As The New Republic reports, the Colorado-based psychedelics startup Medicinal Mindfulness is currently seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration to study what it's calling DMTx, an extended-state, intravenous drip version of DMT that will induce in users trips far longer than the roughly five-to-ten minute experiences the drug typically provides.

DMT carries with it a ton of intriguing qualities, including that studies suggest our brains produce the drug naturally and that those who have taken it often experience variations on the same theme: entering what seems to be another plane or dimension replete with its own ethereal beings, sometimes referred to as "machine elves," who are there to welcome them.

DMT has been extracted from the jurema-preta (black jurema) tree (Mimosa tenuiflora), which is widely found in the dry Caatinga Region of Northeastern Brazil.

It is being researched in Brazil for potential in helping those with depression.