Entity and environment relationships in psychedelic experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N-dimethyltryptamine

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.

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AbstractAimGaining a more detailed understanding of the patterns of relationship of the content of psychedelic experiences can help build a deeper understanding of the nature of consciousness and assist in navigating those extraordinary experiences for therapeutic, spiritual, exploratory and creative purposes. To help achieve this goal, this study examines the patterns of relationship between Entities and Environments found in narratives of complex psychedelic experiences resulting from smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine.MethodsThe narrative accounts examined in this study were drawn from a variety of online sites and were analyzed in order to examine the patterns of relationships between different types of Entities and Environments encountered during psychedelic experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N-dimethyltryptamine. In this study different types of Entities were identified and charted in relation to the frequency of the different Environments they appeared within.ResultsSome consistency was found in encounters described with Entities and the Environments they appeared within. Various types of Entities were encountered with greater frequency in some Environments and various Environments had unique mixtures of dominant and less common varieties of Entities.ConclusionsThis study helps advance our understanding of the subjective psychedelic experiences resulting from ingestion of DMT. It reveals some of the distinct relationships between Entities and the Environments in which they appeared and provides a framework for developing a predictive model of those relationships and the progression of those psychedelic experiences.