Why should I listen to you if you cannot follow your own advice?
Were you lighting using a matchstick or a lighter, on a pipe or ... ?
When I first got my hands on freebase DMT about a year ago, I planned a ritual out elaborately. I waited for about a month after buying it. I cleaned my place up and the small shrine-space in my room I rearranged and read bits of my bible again. I put a long-track of monks chanting because the meaning of the journey was to be entirely one of healing for me. I ate 05 grams or so of raw Syrian Rue. Once the Rue kicked in I inhaled the DMT and the world changed within an instant. Seconds passed and an entity took possession of my body till the neck area. I was conscious and acting on my will but at the same time was being shown things by Earth-entity, Mother-DMT, or Plant-Consciousness. I struggled a bit with letting go because the headspace was so entirely unknown but yet very sacred and not intimidating for me. I began to drum situations up in my head and that is when some of the depression came back. I thought it was the DMT showing me all of it, but no, as I tend to see similar visions on LSD-25. It is one of those things about no longer drinking, I tend to go deep into my head by imagination. In any case, there were too many messages for me to decipher all at once. When I closed my eyes I found myself in an inexplicable point fashioned by vibrant colours and jewels that shone and emitted glares out on occasion. The harmalas put everything up by a notch as the whole journey lasted well after the first daylight. I wasted some DMT by using the pipe but I vaped in enough on two occasions to have the full experience methinks.
Everytime I have done DMT after that I have almost always seen the sacred geometry realm as opposed to Aztec ruins and what not. I have never met an 'entity' or been through wormholes. At first I am on Earth and then I close my eyes immediately into the void where inexplicable geometry figures welcome me and dance all together in tandem. I adore that they switch colours and make me entertained like that. There is a collective sense of unity about them because when they morph in and out of each other sideways, everything appears to be connected, except for me, wherein I am the observer, not a resident or one among. Once the visuals were so out of the ordinary that I cannot begin to explain what that thing was, except tell you that it was the only time in my life when I experienced full, absolute, and truly unconditional love for myself. I have been blessed to have a Daimon (which I am really sure all of us have) and its voice under possession took that of what the Thing was trying to tell me. I was singularly afraid that it was very angry at me for "doing drugs", but in fact it was comforting me and loving me. I had not experienced a love of that kind before and I have not after that. It is too precious to feel again and again. This is the problem! I am not willing to be loved. It felt so relieving but not necessary, but I am going to be loved again soon, and it gives me great reassurance to know so.