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and forth. Hunnh?? 258 * THE SESSIONS beehive (see chapter 14), Lucas also reported a swaying, rocking, slightly dizzy feeling: Itfeels like the bed is gently rocking. Like ‘a hammock swaying back Part of Lucas's non-blind high-dose session the next day, in which he approached a space station landing bay where he was accompanied by numerous humanoid automatons, is described in chapter 12. Let's now review the more frightening aspects of that morning. Immediately after finishing the injection, Lucas became pale and sighed restlessly. He bent his legs at his knees up and down several times, then looked at Cindy. Jesus Christ! I had no idea what it would do to me! He retched once. I looked around. There was no "emesis basin" into which he could vomit. Cindy pointed at a gown that was crumpled into a pile behind me. That was all we had, and I offered it to him. He put the gown into his hands and looked at it uncomprehendingly. "Try that," I offered. He retched once into the gown but did not throw anything up. Jesus Christ! While retching into the gown, he began sliding off the bed headfirst toward Cindy's feet. I got up, walked over to Cindy's side of the bed, and helped pull him back onto it. He was holding the gown up against his face. At 5 minutes his blood pressure dropped from 108/71 to 81/55, and his pulse from 92 to 45. He was pale; in fact, he was turning green. Hold- ing his head and trembling, Lucas was going into shock. Two minutes later his pulse was 47 and his blood pressure was 87/49. We tried to adjust the bed—to raise his feet and lower his head—to increase blood flow to his brain. In the confusion, it was impossible to operate the controls. Should I call the cardiac emergency team? Get ready some drugs to raise his blood pressure? DMT causes such robust rises in blood pressure that I worried that if his circulation did recover on its own, and we gave him a big dose of adrenaline to treat his shock, we might overshoot and cause a stroke from too high a blood pressure.