I will occasionally get a skipping record feeling at times during the rise of a journey.
Last night however it was bad. I felt like I kept getting stuck in these loops that played a
scene and sound over and over and over again. It was a smaller dose, sub breakthrough,
just wanted to go to the curtain and hang out for a while but still stay in a somewhat present headspace.
Maybe the teaser dose is what caused it? Or possibly at the end of a long day when my brain
was ready to shut down anyway it didn't like the influx of energy? I was able to pull myself out of the
skipping episodes but that involved conscious thought, and I don't want to have to make conscious
thought, I just want to relax Anyone else get this? Ive always just chalked it up to the sneakiness of spice.
She plays some wild games in my head that's for sure

I can relate to you in two different ways. I'm not sure exactly which way (if either) you were experiencing. More commonly (and what I speculate to be more common among the entire DMT community based on all the reports I've read) is the loop phenomenon. Though irritating, it can seem to be less of a "glitch" where the same scene re-enacts itself over and over and over again.

I find that kind of experience to be distinct from others where something (often in the external physical world) throws the experience out of whack. Perspective is shifted outside of the experience and I perceive this as a glitch of sorts. It appears to be an unintentional result of a sudden stimulus like a loud car horn, or the phone ringing, or perhaps even hiccuping. With this drastic shift in perspective where it is like I am on the outside of the experience looking in on it, I can see it unfold in a very mechanical fashion. The visuals, the sounds, all of it beats away mechanically. It's as if the entire experience runs on a metronome of sorts, but with the perspective of being inside the experience, everything appears to flow smoothly.

An analogy I thought of one time as it was happening to me is that it's somewhat akin to a merry-go-round. When you're sitting on one of the horses, from your perspective, you smoothly go up, down and around. If you were to stand in the middle of the merry go round and look through the floor beneath it, you would see all the very mechanistic cogs and gears rhythmically churning. As I read your post again, I would guess that it is probably congruent with my first example.

Wonderful explanation. So possibly could be from the smaller dose and being present in this headspace, which was fighting to ground me back to reality all the time constantly pulling my perspective in and out resulting in a skipping feeling?

My most vividly visual experience so far was sort of like that, but instead of loops it was more like clicking through channels on the TV. I'd get a particular pattern for a few seconds then it would click all at once to something totally different. Then click and it's another channel. Very strange. A few times I came back to patterns I'd already seen, but it wasn't quite like being stuck in a loop. Just very disjointed.

Very familiar with this. I've experienced audio skips many times when journeying to music and visual skips when launching with eyes open - like a glitch in the matrix or something. It's unnerving for sure (as is just about everything regarding the onset), but it's always resolved pretty quickly for me. Just another part of the mystery.

ya know i think this is a very simple thing, the plant is trying to show you the fractal geomety of conciousness and energy and matter, the fractal geometry of all aspects of existence. I am not very experienced with spice at all but it sounds very similar to high dose mushroom trips ive had. At first it really freaked me out i felt like i was stuck there forever with no sense of time, just stuck in this comsic joke thought loop that was not funny at all. Now that I feel like i have a better understanding of it I embrace it as one of the most significant lessons the plant teachers have ever taught me.

Yeah, it certainly threw me for a loop the first couple times, and last nights was odd but not as nervous. Learning to just go with it and enjoy all it has to offer, even seeing a positive in what at the time might be a stressful situation.
Maybe its a reminder to us not to get stuck in ruts in our daily lives but to adapt and overcome

I don't think the dose size has much to do with it. On breakthrough doses, the loops are simply more epic and grand and clear. It is for the most part unclear to me why loops occur, but I notice sometimes that a repetitive external stimulus (like the hum of a fridge or something of the sort) may have a tendency for initiating such loops.

Ahhh, I blame it on the dryer. Lol