Hey everyone! I decided that it was finally time, after lurking around for a while, to join the forum It amazes me, the type of intelligence and understanding of life that many of you have. It is truly inspiring to read each of your posts.

I am a member of the United States Air force. I am 18 years old. Up until I was 16 years old, my view on the world was very materialistic, and formed by the mainstream media. I believed that all drugs should be illegal and that I wanted to become a military killing machine. I started hanging out with the wrong people my Junior year of high school. Peer pressure from close friends was the driving force behind my increasingly frequent cannabis usage. My grades fell, my desire to contribute to society was gone, and I was left without a sense of my true self. Several months ago, I began a journey to uncover who I really was. I wanted the truth about life, and the universe.

Eventually after many nights of research and deep self contemplation, DMT began to show itself to me. The first time ever hearing the phrase DMT was from a Joe Rogan video of all places. From that point on, I went on a rampage of DMT research. I found this forum. I believe that this forum is what inspired me to make a positive change in my life.

So, the desire for positivity had manifested itself in me. Now, just to bring it out.

My first DMT experience was a strange one. I had read up on it so much that I believed I would be able to understand and handle it, because I had the expectation that it would be something so unimaginably amazing. I have now learned now to never expect anything from it. Anyways, my first DMT experience was actually with Changa. I figured that starting out with changa would sort of, ease me into the experience. I was pretty wrong on that assumption, as it proved to be the most intense experience of my life.

Setting - Time - 8pm
- Place - empty parking lot, in my car(I will never disrespect this spice like that ever again)
- One friend with me, just to keep things under control. He was well aware that this would be a strange experience.
Dosage - 500mg Changa.... most of it wasted due to me being an idiot

I loaded the bowl of the homemade 2 liter water bong I had made (mistake).
As I inhaled, it took FOREVER for the smoke to fill the bottle, so I had no idea If I was getting a full toke or not. After about 3 unsure, not really good tokes, I began to feel very aware and alive. Not what I was expecting. I loaded up some more (not even dosing, just being an idiot about it). After struggling for a while, I FINALLY got one HUGE 2 liter sized toke, I knew that I had done it right this time... So I took another immediately after. I wish I had listened to the Terrance McKenna "TAKE THE THIRD TOKE" advice before this haha. After the second huge one, I immediately began to feel like everything was falling apart, I knew I had done it. I turned off the lights in the car, and fell back into my reclined chair. It came on like nothing I had ever experienced. I had just gotten onto the DMT roller coaster, and there was no way off.

I sat back in my chair and closed my eyes. I could feel the intense heat from my jacket start to intensify. Eventually I literally felt like I was on fire, but it was actually very comforting. While this was happening, a ridiculously intense vibration enveloped my whole body. It felt very alien, as if there were entities actually singing into every cell of my being. From this point on, is a blur. I remember an intense struggle with myself to stay in reality. I kept telling myself to let go, and to love this experience. The more I thought, the more fear and intensity I experienced. It became amazingly frightening. The two images I remember from this part of the trip, were very faint fractals and an immense, gold, dome like structure, painted with pink, red, and green triangles. A face appeared through the dome. It seemed like it was un-happy with me. I felt a sense of being lifted up, and to the right, as if the face had literally thrown me out of the dome. Once this had happened, I started to come back. The come down is what changed my life forever.

I felt so amazingly euphoric. I could understand many aspects of my life, that I was unable to examine before. I immediately felt like my life had changed. Not because of the actual DMT trip, but because now, I knew, that it was real. I knew that the human body was capable of amazing things. This realization has caused me to intensify my journey into self discovery. Recently, I have been the most positive person I could imagine myself being. I find myself communicating with people easily. My friendships have strengthened, my desire for knowledge has increased. I just feel like a positive being. I can have happiness, as long as I choose to be happy. DMT showed me that all of this is possible. I have learned so much from this experience, as far as measuring dosage, correct setting, correct smoking method, and correct state of mind. I will apply everything I have learned from this amazing experience. I cant believe I wasted 500mg like that though... I now understand the respect that you must give.

I apologize for my lack of imagery in this trip report. I believe that It is a skill that I will acquire as I begin to post and contribute to this amazing forum. I am looking forward to my next meeting with DMT. thank you all for reading.

Thank you for sharing and I'm happy you turned away from becoming a killing machine

Good to have you aboard. And funny you heard of DMT from Joe Rogan first A lot of people here don't like the bloke. Think he has preached about DMT to the wrong crowd. But maybe that's just the crowd that needs it the most.

Well good luck with future journeys and be safe.

