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Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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Drugs are illegal because the illuminati don't want humans to know of the lizard pope. That was in years past. The pope is human and the president is a turd. But look at that law and order suddenly raining down... DMT users right now can't even report their visions because of the power of the state and who want's to tell people about the turd-human they saw while tripping?

>ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU! >>ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU! >>>ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

#42
post #16

There is some evidence that seems to indicate that the humans have an evolved "built in" reaction to snake/snake like patterns: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/Ohman.c... As reptiles, snakes may have signified deadly threats in the environment of early mammals. We review findings suggesting that snakes remain special stimuli for humans. Intense snake fear is prevalent in both humans and other pri…

> This makes sense, as humans have co-evolved along venomous snakes for presumably a very long time. I always find appeals to evolution for phenomena like this a bit weak. In the Darwinian sense, this response would have to be a random mutation that is environmentally selected for. Not a biologist, but that seems a very high-order function to be subject to random mutations.

The "co-evolved" was a mistake on my part, thanks for pointing it out. Removed for clarity.

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

#43

I have no idea what a DMT trip is actually like but I liked the depiction in Enter the Void: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIe9gh84NE .

The thing about hallucinogens is that they really change how you think. The visual changes are such a small part of the experience, compared with the complete transformation of your consciousness. DMT itself is particularly potent in this regard, it basically completely strips away your sense of self. I highly recommend a heavy dose of ayahuasca at least once in your life. It is pretty much guaranteed to radically ch…

Here's a fun question...

If it has a such a profound change in consciousness, would it be easy for a non-DMT user to identify someone who has used DMT, albeit with some training?

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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I haven't met anyone who described insects. Most of the entities experienced seem to be abstract, with the possibility of focusing it into an object but not a negative one. DMT seems to be generally a positive euphoric experience filled with geometric shapes of love. Although a mild dose can be unpleasant.

What I've experience sometimes looked like UFOs, that when you focused on them would burst into the sky far away. Like a ship taking off in a rapid dimensional-type shift. Similar to the graphics in the movie Dr. Strange.

The presence is more like feeling the wind, and getting a sense that the wind itself is saying hello and making fun of you.

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

#46
Hmm...I've never tried psychoactive drugs but way back when I worked on hardware I was debugging a board in a lab that had poor ventilation, cleaning flux off it with Freon when I saw a little green Dragon rise out of the green solder resist film and breathe the tiniest lick of fire at me.

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing about hallucinogens is that they really change how you think. The visual changes are such a small part of the experience, compared with the complete transformation of your consciousness. DMT itself is particularly potent in this regard, it basically completely strips away your sense of self. I highly recommend a heavy dose of ayahuasca at least once in your life. It is pretty much guaranteed to radically ch…

Here's a fun question... If it has a such a profound change in consciousness, would it be easy for a non-DMT user to identify someone who has used DMT, albeit with some training?

there's a very simple heuristic to determine whether someone has used dmt, and even those who haven't can use it: they never shut the fuck up about it

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing about hallucinogens is that they really change how you think. The visual changes are such a small part of the experience, compared with the complete transformation of your consciousness. DMT itself is particularly potent in this regard, it basically completely strips away your sense of self. I highly recommend a heavy dose of ayahuasca at least once in your life. It is pretty much guaranteed to radically ch…

Here's a fun question... If it has a such a profound change in consciousness, would it be easy for a non-DMT user to identify someone who has used DMT, albeit with some training?

> would it be easy for a non-DMT user to identify someone who has used DMT, albeit with some training?

No. There is basically 30% of the population that will believe anything no matter how stupid. Because the percentage of people who have smoked DMT is probably closer to 0.1%, it would be very difficult to separate people who believe dumb-sounding things for good reasons from the people who believe dumb-sounding things for dumb reasons.

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

#49
post #40

wow this website is like a trip in time back to the 90's like that internet explorer website that depicts Bill Gates as a devil hahaha

not related, it annoys me that hackernews.com is not part of this site (I don't think so) it reminds me of that guy that wouldn't let go of dropbox.com and put ads on it... again did not research... but I'd think that url redirects here. Oh well. Pretty sweet that ycombinator seeds startups... was not aware, just came here for tech/code stuff.

Re: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?

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post #8

Do people of all cultures see insects, or is it just westerners on DMT? For example, I've heard that schizophrenia manifests itself in different ways across cultures. Voices are almost always negative/destructive in western cultures, but often times take on playful manners in non-western cultures.

From what I've heard they are rather abstract, unidentifiable (or indescribable) entities. Terrence Mackenna called them "machine elves".
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