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A DMT Life Review Revealed What Death Actually Is | Carl Hayden Smith

Danny Jones Clips | July 15, 2026



Link to full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQPAVic3Jok

Carl Hayden Smith says a DMT-triggered life review handed him the most disturbing possible definition of karma. He experienced his entire life in reverse, in fully detailed episodic chunks, while holding a “double consciousness” — aware he was on the table talking, and simultaneously moving backward through his own history. Then it went further: he found he could leave his own point of view and enter other people, living his actions from their side. His conclusion is blunt. You do not get away with anything. Most likely you will one day experience everything you did to someone else as them and as yourself at the same time.

The mechanism is stranger than that summary suggests. Smith describes going into a wooden table and becoming “wood consciousness,” entering animals, even becoming the authors of books he had read and the actors in films he had seen — but only things he had actually lived through, because you need to have experienced something to have access to it. That is why, he says, you should be careful who you spend time with and where you go; he has deliberately traveled to Antarctica and the Amazon so those places will be available in his review. He also frames death itself as an expansion of consciousness rather than an elimination, a promotion from “locked-in” first-person view to full “field of view” access to any point in the scene.

He connects it to other total-immersion experiences: a free-diving near-death in a cave where he relived forty years in what felt like an hour, and a friend’s Salvia trip that felt like living an entire other lifetime, so real the person grieved the people they “lost” when it ended. Smith’s answer to all of it is a lifelong journaling practice — forty years of thinking, feeling, and doing recorded across documents, video, and handwritten notebooks — a deliberate, sober version of the same life review. The question the clip leaves open: if this is a rehearsal for death, are you living a life you would actually want to relive from every side?

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  1. @strafe155

    July 15, 2026 at 1:08 am

    Pediatrician Melvin Morse has shared the case of a 7 year old girl named Kristle who was hospitalized after drowning in a swimming pool and showed no signs of a heartbeat. Morse was involved in attempts to resuscitate her at the hospital, and a CAT scan showed massive swelling of her brain; a machine was doing her breathing and her blood pH was extremely acidotic, indicating imminent death. Morse was amazed when Kristle awoke from her coma 3 days later with full brain function. Extraordinary, Kristle recognized him. 'That's the one with the beard,’ she told her mother. ‘First there was this tall doctor who didn’t have a beard, and then he came in.’ That was true: Morse had a beard, while the other physician was tall and clean-shaven. Kristle went on to accurately describe the emergency room. She also knew Morse was the one who put a tube in her nose. ‘She had the right equipment, the right number of people—everything was just as it'd been that day,’ Morse explained. She even correctly described the procedures that'd been performed on her. ‘Even though her eyes were closed and she'd been profoundly comatose during the entire experience, she still ‘saw’ what was going on.’ Morse also added that, ‘She described the nurses talking about a cat who'd died. One of the nurses had a cat that'd died and it was just an incidental conversation. She said she was floating out of her body during this entire time.’

    According to Morse, during the experience Kristle glimpsed her home, and watched her siblings play with their toys in their rooms. ‘One of her brothers was playing with a GI Joe, pushing him around the room in a jeep. One of her sisters was combing the hair of a Barbie doll and singing a popular rock song. She drifted into the kitchen and watched her mother preparing a meal of roast chicken and rice. Then she looked into the living room and saw her father sitting on the couch staring quietly ahead.’ When Kristle mentioned this to her parents later, she shocked them with her vivid details about the clothing they were wearing, their positions in the house, even the food her mother was cooking.

  2. @anti-pxpular

    July 15, 2026 at 1:08 am

    Death is the return. Resuming your REAL life. This is just a dream, a classroom on low vibrations, separation, suffering, crime, addiction, disease, race, religion, politics (the illusions of good and evil in the human world). Karma and freewill is how we evolve as souls. Death gives us our memory back. We return to who we actually are. This is just a video game.

  3. @robertajabour3592

    July 15, 2026 at 1:08 am

    I always thought that drugs will bring anything that you have seen, heard, touched, smelled or felt into your consciousness, to your aware attention, even things you have completely forgotten or chosen to forget. So beware that you don't scare yourself.

  4. @dennismcmahon5442

    July 15, 2026 at 1:08 am

    Uh Oh! I'm going to have to stop you there. (this) Life is not the beginning. I would say more like somewhere along the way.
    We are the spirit. That is why you can be the table, or another living being (biological or not).
    How we got here (and I suspect you have the experience of awareness that this will ding the bell); we are shown a fast fleeting woosh of windows into worlds. We choose one based on our bent, though all the while being given no time to choose. We lock our assemblage point down on this world, which takes a monumental effort.
    Dying here means losing that coupling and not being able to or wanting to regain it. While it is definitely not the end of us as beings, for most people, it may as well be, because most people lose themselves while here and can't cut it in this predatory universe once they leave.

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