I must be biased, so is everyone else biased at something.

I have done 5-MeO-DMT 70 times.

And other psychedelics less than 10 times.

5-MeO-DMT was my first psychedelic to begin my psychedelic journey.

Here are reasons why I think 5-MeO-DMT is safer:

• Duration: The duration of 5-MeO-DMT is shorter. It's up to 90 min, at the peak 45 min, when nasally or rectally done, while shrooms last like 6 hours, or LSD 10 hours. Anything can happen in that extended time, like falling over. Body motor function (controlling your body) is difficult, wavy wavy. Given that LSD and shrooms are used in a recreational context, it is potentially more dangerous as the mind is more clumsy on it.
• Visual Aspect: There is not so much visual in 5-MeO-DMT, you see the ordinary as it is, but when taken high-dose / smoked, you may lose consciousness / white-out. but on other Psychedelics, there are visuals that you may freak yourself out (Despite it is your creation)
• Strange Loop: On shrooms or LSD, things are wacky and loopy loopy strange loop. It is difficult to concentrate on a subject to contemplate on. When a bad trip happens, if the mind is not mature enough, it will have a difficult time transcending its own delusional bad trip. On 5-MeO-DMT, these loops get dissolved, and your mind transcends.
• Ego Inflation and Deflation: These psychedelics tend to amplify the state of a person’s mind—more negative emotion and more positive emotion. It also inflates ego, as well as reduces ego, like wavy wavy. How these LSD/shrooms work is that by repeating the inflation/deflation of the ego, it is finding the sweet optimal form of the mind.
• Cognitive Deception: There are so many cognitively deceptive qualities in those, no wonder why some abusers tend to have serious fallacy, conspiratorial tendencies. In the middle of a shroom trip, I felt “oh yah maybe I am enlightened, I should lead people, maybe I am Jesus or Buddha haha!” and then soon realized “oh that's actually an ego pattern lol,” not to mention what actual enlightenment on 5-MeO-DMT is. So many wacky wacky funny thoughts and serious thoughts that are off-focus, sometimes fun, sometimes self-delusional conspiracy theories or fringe theories. You become too conscious to be self-aware of these deceptions, dissolving the layers of ego one thousandfold.
• Cognitive Distortion: Effects may not hurt individuals much, but it may erode collective sense-making, which may hurt society at large, but this is another topic.
• Physical Safety: As I stated on the length of the trip, on 5-MeO-DMT what you will do is usually laying on a bed or sitting for 1 hour. On shrooms or LSD, you will move around, dancing, aimlessly moving for 6~10 hours, which is kinda like alcohol when used recreationally (haven't taken alcohol in my life though). On 5-MeO-DMT, one thing concerning is the loss of consciousness and choking yourself, but that is the case for high-dose smoking experience which so many 5-MeO-DMT users practice. I do not think that is safe, just losing consciousness for 10 min. How we approach 5-MeO-DMT collectively is dangerous, while 5-MeO-DMT itself can be actually safer than other psychedelics. Start with micro-dose 0.5mg, nasal (nose), then you will be safe. The culture and practice around 5-MeO-DMT seem to just endorse intense experiences and increase risk.
• Most people report that 5-MeO-DMT is actually less intense than thought. Around 10mg, most people have a profound experience but also report not so much intensity.

Overall, when it's not smoked, as upcoming is 10 min, people have a slower ego-dissolution phase, it becomes rare that people lose consciousness. 1 hour of non-dual experience is enough for people to contemplate on reality and self-actualize, without much distorting thinking, without any physical accident or self-induced bad trip like other psychedelics. 5-MeO-DMT can be actually safer both psychologically and physically.

It does not mean other psychedelics are bad and nobody should take them. I think they are still great. I just think there are better psychedelics than conventional psychedelics.

And taking shrooms with friends is indeed a fun activity :’)

What Could Go Wrong with 5-MeO-DMT - Real Dangers of It

When you continue to go with 5-MeO-DMT, someday you may encounter these existential challenges:

• Nihilism: 5-MeO-DMT itself goes through the process of nihilism. Ego-dissolution comes with the dissolution of meaning, identity, and ego of course.
• 5-MeO-DMT teaches the emptiness, says Buddhists “reality is empty.”
• And also teaches nothing matters, so everything matters.

If one does not have enough maturity/development of the mind, as well as have not learned enough philosophy and spirituality in depth, this can cause a serious existential challenge.

just yesterday someone posted about 5-MeO-DMT ruining his life, which seemes involving vaporization technic high dose experience, not many, but there are dozens of people who experienced like that.

5-meo DMT ruined my life.

I mean, to be honest, it's a serious challenge to anyone. Falling into the groundlessness of existence and nowhere to ground—it's really challenging. Personally, I saw it as the end of the universe.