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DMT users have long reported encounters with similar beings including gods, elves and jesters…
A new study has taken a closer look at DMT trips, including the phenomena of people seemingly encountering the same entities.
DMT (aka N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug which naturally occurs in many plants and animals (including humans). It has been used throughout history by various cultures, including in the South American spiritual ceremony, Ayahuasca.
getting ur first pair of crocs is equivalent to doing ayahuasca
— living dead girl (@renminguez) January 10, 2023
The study, which was authored by Stephen Kagan, analysed 100 accounts of DMT trips, collected from platforms like YouTube and drug education site, Erowid.
The accounts, which often involved “encounters with strange autonomous entities and divine beings…complex technological objects, profound emotional and mystical experiences, and being transported to unusual and complex hyperdimensional places” were then broken down into categories of Places, Objects, Entities, Feelings, and Attributes.
why are people confused when they take DMT and see machine elves? when they go into pure psyche / imaginal mode and interact with raw archetypes? of course you see archetypes and interact with the raw stuff of them
— yatharth ⍼ (unhinged era) (@AskYatharth) January 10, 2023
Kagan noted that in the majority of reports, people did not describe their experiences as being “manifestations of their own minds”, but rather encounters which felt “autonomous…and independent of their influence.”
“Some people also described the content of their experiences as being more real than real,” Kagan described.
“This often meant that what they experienced was more vibrant, complex, varied or detailed than what they normally experienced in their daily lives. In most cases, the ability to perceive their normal surrounding reality did not remain intact and if it did, then the content and structure of their DMT experiences were superimposed upon and within the external world.”
DMT entity. pic.twitter.com/uU6hzQr8vc
— julio (@juliogodillo) January 10, 2023
Perhaps most interesting was the detailing of encounters with similar entities, which were categorised as ‘gods:mystic’, ‘elves:goblins’, ‘jester:clown’, ‘humanoid’, ‘living machines’ and ‘disembodied’.
Making up 36 percent of experiences, ‘Humanoid’ was the most commonly encountered entity, which includes aliens or family members with “strange shaped bodies or heads”, sometimes with skin that was blue, red or gold. ‘Living Machines’ were the second most commonly experienced entity, making up 16 percent of encounters.
Based on the data already gathered, Kagan plans to conduct further investigation into DMT experiences, not only to better understand the encounters, but also in the hope that DMT may one day be used as a clinical treatment for depression in the same vein as psilocybin.
There’s an abundance of evidence pointing to the fact that psychedelics like psilocybin, lsd, & DMT can help treat & even cure PTSD, Addiction, and depression.
— The Daily Shroom (@TheDailyShroom) January 9, 2023
