So I happened to stumble across this new Netflix Original Series show - Sense8. This show seemed to have great reviews and is also written by the Wachowskis (Matrix movies). The movie cuts between 8 different lives of random people from all over the world who are connected in their thoughts and actions. Although they are being hunted down by a group of elites throughout due to their capabilities. The trailer does a much better job of describing than me.

Anyways, in the first episode one of the main characters - she is standing around with her friends outside of a club and there's a brief moment that her one gentlemen friend mentions DMT . I had to do a double take to make sure I heard that correctly. His description was halfway decent and seemed to not have butchered it too badly. Anyways, the video is below





And also, funny enough, at the end of this first episode - the lady and all her friends are sitting around in this skyrise apartment, dim lit, candles, etc. I had a feeling that I knew what was about to happen - ..surely enough, one of the guys pulls out a glass oiler/meth pipe. They pass it around, feathering the flame over the bottom of the pipe, big poofs of vapor filling the glass pipe, each one of them taking big lungfuls, slowly laying back - slowly enveloped by the experience. Tbh, that scene in and of itself was pretty similar to what you'd see if you were watching a few people dose - facial expressions (or lack thereof) and all. I really had no qualms about that particular scene.

The only part of that scene that didn't make much sense is that after they smoked - they were enveloped by a blinding white light and they cut to scenes of actual people and places - real life scenarios. Kind of fell off there. Although afterwards; someone ends up shooting someone in that apartment after this experience was over; im not sure why someone was shot though - I had kind of lost attention at that point.

But really? After a DMT experience, someone gets gunned down? Meh.. I guess a bunch of peaceful happy looking people falling back into blankets and pillows wasn't enough for a suspenseful TV series.

I thought it was pretty laughable though, seeing how DMT is slowly making its way into films with more legitimacy - in terms of how it's being described and the scenes of people partaking in it.

The whole first season is out though on Netflix; I definitely plan on watching the rest of it, as the trailer looks pretty good.

I don't know how to feel about all this publicity on DMT. With huge publicity, there's bound to be misinformation. Take that gun scene, for instance. Someone who has no idea what DMT is, is suddenly going to associate this thing called DMT with violence. That's a potential open minded person lost to ignorance and misinformation.

DMT should not be brought into the light by pop culture. It should be discussed in an intellectual format, with actual people that know what they're talking about , both experienced trippers and neurologists that understand the mechanisms by which this molecule works.

"after they smoked - they were enveloped by a blinding white light and they cut to scenes of actual people and places - real life scenarios. Kind of fell off there."

The blinding white light I cannot say I've ever experienced but don't discount the ability of DMT to "dump" you into real life situations.

On a couple occasions I was stuck in reality so to say. Like basically all aspects of DMT it's hard to explain exactly but I've definitely had "trips" where well, it was nothing like tripping. I've been in experiences that felt like I was literally in someone else's body/reality. It SEEMED (I really want to stress that) that I had left my body and wound up in another so I would not consider "real"-like experiences to be fake, just rare.

Any-who .. The show is good. It's definitely worth a watch.
DMT scene aside, the show much reminds me of well, DMT.

THAT... I feel the publicity on DMT has done nothing except cause harm.
The show is good but nonetheless while watching it all I had to say was (literally) "they should not fucking expose DMT in shows like this). Excuse the profanity but that was my literal statement to my fiance.

I'm not a conspiracy nut although I believe some exist but anyway my point is that I can see the government entities watching a television show and being like "We have to ban that". Point being, Television (and ESPECIALLY Youtube) exposure is what's led to us having a hard time getting plants imported. That's just speculation of course but I don't think it's too "out-there". As far as associating DMT with the shooting I kind of doubt that. We as humans only pull out what we'd like. I still do agree however that it's bad in the fashion that DMT should not be in shows. As some people say - "DMT finds you, you do not find DMT"... There's always exceptions but I feel that belief should hold and that showing people It in a TV series is irresponsible at best.

Yeah, I was kinda put off by the shooting scene following the DMT vaping, but hey, that's the movie biz for ya.

Personally, I had to stop watching the show after a few episodes, but not for that reason. There's so much pointless sex. I have nothing against sex, homosexuals, or trans-genders, but I really don't want to see them having simulated sex in every episode. I thought it was going to be a cool, trippy show, but it's more like the writers wanted to make a show about random people from all over the world having psychic orgies and disguise it as a novel science fiction show.

I'm disappointed, Netflix.

