Does It Matter If You Can't Remember Your Ketamine Experience?
One of the questions that I got asked recently was whether it matters if you remember every single thing from your infusion. Sometimes in the dissociative state, it can be pretty challenging to recall everything that comes up just because of the simple nature of that dissociation between mind and body. So what do you do when you don’t remember everything? Keep reading to find out.
When worry takes over your mind, the best thing to do is to relax and trust in yourself.
Trust The Process
If you’re worried because you don’t remember everything, what we encourage our patients to do is to trust your unconscious mind. Trust that everything you need to know will come up and will be stored in your body. You may or may not know this already, but your unconscious mind stores every single thing and experience that has happened to you and in your life. Sometimes with the ketamine experience, you might not be fully conscious of what you're remembering. Just trust and know that the information is stored within you and your unconscious mind.
By observing some good practices before your ketamine journey, your confidence in trusting yourself during your experience will be stronger.
Prepare For The Ketamine Journey
One way to bolster your confidence in trusting you’ll remember and trusting the process is to prepare for your infusion. Consider doing one or all of the following in the days prior to your infusion:
Participating in a preparatory diet and fast
Meditation
Reflection and journaling
Now, doing some or all of these suggested activities is no guarantee that you’ll remember what you’ll experience during the ketamine infusion. The idea in preparing for the infusion is that you can trust that during and after the infusion, you know you had put in the work and effort to have a healing experience.
If you want to learn more about preparing for a ketamine infusion, check out our How to Prepare For And Integrate From a Ketamine Infusion blog.
After your ketamine infusion, journaling or speaking with a therapist are great ways to process what you experienced.
Suggestions Of What To Do After Your Ketamine Infusion
One thing we suggest you can do after your ketamine session is to journal. Write down what you notice. Write down what you recall. Discuss it with a therapist or an integration specialist. That way, you can kind of cement that information. Don’t pressure yourself, however, to always take notes whenever you’re trying to remember something. Don’t be so hard on yourself, and learn to fully experience the experience. Let it come up. Let it flow. Let go and accept the process. Trust that you are meant to remember what you are meant to remember.
During your ketamine experience, you may be pressured to try to remember everything. There could be so much going on that if you forget even the slightest of detail, you get discouraged. So, does it really matter if you can’t remember everything? Learn more in our blog post.