The content of complex psychedelic experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N-dimethyltryptamine

People who smoke the psychedelic compound DMT report complex experiences that include seeing unusual visual and synesthetic phenomena, leaving this world and entering extraordinary places, encountering strange entities, interacting with unusual objects, and having powerful feelings. Although such experiences are often described as indescribable, unique, and occurring in a single domain called Hyperspace, this analysis of online narrative accounts identified distinct subcategories of frequently visited Places, encountered Entities, Objects, and Feelings. The findings provide a framework for a more comprehensive understanding of the profound experiences resulting from DMT inhalation.

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Abstract

AbstractAimThis study examines narratives describing complex psychedelic experiences after smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine.MethodsThe narrative accounts examined here were gathered from a variety of online sites and analyzed in order to discover themes, categories and patterns in the phenomenon of the resulting psychedelic experiences.ResultsSubjects reported seeing complex and unusual visual and synesthetic phenomena, leaving this world and entering into extraordinary places, encounters with a variety of strange entities, interactions with unusual objects and a wide variety of powerful feelings. The general categories of Places, Objects, Entities and Feelings were found in the phenomena experienced by people who smoked N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. These provided a framework within which more detailed subcategories were found and the range of most frequent to least frequent experiences were identified.DiscussionWhile DMT experiences are commonly described by people smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine as indescribable, unique to everyone and taking place in a single domain called Hyperspace or the Hyperdimension, this research found distinct subcategories of frequently visited Places as well as frequently encountered Entities, Objects and Feelings. From these a more comprehensive understanding can be developed of the unusual and profound experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N,-Dimethyltryptamine.