After my first shy attempts (Psychadelic Sunday) with the spice, I decided to work on technique.

A new vaporizing device just arrived the day before, which I actually ordered to use for Budder, it's called the Essential Vaaapp. So I load the glass container with 15mg of DMT, hold the lighter underneath and the spice disappears very quickly but I can't see any vapor... I'm still taking a toke from the device but except a very faint spice smell, there's nothing. So I fill another 25mg and repeat the process. Again it disappears immediately, again no vapor. What am I doing wrong? Then I remember that the spice actually liquifies before vaporizing and therefore take a look at the glass vial. Obviously there it is in its liquid form... Yes, I felt stupid. Aware that there's now a breakthrough dose in that vial, I heat it up again and take a hesitant toke. Awful taste! Slight rippling effects but nothing more. So I decide that this isn't for me and the device gets cleaned and stored away for when some Budder will come my way.

So back to the Volcano. Because my last experiences got gradually stronger, despite lowering the dosage, my next quest was to find out if the reason for this was residue on the liquid pad. I'm heating up the Volcano on full power (stage 9), only with the liquid chamber and pad mounted. After a good 20 seconds vapor starts to come out, lots of vapor! I let it run for a minute and all this time vapor comes out of the chamber (and stinks up the room...) Then I put a bag on (1.5 - 2 tokes volume) and manage to completely fill it with more vapor. It looks slightly grey which keeps me from inhaling it, so I gift it to the cold air of the night. Then I fill another bag, this time not much comes out anymore, all of the left over spice has been cleared out.

In order to avoid having so much residue left in the liquid pad, this time I heat up the chamber first, then put 25mg in it. I'm switching on the volcano, again without a bag. As soon as there is no spice visible anymore, I put on the bag and nice looking white vapor pours into it. Before the bag is completely filled, the vapor going into it starts to be less dense. Now the bag is full...

I take a first large toke and hold it for 15 seconds, then somehow I manage to take in the rest of the bag without exhaling the first toke (despite being a smoker, I've got reasonably big lungs). Another 10-15 seconds pass and I see the same fractals and color schemes I saw in my first attempts. Very intense body feeling, intense but very nice and comfortable. The fractals come closer and closer all the time and I feel like I'm in a small room (or more like in a box) made out of this fractals. There is a slight buzzing sound I can hear. The whole experience is very similar to my first attempts. Tripping hard in such a small amount of time, with this sensational afterglow that makes everything look so beautiful and a comedown with zero hangover or side effect, you just gotta love it!

But since this is supposed to be a quest to improve my technique, I want to see how much there is left in the pad. So I'm again heating up the Volcano and this time it doesn't even require the whole volume of the bag to get the residue in. I'm inhaling everything in one go and hold it for as long as I can. Slight visuals for a short time, followed by a short period of afterglow. This makes me believe that approx 5-10mg of the original 25mg, did not go in. Very happy and content with my latest experience, I decide to stop for now. To test my belief/theory, the next time I will use 35mg with the same technique and see where it will take me. If I'm correct, it will hopefully produce the desired 25mg experience.

However, this latest experience has increased my confidence to go deeper in the future and taken away some of the hesitance.

PS: I know the VG is the preferred method and in no way I'm trying to promote the Volcano. But it's a device that I have spent a lot of money on and and it's been sitting around with no use for a couple of years. IME so far it works great for sub-breakthrough experiences and the taste of the vapor is pretty pleasant. I can not comment on how it will work when attempting a breakthrough, simply for the fact that I haven't tried yet Many around here doubt the Volcano's ability to bring one to hyperspace but I'm confident, that in time, I will be able to confirm if this is a fact or not.

Take care.