A buddy of mine was kind enough to provide me with a DMT crash course. We both thought it would be good to increment doses as 5mg, 15mg, 22mg, and 30mg. His vape setup was super efficient — I don't think I wasted anything.
5mg: Not much to say here, it was just like activating HD vision and sort of like being in the peak of a very very light mushroom trip.
15mg: This one shook me up, and it was kind of what I had expected from DMT. It hit hard and fast, and I hardly knew what was going on. My eyes were wide open which was probably the cause of my discomfort, because everything was morphing and shifting. Intense geometric patterns overlaid my entire visual field.
22mg: The closed-eye visuals became a full environment. I was somewhere else entirely, though I still had a faint sense of my body on the couch.
30mg: This is where it got truly bizarre. I wasn't just seeing another place — I was re-experiencing my own birth. Not metaphorically. I felt the compression, the confusion, the transition from one state of being to another. It wasn't like anything I had expected or read about. There were no machine elves, no geometric tunnels. It was deeply personal and profoundly physical.
The incremental approach was absolutely the right call. Each step prepared me for the next, and I felt safe the entire time knowing my buddy was right there.