Avoiding bad mushroom trips

[potsandplans]

Avoiding bad trips is not difficult, all you have to do is to be in a state of apathy. In fact, you should even turn off your phone so you won't be interrupted by non-tripping people. Set and setting is extremely important. However, even in the best setting, trips can still go bad if you do not know how to control your mind.

The best way to stop a trip from going bad is to be able to recognize the early signs that it is going bad. The earliest stage is repetitive paranoid thoughts. If you catch your mind focusing on one repetitive looping thought, just start thinking about something else. Also, a good diversion for the mind is asking yourself "Why do I care?" or just simply mentally declaring "I don't care, I'm tripping right now" and start thinking about something else. If that still doesn't work, go outside (during the day time) and let the sun shine on your face. The point that I am trying to make is that before your trip goes bad (intense paranoia, fear, etc), you need to recognize it and start thinking about something else. It's not hard, as your mind is racing million miles a second, so you will likely forget the thoughts that were making you scared/paranoid when you begin a new "train" of thought.

Oh mellow music is also good for changing the mood. I recommend Grateful Dead's American Beauty album as it is real mellow and pleasant. Or Wilco's Sky Blue Sky for the same reason.

[FrostAie]

dont play video games or things that will make you upset I learned that one time by getting pissed then I got kind of hyper and then had a mild bad trip of anxiety and a few other things. If your mindset is good and you have chill things around the trip will be great. I needed to smoke a bowl to get out of the bad state so make sure you got some weed to go along with the trip

[enorty]

television gives off terrible vibes for me... shits fucking scary

ive felt myself going into a bad trip but like you said... you just have to realize it and take control. just tell yourself your tripping on mushrooms... and its only a drug and youll be fine.

oh yeah the sunshine definatly helps alot too feels ammmmazzzing

[potsandplans]

Yes exactly! Television and videogames are bad. TV just gives you horrible vibes, and videogames are just too complicated. I remember getting really frustrated one time because I couldn't figure out how to play, even though it was my own game. It's best to enjoy a mushroom trip out in nature during the day time with some good friends, but the night time is pretty crazy though.

[stonerboywonder]

just go into the whole experience with a good outlook and you should be fine. i loved every minute of my trip. listen to a lot of trippy music, spend some time outside, have your best friend do them with you and stay with each other the whole time. after my experience, i dont see how anybody could not like shrooms. i had one scary moment during my whole trip and i just had to walk through a door and everything went away and everything was fun again.

[HighHopes420]

i have never had a bad mushy trip before, but i remember one time, i think it was actually the most recent trip, i tried putting a volcano vape together and that shit is stoner proof, not mushroom proof haha! its all in your head though. u can snap in and out of bad/good trips easily on shrooms. also, dont eat a quad your first time at an umprheys mcgee show!

[stonerboywonder]

Originally Posted by HighHopes420

i have never had a bad mushy trip before, but i remember one time, i think it was actually the most recent trip, i tried putting a volcano vape together and that shit is stoner proof, not mushroom proof haha! its all in your head though. u can snap in and out of bad/good trips easily on shrooms. also, dont eat a quad your first time at an umprheys mcgee show!

yea thats a bad idea, i ate an eighth my first time and tripped balls for 6 hours.

[FrostAie]

yep my first time i ate half an 8th of some potent shit and I could barely break up weed to load a vape It kind of felt like being drunk

[potsandplans]

Yeah, I've never had a bad trip before either, but I've definitely have had paranoid thoughts while tripping, but I terminate them before they get out of hand. I think if everyone knew how to catch themselves and recognize their thoughts going in the paranoid direction and stop those thoughts before they start tripping bad, nobody would have bad trips, unless if there was something actually really scary happening that isn't in your mind (like getting mugged). But even getting mugged, with a positive outlook on shrooms ("I don't care" mentality), could be fun.

just dont eat too much. i ate 7 grams of p. cyanescens with the best mind set in the world and a great setting. everything was going great for about 2 hours, i mean we were on top of the world, felt a million times better than ecstasy. then it turned into the most horrible trip ive ever had. i convinced myself i knew everything in the world and there was nothing more to be learned and that i had died and gone to hell for my sins (im not even religious). it was crazy shit, i stopped talking for about 2 hours and just walked around my friends house laughing maniacally at this realization and my friends thought i had gone completely insane.