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[Bad Trip Subthread] Have You Ever Had a Bad Trip?

Have you ever had a bad trip?

  • Yes I have.

    Votes: 346 49.4%

  • No I have never.

    Votes: 150 21.4%

  • No but I have had [b]difficult[/b] trips.

    Votes: 195 27.9%

  • I never have and am confident I never will.

    Votes: 6 0.9%

  • Other / Not sure (post alternative answer!)

    Votes: 3 0.4%
  • Total voters
    700
I've taken shrooms 4 times and acid twice + lots of MDMA. I just started peaking off my second hit of acid the first time I dropped and we had just finished smoking a bowl and rolled a J for 4:20. I couldn't tell what was going on and everyone ran talking about cops. Running from the cops and hiding for 20 minutes didn't make me trip badly at all so I don't think anything can get me to have a bad trip. I wanted to kill myself when I was tripping on shrooms by myself but I wouldn't consider it a bad trip. It was just an uncomfortable few hours that I watched a sad movie with my parents and felt the emotions of the sad characters. Weed got rid of depression tho.
 
Nope. Working with DXM, and upper 2nd and low 3rd plateaus...

So far nothing bad. Most every time I am happy and peaceful and excited to see whatever I will. Everything is good. I have a perfect playlist that just keeps me going all night. Its a 6 hour list and by the time it cycles it is like completely different.

I did have a door tell me I could not pass, and that did upset me a little. But I talked him down.

I also thought I pee'd myself once, but I didnt, were good!
 
Someone sold me at a club what was suppose to be lsd....

Sure ass hell didnt feel it.... i was have huge auditory hallucinations... i wasnt able to speak i was mixing my symbols... i was blacking in and outta conscious...
 
I've had bad trips, and 100% of them were caused by my shitty selection of a setting. For my first mushroom trip, I thought it would be cool to do it in my basement with my parents and grandparents in the house. That ended in feelings of inexplicable worldly doom. For all of my heavy salvia trips I've been in social settings with people laughing at each other while fucked up, and for my last mushroom trip, I got caught in an apartment party with the movie Sin City blaring on the TV. It was also the first time I had taken more than a slice and the first time I had smoked pot while shrooming.

... I've learned my lessons.
 
Not sure.

The story goes like this, a couple of years ago ( maybe 3 or 4 years ) i was doing mushrooms for an entire year, every week-end, approx. 2-3g each time. The last time i was with friends, after smoking a lot of weed ( maybe 28g for 5 people ) we went to a friend house to get something to eat. When arrived at the house, i was feeling really great, then i sat down and watch friend making their meal. The only thing i remember is my friend trying to wake me up after i fall on the ground...they said i was watching then I've just perdre connaissance ( maybe i want to say : loose conscience but i don't know if it's the good words in English so i write it in French and i hope a moderator can translate for me thanks ). After this, i was feeling really sick, i was pale and look really fuck up as my friends said. Don't know what happen this night but I've never done mushrooms again. ( sorry for very bad English ).
 
perdre connaissance

I like the french term better. And I think everyone knows what you meant, but "they said i was watching and then I just lost consciousness" would be grammatically appropriate in English.
 
my bad trip was actually my best trip, but the situation after the peak fucked me up.

I dosed 15g of MGS before heading to a firework display at a town carnival, took the seeds 3 hours before the works went off. It started great, walking there w/ a bunch of drunks while im coming up on my trip was nothing short of great. Started peaking around the fireworks going off, just sitting there mouth agape trying to spark a joint was damn near impossible8o .

the aftermath involved me still peaking at the actual carnival, which was a mental mindfuck all in itself:| . My mind was going WAY to fast for the moment, ppl needing me to hold shit for them to get on a ride and i couldn't follow shit tied on the end of a stick. I did manage a conversation w/ a cop though, that was a trip.

I wouldn't consider it a terrible bad trip, just things got out of hand due to the situation surrounding me. In fact i learned something during this trip, a life revelation so to say. I realized how emotionally ignorant i've been, and it took a handful of little black seeds and a exgirlfriend to show me. Once you start worrying about yourself mentally the paranoia loop starts, the best thing to think at that point is its only a substance that'll pass, the experience lasts forever.
 
I've had difficult trips but never been overcome with terror/fear/anxiety for long enough to ruin a 6-12 hour experience. One time on mushrooms when I was 16 I basically was pulling at my hair and rolling around not being able to remember who I was and what my life entailed but still I wouldn't say I had a "bad trip", just difficult.
 
A good friend of mine who isn't a super experienced tripper, say a dozen or so trips under his belt, always scares me away from LSD a little when he talks about bad trips. He's never had a bad one, but he's convinced everything he's seen on LSD is "burnt into his brain"... i.e. the memories are so vivid, he'll never forget them. So if you see something bad it will stay with you forever

Is this true in other people's experiences?
 
