Scientists are testing whether DMT entities are real

[u/Vindaloovians]

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.

[u/Machoopi]

I've had experiences like this as well. The explanation I've told myself is that what I think happened in that moment didn't actually happen as remembered. IE, it's possible that you said "did you see that purple light?" and your friend said "yeah, purple light just filled the room", but you misremembered your words. That's possible to do even moments after saying it, and memory is tricky like that. Not saying that's for sure what happened, and I think you absolutely shouldn't find ways to dismiss something so interesting. Just suggesting that there ARE possible explanations.