oh shit yeah i've been reading some of the experiences from erowid and it sounds pretty intense! is it really that much more intense though than a hefty dose of shrooms or acid?
I dunno, mushrooms can take you to pretty strange places if you eat enough of them. Psilocybin is also a tryptamine that gets up in the same places in your brain cell receptors as DMT does and I imagine that if you were able to freebase it then the experience could probably get close, but short of eating several handfuls of mushrooms I don't think the two really compare. Acid is just different altogether, but I've heard of people taking outrageous amounts and never snapping back out of it completely but I'm not sure if it's the same thing.
DMT trips come on in seconds peaking almost instantly which is pretty startling, reality completely melts away into like a fully conscious dream and you go through so much so fast while having little to no control over it. I can't imagine any other drug comparing to its intensity outside of taking extreme amounts.