Has Anyone Else Seen the Waiting Room?

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Calling Interdimensional Rescue

The title card takes its cue from Thunderbirds (1965). International Rescue answers a distress call, the countdown starts and the miniature craft are go. N2N borrowed that spirit for its 2024 call for help. Here we’re calling on explorers to share what they remember.

Original r/NeuronsToNirvana Post · Calling Interdimensional Rescue · AkashicNET Companion

What the Reports Show

Yes. People have described enclosed spaces, entrances and patterned surfaces during N,N-DMT experiences. One indexed Reddit account describes multiple doors in a room with checkerboard walls and flooring. The clearest quantitative study coded the specific waiting-room motif in 105 of 3,778 reports (2.8%). The architecture varies across accounts, and the frequency describes this online sample. Lawrence et al. (2022) · First-person Reddit account

DISCERN · Define What Counts

We asked whether people independently describe features similar to the illustrated room. Keep each motif distinct: an enclosed space, a doorway, more than one doorway, a geometric surface, an explicit sense of waiting and imagery the person associates with a named culture. A passage or tunnel alone does not meet the doorway definition. A geometric pattern alone does not establish cultural provenance.

We screened the names, categories, roles, descriptions and relevance notes for all 158 entries in the Sandbox Source Atlas snapshot dated 22 October 2026. Keywords included DMT, dimethyltryptamine, psychedelics, entheogens, ayahuasca, phenomenology, Erowid and Reddit. Thirteen entries matched. We searched relevant institutional domains and separately checked PubMed, indexed Reddit and X results, Erowid and DMT-Nexus. Atlas families are discovery routes. Papers and reports carry the evidential weight. Source Atlas · EXPAND² Method

Evidence Cards

DEEPEN · Why Might Accounts Overlap?

• Shared visual processes. Models of the visual cortex can produce recurring simple forms such as lattices and spirals. These models offer an account of geometry. A separate account is needed for a socially meaningful waiting room or an apparently intentional guide. Bressloff et al.
• How an immersive scene forms. The Sanders interviews describe bodily and sensory changes developing into spatial immersion. If rooms emerge during that transition, a narrative could use a doorway to make sense of a shift between scenes. Sequence data would help test this.
• Expectation, language and selection. People learn how others describe experiences and choose what to post. Dupuis’s ayahuasca ethnography gives a reason to measure prior exposure and social context. The substance, route and community differ from inhaled-DMT reports. Dupuis
• Hoffman and Gallimore’s interface proposal. Their research programme connects DMT phenomenology to an interface model of perception. A distinctive prediction would need to specify what participants can learn that the other accounts would not predict, and how the study would rule out ordinary access to that information. Trace Institute · Traces of the Other

The museum works in the waiting room have their own provenance and cultural contexts. The Reddit coding category reflects how descriptions were classified. The source provides no authentication of specific artworks seen in any experience.

AkashicNET × r/NeuronsToNirvana · Research Infographic

From the Vision to the Evidence

1. Describe Record the room, threshold, motion and colours separately.
2. Compare Match prompts, timing and immersive intensity across groups.
3. Measure Pair descriptions with interview or brain measures where available.
4. Check Repeat with blinded coding and count absences as well as matches.

Where to go deeper. Fractal Internet examines visual geometry and comparison compounds. Can We Observe DMT Entities? links encounter reports and neural measures to an exploratory concealed-target design. AkashicTRACE documents the Hoffman–Gallimore research proposal.

Curation scope. The 158-family Atlas metadata screen identified 13 candidates. This map follows the most relevant routes through Imperial, Johns Hopkins, Blossom and the primary literature. The local Reddit title index returned 191 matches for DMT, dimethyltryptamine or ayahuasca among 7,809 indexed titles. Titles are a discovery aid and can include crossposts. Selected N2N links lead to the archive records. Study claims were traced separately to papers.

A Waiting Room to Where?

People described several paths. The reports include entering an unfamiliar scene, glimpsing a further opening, staying in the room and returning to ordinary surroundings. What happened after a threshold is a separate observation from whether someone described one.

Ask for the timeline in neutral language. Track stayed, approached, crossed, returned and unclear. The 105 waiting-room reports provide a count of the label in a Reddit sample. An estimate of destinations would require coding those accounts for what followed.

