Is there any connection between DXM and out-of-body or shamanic experiences?
Maybe. It is somewhat established that many aspects of DXM trips, especially higher plateaus (3rd and 4th), have shamanic or out-of-body characteristics. Some users have reported experiences which are very similar to published out-of-body and/or near-death experiences (many of the users who reported these are fairly skeptical about that sort of thing). One note though – DXM hallucinations and imagery tend to derive to a great extent from what you’ve encountered throughout the day. If you’ve played DOOM all day, you’re going to have a difficult time coming up with any images other than muck-walls and demons. I can think of two explanations for the shamanic character of higher DXM plateaus.. The first one, which I prefer, is less fun but probably a lot more useful. Basically, it is possible that many of the aspects of out-of-body or shamanic journeying experiences derive from neural network states which DXM can approximate. To start with, unlike most drugs which target very specific, lim