DMT

(The Spirit Molecule, Dimitri, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine)

TrippyWiki score: 8.7/10

What is DMT?

DMT is one of the most intense psychedelics on the planet. The drug can be found in over 65 plants. Many animals, including humans, produce DMT as a neurotransmitter.

Why choose DMT over other psychedelics?

DMT…

Doesn’t cause any damage to your organs and there is no lethal dose
Only lasts for a few minutes
Usually doesn’t cause nausea or physical discomfort (if smoked)
Is one of the most popular psychedelics, therefore we have access to a huge amount of studies and trip reports
Won’t make you addicted
Doesn’t make you develop tolerance
Can be made in your kitchen and the ingredients are legal in most countries

Long-term benefits & side effects

Many of the benefits will only occur if you follow the tips below.
Most (if not all) of the side effects are preventable and they will not happen if you follow the Safety checklist.

DMT…

Is one of the most effective ways to treat depression and PTSD
Can lower your levels of stress and anxiety, including social anxiety
Is being used to cure addictions
Might help you form positive habits, such as meditation and exercise
Increases neuroplasticity
Makes you more creative and open-minded
Helps you look at your life from a different perspective
Allows you to heal your childhood trauma and forgive people who’ve hurt you
Makes you more conscious and loving
Can help you transcend the fear of death
Gives you insights into the nature of reality
Makes you appreciate nature more
…

Has led to self-harm by people who took it in an unsafe environment
Might speed up the onset of schizophrenia if you’re genetically predisposed to it
Can cause HPPD and physical damage if you combine it with other substances (such as alcohol or stimulants)
Could cause you trauma due to bad set and setting
Might lead to drug-induced psychosis if you’re predisposed to it
Can be psychologically addictive (but only if you use the psychedelic recreationally)
Can cause seizures in rare cases
Is illegal in most places and you might get arrested for getting involved with the substance
Will make you dislike the government and the way that our society functions
…

How to take DMT

Always test your substance with a Marquis Reagent Testing Kit before you put it in your mouth.

Administration

There are 3 main ways to take DMT: smoking DMT, snorting it, and drinking Ayahuasca. Each of these will lead to a completely different experience.

If you are interested in how to obtain and use ayahuasca, click here.

Technically, you could also plug DMT but you would need to use higher dosages. The substance might also damage your intestines if you take it this way, therefore it is not recommended.

You can also combine DMT with MAOI-containing herbs into a smokable blend called changa. Changa tends to be gentler, more grounded in this reality, and the trips last for longer.

How to smoke DMT

The easiest way to smoke DMT is with a glass pipe. Make sure that it ends with a ball. The bigger the ball, the better.

If you have a torch lighter that creates a blue flame, use it instead of a regular lighter.

Before you smoke the substance, put a metal tray next to you. The pipe will be hot and you don’t want to burn your carpet or set your neighborhood on fire.

If you have a trip-sitter, let him hold the pipe as you are inhaling.

Hold the fire 2-3 inches (5-8 cm) below the pipe. Rotate the pipe and wait for the drug to turn into smoke.

The smoke should be very light and clear. If it’s thick, you’re probably overheating the substance.

Inhale the smoke slowly and gently, then hold it in your lungs for 30 seconds.

Have 2 more hits, lay on the ground and enjoy your trip.

Always take the 3rd hit if you can.

Dosage

10-20 mg = Light dose
20-40 mg = Regular dose
40-60 mg = Strong dose
60+ mg = High dose

Many psychonauts recommend starting with a light dose but this isn’t necessarily the best way to go.

Counterintuitively, a low dose is more likely to cause you a bad experience than higher doses.

If you start with a low dose, your ego will try to hold on and it will have a hard time surrendering to the experience. This is one of the main causes of bad trips.

Instead, try to reach the breakthrough dose where you are forced to let go of your body and the physical reality. When you smoke enough, this will be a lot easier.

Do not, however, start with a high dose if you don’t have a trip sitter nearby.

Your weight also influences the dose you should take to some extent. If you weigh a lot, you might need to take more DMT than other people.

Safety checklist

Maximize the benefits

Keep in mind that integration is even more important than the trip itself. Taking psychedelics would be useless if you didn’t retain any lessons in your day-to-day life.

What will help you the most is contemplating about the experience – be it by journaling, thinking about the trip, or sharing your memories with a trusted friend.

Distracting thoughts can get in the way, which is why you want to spend the day after your trip without TV, social media, and other distractions.

If you can, spend time in silence and solitude. Meditate, go for a walk, contemplate the experience.

Duration

Onset = 20-40 seconds
Come up = 1-3 minutes
Peak = 2-8 minutes
Come down = 1-6 minutes

You should notice the first effects within 40 seconds after you take the psychedelic
You will reach the maximum effect around the 3-minute mark
The whole trip usually lasts for 5-20 minutes
At heroic doses, your trip may last for even longer
If you eat before your trip, the substance will take slightly longer to kick in

What DMT feels like

If you never tried salvia or 5-MeO DMT before, regular DMT will give you the most intense experience of your life.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to accurately describe the experience through human language.

