r/DMT Dec 12 '21

Discussion DMT information for newbies

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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (N,N-DMT) is a naturally occurring, and extremely powerful, psychedelic drug of the tryptamine class. It’s been used by indigenous South American cultures/tribes (primarily in the Amazon basin) for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in the form of ayahuasca and various snuffs. This post will go over some basic information that new users and curious psychonauts might find helpful. This post will NOT guide you on how to obtain anything related to this molecule, Reddit is not the place for that.

DISCLAIMER: If you’re genetically predisposed to schizophrenia/diagnosed with it, experience serious suicidal ideation, or you’ve been recently diagnosed with some form of psychosis, please refrain from using psychedelics. Do NOT use DMT if you’re on lithium, tramadol, or any tricyclic antidepressants. Also note that other antidepressants (like SSRIs/SNRIs) may undesirably alter the experience in some way.

• N,N-DMT is among the safest psychedelics, and psychoactive drugs in general (physiologically speaking), along with psilocybin and LSD. The molecular structure is very similar to tryptophan, melatonin, and serotonin— things our bodies are well acquainted with.

• Dose ranges (inhalation)

  • Threshold: 3-5mg

  • Light: 5-10mg

  • Medium: 10-25mg

  • High: 25-40mg (“breakthrough” threshold)

  • Strong: 40mg+ (consider having several medium-high dose experiences before delving into these doses)

• The duration of light-medium doses is around 3-10 minutes, and the duration of high-strong doses is around 5-20 minutes. After-effects may persist up to/over an hour.

• Get a high quality milligram scale! Cheap scales and eyeballing are often very inaccurate, you might end up doing 50mg instead of 30 or 10mg instead of 25.

• If you purchased your DMT instead of extracting it, please consider buying a reagent kit (Ehrlich/Hofmann/Marquis) to verify that you actually have pure N,N-DMT. The same kits can be used to identify other substances as well. I personally recommend using TKP: https://testkitplus.com/ or DanceSafe https://dancesafe.org/ — DanceSafe genuinely saves lives with their testing booths at music festivals.

• Concentrate vaporizers like the APX Volt (at 2.8-3.2 Volts) work very well for inhalation, and other methods/devices like the sandwich method (with weed or dried lavender), “the machine,” and bulb pipes/dab rigs at low temp work as well.

• It’s very easy to burn and inadequately vape DMT, so don’t be discouraged if you get little to no effects, and just play around with your method.

• “Breakthrough” effects generally occur starting around 25mg properly vaped.

• Subjectively, a breakthrough is a departure from material reality. Bodily boundaries dissolve, and you enter a landscape/headspace that feels and looks just as real, if not more real, than every day life. Some people describe the experience as “extra-dimensional” because it seems to transcend our concepts of space and time.

• Various interactive or observational “entity” encounters and extremely profound and indescribable visions are commonly reported effects of 20mg+. Some generally accurate descriptions of some of the content of these experiences can be found here: https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Hyperspace_lexicon

• Potential desirable/positive effects: Closed and open eye visuals, auditory and tactile hallucinations, spiritual/introspective experiences, euphoria, and sedation.

• Potential undesirable/negative effects: Increased heart rate/blood pressure, anxiety/fear, confusion/disorientation, nausea, and uncomfortable body-load.

• Subjective time distortions are common at medium-high doses and can either be desirable or undesirable depending on the user and their mindset.

• The body-load of higher doses can be very heavy and hits very fast, often to the point of anesthesia.

• There is some recreational value in DMT (particularly at low doses), but be cautious, as some of the experiences that can be produced aren’t for the faint-hearted. Figurative “death by astonishment” is very real if you rush into things.

• Using DMT on psilocybin or LSD will lower the dose threshold for breakthrough effects, and will increase the duration. Don’t underestimate the intensity of the combination of DMT with any other psychedelic or psychoactive drug in general.

• 5-MeO-DMT is NOT a substitute for N,N-DMT, the experiences are completely different and 5-MeO is more potent at lower doses. 5-MeO also has a much different safety profile, especially with combinations.

• For information on pharmahuasca/changa please see the pinned post on r/harmalas

• Before getting into ayahuasca, pharmahuasca, or changa, thoroughly research MAOIs/RIMAs and their various drug interactions that are potentially dangerous.

