URGENT!! help me talk my friend down???

damn smoke some weed and take a roll

 

Tranq his ass. Then he'll pass the fuck out.

 

Also, tobacco works wonders at calming people down.

 

vitamin B12 and orange slices

 

it helps to give them something soft and harmless perhaps even silly in a non threatening way to hold...like a cute stuffed animal or a blanket with pretty soft patterns and colors. Of course soft music... smoking pot does help. Try not to confine the person in one room if you can although some people when they have a bad trip tend to like a small space.

 

The only skills really needed to talk someone down are kindness and a willingness to go with the other person's trip, sort of as a guide. Natural caregivers have both qualities, and all the skills necessary.

Your friend was lucky you were there. That he imagined you were the only one he could still see, was an expression of his subconscious mind handling his sensory overload. But he trusted you, so you remained visually to him. It was his mind's way of narrowing down the overload of people and personalities he wasn't sure he trusted, to just one who he did. He was feeling like a stranger, but you were the least strange to him, perhaps by choice or inclination due to liking or trusting you, during his long crazy night. The other people became, to his paranoid mind, a big conglomfucation (my word) of Others, while you remained visual and therefore real. This is also indicative that he sensed that you were someone who would do what was needed to keep his feet on his home planet. Good job! Serra's a REALLY pretty name, btw.

 

The best advice I've learned can be found in a Beetles song, and is actually borrowed from the book "The Psychedelic Experience" which I recommend to anyone before they try acid.

It goes like this: "turn off your mind, and float downstream".

Do not attach yourself to the sights and even feelings you experience. This knowledge will help you, even when you're sober, for the rest of your life.

No matter what crazy or awful things happen to you, do not get too excited, do not cling to them like they are the only possibility. Life is long a song and in a song you do not cling to any one note, do you? No, you just listen and let the song go where it's gong to.

This doesn't mean to let go of the steering wheel of your life, but you can't let external events change your inner mood too much. When you can learn to do that, you can learn and do anything.

That's part of why we do acid, to better master our minds. It's a more technological form of deep meditation, and doesn't require extensive study or practice.

All risk associated with acid is in the mind. If you're afraid, you can be in real danger, but if you're trusting and calm you will always be safe.

When someone goes to the hospital during a trip, it's because they reacted negatively to the experience and created psychosomatic problems in themselves. It's not that the acid was bad and someone poisoned them.

I don't think there's ever been a confirmed case of bad acid; just a situation where an unprepared mind experiences expanded consciousness, and comes into contact with higher space entities. They get blown off track by the experience, and freak out, not knowing how to return. The point is, you don't try to return. Never struggle, just accept anything you see and experience as part of the psychedelic experience and know that you'll come back fine.

You must really trust with all of your heart that you will be fine. Fear and doubt can lead to psychological trauma. In fact, aren't fear and doubt responsible for all psychological trauma, in some some way at least? Aren't they always working behind the curtain of all experiences negative? I think so.

 

^^^ fantastic post, as usual

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream... it is not dying... it is not dying."

 

well said

 

who are these higher space entities that you speak of?

 

I don't know much about them but there are things moving around us all the time, forces and powers that are invisible to most of us yet effect our mood with their presence.

If I knew more, I would probably tell you.

 

Smoking pot totally makes you freak out way more on acid and a lazy bum bad idea!

 

Ah people everyone should absolutely read The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/psychedelic_experience/psychedelic_experience.shtml)
For it contains all of the secrets to control and enlightenment! As a matter of fact the majority of the Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows" came from this little handy booklet! But really it definitely is worth reading!

 

tell him hes going to go insane..

 

i have 2 words for you

anti psychotics

get some.. lol... we try to have them around..

stuff like seroquel, trazadone, and thorazine will actually counter act the effects of LSD... its pretty nifty.

Thorazine is what doctors give to people who take too much acid freak out get lost and end up being picked up by an ambulance..

any medication used to to treat schitzophrenia or visual and auditory hallucinations will do it.

 

How about taking some good dose of DMT if you start freaking out on LSD. When you come back from DMT, that LSD will be like kids play hahaha

 

thats a great idea

 

hehe shapeshifter thats your solution for everything - take some dmt he says, that will fix it!

"good sir, my cat - its dying"
"well lady, take some dmt"

"excuse me do you know where the hardware store is?"
"why yes, here some dmt"

"hmm, should i get the red or white one"
"dmt"

 

hehehe because its nice!

 

Also there is Niacin, a dozen tablets of those will get you down from a trip, with a hell of a crazy body experience. haha