How to get out of a bad mushroom
trip. Well, I know a lot of you
are concerned about this and worried,
and we're gonna talk you through on this
episode. I'm gonna help you out. I'm Doctor
Dave, and this is micro dose you. Thanks
so much for being here.
Enter the world of magic mushrooms
Hey there. How are you welcome back on
Doctor Dave.
I really
appreciate you being here, and I've got a
very special episode for you today. We haven't
really talked about this quite some time. But
when you start talking about mushrooms, magic mushrooms
with almost anybody. 1 of the first things
that people ask or want to talk about
or are concerned about is what happens if
I have a bad trip. I'm really, really
worried about that. So we're gonna talk about
this. I'm gonna talk you through everything in
this episode from
preventing that from happening,
understanding what a bad trip is even if
there's even a such thing as a bad
trip. And then If you do find yourself
in an uncomfortable situation during a mushroom trip,
what do you do about it?
Okay. So let's
start from the very beginning? What is a
bad trip? And is there is there really
a such thing as a bad trip? Well,
bad trip is defined by different people in
different ways, but mainly a bad trip is
generally a scary psychedelic experience something that you
feel like you're you're trapped in somewhere you
can't get out of it. It's becoming scarier
to you. You don't know what to do.
You're just in a very, very uncomfortable
situation, and you know that you've consume these
matching mushrooms and they're not gonna be going
away anytime quickly, and it's almost like a
downhill spiral because you just keep getting more
and more anxious and worried and it get
goes from bad to worst.
Now,
how can we prevent feeling like this during
a mushroom trip. And also is that as
a fairly bad. Well, we're gonna talk this
through as we get into this, but let's
first talk about how to have the best
possible experience during a mushroom trip and no
it really
is not related to dosage because I've
talked to people that have claimed
that they've had very bad and uncomfortable
micro dosing trips, and, of course, those that
have had bad trips that are on, like,
you know, a a mild to moderate amount,
which, you know, maybe around 1 1 and
a half gram something like that And then
people that also claim they've had very bad
trips on larger heroic doses, 4 grams, 5
grams and more.
But the best thing to do is to
realize that maybe there's not really a such
thing as a, quote, unquote, bad trip.
What it means if you start to feel
uncomfortable and also how to have the best
possible experience that you can. So let's start
at the very beginning. How do you
ensure that you're gonna have the best experience
possible. Whatever that experience is
Well, as I've always said, you have to
go into a mushroom trip. Again, whether it's
a micro dose or a little bit of
a larger dose or heroic dose, or, you
know, macro dose
with the best of intentions.
So 2 things that are extremely
important when you are dosing mushrooms and they
are
set
and setting.
Those are abbreviation for will set means kind
of an abbreviation for your mindset, what are
you thinking before you go into... Before you
consume mushrooms before you go into a mushroom
ship. Was your mindset like?
I will tell you this. If you're all
over the place have hazard, if you're,
anxious, if you you're coming off a horrible
day, a break with a with a girlfriend
or a boyfriend or a spouse or anything
like that. You got fired from work if
something's really going but really rough in your
life,
I would suggest holding off on
consuming psychedelic mushrooms until
you feel a little bit more level Now
that doesn't mean you have to feel perfect
because 1 of the reasons you might be
doing a mushroom trip is you wanna feel
better.
But that doesn't mean you have to do
a mushroom but go on a mushroom trip
when you're feeling you're absolute worst. Your mindset
needs to be pretty good. So your mindset
you need to be at least level headed
pretty good, you know, pretty good sense of
what's what's going on feeling
decent enough.
And your mindset also like, what's the purpose?
Why are you
consuming these mushrooms? Why are you dosing right
now? What's the reason? What are you trying
to accomplish. I don't wanna hear, man, I'm
just trying to party a little bit. I
just wanna have some fun with my france.
No. That is... That's not a mushroom trip.
That's that's pure
recreational partying and and we don't really talk
about that much or get involved with that
because on this channel on this podcast.
My followers
wants to know more about how to feel
better how to get rid of depression and
anxiety and the results of pt... The effects
of Ptsd and how to be more creative
and more spiritual and, you know, how to
how how to better their lives. It's not
just a bunch of. We're not just a
bunch of parties. That's not what this is
about. So again, I'm gonna recommend your mindset
be set your intention. What do you want
to accomplish? If you want to accomplish,
minimizing or getting a rid of your mental
health issues?
State that, write it down. Think it put
it in your journal.
Think it a lot. I'm I'm consuming this
sacred plant medicine right now.
And it's going to help me
reduce
and ultimately eliminate
my depression.
Or my anxiety.
I'm ultimately gonna to feel better. I might
experience some different things during this trip or
during this experience
but this medicine is going to help me.
And if you go in with an attitude
like that in a mindset like that, there's
a very good chance you're gonna have a
really really good experience.
Now a good experience does not mean that
it's gonna be totally peaceful and perfect and
there's not gonna be anything that
you know, evo a little bit of anxiety
or or maybe fright because, you know, the
mushrooms do take you in the direction that
they think you need to go in.
