I had a stroke at 18 months old. (Remote small infarct, within the right lateral thalamus/posterior limb internal capsule with wallerian degeneration involving a portion of the corticospinal tract…...for those who know these things.) I’m currently 31.
DMT
Well-documented
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 6 corroborating sources
- 4 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 27 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 6 corroborating sources
- 4 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 27 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Aliases: Dmitry, Dimitri, N,n-dmt, Fantasia, The glory, dimethyltryptamine
Summary
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (also known as DMT, N,N-DMT, Dmitri, and "The Spirit Molecule") is a classical psychedelic substance of the tryptamine class. Among psychedelics, it is known for its unique ability to produce short-lived but intense visionary states and complete hallucinations. It is thought to produce its effects by binding to serotonin receptors in the brain, although the precise mechanism is not fully understood.
Perspectives
“As I exhaled I became terribly afraid, my heart very rapid and strong, palms sweat. A terrible sense of dread and doom filled me — I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't stop it, but it was so overwhelming as to be almost unbearable. I lay down and dimmed the lights. Then the visions began. And what can be said about them?”
“DMT creates an actual place rather than pattern distortions. I was transplanted into an unknown setting, which appeared to comprise some sort of other-reality. At some point in the future I will be drawn to another attempt.”
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoked BA ~100% | 10-20mg | 20-40mg | 40-60mg | 60mg+ |
| Insufflated BA ~60% | 10-25mg | 25-50mg | 50-125mg | 125mg+ |
| Intravenous | 4-10mg | 10-15mg | 15-20mg | 20mg+ |
| Vaporized | 10-15mg | 15-25mg | 25-35mg | 35mg+ |
| Rectal | - | 30-50mg | 50-70mg | 70mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoked | 15 - 60 seconds | - | 1-5 min | 5-10 min | 15-90 min |
| Oral | 30-45 min | 45-60 min | 2-3 hrs | 1-2 hrs | - |
| Insufflated | 3-4 min | - | 45-60 min | 10-20 min | - |
| Intravenous | - | - | 0-6 min | 12-18 min | - |
| Vaporized | 0-1 min | - | 3-10 min | 1-6 min | 5-20 min |
| Rectal | 1-12 min | 15-25 min | 1-2.5 hrs | 3-5 hrs | 4.5-8 hrs |
Effect Profile
1,292 reportsScores (1–10) curated from multiple sources:
- Effect keyword matching from PsychonautWiki catalog
- Validated against 1,043 Erowid trip reports
- Weighted by importance: core (×3), major (×2), minor (×1)
Psychedelic
9.1
Intense+
9/10
Strong visuals, headspace, and auditory effects with mild body load
Visual Intensity
×3
10
external hallucinations
internal hallucinations
autonomous entities
colour enhancement
drifting
tracers
+5 more
“I sat up at the edge of the bed and opened my eyes, distortions such as visual drifting along with geometric patterns still covered my whole field of vision.”
“I could see around the room everything was moving on the surface but there were no closed eye visuals other than the swirling purple clouds going down the drain which is what I've always seen with my...”
Headspace Depth
×3
10
conceptual thinking
recursion
subconscious communication
emotion enhancement
perspective alterations
personal bias suppression
+1 more
“Complete and utter ego death hits.”
“At this point I experienced total ego death.”
Auditory Effects
×1
8
auditory distortions
auditory hallucinations
auditory distortion
auditory enhancement
“At about 90 seconds I started hearing a powerful sound that was not coming from the ears.”
“Started with ringing ears, I never had that from DMT or 5-MeO-DMT before, just with I.M.”
Body Load / Somatic Effects
×1
5
temperature regulation suppression
nausea
vasoconstriction
bodily pressures
stomach discomfort
“I am sweating and shaking a little.”
“The slight dizziness and nausea lasted a few hours.”
User Experience
visuals
“I sat up at the edge of the bed and opened my eyes, distortions such as visual drifting along with geometric patterns still covered my whole field of vision.”