The psychedelic also affects each individual differently and no two trips are the same. Therefore, there is virtually no way to know what your trip will feel like.

However, some common short-term effects include:

The brightest and the most intense visuals
Euphoria
Mindfulness, being extremely present
Higher capability for love and compassion
Pain relief
Feeling one with all that is
Completely disconnecting from this reality
Traveling through different dimensions
Seeing and talking to aliens
Feeling your emotions more intensely
Time distortion
Confusion
Increased body temperature
Increased heart rate
Anxiety, paranoia
Vulnerability

Of course, the higher dose you take, the more intense these effects will be.

With that said, the only way to truly know what DMT feels like is to take it.

The experience isn’t always positive. In fact, around 50% of trips people have on DMT are very challenging. You can, however, minimize the chance of a bad trip.

Bad trips

Bad trips mostly happen because people smoke DMT irresponsibly. If you take this psychedelic the right way, there is a low chance you’ll get a bad trip.

In case you still do, that’s good! A “bad” trip isn’t bad, it can actually be the most healing and insightful moment of your life!

During a “bad” trip, negative emotions are coming up from your subconscious mind. They have always been there whether you are aware of it or not. They have been damaging your life and a difficult trip is an opportunity to process these traumas and unpleasant feelings and let go of them.

The more painful the experience, the more you can heal.

So instead of calling bad trips bad, call them challenging.

If you understand that bad trips are awesome in the long-run, not only will you feel more comfortable diving into these challenging states, it will actually excite you!

Why they happen

The most common reasons for getting a bad trip are:

Tripping in an unsafe environment (in public, at a party, even nature doesn’t feel safe if you take higher doses)
Facing difficult times in your day-to-day life (a break-up, death of a loved one, …)
Rejecting to let go and trying to hold on to your ego and control the state
Being afraid of the trip (either because of the stigma around psychedelics or because you are not sure how pure your substance is)
Mixing the psychedelic with alcohol, weed, or other drugs
Expecting a bad trip (it can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy)

How to cope with a bad trip

Do not perceive this experience as something bad, remember that facing these difficult emotions is extremely healing
Fully surrender to the experience, do not try to feel good

How to end a bad trip

In case you are not ready to face your inner demons yet, there are a few ways to end a bad trip.

One possible way is to put on music that is familiar to you. Another way is to switch up your location and move from one place to another. This can completely change your train of thought.

In case the trip becomes extremely challenging and there is no one around you to keep you safe, consider ending your trip with a trip killer.

Using a trip killer usually is not the best idea because the bad emotions will stay unresolved and you will get little to no benefits from the experience. With that said, using a trip killer is smarter than harming yourself.

The 2 best options that you have for ending a bad trip are Phenibut and benzodiazepines.

Phenibut is generally safer. The downside is that it can take hours to kick in.

To end a trip, use benzodiazepines but only do this if you completely have to.

Interactions

Qualia Mind
This nootropic is comprised of 28 ingredients designed to support and maximize your brain function. These ingredients act synergistically and many of them will protect you from the neurotoxic effects of psychedelics. Qualia will also make your trips more pleasant and help you retain more benefits from them.
Herbs
Herbs can help calm you down. Herbal teas (chamomile, lemon balm, valerian root, …) are especially helpful.
Green tea
Tea makes you both more alert and calm at the same time. It also contains neuroprotective antioxidants, such as EGCG.
CBD
CBD has a calming effect.
LSD and Magic Mushrooms
DMT is extremely strong on its own so be careful when mixing it with other psychedelics.
Weed
Marijuana will greatly intensify the trip.
Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide will multiply the intensity of your trip.
Dissociatives
Combining dissociatives with psychedelics won’t necessarily cause you harm but it can be confusing and lead to bad trips.
MDMA
DMT might increase the neurotoxicity of MDMA and combining the two may lead to heart problems.
Benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, …)
Benzos will end your psychedelic experience within 40 minutes but using this method may cause you side effects in the long-run.
Alcohol
Alcohol minimizes all the potential benefits of a psychedelic experience. It also greatly increases your chance of having a bad trip.
SSRIs
Not only will these antidepressants greatly decrease the intensity of your trip, but they can also lead to long-lasting side effects.
Lithium
Combining psychedelics with lithium significantly increases the risk of seizures and psychosis.
Stimulants
The combination can easily lead to heart problems, even if you’re a healthy individual.
Tramadol
Combining the two can cause seizures.
St. John’s Wort
This combination may lead to serotonin syndrome.

History of DMT

Legality

As of 2021, DMT is not legal to buy in any country.

However, there are countries where DMT has been decriminalized. Therefore, taking DMT or owning a small amount of it will not get you in trouble.

The plants that contain DMT, such as Mimosa hostilis, are legal to purchase in many places.

