Eden said:
gibran2 said:
I’ve had many experiences where I’ve seen things that are “off-limits” to a mere mortal, and I have never been “allowed” to bring the memories back.
I believe you because this seems true to me as well, but am wondering how you know you had these experiences if you weren't allowed to bring them back.
As for what mere mortals are permitted, DMT seems to be a gateway to conciousness that is everything but mortal. However, this could only be existent and accessable during the breakthrough, which would support your claim of the inability to retain this information.
Here’s a simple analogy: Imagine you’re attending a lecture, and the speaker is talking very fast, and you’re distracted by your iPhone and the people chattering next to you.
After the lecture has ended, someone asks you about particular details regarding what the speaker said. And you don’t remember. You remember being at the lecture, you remember the speaker, you remember that the speaker was talking very fast, but you don’t remember the content of the lecture.
I once had an experience where I entered a large room of some sort, and I was telepathically told that I could participate in a “sacred ritual” in the room, but that I would not be allowed to remember the details of the ritual. I agreed. I remember entering the “room”. I remember that the ritual involved some sort of physical transformation. I remember looking around and seeing how unbelievably amazing everything was. I remember thinking to myself – acknowledging to myself – that I wouldn’t remember much of what I was seeing, and told myself to “enjoy it while you can”.
The “amnesia” is very selective. It’s not a total blackout (if it was, as you suggested, I wouldn’t even know that there was something I forgot!)
And as Hux said, there are other things that can’t be remembered simply because the sober mind is not capable of reconstructing the experience.
As an interesting aside: I read once about a person who had a brain tumor or a stroke that affected his visual perception and resulted in him no longer being able to perceive color. The most interesting part was that he no longer had memories of color either. Recall of memories is a reconstructive process – the recall of a primarily visual memory is reconstructed by the visual cortex, so if the visual cortex is damaged, the memory cannot be properly reconstructed.
Similarly, I believe that DMT temporarily “re-wires” some of our perception circuitry, and as a result we are able to “see” things that are ordinarily impossible. And when we return to a sober state, we cannot recall the memories because the circuitry needed to reconstruct them is no longer present.
Whew… That ended up being a longer post than I intended!