I like Joe because he questions things. The way he thinks about life is very interesting and unique. Sometimes his facts are off, but that's fine, as long as you take things with a grain of salt. Many people that follow Joe are discovering DMT as well, and turning into very spiritual beings. Many of my friends are beginning to uncover the inner workings of consciousness by listening to Joe.

& Thank you sir, I have defiantly steered away from the killing machine desire.

Hello uftusaf123,

Welcome to the Nexus. Thanks so much for sharing this experience report with us - I enjoyed reading it and felt you were a good writer. I'd love it if you could also take some time to submit a formal Introduction Essay. Keep posting and letting us know about you and that you understand the rules and promotion should follow relatively quickly.

Sorry to hear about the dreadful smoking tek that made you waste a number of doses. That can be very frustrating. Nexus is a great resource for everything DMT and I encourage you to take a good look around. Including in this area, https://www.dmt-nexus.me...t.aspx?g=topics&f=50 .

Given that the original source plant, MHRB is no longer accessible to us, DMT is becoming more and more precious. It's always worth deferring a session until all questions are answered as best they can be, until set and setting feel optimal, until one has a good idea of the smoking tek one will use, including proper equipment for DMT.

Nonetheless, your experience sounds quite amazing. Your setting leaves a lot to be desired. I'd recommend in the future being indoors and on a bed or in a reclining chair. Either that or back to nature, so far back that you are isolated from potential interruptions.

Always great to have another lurker sign up. Hope to see you around and again, welcome to the Nexus.

Hey uftusaf123

Thank you for sharing your experience. I too had my first experience on Changa a few weeks ago and like you was not expecting anything at all, maybe some pretty patterns, but nothing like what i did truly experience.

I would say a couple of things that really helped, i was in a warm comfortable environment at home, just lying back on the sofa, with some trance music on ( obviously music or music genres is your choice, i just feel that it helps me fly as it were )

We used a glass bowl pipe, i think that really helped you can get a "hit" off this really easy, although my throat was a little sore the day after, however it was definitely worth it after what we experienced.

I literally needed a couple of hits of that, and then like you felt the vibrations in my lungs, and then like i wasn't alone, then the real exploration began.

I love the way you have written your piece and i love that even with the society we are bought into and particularly they type of career you were into, regardless of all of this you wanted to explore yourself and your consciousness more. I have just finished reading a book "the cosmic serpent, DNA and the origins of knowledge" by Jeremy Narby. It really is insightful, and well written.

Now after my experience i look at everything slightly differently,in some way like i have been given an answer, but i never really knew the question.
i used to look at nature with alot of love, now my respect and the feeling that i am indeed humbled by it has grown. I feel like there is an extra someting inside me that has been unlocked. And it feels really good.

I hope to read about your next experience and explorations on here, be happy, cherish and enjoy life, that is what it is there for

welcome!

Love hearing about peaople especially young peaople reaching for a higher goal like self development.
Myself i smoke my changa in a small steel cannabis pipe and it works extremly well and if you have lots of it you can actually even roll joints but its a waste really so i stick with my pipe!
Hope you will have many pleasant eye opening experiences ahead but remember to to be humble and respectful.
Next step is imo oral. Aya, pharma is really the best way if u ask me.
Also other classic psychedelics are not to be underestimated just becuase the hype around DMT. Out of my i think 4 most intense and revealing trips 1 of them was on acid and1 on san pedro cactus wich was the most amazing ever!

Love and light!

Thanks for posting this, I just had my first experience with Changa (and also just with enhanced leaf) last night and can totally relate to what you're saying. I'm still trying to put the words together to write up my own experience report, this stuff could help so many people and it's wonderful to hear you talk about how it has changed your life.

Thank you all for your amazing replies. This forum has a great feeling attached to it, very "family" like. I absolutely love it. I will not return to DMT until I have done much more research, and believe that I am ready to experience more. I now understand that my lack of respect and cautiousness with the DMT was unacceptable. Being in the US Military obviously makes it difficult to do any sort of self-reflection, or exploration. I believe I am stronger than the military culture, and will do everything in my power to spread positivity to my fellow Airmen. Hopefully I can open their eyes to the amazing aspects of consciousness as well.

I have a friend from Singapore who writes under the name "An Eternal Now" on a blog called Awakening to Reality. He's not much older than you and has just completed his military training over there, but he's also one of the most insightful and highly awakened people I've ever met in my life. He incorporated a lot of his practice into his daily life and, as his writings make clear, made tremendous progress in less-than-perfect conditions.

Check out the blog he writes with a guy called Thusness, it's called Awakening to Reality and is a great resource if you're interested in self-reflection and exploration.

Thank you Non Dua Natura, reading some of the blog posts now, seems very interesting. Thanks for sharing (: