People who smoke the psychedelic compound DMT report complex experiences that include seeing unusual visual and synesthetic phenomena, leaving this world and entering extraordinary places, encountering strange entities, interacting with unusual objects, and having powerful feelings. Although such experiences are often described as indescribable, unique, and occurring in a single domain called Hyperspace, this analysis of online narrative accounts identified distinct subcategories of frequently visited Places, encountered Entities, Objects, and Feelings. The findings provide a framework for a more comprehensive understanding of the profound experiences resulting from DMT inhalation.
Narratives of DMT experiences show consistent patterns linking the types of entities encountered to the environments in which they appear. Analyzing online accounts of experiences from smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine, the study identified different entity types and charted their frequency across various environments. Some environments had unique mixtures of dominant and less common entity varieties. The findings provide a framework for understanding the progression of these extraordinary experiences and may assist therapeutic, spiritual, and exploratory uses by revealing predictable relationships between the content of psychedelic experiences.