DOSE:
IV
DMT
(powder / crystals)
BODY WEIGHT:
115 lb
I am an experienced drug user. I have tried most things, such as the classical drugs like weed, mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, heroin, amphetamine and methamphetamine, and the newer research chemicals like the NBOMe series, mephedrone, methylone, 4-MEC, among others.
I also have had prior experiences with smoking DMT, of which I usually broke through and saw beings at about the 30-40 mg dose.
Mindset and Setting: I am a very calm person when I'm tripping. I can talk myself from a bad trip. I have done ten-strips before and massive doses of 2c-e and did not require a trip-sitter. (I usually do have a trip-sitter but never required one. I am unusually calm and collected, even during a bad trip.) My mindset at the time of this experience was likewise calm.
I was alone during this experience. I estimate the dose to be about 10 mg based on previous experiences. Furthermore, I am a trained chemist, and know the sizes of doses and powders quite well. I do not recommend anyone else to eyeball doses! [Erowid Note: Two samples of powder (even of the same chemical) with equivalent volumes won't necessarily weigh the same. For this reason, eyeballing is an inaccurate and potentially dangerous method of measuring, particularly for substances that are active in very small amounts. See this article on The Importance of Measured Doses.]
Preparation: 15-20 mg of freebase DMT powder was suspended in sterile water. A minute quantity of citric acid was added. The solution was heated until the powder dissolved. The DMT was observed to have changed into an oil. Citric acid was added, and the solution heated until the DMT oil had dissipated. It should be noted that it is very easy to add too much citric acid, as I had done. The solution was filtered through a cotton into a syringe with a 25 gauge needle. The air in the syringe was pushed out.
I with a alcohol swab, an injection site in my elbow was cleaned. I put on the tourniquet. I stretched the skin where the vein was to prevent the vein from rolling. I then stuck the needle in until a flash of blood came through. The tourniquet was loosened. I slowly injected about half of the dose, maybe a little more.
The citric acid caused a burning and pressure sensation as it pumped through the vein. This is the danger of using too much citric acid. Be careful!
Experience:
0 seconds: I immediately noticed a change in consciousness. It was not so much seeing anything or feeling anything, just an awareness that I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
10 seconds: There's a vividness of color in everything I look at. A faint sense of the lightest vibration through every fiber of my body.
15 seconds: A buzzing is getting louder and louder in my ear. My perception was that this was very gradual, but in reality only took a couple seconds to build to a profuse part of the experience.
I'm starting to see the familiar kaleidoscope patterns DMT creates. I feel this sense that the nymph-like beings I have known from previous experiences are surrounding me. I feel this sense that the nymph-like beings I have known from previous experiences are surrounding me.