i thought i'd leave you with this (for what it is worth) before departing for my Festival. i will be back to smoking DMT in the Fall! My hand shakes but i can hardly wait! This will definately be one of the shorter breaks . . . If you are having difficulty retaining memories of powerful DMT trips, including the ones where you fully launch, are convinced you are dead and/or completely forgot that you smoked DMT to get here . . . .Here are a few "tricks" that have worked (to various degrees) for me: 1.) In my experience (perhaps repression), resistance and struggle during DMT trips makes hash out of coherent memories. Constantly be working on acceptance and surrender, not only in the psychedelic realms but in reality too. No, do not become a quivering, submissive, slip of a person when on the street; just understand that if someone puts a pistol to your head and says to hand over your watch and wallet, the thing to do is quietly and meekly do just that, do not fight, resist or give any attitude. The things you can affect and "control" might be worth fighting for, especially when they are personal things, but there is much that we cannot control, whether we are willing to admit it or not. 2.) A willingness to "sacrifice" the last couple minutes of the trip and/or significant portions of the comedown period. What i mean by this is, AS SOON as ego begins to re-coalesce, as soon as i re-enter my body, realize it's a trip, etc. i immediately begin trying to consolidate memories. This process continues after my eyes open. i do it multiple times and the data "writes to disk." The consolidation process involves mental review followed by SPOKEN review (i confess sometimes i only hallucinate i am speaking, according to my sitter/watcher, but it works!). Just a quick review of the salient points, then trust that this will stimulate accurate recall of the details. Here's an example: "Oh shit, oh fuck, Oh WOW! It's a DMT Trip, i'm tripping, . . . whoa, i'm not dead, . . . okay, okay, okay: Ummm, yeah, i was instantly in this black hole with beautiful and colorful bits of 3-D geometry lining the "throat," but then the music changes and i found myself in a room with playful, dimunitive entities grasping the skeleton of spinning dodecahedrons . . . ." 3.) Terence McKenna in discussing this topic made reference to "The Memory Palace" technique. i have had mixed degrees of success, mostly disappointing. But, perhaps i am not visual enough. i KNOW it works for some people, including the 50 year old, dreadlocked R.N. i initiated/facilitated back in May, 2010 who is still smoking changa . . . Before tripping spend some time doing visualization exercises. Use a building that is big, with lots of rooms, from your past, but with which you had years of intimate familiarity. i used the house i lived in from ages 2-18. Visualize this space very carefully and precisely. Talk a "walk" through this space, making sure to "open" the doors to the rooms, closets, boxes and hiding spaces. Once you are very practices touring your empty Memory Palace, take a DMT trip. Once ego re-coalesces, try to visualize yourself in your Memory Palace and put those memories away. In my example above it might run something like this, once i realize it's a trip: "Okay, i was in a black hole that had stuff on the walls - that memory's going in the garage with Dad's tool wall - the two remind me of each other. "The music change will be me opening the door from the garage into the kitchen. "The entities on the dodecahedrons will be the briefcase in the hall closet with the old math and geometry books in it . . ." Once this is done, the user can fairly safely continue the trip and "forget" the details. To get the memories, while sober, do your Memory Palace meditation and take a tour. Open the door to the garage - what do you see? Proceed from the garage to the kitchen - what do you recall? Go open the closets and the boxes and suitcases therein to find that case with the geometry texts - what memory does this trigger?" To me, The Memory Palace seems even more cumbersome than the "sacrifice the end of the trip" technique. The reason i say it's a sacrifice is i am no longer going with the flow, i am actively consolidating memories . . . Anyway, these are my initial thoughts. i would love it if others who have maintained memories of DMT trips could share their tricks and techniques. Peace & Love, Spicey Cat Brrrrrp!
I don't know about remembering DMT trips (yet ) but here is a web site of "non-ordinary" visualization practices that have helped me. This could open eyes all by itself: http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm
This goes along with number 2 but I find writing a few key trigger words soon after the trip to come back to later useful. Like a single or couple words that were the major themes or aspects of the trip. I often find myself in a state of too much awe and disbelief directly after the trip to put together a full on comprehensible description.
