Firstly : https://wiki.dmt-nexus.m...s_Wiki:Health_and_Safety

you should take more time to prepare what you're doing.
Preparing the good vesels, calculing the size, the volume of what is necessary to conduct your extraction.
Playing with dangerous chemical as lye is not recommended as you know what you do.
You shoudl take more concern how to do it nicelly than quickly, here, faste is not the better.

Turkey baster is not recomended, more if it's plastic !

You should take more time to :

-visualise the entire process with the material you have before extracting
-taking more time to integrate safety concerns in your extraction method.

There are numerous thread here about safety during extraction.
A lot of experienced chemist are here for this purpose.

Try to explains all the step with your material you have before extrating

The only mistake is not learning from mistakes. It's cool you took all the steps to complete an extraction. I think you will find that it will get easier should you attempt this again. Definitely get some goggles and gloves if you do.


Any advice on how to go into this next step carefully, safely, and discreetly?

What is the next step? and why discreetly? You live with the parents or something?

Any advice on re-xing/being sure I have what I think I do?

I like to use heptane for my r-ex, but naphtha will work fine as well. Really quick summary of what I do below.

Use two small glasses like a shot glass or something similar.
Heat up some water to just under boiling in a small pot large enough to hold the two small glasses.
Place a minimal amount of heptane or naphtha in one glass and the freebase DMT you would like to r-ex in the other glass.
Place both glasses into the heated water bath, wait a few minutes for the DMT to melt into goo.
Pour a minimal amount of the now warmed heptane or naphtha into the glass with the DMT until the DMT dissolves.
Stir it up just a bit.
You may notice some brown sediment drop to the bottom when you do this.
Pour the solution into a pyrex dish.(do not pour any of that sediment into the dish)
Allow r-ex dish to come to room temperature, then to the fridge for a cooling down further, then to the freezer overnight.
Easy.

Read the dmt nexus wiki. Anything you read elsewhere compare to what you find here and adjust to the measurments recommended on here. That will save you time.

Also while you do that my recommendation would be to just slow down. Think about what you are doing, visualize one step at a time before you do it. Make sure you’re thinking reasonably for the long term and not what makes sense in the short term. That’ll also save time and effort.

As far as the next step, I say start slow. If someone were to ask me I’d say take some harmala extract and just sip on your vaporizer and get to know your juice. Other people say if you shoot for the stars you bypass the intense anxiety some people feel, get nervous of and then can’t get past. You’re gonna have to use your intuition and I strongly recommend slowing down and thinking things through before you take that step.

One other thing and I’ll probably catch some flack but if you insist on keeping this from your wife only get high when she isn’t there. You’ll be flying solo so live with your decisions but you shouldn’t spring the potential problems that could come up without letting her know since she’s involuntarily a part of this thing now. Report back on what you find.

definitely have a trip sitter for your first time trying it, I thought i was pretty experienced in psychedelics but it can be pretty intense. I had my girl watch me though.

Hey Sbyeliab,



I used bold text for the most important thing that you've said. (I also removed one tid-bit that you are not supposed to say - and I suggest editing the original post to remove that as well.)

BUT, the important part - yes, you screwed up on the first one... know what? 95% of us screw up the first extraction. It's the most important, because many people let one bad extraction break their spirit. You didn't. You're ok, and you learned some lessons. If you continue to extract, I can promise you that you'll come upon complications. Learning to troubleshoot is a valuable skill. If you can't troubleshoot, then you'll likely repeat the failed methods. Will you ever do an extraction without gloves or goggles? I doubt it. Heck, I'd be willing to bet you'll be ordering a lab coat, next! Learning from our mistakes prevents us fools from doing it over and over again.

(Seriously though, lab coats are very useful. If you get a spill on your coat, it can easily be shed before RUNNING to the shower. In the event of a spill or explosion - don't worry about the counter, don't worry about the floor, don't worry about the cabinets..... the immediate concern is removing the spill from your body. After that, then isolate and neutralize the spill.)

Funny (not really) story.... once upon a time, a young and reckless ACY was growing mushrooms. That version of ACY was a fool, and was pressure cooking some grain jars in shorts, no shoes, and no shirt... so i was talking to my wife, turned away from the pressure cooker and stepped back.... ***SIZZLE**** "Yyyyaaaaaaaaoooooooowwwwwwhhhhhhhhh!" I jumped about 3 feet in the air. My wife saw it happen and told me to turn around to check.... nice 8 cm long burn/blister form the rim of the pressure cooker. DOH! You better believe that I never attempted pressure cooking again without a shirt. Lol.


The underlined text, from your quote is the next most important thing. This one is often complicated and difficult to overcome. Continue to take your time and build your courage.





Some other folks have offered some more critical advice. Don't disregard it - they truly do care about your well-being. From my understanding, many of their concerns are in relation to things that were not discussed, or discussed thoroughly, in the tek that you followed.

I'll tell you a little secret, but you have to promise to keep it between you and I, ok? Ok. So, the secret is: most all teks are based on the same concept - lysing cells, getting DMT out of the cells, converting to freebase by manipulation of the pH, and then pulling with an appropriate solvent. Shhhhh! Don't tell the others! Hehehe jk jk jk.

The method of which you go about doing this process can vary from procedure to procedure. Some people don't have access to sodium hydroxide or solvents like naphtha, so there are alternative methods to produce the same results.

You mentioned the volume of your extraction vessel being too small for your total volume of liquid. I recommend still using a sodium hydroxide solution. Adding sodium hydroxide directly to the extraction is ASKING for trouble. Especially if you've used and acid during the boils. Granulated NaOH + acid = volcano effect. It's easier to reduce the tea a little longer than clean up a volcano'd extraction.


I know you said "No Thank you about the wife advice..." but I was once in your shoes. Give them time and allow room for growth from both of you. Even though you didn't want it, you got it. I don't think one sentence of advice was too bad, was it?

It's often difficult for a significant other to understand our reasons. Due to this, I did not frewuently discuss my DMT experiences with my wife. It was complicated, because I did tell her about the experiences in the beginning. She began to think I was developing an unhealthy delusional view about reality. Maybe I was? None the less, we decided that a "don't ask, don't tell" policy was best for my DMT usage. In time, she warned up to the idea - and now she'll even say, "you've been in a weird mood the past few days.... maybe you should take some DMT or eat some mushrooms..." LOL.


Either way, I'm proud of you for being proud of yourself and overcoming the fear and paranoia.

Best advice? Keep learnin'. Make some (safer) mistakes. Learn from them. Then you will develop a method that works best for your conditions. Keep researchin'. That reduces the danger of the mistakes.



Take Care,
ACY