So sometimes you might need to realize things
about yourself that might be unpleasant,
might take you back to a time in
your life it was very difficult for you.
Might be trying to get some
toxic things out of your body and out
of your mind. And sometimes that can be
a little difficult, but that doesn't mean it's
a bad trip.
My advice is to always just go with
the flow, the mushrooms are teachers.
Go with the flow, let them do their
work and just
Enjoy as much of it as possible.
Enjoy it.
You're gonna be fine because no matter what
several hours later, you know, you're gonna come
down and you're gonna be, you know, back
to normal other than probably hopefully a really
good after globe means feeling really good after
a mushroom trip.
But
resolve yourself to the fact that you're gonna
allow the mushrooms to take that take you
in any direction that they deem
necessary.
You're gonna go with the flow. You're gonna
try to understand why they're taking in that
direction, and you're gonna be fine.
You have to remember also
that
psilocybin is not a toxic substance at all.
Even if you take a tremendous amount of
it, you're not gonna die. You're not gonna
end up in the hospital from some type
of toxicity or poisoning that's or overdose that's
not gonna happen with psilocybin. It's still not
recommending that you take a crazy large dose.
You don't have to do that, but just
always keep that in the back of your
mind that. I'm safe.
I'm here.
I consumed some psychedelic mushrooms, but I'm in
no danger. They're not gonna stop me from
breathing.
They're not gonna be causing any kind of
poison or or, you know, overdose
situations. It's not it's not gonna happen. If
you keep that in the back of your
mind, if all times,
no matter how deep you go, you can
think that.
You're going to be fine.
So remember mindset is is really important. Always
go in no matter even and if you're
feeling kinda bad going with a very positive
mindset that these are gonna help you.
And that's gonna make all the difference in
the world as opposed to going in to
the experience that I'm scared. I'm afraid. I
don't know what's gonna happen. These might This
might be really bad. What's gonna happen if
I feel horrible. Know if you go in
with those salts.
Of course, not gonna be pleasant. You don't
wanna... So do your absolute best to go
in
with very, very positive faults and a a
good
intention and and understand what your intent actually
is.
That's what mindset
is all about.
Now, that's... So that's set that's the set
part of set and setting.
What's the setting?
Setting means
where you actually are? Where are you doing
this trip? Where where will you be?
And I recommend comfortable place the most comfortable
would be in your home if you're comfortable
in your home,
sitting down on a very nice,
comfortable sofa or lying in a bed,
nice,
you know, cool temperature maybe a blanket over
overview you, maybe eye shade. Some people like
to black out, you know, black out all
the lights or maybe eye shades.
Some really good music that you enjoy or
you that you will enjoy
or some people like to be out in
nature
Don't be driving.
Don't be going to work.
Don't be in a situation where you've gotta
do something or perform or operate machinery or
you you've got responsibilities,
that would be a horrible setting and not
recommended it at all.
But at home,
in a very comfortable place or in nature,
maybe, like a little
pike or even a picnic or something like
that would be wonderful.
Do you need somebody to help you out?
You need a do you need a trip
sitter?
In my opinion, you don't absolutely need a
trips sitter or if you're comfortable with everything
I've said so far,
being a control of yourself or actually even
sometimes letting go of control and letting the
mushrooms take over, but knowing
knowing in the back of the mind... In
your mind that you're totally safe and you're
fine.
You're safe. So you can you can definitely
give up your control and let them do
whatever they need to do because you're gonna
be fine.
But those are the set set and setting
very very important.
Don't just eat some mushrooms
and hope for the best and not think
these things through.
Because that could be a formula for a
very difficult trip.
But remember,
a difficult trip is not necessarily
a bad trip.
You know, if you're if you're tripping and
you
decide to look at yourself in the mirror
and and you look strange or distorted or
or or or something very weird that that's
not necessarily bad.
Maybe the mushrooms are trying to share something
with you. Teach you something. So just look
at it. I mean, I generally don't look
in the mirror, but
I can't say that it's wrong if you
want to, It's okay, but just realize that,
you know, you might look different.
You might look scary,
but the mushrooms are doing their job and
they're providing you with some type of information.
So go with the flow.
Enjoy this is this is not supposed to
be difficult difficult work that's horrible that enjoy...
Just enjoy.
Enjoy what you're going through.
But let's just say
you've done the above. You've you... The your
mindset is good. Your setting is just right.
You're in your home, your listening some good
music,
and you just still
start to feel
awful.
Scared.
Don't know what to do,
maybe anxiety.
What's the best thing to do?
Lay down as you're doing or sit down,
just be comfortable.
Breathe through your nose,
relax,
think to yourself.
Okay.
This is the psilocybin talking.
I'm fine.
I'm safe. I mean, this might be a
little weird or scary,
maybe it's trying to show me something, but...
Nothing bad gonna happen to me. I'm still
okay. I'm alright. I'm I'm going with the
flow here. And no, I don't really like
this part of the trip too much. It's
scary to me, but
I still know I'm gonna be okay.
