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My best 5-MeO-DMT trips were lying flat on my back, motionless, basically meditating. But I've never felt like that kind of being "knocked out" was anything but voluntary. Have you tried 5-Meo-DMT @Arhattobe? @cetus56 That 5-Meo-DMT spice gas is nebulized right?

Good luck in your increased intensity. Determination! I know you don't need me telling you this since you're a coach and all, but don't forget to balance the intensity with rest, that's where the adaptation happens.

That's what I thought too when I first heard about it, but it's actually a real medically-studied phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland#Calcification I don't mean to give credence to the shaky new-age ideas around pineal calcification, just pointing out that pineal calcification is indeed a real phenomenon. That video is so full of shit based on nothing except what sounds nice. But sometimes there are deeper truths buried under the piles, so I'm suspending disbelief to some extent.

Cool. It's good that you're going into the productivity phase of your life having done some of this deeper work. I think you'll be more in touch with what you actually want to be doing on this planet, perhaps you're skipping the years of spinning your wheels that a lot of people end up in. Hey there's nothing saying you can't get to work and still keep tripping if you want Been tripping for decades and very financially stable over here. In balance of course.

10 (or so) 5-MeO trips specifically, including some pretty low dose ones, like 5mg, 7mg 10mg. Only 3 (iirc) at high-ish doses: 18mg 20mg 22mg. To speak of the less-than-useful (bad?) trips: I had one very odd 7mg trip where I decided to go for a run right after ingestion, and ended up in a shitty part of town, which was pointless. I had another 22mg trip where I wasn't centred going into it, and my mind ended up racing a lot, tangled up in intellectual thoughts. I became very restless, pacing around, mind zooming like a squirrel in a cage. In a way that one was even productive though because the content of my mental diarrhea revealed some shit I needed to work on in. Just didn't really need to take 22mg of 5-MeO-DMT to get there. Aside from that, my 5-MeO-DMT trips have ranged from very pleasant, to revelatory, to deep mystical breakthrough experience.

I imagine it will be shorter acting than snorting, but slower than vaping. It shouldn't drip since it's in your lungs - you'd be inhaling atomized mist as in asthmatics' inhalers. It could definitely sting, might be nasty on the lungs. I probably won't end up trying it since I can't see myself buying an ultrasonic atomizer just for this purpose, but I did find some suitable ones on amazon. For example this kind of thing Zero. Two were oddball and not really productive, so maybe that counts as "bad". Out of something like 10 trips? Not sure my total count right now.

I just came across this novel Route of Administration (ROA) for 5-MeO-DMT: nebulization https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=37491 Basically you inhale a mist made from a 5-MeO-DMT (in salt form) solution. I'd really like to try this ROA. It's reported to be a bit more drawn out than vapourized. I'm not sure how would be the best way to nebulize it, if anyone has any ideas, please share!

Good stuff, that was a great post, and I appreciate your writing on this forum in general @Arthur @CreamCat I just wrote something in a similar same vein on a thread started by KieranPerez, but I actually think LSD is generally a better candidate as a psychedelic tool for "life-purpose" than 5-MeO-DMT is, although Arthur's point above ^ is totally valid. 5-MeO-DMT is very metaphysical, LSD is more in the physical plane, where life-purpose tends to take place. edit: a question for you @Arthur: how do you see yourself using 5-MeO-DMT moving forward? Do you plan to continue to use it fairly regularly, or put it aside for a while or what?

You can just eat them, they don't taste so bad, especially if it's your first time. Somehow they taste worse and worse the more you eat them 1g is a mild trip. I actually really like 1g of mushrooms, but you might want to do around 2g for your first trip just to get the full impact, like PsiloPutty said. On the other hand if you're feeling at all cautious about the whole thing, there's no harm in taking just 1g. You can always take more next time. I don't recommend a fully empty (fasted) stomach going into a trip. IMO it's important to have some blood sugar circulating to keep the vibes good. I think it's better to eat lightly leading up to the trip so you're not starving, but definitely not anywhere near full. Good to have some fruit or some very very light easy food ready in case you need an energy bump during your trip.

Yeah I think they can help you discover your direction, what you want. They sure did (and still do) for me anyways. There are no guarantees, psychedelics aren't causative, they are facilitative. But they're very good facilitators! They can also help you see what you don't want, thing like neuroses, unproductive thought patterns, low quality habits can become painfully obvious. Fresh awareness of stuff we've trained ourselves to tune out which makes it easier to make the changes that we need to move forward. Sometimes it's these things that are blocking us from our direction. Personally, I think your idea of using LSD is spot on, it seems like a good fit for the kind of question you have. 5-MeO-DMT is more metaphysical in nature. LSD is so good at helping people to become more of themselves, pointing people in the right direction. "LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." --Albert Hofmann

@lostmedstudent I've only used the HCL, but there's no reason that I know of that the oxalate would be inferior. Someone pointed out that because the oxalate form is new on the market it's very likely to be a freshly made batch, so if I was ordering now I'd probably go for that one. Although the HCL that's around now is also likely a fresh batch anyways so .. shrug.. 6 of one half doz of the other kinda thing.

