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May I offer some unsolicited advice? One thing I have learned from using psychedelics many times, at varying doses and almost always alone, is that it takes real wisdom and nuance to extract the best that these tools have to offer. They are seductive, beguiling and wholly capable of seeding wishful narratives which can endure and then need deconstructing before allowing real progress. The fact/observation that many who are better versed than me in these matters had enduring awakenings by LEAVING these tools behind should give pause for thought. 5 MeO DMT may be an outlier in this regard but that remains to be seen. "Naïve Realism" towards the experiences it offers, despite the magnitude of these experiences (ie concretizing the insights gained as Ultimate Truth)- seems simplistic and a little "wishful" , and with the amount of 5 MeO DMT/B Alvarius venom users out there, wouldn't it be wise to note that reports of enduring awakening as a result are not plentiful?

The waveforms on an EEG do not measure consciousness or tell anything about the degree of cluttered thinking; the most "beta" guy could make his EEG show "alpha" waves by sitting quietly with eye closed. Your conflation of neurophysiology and reproductive psychology is not accurate.

attachments, both affirming and rejecting.

The harmala alkaloids from B Caapi and P Harmala modify the DMT experience when using the oral route, something not seen with pharmaceutical RIMAs like moclobemide which give a "colder" more stark experience. In terms of experiencing breathing whilst in DMT hyperspace (and this is not always the same as ego-death)- perhaps the best answer would be to relate "experience" and the having of it as being closely allied to the interplay of awareness, intention and attention. In a true DMT ego-death, "experience" and "awareness", their inseparability and fusion with no conscious intention nor focus of attention "happens", so everything and nothing is "experienced", including breathing.

eg Replace the bullshit with a better class of bullshit and congratulate yourself for your work.

I agree with you on 1 inhalation propelling you further; any method which utilises direct heat transfer via conduction to freebase DMT is , IME, vastly inferior to methods which vaporize via convection. The difference is utterly radical, and has to be experienced to be believed. 25mg taken thus will transport one to another reality; with 30mg it matters not if eyes are open or closed as the newly constructed inner world becomes the outer world, and 40mg is too much to work with repeatedly, as it only has 1 lesson to impart. The Sherlock Glass VaporGenie with a little practice can allow access to all 3 "places" reliably and repeatedly, IME. In terms of deep and enduring insights, vaporized DMT is less productive than the oral route. If there was no "I", who was it that felt/discerned that it was "like drowning"? Is this too nothing but imagination? Not feeling ones breathing does not necessarily mean breathing was not happening. If no breathing (from a relative perspective) did happen for the duration of a DMT experience (several minutes minimum) your imaginary brain would not be immune to some kind of detrimental effect. DMT is rarely non-dual but can be manipulated to be so. Vaporizing 30mgs with headphones and music on opens up the breadth of the experiences afforded infinitely in a way that is the antithesis of "The Void". Consciousness expands to become the experience as any mental chatter is snuffed out and attention fuses/becomes the audio-visual, should one accept the annihilation presented without resistance. Release of this resistance is what makes DMT in essence more of a challenge than 5 MeO DMT once one has broken through on the latter a few times.

And how does a bot sound, specifically? I first used DMT over 20 years ago, and have used it orally as ayahuasca, anahuasca and pharmahuasca; I have vaporized it alone and with harmala alkaloids, and after oral pharmaceutical MAO inhibitors. I stopped counting the number of breakthroughs once it got to 100.

The sensation of not breathing/being able to breathe is very common with vaporized DMT; it correlates with 5 HT2a receptor agonism in the brainstem. To conclude that breathing is imaginary on the basis of this? I am not so sure; what I do know is that psychedelics can produce a lot of irrelevant noise and ideation which requires careful consideration to avoid constructing new beliefs which are questionable, and many many users have not cultivated that facility. I wonder if the OP had the linguistic construct "X is imaginary" in the mind before it was able to take root after many hours watching Leos vids? The jolt of pleasure gained on making the conclusion re breathing which verifies/confirms/supports this notion will confirm its "validity" even further. Psychedelics can illuminate; the same light can also dazzle. Also, 40mg of DMT taken in one hit if optimally vaporized- all I can say is that OPs experience/description comes no where close and that is even if one factors in the linguistic barriers. This forum, bar a very few members, pays insufficient attention to techniques, and if a casual viewer of this forum were to get their psychedelic education here alone, ignorance and trauma would mushroom (no pun), and its this less than robust approach which serves to slow the acceptance more widely of these immense gifts.

The difference is solely a function of 1.efficiency of vaporization, and 2. dose delivered per inhalation. When you reach the breakthrough after 5 inhales, how long are you holding each? How is your mental state and subjective level of ease(or otherwise) at inhale number 3-4? I personally find low doses to be a little dysphoric and I would not enjoy "ramping up" in the way you describe. 5 MeO DMT can cause dysphoria and many other reactions in the user; to attribute such a quality to the batch seems like projection, and a failure to consider whether or not your 5 MeO is as labelled.

