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Bad trip?

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I had what I think was my first bad trip on Friday. I took around 700mg DXM and was really stoned. Everything was going great until after my peak when i was coming down. When I was peaking I had this CEV that was something like hobbit-like elves trying to build a lego tower to escape a glass cylinder. I started to think about it, and all of a sudden I just realized that everything was fake and just created by some outside force just to fuck with me. I decided to get some sleep because i began thinking there was no point to live, but i knew i wasn't in the right mind and couldn't have been thinking rationally.

I just need some tips on how to avoid situations like this, and if I do find myself in this sort of situation again what can i do to help it?
 
^ You can't avoid it you have to think happy thoughts and go with the flow. Don't let your thoughts distract you. Also have some benzo's around if the trip is turning bad.
 
i tried thinking happy, i tried just thinking that those thoughts were false and drug induced, but i couldn't, they seemed to real and true, but yes my sister was here and she always has a few xanax just in case, i didn't ask for any though

but you would say that what i experienced was definitely a bad trip? or at least a trip gone bad?
 
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It does sound bad but you did handle it alright. Next time I recommend you don't do dxm as it is pretty panicky. I tried it and experinced the same. I would recommend shrooms. I did not panic at all on those but can't say I had a good time. Next time this happens try breathing deeply and relaxing remember its a drug and at some point it should pass.
 
i wish i could get better drugs, but i live pretty much in the woods and theres noting here, id have better luck going for a walk in the woods and finding shrooms than trying to buy them

but also i enjoy DXM, and I'm well experienced with it, but this has never happened to me before :/
 
A "bad" trip is any trip which you deem to be bad enough to call it as such - I've heard of far "worse" trips which the tripper deemed as positive so it's very much an individual thing in my book :)

I'd also ditch the benzos idea - only to be used in the most extreme circumstances really as bailing out on a "bad" trip can cause a lot of problems with future trips, in my experience. It's far better to work through it if at all possible. Benzos are great but to be used only when absolutely necessary. Although 5-10mg of diazepam (or equivalent) can help anxiety without killing the trip.

Maybe have a read through The Big and Dandy Set & Setting Thread for some tips on creating the ideal tripping situation, but ultimately all psyches are unpredictable beasts that can take you to heaven or to hell... but they always (except for a vanishingly small amount of instances) drop you off home safely afterwards and almost always with a lesson learned - even if you don't see it at the time :)

Better luck next time is about as good as I can offer, I'm afraid. Bad trips do happen - albeit extremely rarely - but the good ones more than make up for it for me :)

PS: None of the "bad" trips I've had I would still consider to be bad with hindsight, incidentally.
 
3rd plat DXM trips can be some heavy shit....

I consider myself very experienced with psychedelics, nothing freaks me out, ive thought i was dead before and i came out alright.... I rarley find myself saying "wow that was intense" but 600mg of DXM fucking pwned me....

Its all about the perspective you choose to look at the trip with....

Maybe there is no greater meaning, but are you enjoying the time you have?

If you can look back on your life when its all said and done and think "its been a good ride, but its over and im ok with that" consider your life to have been a good one.

Best advice is to just go with it, and just let go....

Also maybe try something for tripping other than DXM.... Like i said, i consider myself pretty experienced with psychs and a 3rd plateu DXM trip destoryed me, its just so chaotic and strange, i really can see how that can turn frightening for some people.... LSD is just simply beautiful...

Its something i may experiment with once more, maybe at a 900mg dose. I am aprehensive, i may potentially desire a trip sitter for it.... Something i rarley think might be neccesary but at that dose they probably won't even be there as far as i am concerned....

Generally a decent dose of a benzo is good for killing a bad trip... 2-3mg of klonopin will have most people out like a light to sleep off the rest of it.... I always bring a couple mg or so if im going to a festival just incase someone needs to sleep....
 
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