Hey nina, just out of curiosity, do you have any experience with Amanita muscaria? I was thinking about how you compared to DMT to hypnagogia, and I was wondering how the body might go about causing it naturally. It occurred to me that GABA is likely involved it in somehow since its main purpose is shutting down the brain, and I'm pretty sure it lowers glutamate levels which could cause the dissociative effects that lead to OBEs, but I also remember reading that the reason muscimol in Amanita muscaria causes psychedelic effects, among other things, is because some GABA-A receptors in the brain colocalize with 5-HT2A receptors. So maybe hypnagogia does involve some serotonergic activity? Just a thought. I don't have much experience with it myself, so I find it hard to say how close some of its effects can be to hypnagogia, but what I have experienced makes me believe it could be, and I know that full trips on are supposed to create powerful dream-like states.
