tripping for the first time in five years tonight....

so tonight, by myself, i will be eating two caps and two stems that i earned on a trade recently. it will be my first time tripping since 2004. i stopped taking psychedelics because i kept having bad trips.

basically i'm just wondering if i should have some alcohol or take a xanax before eating the mushrooms to help ensure an anxiety-free trip. is this a bad idea, do you think? i'm pretty excited about tonight, but i'm still a little nervous because it's been so long.

i never really mixed pills or alcohol with trips before.

 

I would say, leave the alcohol, keep the xanax handy. Maybe also keep some valium around just in case. Ideally though, avoid the benzos. They fuck with your memory.

Don't have a bad trip. The best way not to have one is not to worry about that kind of thing at all, in my opinion. Set and setting are important, as anyone would tell you - make sure you feel comfortable, have nice music available, to me it helps to have a phone and the time available as well - they help me realize I'm still in the real world.

 

thanks for the quick reply.

yeah i'll be in my own house (which i own) by myself tonight. it's pretty much the most comfortable, most risk-free setting i'll ever have tripped in to date.

i don't have valium; just a single xanax pill. but good call on the memory thing... i definitely want to remember the trip, so maybe i won't take the xany after all.

 

Yeah only keep the xanax handy if things get really bad, which they shouldnt anyways.

 

Thats cheating. Throw away that pill.

 

i agree pr0ne but remember people experience emotions differently than you.

for some people a bad trip really is not ok, and it really is an emergency, and they really do need to take an anxiolotic.

but it definetely should not be used as a generic safety net for any little bump in the road, it should only be used for scratching your eyes out pulling your hair out gnashing your teeth in demonic agony bad trips, and even then, i would say just go through with it and learn lol.

but yeah people have different subjective perceptions of their emotions and thoughts.

but bleh, benzos.

 

Whatever you do, dont listen to the new Dan Deacon album, it's TOO good

 

I've had to take xanax during a very miserable trip, and I didn't have any problem remembering it at all.

And I did need to take it, I was on the floor of my shower screaming because I felt trapped and claustrophobic on earth, and was trying to escape.