As denoted in my intro essay, I did my first Ayahuasca session about a week ago

The preparation:
I had Caapi, Rue, Chaliponga, Mimosa available. I choose the Caapi/Mimosa combination for the first experience, since I read that Chaliponga can be a bit “out there” and Mimosa is more steady.

60g caapi, 4g mimosa, which I hoped to be a gentle dose and also figuring I would lose some in the filtering process. Cooked each 3 x 45 mins, each time with 800mg vit c. After extraction: filtered coarsely with cotton cloth first, after that I filtered through a double paper towel (works better than a coffee filter at this point). After that did another filtering with in my “pressure chamber” (plastic bottle with 8 layers of paper towel under the perforated cap, squeeze everything through).

I put the two mostly unreduced results in the fridge overnight. The next day I filter both bottles through a paper towel again into the pans, taking care to leave the sludge behind. The caapi almost had no sludge. In the two simmering fluids I put a mixed egg white each, then stirring gently. I let it do its thing for about 15 mins, then a short boil to get the last egg to coalesce and kill any bacteria. The caapi remains unclear yellow, but the mimosa almost looks like white wine by now. It tastes like nothing in this state.
Finally reduced to 8ml for the caapi and 4ml for the mimosa. After reducing, the caapi is red brownish and the mimosa like rose wine.

The journey:
Didn’t eat the whole day, just some water in the morning.
At 18.00, I took the Caapi in two parts, an half hour later the mimosa. It didn’t exactly taste great, but not so bad as the horrors you read about. Just throw it back and some ginger tea to wash it away. There were no purges, no real nausea. The filtering/egg did its job apparently.

Now, I was not sure what to expect. Nothing seemed to happen. After a bit more then an hour, I still didn’t feel much. I figured that the dose maybe wasn’t high enough then.
I finally closed my eyes and the images were coming. It was a bit like iboga, but less clear or intense. It did have the same way feeling like you’re riding on a train of dream images, which are somewhat incoherent and flighty. I perhaps was expecting some of the lucid dreamscapes I have experienced, that were like fully coherent immersive VR.

I cannot recall a lot, since it all happened so quickly and sometimes due to that typically dream state vagueness. At one point I remember trying to do sort of remote viewing and to mentally walk about the house, I saw myself lying there vaguely in bed. Then suddenly the view switched and everything was in black and white, all in a sort of sketched up way (like the a-ha videoclip, or one of those filters on a photo-app). Demonlike figures appeared, some drawn sharply others not. “Oh, its inner demon time, im guessing”. ”Ok, lets get on with it. “, I thought. I was not scared and let them do their show. They said, “We told you before, demons belong in the underworld.” “Yet what do you do? You keep getting them up/out. It’s all a matter of choice really.” “You wonder how get rid of them, just focus on the good things in life”. I got the impression or image that your consciousness is like a flashlight. Where you shine your light, things light up.

Then there was a shadowy man sitting by my side on the bed, bending slightly over, he was wearing something resembling a dark cape. At this point I saw everything from 3rd person point of view, still in sketched b&w. He said something like he was watching/protecting me from the shadows. I said, uh ok, thanks (I guess?). It wasn’t frightening or anything. Next there were small figures standing around me in a oval circle, while I was lying. They were about 3 feet high, completely black, about 20 of them, but they did not have a real shape. They could have been triangles or vaguely oval, cut out of black paper. Two-dimensional almost. “And who are you guys?”. “Purging..”, I heard them communicate, in a sort of robotic manner. With the little beings getting to work, I felt an almost physical buzz to my system and feel myself warming up suddenly. It felt rather distinct. Eh ok, I thought, and let them do their thing.

The man in black seemed like he was overseeing. Might seem strange, but I felt like I knew the man. If I tell how, most would freak out or be in disbelief (not from real life, nor as a typical spirit guide). Anyway, next, I seemed to have switched scene, or it was something I did myself out of boredom. Meanwhile I got the impression that this was ok and the little guys would be working in the background, where I still kind of felt them. A new twist on machine elves I thought to myself?

I was launched into a purple/white/black colored “hypertube” or something, enjoying the swift motion going through it. Im not sure what happened, but it got to a stop or an exit cabin door. The door was damaged, or I couldn’t go any further. Seeming stuck at that level I remember weird yellow flowers that appeared to husk very quickly and morphed halfway into an animal mouth and back.

One of the last things I remember was arriving through a dimensional (?) window into a very bright green colored field of grass, running through it. It felt like tropical, African grass somehow. There appeared to be a native running ahead, looking back at me and shouting something. Cant remember what, but it was something positive.

After that, must have been an hour later after the start of the trip, I cannot remember much. I think I half fell asleep, being suddenly very tired. Other dream images, but more faint or too hectic. An hour later it was all gone, so 2 hours at the most.
All in all, the above story might seem like a lot already. But that’s perhaps because I wrote it out. I was a bit disappointed at the relative vagueness of the images and that it was all so hectic, mostly similar to dreamscapes. I had expected something more overwhelming, it felt more like a rather strange and vivid dream. It could also be that due to some of my rather extreme lucid dreaming experiences I have had over the years, I am spoiled .

Next time, a more stronger dose Im guessing

I've yet to try ayahuasca. All my DMT experience is with vaporized crystals. I plan on jour eying with changa for the first time soon.

I am quite puzzled as to why so many people have trouble getting DMT to orally activate. Its a common theme whether JTS with pharma or aya. It seems to me that people in the jungle have been doing it for years and that we should follow there method but I guess some people have better success taking the caapi 30 minutes or so prior to the DMT admixture.

Its a tricky thing I suppose as we are dealing with plants that have a big variation in alkaloid content. This is why the whole thing has me hesitant. I really don't want to dose to high my first time and have a highly difficult trip.

Good luck to you. Try extending the boils a while longer maybe. Seems like sixty grams should be good if its quality vine. Maybe 100 next time.

Next time Take both brews together, or 1/3 of the cappi and 5 min later the other 2/3 of caapi mixed with your mimosa or whatever plant you are using.