Dear Nexians,
since I'm reading in this great Forum for about a year now, i feel it's time for me now to share my experiences in a summary and hope i can bring in some valuable information.

I'm a male 27 years old guy from germany who feels as if the spice has called for him in some ways.
I have no friends who are into the subject, so I'm just hoping to get some kind responses for what happened between DMT and me during the last year.

I wanted to do it right from the beginning, so I invested in a GVG and followed Noman's tek for extraction, which worked fine for me.

In the beginning i did't have a proper scale (only 0.01g exact).
So I worked myself up, mostly eyeballing, but surely managed to get the vaping technique right with the wonderful GVG.
I had my first breakthroughs very quickly, and especially one of them is still the most remarkably experience I've had so far with this stuff. Just like it's supposed to be.
Of course I wanted to repeat, but realized very quickly that it's just not possible for me to repeat simply the AMAZING visual aspect of the journeys. Instead, the trips have gotten just different (this all took place maybe during a month or so). The clarity of the trips faded, the visuals lost their brightness, and then, suddenly, i've then had two remarkably different trips, which I want to explain here in short:

The first of them was just totally high-dose mushroomesque, maybe some sort of "Now I've totally understood the inner mechanics of the universe". It was shocking, but very rewarding in the end.

The second one of those two was just an absolute hyperslap. I usually close my eyes after my hit, lying down (always only one toke with the GVG, regardless of the amount of spice in it), but suddenly I find myself sitting upright, almost no visuals at all, but an absolutely terrifying presence in my room. It felt like a shadow is racing / chasing through my room, scared the hell out of me. I didn't even realize that I have smoalked before, it was just terrifying confusion (I've read a report by nexus-member purges, who has encountered quite a similar experience). I managed to get over it within a few days, but decided to take a break for a while.
I've also been scared a little, that hyperspace has closed forever for me, but in the end that wasn't the case. I just took a break of several months, but my honeymoon was certainly over.

(I did some interesting thing during that time btw: i cleaned my GVG with naphta because there was some residue in it, which has set itself to the glass. What i got out evaporating the naphta was just a ridicously small amount of brown glob. I was totally disappointed, because it was the only spice I had left. It surely wasn't much more than a few mg. Almost nothing. I still smoalked it, and the trip was so hefty that i can barely remember it! From that small amount! It was totally different from the other DMT-Trips I've had so far, but it showed me how potent the yellow / brown "impurities" can turn out in the end!)

So maybe the slight impurities in my crystals have lead me to those weird experiences...?

So here I am now, to find out if it's the impurity in my before slightly yellow spice or the eyeballing thing that caused the weird experiences, or if it was something else.

To find that out, I'v invested in a proper mg scale (0.001) and perfected noman's tek.
The trick is to use a little less lye than he says (I took about 50g in 850ml of water (instead 50g in 750ml) for my 50g MHRB extraction. The result has been perfectly white, snowflake-like crystals, nothing yellow in it at all!

The short answer is: It's something else. Maybe tolerance, maybe some other phenomena like integrating the experiences (whatever that could mean).
After my half year break, the first dose was 15mg in the GVG of the white crystals, and it felt a bit like a strong mushroom trip for 5 minutes.
Next dose the day after has been 23mg, and it was a full on perfect beautiful hyperspace experience. I was in a city of light, clearly a different world. It was beautiful, from the beginning to the end. Much like my first breakthrough experiences.
After one day off, I smoalked 28mg, which was still hyperspace, but a little more confusing and intense. Comedown was euphoric, still.
The other day I tried 30mg, and I felt I was blocked out. DMT definitely working, but no hyperspace at all. Just a feeling of: that's it now?

I took three days break, but wanted to try again. But somehow I was afraid of what would happen, because I've read enough to know you can't force yourself into hyperspace.

I had some pre flight anxiety, but talked myself into it. Loaded 24mg, which was almost exactly the same amount that had given me the beautiful encounter with the fractal city world few days before.
I did it like everytime: Prepared to lie down, turn some music on, smoalk the GVG, one hit, hold it, lie down and get off. But I just didn't! Almost no visuals at all, but still feeling the effects heavily. It was not scary, but it definitely felt like I was being locked out of hyperspace. There has been some caterpillar-like entity which blocked the entrance somehow. It nodded to me like it wants to say: Relax man, not today :-) I felt completely sober mentally, but was still afraid of opening my eyes, because I wasn't sure what I would see then. I had some mild CEVs when I came down, but it was definitely "acces denied".
Due to my good scale and my pure white crystals in the GVG I'm sure now that DMT can build an immense long term tolerance in some (if not all) humans, especially regarding the bright, shiny visual aspect.
I hope this report finds a place where I can get information regarding the many topics I've mentioned above...

