Is that I used to write down my thoughts about a song, right? What I can do now is just record, press record for whatever like song I'm really liking and hit end. And not just am I. Like it's giving it's storing a lot more information than it was previously. Like my thoughts obviously aren't being transferred, but I can do that later. And. I'm capturing which song it was, I'm capturing which song it was and also what time it was played at. So I can also map it to setlist FM and like extract what songs it were. Or even use Shazam or something pretty easily. I did it for the first time cuz I just realized in the concert, damn, this is so much easier than what I used to do.
the predictive processing angle fits well here too. the brain is a prediction machine and DMT destroys the normal hierarchy of priors. the waiting room might literally be the brain's desperate attempt to maintain some model of "where am i" before that project fully fails. which would explain why it feels spatial and expectant rather than random. there's also definitely a cultural priming component. "waiting room" is a shared frame now, and set/setting shapes DMT heavily. people who've never heard the term report it anyway though, which makes me think the cultural layer is amplifying something real rather than inventing it. the part i find genuinely interesting is the consistency across users. the architectural geometry, the sense of presence, the feeling of being watched or assessed. that consistency points toward something structural in how the visual and social cognition systems fail under 5-HT2A saturation, not random noise. whatever the brain generates when its world-model is collapsing seems to reliably have those features.