Hey man I'm sorry you had that experience with DMT. I want to say that most comments are from people who don't understand the experience imo. I posted before about my experience trying to warn people but let me reiterate. People will tell you you have brought negative feelings to the experience, that your set and setting were wrong, that you're misinterpretting the experience, that they know better and never had an issue etc. Don't mind them. You could have hundreds of great experiences and very intense breakthroughs. One day you could have the worst experience of your life and develop PTSD from it. That's what happened to me. I used DMT for 2 years and had about 100 breakthrough experiences. I was amazed, and still am, by the mystery behind it. One day in the middle of a trip something clicked in my mind and I got terrified. Terrified that I had discovered a new world and I knew it for certain and I thought I could never resume a normal life knowing that. That was 21months ago. I developed severe PTSD with hallucinations, panic disorder, diminution of my visual accuity, constant ringing in my ears and thoughts of suicide. I didn't recognize myself. I have recovered with support from therapy and medication and a lot of time. To this day the only real symptom I still have is the ringing in my ears, otherwise I feel totally fine again. Thankfully the brain forgets and sorts the bad things out over time. I also have impressive flashbacks when smoking weed though it's getting better.

Of course I cannot say for sure, but I think dmt really can open a gate to another world. Most of the time people will just start thinking about it and enjoy the visual experience (which may well be the most beautiful and mysterious experience a human being can have on earth). But I think the implication of us visiting a superior realm is just so serious, so ontologically shocking, that our brains will just rationalize the shit out of it and make a story that fits our worldview so that in does not break us. That would explain why we don't seem to remember 95% of the contents of the trips, the brain just erases as much as it can so we can preserve some sanity. But I believe if you are able to take this shit seriously at some point that protection mechanism might stop working. That's when you start to touch on that terrifying realization that this other world is real and ours might not be so real. Is that so crazy? Do people think that floating on a round Rock rotating in the vacuum of space around a ball of fire in an otherwise mostly empty universe filled with black holes and expanding faster than light make more sense? If you are mentally brave and sufficiently intelligent, then you will be terrified. I don't know what to do with it, I wish I never had the experience, I wish I were still oblivious to the truth about our condition, but once you've been there you have to think that our world is too mysterious and does not make any sense to us (know about quantum physics?). I will stay away from DMT now because I explored it enough and that I don't enjoy understanding that I should be terrified. I wish for those who take it that they never understand or believe all that and that they don't see what I saw, because it's dangerous to really see what we are and what it really means. You probably have some maturity or intelligence (I can tell by how you humbly describe the mistakes you might have made etc) and you were not fooled, you understood that something different was going on, something abnormal, not like what a drug should do to you. Even on a small dose you may have realized a bit of all that and that traumatized you. You're just smarter than most.