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Re: the "100 times stronger" reputation, comparing 5-MeO-DMT to any other psychedelic is an apples and oranges kind of thing. It depends on how much you take, where you go with your trip, and so on. One thing for sure is that 5-MeO-DMT is the closest thing to a direct line to god that I've ever come across anyways. You really have to go with your own guts on this question of if you're ready for it or not. I don't think you need to have tons of trips under your belt to benefit from 5-MeO-DMT, but I do think that meditation experience helps navigate 5-MeO-DMT. Other psychedelic trips are a really good warmup too, so I think you're going about it the right way. Besides, LSD and other psychedelics are great teachers in their own right. The cool thing about 5-MeO-DMT is that you don't have to jump all the way in at the deep end, it's totally fine (and recommended) to work with it, work your way up in dosage. How did I approach it? In my particular case I've taken over a hundred trips on various psychedelics over the last 2+ decades, and I've been meditating (very casually, I don't want to exaggerate my level of commitment) for about as long. A couple of years ago I realized I'd been overlooking 5-MeO-DMT and that I wanted to try it. I think i stepped my dose up over 4 trials until I had a breakthrough at 20mg (insufl). I actually had a mini-breakthrough at 12mg or so that informed me I was on the right track. I also tried 22mg more recently, which was a non-breakthrough experience. There's more to it than just the dosage.

That's your meaning of marriage, and it sounds like a very good one, but I'm not sure it's how most cultures of the world view marriage. Of course everyone is free to create their own meaning, that's the point of the magical ceremony I was just trying to state the broadest sweeping generalization for what marriage is about at it's core, for most people.

The act of marriage is a magical ceremony to sanctify an exclusive sexual relationship. In practice it can be a solid base to grow a family from. Officially stepping out of the dating sphere with your chosen partner allows you to put attention on other priorities.

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If you wanted to split a blotter in 10 like people do for microdosing, or split a batch into liquid for arbitrary dosing (rather than being stuck with the amount applied to each blotter) you can use this volumetric method. Just leave the blotter in whatever tiny amount of solvent you can measure and subsequently subdivide. You can leave the blotter in there permanently, it eventually just disintegrates into fibers. Vodka is good because the ethanol prevents bacterial growth, and the water should hopefully be free of chlorine. Just be sure to double check your numbers, and use your common sense when measuring. People have accidentally 10x their dose by forgetting a 0, stuff like that.

Don't let yourself become intimidated. It's really not such a big deal to allow your mind to be shattered, and for all of reality to collapse into a singularity. Seriously though, let go, accept the experience, no resistance, you'll be fine.

You add it to an acid, which reacts with the freebase to form a salt. An easy and foodsafe way if you're going to plug it is to add it to some plain old vinegar. It should react with the acid in the vinegar and form an (acetate?) salt in solution. Someone more knowledgeable on the chemistry will pipe in I'm sure, hopefully with some precise method.

I love this thought experiment. Will come back and report after I've had the chat.

Agreed. Talk cheapens it anyways. There's really no experience aside from direct experience, the rest is abstraction (which is actually just another variety of direct experience of the mind/thought/intellect/etc).

@Dan94 I'm embarrassed to admit that I've never done my own reagent tests. I've watched other people do them but never performed my own. I'm very careful about my sources, and always make sure that the vendor is well trusted and reviewed in the community. I also have taken samples in to be tested with mass spectrometry, which tends to be more accurate than reagent tests anyways. Anyways, you wouldn't need to test every single blotter, just a portion of a single blotter from a batch will be fine. I'm a bit confused by your question, just want to make sure you know that you don't go by the weight of the blotter since it's mostly just paper. If you have bought blotters that are already dosed, and you trust the prep of those blotters there's not much point in doing the liquid volumetric dosing, unless you were doing it for microdosing or something. You're very unlikely to find blotters with 250µg of LSD on them, that would be stupid large blotter doses. If you have dissolved LSD into liquid you can store it in a little cleaned amber dropper bottle. Make sure you don't use chlorinated water or leave it in the sun or heat. If your doses are still on blotter paper, just keep them somewhere cool and dry. Maybe I need you to rephrase your question if i'm not answering you very well.

When @Emerald types up one of her long ass posts, it's totally worth reading. Good observation. I never thought about that dynamic of how men's attraction starts at the loins and moves up, whereas women's attraction starts at the head and moves down. Of course this is archetypes, real people are more of a mixture and complex. @F A B I really like that book, but I think like Leo said, you have to take everything with a pinch of salt, you can't be too literal about anything you read. Also, it sounds very likely that you have shed a relationship that wasn't quite of the quality you're looking for.

Valid topic! It's really easy to dish out those sorts of replies. It's worth taking a good look at our own motivation for the words we choose IRL and on this forum. Look out for: regurgitation trying to appear in a particular way giving advice that the recipient isn't ready for Of course nothing's inherently bad about saying these sorts of things. It's just more of the same game we humans are always playing.

@TobyI don't know, this is just from what I've observed in myself and people around me. Yeah maybe alcohol helps some people, kind of doubt it though. It mostly seems to cloud judgement and bring out the worst in people IME. I'm not a puritan or anything, I drink occasionally myself, but I do think I'd generally be a better and healthier person if I didn't.