If you want to skip the three following trip-reports and come straight to the conclusion, scroll all the way down. Background information: - gender: male - age: 24 - weight: 77 kg - setting: at home - set: feeling good, spent the holidays with the family and had a lot of fun with my friends.
DET
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- 5 corroborating sources
- 2 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 19 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
- classified Tentative
- classified Research-chemical
Encyclopedic
Typical encyclopedia coverage. Cross-reference for important decisions.
- 5 corroborating sources
- 2 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 19 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
- classified Tentative
- classified Research-chemical
Aliases: T-9, Diethyltryptamine
Summary
DET is a Schedule I controlled substance internationally under the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances and is illegal in most countries. Unlike DMT, DET is orally active due to increased resistance to monoamine oxidase breakdown from its ethyl groups. The substance has extremely limited history of human use and no formal toxicity studies exist.
Perspectives
“I was in a public place, and might have had to interact with someone at any moment, which probably accounted for a grim paranoia and wish to retreat. I had my full effect in just over an hour, with almost no visual or physical properties, but a crashing fear of interacting. I had to retreat to a private place to read and appear deeply involved, but in another hour I found it an increasingly easy task to pretend to be normal. I carried it off, OK. Good sleep, no residues.”
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 20-40mg | 40-70mg | 70-100mg | 100mg+ |
| Vapourized | 15-25mg | 30-50mg | 50mg | 50mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 30-90 min | 30-60 min | 2-4 hrs | 1-2 hrs | 2-4 hrs |
| Smoked | 1-4 min | 4-10 min | 15-30 min | 19-40 min | 2-4 hrs |
| Intramuscular | 4-15 min | 15-30 min | 1-2 hrs | 1-2 hrs | 2-4 hrs |
| Vapourized | 1-4 min | - | 2-4 hrs | - | 2-4 hrs |
Effect Profile
13 reportsScores (1–10) curated from multiple sources:
- Effect keyword matching from PsychonautWiki catalog
- Weighted by importance: core (×3), major (×2), minor (×1)
Psychedelic
7.6
Intense
8/10
Strong visuals and headspace with moderate body load
Visual Intensity
×3
10
external hallucinations
internal hallucinations
color enhancement
drifting
tracers
pattern recognition enhancement
+3 more
Headspace Depth
×3
9
conceptual thinking
thought connectivity
emotion enhancement
thought loops
time distortion
confusion
Auditory Effects
×1
0
Body Load / Somatic Effects
×1
6
nausea
muscle tension
increased heart rate
Based on reports from:
Tolerance
Build-up
develops rapidly after a single use
Reset
7–14 days for baseline
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
1h
Half tolerance
10d
Baseline
~14d
Acute tolerance: develops within a single session — the reset numbers above apply after sustained heavy use, not after one binge. Within-session tachyphylaxis usually resets largely overnight.
Effects
Aggregated from 13 Erowid experience reports
Positive Effects 6
Euphoria
61.5%
70%
Music Enhancement
61.5%
70%
Empathy
46.2%
70%
Stimulation
46.2%
70%
Color Enhancement
38.5%
70%
Tactile Enhancement
38.5%
70%
Adverse Effects 2
Anxiety
46.2%
70%
Nausea
38.5%
70%
Combinations
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Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Erowid 8 reports 8 neutral visit
Well,I think we have a winner here. It is easy to make, easy to take, no real consequences, just a lot of bliss. Surprised we hear so little about this wonderful tryptamine. #1 Long story short this was just a small taste test.
(85mg diethyltryptamine (DET), orally, analysed via GC/MS) The ecstatic experience is practically impossible to articulate; human beings lack the experiential vocabulary to be able to describe them in the detail that is necessary to fully convey their meaning that it had to the individual that experienced it.
Tl;dr DET is a tolerable tryptamine with a lot of physical energy, less dark emotional corners to it, but that comes at the expense perhaps of less intense emotional catharses. Seems to have a fairly sustained plateau effect rather than peak-diminution.
[Epigraph] These daggers of words Penetrating Manipulating The conscious thoughts of reality Blurring the lines between dreams and insanity They repeat; Death old friend Death old friend Death old friend -- The Magus, Death Old Friend Shamans, mysticists, philosophers have used psychedelic substances to learn answers t...
Diethyltryptamine - (freebase crystals) large white/translucent platelets (slightly gold/brownish) waxy-soft (disintegrated if rubbed between fingers) with strong pungent faecal odor.
To put things in context I had DET a few time before by different pathway and different doses (50 and 80mg) and I have some other experiences with 1V LSD and DMT. This time whoever I decided to give it a try using the fumarate salt using the same absorption route as before.
I have been sitting on DET I obtained from a reliable source about two years ago, but have not had a chance to try it. Last night I decided to sample it. I wanted to first take a low dose and 1) make sure it was OK to ingest since I plan on taking a full dose with others, always test on myself first and 2) to get a sen...
Bluelight 2 threads 2 neutral visit
Preface: N,N-diethyltryptamine (DET) is an uncommon base tryptamine and homolog of DMT. Mentions of DET in the literature go back as far as 1957, maybe even farther, where its psychedelic effects have been tentatively studied in humans.
Approximately 40 mg DET freebase, oral - should be threshold/low dose Impure material, brown sticky tar...had to dissolve in ethanol to dose, forming a brown solution (~5 mL). t+0 at 1:30am Ethanol solution added to a glass of beer and ingested. t+15 min Alert felt. No further development. t+40-60 min Building.
Bluelight Reference Guide
Tryptamines The Small & Handy DET thread
A bit surprising that BL doesn't have a B'nD-style thread for DET but that is understandable since it is so rare. That said, I'd been blessed with the opportunity to try it... a good friend gave me a small sample out of his collection (so don't get too excited, it is still off the market AFAIK).
Read full thread on Bluelight →PiHKAL / TiHKAL
TiHKAL #3: DET
“I was in a public place, and might have had to interact with someone at any moment, which probably accounted for a grim paranoia and wish to retreat. I had my full effect in just over an hour, with almost no visual or physical properties, but a crashing fear of interacting. I had to retreat to a private place to read and appear deeply involved, but in another hour I found it an increasingly easy task to pretend to be normal. I carried it off, OK. Good sleep, no residues.”
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