thoughts as I tried to figure it out, and I realized that this meant "I" was coming back, which was fine.

Then she started singing "muchas gracias" over and over, and oh man... it was the most sincere thing I have ever heard. The music and the singer were making a pool of pure love that I was a part of. I was swimming in pure love, which is the only thing that can come of such a sincere "muchas gracias". It seemed like muchas gracias was the only thing there really is to say, after it all.

When I came around I was really curious about what it would be like without the music.

Wow - this is a great trip report. Thank you for sharing.

One thing that concerns me is the "brown goo" that you smoked. That sounded kinda funky. I mean does that mean some of the basified aqueus MHRB came over along with the DMT when you sucked up the solvent?

I don't mean to be political but I'm not a big fan of q2121's tek, the results it seems to yield and the questions it seems to continually generate. There are a lot of different (better) teks to be found in the Wiki. There are also ways to clean up "dirty" spice, from sodium carbonate washes to running mini A/B's to doing recrystallizations. . .

Anyway, congratulations and again thanks for sharing!

Hi Pandora, very glad you enjoyed my post, and for the concern. I still feel a bit out of my league in all this. I also have no frame of reference because I've only tried it the one way. In the future I will experiment with different methods. I chose the Q21Q21 because it seemed very simple and doesn't require much in the way of equipment. It claims that the first of the two teks is "100% food safe", which appealed to me. A slight confession here, because I've read several posts here at the nexus that discourage this, but I was living in a college dorm when I did my extraction. After weighing all the factors of my situation, I made an executive decision (so to speak) that it was doable, and it worked out. With the tek I used I didn't even need the kitchen until the final steps of boiling down the vinegar solution, which I did late at night when nobody would wander in. (I'm not in the dorm anymore).

Like I said I have no frame of reference, but I gather that the Q21Q21 is a bit different in output than other teks. You end up with a solution of DMT in vinegar that can be stored in liquid form, and then you boil all the liquid off to prepare for smoking, so it's not crystals like most teks. What I got matches well with the pictures in the tek. Here's the brown goo (these pics come straight from the tek, it's not my stuff):




I hope that answers your question and if it still sounds iffy PLEASE let me know. It feels iffy to me, lol. Thanks!

yea from what ive been able to understand you honestly cant smoke lye. unless your putting it right in your pipe of course, and your have to notice emulsions or goop from the mimosa solution coming through when you do your seperation, as long as your careful the worst thing your smoking is oils/fats/tannin. awesome journey though i need to work on different breakthroughs myself, and staying calm. ill check out that music.

Thanks and that is encouraging. I'll be in a better position to try new ways next time. Here's a link to the music I was listening to, the "muchas gracias" starts around 10 minutes in:

http://www.youtube.com/w...at3lM&feature=relmfu