Tolerance
Build-up
minimal with single or spaced use; rapid with repeated dosing in one session
Reset
7–14 days for baseline
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
0.5h
Half tolerance
7d
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.
Human studies found minimal to no rapid psychological tolerance after closely spaced IV administrations compared to other psychedelics; subjective effects remained robust, although some biological measures declined across repeated doses. Community reports suggest the ability to redose within a session with little tolerance, but cumulative physiological/psychological load increases. Data quality is mixed; cross-tolerance with other 5‑HT2A psychedelics is presumed but not well quantified.
Cross-Tolerances
Effects
Aggregated from 1,043 Erowid and 249 Bluelight experience reports
Positive Effects 73
Entity Imagery
68.0%
90%
Color Enhancement
62.8%
87%
Awe
42.0%
86%
Geometric Imagery
40.0%
88%
Empathy
38.8%
80%
Insight
38.0%
83%
Euphoria
35.3%
88%
Closed-Eye Visuals
34.4%
91%
Music Enhancement
30.2%
86%
Tactile Enhancement
26.6%
70%
Focus Enhancement
25.9%
70%
Revelatory Insight
24.0%
86%
Mystical Quality
24.0%
89%
Fractal Imagery
24.0%
92%
Introspection
20.3%
83%
Morphing
20.0%
87%
Wonder
18.0%
84%
Peace
18.0%
86%
Body High
16.8%
85%
Environmental Transfiguration
16.0%
88%
Adverse Effects 29
Anxiety
53.7%
84%
Fear
36.0%
84%
Confusion
28.7%
82%
Body Load
24.0%
77%
Depersonalization
24.0%
80%
Panic
14.0%
86%
Memory Suppression
10.2%
82%
Pressure
8.0%
82%
Nausea
7.4%
76%
Thought Disorganization
6.0%
80%
Increased Heart Rate
5.4%
70%
Taste Distortion
4.0%
88%
Vomiting
4.0%
88%
Dread
4.0%
95%
Muscle Tension
3.7%
70%
Psychosis
3.3%
70%
Thought Loops
3.0%
78%
Sweating
2.7%
85%
Jaw Clenching
2.4%
70%
Pupil Dilation
2.2%
70%
Combinations
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Community Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Reddit 8 reports 3 positive 3 neutral 2 cautionary visit
In the past month, I have had three sub-breakthrough experiences involving the same very, very bizarre "civilization" of DMT entities. These entities are the strangest thing I've ever encountered during psychedelic experiences because they're far outside the realm of any archetyp...
Just amazing. It felt like time literally stopped. I heard sounds, saw colors within everything. Constant warping. I saw and felt beings and kept getting the idea of “align with the frequency and stop thinking” and once I entered my heart instead of the mind, I saw them.
As the title states. Absolutely insane experience that significantly impacted my perception of the past, present, future, and time/space/reality itself. Took two major hits and got sucked out of this reality into an entire new universe where time was not even a factor.
My poor mother is deteriorating fast of stage four cancer. Her last heart scan said her heart was fine but she's gotten very frail this past couple of weeks. She's very keen to try DMT but I'm concerned it may be too much for her. For context, she will be 78 next week.
Ok so I have been messing with DMT for 3 weeks or so now. I have a pen and some freebase. At first I was just using the pen because it was more familiar and I saw some patterns in the texture of my room and watched the world outside my window turn alien and geometrical.
Alright bro, picture this: college student me, thinking I could level up my chill time by dropping some DMT in the woods while camping out in my trusty hammock. Solid plan, right? Wrong. As the DMT kicked in, the serene woodland scene morphed into a cosmic circus.
Just had the craziest and most heartwarming trip of my life, and I've been crying for a couple hours now. To start, my grandmother died of cancer and I never got closure.
Erowid 8 reports 3 positive 3 neutral 2 cautionary visit
I've been interested in DMT for a long time and have been using it almost as long as I've been using psychoactives in general, but I've never been able to get quite what I felt should be for a long time. Not until now, that is.
