Here is an article on a Chinese art exhibit that deals with humans relationships with drugs, including our favorite molecule...( from Taipei Times: ) Chen focuses on DMT, a psychedelic compound found in certain plants and mammals. On one wall, there are Chinese and English-language texts from DMT: The Spirit Molecule, a substantial study on the hallucinogen by researcher Rick Strassman. A video shows a shaman trained in Peru explaining the shamanic practice of using ayahuasca, an Amazonian plant brew containing DMT that is used to obtain visions for prophecy, healing and inner strength.

And also in my gmail alert this morning was this: behind the scenes of your perfect day on something called rappler.com.

There's only a brief mention of our spirited molecule, this "You lie awake in bed, it was only a dream. The images from the previous world you were in that were so livid just seconds ago slowly fade away that you barely remember what you were dreaming about in the first place. Your brain was just on DMT, or Dimethyltryptamine, a very powerful hallucinogen it secretes as you sleep. It is an abundant chemical found in most plants and mammals, but is also very illegal when extracted. Just saying."

Both of these show the huge influence The Spirit Molecule has on the culture surrounding DMT. While after trying several low dose DMT experiments and finding myself in a place that i recognized as the feeling i have when asleep, or waking from dream, I'm starting to think he's right on the dream thing, but the empiricist in me rails against the repeating of non factual information!

I`m not sure about everyone else, but I stronly feel dmt is related to dreaming somehow. It may not be proven yet, but the pineal gland thing was speculation until a few years ago. I just recently came across a thread here from 2013 that had links to papers & a study showing that the human pineal gland does in fact produce the needed compounds for biosynthesis of dmt.

Back to the dream thing though, after a DMT journey my dreams are always effected very strangely & nothing else seems to do this in the same manner. For a few days afterwards, I have incredibly vivid, lifelike dreams & often think I am awake in the dream. Usually it ends in me waking up & looking for things I moved or spilled in the dream or asking someone about something in waking reality that occured in the dream.
It just seems to me that there is some connection there.
I also often get a feeling in the center of my brain from dmt when it begins to take effect that I recognize as the very same feeling that occurs when I awaken from a very deep sleep suddenly.

This brain thing may very well just be me, but I have posted a thread here a while back & asked whether others had similar experiences with dreaming after DMT & did seem to get feedback that DMT journeys did indeed have strange effects on their dreaming.

On another note, I have noticed as of the last couple years & to a much larger degree very recently that there seems to be a sudden increase in psychedellics and tripping themed occurances in television.
Several times I have been tripping & either been shown or stumbled upon a tv show or children's cartoon where specific drugs were either directly referenced or indirectly via activities & concepts.
I find it very exciting & interesting that things like this are beginning to find their way into the mainstream now, as it opens the door for the general public to begin integrating the idea of tripping in & it becoming less taboo & demonized.

Yes, yes. I have been experimenting with lower doses more regularly of DMT, and have recognized the exact same feeling that you describe, c, that if just waking up from a deep sleep.

Another aspect of DMT that has piqued my curiosity lately is it's rejuvenative effect on the body. We all know that the process of sleep regenerates the body, i wonder if these are connected and point to the possible endogenous role of the molecule?