I swear this has something to do with that one YouTube video of a kid acting like an asshole after supposedly smoking a shitload of Salvia.
No, you're not gonna scream or thrash. Just sit your ass down on a couch or something with a place to put down your vape after your hits. It's nice having a place to relax. Lying in the sand on a beach is really the tops, I highly suggest trying it at some point.
For the most part you're gonna have a hard time standing, so at least sit. DMT is fairly dissociating and you kinda just zonk out and become unresponsive if you're in hyperspace. Lasts maybe ten minutes. There's nothing to be afraid of; it has a wonderful safety profile and the lethal dose 50 is crazy high mgs per kg of bodyweight. Now if you manage to breakthrough completely to the other side, so to speak, you can and probably will experience a full-on ego death, which
feels exactly like you're actually dying and this can scare this fucking shit out of you the first few times it happens. Just try to stay calm and remember you're just on a drug. No need to panic. And but even if you do, again, you're not gonna be thrashing and screaming while someone records video for YouTube fodder… (Moreover, I've smoked Salvia plenty of times and never once acted like those jackoffs from those Salvia videos…)
I love tripping solo. However, I still cannot stand rolling (MDMA) solo. That's definitely a social drug. Obviously, right?
Idk why there's so much fear wrapped around DMT, but it doesn't seem like there's much I can do to quell people's fear of it, nor was there anything that could quiet my own initial fears and concerns until I became experienced enough with it to no longer be afraid. And now it's easily one of my favorite drugs that has provided some remarkably deep and life-enriching experiences …
that said…
Try not to take DMT
too seriously. People get a little out-of-control, in my humble opinion, in practically worshipping DMT like it's some kind of god or has mystical properties to it. Even Dr. Rick Strassman gets a little carried away, I think, in
DMT: Spirit Molecule.
Yeah you know, years ago, when I first started tripping acid as a teenager, someone told me once, “Any time you see demons while you're tripping, you've got to just laugh at them and how absurd they are, and this will remind you they're not real and you're just tripping,” Laugh at the dark stuff in life, just as a general rule, isn't bad advice. After all, laughter anesthetizes our emotions, and this is very useful. Perhaps DMT
is a joke wrapped inside of a powerful psychedelic.
Also,
@Lydian Jester – cool name, but why Lydian? Assuming you're talking about music modes and not ancient Greeks, wouldn't Locrian fit the “Jester” vibe a bit more? (Phrygian Dominant is my personal favorite mode).
I guess people fear that they're giving up control of themselves for a short spell and don't know what they might do. Honestly, the fear is understandable, but until you become comfortable and confident in your own autopilot, there's nothing much else anyone can do to assuage your concerns other than to tell you to keep on driving on. All I know is: I got the hang of it eventually and now I vape DMT like a champion. YMMV.