In many countries (such as Peru, Costa Rica, Italy, Brazil, and Romania), you can legally buy and drink Ayahuasca or at least attend Ayahuasca ceremonies there.

How to get DMT

These are the ways you can get your hands on the psychedelic, ranked from the safest to the least safe:

Breathe
The reason why holotropic breathwork makes you hallucinate may be DMT. The Wim Hof method works as well.
Become a research subject
Many scientists are now allowed to study the effects of DMT on the human brain. You may get lucky and find research being made close to where you live.
Make DMT on your own
Extracting DMT is a much easier process than synthesizing most other psychedelics. There are over 65 plants that contain DMT. The most popular one that’s being used to extract DMT is called Mimosa hostilis. You can legally buy this plant online. You are not allowed to extract DMT from it but whether or not anyone cares is a different story.
If you are interested in making DMT on your own, check out this guide.
Attend an Ayahuasca ceremony
Traveling to Peru or Brazil can expensive but if you find a good shaman, paying for an ayahuasca ceremony might be worth it.
Buy DMT from a hidden market
The DMT you will find on the dark web is more likely to be pure than if you buy it on the street. The problem of going this route is that most dark web markets are a scam (including current SilkRoad) and you might not receive anything.
Buy DMT in-person
Whether you buy DMT from a random drug dealer or a trusted friend, you can’t know for sure what the powder contains. It can also be difficult to find a dealer who sells DMT.

FAQ

There is no such thing as tolerance to DMT. Technically, you could smoke it every 2 hours.

Combined with psychotherapy, studies show it is most effective to give patients a dose of DMT 5 times a week. Doing so can decrease their depression rates on average by 70% in a single month.

However, if you’re taking DMT alone with an intention to grow spiritually. you want to incorporate all lessons from the trip before you take the substance again.

If you smoke DMT on a regular basis, your trips will get more and more intense and you will naturally not want to trip so often. Becoming addicted to DMT is nearly impossible.

DMT is thought to produce its psychedelic effects by binding to serotonin receptors in the brain, although the precise mechanism is not fully understood.

The only way to truly know what this psychedelic does to your brain is to try it yourself.

It is not about your age, it is about how mature you are.

With that said, DMT is an extremely potent substance. If your brain is still developing on its own, you might want to choose gentler psychedelics instead.

If you are under the age of 21, your brain is evolving at a rapid rate on its own. This means that when you take psychedelics, there is more potential for growth but the risks are also higher.

Always smoke DMT in a safe place where you feel comfortable. Make sure there are no strangers around and that nobody will bother you during your trip.

It’s recommended to have a trip sitter next to you.

If you are a mentally stable individual who does not suffer from psychosis or have a predisposition to schizophrenia, there is virtually no way you would develop any mental illnesses because of taking this psychedelic.

No.

DMT can be detected in your urine for around 24 hours after you’ve taken it.

With that said, you do not have to be afraid that anyone would test you for DMT.

DMT has a distinct smell and taste that you cannot compare with anything else.

Most people do not like the taste of DMT but it isn’t unbearable either.

The taste of ayahuasca depends on who you get it from because shamans usually mix multiple ingredients into it. Most people do not like the taste, some have a really hard time drinking it.

Order a Marquis Reagent Testing Kit from the internet and follow the instructions on its label. This test kit is accurate and can detect other substances, too.

Keep the powder in a cold dark place, preferably with no air.

If you don’t do this, your DMT will lose potency within a year or two.

In the spiritual community, there are mixed opinions on this.

You will not be able to retain these states of consciousness unless you put in a lot of work in your “sober” life.

However, that doesn’t mean that psychedelics cannot be helpful. Reaching these temporary states on psychedelics and seeing that these states are obtainable can be motivating.

This is why psychedelics can help you build a daily practice of yoga and meditation – both of which will help you awaken.

These substances also teach you to let go of your ego which will be essential for awakening.

So psychedelics can help you awaken. Indirectly, but they can.

Do not eat right before you take DMT. It can cause you nausea and even make you vomit.

If you need to eat some food, do so 2 hours before tripping and keep your meal light.

Yes.

Watching yourself in the mirror can give you many insights about your life and the self.

You will also really like the way you look on DMT because your face will look extremely symmetrical.

Do not, however, stare at yourself when you’re going through a bad trip.

Absolutely.

Even though DMT is one of the most intense drugs, it may actually be one of the best psychedelics for beginner psychonauts.

With that said, if you are afraid of DMT, always start with gentler psychedelics, such as magic mushrooms or LSD.

Immature people who are not willing to follow the safety guidelines
People who suffer from psychosis
People who have a familial history of schizophrenia
Those who suffer from HPPD
People who are going through a manic phase of bipolar disorder
If you’re going through extremely challenging times, you can take psychedelics but the trips might be unpleasant, beware of that

Dimethyltryptamine.

On a dark market, a typical price for N,N-DMT is around $90. On the street, the substance would cost you twice as much. If you extract DMT from root bark, a gram of DMT will only cost you around $30.

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