Multidimensional Spaces, Aliens & Mettā-Awareness

In Lawrence and colleagues’ corpus, 952 of 3,778 experiences (25.2%) were coded as involving alternate or higher dimensions. 56 (1.5%) were explicitly described in four- or five-dimensional terms. Those codes record reported perception. Whether the descriptions correspond to physical extra dimensions remains open. Lawrence et al. · Table 6

In Davis and colleagues’ survey of 2,561 respondents recalling their most memorable inhaled N,N-DMT entity encounter, 39% selected “alien” as a descriptor and 59% selected love as an emotion. People could choose multiple answers. The survey describes encounters as experienced and remembered. It leaves the source of the perceived beings open. Davis et al. · Tables 3–4

Mettā-Awareness gives us a further question. Does felt love carry over into goodwill or observable care later? A study can record immediate feeling, its meaning to the person and later behaviour separately. Fear, indifference and mixed accounts belong in the same record.

Creative Teaser & Astronomical Image

Astral Star Mother

“Astral Star Mother” is the creative title. Pachamama belongs to Andean traditions, including Quechua and Aymara understandings of the living Earth and relationships of reciprocity. The telescope image shows a star-forming region. Read about Pachamama in Andean context.

Geometry of the Waiting Room

Pictures and Diagrams in the Sources

• Waiting Room in 3D · r/DMT. Community artwork showing a black-and-white geometric room. Comments illustrate how seeing a reconstruction can prompt comparisons with earlier memories.
• Sanders and colleagues · Figure 1. A published diagram maps dimensions of immersion and changes in the relationship between self and world. It is a model of interview categories.
• Timmermann and colleagues · Figure 1. The published fMRI panels show changes in brain-network connectivity during DMT versus placebo. They show a physiological measurement alongside the subjective reports.
• Lawrence and colleagues · Tables 3 and 6. Separate counts for patterns and spatial architecture. A joint count of patterned rooms with multiple doors would require returning to the coded accounts.

The Geometry of the DMT Waiting Room

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Research Update · Requires Independent Review

When Do Patterns Become Places?

• From sensation to immersion. In 23 post-session interviews, Sanders and colleagues found that bodily changes often preceded visual and auditory effects, with variation between people. In their phase analysis, perceived presences followed the development of multisensory immersion and three-dimensional space. This gives 001 a reason to record the order of events as well as the presence of each motif. Sanders et al. · 2026
• Different EEG measures track different things. Lewis-Healey and colleagues paired EEG with time-resolved experience reports in a 19-person repeated-measures study. Alpha power and permutation entropy tracked the experience measures more strongly than Lempel–Ziv complexity. Lewis-Healey et al. · 2026
• Fractal dimension of an EEG signal. Kroupi and colleagues report that Higuchi fractal dimension and permutation entropy distinguished DMT from placebo in their analysis. Distinguishing experimental conditions and tracking what participants describe are different tests. These signal measures give no dimensions or layout for a reported room. Kroupi et al. · Brain Research · AkashicNET Commentary

What 001 could test. After the free narrative, ask participants to mark the order of pattern onset, perceived depth, enclosure and any threshold. Allow repeated events, missing stages and uncertain order. The primary comparison still concerns whether enclosure and threshold co-occur. A later EEG study could test whether any measure tracks those transitions beyond overall reported intensity. Any pooling would require a check for shared participants or reused recordings.

Related Research on AkashicNET

• DMT & Immersive Imagery and Fractals & Mandalas compare described visionary patterns with measurable properties such as repetition and scaling.
• The Fractal Cosmic Mandala explores geometrical parallels in art and nature. Similarities can guide a visual comparison. Cultural attribution and fractal measurement each need their own evidence.
• DMT & Signal Complexity covers acute changes in the complexity of EEG signals during N,N-DMT. A fractal measure of a signal does not measure the geometry a participant saw.
• LSD Reconfigures Cortical Dynamics covers acute changes in brain rhythms and signal complexity in human MEG recordings.
• Psilocybin & Synaptic Remodelling in Mice examines structural plasticity in a separate animal study. The substance, species and measured outcome differ from the Waiting Room evidence.

From 001 to Seven Doorways

This lead article gives the proposed simulation a research basis for selecting features such as patterned surfaces, depth cues and the difference between glimpsing and crossing a threshold. Seven is a design choice.

A later study could collect a free account before revealing any artwork, then use the simulation to test how different cues affect subsequent descriptions. That would measure a prompting effect. The observational study below asks how often the motifs occur in freely described experiences.

Explore the Current Waiting Room

AkashicNET × N2N × AkashicOMNI v0.5.0

Twelve Perspectives on the Waiting Room

Requires Independent Review · AI-assisted reading of the published study and linked evidence. The proposed studies are awaiting data.

