Vice reviews editor Meg Sneed took DMT for the first time a couple weeks ago. Since then approximately 68% of the conversations we've had with her around the office have centered on or drifted toward what it is like to be on DMT and things in the real world that are similar to what it is like to be on DMT. She has also compiled a substantial folder of google-image findings that resemble what she's seen on her last three trips (screengrab below). Here is a brief list of the things that Meg has compared to the effects of dimethyltryptamine on her postsynaptic receptors in the past week.
-The roofs of gothic cathedrals.
-Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.
-The screensaver on our editorial assistant's computer.
-Spirals (in general).
-Clocktowers.
-Those glasses you wear that make light refract into rainbow shapes.
-That Daft Punk movie we just helped put out (except the part where everyone's face is melting).
-late-period Louis Wain cat drawings.
-HR Giger monsters (these only show up in the bad-trip portions)Evidently her last trip was kinda bad though and she's all upset about it. Inspired by Erowid, which she now reads compulsively, she wrote a "trip report" to help her figure out what went wrong. Here it is in hopes that someone will have some good advice for how to make her next trip better, or at least how to get her to shut up about it already:"i was home alone and relaxed and was listening to cocteau twins (whatever, i find them soothing) and after 2 big hits it hit me and i lay back and all the patterns were very overwhelming and black with neon rainbow geometric kaleidoscopes and then i felt like i couldn't breathe. i felt like my chest cavity was opened and my lungs were gone and every deep breath i took just went right out of my body without filling my lungs. it was kind of alarming so i opened my eyes and my living room was too crazy to look at. everything had geometric rainbow prism trails and seemed very faraway and unreal, like my eyes were trying to focus underwater, and i wished i could snap to reality but i couldn't. i saw my cat but i looked away because i didn't want to see her in this state, or i didn't want her to see ME in this state. i'm not sure, but i couldn't look at herlast time i did it, i had barely been conscious of my body, it was like a total out-of-body experience. but this time i kept pulling my hair back like it was smothering me and i kept rubbing my legs together uncontrollably. i put my arm on my chest to try and get air in there and my arm was light and floaty and detached feeling.i closed my eyes again and just saw neon rainbow patterns, like millions of little neon rainbows pulsating and shifting so fast and they wanted to tell me something but i couldn't breathe so i couldn't pay attention. it felt like the secrets of the universe were opening up to me but i was too scared to see it. my lungs disappeared and the air went right through me. there was no "breakthrough" to the giant spaces and rooms i had seen before and there was no forward motion. i was just in a sort of big white room with lots of beams and corners and it was very bright and white and there were abstract geometric things moving in there but i couldn't focus enough to see what they were. they were all on my right side, like just outside of my line of vision.i tried to focus on my breathing and take deep breaths but it was too cold, maybe because i had the AC on, and it just didn't feel like good or real air. i kept trying to relax and keep my eyes closed and look at stuff but i couldn't make anything out except vaguely menacing patterns and i was too distracted by the air problem. when i came to i was left with the feeling that i had been pushed out, that they (the spirits?) didn't want me there, that i wasn't ready to see what was there.anyway, i dunno, i'm left feeling kinda sad about it because i had such a great first experience with it. i wonder if it was bad because i hadn't taken any xanax, whereas the first time i had taken some beforehand. i kinda want to try again and take a bunch of xanax first and not have the air conditioner on… i dunno. what do you think? what did i do wrong? how can i solve the breathing problem?love,
meg sneed"
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-The roofs of gothic cathedrals.
-Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.
-The screensaver on our editorial assistant's computer.
-Spirals (in general).
-Clocktowers.
-Those glasses you wear that make light refract into rainbow shapes.
-That Daft Punk movie we just helped put out (except the part where everyone's face is melting).
-late-period Louis Wain cat drawings.
-HR Giger monsters (these only show up in the bad-trip portions)Evidently her last trip was kinda bad though and she's all upset about it. Inspired by Erowid, which she now reads compulsively, she wrote a "trip report" to help her figure out what went wrong. Here it is in hopes that someone will have some good advice for how to make her next trip better, or at least how to get her to shut up about it already:"i was home alone and relaxed and was listening to cocteau twins (whatever, i find them soothing) and after 2 big hits it hit me and i lay back and all the patterns were very overwhelming and black with neon rainbow geometric kaleidoscopes and then i felt like i couldn't breathe. i felt like my chest cavity was opened and my lungs were gone and every deep breath i took just went right out of my body without filling my lungs. it was kind of alarming so i opened my eyes and my living room was too crazy to look at. everything had geometric rainbow prism trails and seemed very faraway and unreal, like my eyes were trying to focus underwater, and i wished i could snap to reality but i couldn't. i saw my cat but i looked away because i didn't want to see her in this state, or i didn't want her to see ME in this state. i'm not sure, but i couldn't look at her
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