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/ saw such strange dreams, but at the beginning only.... I saw strange creatures, dwarves or something, they were black and moved about.’ 188 © THE SESSIONS A patient with schizophrenia in a study at Stephen Szara's former laboratory in Hungary reported the following after a high dose of intra- muscular DMT: An American research team also gave DMT to patients with schizo- phrenia. Of the nine subjects, the only one who could say anything about her experience was an unfortunate woman who, after getting a robust dose of 1.25 mg/kg IM DMT, stated, Iwas in a big place, and they were hurting me. They were not human. ... They were horrible! I was living in a world of orange people.” These little vignettes should keep us from becoming too complacent in believing that what our volunteers reported is purely a New Age, 1990s- in-Santa Fe phenomenon. The spirit molecule revealed unseen worlds, and their inhabitants, to Western science long before our research began. Karl's early encounter with life-forms, like his visions of DNA described in the last chapter, offered a prelude to future, more elaborate stories from other volunteers. Karl was a forty-five-year-old blacksmith. He was mar- ried to Elena, whose enlightenment experience we'll read about later. Eight minutes into his non-blind high-dose injection, he described this encounter: That was real strange. There were a lot ofelves. They were prankish, ornery, maybe four of them appeared at the side of a stretch of interstate highway I travel regularly. They commanded the scene, it was their ter- rain! They were about my height. They held up placards, showing me these incredibly beautiful, complex, swirling geometric scenes in them. One of them made it impossible for me to move. There was no issue of control; they were totally in control. They wanted me to look! [heard a giggling sound— the elves laughing or talking at high-speed volume, chattering, twittering. In the last chapter, we heard about Aaron's experiences of unseen worlds. Let's return to his first non-blind high dose of DMT. He looked at me about 10 minutes after the injection and shrugged, laughing: