Deep-Sea Diving

Into a colorful world

Substances: DMT

First time
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I made three cups out of aluminium foil, and put into each cup a suitable-looking amount (no scale...) of the lightbrown- yellowish powder. I had smoked some MJ ca. 1.5 hours earlier, wasn't that much stoned anymore, but could still feel some effects.

I held one cup in my left hand under a glass tube and held a lighter in my right hand. I put the end of the tube in my mouth, lit up and started to inhale. Contrary to what I had heard from various places, the vapor did not feel particularly harsh in throat & lungs. The product vaporized entirely and very quickly, leaving no traces behind. I took the second cup, that was already loaded, and began to feel (about 20 secs since the first hit) that "it is starting to work". I sucked in the second hit, and realized that it is working, and truly powerfully (about 40 secs). I decided that I can't, and don't wish to, take the third loaded cup.

I had an impression in my head of diving into some colourful and wondrous world. I thought it best to recline on a sitting-bag and close my eyes. I was floating around in a colourful world that was changing rapidly. The colours were yellow, red, pink, green -- all very bright. Roundness seemed to be the predominating form and many patterns hovered following semi-circular trajectories.

   xxxxx     xxxxx
  x     x   x     x	
 x                 x	
 x                 x	
  x               x


  x               x   Many of the patterns were formed like this,
 x                 x   except that the lines outlined here with 'x':s
 x                 x  were continous arcs. Often these patterns were
  x     x   x     x  juxtaposed and stacked within each other.
   xxxxx     xxxxx

Music sounded real good, and it was driving the experience forcefully. To my regret, I've forgotten what the music was. Things I saw were very abstract, and I experienced them as really pleasant; all during the experience I had a big smile on my face. I felt myself to be in a comfortable, friendly and funny place, where everyone is glad and jolly :-)

Besides the music, I could hear my friends talking silently all through the experience, and I felt I could also understand completely what they were saying, although the voices seemed to originate from some far-away plane of other reality -- like a weak radio transmission coming from outer space. Suddenly Y began to speculate about some unpleasant things that one might encounter while on DMT trip... which wasn't a brilliant thing to do. His rap began to disturb me, as it began to direct my thought to reading those negative things into the state I was experiencing.

I felt I "had to do something about it" and swam with great speed into that other reality. I said quickly to Y, "do you have to speak things like that", and dived back to the depths... I felt like a fish that shoots up from the bottom of the sea towards the surface, and for a fraction of a second jumps in the air, the alien element, and then quickly returns to the deep. Y was silent and the experience became fun again.

After a while I had an idea of opening the windows and looking outside. So I opened my eyes and looked at my astonished friends as if thru a yellowish-brown transparent plastic sheet and a wide-scope camera lens with an odd pattern superimposed on it. The figures looked like my friends, but their appearance was somewhat strange. I felt really happy and energetic... I think I started to babble something. My vision returned back to normal quite rapidly (ca. 5 minutes after dosing). The euphoria went on for a little longer, after about 20 minutes I felt I'd come completely down, also, the effects of MJ had disappeared almost completely.

Teqtonik
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The same night, I returned home at 3.00 am after having been out with my friends. I felt like trying the product again... so I loaded again three tin foil cups, this time little ampler hits. For music, I selected Teqtonik by Beaumont Hannant from the Dream InjectionŽ CD.

I sat on the sofa and began to smoke hits. Still no cough reflex or harshness in the throat. After two hits I was already feeling it coming on powerfully... I took the third tinfoil and tried to light it and suck but could not concentrate at all, for I was already flying through the space, carried by the music. I could keep my hands in this reality a little longer, so I could place the implements back onto table. As I was putting them down, I felt as if my hands were going through some inter-dimensional gateway. Hands felt in that reality completely different from the rest of my body that was floating in space.

The experience was very similar to the previous one, but in many respects it was different. The music acted even more wonderfully, and it was forming the entire space around me. Suddenly I realized that I was receiving communication from somewhere... In principle I recognized the words, but the sentence phrasing was very odd, deviating strangely from the ordinary speech. I cannot remember the contents of the messages anymore... better luck next time :-)

Then I abruptly had the sensation that "I shouldn't have come here without any preparations"... I felt like having done some harmless but embarrassing mistake. Next thing I knew was that my body was shivering with cold... I had not warmed up sufficiently after coming home from outside. My teeth started chattering as soon as I thought about chattering teeth. The cold felt chilling, and again I had this "I have to do something about this"-feeling. I emerged to this reality, managed to get on my feet and fetched quickly a blanket from the other room, and again plunged back into far-away world. It was as if I had briefly entered my own, but alien body to fulfill this duty, so I could go on with my investigations in the totally other place.

Once again some funny things happened, but suddenly I perceived some extraordinary connection between the experience I was now having, and a conversation I had had with T.H one and half year ago, about things that were in no way connected to this topic. I had a feeling of understanding completely what was happening back then, although I cannot now even remember what we were talking about. But everything seemed to fit into their places perfectly....

Soon I opened my eyes, and looked at my X terminal. The letters looked really strange, instead of white background, they had a weak pastel- hued, differently coloured backgrounds! I started to laugh, and went on to report to IRC something like "I have to get myself a font like this, it looks real neat". I had no trouble with typing, but as the words came out, things looked weird on the terminal. The background colours changed according to letters, the meaning of the words, and their declinations. If I made a typo, there was a truly amazing colour change, and typos made on purpose looked quite neat :-) The letters looked little more angular than ordinarily, but still were quite rounded.

At some point in time I recalled that I had decided earlier to put out the music for a moment to see what happens then. I took the remote control in my hand and looked at the symbols in the buttons. I could see all the symbols very acutely, but they were all the same! This one symbol had been formed by superimposing many ordinary remote control button symbols on top of each other... but I could not grasp its meaning. After staring at the remote control for some time, the "overprints" started to fade away, and I could locate the Pause button. The time stopped and I only heard the overpowering humming of the computer. This is no good, I thought, and pushed the Pause again, and time began to roll onwards again, the events starting exactly from where they had been before the time stopped.

Slowly I began to return to this world... again feeling very enthusiastic and euphoric. I talked all kinds of funny things in IRC. The effects of MJ were again mostly faded because of the experience.

The experience feels also in some way very healthy. I can recommend it without reservation to all psychonauts with some previous experience. As your setting, choose a peacuful, warm and comfortable place, where you can lie down pleasantly.

These things I experienced were quite similar to what I had obtained from smoking Phalaris extract I made last summer, only much much more stronger (what I got from Phalaris was so mild, that previously I wasn't sure whether to ascribe them to placebo effect or not). I suppose that I ought to order seeds of some potent variety of Phalaris asap :-)