Has anyone ever tripped on Ayahuasca/DMT and afterwards embraced the thought that everything they experienced was simply a hallucination or dream that they cannot actually integrate back into their regular, sober, waking life?
I've taken Ayahuasca more than once and every ceremony was something that I could integrate into my life in one way or another. As with all similar substances, the setting and preparation make a huge difference, it should never be done recreationally in the spur of the moment but rather with guides who have experience. NEVER TO BE DONE WHILE TAKING CERTAIN MEDS LIKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, OPIOIDS, ETC I have never done straight DMT, but from what I have heard I consider it to be a very different experience. Ayahuasca is a very unique experience to each individual although there are indeed stories that are shared such as seeing "machine elves", confronting snakes, feeling unbound from time, meeting a higher entity, etc.
The experience is easy to try but impossible to describe. You're often left with the impression that the dimension you enter (or however you describe what happens during a visit to the "DMT Realms") is more real than this life. You feel distinctly like this awake state IS the hallucination.
This experience can be very challenging or disillusioning for many people. Integration of these experiences is a super important part of the process of using psychedelics to systematically level up your consciousness. That said, once you've used them to a level where you have moved past shadow work and into more realization work, these substances seem almost miraculous.
My favorite quote on this is by Terence McKenna:
"People say, 'is there risk, to DMT? It sounds so intense. Is it dangerous?' The answer is yes, it's tremendously dangerous. The danger is the possibility of death by astonishment."
