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Letting Go?

DiZzyBonne

DiZzyBonne

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After reading some other trip reports, I think the source of my recent bad trips is not being able to let go. So, I know it's a simple question, but how do you let go? Whenever I have a bad trip, I'm always trying to fight it. For example, in my most recent one I thought I was dead and in hell, but I didn't want to accept it. What would be the proper way to let go?
 
I've never had a bad trip in over 10yrs of psych use. As long as I willingly ingest it, I cannot imagine having a bad trip. Just try to relax and go where the experience takes you. In the back of your mind you know it will wear off, and it's pretty easy to tell yourself this. Also, this is why you took this drug, no? Maybe psychs aren't for you, anymore. If I find myself in a negative thought loop, I simply walk somewhere else, where there is visual stimuli (even just looking out a window), and I usually forget about it fast. Even on really high doses of acid, I've never thought I was dead or in hell, I just can't get into it "that deep", but everyone is different. My friend once flipped shit, ran his truck off the road/highway, and believed the approaching headlights were, "the light" at the end of the tunnel. But in all fairness, this was his first time using acid, and he took 3 or 4 strong hits, at a very rough time in his life (his g/f took his son and moved out).

You might want to lower your dose if you don't feel comfortable. Or keep some benzo's on hand for rough experiences. But just tell yourself, it will wear off, nothing lasts forever. Or stick to psychs like short acting tryptamines.
 
There is no easy answer.

Be willing to face things, like you face something you want to face. Like perhaps when you want to face a person that you're upset with because you know you're justified in how you feel, and no matter what they say, you'll know you're still confident in your view of things.

Or perhaps facing a test in school that you know you've studied well for. Its not always pleasant, but if you face it willingly and courageously you generally see your way through it and out the other side.
 
You gotta just accept what is happening and not fight it. Once you stop fighting, letting go comes naturally. Of course, some things are worth fighting for, but you really can't fight a strong psychedelic experience. The drug will win every time. I guess you have to kind of detach yourself. Like, everything that's happening is already set in motion, and you are just watching the pieces fall into place.
 
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Or, just to throw this theory out there, maybe you're just not "fighting it" properly. If it involves thinking about it, you're actually letting it win, in the same kind of way that hearing "don't think about airplanes" makes you think about airplanes.
As far as getting yourself to not think about something without inadvertently and paradoxically thinking about it, you could try a word association (well, more like an idea/thought association), starting with what your present state of mind is, if that makes sense. Coming up with ideas as rapidly as you can to "overload" your brain with thoughts can further help with burying the original thought/mind state. I haven't actually tried that technique with general bad trips, but it has definitely worked well for me for getting out of thought loops at least.
 
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RhythmSpring said:
Don't take yourself so seriously.
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^^ this

let it be-- if you feel like you're in hell, well then you're in hell, that's that. you start to think about crappy stuff in your life and burst in tears, just cry it out like a baby. feel like building an eight store sandwich just for the sake of it ( cause you're not gonna eat a full 8 store sandwich while on most psychs anyway, although.........)
this is at least what i do to enjoy myself, and specially to avoid the so called "bad trip" (it's rather a bad moment, right?) although this approach toward trips has led me to spend up to 4 or 5 hours driving around the city just enjoying the ride, which makes it a kinda dull experience, but never a bad one ;)
 
Many great suggestions here. Please try to visualize scenarios where you can apply these suggestions before dropping again. Even though there is no straight answer to how a trip will proceed, you do know how the drugs affect you.

My only tip that's not here already would be to apply some sense of humor. A smile never hurts, even when you are in the middle of an realization of how wrong your previous version of you was.
 
Look into meditation....

The next time you feel like letting go, sit down with your legs crossed, close your eyes, and try to centre as much of your focus as possible on your breathing and just letting the rest of the chaos around you fade into the background.....

Acceptance with things such as mortality come with time and life experiences... I have never had much fear of death, throughout a significant portion of my life it would have been a welcomed reprieve. But my first acid trip ended 3 years of depression in a single night.

Learn an art that relies on letting go.... Painting, drawing, music, poi, staff, etc.... Eventually you get competent, muscle memory builds to a point where you no longer have to think to do it, it becomes possible to just let go and flow with it.
 
You just have to be prepared to accept that some trips are more bumpy than others, but the you'll reach the end of it one way or another so just hang on and enjoy the ride as best as possible.
If things ever get a bit dark for me, during a trip or in 'real' life, I like to think long and hard about the saying "this too shall pass" (google it) tends to help me just go with the flow!
 
^sorry, just reread and i know this sounds like i missed the point a bit, but my point was that if you can get better at letting go when things start to turn bad that you might have a better chance of being relaxed from the start.
 
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