Moments that turned a bad trip good

[DwayneHoover]

Turnabout is fair play.

I think this would be FAR more useful than a bunch of trip horror stories, entertaining though they may be.

Not looking for "good music recommendations" or "bad trip strategies", but those singular MOMENTS that pulled you or someone you know from the depths of confusion/despair back into the light... if such a thing exists... does it?

 

[OCitchy714]

When i started bad tripping(ACID) I went off by myself because It felt so weird feeling these feeling's while everyone else was having a great time and being social, while I just sat quite and terrirfied. So I layed down on my friends bed and I just completely freaked out even harder contemplating suicide imaging myself never being sane again. after 20 minutes of that shit I went back down and starting talking to my friends and explained what happened and something made me luagh really hard, from that it made my trip take a complete 180 and the rest of the night was purley astonishing and joyish.

 

[MachoSavage]

Many years ago I took mushrooms with my roommates during the winter. It was kind of an unhappy time in my life, and this night I wasn't having a great time.

They wanted to go outside to walk the dog, and I grudgingly came along. As soon as I stepped outside into the cold, I started to feel worse and told them about it, but they brushed it off. So we kept walking toward the street, and halfway through the parking lot of our complex, I lost consciousness. Next thing I knew, one of the guys was helping me off the ground. He and I turned back, while the other guy stayed out to finish walking the dog.

When we got back inside, I was still freaked out, racing scary thoughts, etc. and just wanted to get back to normal.

But when I took a moment to realize that I was safe and warm inside again, that I was going to be tripping for the next few hours no matter what, and that all I could do was choose to be upset about it or choose to enjoy and explore it... once I accepted that, it was like turning on a light. I stopped panicking and it turned into a good trip.

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Getting myself to relax, getting away from people who weren't tripping, talking to people who'd been there and knowing that I'd be fine, and taking a walk.

 

[Busty St Clare]

A giant, pressure releasing fart often softens the mood and starts the giggles.

 

[Charleston_Car]

A giant, pressure releasing fart often softens the mood and starts the giggles.

that made me smile ahaha

no stories for myself, but my friend wasn't feeling good on shrooms one time and i made him look in the mirror and scream "FUCK YOU" to the bad feelings and he cheered up a bit after that :D

dwaynehoover i love your name man, really good book

 

[DwayneHoover]

^ha, yea it is... you MUST get the movie version of "Breakfast of Champions"... its FULL of huge stars acting way over the top... and lots of trippy little touches everywhere... VERY touching and psychedelic ending... its different than the book but Vonnegut endorsed it as a sort of alternate "inspired by" take on his book, and even graced it with a cameo. GREAT flick to watch tripping. The moments with Nick Nolte and Bruce Willis, and Nolte and Omar Epps are fall-on-the-floor hilarious. Albert Finey is astounding and perfect as recurring Vonnegut crochety bizarre sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout who unintentionally turns everyone's life upside down.

 

[readthenewsohboy]

Just last night a friend and I impulsively dosed 20mg insufflated 2c-i and 30 mg oral 4-aco-dmt after having some margaritas. When the Aco started to come on I felt slow and dirty for having dosed drunk, and reality seemed to be missing frames and featuring empty space between objects, just breaking apart and exposing a confused and leftward drifting void. After going to the restroom and cleaning some though, the creative act put me into a wonderful place and it was one of the best trips I've had.

 

[2c-goinsane]

the sun coming up or remembering i have money and pot

 

[cacophonaut]

My first acid trip was brutal. Four hits of strong blotter, totally unprepared, alone, sat in my room, at night, feeling slightly queasy, and perpetually needing to shit.

Then I noticed it was getting lighter outside, so I left, went to a park and watched the sun come up, and shortly after met up with a good friend. After that, I couldn't wipe the smile from my face, it was amazing. That was the start of something beautiful...

 

[Charleston_Car]

^ha, yea it is... you MUST get the movie version of "Breakfast of Champions"

fuck yeah man love that movie

 

[DwayneHoover]

Hell yea, that was hilarious... I think its on YouTube somewhere. There's another equally confused dialogue between Nolte and Willis that is almost as fall-on-the-floor. Just great performances too.

And how about the moment near the end when Kilgore Trout sees a vision of "The Creator of the Universe" and chews him the fuck out?! So "Creator" has to apologize to aggrieved creature. (actually playing out a moment from a Trout story that was read aloud earlier.) Totally unexpected, highly highly trippy, visually stunning, great music cue, extremely funny, and yet deeply touching all at once... lasting all of 15 seconds but it's like the core of the movie and it blew me utterly away...tripping of course. Just awesome!!!

It got bad reviews from (1) Vonnegut purists who were irate that it differed one iota from the book (idiots), and (2) straight square boring reviewers who probably never did a drug in their life and just did not "get it", and had no basis by which to understand the humor or the actual depths of the various ideas and messages that were being sent. Anyone who has ever tripped will find it brilliant hilarious and even transformative. Actually as time has gone on I have noticed more and more positive reviews by real people (as opposed to critics with an axe to grind).

And that soundtrack of (mostly) original tracks from 1960s "Exotica" composers/groups, including at least 3 different renditions of the haunting "Stranger In Paradise" song, was just incredible.

And Lukas Haas in that shiny green metallic jacket as lounge singer "Bunny Hoover"! Perfect casting.

 

[DwayneHoover]

Just found this -

Watching this film would very probably turn a bad trip good... it is so absurdist and empathic about peoples' troubles you have to just laugh at your own worries.

Opening scene: Slow pan from feet to head as Nelson Eddy croons first of several renditions of "Stranger In Paradise"... revealing Bruce Willis as Dwayne Hoover (yes this movie is why I chose this name) with a gun in his mouth just about to pull the trigger before he is interrupted by maid right off the cover of that Supertramp album calling him downstairs for his "Breakfast of Champions, Mr. Hoover... Breakfast of Champions!!!"