Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor (Feb. 12, 2009) |
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I am currently working on a graphic novel which is focused mainly around dreams, lucid dreaming, astral projection, and spiritual/psychedelic experience. I'm greatly interested in the endogenous molecule DMT, and have been trying to gather research on what role it may play on dreams. |
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Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor (Feb. 12, 2009) |
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I'm pretty sure there is zero scientific evidence which links DMT with dreaming (and if there is, you won't find it here). I have also spent many hours trying to find more information about endogenous DMT, and from what I've read it has never been found in the human brain, so how can it be linked to dreaming at all? The truth is, it most likely isn't. It's likely a short lived byproduct of normal metabolic processes. Make sure that any research you get is actually from scientific journals, and not speculation or merely based on people's experience or opinions, otherwise you will just be spreading more misinformation like Rick Strassman and his supposed "spirit molecule" theory which made him a ton of money but also misled the entire world into believing his speculations which (he now admits) had no scientific basis at all. If I do end up finding anything else about it, I'll post here. |
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Hmm. |
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Last edited by AtropineDreams; 10-07-2012 at 10:10 PM.
Here is a nice neuroscientific review of the relationship between hallucinations, dreams and waking consciousness, no mention of DMT though Hallucinations- Synchronisation of thalamocortical |
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DMT is secreted once in large amounts during birth, once at death in a large amount, and usually on average of 1-4 times a night in very very small amounts during the REM cycle. i'm a strong believer that DMT plays a huge part in more trippy, out of the ordinary, and sometimes even prophetic dreams. Also just like a DMT trip, on countless occasions has there been reports of the feeling of not being alone or another presence in some dreams. SWIM has experienced both phenomenons with both DMT trips and with SWIMS dream practices. IN FACT to prove SWIMS point even further... SWIM attempted smoking DMT and blasting off about ten times before doing it successfully. What was the determining factor? SWIM decided it would be a good idea to skip a night of sleep knowing SWIM was going to smoke DMT the next day. With the idea in mind that if SWIM hadn't slept and DMT is secreted in his brain in a large amount by smoking it, SWIM would be able to blast off. SWIM woke up from his first ACTUAL OBE/Blast off checking SWIMS pants to see if SWIM was SWIMMING in his own urine. Thus at least in SWIMS eyes, proving the fact that DMT does in fact have something to do with both dreaming and the Pineal gland releasing or the brain absorbing in this case... DMT. Also if SWIM recalls correctly, that evening SWIM dreamt of some absolutely amazing and out of this world things. After SWIM smoked the DMT and left his buddies house the trip started to disappear in fragments from SWIMS mind. EXACTLY like dreams slowly melt away from your memory after waking. |
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From what I've heard DMT is inside the human brain and it is the main reason why do we dream, although there are many other substances which takes part in the process of dreaming. DMT is also inside every animals brains and almost every plants. The fact is that there is quite big concertration of DMT (compared to other plants) in bent grass (I might be wrong about the name of that plant because I don't know its name in English |
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Last edited by Samick; 02-22-2013 at 04:54 PM.
plants and such. |
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Last edited by cyaelO; 02-22-2013 at 10:14 PM.
Guys, just a friendly reminder. This thread can stay alive, only if you don't discuss how to make it or how to use it. |
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