sonar
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Let me start by saying that I'm not, by any means, new to entheogens. So, when a friend of mine said he did a DMT extraction and asked me if I wanted to try some, I said hell yeah.
The foil was originally twice this size. Instead of fumbling around with tweezers or whatever I just cut the foil in half. If I had to judge, I'd say it was a little less than half the original amount. I held a lighter underneath it for just a split second and it instantly melted into the foil like I was hoping it would. That way, I would be able to turn the foil upside down and wedge it in my pipe as best I could since you don't want to burn it directly. Sort of like this.
Anyway, I know people have mixed feeling about the internet while tripping, but I personally like it. Mainly because of youtube. I try to pick different videos and slideshows that I think I might like beforehand to keep me entertained since most of the time I am tripping by myself. So, I pick a video with some rhythmic beats with all kinds of animals and natural landscapes.
I play the video and take the hit. My friend said try to hold it in as long as possible, but within a few seconds it hits me like a brick wall and I exhale. This is the point where time ceases to exist and I become very disoriented. I know I am still in my bedroom but there is no longer "up", "down", "left", "right", etc. I start to get extremely uncomfortable. I don't know if I did too much, but the body load was way to much for me. My heart was pounding, which I didn't really expect, and I could almost feel it pumping. If I had to make a guess I'd say I'm only 1-2 minutes into it at this point and I'm just waiting for it to end. I remember my friend said if you start getting uncomfortable just keep reminding yourself that it will end, which is what I did. I'm actually a little embarrassed since I've taken fairly large doses of lsd and mushrooms in the past. With any entheogen, I always get a little anxious and second guess my decision when I am coming up, but it always passes. This was just way too intense for me. I don't think I was ready for it. But I guess there isn't really any way to prepare, you almost just have to jump in.
My memory of the experience is somewhat fragmented. I remember taking the hit and I was at about 1:20 into the video I was watching. It was at a part where there were some antelope, then whales, then some bats. After seeing the bats, I closed out the screen and just sat back on my bed. I went into what I'm going to call "sensory overload" at this point. Objects in the room became familiar, but uncognizable. Like the curtains became part of the window and the window became part of the wall. It's really hard to describe. At some point, I feel like I am back in my old room from my freshman year of college. Now that I think about it, there are a few minor similarities between the 2 rooms. Between that and the disorientation I remember burying my head onto my sheets, but that didn't seem to help. It felt like an eternity, but it was probably no more than 10 seconds. I picked my head up and just started to ride it out. I started to come back down to earth and it actually became quite enjoyable at this point. Almost like a very strong mushroom trip. I can tell the two substances are related. I had a opened beer sitting and I started sipping on it. Well, I guess I wasn't really sipping because when I fully came back the beer was just about gone.
That's about all I can remember. No "machine elves" or alien beings or anything like that. Like I said, time ceased to exist, but I'd say from being to end couldn't have been more than 10-15min. I felt the after effects, like coming down from a mushroom trip, for the next hour or two. It was all just really bizarre. For those first few minutes time, matter, and space all kind of molded into one. It was the farthest gone I've ever been in my life.
I kind of wish someone could have been there with me and help guide me through. I think it would have helped the anxiety a little and maybe made the experience more insightful. I'm also curious as to what I would have said.
During the height of it all, I thought to myself I am never doing this again, but I think I am going to try the rest tonight. I can't explain why since it at times it was fairly unpleasant. I think that now that I know what to expect, I won't be so blown alway by it all next time.
The foil was originally twice this size. Instead of fumbling around with tweezers or whatever I just cut the foil in half. If I had to judge, I'd say it was a little less than half the original amount. I held a lighter underneath it for just a split second and it instantly melted into the foil like I was hoping it would. That way, I would be able to turn the foil upside down and wedge it in my pipe as best I could since you don't want to burn it directly. Sort of like this.
Anyway, I know people have mixed feeling about the internet while tripping, but I personally like it. Mainly because of youtube. I try to pick different videos and slideshows that I think I might like beforehand to keep me entertained since most of the time I am tripping by myself. So, I pick a video with some rhythmic beats with all kinds of animals and natural landscapes.
I play the video and take the hit. My friend said try to hold it in as long as possible, but within a few seconds it hits me like a brick wall and I exhale. This is the point where time ceases to exist and I become very disoriented. I know I am still in my bedroom but there is no longer "up", "down", "left", "right", etc. I start to get extremely uncomfortable. I don't know if I did too much, but the body load was way to much for me. My heart was pounding, which I didn't really expect, and I could almost feel it pumping. If I had to make a guess I'd say I'm only 1-2 minutes into it at this point and I'm just waiting for it to end. I remember my friend said if you start getting uncomfortable just keep reminding yourself that it will end, which is what I did. I'm actually a little embarrassed since I've taken fairly large doses of lsd and mushrooms in the past. With any entheogen, I always get a little anxious and second guess my decision when I am coming up, but it always passes. This was just way too intense for me. I don't think I was ready for it. But I guess there isn't really any way to prepare, you almost just have to jump in.
My memory of the experience is somewhat fragmented. I remember taking the hit and I was at about 1:20 into the video I was watching. It was at a part where there were some antelope, then whales, then some bats. After seeing the bats, I closed out the screen and just sat back on my bed. I went into what I'm going to call "sensory overload" at this point. Objects in the room became familiar, but uncognizable. Like the curtains became part of the window and the window became part of the wall. It's really hard to describe. At some point, I feel like I am back in my old room from my freshman year of college. Now that I think about it, there are a few minor similarities between the 2 rooms. Between that and the disorientation I remember burying my head onto my sheets, but that didn't seem to help. It felt like an eternity, but it was probably no more than 10 seconds. I picked my head up and just started to ride it out. I started to come back down to earth and it actually became quite enjoyable at this point. Almost like a very strong mushroom trip. I can tell the two substances are related. I had a opened beer sitting and I started sipping on it. Well, I guess I wasn't really sipping because when I fully came back the beer was just about gone.
That's about all I can remember. No "machine elves" or alien beings or anything like that. Like I said, time ceased to exist, but I'd say from being to end couldn't have been more than 10-15min. I felt the after effects, like coming down from a mushroom trip, for the next hour or two. It was all just really bizarre. For those first few minutes time, matter, and space all kind of molded into one. It was the farthest gone I've ever been in my life.
I kind of wish someone could have been there with me and help guide me through. I think it would have helped the anxiety a little and maybe made the experience more insightful. I'm also curious as to what I would have said.
During the height of it all, I thought to myself I am never doing this again, but I think I am going to try the rest tonight. I can't explain why since it at times it was fairly unpleasant. I think that now that I know what to expect, I won't be so blown alway by it all next time.
