What are DMT Visuals?

Someone high on DMT will often have powerful visual hallucinations. These often startwithin secondsafter taking DMT. A DMT trip can last forup to 45 minutes. Visuals from DMT use are often very complex and are not just a single hallucination, but the creation of a completelyseparate reality. Colors in DMT visuals may be muchbrighterand more intense than in real life. Some DMT users report distorteddepth perceptionduring their trip. In addition, DMT visuals mightoverlaythe objects and people that are around the DMT user, making the hallucination blend with reality.

Common DMT Visuals

Often, DMT visual effects will show the user an intricate alternate universe. The person may see many creatures in this universe as part of the hallucination. The person also may see a variety of strange objects in the universe. What sets DMT visuals apart from other hallucinogens is the level of complexity of what the person thinks they are seeing.

Good DMT Visuals

Sometimes, DMT users have hallucinations that they find interesting, funny or calming.A doctorwrote of some of the pleasant DMT visuals his patients reported to him:

• Jesters and clowns
• Riding a merry-go-round
• Spirits or beings coming to give blessings
• Intricate color patterns and swirls

Bad DMT Visuals

Sometimes people can have a bad DMT trip. Because DMT hallucinations are often of complex alternate universes, some users may find themselves in scary situations. In addition,some peoplewho have used DMT have had psychotic episodes and more serious hallucinations. Doctors think that having a history ofmental healthproblems may be linked to the risk of having a psychotic episode on DMT.One doctorreported some of the frightening hallucinations his patients had while using DMT:

• Being possessed by aliens
• Not recognizing their own bodies
• Sexual assault
• Being attacked by crocodiles
• Threatening, non-human faces

DMT and Outer Space

DMT visuals commonly involve beings that users think might be aliens.One doctorstudied DMT in users and found that many people thought that aliens abducted them during their DMT trip.

These DMT users thought they were under the total control of the aliens. During their DMT trips, people often thought that aliens were experimenting on them. Sometimes, the visual hallucination of aliens was so intricate that it involved aliens using their alien language of visual symbols. When users came off their DMT trip and later used DMT again, many would go straight back into their previous hallucination of aliens. In some cases, DMT users reported the aliens greeting them and welcoming them back. The hallucinations during the DMT trips were so vivid that they convinced some people that their DMT experiences were real and not drug-induced visuals.

The Effects of DMT Trips and Visuals

Although DMT visuals quickly wear off as the body rids itself of the drug, some visual effects may linger briefly after the trip ends. These longer-lasting DMT effectsinclude:

• Feeling like the lights are too bright
• Thinking that objects move in a wave-like pattern
• Having more depth perception than normal
• Thinking that things are moving in a jerking motion

In addition, some people with mental health problems have experiencedpsychosisand hallucinations after using DMT that can lastfor weeks.