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So I'm a nichely super-experienced tripper, with somewhere in the ballpark of 450-600 trips on N,N-DMT. I also have experience with other psychedelics, both tryptamines and phenethylamines, but not anywhere near the same level. Of course my curiosity extends to other plant alkaloids, and Salvia has had my attention for some time now. I'm aware that Salvia interacts with opioid receptors and is a dissociative by definition, not a classical psychedelic. I'm also aware of the reverse-tolerane situation that most people experience. I'm considering buying Plain Leaf, 10x, and 20x so I have all the things on hand to gradually step up the intensity of the experiences.

I want to start with quidding plain leaf, and see how that goes. After getting to grips with that, to try smoking it. First question, does it require a torch and glass, or would my Arizer Solo II be a decent option to try out?

Secondly, I'm about to enter a phase of life where I will be regularly consuming medicinal doses of harmala alkaloids, and was wondering if there are any known interactions or contraindications? Harmalas also produce and inverse-tolerance.

I have done a lot of personal work and therapeutic work with DMT, and love and appreciate it dearly for the aid it has given me over the years. I have heard a lot of people talk about how Salvia is a 'brutally honest truth, that makes you appreciate the good and bad parts of life'. What sort of lessons or learning themes are common with Salvia?

With DMT the chances of entities are never guaranteed. One study performed with the reddit sub's population found that only about ~44% of people ever experienced DMT entities. How common would you say entities are with salvia?

Psychic Strain: I've had wonder and terror with DMT, and at times the terror leaves me with a feeling of psychic strain- like I'm deeply unrested and worn out, unable to bring my cognition up to speed. How mentally straining are the experiences across small, medium, and high doses?

I'm also avidly browsing erowid and reddit for stories to look further into dosing and techniques, but would welcome any information you feel is relevant for me to know.

I recently started listening to Strassman's book, and came across mention of Pindolol. It was being explored in order to ascertain DMT's interactions with the serotonin receptors. Pindolol is a strong agonist of 5HT1a, and apparently created "significantly increased psychological responses to DMT".

As a person curious to explore the boundaries and knowledge of DMT, I am wondering if anyone has ever explored it themselves to see what the experience is like.

If anyone has links to other research or pertinent information, I'd also welcome that.

I am not part of the research team, but I was looking into DMT research being conducted in hopes that I can participate and help improve the knowledge base of DMT. Sadly this study is on the opposite end of CA from where I am, and I can't participate. However I thought I'd drop the knowledge in case there is someone out there who also wants to further knowledge and might be in the region. If you go to UCSD IV DMT Study, clinicaltrialsgov link you can check it out.

So I initially got into Harmalas for their compatability with NN-DMT, to further explore the possibilities of that substance. Had a few trials of Pharmahuasca, made a harmalas vape (failed, clogged and died), made rue tea a handful of times now. Overall good experiences, and it's nice to have the option for bigger adventures if I so choose and have the time.

But presently I'm more interested in a daily dosing habit, and want to make sure I know the relevant information and safety. I've been experiencing an unpleasant amount of anhedonia, lack of motivation, and a lot of grief from the end of a 9+ year relationship. I'm no stranger to therapy or living with a healthy lifestyle, but I would like an extra adjunctive measure.

I'm aware that syrian rue contains harmine and harmaline, and can be extracted/converted to THH. I'm also aware of the toasted seeds idea to skew the alkaloid profile. I know the harmalas are RIMAs, and that the risk consideration is lower than traditional MAOIs, that I won't have to be as cautious with foods that contain Tyrosine. I barely drink at all, but know alcohol is generally advised against.

I only do psychedelics and sometimes smoke weed, and the vast majority of it is freebase DMT. Highly infrequent use of microdosing mushrooms, rare "big day" trips of LSD, and sometimes doing 60-100mg of Mescaline Citrate for a day-long boost.

I'm aware of the inverse-tolerance and that as usage progresses the effects will build, to a degree.

So, questions:

● do you find any particular harmala alkaloid to be best for the purpose of antidepressant? Or whole seed?

●if I am looking to have a slight improvement to my life, not looking for a super psychoactive time or to be debilitated such that I cannot drive, dosage recs?

(Whole seed or alkaloid in mg?)

●just how risky is it to have a drink while continuously using daily doses? I like a glass of whiskey now and again.

●how long until onboarding effects (nausea, bowel issues, discomforts, etc) wear off/minimize?

●i think I've seen Sabnock101 talk about vitamin balance, that the harmalas will deplete B vitamins? If I generally eat a healthy balanced diet am I fine to disregard that? (I was a pro cook)

●when it comes to exploring DMT in form of pharmahuasca, how does the daily use impact a higher dose of harmalas stacked on top? I tried a 3g tea and found that to be ample with no inverse-tolerance built up.

Any other considerations that I need to be aware of?

