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DMT Users Report Years-Long Lockouts After Entities Say They're Not Welcome

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published June 25, 2026 · The Why Files · The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
DMT Users Report Years-Long Lockouts After Entities Say They're Not Welcome
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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There

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"People would have this experience where they, they take DMT often quite regularly, you know, maybe every, every day or every few days, right? And then one day they'll get, um, like a big, like a big X in the field of vision that says no entry. Although there'll be an entity that will wag its finger and say no, no, no. Or they get some kind of message like, you know, you, you're not welcome here, we're not letting you in. And this is called a lockout. You've been locked out of the DMT space."

Gallimore documented the lockout phenomenon where regular DMT users suddenly lose all visual effects for months or years after entities explicitly deny access, despite identical dosing and method. He noted pharmacological tolerance builds gradually, but lockouts function like an on-off switch that cannot be explained by serotonin receptor dynamics, and plans formal studies at legal research facilities.

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