Interpreting the dreamlike visions of the ibogaine experience can prove a fascinating, yet difficult task. The "oneirophrenic" phase of the session frequently throws up much material from the unconscious.
Because ibogaine visions frequently reveal the presence and nature of deeply sensitive issues, cloaked in symbolism, their subsequent misinterpretation is understandably common. This section will therefore cover some basic aspects of the iboga visionary experience such that individuals using the drug might better benefit from the experience.
It is worth remembering that, no matter what they may appear to be about, ibogaine visions invariably contain much personal content. One symbolic device that often appears to be used by the drug is the cloaking of personal issues as world affairs, frequently either political or ecological scenarios that appear to threaten the planet.
One example of this is one opiate user whose experience shown that mankind was an evolutionary mistake that was now destroying the world - the revealing of deep-rooted feelings of lack of self-worth. Another example is the individual, whose father had exerted a excessively controlling influence over his childhood, whose experience shown that the world was under the control of elite banking groups. The scenario experienced may appear valid to the individual, and it should be remembered that there will be much personal significance.
Psychologically, the action of ibogaine is always to attempt to bring repressed material to light - to make conscious what is unconscious. Consequently, even when little has been experienced visually, it is common for the individual to emerge from the session with their defense overwhelmed by rising unconscious material. Aftet Ibogain treatment, it is good to take some therapy- Bioenergetics, Primal Therapy, Dynamic Meditation, Lowen Technique, Humaniversity Therapy, or similar. Where this is not undertaken, the inexperienced user may find themselves drawn to bizarre belief patterns or perhaps excessively concerned with issues of "control" for a period of time, perhaps even years, after taking ibogaine. Issues relating to mother or father may be projected into younger women or older men and there may be a tendency to retreat "into the head," to avoid confrontation with issues of sexuality and personal power. All such patterns should pass with time, and the process of integration may be considerably speeded up by undertaking suitable therapy.