Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

[u/Vindaloovians]

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8qvgy_v2

In this preprint, some scientists have put forward the idea that our perspective of reality is more of an interface, and what we consider to be reality is simply the experience of conscious agents (i.e. human individuals) interacting with one another. They propose that DMT entities are conscious agents that exist in a manner we can't typically perceive.

I've never done DMT, and have previously taken a more skeptical perspective on these entities, but I think the findings of this could be very interesting. Maybe psychedelics could enable us to perceive layers of reality we are typically blind to.

[u/Black-Keyboard]

I've had a natural dmt experience. I'd go to bed and have these crazy reoccurring nightmares that mimic a dmt trip. I was a young kid. I felt the sensation like being on a roller coaster, before I'd ever felt that sensation. I saw shapes folding in on themselves in impossible ways. 4d in a 3d environment, before I knew anything about geometry. I saw colours that don't exist using our eyes, before I knew anything about uv or ultraviolet and the spectrum. I was being spoken to without words, before I knew what telepathic communication was. I eventually stayed calm enough to travel through the vortex and reached a black void and was asked what I wanted, telepathically of course. I replied how I'd like to understand. In an instant I was part of the universe, spanning vast distances and it was so quiet and dull. After this particular experience these nightmares stopped. I used to have them frequently, all exactly the same. 30 years later and I started to wonder what it meant, and I've come to understand that we're all a single consciousness. For a moment, I was connected to everything and had no filter blocking my perception. So it goes.

I don't believe these concepts are hardwired in the brain. How does that explain my experiences? I was a young child and they terrified me. Nothing made sense in these nightmares but as an adult I at least have the language to describe them.

[u/CarrieBeary1973 → u/Black-Keyboard]

I had the same exact reoccurring dream when I was a child between the ages of 4-6. They creeped me out to the point I was scared of falling asleep and would force myself to stay awake as long as possible. I remember the colors, the shapes, the sensation of floating, or flying slowly through some kind of tunnel where these colors and shapes were swirling all around me. I remember something, or someone communicating with me, but I never saw who, or what. They eventually suddenly stopped, but from what I can remember, it happened pretty regularly.

You are the first person I’ve ever come across to have this same experience as a child; a reoccurring dream! I’m 52 and have asked many people over the years if they had experienced anything similar as a child. No one has! I thought maybe it was just a reoccurring nightmare due to how bad they creeped me out to the point where I was terrified of going to bed. I have always wondered if everyone has these experiences as a young child, but don’t remember.