Hi legolas - ive not heard of this before?? what do you know about it? would love some background to it so i can find some stuff on the internet

 

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DMT.

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DMT is a powerful psychoactive substance. If DMT is smoked, injected, or orally ingested with an MAOI, it can produce powerful entheogenic experiences including true hallucinations (perceived extensions of reality). A trip sitter is often employed to assist the drug user in staying physically and mentally healthy, and, in the case of smoked DMT, to catch the pipe when the user loses awareness of it.<o:p></o:p>

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Smoked: If DMT is smoked, the maximal effects last for a short period of time (5 - 30 minutes +). The onset after inhalation is very fast (less than 45 seconds) and maximal effects are reached within about a minute. The relative short duration of this experience has given it the name "businessman's special," since in theory it does not take up as much of ones time as other hallucinogens like LSD.<o:p></o:p>

Several speculative and as yet untested hypotheses suggest that endogenous DMT, produced in the human brain, is involved in certain psychological and neurological states. As DMT is naturally produced in small amounts in the brains and other tissues of humans, and other mammals, some believe it plays a role in promoting the visual effects of natural dreaming, near-death experiences and other mystical states. A biochemical mechanism for this was proposed by the medical researcher JC Callaway, who suggested in 1988 that DMT might be connected with visual dream phenomena, where brain DMT levels are periodically elevated to induce visual dreaming and possibly other natural states of mind.<o:p></o:p>

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Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990's at the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>New Mexico</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, advanced the theory that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience phenomenon. Only two of his test subjects reported NDE-like audio or video hallucinations. His explanation for this was the possible lack of panic involved in the clinical setting and possible dosage differences between those administered and those encountered in actual NDE cases.<o:p></o:p>

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Several subjects also reported contact with 'other beings', alien like, insectoid and reptillian in nature, in technological environments[4] where the subjects were 'probed', 'tested' and sometimes even 'manipulated' by these 'beings', anyone is, regardless of interest for the subject, tempted to draw similarities between these experiences and the tales of alien encounters.

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In <st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region> there are a number of religious movements based on the use of Ayahuasca, usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic, sometimes mixed with Christian imagery.<o:p></o:p>

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There are four main branches using DMT-MAOI based sacraments in Brasil:<o:p></o:p>

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1) Indigenous people - they are the oldest culture in the whole <st1:place>South America</st1:place> to use ayahuasca or analogue brews, such as the ones made from Jurema (Mimosa hostilis).<o:p></o:p>

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2) Santo Daime (Saint Giveme) and Barquinha (Lil'Boat) - the former was founded by a simple man, called Raimundo Irineu Serra, in the early 30s as an esoteric Christian religion with shamanic tendencies. The Barquinha cult was derived from this one.<o:p></o:p>

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3) União do Vegetal (Vegetable's <st1:place>Union</st1:place>) - another Christian ayahuasca religion, with a more Masonic tone. Today it's divided into at least three sects.<o:p></o:p>

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4) Neo-shamans - there are some shamanic facilitators in Brasil using ayahuasca and analogous brews in their rituals and séances, mainly in the State of Sao Paulo.

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My interest in DMT sprang from a chat with my brother, a psychology lecturer; we were discussing the experiences I had in hospital in January. I had three general anaestics in ten days. The day after I seemed tired but in good heath, but people said I was a bit crazy to talk to, on the second day my eyes became very sensitive to light and were looking in different directions, and I began to hallucinate. If  I looked at the cream wall for too long it turned bright orange then let me inside, where I  found  what appeared to be a 1960’s film set on a revolving stage and three different programmes were being recorded. The two things  I remember were how bright the lights were, they hurt my eyes and the people turned to animals if I starred at them. I had this same experience about four times, but have no ideal about how long it lasted as I had lost all track of time. Glad I kept a log of what was happening in hospital otherwise it is easy to get confused  about what happened.. Legolas

Further info here!

 

 

Thanks for the info Legolas - I'd not heard of DMT before it sounds really interesting, as does your own experince in hospital! It sounds really strange and unsettling....but i think its great that you wrote down what happened so you wouldnt forget the experience. When this was happening did you know something wasnt right or did you think it was real??