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A comedian smokes DMT and ends up watching every version of his own life at once.

Ramin Nazer is a comedian, podcaster and visual artist, not exactly new to strange stories. But even by his own standards, the trip he recounts in this Tales From the Trip episode is a different animal — a smoked DMT session that he says shot him clean through “baseline reality” and into what he describes, flatly, as every timeline in the multiverse at once. Comedy Central’s animators take his account and put it on screen, geometry and all.

• Nazer says the DMT, offered to him by fellow comedian and science podcaster Shane Mauss, launched him into a state where he “saw every single timeline in the multiverse,” confronting past and future versions of his own existence.
• The episode was greenlit as a direct follow-up to Mauss’s own DMT installments on Tales From the Trip, which had become the franchise’s biggest hits and pushed Comedy Central to find another storyteller willing to go there.
• Nazer describes losing track of which branch of reality he came from, struggling mid-trip to remember which multiverse he needed to return to.

Inside Nazer’s Trip

Nazer’s account moves fast, the way most DMT reports do — smoked DMT tends to hit within seconds and peak inside a few minutes, which is part of why animators love adapting these stories: there’s no slow build, just a hard cut from ordinary room to something else entirely. He describes breaking through what he calls baseline reality into a space where time stopped functioning the way it normally does, where he wasn’t just remembering his life but watching parallel versions of it running simultaneously.

He talks about hitting a pure “I am”-ness, a stripped-down sense of existing without a name, a body, or a single storyline attached to it. That’s the ego-dissolution stretch of the trip that shows up constantly in DMT reports, and it’s also the hardest thing to draw — which is exactly where the show’s animation earns its keep, translating Nazer’s description of fracturing timelines into actual branching, folding visuals instead of leaving it to narration alone.

The Come-Down: Lost Between Timelines

The turn in Nazer’s story isn’t the initial rush, it’s what happens once he’s deep in — he says he found himself unable to remember which specific timeline was actually his, cycling through versions of reality and losing the thread back to the one he started in. It’s a detail that gives the episode its title and its tension, since the fear in his telling isn’t a monster or a bad visual, it’s disorientation itself: being everywhere and not knowing how to get back to being just one person again.

Nazer says he saw every single timeline in the multiverse — and then couldn’t remember which one to go back to.

Eventually he does find his way back, and the episode leans into that relief the same way Mauss’s episodes did — harrowing in the middle, comedic on either end. That tonal snap, from cosmic terror to Nazer and Mauss riffing on it afterward, is the show’s whole format in miniature.

The Evolution of Tales From Trip

Comedy Central built Tales From the Trip as an animated digital series specifically to turn real drug trip stories into short, illustrated shorts, and Shane Mauss became its breakout figure almost by accident — his own DMT recollections on the show outperformed nearly everything else the franchise put out. That success is the reason Nazer’s installment exists at all: producers wanted a second voice describing the same compound from a different angle, and Nazer, already Mauss’s collaborator and podcasting partner, was the obvious next storyteller.

The format leans hard on first-person narration paired with trippy, hand-drawn visuals rather than reenactment, which is why the show reads more like an illustrated oral history than a typical explainer. Anyone curious how other creators translate reality-bending firsthand accounts into visual storytelling might also check out People Of This Tribe Violate All Laws Of Physics!, another piece built around a wild account of experience that sounds impossible until someone actually explains it. And for viewers interested in the substances themselves rather than just the trip narratives, Cultivating Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms covers the more grounded, cultivation side of the psychedelic conversation.

Mauss and Nazer have made a habit of turning these sessions into podcast material well beyond the animated short, so this episode plays as much like a teaser for their ongoing conversations as it does a standalone story — the kind of thing that sends listeners looking for the fuller, unanimated version of Nazer explaining exactly how he found his way back from the multiverse.