Duct tape even fixes freakouts

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=21873

events like this don't have to be this dramatic with a little bit of virginia chrome and some elbow-grease. This strategy can keep many unprepared little psychonauts out of the ER or the drunk tank, and greatly reduces chances of freakout-inspired suicide.

Now why is it that the general tripping population is majorly unaware of the "duct-tape your buddy and his existential meltdown to a tree" method?

when your friends start asking the same question over and over, or fires up the ol' word-salad or starts shouting that they are god, you just duct tape them to a tree or pole, and go about your trip without having to watch your friend's embarassing one-last-wank while on the edge of their percieved death...

it has the advantages of:

• keeping you from having to wrestle your friend for 6 hours straight
• keeping your friend from harming themselves or their surroundings
• when your friend finds himself duct taped to a tree, its easier for them to grasp the concept that they spiraled out, ruined the fun, and had to be taped to a tree. when you're in the psychedelic meat-grinder, you don't care what's restraining your movement, since you're probably just going to apply your own personal scrambled brain context to whats happening anyway

PROMOTE THE DUCT TAPE YOUR FREAKOUT BUDDY TO A TREE METHOD!

now if you'll excuse me im going to go grab the tweezers and remove all the hyphens from my sphinctor

 

aw, that'd be uncomfortable. duct tape them to a water bed underneith a tree or something.

 

hahaha

 

i take it you've never had to wrestle one of your friends on a sky-rocket after having took just as much as they did

 

i think the addition of a water bed, that would make everything so much better. no matter what the situation

 

hahahaha

this thread is hilarious

 

thats a pretty good idea. I've seen people that this could have been useful on haha

 

I'd like to duct tape YOU to a tree while your tripping balls....
a much easier solution would to simply trip in a remote location like the forest for example. Events like that erowid report can be avoided by tripping in the right environment.

 

who hasnt been in a situation where they COULD have but didn't duct tape their friends?

theres a difference between tripping balls and freaking out. when nothing means everything and everything means nothing at the same time, they dont know when they're jumping out of the second story window, or punching you repeatedly in the head. all they know is the terrifying eternity of sharp fractaly hell they're experiencing, and how its never ever ever ever going to stop.

when you're tripping hard enough to need to be duct taped to a tree, you're not going to be able to tell the difference between being duct-taped to a tree or getting hit by a semi.

just because your "RIGHT ENVIRONMENT" would IDEALLY keep someone from flipping shit, it doesn't change the fact that plenty of kids have gotten seriously hurt and even killed, because their friends couldn't restrain them.

when someone loses it, there is NOTHING that you can say that they won't dissect to find their own pre-determined meaning in. once you're in that situation, you're locked there till you can thrash all the drugs out of your system.

its not a first resort by any means, but you can only "talk someone down" if their problem isnt deeply existential, which usually isnt the case in these thrash-freakouts.

actually its just about the most loving thing you can do for them, not to mention it frees you up from that 6 hour wrestling match you would've had to endure otherwise... unless thats why you trip in the first place... WHICH GIVES ME AN AWESOME IDEA!!!

 

Probably lots of people

 

WUT EV, U DONT KNO ME

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