I had never done any kind of drugs in my life or psychedelics, but took Ayahuasca once with friends who were in the personal wellness space circa 2010.

My experience:

- tastes like mud

- it’s recommended to vomit after taking it, but I felt too self-conscious because we were all together in the same room

- the first part of the trip was wonderful as I spent 2hours in bliss seeing colored lights, I still remember this feeling fondly

- the next 2 hours were bad as I saw myself as a kid alone crying in recess, but it did help me see past trauma I hadn’t resolved yet

- for the following month, I felt 10x more present in my body and alive.

- I got more confrontational which almost got me into fights, but also got me laid

- after 1 month my state went back to normal, this made me sad since I loved my other, 10x more confident self

- it seems the reason it lasted so long is because I couldn’t vomit in the first place, so the “medecine” stayed with me longer

Overall awesome experience and would love to do it again.

I am fascinated by this stuff and DMT and part of me would love to try it. It appears most people experience the same entities such as the self-transforming elf machines. I read another transcript where somebody met their intergalactic girlfriend and the absolute bliss of their reunion and how it felt like they have known each other for hundreds of years.

A nice short of Terence McKenna discussing the DMT Elves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tGPM7ZxgOM

Another example DMT Girlfriend (can't find the original transcript) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHLpB38LNg4

I've seen two people go down the Ayahuasca path in the past years and both of them have undergone such profound personality changes that I've had to stop seeing them. They've gone off the deep end in ways that are hard to describe. What also bothers me is that they've become incessant advocates for others to join them in their misery.

Title is a little incorrect, the study was DMT only whose effects only last a short time period. You need the ayahuasca brew which contains other plants including an MAO-I that makes the effects possible via oral administration and also last much longer.

Best article I've ever read regarding DMT and its affects on the human mind:

https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...

For everyone how wants a trip without a trip, I can recommend this Video:

High Dose SHROOMS Trip Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BxiYkCPZwI

This drug normalisation in media makes me so sad. For few lads with life changing ayahuasca trip there is a hundred depresive and miserable trips, also lasting for months! And if someone dares to speak up, reply is "oh your set & setting was wrong". Drugs are wrong, it's high risk substance with highest probability to mess you up and minuscule to give any longer lasting benefit.

DMT triggered severe anxiety in my that lasted 4 years. It was hell. It ruined my life

I've never taken aya, but I have had a particularly profound smoked DMT trip that taught me a whole different side of personal time perception

Why not take the good old acid instead?

life is pain and there are no shortcuts