Users of psychedelic drugs say aliens live among us and they've met ‘machine elves' with a dark side
These machine elves, described as chattering, mischievous entities, consistently appear in the visions of those who take DMT, which one neuroscientist suggested could mean users are actually entering a shared alien reality.
DMT (or N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is present in thousands of plants, including ayahuasca, which is used in religious ceremonies, but is also present in small amounts within the human body.
Dr Andrew Gallimore, who has a PhD was in biological chemistry and has studied computational neuroscience, said he encountered these beings first hand after being transported to a hyper-dimensional world teeming with intelligent lifeforms.
Unlike earthly creatures, these beings - ranging from insectoids to God-like figures -seem to exist in a space that defies our three-dimensional understanding.
Gallimore's encounters with these alien intelligences have convinced him that they are not mere drug hallucinations but may represent a genuine presence accessible through DMT.
The consistency of these visions among DMT users, where no human or animal forms appear, has raised profound questions about whether these aliens are already here, embedded in an unseen dimension.
Gallimore added that DMT may act as a key, unlocking this hidden world where these advanced intelligences await, potentially holding answers to their purpose on Earth.
With most psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, people's experiences are very different each time, unlike the reported experiences of those on DMT, where there are strange similarities.
Dr Gallimore described his first trip on the drug, having put a small amount of powder in a glass pipe and smoked it.
'Within a few seconds, the normal waking world is obliterated and replaced with an entirely novel, what can only be described as alien reality, highly complex, hyper dimensional, quite abundantly and quite obviously populated, by extremely intelligent and advanced beings,' Gallimore described.
The scientist added that the creatures he saw were 'non-human, non-animal beings' that were not from this world.
He claimed that DMT differs from other drugs because, rather than altering reality, you find yourself in a new world, taken to an alien reality.
Famous psychedelics researcher Terence McKenna described the drug as a 'reality channel switch.'
Gallimore believes that one way to understand how psychedelics work is through computational models of the brain.
According to the neuroscientist, taking drugs like DMT switches the brain to constructing an alternate waking world model, allowing it to access information it normally does not have.
This differs from our 'normal' experiences of the world, which rely on the brain constructing a model of the environment using sensory information, such as sight, smell, and taste.
In simpler terms, Gallimore doesn't think the drug is transporting people to another planet. Instead, it's allowing people to see what the normal range of human brain activity is unable to process - including beings living in other dimensions on Earth.
'You don't have to travel anywhere. I'm not saying your consciousness is going somewhere. All that's happening if you are interacting with some kind of alternate intelligence is the DMT has to somehow allow an alternate source of information to enter the brain,' Gallimore said.
Gallimore added that in his many interviews and interactions with users of DMT, he has spoken to several people who have encountered the tiny 'machine elves.'
'Probably the most famous of all are these multitudinous, giggling machine elf type beings, and these very small creatures that operate in great numbers and are generally very lively, cheeky, jovial, mischievous,' Gallimore revealed.
'They sing impossible objects into existence. They speak in some kind of visible language,' he added.
Meanwhile, the insectoid beings have a 'dark side,' seeming to perform 'psychic surgery' on some DMT users. Others creatures seemed 'more like Gods' according to the scientist.
'It's impossible to put into words, but beings that seem to be constructed from more than three dimensions, that are quite obviously, inordinately more complex than any other kind of intelligent being that you are ever going to encounter in this universe,' Gallimore described.
In his book, Death By Astonishment: Confronting The Mystery Of The World's Strangest Drug,' Gallimore said that he does not know where these beings are, but has a sense that it is a realm that is trillions of years older than our universe, and the beings are billions of years more advanced than us.
He said that the 'space' in which the entities are discovered feels like a 'higher dimensional structure,' as if someone who had lived in a two-dimensional world suddenly gained access to 3D space.
Gallimore has now devoted himself full-time to researching the drug, and said that while there is a lot of academic work with DMT and brain imaging, many researchers are 'counter cultural'.
He said that he hopes to one day fully understand 'where' the DMT experience takes people.
'We don't know the relationship between our universe and this place, whether it's parallel in some way, whether we are kind of a lower dimensional slice of some higher dimensional structure. We don't know where this place is or our relationship to it,' Gallimore admitted.
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