New study maps how DMT constructs its otherworlds through recurring entities, environments, and interaction patterns across reported experiences

DMT experiences show recurring structures that organize the sense of entering an otherworld rather than producing random hallucinations. Reported states cluster around specific kinds of environments, entity encounters, emotional tones, and interaction patterns that together shape a coherent altered reality. The study maps common features across accounts of DMT sessions, including immersive spaces, seemingly autonomous beings, and shifts in perception of self, time, and communication. Those patterns suggest that the experience is built from identifiable experiential components that recur across users. The findings matter for consciousness research because they treat the DMT state as a structured model of world-construction. Mapping these regularities could help compare psychedelic states, clarify how the brain generates reality models, and sharpen future work on meaning, mechanism, and phenomenology in intense altered states.