Re:Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
by splitdisk on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:27PM
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The more common term is "entities" or "elves"-and I can't really say I've ever seen them.
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Re:Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
by DaiPlusPlus on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:53PM
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I read that "The Machine Elves" are more associated with LSD than DMT. Perhaps they activate different parts of the brain associated with object recognition - LSD for humans and faces, and DMT for insects/reptiles as other comments have speculated - it makes me wonder what myriad other substances out there that we haven't discovered yet and what otherworldly effects they could have.
Re:Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
by notmarkus on Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:43AM
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"Machine Elves" was coined by Terence McKenna to describe the beings in the DMT world. He didn't do much LSD and wasn't a big fan of it.
Maybe others have had different experiences but at the very least the origins of the term are tied to DMT.