0-20 seconds A scratchiness in the lungs.
20-30 seconds A buzzing starts in the ears, rising in tone and volume to an incredible intensity. It's like cellophane being ripped apart (or the fabric of the universe being torn asunder). Your body will vibrate in sympathy with this sound, and you will notice a sharp blood pressure rise. You may feel like you are deeply underwater. Your visual field will also vibrate in resonance to the sound and will finally be completely obscured by the visions.
30 seconds-1 minute You break through into DMT hyperspace. Often at this point, users believe that their hearts or breathing have stopped. This is not true. To an outside observer, you are breathing normally and your pulse, while elevated, is strong. We believe that this subjective effect is due to your "internal clock" being slowed so greatly that the subjective time interval between breaths or heartbeats seems like an eternity. Synthetic DMT has been extensively tested by medical authorities here and in Europe. It is perfectly safe with no lasting physical effects at these doses.
1 minute-2-5 minutes Depending on dosage: DMT hyperspace. For all practical purposes, you will no longer be embodied. You will be part of the intergalactic information network. You may experience any of the following:
Do not be amazed and do not try to actively direct your observations but merely pay attention. The beings can show you amazing things, but if you try to impose your personal trip on the DMT you will find that you cannot and may become frightened.
5-12 minutes The visions have subsided. There are still patterns when you close your eyes, but with eyes open, the world is back. At this point, a flood of information may rush through your mind. The phase is fleeting. In order to preserve your DMT ideation, we recommend that you begin talking as soon as you come out of the visionary state. Don't try for complete sentences but get as many ideas out as you can while you can. Have a tape recorder running during the trip and you can review your thoughts at a later time.
15-20 minutes The ideation flood subsides leaving you euphoric. You may still have a trace of the vibrations in your body.
30-60 minutes The euphoria subsides.
60+ minutes You are completely down.
The authors recommend a dosage of about 40-50mg. of synthetic DMT to be smoked in a single hit with a standard "freebase" pipe. They assert that dosages of less than 40mg are insufficient to display the full range of DMT effects described above and dosages in excess of 55mg (if you are successful in holding all of the vapor in your lungs) can be "VERY heavy and are not recommended for first time users."
The end of the article states, "We believe in a truly free society the price of packaged information would be driven down to the cost of reproduction and transmission. We, therefore, give blanket permission and encourage photocopy, quotation, reprint or entry into a database of all or part of our articles provided that the copier or quoter does not take credit for our statements."
And elsewhere states, "One of the reasons for writing this paper is, hopefully, to increase the demand for DMT. If this paper intrigues you, we suggest that you seek out a supply of your own. Look for DMT in the smokable, freebase form, not hydrochloride form. You will not be disappointed."
Excerpt from an article entitled, DMT: How and Why to Get Off by "Gracie & Zarkov" from the zine Crash Collusion (#7) and details the synthetic DMT experience as it relates to "ET" contact.
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