How did you get out of a bad trip?

Well I cant say I know what a bad trip is..This one time I was younger,teen... we was tripping into the night and by morning a friend of mine went home. I was in the house when I was near the microwave I heard a ozzy osborne song in my head. I felt like I was ready to take off tripping again.. between a doorway and another doorway in the house, I stood.. For about a few seconds there seemed to be no control over anything the song was getting louder. I dont know how I knew that I didnt want what was about to happen or I knew I could control it... As it did feel uncomfortable at the time it was rolling back in..
I just stopped and thought of OHM.. I had already been into martial arts and meditation and it felt like the natural thing to do..
After I did that. I was able to feel free I didnt care what was happening or worried Id trip without my friend around..
Saying the mantra Ohm was like inserting little resistors into my circuits.
Correcting the channels.. Fine tuning..Its the only way I can explaine it..

 

well not on acid, but on DXM i've had some bumps. last night i got into this weird state where i was afraid i'd gouge my eyes out (i've had this fear on DXM before) and i was frustrated that it was happening again. i can't really explain how terrifying it is to feel like you're going to do something that drastic, it's like i half thought it was a good idea and was actually going to blind myself.

but strangely enough, i thought of PeaceAndRasta's signature quote lol... "trust your divinity, trust your brain" and for some reason that was extremely comforting. i just said to myself "i don't want to do this, and i need to trust that". from that point on the trip was beautiful, probably my best DXM trip yet.

 

Well that is me, my best meditation I ever have is when I am walking sober or not awake or tired, just saying words and morphing them and changing the cadence, it is like talking a language I have never heard before.

 

another thing, when things get intense and bad, I will start to do the breathing technique from raja yoga where you breathe down the left prana channel, then up the right prana channel, then down the right and up the left.

Something about that breathing exercise requires your brain to take full attention, when your doing it, your mind cannot wander or think about anything else, because it takes 100% of your mind to do that breathing exercise. So pretty much no matter where I am I can always just tick off the brain and get in sync with my body by doing that. It has gotten my mind through alot.

 

ive done lsd twice no idea how strong my doses were but each time i had a bad trip first time i took 2 blotters second time i took 2 blotters again. first trip seamed more intense lasted way longer and i was pretty damn out of it. second time i kinda like passed out on the floor then went to a couch watched disney channel and at cheese puffs and stared at this multi collered blanket thinkin i was running thorugh fields of stuff that was growing with me in it. i was pretty freaked out i want to have a good trip for once where i dont have to worry time always trips me out the most

 

haha i can never understand how people can sleep or pass out on acid

just from the excitement alone I'm jumping out of my bones

and then it hits me, like ten cups of coffee

 

embrace the "bad trip"

learn to love the negative emotions as well as the positive.

I cant say this from personal experience with LSD, but I can from experience with LSA, DXM, and a strange experience with a low dose of mushrooms.

 

Telling myself it's a chemical definitely does not work, because when I am freaking out on LSD it is usually because of bad thoughts that I am having, fears of the past or future, discomfort in the present situation (especially social discomfort), etc., and while the fears are undoubtedly magnified due to the drug, they are also decidedly based in reality.

In my experience, there are only two ways to get out of a bad trip, while sober or while on L or any other drug. One is to have one of those real moments of grace where you break through in your thinking and start to feel like everything will be ok. Either you remember something that you love that more than makes up for whatever it is that you're struggling with, or you come to see whatever you are struggling with in a new way that greatly weakens or completely disarms the unpleasant emotions and thoughts.

The second way is basically to become distracted by something neutral or good, and by the time you remember you were freaking out, you feel a lot better and you have remembered that there is a whole beautiful world of peace and wonder out there and that the dark and scary place you were in does not define you or your life. Basically, this is the method of letting go of the bad trip as opposed to actively fighting it. I think this second method is the more reliable and common way of getting out of a bad trip, because often it is hard to break free from bad feelings through proactive searching. At least for me, the more I think about a problem, the more frustrating it usually becomes, although not always. Sometimes I will have those breakthrough moments where I am all of a sudden at peace with something that was just before greatly disturbing me, but usually I just have to relax and try to move on, and before I know it (in most cases) I feel fine. But, sometimes we do have to just sit down with whatever is bothering us until we accept it or can see it in a new way. All depends on the situation, the person, and the root of the negative feelings/thoughts/etc.