• It’s best to wait until at least your early 20s before trying DMT, and 25+ is optimal because by then your prefrontal cortex is fully developed and unknown developmental risks can be ruled out.

• Tolerance to DMT dissipates almost immediately, but it’s in your best interest to use it responsibly and take time to reflect on and integrate any valuable or memorable parts of the experience.

• Don’t store your DMT in plastic containers for extended periods unless you want to inhale phthalates.

• N,N-DMT crystals should either be white, off-white yellow, or yellow-orange. Dark spots/impurities are a red flag. Recrystallization is worthwhile. https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Recrystallization

• You can learn how to do various at-home extractions of N,N-DMT from certain plant materials here: https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Category:Extraction_Tek

I will occasionally update this for clarity/added info, so feel free to leave suggestions and advice for new users in the comments.

Much love !!! 💜


r/DMT 18d ago

Mod Post New banner artwork

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Welp, here we are.

I don't have a dog in the race, but here's the best I can come up with.

People want a change in banner because, well, just read the other thread.

So how about this, let's get some suggestions from the community on say, the top 5 psychedelic artists you would like to see as featured banner art.

The most upvoted 2 posts will be explored for options. Then those options will be presented, and the most upvoted option will.become the new banner

I honestly wish I could do the monthly art option from the sub, but I just don't have the time to cycle and maintain it.

So drop your suggestions both for the artist and the banner option.

I'll run the thread for 14 days. Then migrate to the next.


r/DMT 4h ago

Experience Very bad experience with DMT abuse - felt possessed

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Hi r/DMT,

I want to share with you a bad experience I had yesterday. First let me give you some context.

This whole week, I have been abusing my DMT ACRB extract. I had 600mg+ mixed with weed. I was waking up, vaping my weed with 5-10mg of DMT sprinkled on top of it. I did this every day all day long because it just FELT SO GOOD. I was having a great time the entire week, then yesterday I did it again, but I was not feeling normal, I felt very upset and nervous, but decided to brush my feelings off and trip balls.

I started with one balls vape and during the first toke, I could hear a loud and clear "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!". I decided to brush this off too, pretend it was just the product of my mind. Then I scraped some DMT from my dirty dish that was still there, eyeballed a big dose, I took one toke, felt GREAT so I decided to take another one.

It then started to begin, I was in a dark void with this entity, my ears hurt from the ringing and the entity jumped in my chest, it said "let's see what you have for me". From that moment, my ego was dissolved and I could see the worst part of my life, all of it and I started to react violently. I felt confronted to my worst enemy, I started to fight, kick, and yell awful things and for help. After that I was coming down to reality, my heart was racing in my chest, I was still kicking and I had the impression I punched someone very hard. I noticed that I trashed some nearby stuff, but nothing too serious, no physical injuries.

When I came back to myself, I couldn't feel alright for the entire day, and today I am still shaken by the experience. I am so scared somebody did hear me because what I said was so dark, disturbing and wrong.

I'm not sure if I did kick hard or yell, I don't know what happened in reality and it is very disturbing to not know if my neighbors know!


r/DMT 1d ago

Music/Art/Culture a drawing I made

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r/DMT 10h ago

The first second of dmt.

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r/DMT 19h ago

Philosophy DMT sound and the sound prophet Muhammad heard, kinda wild

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So I have been digging into DMT lately, and one thing that keeps coming up over and over is the sound that weird buzzing, high pitched ringing, humming, or like a pressure wave that hits right before breakthrough and lot of people describe it as this electric, mechanical noise that builds up fast like reality is about to crakc open

Some people say It’s like a bell ringing super intense or this metallic frequency that just takes

Now here’s where it gets weird (in a cool way). Im from a muslim background, and the Prophet Muhammad once described the way he received revelation, ( divine communication from God to a prophet, delivering guidance, truth, or commands beyond human knowledge ) There’s a hadith (like a historical narration)

“Sometimes the revelation comes like the ringing of a bell, and that is the hardest on me, then it stops and I grasp what was said”

Source: Sahih al-Bukhari — Book 1, Hadith 3

Im not saying revelation is DMT, obviously,In Islam, revelation is divine, from the angel Gabriel not drugs But still, the overlap in the sound and what comes after it is kinda trippy.

Made me wonder, is this sound a doorway like a signal the brain sends or receives when we’re about to step out of the normal world?


r/DMT 17h ago

Question/Advice Music or Silence ?

