For those that have been through a flood, does it feel there is almost a rebound effect once the afterglow is done? It sounds too good to be true for it to not.
-GC
I can only speak for myself but in my experience, I usually level back out at some point between 2 or 3 months. After my 2nd flood, I just picked up weed and stayed off everything else (except Kpins every few months) for nearly 4 years. I've done 3 floods and there were many different circumstances regarding my living situation, diet and general surroundings afterward that led me to relapse.
I believe that there are a lot of factors that go into this. There's diet, exercise, sunlight/Vitamin D however you can get it and a million other things. Basically, IMO Ibogaine is somewhat of a reset button for a few months and those months are absolutely crucial to develop healthy habits like exercise and whatever else. It gives you the opportunity to rewire the reward system in your brain. I play a lot of basketball for that reason, to earn dopamine. I could go into the reason that I've relapsed all 3 times after my floods but it would be long and somewhat egotistical. I've had a somewhat long, very fucked up journey in this life like a lot of people on here probably have too.
I've also convinced probably a dozen of my friends to go do Ibogaine as well. They are all still alive. I know that about half of them are still sober over varying degrees of time. 2 are even working in different recovery type places or aftercare and trying to advocate for plant medicine.
I think that after doing a proper flood and preparing the right way beforehand, you basically become almost like a baby again. It's a great time to pick up new, healthy habits. I quit smoking cigs again this time, started learning Spanish, practiced Guitar, and played a ton of basketball. I also started taking vitamins like Vitamin D and K and also Turmeric and a bunch other stuff.
I'll always have a little bit of a grudge with rehabs and the typical 12 step groups after spending the majority of my 20s in and out of rehabs and meetings, but I also have to give them credit with the fact that having a support group is HUGE. This last time, pretty much everybody that I'd associated with before was doing some kind of a drug and in retrospect, I should have sucked up my pride and just gone to a few meetings during the vulnerable moments. I live alone and could invite plenty of people over but they'd most likely bring drugs. I still strongly believe in this medicine but aftercare is crucial. Nothing else will give you a multiple month head start though.
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The funny thing is, I don't, really. I had a definite memory improvement post-iboga, but the reason I had so much detail is that as soon as I was at all able to I started jotting down notes, little memory hooks for later. Whenever I had a flash of memory, I would stop whatever I was doing and write it down. I started writing the report 5 days after my flood and finished it about 3 and a half weeks afterwards. No way I would have just ben able to remember all of that without making a serious effort.