Understanding DMT Experiences and Perceptions

Yeah, I think a fair number of the volunteers

were confused.

They just didn't know how to explain it.

Um, in fact, they were kind of troubled by it.

They, uh,

they felt they had entered into a whole different realm of reality that

they didn't know was there. That seemed more real than, than real.

And, uh, they didn't have, really have a context within which to, um,

to understand it, to incorporate it.

Uh, so I think, you know, some people just threw a blanket over it,

so to

speak, uh, chalked it up to experience, um, and then went

on with, on their lives.

Um,

you know, others tried to, uh,

tried to understand it the best they could.

Um,

and I think what was probably the most, you know,

kind of, I, I think the thing that was the easiest for people to do was just

take it at face value. Um, that DMT thrust them into some other

place, and when they were there, they were there, and when they weren't,

then they

weren't.

You know, um, one, one particular volunteer really, I think,

put it

nicely. Um,

he was of the opinion that where he went

to on DMT was just going on,

you know, kind of on its own. Um, that it was not as if

when he did DMT in the study that he took up,

uh, kind of at the point that he had left off.

It was more that he entered that realm

sometime down the road from the time that he had last entered it.

You know, so it was ongoing, and he dipped into it here and there.

It w- wasn't like it was a product of his mind as much as a

technology that he could use to enter that, that world, those, those

worlds that, uh, was going on independent of him.

You know, um, so he'd be there one time, and then he'd be there, uh, the

following time, and time would have elapsed in

that realm just as

much as it happened in this world.

Um, so,

you know, as much as I tried to m- to interpret what people

were experiencing as non-real,

just the reality of it, the,

the searing sense of, you know, solidity and,

and, uh,

just the t-truth of what they were experiencing, you know, it,

it made them

really not wanna swerve from, uh, attributing, uh,

autonomous, independent existence to those things.

Okay.