Making your self smile to stop a bad trip

[shpongle1987]

[/BI was reading in a magazine earlier today and supposedly theres alot of scientific study being done about when when a human physically smile. Supposably alot of good shit is released in your breain and 9times out of 10 the person that was just smiling to see if it could make them happy, actually made them happy in the end. SO i was wondering if this can happen while some one is under the unfluence of a trip that mite be getting a bit dark, could they just smile for about 5 mins then in turn have the trip change direction from dark to light......anytakers??? haaha im rambeling-shpongle off

 

[Euphoric Status]

This thread quickly caught my attention because something like that happened to me recently. Not too long ago a friend shared his DMT with me after I bumped up everyone on MXE. It was my first time doing DMT and I was on MXE at the time... I don't know how much the MXE affected the DMT trip. Anyway, after onesmall hit off it I nearly blasted off. I was tripping hard but at the same time I felt sober. It's like I was stuck in between universes. After that I decided that I REALLY wanted to blast off. After exhaling I immediately felt the DMT, and as I was on my way to who knows where I had a thought "what if this turned into a bad trip?" (I read this trip report earlier and was thinking of this - http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=81551) and sure enough time and motion slowed down and the song we were listening to seemed to upset my trip x100. I was scared shitless... but after five or ten seconds of this, which felt like forever, I decided to move my legs a little and smile. A new song was played at the same time. I then realized that everything was going to be okay and I finally let myself go and from there I enjoyed my trip... many universes were visited btw, haha.

I'm not sure what it was, but something told me to just smile. I think doing that made me break free.

 

[2c-goinsane]

its possible imo, at times its that easy to change the direction of trips but iv also encountered times where its not as easy.

this also makes me remember a couple nights ago coming down from a intense 3.5g mushroom(very strong penis envys) trip, i was starting to plateau and my facial expressions was shuffling through different expressions automatically it was pretty cool it also felt really good to move my face around at the time.

also throughout all my most intense crazy trips what others might call bad i was smiling/grinning and laughing uncontrollably throughtout the trip so idk if thatd work for me in the midst of a really strong mental trip. my "bad" trips i was just out of my environment and there was no reason to smile i always just got a ride from my brother to my big trip couch iv had since childhood which is where i usually eat my drugs so i know how it always turns out(very good setting where i wont have any negative surprises).

meditation/ deep beathing works the best for me along with some yoga if i have enough balance at the time.

a good set and setting and safe dose have always worked for me aswel.

take it easy everyone

 

[ParappaTheRapper]

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[Aetherius Rimor]

Interesting. I've read before that when you smile it relaxes the muscles in your face in a certain way that causes serotonin to flood into your brain. I'm not sure how this would affect a bad trip, but maybe it could balance you out or something.

Unless someone has a reference for this claim, this sounds like a myth honestly.

However, I believe it is possible that there is some scientific basis in forcing a smile to push you towards a positive mood.

Wouldn't know if it works though, I've never had a bad trip in all my uses of psychedelics, only occasional "high alert adrenaline response" type feelings which seem magnitudes higher than normal when something unexpected happens. Usually goes away pretty quickly once I can figure out what's going on though.

Friends can usually tell I'm tripping due to the large content smile I tend to exhibit while on psychedelics... considering I only get that smile under very specific circumstances (cuddling being the only other circumstance that comes to mind 8)).

 

[joe456]

wouldn't call it a bad trip but my second time doing mdma i was coming up hard and starting to feel nauseous and my legs becoming very shaky I was scared that I would keep coming up and end up being sick i forced myself to grin and immediately all anxiety was gone, I stopped feeling sick and an amazing wave of euphoria came over me. Don't know how likely this would be to work to stop a bad trip but would definitely be worth a try