PS: Does anyone else get tinnitus for a few days after breakthrough dosing with DMT? Maybe this carrier wave wants to tell me when to stay out of hyperspace? When it leaves (and it does, I've had it before) I'back in the game?

Thanks for reading! I'd appreciate your responses!
Entranced

Unlike many I'm not really that hugely interested in a "showcase", but it never lets me down in building my relationship to existing in the cosmos, visuals or not. The perception or awareness shift is always there and of my greater interest and this has never been blocked out on me. Thus relieved myself from being dependent on hyperspace, it may do whatever it want, I grant it to let it work on its own terms.
Thanks for writing

Thanks for your response, Jees.
Do you think it's completely random what the spice shows you or can you see some relations to the time span between your takeoffs? (everything in between multiple times a day and less than monthly). Or your current mindset... (I've always been completely sober during my trips btw)
Don't get me wrong, I'm really into exploring every aspect of the molecule, and psychedelics surely helped me find my place in universe already. I just don't want to push it as I'm afraid of receiving yet another slap...
It surely isn't about the visuals only, but yesterday with the 24mgs the comedown had more visuals than the trip itself... I was just really hanging out in the waiting room so to speak... No insights at all, just very odd feeling.
Should I take a longer break or give it another try...?

DMT is a mysterious molecule to say the least! During my honeymoon phase I was blocked/denied access on a couple of different occasions. I still don't know why because I've had back to back trips before with no problem which seems to indicate that "tolerance" to DMT is random and doesn't quite act like tolerance does with other substances, IME. It seems like something greater than us just won't allow access sometimes...? Or maybe we are just blocking ourselves...? It is hard to know, honestly.



I know this feeling of confusion all too well and I posted a report about it found here:

DMT, You Got Me Good This Time!

I actually have not gone back since that experience. I'm not really sure why...I guess I'm waiting to hear the call!

Anyway, thank you for sharing your report!



Edit: Perhaps try adding some harmalas to the mix. They definitely help flavor the trip in interesting ways!

It surely is a mysterious molecule...
Like I've mentioned above, I tend to get a carrier-wave-like tinnitus for several days after breaking through.
It disappeared today while I was busy though. I even thought about that fact, but it only came back as soon as I was thinking about the spice and its effects... reading the nexus :-)
As if only the act of thinking about hyperspace makes some physical aspects of the journey come back, as if it symbolizes my sensivity for the other side of reality during that time.
Very strange indeed... feels like the trip has ended days ago, but the connection to hyperspace persists much longer than that. I feel that effects are very different when I smoalk during that tinnitus-time...

I always get the tinnitus-like carrier wave when I'm in any sort of very relaxed, or meditative state. To me, it seems that once the brainwaves drop to low alpha or below is when it really kicks in. It can seem almost defening at times, and also seems to be modulated sometimes. It doesn't usually persist during my normal beta waking state, but if I happen to zone out or daydream at any time, day or night, the ringing shows up almost instantly.

Entranced,

I find myself in a situation similar to yours. I'm attracted to spice very much, but I'm unable to get consistent results with it after the initial "honeymoon" period. There are so many variables in the game - the spice itself, changa additives, the smoking/vaping device, the lighter, the technique used, the setting, my brain chemistry. I found it very hard to draw conclusive evidence. But I accepted the challenge.

Now I'm determined to move forward in small steps. I decided to document all parts of the experience, and figure it out myself. I also decide to update my gear (waiting for a GVG liquid pad and Sherbler Bubbler for Changa). As for changa, I'm making small batches of simple mixes, to figure out the effects of all parts on their own.

So far, I dont have enough findings to share, but I believe that next several months will be fruitful so I'll try to stay in touch.

P.S.
As for tinnitus, I lately noticed it in myself. It felt it alot after I smoked some 1-1-1 changa made of caapi leaves. However, i did not pay too much attention to it. So that's for drawing my attention

Actually, I have tinnitus all the time, but usually it's a thin, high pitched sound which is easily ignorable.
After several breakthroughs (or attempts) within a few days, it is a much fuller, louder sound though, which stays consistent for at least 3 or 4 days. During that time, I also tend to dream more lucid as usual. I also have very slight CEVs when I'm lying in bed then.
Today is the first day since my last hit (2. February) at which these after-effects have been significantly reduced.

So for me, there are several after-effects which last much longer than the usual comedown-time. And I also think that smoalking during that period is a bad idea, because my brain hasn't come back to baseline yet. Strange / bad trips are more likely to occur then, in my experience. No desireable breakthroughs possible then.
I'll give myself another few days off and then try again. Maybe varying experiences really are just a tolerance-phenomena... Very few reliable information available regarding this topic I feel. Everybody says something different.
Will keep you updated here.