I'm going to be fine.
I'm just gonna sit here and breathe maybe
have a have some type of a drink
of hot tea or water
I don't recommend alcohol, no way. No way.
Don't even have any alcohol near you when
you're when you're
consuming psilocybin mushrooms. I mean, just why would
you ever even consider that? Don't don't do
that. Just some... You know, maybe even a
little bit of hot cocoa
That's that's a wonderful, wonderful calming soothing
drink that
would go very well with a mushroom trip.
But just remember take it all in.
And enjoy it as much as you can
and and let the mushrooms be your teachers
begin because with something doesn't seem right or
something seems scary or whatever it might be?
Try to glean as much information as you
can from that partly? What why is it
showing me this? What's it tri to... What
are they trying to teach me?
And just go with that flow
Like I said, you're you're gonna be fine.
And always remember if it's really super uncomfortable,
which I don't think it's gonna be if
you've done everything I've share with you all
to to this to this point.
Just remember that okay,
I might be hating this, but it's gonna
all be over.
Very soon in a few hours. It's gonna
be over. So I'm just gonna ride it
out.
I'm just gonna let them do the thing
and I'm gonna ride this out and no
matter what happens, I'm still gonna be fine.
That's...
It has to work. It will work for
you.
But let's just say
You need a backup plan
because you don't believe anything I'm saying and
you still go into this and you're thinking,
like, I don't know. I'm still really scared.
I've got a trip sitter.
I've I've I've got the right set in
setting, but I'm still scared shit this. I
I don't know what's gonna happen. It's the
first time I ever doing this.
So what you can do is have
some type of die... I'm sorry, Benz.
You know, like,
medication in front of you Benz.
The most common benz are...
What do they val,
ada van,
Xanax
Cl... Yeah. You might have you might have
something just lying around the house even.
Just have a tablet.
Not too high of a dose, but like,
let's just say it's volume, maybe like a
5 milligram volume, which is, like just a
very, very medium dose.
And just if you have any of the
other ones, just remember, make it kind of
a meat... Not a high dose, maybe just
a little medium dose.
Have it available to you on the table
near you, on the desk, whatever whatever is
convenient and just have it there.
And just knowing that knowing that it's there
is gonna help you probably never even need
it.
You'll you won't need it.
But again, if worst comes to worst, you
know that if you're just... If you just
wanna get out of this trip and just
just kind of, you know, get rid of
it.
Negated it, cancel it.
Then you just go ahead and take the
take the benz
I'm just, again, I'm gonna use Val as
the example, 5 milligrams of val. And
it's not necessarily gonna totally wipe out your
trip.
But what it's gonna do is it's it's
going to reduce any anxiety and reverse a
lot of the bad
effects that you're feeling from the trip.
I would only use that as a last
resort. I think just having it on the
table near you is enough of, like, insurance
to to let you know that, okay. I'm
not only gonna be fine,
but in case things get really bad. I've
got this trip killer right here, which I'm
calling the Benz or this trip killer that
I can take anytime I want.
But I'm not gonna really take it unless
I feel like I absolutely have to last
minute, like, you know, there's nothing else I
can do.
99.9
times out of a hundred. You're not gonna
have to do anything at all, but just
knowing that you have it there, it just
will reassure you and make you feel comfortable.
Okay. And I hope
I hope your trip goes very, very well.
And I'm sure it will, If you've listened
to everything I share with you here,
I don't really see a reason why it
won't.
But remember again,
something that's
scary or dark
during your trip is not
necessarily indicative of a bad trip.
It's just what it is.
It's the mushrooms
sharing
information and teaching.
And bringing something to the forefront that you
might have tucked away for for decades.
You you want this to happen.
If everything was perfectly pleasant
and
just beautiful perfect during a mushroom ship, it
didn't I I don't know whether you'd be
getting all the benefit that you could.
So embrace it when something starts to go
a little bit darker or weird,
embrace it and and thank the mushrooms even
for bringing this up to you.
Thank the mushrooms.
They're your teacher. They're your friend.
They're not against you,
but they're they're not gonna whole bag. They're
not gonna say, well, we're gonna sugar coat
everything and just make this perfect... No they're
gonna share with you
what they need to share.
And the cumulative effect
is that you're gonna be feeling so much
better.
Let's help you get rid of that anxiety
and depression, get it out of your life.
And here's 1 way to do it. With
magic mushrooms, and now you're confident that you're
gonna be feeling okay.
Remember, none of this is medical advice.
This is based on my story,
my experience,
my experience not only through myself but talking
to other people and I talked to plenty.
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Okay. As I say at the end of
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I'm Doctor Dave, I do love you, and
I want you feeling better, and what you
feeling as good as I do now every
day because you'll be really happy with your
life. These these mushrooms have helped me get
from an a state of
anxiety depression
to a life where I'm back to the
way it should be every single day, and
I'm smiling and I'm loving life, and I
want you to get there as well.
Okay.
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