ive never had a bad trip therefore never had to talk myself out of one...
ive seen some people fuckin trip out off shrooms bad before.
like crawl under couches and scream bloody fuckin hell
how do you all snap out of it?

I've alway's been in a situation where i can walk away from whatever's giving off the bad vibes, so i does. :)

I've noticed a lot of the times people who have bad trips are doing psychedelics for all the wrong reasons (i.e. doing them just to "get fucked up".)

People often underestimate the power of the chemicals and what your mind can show you.

Anyway, I always have my mp3 player on me when tripping. Music usually does it for me when things get "overwhelming".

It's a case of set and setting for me, as long as I'm in the right enviornment while I'm tripping I'm usually fine.

One time my roomate talked me into eating some shrooms with him some random night at the house. I hate being in houses while tripping, I remember the pure and absolute terror I felt for a few minutes. There was the wrong music with the wrong shit on tv, I felt like I was in hell.

Yea tripping is all about how you feel, where you are, and who you're with. If those three things are all "good" then you're set. Although I did take a shit load of mushrooms once and spent the whole trip wondering how I could escape the prison that was my head. Like I have all these holes in my head (ears, nose, mouth) but I couldn't figure out how to escape. I wouldn't call it a bad trip but I was very weird.

Change whatever it is that you're doing. If you're having a bad trip inside, go outside (if you can have privacy). If you're watching TV, listen to music instead. Or try tripping in silence. Or if music is giving you a bad trip, try a different genre of music, maybe even something you don't normally enjoy. If the lights are on, try turning them off. If you're laying down, try standing up. If you're with a lot of people, try to make your group smaller.

Your mood before the trip is a big factor, but bad trips can easily be converted. Just catch them before they become the "omg i'm about to die" type of bad trips.

And as others have mentioned, your outlook on the drug itself plays a big role. Mushrooms deserve respect, and I look at them as a gateway to new thoughts and feelings. For me, this leads to each trip showing me something I've never seen or thought of before.

I only had one bad trip, and it was cause I had shit on my mind before the trip. I was in high-school at the time and I thought I was going to be retained. All I could think about was me flunking and being a loser for a couple hours. It just kept drilling me in my head over and over.

Anything negative on your mind before or during the trip will effect you. Its hard to talk yourself out of it while your peaking, but a few hours things seem to calm down a bit. Just remind yourself that its just the shrooms.

Once you get a change in atmosphere it really helps if you are having a bad trip.

I usually close my eyes and think "I'm breathing therefore I'm fine and it's gonna end in a few hours."

..... ha ha

just fucking stand up and walk outside. Outside always did it for me. It seems to natural and peaceful. Except one time I remember I tried the whole walk out thing at 11 o'clock when I was at my brothers apartment. All the cars driving by and the lights fucking terrified me. I'm glad I didn't run out into the road.

Well... only bad trips I've had were on Salvia (all of them)

hard to talk yourself down from the trip when you don't know who you are

the more you realize about yourself the scarier it is because where you are at the moment is so different

It is very very difficult to do by yourself, which is why you shouldn't do it alone until you know how you're going to act on the drug.

But the essentials of getting out of a bad trip is to get your mind focused on something else. Acid tends to let you really only focus on one thing at a time and once you get it off what ever it is that is making the bad trip, you'll be on the road to being ok again.

One thing that many noobs to tripping have in common is that they tend to get to peaking and then think that they are never going to come down and that they are the only one feeling like that.

So I have noob write on a piece of paper before the trip starts: It is only a drug. No matter how I may feel when I read this, it is still only a drug and it will wear off. Then, if they start having trouble, I show it to them and when they see it and see it is in their own writing, it usually goes a long way in helping them.

HALOPERIDOL! I just got some yesterday, and though I won't use it for that, I plan on keeping some around just in case anyone else freaks out.

I can't. Thats why I don't trip anymore.

turn off "blue jay way", and turn on "hello goodbye"

Well the precursor to a bad trip for me comes from a series of small negative events and the negative thoughts pile up and keep going. So I leave the place to go to a place that I am sure there will be no problems. Or I just tell myself the negative thoughts are completely irrational, even when they sometimes are not.

No, keep Blue Jay Way on.

I tend to just let go of most things, "yes i feel insane, no i cant remember what sanity even is, but i am happy right now so why fight it? nothing other than insanity has really ever bothered me while tripping.. i had one of those moments of pure terror when we were walking down the street 2 hours past the states curfew and my friend is like "dude, theres a cop behind us" i fucking almost threw myself into the nearest bushed... but i kept my composure and he went into his driveway...

oh and setting Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band to shuffle puts me in a great mindset while tripping. listening to getting Better, fixing hole, lovely rita, and with a little help from my friends and i cant help but be in a good mood... all such happy songs...

A friendly (& fit) girl and some chilled out trance music usually does the trick :D

I usually let the voices in my head do it for me.

I'm not that experienced with psychedelics, but my advice would be to try and think positive, do what meta said and write on a bit of paper, that really helped me. Just remember it is a drug and enjoy it, put on some tunes and remember it will all be over soon.

Looks like a lot of good advice has already been posted. Usually changing your setting, talking to a friend, listening to positive or familiar music, being with a great girl, or anything else that makes you more comfortable will make things better. Just always try to remember that you're on a drug and eventually you will feel better. That's what usually helps me.

1) Music. especially memorized music, for some reason hearing something that is somewhat internalized can help you regain some grasp of reality.

2) Just keep thinking "It's just the mushrooms, its not real"