Whimsical Arrogance Leads to the Cosmic ER
DMT
by mikedelic
Age at time of experience: 29
Published: May 13, 2015
https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=97591
Approximate time of dosage: 11:45PM
I took what felt like a larger-than-normal hit from my hammerhead glass pipe Lightweaver (named after the Alex Grey painting which it closely resembles) and held it in as long as possible. I exhaled and politely asked my friends to leave the room so I could trip in silence. Those words had barely escaped my mouth when...
T+0:01 : I was enveloped in an overwhelming sea of colorful geometry which resolved into a pathway leading to a very mechanical/alien-looking Mayan-themed pyramid. I walked down the pathway and leaped up the stairway, leaping the steps in groups of 3 just as I would in real life, passing others on my way up. I felt an overwhelming sense of pride when I reached the top of the stairway and was greeted by a doorway which led into a void.
I fearlessly stepped through the doorway and was greeted by a large 'being' which took the form of an N-dimensional (where N is greater than 3) unicursal hexagram. (NOTE: I had seen this shape before and had to do a lot of Googling afterwards to find what it was called) Its 'skeleton' appeared to be made of light and an 'eye' at every vertex/intersection. Every 'eye' was a copy of the being, repeating itself infinitely. The being seemed somewhat annoyed by my demanding answers to the questions of why it was here, why I was here, and why the universe was here. I recall a feeling of embarrassment/humility as I realized I was not prepared for the answer. The being responded 'You cannot learn the 29th lesson without learning the first 28' and pushed me backwards down the steps. I began tumbling backwards and the pyramid took on a very sinister and dark quality. I felt a sharp, very momentary pain in the center of my brain as this was happening.
At this point, I found myself in a 'cosmic emergency room' after tumbling backwards down the steps. I use quotes because that's the best term I can use to describe it. I was surrounded by 'nurses' of distinctly elfin appearance. Humanoid, short, thin, with beautiful blue piercing eyes. The younger nurses comforted me, 'said' this was a frequent occurrence and it was OK, while the 'head nurse' chided me for my arrogance. Again, 'said' is completely proverbial - no words were ever exchanged. It was as though these ideas were being communicated to me telepathically. There were others in this cosmic ER that were in far worse condition than I and I recall the nurses who were attending to them making comments about how sad they were for the people the patients had left behind. I am known to be a very empathetic person among my friends and co-workers and with the exception of the head nurse, there was an overwhelming feeling of empathy and cooperation in this place.
T+??? - After repairing/tending to my brain wound, the nurses signaled for a “cosmic taxi mechanism”. It took quite some time for this mechanism to reach me and for my journey home to begin. During that time, I conversed with the nurses about my experience and they said they had always wondered what was in the pyramid, but had always been too afraid to investigate due to the trauma they saw on a regular basis.
When the red recliner machine arrived, the nurses bid me farewell and were quite kind... they appeared to gather in a crowd and multiply in number, all waving goodbye and wishing me well.
T+0:15? - At this point, I was still experiencing rather strong effects. I asked my friends what time it was as I could not see the clock that was 7 feet away from my face.
T+0:20 - The effect was still rather strong, but it was more like an LSD or mushroom trip where I was conscious of my surroundings and they were merely “altered”. I was fully conscious and could see the clock: 12:05am. My friends had come back into the room and asked questions about my experience. I was grateful that _I_ had taken the dose instead of my friend's girlfriend as I do not think she would have handled it well as a first-timer. I believe I had consumed the dose I had prepared for her + a considerable amount of what my friend had left behind. I did not have a proper scale to measure out the amounts and had 'measured' based on what a friend with a scale had shown me, so my 75mg dose estimate is purely hypothetical. I have since obtained an accurate scale as to not make the same mistake.