"Just 5mg". Really? This seems to suggest that 5mg is trivial. I know this forum is replete with non-duality enthusiasts, many of whom have realized stuff with many modalities which includes 5 MeO DMT but (Leo aside) the impression I get is this tool plays a lesser role than others for many. I also wonder about how efficiently the vaporization is conducted, and sometimes how pure the material used actually is. 5mg of 98-99% pure freebase if correctly vaporized is still an imposing venture which can be very disconcerting due to the warping of cognition short of a breakthrough, and the absence of concomitant visual effects. I am less convinced that working ones way up the dosage range to the breakthrough is necessarily the best way to go, as once the threshold is crossed its divergent rather than progressive. The existential fear is to be expected and after several breakthroughs becomes much less of an issue because the essence of what 5 MeO DMT reveals via vaporization is predictable (unlike DMT) if this revelation has been integrated fully. DMT is much more challenging with longer-term repeated use than 5 MeO DMT, by far, IMO. I think perfecting ones vaporization technique is vital, as is having quality freebase- and the latter can take some research and effort to secure. The quality of the freebase will also have a bearing on which methods of efficient vaporization are open to you. Have a suitable sitter and start at 8-10mg as a single inhalation and if one can just "let go" for 30 seconds then you will cease to be as you conventionally "are".

Your dosages are misleading- you mean to say mcg, I think.

Freebase 5 MeO DMT can be snorted without modification but will sting more than a salt such as HCl; I personally find the sting is not intolerable provided the material is chopped up really fine. Vaporizing does have its advantages in terms of hitting the non-dual state with 10-12mg; you would need more to get there via snorting.

Why would you be trying to dissolve a salt of 5 MeO DMT in vinegar? What would be the aim of this?

If the formulation (salt/freebase) and dosing is similar then such noticeably different effects strongly suggests that your prep is at best adulterated and quite possibly not 5 MeO at all.

Speculation is for thinking humans so much more preferable than admitting that we just don't know. It is what careers are made of.

"How to disprove solipsism?" is a question, framed in words, composed of that "stuff" called "language", asked of others (in which case the question makes no sense) or of oneself in ones own "mind"-another term made of the same language-stuff. The blank-slate which is the childs "mind" requires interaction and others to develop language and the notion of "mind" which later overlooks this foundational structure to ask such questions. If there are no others then why the need to develop language, and how else can one explain the "questions-in-words" in ones "mind"? If solipsism is true then why bother talking to yourself, when talking cannot form via language without others exisiting? Could it even be possible to have the voice in ones head?

This is the track I used: Its one of my trusted go-to tracks for vaporized tryptamines. "Being the music" leaves no need or place to evoke memories.

I think it depends on the context as to how music is perceived/experienced; emerging from a breakthrough, as the mind structure reassembles, the appropriate music whilst not distorted or enhanced per se provides a really gratifying emotional hit. What is interesting, in providing a "novel slant" on the absence of subject-object relations, is to vaporize 10-12mg whilst wearing headphones and a suitable tune playing. The cognitive attempt to fill in the gap on emergence has no notion of distortion applied to it.

Cannabis I find takes away some essence of the clarity of the DMT experience and increases the tendency for confusion.

This thread beautifully highlights the distinction between "idea of teaching" and "ineffective communication". Leo spends much of his time "bothering". It is a bit like someone saying "Leo, I have no ruler and I need to measure this square box so I can put my Lego pieces away neatly" and being told "The cube root".

My experiences with 5 MeO DMT have led to conclusions which are verbalised very nicely by Bernardo Kastrup who postulates Idealism that answers the OPs question by considering the Non-dual nature of reality/consciousness which can dissociate into focal "islands" (or alters) and I suspect once considered may be more satisfying than some of the other answers in this thread. His book "The Idea of the World" would be a fine place to start.

Freebase 5 MeO DMT is not white, typically. Visual assessments of purity on the basis of whiteness should be dismissed as utterly unreliable. Any substance sold under false pretences could be as white as the driven snow and not even psycho-active. The proof of the pudding is always in the sensible approach to "tasting".

I question this. For an insufflated compound to make its effects known after an hour (if that is what is meant by the above) is questionable. An hour after snorting 5 MeO DMT the bells and whistles have abated.

Those of us who have studied biology would have been taught about the swimming motion of spermatozoa as their tails were observed to beat from side to side, and most likely assimilated this as fact. The latest thinking is based on a different perspective/mode of observation and renders the hitherto accepted fact as somewhat less than factual. This is a concrete example of the kind of things we here at Actualized.org concern ourselves with, and here's a good overview of what has been discerned. https://www.livescience.com/sperm-swim-like-corkscrews.html

An unsolicited opinion- its an adjunct to a business idea, which superficially attempts to address matters of supreme value (which by their very nature require commitment, effort and work) through the medium of language which is not up to the job alone. It guides a little, misleads more and lacks the nuance required to aid any students from their current state of knowledge. It should be regarded as entertainment.