Date: November 10, 2014

PRE-CONDITIONS
(mind)Set: Peaceful, somewhat anxious, happy
Setting (physical location): Out on a lake on my day off work. Completely isolated from people.
time of day: 3pm
last meal: Unknown

PARTICIPANT
Gender: (male)
body weight: (175lb)

BIOASSAY
Substance(s): DMT
Dose(s): 40mg
Method of administration: GVG

EFFECTS
Administration time: Unknown
Duration: 3-4 minutes
First effects: 30 seconds
Peak: 1 minute 30 seconds
Come down: 2 minutes
Baseline: 13 minutes

Intensity (overall): 4 (1-10 scale)

Assessment
Pleasantness: (4)
Unplesantness: (1)
Visual Intensity: (3)

REPORT
This journey took place yesterday, and I have to confess that I'm writing this after my sixth experience with DMT which took place this morning. This morning's blast was a result of what I learned/experienced yesterday though, so that's the reason that the two excursions are so close to one another in time.

Yesterday was Veteran's Day, and so I didn't have to go into work that day. So I decided that, following my trip on 2.0 grams of Columbian mushrooms last Friday, I decided that I would go out for the holiday break and consume DMT. I had rerated not doing so last Friday instead of mushrooms because the fungus ingestion didn't go all that well (not terrible, just not the results that I was aiming for), so I wanted to do a blast that wouldn't last as long and would get me into psychedelic without having to be there for 5 hours.

So the plan was that I would get the dog from my girlfriend after the gym, then I'd meet up with my buddy and we'd head out with the kayaks on the lake for the day. We set our sights on the rock circles that I'd made over the summer. I wanted to do another blast in the center before the winter comes on.

We went out there and arrived a little after 11am. It was just a bit windy, but not as much as it had been the prior day. We didn't really have any trouble getting across the lake, although it was about 10 degrees cooler than it had been on Friday of last week.

The weather was still nice though, and we walked around the lake for a few hours, not really doing anything but smoking bud and talking about this and that. My buddy had brought some beers, so I sipped on them, but didn't want to be really drunk since I knew that I'd be tripping later.

After some time we took out the "D-Pen" and had a few puffs. It was alright, but I had some trouble with the tank; it started leaking and gurgling, so I wasn't able to use it long. I did have a second mix though--the first mix was a 1/2 strength, so I wasn’t' too heart broken that I had to go back to the 1:1 mix.

About that time my buddy decided to go on a walk up into the woods and take the dog with him. That allowed me some time to be by myself with the 1:1 "D-pen" and I had a few dips into the DMT waters then. During that time I kind of rediscovered why I like DMT--after 3 puffs on the pen, I was thrust into a place where there were no words. I seem to have this problem lately where I cannot turn off my internal dialogue. It's constantly there, except--for example--right as I'm in a car crash, or when I'm falling out of a tree. And even in those situations, I have the thought of "Oooooooh God!" or something like that. But at three puffs on the D pen I was able to get to a place where words stopped existing. And I could feel it so tangibly that I coulee see it in a visible form, the high. I could see/feel it go up and into the wordless place, then I could feel it come down and emerge from that place like waking from a dream.

DMT is a very different drug depending on its ROA. It's kind of like how mushrooms and LSD are similar, but they're also so different. That's how I feel about DMT via a glass bulb pipe, a D pen, and a GVG.

So I was doing that, going in and out of the wordless place on the D pen, when my dog and buddy came back from their walk. I was feeling good about things, and it was getting near the time when the sun would set behind the tree line, thus casting a long shadow onto the place where we had set up amidst my rock circle builds.

I want to go ahead and say here that I've had some trouble with understanding the dosage of DMT prior to this experience. I was told, through the grape vine of who knows where, that one breakthrough dose was .1 grams. So I always went off of that. Then somewhere in, again--who knows where--I read that between .2-.5g is blastoff. So the first time I used the GVG I actually loaded up (yes, I'm serious right now) .25 grams of pure DMT crystal. And do you know what happened? The universe saved me. When we got up to the place where we were going to smoke it, the torch lighter we had brought turned out to be broken; it had broken in my backpack sometime before and the fuel had all disappeared. So we were left with a standard bike lighter in the wind, and I was just barely able to get the GVG to give me DMT. I did get an extremely intense visual high, but it wasn't breakthrough by any means, much like the journey that I'm about to describe.

After that day however, I did some reading, writing, and communicating with the Nexus and learned that my dosage was WAY off. I then measured out several .02 gram pouches in my GVG case and that is what I had with me at the lake. I also had a new lighter based on the recommendation of someone on the Nexus. It is a massive torch lighter that I got at Home Depot and it's used for soldering. But it's about windproof and it's a perfect match for the GVG, I learned on this day.

So I told my buddy how the ceremony would work. I lit the incense and gave it to him and I anointed myself with eucalyptus before he did the same. Then I had my first successful test of the GVG.

Good Lord that is an efficient tool! You can see the vapors coming through, you can see the stone glow red and adjust the flame accordingly--oh my gosh. In the unlikely event that you've been posting to the Nexus from under a stone, do yourself a favor and read up on the GVG. One of my favorite comments that I've read on it was that it is worth its price as a disposable single use pipe!

The 20mg dose was very light and lasted for an unbelievably short period of time. I definitely entered a chamber like warp place, but it was very light and very, very brief. It was in the range of two minutes.

I then decided to load two 20mg packets, which brought me to 40mg. I vaporized that with equal awe of the efficacy of the GVG. I took it all in a single hit and held it well.

My dog is a psychic and can read energy, so as soon as I let out the hit, he went from playing with a long somewhere to coming right over into my lap. I tried taking the dose sitting up and even tried to hold the pipe and torch lighter (flame off, of course) throughout the journey. My buddy, at first, tried to shoo the dog away, but I was still coherent enough that I decided to snuggle the dog into my lap, which was about the best decision I had made in a very long time.

I cannot explain what happened in my head. What happens in the DMT realm is beyond words, and only metaphors suffice. My buddy, when I came back, said that there was a moment where he laughed a bit, although I didn't hear him, when he looked and saw my eyelids just barely cracked and white in my eyes, then a small grin on my face. He said he could tell I was close to breaking through, and he was very right. I got to that cusp, and it was wonderful, beautiful, soft, pure, and love. The first thing that I had to say when I came back was that there was a warm place and it was between the dog and myself. I didn't know if it was in the dog or if it was in me or if it was between us, but it was the best thing that existed.

It was a wonderful experience, but I still think that it was quite soft. As I was taking notes on the way out of it, I said that my current conclusion is this: Firstly, the GVG is an unbelievably perfect tool for the task. Secondly, I think that it's going to take me .07-.1 grams of pure crystal to really break through. I figured that my next test should be with .07 (sorry I keep switching units) grams, although it turned out to be .05. I also noted that I could do that, and should do that every day. It was a pleasant, brief, and light enough experience that there was no reason to do it regularly.

The GVG left virtually no residue and vaped the entire dose in both cases. It's such an efficient tool!

And so the reason that I label this the fifth and a half time that I've consumed DMT, is because I really didn't get to where I was looking for. I did confirm that the GVG is a godsend, and I did become more comfortable with what I'm doing, and I did have a really wonderful, although still surprisingly brief experience with my dog who I named after Aldous Huxley.