True wead, I think some people could have very unpleasant experiences on acid - particularly if I sneaked into their homes and appeared in their living room naked with a butchers knife and a hard-on while they were peaking - but I still tend to think that's a bit less unpleasant than being insane. At the end of the day you can always tell yourself "I'm high on a drug that will wear off in a few hours".
I had a friend who developed schizophrenia - very frightening thing to hear someone so out of touch with reality.
ANyone who has taken a high enough dose can easily think that they have somehow damaged their brain, and created a permanent setting on the world they have created. Again this can be a positive thing or a negative thing. At one point a group of friends all on a relatively highdose, all created interesting theories and fantastic thought provokeing insights into the way the human brain works, and that infact with great meditative skills it is possible to re-eneter the world around them without the use of any chemicals.... THis is quite possible durring sensory deprivation - it is interesting to trip with a bunch of inteligent Psyche majors who understand the way the human brain works
BUT it can be negative as well... some people have very negative reactions, and freak out compleately, some of them see deamons in the walls instead of beautiful patterns and turn to a life if christianity to try and deal with the ramifications of thier trips...... when minutes can seem like hours due to time dialation it is easy to lose sight of OK... this will where off I will be OK... unless you have a great understanding and good setting for your trip
Me.... I have had that thought briefly, I have looked up into the night sky and watched the moon zigzag across the sky and become a spiderweb. That kinda twisted me up inside instead of putting a smile on my face. On lower doses the moon looked like a flower.... with one moon in the center and maybe 6 more in a ring around it.... and that is on maybe 2 or 3 hits. I guess I am greatly effected by the visuals on psychadelics. Like I said I levitated a table... in my own head I know.... but that is more then just patterns and stuff, it is a kind of visual streaming. I have never seen a persons face melt like wax, but LOL.... when looking a persons face it can shift only based on eye movement, shift right shift left shift, shif up and down, all things I could actually control, this I beleive is confused as face melting.
My one and only bad trip was self created but there was a clear trigger. I was holding and tripping at a huge party in Valley Forge, it was awsome a live band was there they had an ice slide for shots ....should have been a great time. I had some very good experiences tripping at house parties before even when surrounded be mostly strangers
But as I was coming up ona 10 strip... someone wanted to buy from me.,... I was so..... just coming into my trip I couldn't even think about money or what to do at the time, I told them it was very strong, and I asked for these kids to just give me some time and find me later... as they were walking away one asshole says
"Yupp... time to call the cops"
now he was fucking with me... but it sent me down a horrible negative spiral of.... howmany people know I have acid on me...... how many people know I am tripping... are they really gonna call the cops?????
and just like that I kinda snapped, Myf reinds tried to calm me down but to no avail wound up getting into a fight, yelling at the house screaming about a glass of milk, yelling fuck you at the house.... snatching a bottle a liquor out of a girls hand, taking a massive swig breaking it on the ground... big time party fowl clearly fucked up..... my freinds told me I had to leave.... some giant farm kid was gonna kick my ass and probably kill me if I didn't leave
so I left, I went out into fields, where I talked to a dog, who calmed me down, I thought the dog was going to be my forever freind and we were going to roam the fields forever... it made me happy enough to calm myself down. I did most of the talking, but at one point the dog looked into my eyes and said "you look like other dogs" Full fledged auditory halluciantion. The dog would not cross it's own property line and at that point it gave me a tiny grasp back into reality. But I still saw crazy deamonic faces emerge from hedges infront of me, the sky above was all purple and green and blue, and waaa waaaa waaaa nosies were so loud durring my peak I was sure aliens were about to land.
after about oh maybe 4 too 6 hours of roaming farm fields I slowly came back to reality and amazingly found my way back to the house party, by then most people had left.
I am probably lucky a farmer didn't shoot me for being in his fields, I am lucky I left, when I came back to the party the giant farm boy was still there.... he asked me if I was OK.... I said yes. Several of his freinds had found the stips of LSD I had hidden near where I was coming up..... fear o the cops made me dump what I had... and had taken some of it..... he said it was very strong and he couldn't imagine what taking 10 all at once was like.
He was fine with me at that point.... even as the sun rose I ( I had dropped at around 8 pm) at around 7pm 11 hours later I was still seeing huge trails just from people walking around. While he offered me money for the hits, I refused, I simply walked away from stronger drugs at that point for oh say 6 months. When I cam back to them it was a full reboot starting small testing the waters.
My point being the trigger can be some idiot messing with you, not a person sneaking into the house to show up with a butcher knife.