Mustelid said:
Hyperspace Fool, is the toilet still to the left, or did you make it back to the universe where it was a meter to the right?
Still to the left.
Though, Mustelid, it is very difficult to say for sure because, as I mentioned, each time you find yourself in an alternate world you quickly absorb the details of that world as being your "truth" and even create "false" memories to match it.
So, while I am not really sure this is the same exact reality I landed in that trip... I AM fairly sure the toilet is still in the same place. At least it was last time I looked.
The weird thing is that this type of experience is not limited to spice for me. I have had similar things happen simply from deep dreaming... such as the "false awakenings" type dream where you wake up and go about your day, only to find at some point that you are clearly still dreaming, or just wake up in bed again. Sometimes you forget this as soon as it happens, but sometimes you catch on. I had it happen once where I had something like 10 in a row one morning, and each time I could get a little further into the day, recall the dream before a bit better, and have a much stronger sense of OMG. By the end of the sequence, I was remembering all of the previous false awakenings and tripping balls about it as I went through my day.
In that particular instance I was younger and still in a pretty standard morning routine. So, I got up, went outside to grab the paper, brought it in and tossed it on the table, went to the fridge and drank some juice, and then went to the bathroom to take a piss. Each dream contained these basic elements, only some were slightly different. I.E. in one sequence the headline on the newspaper would be different... or just the spelling of the journalist's name. The juice might be a different brand etc. By the final dream I was paying very close attention to all this, and extremely skeptical as to the reality of anything. (Note: This is prior to the movie Groundhog Day)
As this sequence went on, I started waking up just before going to piss thinking "Shit, if I am still dreaming I will probably piss the bed." The last time, I had to pee so badly that this thought didn't matter and I figured whatever. So I peed and kind of flinched as the stream hit the water... but it stayed real.
It occurred to me at that moment that by peeing there and then I had "chosen" that reality to be my real reality. That none of the realities were "real" and that my decision that
this one was "good enough" and I really had to pee, "fixed" it for me. The second thought was a quick mental run through of the alternate realities comparing and contrasting them to see if I choose the "best" one. Hehehehehe.
Hard to say. I think not.
But whatever, as it could be that we wake up every morning in a new simulation of reality. I get this sensation every so often. I have had the false awakening dream go on for an entire day or even what seemed like weeks. Those times it really fucks with your head.
Anyway, it is kind of odd that both the DMT experience and the dreaming experience I chose to share here feature urination as a deciding factor. Hehehehe. Not like I am fetishist or anything. But I do find that peeing has a key part in dreaming... a mitigating factor... if only because it tends to be the thing that finally forces you out of bed if you have no other responsibilities. Peeing is the enemy of dreaming... or something along those lines.
:d