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DMT has always been framed as something out there: a jungle secret, a cosmic key, a portal held in the hands of plants. But what if the more astonishing story is the one happening inside us? What if the molecule that reshapes perception isn’t just encountered in smoke or ceremony… but is quietly crafted in the tissues of our own bodies?

This episode walks straight into that trembling boundary between biology and myth. Between what we can measure, what we can infer, and what we only dare to whisper. Endogenous DMT is one of the strangest scientific riddles of the last century: a molecule that exists in our blood, our lungs, and perhaps even our brain, yet refuses to tell us what it is doing there. Is it a dream-architect? A death-vision catalyst? A silent tuner of consciousness? Or simply chemical static we’ve mistaken for signal because the story felt too beautiful to resist?

In this episode, we cover:

* The unlikely origin of DMT as a forgotten laboratory compound before becoming a cornerstone of psychedelic culture.

* Julius Axelrod’s pivotal discovery that DMT exists in the human body and why this shocked the scientific world.

* The biochemical machinery (INMT and related pathways) that gives our cells the ability to synthesize DMT naturally.

* Competing theories about DMT’s function: dream generator, near-death surge, or subtle contributor to waking consciousness.

* Why measuring endogenous DMT is technically difficult and how this fuels both doubt and fascination.

* The sharp divide between scientific caution and cultural myth-making around the molecule’s meaning.

* How endogenous DMT sits at the fault line between neuroscience, spirituality, and the enduring mystery of consciousness.

* Why this question matters for the future of brain science, regardless of which theories prove true.

Next episode:We step further into the architecture of altered states: tracing how the brain reshapes itself when molecules and meaning collide.