A Trip Through the Time Loop: The DMT Tunnel

Artwork by: Bart Van Hertum www.instagram.com/bartvanhertum

By Flerosa Anon

"The tunnel’ is a common aspect of the DMT experience. Beginners with DMT often get trapped in the tunnel, and I feel it can be brushed past with the glorification of higher beings and entities. In fact, it can be an important part of the whole DMT experience. Many struggle to have a breakthrough within their first attempts. I'll be writing from a personal standpoint, as everybody’s experiences are unique.

’The Tunnel’ (as I like to call it) is achieved by taking a common middle dose. A second large hit of a normal 40 - 60mg measurement. The first hit achieves an unrealistic, open eyed view of our reality. As if a real world is pushing through the atoms and you see clearly for the first time. Closing your eyes will bring a sense of familiarity to a room of fractal colours spiralling between a Venn diagram type colour wheel. Upon seeing and feeling this new realm build around you, you take a second large hit of this small dose.

Large, open fractal rooms begin to form

This seems to propel you forward, like a gravitating push. Large, open fractal rooms begin to form and you may experience a shift in time at this point. Days, weeks, months or years may occur in a split second. Everything begins to speed up. You observe a world flitting past. It can be quite a struggle and rather disorientating. Although it seems that this tunnel is a time loop/portal, the post trip experience seems to undo these impressions. Time only appears to feel like 5 or 10 minutes as it should afterwards.

Your perspective, in a conscious manner and a visual view point, may split into a multiple awareness during this exploration. I would say from my recollection an ego loss begins at this stage. Losing my sense of self has proven to be very difficult. The tunnel is the moment in which you are being taken from one reality to another higher dimensional reality. In order for your consciousness to transcend, you must let go of who you are as a being and a personality. This can be very testing, as to lose your self/being is to actively agree to die; a decision many choose to ignore… although in most cases it is easier to let go than to fight the experience.

Complex, digitalized geometry brings nostalgia

The geometry that I have come across is a never-ending stream of complex, digitalised, vibrant, morphing imagery. There's a feeling of ancestry and nostalgia about this whole construct, although it is hard to pinpoint the location of the source itself. There are many different structures which can be found in the DMT realm. Resonating Aztec, Egyptian, Mayan and Hindu style pattern work, amongst many others. This includes completely alien constructs and archetypal imagery.

The tunnel seems to come to an end abruptly if not taken further with another large hit. After effects include a digitalised reality and neon tubular type open eyed visuals. Laughter and confusion may be added with the after effects.

I would say a low dose or one large hit is most effective for a pleasurable, euphoric feeling coupled with abstract, colourful, fractal visuals. A large three-hit dose seems to be the best way to ease through an ego death, as you are pushed through the other end of the tunnel with no exception. As if bursting through a membrane as Terence McKenna described…