So I’ve tried 5-meo-dmt several times now, and I’m afraid to say it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. Of course, everyone’s experiences are different, and maybe I’m just one of those who will never experience the mind warping trips that others have reported with this drug. According to erowid, a ‘strong’ does of 5-meo-dmt is between 10-20mg smoked, and the most I’ve ever done was 14mg, so although I certainly could go higher, I have made my way into the ‘strong’ region of the experience.
My experience is that the drug emerses you in a light-headed kinda spacey feeling, with an especial acuteness for depth perception, but nothing like the “traveling through the cosmos” that others have reported (which I’m equating with something like an OOB experience). The feeling gets more intense with higher doses, of course, and so does the nausea, but “traveling through the cosmos” would not be my first choice of words to describe it.
On the other hand, there is possibly a loose connection between the hightened perception of depth and the reason why some report the experience in this way. I notice, especially on high doses, that things that are close seem really close and things that are far seem really far. I can imagine that on a clear night when the stars are especially visible, one could get a profound sense of how deep and vast the universe is by toking up a lung full of 5-meo-dmt and then star gaze. The hightened depth perception while looking at the stars would certainly feel as though your consciousness were ‘expanding’ into the cosmos, or least becoming more aware of how vast and extensive it is. Perhaps this has been metaphorically hyped up as “traveling through the cosmos”.
In any case, though I have not experienced anything like what others have reported (not in a literal sense), I have taken much of value from this drug. In fact, once we get well into the summer, I would like to toke up a jacked up dose (something over 15mg) and do exactly what I described above: star gaze on a clear night. I’m sure it would be quite the experience (and god dam the nausea! :))
But I should ask before closing on this note: of those who (think they) have experienced traveling through the cosmos on 5-meo-dmt, what was the dose at which this happened and how was it consumed. I’m just wondering if a higher dose than 14mg would do it or if a different method of consumption would. Maybe I should just try it myself, but at this point, I’m satisfied that it wouldn’t do anything that I haven’t already experienced.