About two months ago I obtained two grams of DMT. I was elated, after several years of searching for it. I had really wanted it in the first place but had settled for various other dialkyl tryptamines over the past 3 years which had brought me a wealth of interesting and amazing experiences.
This is a story that Ive been meaning to write. And now that Ive lost a goddam tooth, I guess its time. This is about DMT and me. Ill start it by saying that its a wall of text. (tl;dr: Did too much. Got beat up. The Fairies Are Real.) The story starts back a few years.
Oh where to begin How do you do a write up of walking hand in hand with madness! Im not looking for an A grade in English here, I mean theres going to be resurfaced words, words like Nothingness, Meaningless and Familiarity recurring over and over again because theres nothing else Im armed with in this limited arse...
In September of 1983 life was blissful freedom as a first-year art student at the University of California, Berkeley. By 1983, Berkeley may have no longer been exactly as it had been in the 'golden age' of the sixties and early seventies, but it had not yet devolved to its current state - where psychotrippical people a...
In order for me to recount this experience accurately I must first give some necessary context. Roughly three weeks prior to this trip I began to notice a subtle yet extremely profound shift in my perception of life and reality.
Two days ago my older brother who recently got out of court ordered rehab came to hang out. I never would have expected we were going to try the most potent psychedelic available that day, but I've heard people say it (dmt) really does find you. Me i'm an herb enthusiast; I love and smoke weed everyday.
A composite essay of my first two DMT trips DISCLAIMER: This is a pale reflection of a bottomless mystery. The things I say it is, it is now - these are but linguistic shrouds I am able to cloak it in. Please don't think you know DMT from having read this, you don't.
Bluelight 8 threads 2 positive 4 neutral 2 cautionary visit
About two months ago I obtained two grams of DMT.I was elated, after several years of searching for it. I had really wanted it in the first place but had settled for various other dialkyl tryptamines over the past 3 years which had brought me a wealth of interesting and amazing experiences.
Here is my story of the most Freighting Yet satisfying Experience I (or most people alive) ever had, I have much to write about and in great detail and length: I am a 22 years old male, my previous and only experience with psychedelics was with 170ug of n25-ibome which was very enjoyable but not enlightening.
On April 11, 2010, I loaded a completely arbitrary amount of primary-pull, pure white crystalline, home-extracted DMT into my pipe, and took a single huge hit. I was immersed in hyperspace before having completely exhaled.
~A (Very Long) Write-up Collection of my DMT Experiences~ Subject: Gender: F Weight: 95lbs Background: fascinated with tryptamines, experienced with many different psychedelics. First off, I apologize for any typos… I was typing all of this up pretty quickly because I was excited about it.
This took on a life of it's own as I was writing it, whilst tired, and so it is incredibly long, maybe there are some mistakes, possibly some people will take offense, certainly some people will think I'm an idiot or mad, but certainly I couldn't care less.
Buoyant Boundlessness Pharmacology Substance: Harmala (Freebase) + Dimethyltryptamine (Freebase) Potency: 96%+ Pure Dosage 1: 250mg Harmala + 110mg DMT Dosage 2: 30mg DMT Route of Administration: Oral at first, vaporized later on.
WARNING #1: LONG WARNING #2: LOTS OF CRAZY TALK This is my account of something that happened to me following the inhalation of two hits of the finest DMT I've ever seen. I can't even call this a trip.
oral DMT - you know - I fought the spirits and the spirits almost fucking won! Substances - experience level - creative title Click to expand... How's that for a title? lol So I IV'd some DMT, 1000mg, and then aliens from the planet, Zoloft, came and took me there where two dolphins with five dicks, repeatedly fucked m...
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“As I exhaled I became terribly afraid, my heart very rapid and strong, palms sweat. A terrible sense of dread and doom filled me — I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't stop it, but it was so overwhelming as to be almost unbearable. I lay down and dimmed the lights. Then the visions began. And what can be said about them?”
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