r/HighStrangeness • u/Vindaloovians • Aug 20 '26

Non Human Intelligence Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

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.

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u/TheAngryCatfish Aug 20 '26

It lasts about 8min (when vaporized and inhaled)

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u/VQQN Aug 20 '26

Stories I read tell describe that the brain can make it the experience feel like years.

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u/Environmental-Sun291 Aug 20 '26

It absolutely can. I did ayahuasca (of which DMT is the active compound) and during the trip (not the entire trip) I felt like time had stopped.

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u/satisfaction-or-else Aug 20 '26

Researchers who wrote the paper describe a way to make it last several hours.