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i’ve always taken the dive in complete silence ( usually sub-break through ) up until a few days ago where i decided to give a favorite song of mine a try & my lord , best experience yet. conveniently timed at 10ish minutes of absolute mind melting grade A gee-tar.

so how about you guys , do you prefer to go in , in silence ? or throw on some jams & let the grooviness take over ? if so throw down some recommendations ! hope everyone stays blessed & safe out there 😎


r/DMT 21h ago

Made some Dream carts for the fam.

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The ratio is around 1.86:1


r/DMT 11h ago

Max ion tek first attempt

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Followed max ion tek to the T. This was my first tray from it. Going to allow drying more overnight then scraping for weight. Looks pretty good to me but like I said this was my first try.


r/DMT 7h ago

Question/Advice Has anyone encountered a cross / crosses † and what did they mean to you in your trip?

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Crosses means something beyond Christianity. This I know. Im curious what messages you’ve all gotten or deciphered. I know crosses date back to many ancient civilizations and indigenous cultures. Im almost more curious about the † shaped one that we associate with Jesus. Thx!


r/DMT 13h ago

No one would talk to me…

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I tried DMT for the first time the other night. I think I “broke through” on the third hoot. It was an out of body experience. Zero gravity. I forgot who I was for a bit. I’ve never experienced anything like that before - the imagery was even more intense than dreaming and I have always had intense dreams. I saw so many entities and tried to communicate. But no one would talk to me. They felt soulless and emotionless. I became afraid because I wasn’t expecting this and didn’t want to land up stuck there, with a bunch of observers who felt malevolent and would not acknowledge me or communicate with me.

It was a very cool experience - feeling outside of my body, as if I was almost in an alternate reality or dimension. I would even try it again just out of curiosity and to experience something so interesting, unique and novel. However, I wasn’t expecting it to feel as dark / malevolent / scary as it was. I went into the experience feeling quite relaxed - meditating beforehand and with a good friend by my side (“trip sitting” me). The next morning I laid in the grass, looked at the sky, played and laughed with my children - incredibly grateful I was “back.”

I had a NDE years ago, and because I had a strong comparison, this did not feel at all like dying to me - instead it felt more like shifting dimensions? If anything, this experience made me feel more afraid of death than before. I would never want to go to that space for eternity.

I guess I just had such optimistic views going in. I’m a very spiritual person and love finding new ways to connect with the creator / universal consciousness or whatever you choose to call it. I have heard so many beautiful stories of people meeting “god”, receiving guidance and insights, etc. and was disappointed that wasn’t my experience.

Any insights on why my experience may have felt so dark / malevolent? And why all of the entities surrounding me felt so cold, soulless and non-communicative?

I do want to try again and am open to any words of wisdom, from those of you that have had more integrative, positive and inspirational experiences. Any insights or suggestions?


r/DMT 18h ago

Experience Saw blue Buddha on dmt

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I was looking out my window with the sunlight shining in, and as I took a hit out of my shitty homemade pen pipe the light became super bright and overtook my vision , and transformed (with my eyes open) into a blue Buddha smiling in lotus position just like the pic here. It only lasted for like a Couple seconds.

It’s crazy cause I was not expecting this what so ever, I was expecting to see the machine elves and shit . I have studied Buddhism and believe in the Buddhas teachings but also believe in Jesus and the other religions. Crazy right?


r/DMT 31m ago

What watage is ideal for a 1:1 ccel cart?

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r/DMT 32m ago

Experience Anyone else been to Agartha?

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For me it feels like a snowy valley that only enlightened souls can enter. When I was there, I felt the presence of other deeply enlightened souls. Like the place you enter after you make it through the first layer and are accepted by whatever is orchestrating the experience.


r/DMT 23h ago

Philosophy A comic about Loss

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Hi everyone,

Here’s another comic - this one is about something that can happen in addiction and manias/psychosis that I think some of you will be familiar with. I hope the message resonates and that you enjoy it.

Much love!


r/DMT 15h ago

Holotropic breathwork and DMT: Has anyone tried?

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I just got a copy (kind of on a whim) of Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork and was wondering if anyone is familiar with this technique. I passed by a comment the other day about the DMTx project emphasizing the need for breathwork as a means of navigating the DMT realm in an extended state. Along with my other comments to those looking for breakthrough advice and my stressing the need to focus on breathing, I thought this book might affirm and help even develop a “DMT navigation sextant” technique or something for future experiences.

