Cunning Linguist said:
Zoad, are you saying that there is a method to handle the short-term amnesia? I'd like to hear that.
Admittedly my concentration is poor sometimes, which could go some way to explain my bad memory.
Now, please, I am not negating your experience or somehow dissing you. I am not flaming you or posting a message just for the purposes of dissagreing. Your experience is valid in terms of what you're individual personality is. That is my main message. As far as a method of action in order to take conscience control of your memories, the method may be as unique as your personality.
The method, as you are fond of methods, is what you have to explore. When you first acknowledge that a memory may not be recognized, do not automatically assume that the memory is not there. If you convince yourself of this, then you should never bring yourself far enough to explore the experiences that you hold. Beliefs, even as insignificant as this, will hamper your explorations. If you beleive that you do not hold experience, then you will never look to what experience you have. This is very important, especially with the mechanics of pot.
Pot, as I have said elsewhere, relaxes your grip on the state of mind that you identify as "sober". After this relaxation, you're beleifs automatically set your state of mind, in a manner of speaking. This is not to say that you do not have control, for you always have control if you are recognizing of your control. You let pot bring you where you think it should it to go. If you beleive that it has medical effects, then it does. If you believe that it will put you to sleep, then it does. If you believe that it hampers your memory, then it does.
But please notice that it is not the pot which brings upon these effects, it is you! If you are forgetting something when you are high and you believe that pot interrupts memory, then you will say to yourself "This pot is hampering me... what is it that I need to remember? If only I could remember something... but I am high and I can't remember anything! I'm sure there was something that I had to remember..." And you concern yourself with remembering something so much that you don't trust yourself enough to recall what you need to remember!
The power in a belief relies on the trust put behind it, and pot relaxes your hold upon beliefs. This is not to say that you don't trust your beliefs when your high, but you are much more willing to explore other beliefs. If you don't trust something when your high that you do fine when your not high, then you will have great difficulty accomplishing that something when you're high.
You can ask a lot of people about driving experiences, for example. The experienced and trusting people will tell you that driving while high is no problem and sometimes more enjoyable, while the people who don't trust themselves have great difficulty driving and experience confusion. While high, if you are trusting yourself, you can drive yourself all the way home and ask yourself when you get there,"Wow, how the hell did I get all the way over here? I don't remember a god-damned thing." But you are home non-the-less. If you are driving home and you do not trust yourself, you may question every turn and bring yourself to Canada and still not trust where you are.
But if you must incorporate a method, first identify what you are looking for, then know that what you are looking for is there. If you trust that is it there, then you will not waste time negotiating with yourself on whether or not you actually remember the detail, for you actually remember everything, it is only what you identify with that you consciencely remember. The trick then, is moving what is subconscience into the conscience. Once you know it is there, then grab ahold of whatever small details you can and gradually reincoporate the original information. The action of remembering is itself more akin to setting yourself into the state of mind that you were in at the conception of the memory. Grabbing ahold of what details you can is basicly a trick you use to do this. Quicker access can be gained through the mastery of being able to switch your state of mind at will, which also uses trust.
-Zoad
