May 20, 2020 · Researchers recently surveyed more than 2,000 DMT users about their encounters with ‘entities’ while tripping, finding that respondents often considered these strange encounters to be positive...

Feb 3, 2023 · The DMT elves, or machine elves, reported by DMT users are a phenomenon of the human brain that neuroscience research continues to struggle to explain, and one that is as mysterious as the entities themselves.

Other researchers of the entities seemingly encountered by DMT users describe them as "entities" or "beings" in humanoid as well as animal form, with descriptions of "little people" being common (non-human gnomes, elves, imps, etc.).

Apr 24, 2023 · Self-aware iron orbs, creatures with swappable Lego-like limbs, and “machine elves” consisting of interlacing geometric patterns—these are just a few the inexplicable beings reported by people who...

Nov 5, 2019 · DMT is one of the most potent entheogens known to man, and the trip it induces is significantly different than other psychoactive substances. Users describe being transported to a distant realm where they meet seemingly autonomous entities, and often those same entities appear to different people.

Jun 16, 2023 · However, “machine elves” (or DMT elves) is the term that the psychedelic activist and lecturer Terence McKenna used to describe them. DMT elves are strange entities, as you can tell by the name McKenna assigned to them. But what …

Sep 4, 2020 · What Are Clockwork Elves a.k.a. Machine Elves or DMT Elves? Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a powerful and fast-acting hallucinogen produced naturally by many plants and animals, humans included. (Yes, DMT is found in the mammalian brain.)

Jan 14, 2022 · Known as DMT, this mind-altering molecule regularly provokes realistic encounters with otherworldly beings, including those famously described by ethnobotanist Terrence Mckenna as...

Feb 25, 2025 · In this illustrated handbook, psychedelic explorer David Jay Brown and visionary artist Sara Phinn Huntley profile 25 of the most commonly encountered DMT and Ayahuasca entities, from “Self-Transforming Machine Elves” and insectoid Mantis Beings, to Reptilians and Gray Aliens, to Nature spirits and divine beings, including Gaia, angels and deiti...

Known colloquially as ‘the spirit molecule’, DMT is one of the strongest and fastest-acting psychedelics, with a chemical compound that’s found in animals, plants and even human beings. The drug is known for its powerful hallucinogenic properties, which take roughly 15 minutes to come into effect.