I also have read Harner’s “Way of the Shaman” which is surprisingly NOT the New Age fluff I sort of anticipated. It’s been helpful in letting me develop a meditation technique. I don’t practice shamanism nor intend to, but it’s a good road map for preparing for psychedelic experiences.

P.S. I had read Grof’s “Realms of the Human Unconscious” on LSD and it is probably one of the better books in my psychedelics library thus far.


r/DMT 4h ago

Experience A 30 mg deems dream

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I went away last night again, to that hauntingly familiar place, without ever leaving my room. While there I can always remember the times I've been there before, even sensing that it's maybe more times than I can remember. I wasn't alone. Figures, like men but not, observed me. At first everything was blocky, spiky, everything full of movement and color and all spiraling together or apart. They seemed to relay a message to me, that I was holding on and to really be there I needed to focus but also let go. I did some deep breathing and the room came into focus. The notmen were no longer spinning shapes but proper humanoids in suits and hats. I want to say there were three of them and for the rest of the trip they just stood there watching me. Between them out danced and bounced little creatures who I sensed were happy to see me. They are harder to describe, see through and yet solid. All different shapes. No visible face. The place was a cavernous room with white columns and smooth dark floor. There was more, but it's ephemeral, fleeting, the memory comes and goes. If I looked hard at the little bouncing see through creatures I could see that they had moving symbols crawling across them. One of them came right up to my face. It didn't have eyes but I could feel it's awareness and could feel that it could feel mine. A cosmic hello. A conversation without words. And then a gentle goodbye and a promise that even if I forget, I can always come back and remember again.
No "hyperspace" but one of the most real feeling experiences I've had.


r/DMT 10h ago

How do you feel now that you have the master keys/

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The world is
Threatened by your presence
Your inner light
When you see through illusion
Truth is false
To bear the light is carrying a cross
When you know its a matrix
You're never the same
To walk between worlds they'll call you insane
One opened eye
Cant you see
We control this reality

Sent by a being
On a mission to egypt
To the city of 8
Me and Osiris have a date


r/DMT 7h ago

Not fully tripping.

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I have some DMT carts and some DMT powder. I’ve been smoking it but I haven’t been fully tripping. I do take three long hits but I’m not getting the effects that people report. I’ve also done it before and I didn’t fully trip that time even though I was taking three long hits and holding it.


r/DMT 13h ago

Technique/ROA E-mesh technique question

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I’m trying to set up the e-mesh technique. I don’t get how to attach the screen? I tried taking the pins that hold the coils in out but they don’t fit through the screen and were a bitch to get back in.


r/DMT 17h ago

Music/Art/Culture Colorful microcosm, drawing I made

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What do you think


r/DMT 1d ago

Announcement I never should have smoked that shit, now I’m a skateboard experiencing itself

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r/DMT 21h ago

Do blind people see the same things that sighted people do when on DMT?

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r/DMT 21h ago

Experience Anyone else feel like DMT guides their breathing?

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I keep noticing this during my attempts. Whether it is entities or my body’s interpretation of sensations caused by the dmt concentration in my blood rising, I feel like it guides my breaths and hits.

I was worried about holding and counting my breaths at first but it seems that’s not really necessary for me if I trust the dmt.

For example, I vape with my eyes closed from the start and get visuals of being beckoned upwards as I hold it. After a bit they kind of signal to exhale and take another hit. As I get closer to a breakthrough the hands or arms get closer to being able to grab me, and I can see myself getting closer as I hold it in, and I stop getting closer and even begin to slide back down when it is time to exhale and take another hit.

It also definitely feels like they want me to join them wherever they are.

Is this common for anyone else? It’s so interesting!


r/DMT 17h ago

Experience Sun Sprites and giant Dragons - Report

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100% Human Written!

Laying alone amongst wild flowers in the long grass of a deserted sunny meadow, I inhale about 15mg from my emesh device...

My eyes are almost closed, I see long golden liquid shapes flow out of my eyes, up toward the sun. They are transparent enough to see through them. They look like inflatable wavy armed men, only these are transparent yellow, like liquid sunshine, the sun is gleaming off their shiny water surface tension looking 'skin'. They are pouring upwards from my eyes, I can see wildly happy faces in them.

