This is exactly how I would describe my experience with DMT. Once it hit me, I immediately felt as if nothing bad could ever happen to me. All tension, physically and mentally, was immediately removed from my body. Pure comfort and excitement. I'd never felt that level of calmness in my entire life even if everything that was happening to me visually was crazy.
I'm curious if you or the grandparent poster have encountered the DMT gnomes/elves? Apparently it's not uncommon on DMT to have the gnomes/elves appear and tell you the secrets of the universe or something. They're described here by Terence McKenna:
(And now I have to listen to Shpongle's Divine Moments of Truth song, which perhaps coincidentally clocks in at a touch over 10 mins long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-2d6wxudE )
I have numerous times. They come in varying degrees depending upon how much you smoke and the manner in which you smoke (its a bit tricky to figure it out at first). The first "level" (if you will) is a sort of cartoonish kaleidoscope of cards or images, almost 2d. The second level is when you loose the notion that you are on your couch; the experience becomes totally immersive and "you" can no longer be separated from "it". People describe it as a room, but this description is far, far, far from accurate. The third level is when you quite literally come in contact with some kind of extraterrestrial or extra-dimensional entities (these are the only words I know to describe what they are). They seem to be infinite in number because no experience is ever the same, with each contact being immensely different. One common theme however is telepathy; communication most certainly takes place, but it is not with words. Its like immediate meaning and understanding without the limitation of time. It has happened to me during every single encounter and has led me to have a much greater understanding of post linguistic possibility.
Another thing I would like to add is that DMT is the only psychedelic that I know of (maybe mushrooms can hit this place at certain very high dosages) where open-eye reality can be completely transformed, when looking around you are no longer laying on your couch but in some kind of pod and the pipe you are holding suddenly contains a beautiful jewel and is embroidered with some kind of alien language and where, with each subtle movement of your eyes the pod you find yourself in transforms into different shapes with different panels, each wired to your optic nerve. Holy fucking shit people: what is going on out there? More than meets the eye. Its remarkable and weird and beautiful and scary and the greatest of mysteries.
Apologies for the total insufficiency of my words. Everyone -- everyone -- should try it sometime, and particularly atheists and general skeptics. Your faith in your own certainty will be dismantled immediately and forever. The experience is anything and everything but a mere hallucination; its like turning the frequency on a dial and suddenly hitting some kind of super powerful organic SETI message that knows you are going to arrive.
I have never ingested DMT, so thanks for the interesting write up. Salvia Divinorum is another psychedelic that might can produce incredibly strong visuals. It is the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen, and produces far stronger hallucinations than LSD or mushrooms. As with DMT it is very short lived, the effects lasting around 5-10 minutes. It was used in shamanistic ritual, so perhaps it also offers the same spiritual/metaphysical properties. However my environment wasn't really ideal for introspection so I didn't experience that side of things.
Not that I can remember. Although I really do want to experience it. There are parts of my experience I can remember quite vividly and other parts that are just blank gaps in between.
This is exactly how I would describe my experience with DMT. Once it hit me, I immediately felt as if nothing bad could ever happen to me. All tension, physically and mentally, was immediately removed from my body. Pure comfort and excitement. I'd never felt that level of calmness in my entire life even if everything that was happening to me visually was crazy.