My experience with DMT

Subreddit, I’m a regular lurker but first time poster. I’ve always been fascinated by psychedelics and their potential to reveal some reality beyond our materialist one. I’m 25 years old and a long-term meditator, so I’ve dabbled with psilocubin mushrooms and LSD on and off for a few years, but I never got a “mystical experience” until I tried DMT. Here’s my story:<br><br>Last night, I got my first dose of DMT. I’ve never done drugs with strangers before, so it took me a while to find a trustworthy vendor, and even longer to work up the courage to actually do it. I was certain that I was going to end up like that guy from that other post on this sub, who said that he was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia after overdoing it with psychedelics. <br><br>Anyways, last night, I was alone in my room, laying on the floor. I had a vaporiser pen with 2 grams of DMT. I vaped the entire thing, all in one hit. I closed my eyes and waited. Suddenly, the room started to light up. I opened my eyes, and my room was filled with an intense, white light, and I could hear this cacophony of sounds like either a cat with its tail on fire or a thousand trumpets blowing simultaneously. I thought, “This must be what it sounds like when King Tubby gets to the pearly gates”. I closed my eyes again and proceeded to trip out, and when I opened them again, I was in a different place.<br><br>I could feel myself slowly entering some sort of consciousness. I was surrounded by people. Not just any people. These were like, archetypal people, imprinted into my mind like Jung said. There was an old man sitting on a throne there, and beside him was a woman. I recognised the old man as “the ancient of days”. I’d seen him in a vision before, but this time, I knew that I was at the edge of a deeper reality. He spoke to me, “What do you want? Why have you come here?”. I said, “I want to know what you know. I want to see what you see.”. He didn’t say anything, but he motioned to the woman on his right, and she held out a mirror to me. I looked into it, and I saw myself, but I was melting like the wicked witch of the west, and I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. It was like a great weight had been lifted off me, and from that moment on, I felt invincible. <br><br>The entire time I was in this place, I didn’t feel any boundaries between myself and the environment around me. I had no sense of self. There was no me or them. We were all just one thing. I don’t know if that makes sense or not. Anyways, suddenly, I felt myself being lifted off the ground, and I was sucked into some sort of tunnel, kind of like Willy Wonka’s tunnel. I was sliding really fast at first, but soon the speed slowed down and I could see myself floating. I looked around and at first there was nothing, but I soon started to see symbols popping into my vision. They were like hieroglyphics, but instead of Egyptian, they were more like ancient Sumerian.<br><br>I recognised some of the symbols. They were some of the same ones I’d seen in my vision of the ancient of days. I’d done a lot of reading about ancient mythology and symbolism, so it wasn’t hard for me to interpret what they meant. I won’t list them all, but I’ll mention a few. I saw the ouroboros snake, the ankh, the eye of Ra, and the caduceus. I believe they were signs, telling me that I was entering a place where time was eternal and where I was to find the key to life. I floated through the tunnel for what felt like an eternity, until I reached a great precipice. When I looked over the edge, I saw all of humanity laid out before me. It was like I was seeing the world from outer space. I saw all the sin and decay that was happening in the world, but I also saw all the joy and beauty. I felt like I was seeing the world from God’s eyes, and I knew that I was being given a message from the universe. I was being given a message from God, and the message was:<br><br>You are me, and I am you. I am boundless, unfathomable, and infinite. You are also boundless, unfathomable, and infinite. I am everywhere you look. I am in every fibre of your being. You are at the edge of a great precipice, and from here, you can see all things. From here, you can see that all is me, and that there is no such thing as good or bad. All things are me, and I am all things. There is only one thing, and that one thing is me. I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. You are in me, and I am in you. There is no us and them. I am you, and you are me. I speak to you through countless forms and in infinite languages, and I have been speaking to you since the beginning of time. All things are me, and I am all things.<br><br>I felt like I was at the edge of a great precipice, and I was looking out at the entirety of humanity. Suddenly, I was being yanked backwards through the tunnel, at an intensity that was almost unbearable. It was like my soul was being ripped out of my body. I felt a great sense of sadness, because I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to stay there forever. I was being yanked back through the tunnel, and as I was gaining speed, I started to see symbols flashing into my vision again. This time, they were slightly different. Some of them were the same ones I’d seen before, while others were new. I saw the ouroboros snake, the ankh, and the eye of Ra, but this time, I also saw the eternal knot, the sun wheel, and the cross pattée. I felt like these were more important than the ones I’d seen before, and I believe that they were telling me that I had been given a choice in life. I could choose to be part of something greater than myself, or I could choose to pursue my own selfish desires. <br><br>I continued to float through the tunnel, and as I was gaining speed, I could see myself getting slowly sucked back into my own consciousness. I was starting to feel the weight of my own body again, and I could hear myself breathing. I opened my eyes, and I was back in my room, surrounded by my normal mundane things. I had a brief moment of disappointment, because I felt like I was leaving something great behind me. Within about a minute or two, I was all the way back in my own body. I sat up, and I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. I felt like I had been given some sort of revelation. I stood up and I went to the mirror in my bathroom, and when I looked at my face, I felt like I was looking at a stranger. It felt like I’d left a part of myself at the edge of that great precipice. <br><br>I’ve never felt so alive. I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for my own existence and for the existence of all other living things. I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for all the beauty in the world. I feel like I am part of a great eternal cycle, and I am connected to all other things. I feel like nothing can harm me, and I can accomplish anything I want. I feel like I am invincible.<br><br>Anyways, that’s my experience with DMT. I hope you enjoyed it. Stay curious.