On my drive home today I used voice commands to play "Sega Sunset by Lorn", and what I got was Sega Sunset (Metal) cover by Artificial Fear.

Had no idea there was a guy out there doing Lorn covers in Metal.

Seems like he has:

Sega Sunset

Oxbow B

Acid Rain

Ghossts

So just dropping a post to let others know who might be interested

I've been participant in the DMT realm for about four years now, and have multiple hundreds of trips across my time. In that time I've had a number of transcendental experiences, terror trips, weirdly flat experiences, times spent sobbing, and so much else.

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In a lot of my trips I'll experience very similar themes and motifs; for example one of the most common sights I have is Eyes in the seams of reality, or along edges of rooms/structures/corners, or eyes+tentacle masses.

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I also often get a metallic purple and green shimmering dragon/serpent, usually this is my sight of "oh ive taken enough, time to put it down for the night".

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I have a handful of recurring entities as well:

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•The hunter god: a masculine figure that seems covered in pelts, looking similar to an RPG hunter/trapper; sometimes he appears with antlers, sometimes an animal skull head. Generally a guiding and protective figure. He's given me "gifts"; a seed of connection/empathy that I was told to grow and tend to, a hand on my shoulder to warn me, and being in the background of rough experiences as a steadying force.

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•Mercury: a messenger, zippy fast shadow figure humanoid, and often flitting through the periphery until it comes to a stop in front of me, usually reaching towards the center of my sight, offering a ticket or token.

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•The Eldritch: a mass of tentacles and eyes connected to an anemone body, inquisitive and impartial, not much of a conversational partner but one that gets me to reflect by the scant few questions it asks.

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•The Ashen Goddess: a woman composed of smoldering embers, coals, or similar, a very stern but loving presence that often invites me towards her, but I intuitively understand she demands high respect to remain around her.

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So, what are your recurring themes/motifs/entities?

So I'll be moving into a new home and upgrading a lot of my things. For the most part I use EPOS Sennheiser GSP 500 headphones while at my desk, along with a Creative Soundblaster X G1 external soundcard for music, and gaming when I was doing that.

I know a lot of you are audio quality lovers, so I've come to ask what systems you guys use to enjoy Lorn to the max.

I'm looking for suggestions for headphone upgrades (no mic needed), and then also a surround sound system for the master bedroom. Budget up to ~750usd.

I really want to be able to enjoy songs like Diamond, Timesink, Yesterday's Pain, L'appel du Vide to the highest degree while in the center of my room, as well as discover new layers and depths to his music that can only be uncovered with better sound quality.

1.675g Syrian Rue, Peganum Harmala. Whole seed boiled for 3x-30m, then reduced to a shotglass, cooled. Ate ~1in raw ginger at the start of the boiling process. Stomach is otherwise empty, had a medium load breakfast ~7 hours ago, no lunch.

DMT today shall be in the form of a cartridge, .680g with ~.25-.30ml PG.

T:0---4:40pm: drank dose of Harmalas Tea. Added ~1tbsp and ~1/4tsp of ceylon cinnamon. Flavors masked alkloid nastiness well.

T:30m: nothing.

T60m: barest hint of body load, I get an extra awareness in the nerves of my teeth on most psyches except DMT.

T90: still a very light bodyload, music is hitting some wonderful feelings. Listening to instrumentals and able to pick out all components and layers of the songs, appreciating them a lot more. Listened with speakers, next round I'll use my nice headphones.

T:120m: still riding the same enjoyment- good mood, uplifted, happy, content, thoroughly enjoying the music. Noticed a slight enhancement to colour vibrancy and textural definition.

About this time started gently hitting a DMT cart of 3:1 ratio. Small hits, staying in the just-above threshold zone. DMT onset was delayed as it should have been, and lasted maybe 1.5x normal duration, telling me I didnt hit full MAO-a inhibition but had some measure of it. No major change to visual archetyping, but also didn't go far enough to explore enhanced visuals really. Got the lovely warm body glow and mild euphoria.

T:150m: about the same.

T200m: winding down slightly, I think. Very gradual come-up, soft plateau, soft taper. Absolutely no hard transitions at all.

T200+ kept winding down. Felt mostly sober except during the peak of it, where even then it was only lightly altering. Some sedative feeling, might have been consequence of just having a relaxed afternoon talking to my lover while listening to music.

By hour 4 I felt about 90% back to baseline with some residual glow. Snacked on some homemade flatbread.

Hour 6 100% sober.

Able to fall asleep normally, didn't notice any extra vividity to dreams as often reported by others.

Overall a very good first experience with rue tea. Flavor was masked well by cinnamon and honey, ginger helped to eliminate nausea. Gentle up, gentle ride, gentle down, no ill after effect. No bad interplay with the mescaline microdosing I've been doing.

Will try again, next time will be a 2g brew. At some point I will do a full-spectrum freebase extraction, as well as converting some to salts so I can both vaporize and consume as desired, and to make Changa.