DOSE:
T+ 0:00
14 mg
IM
4-AcO-DMT
T+ 0:30
5 mg
IV
4-AcO-DMT
T+ 0:30
20 mg
IV
Ketamine
T+ 4:00
180 mg
IM
Ketamine
T+ 5:00
insufflated
Ketamine
T+ 5:30
IM
Ketamine
T+ 7:00
insufflated
Etizolam
BODY WEIGHT:
140 lb
Substance: 4-Aco-DMT & Ketamine
R.O.A: I'm, IV, Insulffated
Person: 25/M/United Kingdom, Height: 5'9 (175cm), Weight: 10stone (63.5kg, 140lbs)
Setting: My bedroom, 00:00 � 07:00, Dad at home but in bed and a note has been left to inform him I'm tripping.
Mind Set: Excited. I haven't tripped in a few months and I've been looking forward to trying this combo properly for about a year. I've finally sourced both things (and managed to save enough the K without doing it all by itself!), I've also been waiting till I've had enough time off work to fully recover and enjoy the trip.
Pre-Trip
It's 23:30 and I've just return from doing a 20:00-23:00 shift for a charity I volunteer for. Ideally I'd have started the trip earlier in the night, but I have the next 2 days off work so I know I'll have long enough to recover without too much worry. If I wait till tomorrow night I won't have a full 2 days to recover, which I know I will need. Tonight is the night.
I prepare a primary I.M. shot of 12-15mg 4-AcO-DMT, a I.M. shot of 180mg Ketamine for a hopeful K-hole mid way through the trip, and an I.V. shot of 5-8mg 4-AcO-DMT & 20mg Ketamine to get me where I want to be (if the primary 4-AcO shot doesn't get me there).
I'm experienced with various psychedelics and dissociatives taken through various ROA's. Such as 4-AcO-DMT (Snorted, Eaten, I.M'd [once before]) and I.V'd (once before), Ketamine (Snorted & I.M'd various times, I.V'd once), 3-MeO-PCP (Snorted, Eaten, I.M'd), 4-Meo-PCP (Eaten), Methoxetamine (Sublingual, Snorted, I.M'd), Salvia and various other Tryptamines and Phenthylamines (only a few times with each). I've had various experiences, some good, some challenging, some life changing, some mediocre, but never have I come in to contact with any other entities (apart from once on Smoked DMT where I didn't really communicate with them much, and they just seemed like clown faces in part of a machine, I was totally aware I was just tripping during this experience though).
I'm also experienced with Stimulants and the hallucinations/psychosis which can occur with these.
I enjoy hallucinogens but what's put me off �stronger� trips is the amount of dissociation and surrealness that comes with them, which I find hard to incorporate in any meaningful way to my day to day live. I trip for personal development rather than to visit 'other worlds', and I feel people are easily caught up in trying to explain this kind of dissociation and these other realities rather than seeing them as a learning experience to develop the self.
Anyway, that's enough blabbing, and here is my account of conversing with what I can only describe, as McKenna puts it, �The Machine Elves�. I can't remember the exact order of events, and there are some totally blank patches in my memory, but I'll try to put the experience together as coherently as possible.
T+00:00 � I have the shots prepared, and have a bit of Ketamine left over to snort as I start coming 'back to reality'. Perfect. I've tried I.M 4-AcO-DMT at about 20mg before, and it was a strong trip, but nothing like what I'm about to witness. I put the drugs/prepared shots in to my bedside draw and move my laptop from my desk to beside my bed. I then inject the first 12-14mg shot in to my right thigh. I sit on the floor and tap the side of my Tibetan singing bowl to start to meditate a bit as I come up.
T+00:05 � It comes on faster than I remember and I start to cough a bit, I think I might be sick but the nausea fades within 5 minutes. I'm at a ++ within minutes so I lay in my bed and put a favourite tripping album of mine on �Ayreon � Into the Electric Castle� with the visualiztion on winamp playing.
T+00:30 � I'm at a +++ in about 30 minutes. I listen to the first few tracks of the album and then decide to do the 5-8mg/20mg 4-AcO-DMT & ketamine I.V shot (why let it go to waste I think), it's easier to hit a vein than I thought it'd be when tripping this hard and I register without trouble. I've tried both substances I.V'd on their own before but I haven't enjoyed the experience, it seems to be over before it's truly began. But this time it's different. I turn off the music.
T+00:32 � I'm catapulted into an alternate dimension (++++), am I in another universe or a parallel dimension? With my eyes closed I'm in a room filled with beings, they all seem to be part of a machine made from colourful patterns. They all gather round me, seeming shocked. Later on it doesn't really matter whether my eyes are closed or open.
T+00:40 � 03:00 � They seem shocked and I apologise if I've barged in on something, I didn't intend to. They inform me that it's ok, they're just as surprised to see me as I am to see them. Can this really be real? I've listened to McKenna speak about Machine Elves in his talks, and I even though I experienced them (albeit less intensely) on DMT before. But by in large I took them to be a product of McKenna's over-active imagination in combination with high doses of mushrooms and DMT. But here I am, in their world, conversing with them.
I spend the next few hours asking them questions and agreeing with them at how interesting it is.
Me - �Are you the �Machine Elves� McKenna talks about�?
They seem bemused.
Them - �what are �elves�?� they ask.
Me - I explain 'they're magic beings which are part of Human folklore in different cultures�
They all laugh! They like the idea of being seen as �magical� entities, it seems like they think it's ridiculous but are happy to have the association. I also explain to them the �Machine� part and explain that to us it seems as though they're made of some complex machinery (I can hear beeps and blops kind of like RT2D as their colourful surface/skin moves in different directions, and there's also the noise of how you imagine a robot/car factory machine moves its arms or legs �vvvt, vvvt, vvvt�. When I speak aloud my voice and the noises I make kind of �echo� slightly around their room, different acoustics to how my bedroom is.
�What do you [call] yourselves in your own language?�
They make a complex noise incorporating the noises I explain earlier. I can't remember or repeat it. They ask my name and I tell them speaking in English. It doesn't seem to matter which way I talk to them.
I communicate with them via thought for the questions and also kind of speaking in tongues and �bleeps & blops� when talking small talk. They put food in my mouth and I take drinks from them, I can't taste anything but I can feel it in my mouth. I thank them using the small talk language. I put my arm out to see if I can touch them and they hold my hand. I put my arm out to see if I can touch them and they hold my hand.