I heard that as well - that DMT is naturally produced in humans (and many other plant and animal species), with the biggest punch of it happening during birth and death. However, I do not know where I read that so I cant say for certain that it's true or just a theory - so that's a good point you raised.
My understanding is that it is constantly produced in humans in extremely small quantities but that's it's also metabolized pretty much immediately by a certain enzyme. Under high stress the body might stop producing the enzyme that breaks it down and the brain might get flooded with a high dose. This is exactly how ayhuaska works. The ayhuaska vine inhibits the enzyme (monoamine oxidase I believe) that breaks down DMT so people get a long, slow burn, dose of DMT.
People who experience aliens and other beings while on DMT state that their experiences are real and that even though they know they took DMT, that they truely met with the other being somehow. Possibly on another realm of consciousness?
The clinical trial research on administering DMT to patients that was done by Staussman (author of the book mentioned) is super facinating. I wrote a research paper on the subject and submitted it to one of my 4th year psychology classes. Surprisingly it was well recieved by the instructor. I was a bit worried because it's such a fringe subject. I posted it on steemit a year or so ago for fun lol.
Anyway, its an interesting subject. If you do get abducted by real aliens I hope they bring you back so you can tell us about the experience
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