How to prepare for a DMT trip, well I don't really know, but I started to do this and that, listening to my inner voice. I cleaned the house very well yesterday, so that was already done. I even went to take care of recycling and the garbage. Around here you have to drive your garbage and pay a fee to discard them... I came back home with about 1.5 hour before my friend was to arrive. I started burning two stick of incense. Then I though that I should smudge the house. I use Palo Santo and a feather and went around the house to cleanse further. I broom the floor a second or third time, and then started on the sitting areas. I wanted to have my chair prep for the trip but also I wanted a bed with cushions and blankets ready in case we needed to lay down. Although I planned on smudging my friend, I also wanted to use some Aqua de Florida, a strong perfume that is often used in Ayahuasca ceremonies. I sprayed it on a hand broom that I had specially made for cleansing my body. I wanted to create a bit of an offering to put on the altar. I use a bowl made of quartz, and put the DMT with some coca leaf and a wafer from the church, from my Grand Mother's funeral to be with us. I also prepare two pieces of paper where we could write what we wanted to let go and what we wanted to acquire through this ceremony. I prepared pieces of wood so we could easily burn these papers before the trip. My friend arrived with his drum. We shared a bit, wrote our intentions. I smudged him and he then smudge me, again with the Palo Santo and the feather. We burned the papers, and setup for the trip. I read that you can calculate the quantity if DMT you inhale, by about 1mg per second. You need about 30mg to have a full experience. So the plan was to have 3 big inhale of 10 second each. I tried that, and by the second inhale my heart was racing, my body was sinking and becoming really weak. I dropped in my chair, reality was folding gently in patterns. I closed my eyes. The sensation was really great. This psychedelic, lsd feel, but just the hallucination part. I didn't feel much but it was really pleasant. The taste was also really not bad compared to the last time I smoked it. Then my friend smoked a bit more than I did. He had more visual for a longer period, and also really enjoyed his trip. I wanted to go back right into it so I did. I took a few more hit. I wanted to go deeper, and at one point my hand and my body was being shrunk, everything was distorting and I though I should take one more hit. It's the hit that is really hard to take that is the most important to take! I couldn't complete the last hit, but the trip was really fun. These pattern, not geometric fractal, but just really strange. Like the tiles you'd find in the kitchen of an alien, nothing fancy, but strange and different. These patterns where circling and moving about, re-constructing as they were moving. Not a lot of color, more of beige and white and blacks. And then I though about the entities that I've read many times about. And there they were, behind the patterns. They were the one moving the patterns, not wanting to be seen really, but they were playful. At that point, I opened my eye, to connect somehow with these entities, and I saw the branches of the tree outside, and these entities were the one move the branches too. They were moving everything. It made me laugh, I though it was so cool that they were there, hiding in plain sight. It felt really good and warm. Still I didn't completely flipped into that other reality. My friend took the next hit. He took about 5 hit, and then looked at me in amazement. He was smiling and I could see his body and his mind went somewhere different this time. He came back a few minutes later, laughing. "Is it the music that is shaping reality or is it my mind that is shaping the music, which is then shaping reality" And he laugh a bit more. "Is this real, tell me if it's real. This is really crazy." He was talking about the music and how it affected his reality. He had a really sweet trip, but he blacked out during most of it. He told me that this also happens when he practice out of body experience, and he doesn't know why. I told him next time he could keep a mantra running in his mind so that there is some consciousness that follow around which help with remembering his experiences. The experience left me really happy and jolly. I really enjoy DMT and how fun and pleasant it is. I decided not to go for a third round, thinking I might need an even more potent dose and I should wait for another time. I had done this experience to familiarize myself with it, and I could do it alone now that I knew a bit more. I stayed within that feel for a few hours. Something shifted and I was more happy. I still feel pretty good now, and I look forward for my dreams!