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The vast majority of people report their experiences with the DMT "Machine Elves" as being positive. Very few report the experience as being negative, and I have very very very rarely heard of a bad trip in the same vein that you see occur a significant amount of the time with shrooms and LSD.

Not all of my DMT trips involved these other entities, but when they did, they frequently had something to show me or say to me. These things weren't "new" knowledge - how could it be? I don't believe these are actually external entities - but instead things that on some level I knew to be true, but had trouble internalizing and operating on. These experiences helped integrate that knowledge from something I understood on a conceptual basis to something I could actually put in practice. One of my first serious long-term relationships ended when I was cheated on, and it resulted in me having some serious trust issues in relationships after that. I "knew" that this is a risk in relationships, but that people CAN be faithful, and that allowing these trust issues to fester would almost certainly directly result in relationships failing because of them. That didn't stop me from doing the things that I knew I shouldn't. A DMT trip with some experiences related to this didn't teach me anything new, but after I found it significantly easier to move past those trust issues and become a much better partner in relationships.

If I had to guess, something about being exposed to this information in such an altered state of conscious can allow for you internalize it when you otherwise struggle in your normal state of being.

> I have a really hard time thinking anyone that proposes tripping as a viable solution to true mental health problems is a serious person.

This seems likely to be a personal bias. There is a lot of real-deal research from serious people showing promising results.