 

Sounds like you're getting overwhelmed and lost in your head. Very easy thing to have happen - I know it's happened to me and plenty of others here. Have you read much about the effects of LSD and the experiences of those who have consumed it? It will probably really help you to understand what's going on so that you can better get what you want out of the experience, although be careful whose conceptions of LSD you buy into... LSD can be turned into pretty much whatever you make it. It can be beautiful, scary, confusing, enlightening, intense, serene, funny, weird, pleasant, playful, challenging... and it's often all of those at once, or in rapid succession

 

The only trips I would consider bad are the ones when you have no control over your thoughts. When the world keeps splitting and you cant even remember that you took a psychedelic, or think your stuck in repetitive time loops/dreams, that is unstoppable madness. There is no way to get out of this kind of trip without serious medication. I've only had 3 of these trips, and during all three I thought I was poisoned lol. The only fear from death is when you think your actually dying a slow, painful death, and you dont see any light at the end of the tunnel, only kaleidescopes of bursting demon bodily orifices vomitting and shitting into each others mouths. Shit's awesome though, as soon as you baseline :cheers2: lol

 

Ecstasy has taken me to some pretty fucked up places that I couldn't get out of.

Same with pot.

 

Weird, MDMA always hits me heavy but mentally it's a breeze.

 

You mean like the body load?

I dunno man, I'm sure I've shared my experiences with it before. MDMA makes me entirely too sensitive. I'm not sure if it is classified as a psychedelic, but it most definitely is one in my book. With that added sensitivity comes with a broader lens of perception, and sometimes that shit can just be too hard to handle.
For example, there is always the classic first time I tried it, where after fearful come up, I noticed a supremely negative energy/consciousness/manifestation lurking behind me, always just out of vision, no matter how fast I turned around. And no, this was not just me tripping, considering I actually did get a glimpse of it a good 10 hours after I was done rolling.
The last time I rolled made me so empathetic I thought I was going to die. Jesus-mode for real brah.
Then I've had times where I've taken on other people's nervousness and anxiety without a conscious realization of it, and almost work myself into a heart attack-frenzy.

And I think we all know why pot is mad gay. :tongue:

 

MDMA is pretty trippy, but I've taken it many a time and only had sparkling rainbow experiences with it.
Maybe you got some kind of amphetamine salt cut in? Did you take pills or powder? Because whenever I've been gypped on some caffeine or speedy cuts, I've always gotten edgy. Amphs dont make me paranoid exactly, but definitley weirded out, especially if you dont know what you've taken.
But yea I meant the body load, whenever I've taken a strong dose I always get hit in the stomach and tend to not be able to move much for the few hours it lasts. Last time I took a g's up ho's down, ended up being a fairly decent roll for a pill, and I was able to walk outside at night and play my guitar under the stars, but other than that, Im usually sweating like crazy and shaking like a baby on a sofa somewhere lol

 

There were always pills, but it doesn't really make a difference, I would have gotten edgy and anxious regardless of if it was just pure MDMA or not. Any time I alter my consciousness I tend to get nervous and anxious. There have been a few times I couldn't even drink a few beers because as soon as I started I felt like I was going to be sick.

 

Well, it could make a difference, considering that the vast majority of pills are shitty. Even the powder tends to be terribly impure, at least where Im at. I dont know though, besides the pill I took that I described, I havent taken any in over 4 years so I might just be out of the loop.

 

Yeah I'm sure it would make some sort of difference, I'm just saying that I still would have been just as anxious.


The pills we get here are actually very good, we used to drive down to tampa to get them from a good and trusted friend.

 

For me personally, if things started to get bad, a change of scenery usually helped. Listening to Dark Side Of The Moon would also help me greatly.

Happy Trails!

 

the concept of time always fucks with my head when im tripping, some time a few minutes feels like hours, sometimes a few hours feel like minutes. but i tripped on daylight savings time and it fucked with me bad. i ate close to 2 1/8ths of shrooms, kinda by accident. but i started to freak out and it was bad. i felt like my face was melting and i was constantly holding my face and kinda like clawing at it, my face was all fucked up i was bleeding, it was horrible. but i went for a walk and felt much better. i walked to the store about a mile away, it was a bit cold out, but it felt nice. i was almost there, i had to cut through the bank parking lot. this was one of those banks that have the time on the outside of the building. and i started to freak again. i couldnt figure out what time it really was and i was bugging out. it sucked. but the next day, asode from my face all fucked up i kinda thought it was funny.

yeah dont trip on daylight savings time its not good i did it twice, by accident once on shrooms and the other on acid... bu thats a nother story.

 

i just listen to happy songs..or really familiar songs to make yourself realize that everythings normal, its just a drug. i personally pick wonderful tonight by eric clapton