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First time pharmahuasca
    #19213693 - 12/01/13 04:54 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The short story:

Told from the perspective of an 18-year-old male, 170 lbs, living on Earth (California). As I write this I am in the afterglow of my first pharmahuasca experience, the events of which I will now attempt to sort out:

I took 200 mg harmala extract at 10:00 PM, followed by ~50 mg of N,N-DMT freebase 20 min later. The harmala extracts came in two blue and white capsules. I packed the fluffy yellow DMT crystals into a clear, size 0 gel cap. The first signs of intoxication came as a noticeable mood shift, somewhat like drunkenness but more subtle. This occurred around 10:30. At that point, I attributed any effects to the harmalas, as the DMT capsule was likely just beginning to dissolve in my stomach. I sat myself down to watch some Family Guy in anticipation of the coming experience.

It had been awhile since I had watched any family guy, and I found myself particularly susceptible to its classic humor. I was in a generally good mood from the harmalas, about halfway through my episode of family guy, when I began to feel the DMT. This occurred at about T=45 min after ten (when I took the harmalas). It came on in what felt like waves, with each successive wave being stronger than the preceding one. After finishing the family guy and using the bathroom (T ~1 hr), I settled down on my bed with my headphones on, looking forward to the visions yet to come.

Unfortunately, those visions never came. For truly visionary experiences I think that 75-100 mg would be a more affective dose. However, I would still call my journey an absurdly magnificent run-of-the-mill psychedelic experience, equating the following mindset with that produced by ~4 g of mushrooms with additional alcohol-like intoxicating effects:

Settling down on my bed I closed my eyes and was enveloped in a sort of hazy phosphene glow. As waves continued to bring more effects, this developed into a disorganized collection of pattern fragments. Strings of bones flowed by at mind-boggling speeds, and I had this feeling of being in a hot, dry desert. None of these bone rivers remained unbroken for very long, however. Almost as soon as I draw my consciousness together enough to follow one of the bones on its path, clouds of mist occlude the whole bone stream. As I see these once continuous streams broken, I feel an equivalent scattering of my mind and general fogginess in my thought processes. I resolved that I had simply not eaten enough DMT and that these discontinuous patterns were as close to visions as I was going to get. I started the grinding and packing necessary to vaporize some cannabis, hoping to spice up the whole experience a little bit.

And boy did it. About 0.1 grams vaped at T~1.5 hr in the first bowl seemed to lift the mental fog to view more patterns, while simultaneously promoting sleepiness. I decided to shut off the lights in hopes that the darkness would yield to more hallucinations. As I vaped the second 0.1 g in darkness, I could also feel the effects of the DMT begin to wax (DMT seems to have effects that wax and wane over the course of the experience, contrasting from the typical come up, plateau, come down effects associated with LSD or mushrooms). On inhaling a hit and closing my eyes, I could actually see the existing patterns become deeper and more intricate. It was as if the patterns were extending into the third spatial dimension at the same rate that my diaphragm sucked in THC vapor. I saw a 2D “X” that grew into a massive 3D X-shaped structure, ebony black with geometric patterns of blue and red lines spilling down its side. It was so tall that it extended above the misty clouds that had obscured my earlier hallucinations. While nothing especially lucid or vivid, this was the closest I would say I got to a true vision in this session.

After what felt like a solid eternity in the presence of this bizarre X tower, I felt drawn back into my room on Earth. I turned on the lights, and the DMT effects waned, giving way to the MAOI-induced mental fog that blocked any dynamic hallucinations. If I closed my eyes I would simply see a vast black nothingness with tiny blips of light in it, like a Hubble deep field image of the surrounding universe. This image was static except for a sort of shimmering (I don’t know what else to call it) of the galaxy dots. This shimmering effect around objects is something that I explicitly associate with harmalas, having witnessed a similar shimmering effect painted across the sky after taking 200 mg of extract alone. It is neither a changing, nor an overly intricate hallucination, but I also notice it with eyes open as a glowing shimmer surrounding the visually noticeable objects in my room. I was feeling the harmala effects wash over me in a wave of nausea. The whole experience is very “wavy” in that the effects seem to alternate periodically in respect to both the DMT and the harmala alkaloids. I was in low-tide DMT with high-tide harmalas (T~2 hrs), which continued to feed my nausea in a positive feedback loop.

