Hello

I'm new to the boards and the substance that spawned them, and like many members I would just like to share my first tentative steps and finally the breakthrough experience. I have a very understanding partner who supports me through all of my adventures and misadventures, but she has limited her dabbling with psychoactives to the odd spliff, despite my gentle nudging. I respect her for this. As a result I found it incredibly challenging trying to convey my experiences to her, or any other trusted friend for that matter. So thanks in advance for reading.

I was recently given some changa by a very good friend. I had never tried it but I have spent many hours reading about DMT, extraction techniques and the experiences people have had with it. I had some apprehension after reading of a few 'bad trips,' but soon discovered my concerns were ill-founded. I'm not saying everyone will have the same positive experience and I encourage anyone reading this who has not tried DMT to please do your research and understand the effects and possible dangers of this awesome substance first.

Down to business. I took my little bag home and told my partner that I had some. She asked if it was dangerous and I explained that I'm not sure how I will react initially after reading of people acting rather oddly after ingestion. After reassuring her and encouraging her to watch, I chopped the changa up with some tobacco since I'm used to mixing it with herb and was warned that it is a little harsh. I loaded up my trusty bong and sat it down on the coffee table, readied a glass of water to put the fire out if needed and smoked it.
It burned, but not to the point of coughing and ejecting the smoke. I sucked it down as deep as I could and quickly put the bong down. I gave my partner the thumbs up, letting her know that it was starting to hit me. I leaned back on the couch and slowly exhaled. It tasted awful. The lounge room began to take on an orange tint and a huge warm rush enveloped me. "Oh.. my." I began gently turning my head left and right and repeating "Oh.. my." I was smiling, my partner was not concerned and was enjoying watching me. I closed my eyes and saw amazing line patterns of a blue-green colour twisting and morphing and forming three dimensional patterns that morphed into others with perfect geometry. When I opened my eyes everything looked so clear, like a high definition TV channel. It was lovely. The feeling lingered for ten minutes or so and then gently tapered off until I was back on earth some 25 minutes later.
The taste turned me off at first, and discouraged me from taking another hit soon after. I waited an hour or so and hit it again, this time it went down a lot smoother. The experience was almost identical though I kept my eyes open most of the time and enjoyed the light trails my hand was leaving behind as I waved it around in front of my face, entranced.
After the many reports I have read I knew full well that I was not quite reaching the dizzying heights this substance offers, but I left it alone until the following night.

Fast forward to night 2. This was the big one. My partner was going to bed and I told her I intended to really hit it tonight. She was fine with it after observing and giggling at me the night before. I felt completely ready, and was looking forward to it.. but nothing could have prepared me for the blissful explosion that was about to take place. I poured another glass of water and sat down, eager. First pipe went down as smooth as silk, and that lovely rush came on. I let my lungs settle and around 60 seconds later I smoked another. I leaned back on the couch again and enjoyed the light show and amazing sense of euphoria for about two minutes and decided to have another pipe. It was a bit shaky loading up the bong and when I held it to my mouth, my hands looked like they were wrinkly and aged in my peripheral vision though I knew it was just some visuals from the DMT. I had a very solid hit. I don't remember exhaling. I turned to the side on the couch and laid back with my lower legs draped over the end and feet on the floor. The next 30 seconds were like blast off. The sensation of buzzing in my lower legs gradually built and started to move upwards over my whole body. The line patterns I was used to seeing started to take on very vivid colour and became solid 3d objects. "Oh..my," didn't even come close. I took a deep breath in and let it take its course. I was writhing around on the couch in absolute ecstasy. I saw no 'mechanical gnomes' but I saw many things. Jewels of every colour, golden pyramids spiraling toward me apex first, strange symbols and letters from an alien language, all interspersed with gentle washes of colour that would pass from left to right across my field of vision. Each time I took a deep breath it was like I had forgotten the last time I breathed, though I had been breathing normally. When it started to abate a little, some 30 minutes later, I sat up and opened my eyes then got to my feet. It was difficult to balance at first but I steadied myself and went outside. It was a full moon outside. I recall standing on the small path to my clothes hoist with my arms outstretched and head tilted fully back, staring up at the sky as it twisted and spiraled in on me, and rocking left to right on my feet. I whispered 'god' to myself and heard it echo inside my head with five repetitions. Sounds coming from outside did not echo but my own voice did every time I whispered something.

I went back inside and hit it again because I felt it fading. I continued doing this until I had none left, and finally came back to earth. I spent about 3 hours above the ionosphere and it was, unquestionably, the best night of my life.

It was a very personal experience. I felt completely comfortable with myself and the world around me. I live in the country, just outside a small town so it was very quiet outside and just beautiful. I want people who are born blind to have the chance to try this so that they may understand colours, lol. After trying LSD and thinking it was the greatest rush possible, it wasn't even a blip on the radar of DMT. Astonishing.

Thanks for reading.

Pardon me for posting again so early but after reading a few more experiences here on the board I realise this thread is pretty much redundant, and everyone has already had the same effects I described. Sorry.

No worries man. Thats one of the great things about DMT that we all experience a similar place haha but having its own uniqueness at the same time! Awesome trip report tho man!! I enjoyed reading it Indeed DMT is astonishing! Sometimes its hard to find the words to describe just how amazing it actually is lol that's always my thoughts "oh my.. oh my god" pure beauty and love. I'm glad you enjoyed it brotha and may the experience change your life for the better!

