My ferret is a frequent journier to hyperspace and he asked me to get some advice from the forum.

He often (more often than not it seems) has little or no memory of his experiences. He realizes as he is returning that he has been somewhere (right after he realizes that he is something, then what he is), but the details are either very vague or non-existent.

He smokes the ferret equivalent of 50 mg of translucent crystal with careful technique to avoid burning his spice.

He knows from reading a forum thread over my shoulder that others have this problem sometimes as well, but didn't see any crafty tricks to help him remember more clearly.

He sometimes remembers pieces and images, but would really like to have conscious experiences like the stories in one of his current favorite books; "DMT- The Spirit Molecule".

He was wondering if a lower or higher dose might help, or maybe someone has conquered this problem before him and can help him out.

Thanks,
Pokey

changa.

Thank You!

Pokey's ferret

Just did some reading here: http://www.dmt-nexus.me/....aspx?g=posts&t=3539

Any suggestions for which herb to make a first batch with?

white sage, mugwort and mint are all good..infused with caapi..

The harmala alkaloids in changa really help slow the experience down, allowing you to remember it better. THH (tetrahydroharmine) is one of the best for this. It will slow the experience down AND make your mind more clear and focused allowing you to go really deep into the experience with more intellectual power. That is what SWIM has found. When making changa, if caapi or a caapi extract is used, there should be THH in the mix.

I don't know how effective THH is when smoked though. SWIM takes it sublingually and THEN smokes the DMT. That works really well. About 10-20 mg sublingually of THH is all that you need.

Thanks so much!

My ferret is really excited.

It will take several days or a week to procure the proper supplies and help my ferret with a batch of changa (I have to help him, no opposable thumbs after all), but I'll report his experience as soon as I can.

Where does one get THH? And what is it?

Pokey

I have never prepared or smoked Changa, SWIM has experienced memory defficiencies vaporizing higher dosages. I know others who have this same issue. It wouldnt hurt to try and see what 20 or 30 mg will do for you. That may do the trick. It never hurts to experiment and explore and define what your limits and boundries are.

THH is found in Banisteriopsis caapi vine. Banisteriopsis caapi contains harmine and THH as its main active alkaloids. You can make a tea from it and that works great. Once the effects of the tea are felt you can then smoke the DMT and the whole experience is slowed down.

Pure THH can also be found on-line. Search Google, you should be able to find it. Pure THH produces a more focused experience than the vine does, and also doesn’t cause nausea. Banisteriopsis caapi is known for causing nausea when taken orally. But not when chewed. When chewed the dose is about 1/10 that needed when taken orally, and that isn’t enough to cause nausea normally.

Yipee!!

Went shopping at the local medicinal herb shop and got 7 or 8 of the recommended herbs for making Changa.

The herb lady had never heard of Banisteriopsis Caapi and couldn't find anything in her secret herb lady books either.

Does Caapi have other names? She had almost everything else.

If Caapi is in the Changa does that eliminate the need for sublingual THH?

My Ferret will be trying 25 mg tonight to test that idea while the Changa is drying.

Thanks again for the helpful advice.

Pokey

You don’t need THH. Banisteriopsis caapi contains THH and harmine. B. caapi can be smoked (usually the leaves are smoked) or used sublingually (pieces of vine are chewed), or orally (if you like to purge) at a tea. It contains enough THH to be very effective. It has slightly more harmine than THH so the effects are not quite as nice as pure THH, but it’s still very nice.

As an alternative, you can use Passionflower but it's much weaker, lacks THH, but produces a similar effect to B. caapi because it contains very similar alkaloids.

What like a general herb stall?

You need to find a specialist botanicals supplier. I've only found caapi local to me once and it looked crap and was really expensive so I'd go the online route for that.

Your memories will only ever be as good as the original perception of the events. A good idea might be to start doing mental exercises to improve cognitive and perceptive functions. Start being more conscious of the information the senses take in, and not just during a trip, but your everyday life. You'll eventually notice your sight and hearing is sharper, and you can feel, smell, and taste things you may not have noticed before. Once your conscious experience is of higher quality, your memories will as well. Imagine a recorded copy of a piece of music. The recorded copy will only be as good as the original music in terms of quality (unless you have a terrible recorder, which is a different story).

Please clarify this point for me...If I chew on some vine for a while (how long and how much) this will potentiate the memory experience? Will I notice the Cappi effects?

SWIM uses purified caapi alkaloids sublingually instead of using actual caapi. I don't know the exact amount the natives chew of caapi vine. It should be enough to just feel it slightly. When chewed, the effects peak after about 10-15 minutes and last about 2 hours. I believe they use roughly 1/10nth the dose normally used for making oral ayahuasca, something like 5-10 grams.

SWIM found that smoking changa after THH is not as nice as smoking after Caapi tea.
The THH experience seemed very clinical not as pleasant as the caapi.
The caapi on the otherhand was just simply delightful. So nurturing, blissful and friendly

Looking forward to hear of your experiences.

What herbs were used in the end?

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THH is found in Banisteriopsis caapi vine. Banisteriopsis caapi contains harmine and THH as its main active alkaloids. You can make a tea from it and that works great. Once the effects of the tea are felt you can then smoke the DMT and the whole experience is slowed down.

Pure THH can also be found on-line. Search Google, you should be able to find it. Pure THH produces a more focused experience than the vine does, and also doesn’t cause nausea. Banisteriopsis caapi is known for causing nausea when taken orally. But not when chewed. When chewed the dose is about 1/10 that needed when taken orally, and that isn’t enough to cause nausea normally.[/quote]

Thanks for the tip. So if I chew some vine for say 20 min - half hour I should notice some effects? Might be worth trying prior to brewing.

Pau D'Arco and passion flower mostly. A little bit of white sage for flavor. It's dry and ready now, but my ferret has a cold now and must wait a day or 2

The mix was 1:1 as recommended but it seems like 100mg of the stuff won't be much, just a small puff... Is this normal?

My ferret was expecting to have a bigger pile of Changa (1.3 grams of mixed herbs and 1.3 grams of spice).

Pokey

Nice. A gram of leaf isn't really that much, but will be enough. Just start small and gauge the strength then just smoke as much as you feel you can handle. The big pile you speak of is usually when you use about 5g+.