Each disposition describes what the perspective contributes to this reading. AkashicOMNI Perspective Specification

AWAKEN

Applied Record “I felt I was waiting” separately from whether the narrator saw an enclosed room or inferred someone was controlling access.

HIERATIC

Applied Shipibo-Konibo kené connects geometric design and plant visions in a living tradition. A grid in a DMT account cannot identify its cultural provenance. Peru’s Ministry of Culture

HOMESENSE

Applied Preserve the narrator’s sequence across bodily sensation, immersion and return. Record setting, route and co-use alongside the description. Immersion Interviews

ADAPT

Applied A person may describe a newly encountered scene using a familiar label. Record prior exposure after the free account and compare motif coding with use of the phrase “waiting room”.

REGENERATE

Insufficient Information The reviewed accounts give no consistent follow-up on wellbeing, integration or enduring changes. A follow-up would need its own consent, measures and timetable.

TRANSCEND

Applied Keep “space folded” or “felt four-dimensional” as reported qualities. Code the described transition and the participant’s interpretation separately. Naturalistic Interviews

#METAD

Applied Compare what each account predicts. Visual form models address simple patterns. Prompting can affect wording and recall. An interface proposal needs a distinct prediction that survives ordinary-information controls.

ACTC

Applied Separate the logic of two claims. Recurring reports can support a recurring experiential motif. Shared access to independently verifiable information would require a different observation.

CUT · Past

Applied The 2007 Erowid account predates the Reddit study’s collection window. It establishes an earlier public description. Its author’s exposure to older descriptions remains unknown. Archived Account

CUT · Present

Applied The Reddit corpus contains 105 explicit waiting-room reports among 3,778 experiences. The published table leaves the overlap with multiple doors and geometric surfaces unresolved. Original Corpus Study

CUT · Future

Applied Freeze a shared codebook, specify the smallest worthwhile difference before recruitment and ask a second team to repeat the analysis on fresh accounts.

UMASC

Applied Track subjective reports, neural measures where available and social context at their own scales. A neural correlate of immersion would need time-aligned reports and an appropriate comparison.

Further Methods From N2N and AkashicNET

Synthesis & Independent Review

The first comparison is whether the combined room-and-threshold motif appears more often in neutrally elicited N,N-DMT accounts than in equally immersive comparison accounts. Familiarity with the label is a separate variable. A precise result showing similar rates would count against the proposed enrichment.

Review before recruitment. Ask an independent reviewer to trace the main claims to their sources, check that coders can reproduce the outcome definition, verify the comparator and analysis plan, and document decisions and dates. Formal PRISM intake, preregistration and participant testing are pending.

SYNTHESISE · A Study We Could Run

Hypothesis. An independently coded room-and-threshold motif appears more often in open-ended N,N-DMT accounts than in a comparison set of similarly immersive non-DMT accounts. Prior exposure to the phrase “waiting room” may increase use of that label. The comparison is a proposed observational study.

1. Recruit independently. Begin with adult volunteers reporting past experiences. Use a neutral invitation and record the time since the experience, prior familiarity with the motif, setting and co-use. Collect the narrative before asking about specific motifs. Agree ethics, consent and data access before recruitment.
2. Freeze the codebook. Code enclosed room and threshold as the two components of the primary outcome. Log multiple doors, geometry, explicit waiting, guides and cultural attribution as secondary features. Publish a few synthetic examples so raters interpret the definitions consistently.
3. Compare like with like. Use common prompts and match comparison accounts for immersion, report length and time since experience. Mask substance and exposure labels from raters where feasible. Record when those labels can be inferred.
4. Preserve the full denominator. Use one prespecified account per participant for the primary analysis. Report exclusions, missing items, disagreements, non-matches and coding agreement. Prespecify the smallest effect of interest, sample size, uncertainty interval and rules for secondary comparisons.
5. Check a fresh sample. A second research team applies the frozen codebook to new accounts. Report de-identified aggregate counts and share individual narratives only with explicit consent.

What Would Change the Assessment? Enrichment in independently collected accounts from people unfamiliar with the language would strengthen the case for a recurring experiential motif. An effect concentrated among those familiar with the trope would increase the weight given to expectation and reporting. A sufficiently precise comparison showing similar rates would count against the proposed enrichment. Any claim about a shared external place needs an additional, independently verifiable prediction.

Research Status

Editorial review of published studies and public reports. The prospective protocol has not recruited participants or collected data. The case definition, codebook and comparison group are ready for independent review and revision.

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