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An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Or a bit of MDMA

This does not get you out of a trip. This is called candy clipping and has the opposite affect.

This combination could be described as getting strapped into a rocket ship with (silent) fireworks going off inside repeatedly. Whew.

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Interesting, I didn't know that. Now I wish I'd had a Xanax after my one trip which kept me awake until 4-5 am after taking acid around noon (otherwise it was an incredible day, it was just annoying not being able to sleep). Don't benzos have some pretty nasty side effects and/or dependency potential though? Maybe this drug is a bit more targeted / less risky?

Try smoking a bunch of strong weed to sleep after tripping, works better than alcohol for me, YMMV. Strong indicas in particular, Gorilla Glue for example.

I think weed is a gamble if you have history of getting anxious on weed. All my friends use weed for relaxing, but even the tiniest amount always makes me very anxious. I still like weed, but only when I'm cozying up, watching TV and feel very safe (here, I still feel the "anxiety" but usually of the form "excitement"). I would not smoke any amount of weed on a psychedelic.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

Interesting, I didn't know that. Now I wish I'd had a Xanax after my one trip which kept me awake until 4-5 am after taking acid around noon (otherwise it was an incredible day, it was just annoying not being able to sleep). Don't benzos have some pretty nasty side effects and/or dependency potential though? Maybe this drug is a bit more targeted / less risky?

I take a benzos for anxiety and havent had issues and it dependance personally.

If you aren't using it to get high (so as intended for panic attacks / aborting lsd trips) and using it very infrequently (e.g. Only for lsd trips) you'll have no problems at all.

The issues are usually when you take it daily, especially if you take enough for the recreational effects. (Although daily isn't necessarily bad if you are being very careful with a doctor).

Tl;Dr - yeah benzos have issues with tolerance/depedancy but if you are only using what you need therapeutically, especially since lsd requires you to space out trips, then you're unlikely to have issues.

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The old urban legend is that Vitamin D brings you down and Vitamin C, up. Milk if tripping too hard, orange juice to trip harder.

That's a folksy legend indeed, where is that from? The 1960s?

I'm not sure how far back it goes, but it was popular in the 90's.

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Yes, or at least it blocks effects if you take it pre-exposure. Risperidone, an atypical antispychotic, is also known for this. Some idiotic big pharma startup will try and milk this, rather than examining cheap existing medications. Plenty of medications block 5-HT2A, I think the important requirement here would be rapid absorption and high receptor occupancy.

Anecdotally, I've used risperidone specifically to abort LSD trips on two occasions and found it quite successful both times. Now when I introduce people to LSD I give them a Risperdal to keep in their pocket "just in case", though to my knowledge none of them have had to use it.

Simply knowing you have a backup strategy if you panic can go a long way to preventing panic attacks. Psychiatrists sometimes do something similar where they write a script for a benzo, just one or two for your bag.

Knowing you can control panic if it occurs goes such a ways in preventing panic at all.

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On a related note, lavender oil and theanine have recently been (preliminarily) shown to increase the likelihood of a good trip: https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/comments/gwh87x/scientific_...

which references this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0718-8

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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I've never been able to even contemplate eating while tripping and the idea of drinking alcohol while tripping turns my stomach, I find it much easier to just take some alprazolam or diazepam if things start getting out of hand. That's just me personally though, I've tripped with a guy who went and bought and ate a whole chicken while tripping...

In my experience, processed food of all sorts appears utterly weird and unappealing in this state. On the other hand, fresh fruit is usually marvellous.

Same here, meat bag doesn't want this inside the body.

Hemp milk is pretty chill too.

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We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

What the huh? One third of a trip? Which third did you experience, the coming on of the effect, the peak/plateau, or the coming down?
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