Questions About DMT

[Mac98]

I just think it's naive to discard all these claims as "horseshit" or bullocks

It's these two specific claims that I find most horseshitty Mac - the idea that DMT is responsible for near-death experiences and that it's something to do with dreaming. I've read about near-death experiences and they arn't anything like a DMT trip. Neither is dreaming.

It just pisses me off when you hear Joe Rogan saying "DMT is what's released when you die".

DMT is definately a magical experience tho. It has a special presence to it, you feel like there's something alive in you. I remember Mckenna asking Albert Hoffman why he preferred LSD to psilocybin and he said he didn't like how psilocybin was animate - as tho it had a presence. DMT has that just as much if not more than psilocybin. It's definatly like experiencing life from the perspective of a god for a few hours rather than a human being.

Don't get me wrong, Joe Rogan was misinformed and past on theory as fact. Same goes with it being dumped at death. We don't know. It's a theory. A hypothesis. But it doesn't make it false. In fact, the pineal gland is one of the most mysterious parts of the already very mysterious human brain. Surprising that the pineal gland actually has a retina sensitive to light and dark and positioned right where the mythical "third eye" is supposed to be. DMT and pineal gland hold no proven connection, but we can't prove the contrary either (for now).

Imo, theories like this are majorly important because they spawn open-minded thinking and encourage research on the subject. Agreed that it should by no means be considered as factual or absolute truth.