Ya there's literally an orgy .. It is quite pointless.
They definitely push the sex a little more than they should - likely for the ratings - but if you can get past that the show's really not too bad. As it goes on and they suck you in with the sex (lol) it does tone-down and get back to the story/better. There's times where we'd watch it and be like "what the fuck are they aiming for" (literally) but then the show would drop the random sex crap, get to the plot and become quite interesting.

best series I have watched in a while..it's the Wachowskis(they made matrix, cloud atlas etc) so yeah there is full on no holding back sex scenes, transgender/transsexual etc themes explored heavily..as well as gnostic ideas..expect that kind of thing from the Wachowskis. It is what they are known for and part of the genius of the work they do.

Most people don't seem to get them, or PK Dick(who's work inspired the series)..

"The show is good but nonetheless while watching it all I had to say was (literally) "they should not fucking expose DMT in shows like this). Excuse the profanity but that was my literal statement to my fiance."

Why? Why hold back the writers from expressing a story line they want to write? I have seen DMT going around in the underground rave etc scene by some pretty shady people in some really weird circumstances..that's life and reality in our world. Why should an artist not portray that if they wish?

The MDMA scene is nicer, BTW..IMO.

@VoidTJ

Hehe, most definitely not discounting the DMT experience's capability. I've had a handful of experiences where I was instantaneously dumped front and center, falling through infinite layered scenarios - people, places, situations, etc, ALTHOUGH hyperspace was always a present element during these brief flashes of various people/places/etc; there was always the 'hyperspacial element'. Bear in mind that this show, once they smoked the DMT - there was the hollywood prototypical 'white light' flash, followed by literal scenes of the other individuals, like actual full on consensus reality based imagery - nothing remotely resembling the DMT experience or an intense entheogenic state (or nothing even remotely psychedelic). Basically what im trying to get at is that what they presented pretty much mirrors other movies/TV shows i've seen in regards to a 'white flash' then various people, places, things (NDE's,etc) - full on consensus reality based imagery (like if i were talking to you face to face type of imagery) - with nothing remotely characteristic of an intense DMT state.



@Jamie

Yeah man, I really liked the first episode; going to start on the second one tonight.

I found the whole series astonishingly entertaining despite the in your face hypersexuality and violence.
No wait, thats wrong, i watched because of it.

Interesting choice to put those words about the spirit molecule in the mouth of one of the most vile characters in the show. I saw the immidiate sequence of universal love and death as an deliberate dramatic choice of the Wachowski's. Not quite sure what to make of it, but i expect them to touch this topic later again?
Also i am not quite sure what kind of DMT they where talking about. Could it have been 5MEO-DMT, because that would make more sense with the White light / NDE experience they discribed.

Yes it's very enjoyable series though some sex parts sometimes made think like oh god I'm watching this again. But unrestrained sex is a trend in series these days so I don't mind... At least they have no gruesome rape scenes as in some other (popular) series.

The DMT was nice but also a bit depreciative since it ended in slaughter not something you would usually associate with smoking DMT.

Excessive sex scenes? You guys make it sound like 'True Blood' or something. Were you watching with mother or something and got shy?

Along with general liberation of sexuality there's clearly a strong pro-LGBT theme which is affirmed by such scenes. The character Nomi has connections to Lana Wachowski's previous life experience and as the Wachowski's are big names on the Sci-fi scene it's good to see that they are showing these themes.

Sense8 is one of the best and most beautiful things I've ever seen on TV. But, oh wow, what a L . . . A . . . M . . . E!!!!!!!! DMT scene. From the way it was offered to her, to offering her a meth pipe full of burned DMT resin, to her having a DMT trip that reminds me of people describing DMT who have never tried it. Oh well, at least they didn't name it outright.

Yeah I never rolled my eyes and shook with tremors after inhaling with a look like I made an accident in my pants.

Yessss , exactly.

I watched the first episode last night. It may have been that i was too tired to appreciate it"s finer points, but i thought that it was tripe.

I have been curious about this show but never got around to watching it. After watching the videos that Tatt posted I am still a bit unsure... I was not impressed with the actors ability to...uh, act. But I have to be fair and not judge the show based on a clip or two.

I think I will watch a few episodes and make a more reasonable assumption of how the show will play out. I've been itching for something new to watch sooooooo...

Yes I thought it was hilarious thought : one of the first thing she see's after smoking is a hotdog figure on top of a fast food restorant.