I have used DMT twice now. Due to anxiety the second time, I did not fully breakthrough. I still had an interesting experience though. Even though I was anxious the first time I really wanted to experience DMT so I took in as much as I could and had an incredible experience. I can remember my feelings towards what were happening, and I can remember certain incredible visual snapshots of the experience, but I just can not remember what I feel like is a large part of what was happening to give me these feelings of awe, interconnectivity, fear, and bliss.

Has anyone here successfully remembered parts of breakthrough they had once forgotten?

I was thinking maybe I could try to recreate the experience exactly to my memory in a lucid dream in the same place with the same people etc. This would take a lot of dream control and I'm still not having many lucid dreams as it is. After I get better at lucidity and control in dreams I will definitely try this though.

Anyone have something else I could try?

I have been reminded of past visions or insights when I needed to be, but I have never been able to purposefully go back to the same place. When it needs to happen it'll happen, and if not, then maybe you dont need to remember it.

Sometimes the experience can be healing or life changing even if you dont remember it or understand it at all.

Yeah, I usually find that in the immediate aftermath of a psychedelic journy, large chunks will either be missing, or just not make much sense, but as the weeks past and I think about the experience, bits being to come back and build into a coherent narrative.

Meditation also helps. I sometimes find that as I'm meditating, scraps of dreams will rise, unbidden in my consciousness and I'll think something like:
"Oh my God, how could I have forgotten the dancing pink banana men?"

Blessings
~ND

LSDMT is a great way to retain your memory of the experience. I find that it is really good to sit quietly and meditate for 15-30 after a journey to let the brain do it's thing. I find I remember much more when I do this.

We live in a linear world, hyperspace is non-linear. Sometimes it is like you can hear colors, see music or tones, feeling it all. It all just comes too fast. It is shown to us in forms that our homo-sapien brains can hardly comprehend. It can take some time to integrate.

I'd also encourage you to write as much down as you can remember in an much detail as you can muster. Include your feelings, emotions and reactions as they occur. Much like meditation, I find this process allows you access to fragments which would otherwise remain hidden.

Best of luck.

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My girlfriend and I blast off side by side on most DMT experiences. We have found that recording our conversation (any sort of recording device will do) right after we return is immensely helpful in retaining whatever information was presented to you. And that information is quite odd and confusing at times. Most times, really.

I like to listen to them the next day and take notes. Profound journeys are like a puzzle, you just have to put all the pieces together. How many pieces are there? An infinite amount. But don't let that discourage you. If we could put it all together in one go there would be no need for these wonderful conversations here at the Nexus!

I've wondered if perhaps hypnosis would be successful in retrieving forgotten DMT experiences. I've never tried it, but it purportedly works for childhood memories and dreams, so why not? Anyone tried or considered that?

In the immediate future after a peak/breakthrough/wtve psychedelic experience, i practice what i call'silent integration', and think it's an important aspect to the process. Just letting things 'percolate' , and sift down through the layers of my consciousness, until the information finds the relevant niche to land on and cling to.


- ...monkeys with the keys to spaceships...




Recording a trip, as Doc said, is something i try to practice, sometimes even just hearing the breathing and groaning, etc, can trigger a memory.

Also, often reading other people's accounts here has triggered anamnesis of the hyperspace experience.

I've remembered visions from DMT days, weeks or even months afterwards, i find that it usually happens when the time is taken to sit in silence and reflect on the experience, it can also happen like dream recall where someone may mention something that triggers the memory, or i just spontaneously remember

The lack of recall is one of the main reasons i can't work with high doses of vaporized DMT very often, the experiences certainly take some work at integrating especially if you don't remember much, piecing it together in the following hours/days/weeks/months it can be difficult to make sense of, i do find it usually comes through though



I've also found this to be true, if you're already experienced with LSD and also have experience vaping DMT then the combination can help with remembering the DMT experience, it's like already being in a higher state of consciousness can allow you to see the DMT flash more clearly so integrate it more efficiently, also meditation before, during, after, allways!

It often seems that while we frequently lament over not being able to remember significant experiences, what we are really longing for is to re-experience those visuals, perceptions, feelings and emotions, anything short of which would never really quite seem to satisfy. It's sort of like being hungry for chocolate. All the recall in the world is not going to quell that hunger. Is it possible to relive breakthroughs? Yes. When you smoke DMT, there's always that chance

i have never managed to get anything back after its happened which is why i have a dictaphone running so i can just ramble on as much as possible when i drop back into the room, i have found staying perfectly still for a short time once im back in the room helps to cement the memories a little.

i have a friend who has more than once had an entire experience come flooding back at random times in the future.