I'm going to be taking shrooms for the first time on Friday, and I'm a little anxious that i may have a bad trip. I've heard that drinking alcohol while on shrooms can bring you down...is this true? does anybody have any other, better suggestions on how to come down if a bad trip does indeed happen? thanks!
Honestly, don't take them if you're unsure. Shrooms, peyote, ayahuasca and such are capable of naturally shifting your consciousness to another "perspective". One in which "time" and "reality" do not act in the same manner as in "normal" standards. If you're not ready to experience that, whether it be a "bad" trip or "good" trip then perhaps you should not be experiencing these drugs.
No matter what people here say; "Take Trazadone", "Do jumping jacks and push ups", etc... it might not work for you. I have a good friend who ended up in the hospital, and now suffers from severe mental challenges all from 1/8th of an oz of shrooms. It breaks my heart. He was not ready, and didn't understand what he was doing when a friend of his put a handful of shrooms in his hands. They had planned on it all week and it turned out to be one of the worst things that's happened to him... He would have been a brilliant student in college, and an even more bright contribution to a professional career.
I've had "bad" trips, been with people experiencing them, and have also been on the brunt end of them with the law as well. Picture this: You're having a great night with a couple friends. You all took a handful of shrooms, which is nothing out of the ordinary. You settle into the couch to listen to some music and let the shrooms take hold of your mind. Then the music you're listening to, a cd that you've known front to back for years, suddenly turns dark, unfamiliar, and puts a chilling fringe down the back of your neck. The treble pierces your ears like small needles in and out of a balloon. The sound of the bass hits the inside of your heart as if its going to explode from within. As soon as you notice your heart, you realize that its beating faster than you've ever felt it beat. You sit up and realize then that something's wrong. Are you having a heart attack? It's just the shrooms. Right? What if it's not? What if the psilocybin's poisoning my body? What if I took too much? Maybe I should go outside and have a cigarette. Yeah, that's what I'll do! But, won't the nicotine make my heart beat faster? Shit, the music's still chipping away at my life, beat by beat.
You know what happens after that? You freak out so badly that you call 911. You call for help because you weren't ready. We called the ambulance. They showed up with cops, obviously. I spent the 15 minutes we had between the call and them knocking on the door running around the house hiding a pipe under a blanket, and the bong under the bed, and the weed stash under the sink, and the grinder in my pillow... paranoia. The cops knocked on the door, walked in and proceeded to search the front of our place. A good friend walked up to them, handed them a bag full of shrooms and said, "I called you, I think I'm dying! This is what I took. These guys didn't do anything, so please just get me to the hospital."
The cops were not friendly, but they bought the whole thing and let us all off with warnings. It doesn't end so happily for everyone.
I've been through Door 1, 2, 3, and so on... I've had "bad" trips, and "good" trips. You simply never know what you're going to experience, and unless you're completely sure that you can handle whatever reality you might experience, you need to think thoroughly about what state of consciousness you're going to expose yourself to.
Long story short - If you're questioning methods to back yourself out of a "bad" trip, then you need to reconsider what you're planning on doing because you're already unsure of yourself and the state of mind that you're going to be exposed to during such an experience.
Sorry to be a downer. I've seen too many people jump head first into these alternate states of consciousness and not fully recover. This is not alcohol... There are risks, which many people refuse to acknowledge before experiencing.
Good luck if you choose to take the leap.