DMT, which is what ayahuasca brings up—that's the active ingredient... You're still you. You're not drunk. That's what's weird about it. I don't know what it is, but if you wanted to get real woo woo, you could call it some sort of a chemical gateway into another dimension or to another realm that you can't access without it. It doesn't seem like a drug.

Your brain does produce psychedelic chemicals while you're sleeping. That's one of the things about DMT that's so closely related to dreams—it's really hard to remember after it's over but so vivid when it's happening.