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

The Why Files · The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There · June 22, 2026
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
"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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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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