What's up brother's and sister's! The other night I was hanging with a friend and we decided to try out some DMT. It was me, him and another person who I have hung out with before but I didn't know either of them too well. I have had experiences with LSD in the past and if there's one thing i've learnt from it is that these experiences, for me presonally, must be experienced alone so as to not completely lose my mind. Anyway I totally forgot about the general mindset LSD (Last LSD trip was over a year ago) gives you and attempted to smoke dmt with this newly acquired friend of mine. We sandwiched it between bud and off I went. I took my hit and at first I was like "Is anything happening?" and the instant I asked myself that my mind was like "ohhh yeahhhh boyyy, get ready". I heard an eerie sound flood my ears while simultaneously everything around felt like it was shutting down, the people talking around me sounded like robots that were losing charge as their voices got deeper, deeper and eventually became distant and faded into nothingness. It was in that instant I took in my surroundings, it was as if my lenses had been replaced with those 3-D glasses, one side red one side blue and I was seeing the world as if it were a video game? I started to freak out a little bit and as that happened my friends dad came out and trying to explain what he looked like with my newly acquired 3-D glasses is, as you can guess, pretty cooked haha. He was made up of these polygonal shapes? Mainly triangles like I could see the geometrical math of this simulation we are in, (there's a photo on google images extremely similar that was made by Francis Morgan). In that moment I snapped back into reality and felt like the peak of an acid trip, you know that feeling of being SUPER aware of everything around you to the point where you can do nothing but observe as opposed to joining in? But this time it was different I can't really explain it but it was beautiufl because I was SO happy to be back. Like the meaning of life was this inside joke that I had forgotten and It felt as though this reality is just perfect the way that it is and that we are lucky to exist in such a place that allows us to choose what makes us happy. I feel as though the DMT was only dipping my feet in the metaphysical water because I knew deep down I didn't want to completely commit to it with people around me, it showed me just enough of what I needed and I was so happy for it. Fast forward to tonight (3 days later) I am sitting in my room having prepared all day for it with this substance now in a crack pipe ready to blast off. I get myself into a very calm and relaxed mindset, light my pipe and once again off I go. This time the "Shutting down" period happened a lot faster and I found myself in what I THINK was the dmt tunnel. Within this tunnel was an endless swirl of what I can only describe as jesters! No crazy colours, just an infinite number of Jesters within a black void. They were grinning at me and at first I was scared but came to accept them, I remembered I was here to acquire knowledge regardless of the oddness of it all and the more I did that the more of a shape they formed and the more it became a labrynth and then absolutely nothing. Back to reality I came, completely clear headed without that LSD peak feeling. Did I not smoke enough to fully breakthrough or was that the breakthrough? I was wondering if anyone else has encountered these jesters, looking back on it now I feel as though they were the guardians to the other realm. It felt more like intense visuals overlapping this existence as opposed to actually being taken out of my body and experiencing another realm. Any thoughts?