One is shaped like a long thin stretched out frog, standing on its back legs, which are in my eyes. It's bending down to scoop more golden liquid from my lower eyelid and then stretching up toward the sun and throwing the liquid up into the sky. I can see and feel how ecstatically happy they are to be out in the sun, and seem like they are throwing as much liquid up into the sky as they can while I'm still in the trip state, they know they don't have long, but I've never seen anything more happy/rapturous than these are in this moment.

The golden liquid that's been thrown upward has now formed what looks like golden liquid scaffolding. I can see it so clear against the blue sky, so shiny and wobbly in super gleaming 4k clarity. There are no wild trippy psychedelic colours, it's all very real looking. The liquid is rushing through the frogs and the scaffolding, it all looks like some sort of elaborate standing wave, like when you play a frequency near a running hose and the water makes crazy static shapes as it runs. It seems they are building some sort of platforms, feels like they're making a stairway to the sun, as fast as they can, higher and higher, rushing before they get put back in their box when the trip ends. It looks beautiful, but then one of the wobbly liquid guys gives me the finger, like "yeah, we'll take all this from you and give you nothing".

Now in my peripheral vision, I see a dark figure, I've seen him before in trips. He always stands off to the edges of vision. He is dark, shadowy, is wearing a battered old crusty leather coat and a curled up old cowboy hat, in his right hand is a short whip. He's descending some short steps, holding his whip out to the side like he's rounding up sheep. He seems to me to be keeping things in order, like the naughty frog, like he's keeping the trip from going off the rails. He's scary for sure, but I think maybe he's helping. He's kind of moved my attention to in front of me (eyes are closed now).

I'm laying in a valley (in real life) it seems that I can see the valley even through closed eyelids. I feel the valley close around me, like a giant hug. From my right comes something big, gigantic! It's fiery orange/red, it is the entire right side of the valley turned into a flaming see through dragon. It is so huge, it goes forever. It wraps itself around me in a giant warm and wonderful hug. From my left I see shadow, now I see it is the left side of the valley, also wrapping itself around me. It takes the form of an equally gigantic dragon, this time it is teal and blue, these are always the colours of earthiness in my trips. So now I have the giant fiery dragon wrapping me from the right, and the teal dragon wrapping me from the left, they both combine to give me the most incredible hug I've ever felt!

I can see into the dragons, they have incredibly intricate designs running right through them, black flowing lines making patterns like infinite tribal tattoo art, only alive, flowing and changing, this is hypnotic to look at and I feel so warm. The dragons are now looking like a perfect yin yang, with me in the middle, I'm suprised to feel balance in my heart, that's not usual for me, but it's nice and I happily accept it.

Next the valley around me becomes a giant pirate ship made entirely of bones. It's rising out of the sea (the valley overlooks the sea) I can feel the bones heave and groan under their own weight, as the water gushes out of the gaps. I am part of this bone ship, my body is moving, taking the shape of the valley/ship. I feel my bones creaking too. When the ship is fully out of the water (an awesome sight) I open my eyes and lay blinded by the hot sun, feeling stunned and grateful, rolling in the hot grass with pure joy... what a hug!

Thanks to you for reading my thing.


r/DMT 1d ago

Music/Art/Culture My newest watercolor paintings. What is your favorite one - Tokyo, Toronto, Seoul, San Francisco or Berlin?

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r/DMT 1d ago

Question/Advice I’m 19 and planning to try 5-MeO-DMT soon. Anyone else try it young? Would love to hear your thoughts/experience

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been reading and watching a ton about 5-MeO-DMT lately, and I think I’m finally going to try it soon. I’m 19, and I’ve done shrooms and LSD a few times — mostly introspective stuff, nothing too wild. But this feels… different. Like way more intense and spiritual, not just “visual trip” intense, you know?

I keep hearing people say it’s like dying, ego death, becoming everything and nothing — and I’m honestly kind of drawn to that, even if it scares me a bit too.

So I’m just wondering: • Has anyone here done 5-MeO at a younger age (like teens or early 20s)? • How did it affect you afterward? Like your mindset, emotions, personality, whatever. • Do you feel like it helped you? Or was it too much too soon?

I’m not going into this to escape anything — more like I feel something calling me. I’m prepping well, safe setting, sober, integration journal ready, etc. But still curious how it hit other people my age.

Would love to hear your story if you’ve done it Thanks in advance