✦Description
A being takes the lead and the experiencer is walked, flown, or pulled through the place — corridors, cities, machinery halls, nurseries — with the unmistakable structure of a guided visit: 'this is where we...', 'and over here...'. Lawrence 2022's companion/pedagogical/guide interactions (32.4% of encounters) house this beat; Shanon documents closely parallel guide-led passages through palaces and celestial cities in the ayahuasca corpus. The tour implies an itinerary — someone else already knows the route.
✦Interpretations
Experiencers infer a host with intentions and an infrastructure worth showing; researchers see narrative sequencing imposed on rapidly shifting scene content — a guide personifies the transition between scenes.
✦What the sources say
Companion, pedagogical, or guide-type interaction in 557 encounters (32.4%).
The Antipodes of the Mind records guide-led passages through palaces and celestial cities as a standing ayahuasca category.
Community reports routinely describe being 'shown around' hyperspace by an escort.
Questions
What is 'The Tour — being guided through' in DMT reports?
A being takes the lead and the experiencer is walked, flown, or pulled through the place — corridors, cities, machinery halls, nurseries — with the unmistakable structure of a guided visit: 'this is where we...', 'and over here...'. Lawrence 2022's companion/pedagogical/guide interactions (32.4% of encounters) house this beat; Shanon documents closely parallel guide-led passages through palaces an
Is 'The Tour — being guided through' commonly reported?
Guide-type interaction is one of the most common interaction classes: 32.4% of entity encounters in Lawrence 2022 (n=557). The explicit 'tour' framing within that class is common in community reports but not separately quantified.