Traces of the Other – Are DMT Entities Real? DMT Phenomenology in the Framework of Conscious Realism
PsyArXiv May 27, 2026 Andrew Robert Gallimore, Niffe Hermansson, Donald D Hoffman preprint
Encounters with apparently autonomous and intelligent non-human entities are a striking and recurrent feature of high-dose N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) experi-ences. Such encounters are typically interpreted as complex hallucinations derived from internally generated brain activity, although many features of the DMT state remain a challenge to explain within the standard neuroscientific...