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Your PERSONAL way of getting out of a bad trip.

I hop in my bed, curl up and embrace it.

If something extreme happens, like starting to sob or cry for instance, that's cool. Whatever. My difficult trips are usually the solo ones anyway.

I've always considered bad trips analogous to bad days. They can come out of the blue without warning. It's useless to pin them as without value.
 
Things start going bad for me when my rational mind resurfaces during the trip. Normally during a trip, I feel like a little kid who has no limits or expectations. Then when my normal mind comes back I feel like everybody's watching me, or I'm losing my sanity.

So for me, I focus on memories from when I was little. For some reason during trips (especially shroom trips), memories from the past keep me feeling good, then when I pull from recent memories, the trip begins to feel awkward and sour.

Also, another thing that helps me is to focus on music. When I'm not having a good time on the trip, if I close my eyes and keep the beat of the song, it's impossible not to enjoy it.

I guess everybody's got their own thing, but this is what works for me. :)
 
Wash dishes. Even if they're already clean, just stand and wash each dish with total focus. Rinse it twice, dry it. Concentrate totally on the task at hand.
 
Roger&Me said:
Wash dishes. Even if they're already clean, just stand and wash each dish with total focus. Rinse it twice, dry it. Concentrate totally on the task at hand.
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That works wonders for my self-loathing trips. I can still feel like an absolute turd, but cleaning opens up a tiny ray of hope almost always. . .
 
I go on a walk. Through nature.

It's really nice if I'm not tripping to hard. I try to go where nobody is because looking up when somebody is staring at you can be a little jarring if you are already not feeling well.
 
Excited has never had a bad trip. excited has taken 25 caps of wet shroomie and drank tea. excited has injested 10 hits of lsd in one sitting. excited took three 2c1 caps his first and only time. note that excited is a 15 year veteren and these feats were planned out with like minded individuals. Also know that excited doesnt take phycs anymore. once you looked through the looking glass and seen it was all in your mind to begin with there is no need to make a return trip.
 
Bad Trip... Ahh i have many fond memorys of those days.

1: Cup of Water
2: Lock myself into a dark room.
3: Fight the visions head on and dont look back. Talk to yourself outloud or in your head about why... Soon youll find out your problem was something so simple and you eventually find the door to let yourself out of the nightmare.

Always works for me. I just tell my wife... "Ill be back baby, something is wrong in my head and its time for the closet. See you when im ready" She knows and understands.
 
Didn't read any of the responses, except the original post. I tell myself something along the lines of this...

"I am having a bad trip right now. Why? Because I took chemicals. I am on a drug, and or drugs. I am in an enviroment I do not feel comfortable in. How do I change this? I must keep moving, I must change my environment. The energy around me is not right, it is not the best it could be, so I shall seek out better vibrations".

Simple as that.
 
If I'm with a group of my friends, and we're all trippin', and someone in the group started to have a bad trip. I'd try to take them out of the place that they're in. As in, out of the woods, out of the car, out of the loud ass club.. and somewhat, ground them. Not saying I'd do this all on my own, but my friends would help. I've had multiple bad trips, and I thank my friends and my own brain (to an extent) for lifting me out of that trip. Bring that individual into a circle, and show him/her the friends they have around, support, and all the neat things to look at that won't make you scared.

Sounds childish, but a glow stick got me out of a bad trip, and my friend singing a song that I love in my ear. Shit, a glass of lemonade got me out of a HORRIBLE acid trip. Bring them to a place they like, maybe somewhere in a park or by the water. I find that tripping outdoors, (shrooms) is the key to a good trip. Depends, though.

Talk it out with the person that's having the bad trip, bring up good times you had with them, and ask them what they're feeling. Share stories, lay on the ground and watch the sky, or even just watch a white blank wall. In 10 seconds it will not be white. :D

Haha, oh man. I want some acid now.
 
I personally never had full blown bad trips. I've had rough experiences with anxiety and paranoia but quickly grounded myself saying "You're high dude, chill the fuck out." then proceed to laugh at my insanity. I guess you could say I'm very comfortable with myself and my headspace as I'm not very concerned with how people view me so the fear of "looking stupid" or "saying something stupid" isn't there. I just consider myself pretty easy going and just "go with the flow of things" and more or less marvel at the profound things I discover while thinking outside the metaphysical box. If anything I get pissed at myself for not discovering such trivial revelations while sober lol. High dose LSD (12 blotter hits I believe) was a great but intense trip, along with a super breakthrough dose of crystalline DMT (0.2g) was mind shattering. I did these two adventures while contemplating my college major to find out what I really enjoy doing and what kinds of careers I could have. I ditched my major of electrical engineering (good money) for a psychology degree (what I truly enjoy). These trips help me come to terms that money isn't everything (can't take it with you when you die) and that leaving an impact on people's lives in a sense gives me eternal life (I help one person, that person's family and friends are indirectly helped, they're friends and family, etc) and thus the legacy of my work will live on.

I consider myself a veteran tripper (only 4 years but it was the quality and quantity of trips in that time) so every trip is "new" but feels familiar. Same respect to how I felt when I first smoked weed compared to how it felt to be a daily weed smoker. I guess psychological tolerance is the word. Basically I'm traveling different paths in the same forest that I am very familiar with. At first just tripping with trusting people was a big plus, next is being able to ground oneself is important, making sure no duties/plans are in the near future (2-3 days after dosing, yeah I like 20+ hour trips), ensuring the environment is safe before dosing, making sure all needs (eating, well rested, drink and food readily available) are met, and for me personally: good quality cocaine when I can't cope with the tripping mindset. For me cocaine get's rid of the mental aspect of psychedelics, leaving me with only visuals but a clear mind.
 
excited said:
Excited has never had a bad trip. excited has taken 25 caps of wet shroomie and drank tea. excited has injested 10 hits of lsd in one sitting. excited took three 2c1 caps his first and only time. note that excited is a 15 year veteren and these feats were planned out with like minded individuals. Also know that excited doesnt take phycs anymore. once you looked through the looking glass and seen it was all in your mind to begin with there is no need to make a return trip.
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Excited also talks in third person which is a little strange.
I'm not sure if I agree with a kid your age taking so many psychedelics, and not in a moralistic sense, but more in a god knows what's happening to your already rapidly developing brain kind of disagreement.
 
I think excited meant that they have been tripping for 15 years, not 15 years old.
 
phaylure said:
Sounds childish, but a glow stick got me out of a bad trip, and my friend singing a song that I love in my ear.
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Hmmm, not sure about a glow stick but I have heard singing is a way. And in fact one time when I was alone and felt it get dark I started singing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B by the Andrew Sisters (can be found on Youtube). No idea why, but substituted my dogs name for Bugle Boy and turned the whole trip around after I got up off the floor laughing my ass off. I think I read singing was Terence McKenna's suggestion if a trip starts going bad. The vibe that comes from within is usually what makes deep and dark or light and fun. That vibe can change with singing.

So my vote is singing, and later on maybe a benzo and small dose of opiate. Very small.
 
Sometimes, it's totally impossible to escape a bad trip.

Some experiences with 4-AcO-DMT and DMT come to mind (fairly similar chemicals, too... hm). The extent of miserable, hellish anxiety was just so extreme that there was literally nothing I could do to stop it.
 
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