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Woman's DMT Vision Stopped Mid-Session Despite Drug Still Flowing Into Bloodstream

The Why Files · The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There · June 22, 2026
Woman's DMT Vision Stopped Mid-Session Despite Drug Still Flowing Into Bloodstream
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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
"She was doing DMTX in Colorado, now kind of a private group, and she was undergoing DMTX. She was having this interaction with this entity for, you know, 20 minutes or so, DMT flowing into her bloodstream and into her brain, stable DMT state. And then the entity said, okay, I think we're done for today. The vision's just stopped. DMT was still flowing, the infusion machine was still on, DMT levels in her brain still there, and it was like, we're done. Can't explain that."
During extended DMT infusion trials, a woman experienced an entity terminating her vision despite continuous drug administration maintaining stable brain concentrations. Gallimore stated this pharmacologically impossible event cannot be explained by receptor dynamics or metabolism, suggesting external agency controlling the experience independent of neurochemistry.

About this episode

Host AJ interviewed Cambridge-trained neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Gallimore about his 30-year study of DMT, the world's most powerful naturally occurring psychedelic. Gallimore, author of Death by Astonishment, presented his controversial theory that the beings millions report meeting on DMT may be real sentient entities rather than hallucinations. He detailed his development of DMTX with researcher Rick Strassman, an extended-state intravenous protocol that maintains stable breakthrough experiences for hours instead of minutes, now available at a legal Caribbean research facility. The conversation explored why DMT brain activity differs from other psychedelics, collapsing into impossible coherent order rather than random entropy, and why human brains construct alien worlds they never learned to build. Gallimore described the lockout phenomenon where entities explicitly deny access to regular users for years despite identical dosing, and a case where an entity terminated a woman's vision mid-infusion despite DMT still flowing into her brain. He revealed new collaborative work with consciousness theorist Donald Hoffman applying mathematical conscious agent theory to DMT, proposing the molecule gates access to normally imperceptible dimensions of a consciousness-first reality. The discussion covered the evolutionary purpose of endogenous DMT, its neuroprotective role in dying brains, connections to alien abduction experiences, and experimental protocols like the blue-yellow screen test designed to prove DMT entities track external variables subjects cannot know.

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