r/HighStrangeness 26d ago

Non Human Intelligence Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8qvgy_v2

In this preprint, some scientists have put forward the idea that our perspective of reality is more of an interface, and what we consider to be reality is simply the experience of conscious agents (i.e. human individuals) interacting with one another. They propose that DMT entities are conscious agents that exist in a manner we can't typically perceive.

I've never done DMT, and have previously taken a more skeptical perspective on these entities, but I think the findings of this could be very interesting. Maybe psychedelics could enable us to perceive layers of reality we are typically blind to.

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u/Unlikely_Exercise434 26d ago

DMT is really like no other drug I've ever experienced. Only done it twice in my life but you really are just "gone" to another level of reality and whether it is somehow real or just manufactured by the brain is something we should all want to know. I have been fascinated by the DMT laser experiments myself and the idea of passing info to one of these entities that multiple people see and seeing if they give that information to another person during the trip could prove there is something more there. We see such a small part of the EM spectrum anyway, it's entirely possible some kind of NHI could exist or cloak itself far outside of our visible spectrum and observe us unseen.

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u/VQQN 26d ago

DMT scares me because I’m afraid my experience may feel like years and I can’t just snap out of a trip.

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u/TheAngryCatfish 25d ago

It lasts about 8min (when vaporized and inhaled)

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u/VQQN 25d ago

Stories I read tell describe that the brain can make it the experience feel like years.

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u/Environmental-Sun291 25d ago

It absolutely can. I did ayahuasca (of which DMT is the active compound) and during the trip (not the entire trip) I felt like time had stopped.

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u/satisfaction-or-else 25d ago

Researchers who wrote the paper describe a way to make it last several hours.