I taste chemicals in the back of my throat and I imagine that I have been poisoned or that I am ill. Rising out of the bed to close the window, I am struck with a strong disorienting spinning sensation that almost causes me to projectile vomit everywhere like an Exorcist reenactment. I hold it back and the period of peak nausea ends. With my nausea slightly abated, I sat next to the trashcan and turned on some archer in preparation for vomiting. The episode involved archer being diagnosed with breast cancer and involved several scenes of him vomiting due to chemo. Although the episode was hilarious by any normal measure, my current state became depressed and nauseated by seeing it.

I am hit with several more waves of nausea that swell and retract, when I become aware of my whole visual field assuming a stranger, more alien character. I felt the DMT waxing again, overarching the more frequent nausea waves. Wave enthusiasts might comment on DMT’s longer duration in period of effects in comparison to the period of the harmala-induced nausea, as well as greater amplitude in the DMT wave relative to the harmala wave (i.e. the DMT appears to vary more drastically in its effects than the harmalas do). I was slipping into a kind of trance-like conscious dream. At this point I felt physically ill (like the flu). I begin to shiver as I’m hit with the harmala chills, and my body feels achy and dysfunctional.

As I reach the second peak of the DMT wave (T>2 hrs), I engage in some deep introspection. Sitting with head down next to the trashcan and battling nausea, I reminisce on my family that I miss in my hometown. I think about how different my life would be if I didn’t do any drugs. I note how the more common psychoactives, like alcohol or cannabis, include a sense of numbing from reality (alcohol especially), but that acid or shrooms seem to amplify reality and all of the mental processes associated with consciousness. The DMT/beta-carboline combination seems to combine both of these sensations, as I feel a disconnection from reality while at the same time thinking fast and clearly about the surreal, dream-like unreality that I find myself in. I reflect on the many opportunities that I have yet to take advantage of to meet new people around my area. I marvel at the complexity of my physical body, as it chemically modifies the psychoactives consumed earlier in order to reestablish homeostasis. This causes me to think about my brain/mind (depending on how physical you want to get), and I am overwhelmed with the ineffable complexity and incredible function of the organic, conscious machine sitting behind my eyes. I think about how our perception of reality is spontaneously created by this marvelous organ in real time, based on the sensory input fed to it. It is so easy to fool a brain into believing that perceived sensory signals accurately portray our surroundings, when the brain could actually be processing a sensory input that is heavily modified by chemicals burning in the stomach. This raises a fundamental question on the nature of reality, because although we just assume that sober, normal consciousness paints us an accurate picture of the universe around our bodies, the exact same part of the universe can be perceived in a drastically different way by simply changing chemical concentrations in the brain. So any “reality” observed using our brain must be taken with a grain of salt, as that reality is dictated by a fragile chemical equilibrium in the brain that can be changed completely at any point by some rogue neurotransmitter like DMT.

As I sit shivering and disoriented in front of my computer, I combat the nausea by nibbling on pretzels and sipping water. Eventually, the nausea subsides along with the crest in DMT effects, and I can feel myself beginning to come down in waves, much like the come up. Overall the come down was a chronologically more drawn out experience than the come up, and still I felt my level of intoxication incrementally decrease like a retreating tide. As I approach baseline, I have clear, fast thoughts, but at the same time paradoxically feel a state of dazed exhaustion.

The come down was in full swing around T~3.5 hrs and I felt that I should write down my experience because my past DMT experiences suggest that I’m likely to forget any meaningful events if I do not attempt to record them. So, after pissing a bright yellow chemical piss and refueling with some tap water and a third ~0.1 g vaped cannabis, I settled down to sort through my strange experience in Microsoft Word. At T~4 hrs I type out “The short story:”.

A note on dosage: it seems to me that the length of the experience is determined largely by the harmala dose, while the intensity depends on the DMT. I say this because I noticed that I had completely metabolized the DMT (i.e. felt little to no strong psychedelic effects), by about T~4.5 hr, but that I was still feeling a definite stupor from the harmalas. This makes sense biologically since harmine/harmaline do not irreversibly block MAO action, which allows for some monoamines (like DMT) to be metabolized at a slower rate. So small doses of DMT (~50 mg), would be completely metabolized by partially-inhibited MAO action before the last of the harmine/harmaline was metabolized... this is all speculation though based off this one experience.


Edited by greenman147 (12/01/13 07:40 PM)


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