Meeksauce

Everything Terence McKenna said about the DMT experience is spot on. It's basically a friendly jester that likes to play rough. This can be easily misinterpreted as malice at first.

I think it's very batch dependent, but I have a very high tolerance to all substances so it usually takes me 5-6 good tokes to break through. Basically I just keep going until I physically can't anymore (takes some commitment lol). I think 3 is a pretty good rough estimate for most people though, none of my friends have ever broken through on less than that. Obviously a breakthrough is something you want to work up to though, don't jump straight into the deep end. Crack pipe/vaporizer is definitely preferable to bong method, but it still works if you have stoner lungs. As far as keeping your eyes open/closed, I always close them as soon as I exhale the last hit just because of the intensity but I also have friends that tweak if they close their eyes. Also if you press on your closed eyes fairly hard you get way more visuals, I'm not sure why but this can give you visuals even when you're not on any psychedelic. My theory is that the visual tracers some people see as they're falling asleep is just dmt being released in very small amounts - they both have the exact same dark neon, translucent quality.

They will broaden your perspective on your situation, but don't think that automatically translates to a positive experience. What I find when I do psychedelics while going through a lot is - you may experience a positive reframing of your mentality, you may also experience a panic attack so much worse than anything you've experienced that it also recontextualizes your day to day anxiety as something much more manageable and less existential. Either way you definitely get what you need out of it.

Second this, I gave myself bladder damage using it. An occasional dose is no problem, you run into issues when you dose too often because your bladder can't process the byproducts fast enough. I will say, it does genuinely break you out of depression faster than anything else and your cognitive capacity is definitely increased; that's what makes it so enticing and dangerous.

Basically there's two versions of nn-dmt, salt and freebase, freebase is for vaporizing and salt is for soft tissue absorption (snorting, boofing). If you're going freebase there's a few options, I usually go with carts because they're most convenient, but if you prefer to get everything in one hit to bypass some of the come up anxiety you can just weigh out your freebase dose and sprinkle it in a bong on top of some weed so the powder doesn't fall through - just be aware this method can be harsher on your lungs and the smoke is much harder to hold in. I've heard of people using crack pipes and vaporizers if you can't handle holding in weed smoke for 15 seconds. If you wanted to boof, I'm sure it would be way stronger and cleaner as the mucosal tissue there is much more bioavailable than smoking for any drug - I haven't tried it, but what you want to do with any substance is dissolve your dose in a small amount of water (in the ballpark of 2-10ml depending on dose), collect in a syringe and then anchors away. Leo has a vid on that somewhere if you want to get technical. Just make sure you understand Salt = boof and Freebase = smoke so you don't injure yourself.

I am a chronic user and I only find it to increase consciousness - it's very individual however. I've known people who took a 10mg gummy and felt like they were dying for 5 days - for me, I only get positive and creative insights on it. But this has only been after a long and rocky road of mental health issues and schizophrenia, not caused by the weed, but catalyzed by it. After overcoming these mental health issues I've realized weed can be a very positive tool if you have your shit together. Just be careful with it, as I've experienced both sides, and it can be hard to admit when it's actually doing you harm.

More like driven absolutely insane to the fullest extent. Nobody's mind would survive that.

Did he tell you what happened?

It might not be scary now, but if it was you on that torture rack, you would experience a limitless indescribable amount of fear.

Of course a lot are going to be, as you said, but when someone has truly been traumatized and is sobbing their eyes out on camera that becomes much harder to fake.

It could be that NDE is just a transitory stage before the real deal. But I get what you're saying, no dreams have more reality than others. I think whatever is manifesting reality is buried far beneath the human conscious mind. It's a terrifying thought to think that my own consciousness could potentially lock me in hell forever.

This is exactly the problem. Even if NDE survivors truly did visit a hell or heaven realm, who's to say it wasn't just a hallucination. After all, they did come back so I think it's safe to assume they didn't cross the final threshold. I think it might the same thing with 5-meo-dmt - the vividity of an experience does not mean that is the actual afterlife. However, I still have to try it for myself and I think you should too if you want these questions answered. It might not be legit, but you can't know until you try for yourself. One thing I can't help but think about is how Christians most commonly report visiting the Christian hell, Buddhists report visiting the Buddhist hell, and so on. Not that there aren't videos of atheists etc. visiting the Christian hell but the fact that this discrepancy alone exists discredits a lot of NDEs. (edit just found this) - Maybe he had the archetype of Christ stored in his subconscious from when he was a kid, still it's a very good counterargument to the above paragraph. But the fact that Buddhist NDEs even exist says a lot. I think it's a safe bet to live morally, virtuously, and by God. Yes, not only because the threat of eternal torture is so horrific but also because it's just the right thing to do. The purity of your heart and mind matters, even if we don't know what happens after this life.

At a certain point the "how" and "when" become irrelevant, because everything is imaginary. Just look at salvia, you can experience a million years in 5 minutes.

I'm still not taking my chances with hell haha

This is a great one if you haven't seen it. My take is that in order to be the individual self you are, fully, you must be undivided and therefore can't have any memory of what happened prior to your human birth. However, when you transition out of this life back into infinity, you should theoretically remember this life because you are infinite and therefore your perspective is integrated.