I can't tell if this is a break through or not. I've done the spicing several times. Usually it's my friends yellowish cut. I swear I get different results each time. It's like playing the slot machine. It's usually always winning, but winning is what I make of it I guess.

It's been about 2 or 3 months since my last journey. BUT, since then I have played with mushrooms, a LOT. Orange, vit C, lemon tek, noopept, weed, robotussin, and I even mixed mushies the last time I journeyed on the spice.

Last night I didn't have my machine ready. (it is now though). So I took my small pipe with a medium bowl. Put about 15-25mg in there. Yeah, I need a better scale. I sandwiched it between blue berry kush I believe.

Anyway, first hit and I could taste the rich spice flavor. 2nd hit and my computer screen on the other side of the room started to distance itself from me. On my 3rd hit, I felt myself rip into the dream world. But I had my eyes open.

Since my eyes were open, my room became this AMAZING place. Yeah I still had my computer, chairs, etc.
BUT, my ceiling grew like 4 stories high, my entire (small apartment) living room became this enormous beautiful place. Rich with dark green colors. ANY and EVERY light (kitchen light, mouse light, computer light, was all flashing green, red, blue, yellow, etc.

I also had music playing. Of which when I hit my climax, the music stopped. Sort of like that buzzing sound in the movie The Matrix when they go in I think. That AAahzz-zz-z-z... (I can't describe it well, you know what I mean). The music came to a COMPLETE stop. It was silent. Eventually it buzzed back into hearing.

When I finally started to come down, it was like being loaded on mushrooms. Hard core. Like quilted patterns on my walls you see like with mushrooms. I HAD to get up and put my pipe somewhere, so I walked all the way to the kitchen, still COMPLETELY in another state of mind/consciousness. My fake wood floors looked AMAZING. They were moving and patterns were everywhere.
This trip lasted like 15-20 minutes. I EVEN started to type on here. But then I realized how foolish I would sound and stopped.

Even after the 20 minutes went by, I STILL saw slight patterns in my popcorn ceiling. If anyone has tripped and stared at a popcorn ceiling, you probably know what I'm talking about.

Then I was FLOODED with a thankfulness. I started thanking anyone/anything I could. I thanked DMT. I thanked God. I thanked my apartment walls for looking so nice.

NOT SO - meaningful (I've seen the High Priestess tarot card in a trip before).
BUT, it was probably my most fun trip EVER.
I did some drawing right before I went to bed (spice inspired). As well as typed details about the trip.
I slept SO hard after that (probably from the weed).
I slept till 3 today.

Life, nature, colors, everything looked amazing today.

Glad to be alive

People have said that weed can reduce your chances of breaking through. Or make it so the spice doesn't work on you at all.
But for me, it seemed to GREATLY increase the duration of the trip, as well as give me upper leg orgasms... Which blue berry kush by itself makes my legs jittery... But this...
This was amazing.

I have limited experience but what you described is how I know I need one more pull to breakthrough.. if I have even broken through.. If the things I have experienced aren't in the breakthrough category, my mind can't comprehend anything greater.

The only way I can really explain it is I had an experience, my girlfriend was next to me. When I came back I asked her how long my eyes were closed. She was confused and asked me what I was talking about. We went back and forth a few times getting irritated because apparently my eyes were open the whole time and I didn't know it but she thought I was just messing with her, she thought I was aware.

A breakthrough for me is when it doesn't matter whether my eyes are open or not, I am definitely not in my bedroom anymore (the visions are the same). Like reality has been swallowed up completely.

But you could have just read an experience report of a proper breakthrough to tell if yours was or not. I highly recommend you smoalk spice on the peak of a heavy mushroom trip.

I've read tons of trips. And I've had the "break throughs" where you can't see anything and you're trying to blink as hard as you can to tell if your eyes are open or not... and all you see is that other world.

But this trip just changed my room instead. Not sure what to call it. It lasted a long long time.

I have done it on the peak of mushrooms. All I got was like 15 minutes of giant white pincushions laced with data or something - flowing and building in my face. Not as good as other mush/spice stories I read. I posted about it on here, I may still be ungrateful about it. Perhaps I'll try again in the future.

It sounds like a sub-breakthrough to me. I wouldn't worry or get too caught up on words and categorizing it though. You'll know it when you fully release into it, beyond any shadow of a doubt

LOL universe cannon. Well I wasn't shot out of one of those. More like a shape shift/remodel cannon.

A good rule of thumb is that if you have to question whether or not it was a breakthrough, it probably wasn't. You'll know when it happens, trust me.

^ That's what scares me. Not literally, but I can't comprehend anything greater that what I've experienced so far. But I know there's much, much more.

UGH, okay. I just journeyed again. I broke through for sure. Eyes open and closed I was in a completely smooth room. It was beautiful. Etc.

The problem is, I realized I'm forgetting my trips. Everytime I do break through hard, I'm like crap... this is it. I've been in this area before... And I'm going to forget it by the time I'm out.
It's kind of disappointing. Like when I came out of the "break through" I immediately reached for my phone and tried to describe it. I was still tripping so hard all the letters on my phone were alien.

2 things that are sort of a downer...
1st: I taste the lighter fluid.
2nd: My throat sort of burns BUT before I went in I took a LOT of Synaptolepis Kirkii. An african dream herb. And it's kind of peppery on my throat? I took more than normal so I can't tell if it's the burning from the african herb or something wrong with my machine.

My lungs feel fine.

The plan was: ingest dream herb, then Spice. Then go to sleep and dream like a mad man.

If you taste the lighter fluid, either make sure your crystals have fully dried before scraping them up, and/or re-X them.

If you get to that breakthrough area, and you wanna try and remember it more, instead of pulling yourself out of the experience by reaching for the phone or something of the like, try and make as many detail-based observations as you can. Even if it's only a few, try and make sure you at least have a few words you can take with you. Put your focus on the most intriguing elements of the scene.