A DMT trip 'feels like dying' - and scientists now agree

[JacksinPA]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa

A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug

The chill of the fluid flows through Iona's arm as the DMT - N,N-Dimethyltryptamine - is pumped into her bloodstream.

She is in a treatment room at the Imperial College Clinical Research Facility in London, taking part in a scientific study into the effects of illegal hallucinogen DMT. She's in a chair, eye mask on, cannula poking out of her forearm. The lights are dimmed and a specially commissioned ambient soundtrack plays in the background. Chris Timmermann, a psychologist and neuroscientist who researches psychedelic drugs, stands nearby.
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DMT has been around a long time. It is one of the main ingredients in the traditional Amazonian hallucinogenic brew called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca.
But the results of these recent clinical studies are very interesting.

'“I felt this quiver. The only other time I’ve had it is when I was giving birth. [A feeling that] I’m not sure I want to do this – but a sense of no turning back, you’re here and you’ve got to go through this.

“I don’t remember my body being around after that.”

Interesting read.

 

[Jetboogieman]

Sounds a little like Britain at the moment with Brexit.

 

[ashurbanipal]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa

A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug

The chill of the fluid flows through Iona's arm as the DMT - N,N-Dimethyltryptamine - is pumped into her bloodstream.

She is in a treatment room at the Imperial College Clinical Research Facility in London, taking part in a scientific study into the effects of illegal hallucinogen DMT. She's in a chair, eye mask on, cannula poking out of her forearm. The lights are dimmed and a specially commissioned ambient soundtrack plays in the background. Chris Timmermann, a psychologist and neuroscientist who researches psychedelic drugs, stands nearby.
========================================================
DMT has been around a long time. It is one of the main ingredients in the traditional Amazonian hallucinogenic brew called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca.
But the results of these recent clinical studies are very interesting.

'“I felt this quiver. The only other time I’ve had it is when I was giving birth. [A feeling that] I’m not sure I want to do this – but a sense of no turning back, you’re here and you’ve got to go through this.

“I don’t remember my body being around after that.”

Interesting read.

Yeah, every six months or so I come across an article like this. There are various ways to respond, both sympathetic and critical. One worry I have with the methodology the researchers are apparently using is that the way phenomenal similarity is often determined is too apt to lead to mistake. For example: I have used a number of hallucinogenic drugs in my past, and also had mystical experiences, and studied mysticism and the writings of mystics extensively. I see psychologists sometimes write up a study indicating that psilocybin or LSD induces an experience qualitatively like mystical experiences. But aside from some superficial similarities, the two experiences have very little in common. So I am a bit skeptical when research like this comes out.

 

[What if...?]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/dd52796e-5935-414e-af0c-de9686d02afa

A new scientific study suggests strong similarities between near death experiences and the psychedelic drug

The chill of the fluid flows through Iona's arm as the DMT - N,N-Dimethyltryptamine - is pumped into her bloodstream.

She is in a treatment room at the Imperial College Clinical Research Facility in London, taking part in a scientific study into the effects of illegal hallucinogen DMT. She's in a chair, eye mask on, cannula poking out of her forearm. The lights are dimmed and a specially commissioned ambient soundtrack plays in the background. Chris Timmermann, a psychologist and neuroscientist who researches psychedelic drugs, stands nearby.
========================================================
DMT has been around a long time. It is one of the main ingredients in the traditional Amazonian hallucinogenic brew called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca.
But the results of these recent clinical studies are very interesting.

'“I felt this quiver. The only other time I’ve had it is when I was giving birth. [A feeling that] I’m not sure I want to do this – but a sense of no turning back, you’re here and you’ve got to go through this.

“I don’t remember my body being around after that.”

Interesting read.

DMT is present in the brain and is released in large quantities as you die.

We knew that already.

(And its pretty awesome. Like being REALLY high on acid for ten minutes or so, then back to "reality" with no hangover afterwards. About thirty minutes total. Some call it the "lunch hour psychedelic")

 

[JacksinPA]

DMT is present in the brain and is released in large quantities as you die.

I was unaware of the apparent neuroprotective role of endogenous DMT near death. I had a near death experience in my youth as the result of a fall. Fractured my skull & put me into a 7-day coma. It might as well have been like my brain was a computer & someone switched it off. I could have died & never known it. Definitely a life-changing experience as I now view death in a very different way than I had before.