DMT

Even though Monzo admitted he had drunk a hallucinogenic tea called ayahuasca, no trace of DMT - the class A drug in the drink - was detected in his system.

“The ways things blend here is through the idea of nonhuman intelligence, whether it’s a nuts-and-bolts spacecraft to someone talking to ghost to a DMT or ayahuasca experience to talking to artificial intelligence.”

The bill would legalize supervised therapeutic access for adults older than 21 for certain substances, including psilocybin and psilocin, also known as “magic mushrooms”; dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, the active ingredient in ayahuasca; MDMA; and mescaline, not including peyote.

Talk to me about DMT, because this was very revelatory and a little confusing for me.

Another researcher, Christopher Timmermann Slater, describes endogenous DMT as dreaming while you're awake.