Now, a while back, prior to having seen this video, I had a wonderful experience that some may describe as a "religious experience". I myself am not a fan of religion, as I feel it is just a mask on the face of true spirituality that is used to control the masses, however I did have to acknowledge the true spiritual "feeling" to the whole thing.
I experiment with recreational drugs, provided that I do the proper research beforehand to ensure I can use each drug in the most safe way possible, minimising risks of harm and addiction. To this day this approach has led me to learn a very large amount from drugs, without some of the dangers and problems that other inexperienced drug users often face.
One set of hallucinogens, which I'm sure many of you know about, are dissociatives. My experience happened after having consumed approximately 250mg of Ketamine HCl (insufflated) with little/no tolerance to the drug.
The onset of the experience was fast, I began to feel the familiar "drunken" feeling that low doses of dissociatives produce, then objects began to lose their familiarity, I began to feel numb, and soon my senses seemed to melt together and act in unimaginable ways. I decided to lay down in my bed to ensure I did not do myself any harm while under the influence, and sure enough, I made the right decision. Within a few minutes I felt a strange sensation come over me, I no longer recognised the world around me, and soon enough it felt like I was slipping away until.. Bang! I was gone, I was in a mass of infinite energy, but there was no "I", I had just joined this energy to become part of infinity, everything and nothing was perceivable at once, there was no happiness, no sadness, no people, no animals, no land, no space, just ALL. After several hundred million years (my best estimate at the time, it felt like eternity), I returned to our 3rd dimension, checked the clock, and a whole.. 20 minutes had passed.
The experience was life changing to say the least, I went on to revisit this other dimension several times and with each time I learnt new things, I also completely lost my fear of death, and had this feeling at the back of my mind that I had left the realm of inexplicable belief and entered something that could (albeit with a great deal of effort) be explained by science and logic. When I watched the Youtube video for Imagining the Tenth Dimension, it shocked me at how it adequately explained what I had experienced, I spoke to some people about it, but they were both not very scientifically knowledgeable, and against the use of psychoactive substances of any kind (though ironically indulging heavily in caffeine and alcohol), so the idea did not sit well with them.
Recently I was guiding someone through their first experience with a large dose of Dextromethorphan (DXM), another dissociative, and while they did not reach the level of experience that I did (DXM is weaker than Ketamine by a fair amount, so a ridiculously large dose must be taken in order to get the same effects), there were many parallels to the multiple dimension theory, with them perceiving multiple instances of time at once, and then multiple universes..
It almost makes me think that dissociatives can and do act as a switch that allows us to perceive any/all of the 10 dimensions, with a very small dose keeping us in the 3rd, a larger dose taking us into the 4th, and incrementally larger doses taking us to the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and finally 10th dimensions.
What I was interested in firstly, has anyone else had a similar experience? From a scientific point of view, how could this be explained, is it possible that while switching off our senses, we actually become more attuned to other dimensions?
I look forward to your replies
Edit: I'd just like to add, while some mislabel it as a psychedelic, Salvia Divinorum is a dissociative just like Ketamine, DXM, PCP, and several other less commonly used examples such as Tiletamine.