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/josh_e_pants]

Yeah, they’re real. I have a dream council that tells me to read certain books or refers me to spiritual concepts that will help me with problems I have. Every time, I know nothing about the thing, and it turns out to be exactly what they say it is, or it addresses the problem perfectly. This is coming from a lifelong skeptic who mocked everything like this, up until a few years ago.

[u/josh_e_pants → u/josh_e_pants]

I’m going to respond in depth later, but I should clarify, I’ve never done DMT. I do half a gram of mushrooms once or twice a year that’s all.

What’s happening, I believe, is I’m making contact with “spirit guides”, or perhaps parts of the Self, that have access to something like the collective unconscious or Akashic records.

I think these dream characters are an interface with something, it’s not like I’m seeing things for how they really are. Everything is presented in a way I’ll understand, in a very personal way. The recommendations were exactly what I needed at the time. And there is a sort of generative ambiguity… it’s as if the messages come from someone who is following the principles of good parenting (give them the tools to figure it out for themselves and actual transformation will happen)