Table 9 Difficult emotional responses and the non-physical components of the Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ).
From: Phenomenology and content of the inhaled N, N-dimethyltryptamine (N, N-DMT) experience
Coded units, themes, and questionnaire items | Documented in experience, n (%) | |
|---|---|---|
All experiences (n = 3778) | Experiences with no reported concomitant psychoactive substance use (n = 3242) | |
Difficult emotional responses | ||
Time loop | 31 (0.8) | 22 (0.7) |
Claustrophobia, feeling trapped, or feeling lost | 17 (0.4) | 15 (0.5) |
Thoughts or mind racing | 9 (0.2) | 9 (0.3) |
Suicidality | 9 (0.2) | 6 (0.2) |
Challenging Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) | ||
Fear | 840 (22.2) | 700 (21.6) |
Frightened | 680 (18.0) | 570 (17.6) |
Panic | 252 (6.7) | 211 (6.5) |
Experience of fear | 693 (18.3) | 580 (17.9) |
Anxious | 468 (12.4) | 383 (11.8) |
Had the feeling something horrible would happen | 402 (10.6) | 335 (10.3) |
Grief | 416 (11.0) | 350 (10.8) |
Sad | 60 (1.6) | 45 (1.4) |
Feelings of grief | 65 (1.7) | 51 (1.6) |
Despair | 140 (3.7) | 117 (3.6) |
Feel like crying | 42 (1.1) | 30 (0.9) |
Feelings of despair | 137 (3.6) | 114 (3.5) |
Emotional and/or physical suffering | 386 (10.2) | 326 (10.1) |
Insanity | 107 (2.8) | 87 (2.7) |
Fear that [the author] might lose [their] mind or go insane | 69 (1.8) | 56 (1.7) |
Change in sense of sanity | 80 (2.1) | 66 (2) |
Was afraid that the state would last forever | 92 (2.4) | 74 (2.3) |
Isolation | 45 (1.2) | 35 (1.1) |
Felt isolated from everything and everyone | 43 (1.1) | 33 (1.0) |
Feel isolated from people and things | 44 (1.2) | 34 (1.0) |
Experience of Isolation and loneliness | 44 (1.2) | 34 (1.0) |
Death | 236 (6.2) | 188 (5.8) |
Profound experience of own death | 160 (4.2) | 128 (3.9) |
Feel as if dead or dying | 227 (6.0) | 178 (5.5) |
Paranoia | 17 (0.4) | 15 (0.5) |
Feeling that people were plotting against [the author] | 9 (0.2) | 7 (0.2) |
Experience of antagonism toward people around [the author] | 11 (0.3) | 10 (0.3) |