Your concerns are not actually ill-founded. Don’t lull yourself into a sense of false security. The rabbit hole goes far deeper and the experience down there isn’t always friendly, all the same many of us come out able to work with it again, even after very difficult experiences.

Thanks RoGu3

And likewise, d*l*b. I understand this. I think I've gone as far in as I'm ready to at the moment, and the changa seems easy to manage compared to what I have read about freebase DMT. I'll remain cautious, and to be quite honest the experience was so good at the level I reached I don't think I need to delve any further.

No need to apologize.

When you talked about fearing a bad trip, this is a thing I see very commonly in people who have relatively little or no experience. Then there are those who have a LOT of experience, and fear a true bad trip for the right reasons.

Yes, you can have a "bad" trip if you insist that your experiences always be filled with love and rainbows. As everyone [should] know... life isn't always great, and the same is true of hyperspace. If you go in thinking instead that if you are confronted by darkness or bad thoughts, that it's all part of the experience, you will find it much more easy to accept and not get your head smashed upon the rocks.

I've had hellish, nightmarish experiences. Enjoyed them somehow, anyway. The real bad trips are the 30 minutes of when shrooms or aya is coming on and you're full of anxiety of wondering if you took too much. After that, it passes, and you sink right in.

"Bad" trips can be mitigated with an experienced person as a sitter. I find that females often have a knack for it. It's that "hey, you're trippin' man! Just let it ride, it will be over soon!" Just watch how it changes, and don't waste the experience.

Thanks azure, and you're welcome Tranzcentral

I've spoken to a friend who has had a few less than desirable trips. He spoke of having an entity floating above him and sucking the 'life' out of his body, and also of seeing a strange mechanical object that made parts of his body melt and be sucked into the object. He said that while it was quite confronting and scary it did help him to understand himself and his relation to the spice better. It didn't stop him taking the stuff.

I like to think I could handle myself if I do have a bad experience. God knows I've had my fair share of bad experiences in reality and they have made me stronger. I have had terrible nightmares of that ominous black cloud floating above my bed and being paralyzed, unable to wake myself from the dream. While I have been shaken up, I have faith in my ability to put things behind me while learning respect for them.
I've had a bad experience on LSD, where I found myself quite removed from reality and stuck in a kind of feedback loop, in which I would sit up from my bed and repeat the same statement every few minutes. One hour in to the 8 hour trip I was ready to come back but I knew I had a long road ahead. I knew though, even though I was not enjoying it that I would willing ingest the substance again. I don't know what I expect to find from psychedelics but I feel compelled to keep searching, bending reality until I can understand it, and myself better.

Peace.

I think I'll keep all my experiences in this thread so as not to clutter the boards.

I had my 4th journey last night. It started out the same as the others but 2 minutes or so (could have been 15 seconds, could have been 10 minutes but it felt like 2) into it, a high pitch ring started in my right ear. It sounded like really fast morse code, was not a constant ring. The usual geometry I see was much more complicated and I found it difficult to focus on the visuals. Faces would start to appear and then coalesce into the mess of wire patterns and grids. There were a few sharp points of light that remained constant for quite some time, like brighter stars among the mess I was seeing.
A silhouette of what I think was a woman slowly swam into my vision, it looked much like a casket that egyptian mummies are kept in, but her head was tilted to the right slightly. She was moving in a small circle while still facing me and slowly coming closer. Once she got close I realised she had no eyes, just a mouth that was smirking at me with that tilted-head look of curiosity. It was a little unsettling but not unpleasant. I coughed at this point, from a little tickle in my throat after smoking. As I did there was a huge white flash and she was gone, the ringing morse code type sound also vanished. The glow faded away and I was back to the mesh of line patterns and swirling blues and greens.
I got to my feet at this point, which I've done every time I've tripped. It's hard to balance. The loungeroom which is relatively small seemed twice the size that it normally does. I can't keep my arms down, they feel light and like they're being pulled upward above my head by a magnetic field. I'm slowly walking around in the lounge unable to focus my gaze or thoughts on any one thing. It's like my thoughts begin to manifest and then are taken over by another, and the cycle repeats. The feeling is quite amazing, definitely positive. I find myself trying to question how I can be in such a state and half way through the thought I answer myself "I don't even care, nothing matters right now." This carried on for 10 minutes or so and I started to return. It was a lovely trip.

Peace.

Enjoyed reading your trip report

Thanx for sharing you're experiences , found them quite reassuring and have given me a bit more confidence to pull tge trigger ! Thanx

I have always wondered what a blind person (particularly a person who had been blind since birth) would experience if they ingested DMT or a high dose of LSD or psilocybin... It's interesting to think about, because if a person has never seen color, would their visions be composed of the same color scheme as a person who has been able to see for their whole life? Would there be any color at all? A very thought-provoking concept

Good reports, ZeroSignal! I like your writing style.

The curiosity of the "others" is a common theme for me, as well as the smirking. Sometimes things are telepathic with everything and then there are others that don't communicate so directly. I've been basically hazed a bit by some of them, like an older brother with a mean streak--playing pranks, making the experience difficult, challenging me to prove my metal a little bit.

Great post.

meh, dont worry about it. It's nice to see the enthusiasm from the size of the text, but yea, while it's sort of hyperspace/crysanthemum threshold kinda stuff i skip read it.

the rabbit hole goes much much deeper