Damn I think I voted for the wrong one. I voted for other because I've never experienced any bad feelings throughout the duration of a real psychedelic (shrooms, acid, research chems) trip, but I've had some serious depression and anxiety at the tail end of a shroom trip, but I totally forgot about my salvia experiences. I've had some terrible trips from that shit.
 
Keep an open mind and read some great trip reports. There's a whole 'nother world for you discover=D
 
GanjaBabe said:
this thread makes me scared to try tripping!
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Don't be scayyyred...
that takes the fun outta life...

Def keep an open mind, and put yourself in an environment that you are going to be 100% comfortable with for the duration of your trip!

On saturday night I had my first nasty trip...But here I am 3 days later and I am looking on it as a learning curve...coz I know exactly what caused it...

Basically I went to a farmyard rave, dropped some Mandy, waited til I was coming up - had a nitrous balloon mm, then took my shrooms (30 liberty caps) when I had come up. Then I rolled a blunt before I started coming up and smoked it when I was getting some good visuals...

The thing that fucked me up was this - the blunt I rolled and passed to a friend who passed it to his gf seriously fucked her up...
20 mins later she was spazzing out crying and saying she was lost didnt know where she was - seemed abit terrified...
Now alot more people smoked some of that buddha, and I had examined it before smoking anyways to see if it was sprayed and it looked clean, smoked like some nice high grade to me...
That and the fact there were way too many coked-up chavs (bit like rednecks for all you US BLers) there - and they ruined the vibes of the dance area - so when I was still there waiting for my ride I started having a nasty trip - getting paranoid about people blaming me for her wigging out, and generally not feeling safe...
Got home and when I closed my eyes I saw myself back at the party, in cartoon (A scanner darkly-esque), being pointed at and laughed at and being called a dick...including by an image of myself!!
However I still went to sleep laughing...

This trip was not still very bad - I have a pretty strong mind, but it did get dark enough for me to not wanna be tripping anymore.

My point is this - I shouldn't have taken shrooms there when there were so many not nice people there, so now I've learnt another lesson.
Plus it showed me quite a few things that I need to do with my life right now, including this girl I shouldn't be seeing, so from every bad or uncomfortable experience I've had I can take something really good from.
I think the point one should ponder on if they HAVE had a difficult trip is how did it come about - why??
Then you can understand the nature of your trip alot more.
 
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this goes against everything ive ever said, and usually always believed too, but yes, you should be scared of tripping. these drugs are powerful tools, really, historically they were only used by "shamen" - i.e. madmen who lived on the outside of society, though their magical insanity was actually appreciated by their people in their society. in other words..unless you want to know what it is like inside the mind of a mad wizard, a frothing poet who babbles at the sun and moon, i would advise against tripping. tons of peolple, yes, MILLIONS use/d psychedelics purely for enjoyment and enhancement of life and they all either struggled with the memories of the trip unconsciously, in some form or another. i believe to trip and to deny the spiritual value, to deny the urgent need for continued enlightenment and spiritual salvation, you are condemning your soul. all that said, it is better to be miserable and aware than ignorant and happy, in my opinion. not that acid would necessarily make you unhappy, but it will make you aware- and as they say, the truth hurts.
 
ControlDenied said:
this goes against everything ive ever said, and usually always believed too, but yes, you should be scared of tripping. these drugs are powerful tools, really, historically they were only used by "shamen" - i.e. madmen who lived on the outside of society, though their magical insanity was actually appreciated by their people in their society. in other words..unless you want to know what it is like inside the mind of a mad wizard, a frothing poet who babbles at the sun and moon, i would advise against tripping. tons of peolple, yes, MILLIONS use/d psychedelics purely for enjoyment and enhancement of life and they all either struggled with the memories of the trip unconsciously, in some form or another. i believe to trip and to deny the spiritual value, to deny the urgent need for continued enlightenment and spiritual salvation, you are condemning your soul. all that said, it is better to be miserable and aware than ignorant and happy, in my opinion. not that acid would necessarily make you unhappy, but it will make you aware- and as they say, the truth hurts.
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I couldn't agree with this post more.
I've been using marijuana two/three times a week for the last 5 years or so, and found that the high was still fun, but it wasn't exciting anymore. So I decided to do shrooms when I went to Amsterdam about a month ago, and despite how 'experienced' I thought I was with being high, Shrooms were really just another level. I tried Hawaiin Shrooms, and tripped balls for about 10 hours. The first 6/7 were awesome but the end of the trip got really fucked up and I was contemplating suicide (as I was sure that I would never stop tripping, and therefore not be able to function in society as a normal human being). And even though I stopped tripping by the time I had woken up, the trip has stayed with me untill now, as in I can't stop thinking about it. I do not regret doing it, and have done Shrooms again since (a great trip it was), but they can be genuinley frightening, and if you have any doubts about the drug, don't do it, because likelihood is it will fuck your trip up.
 
ControlDenied said:
this goes against everything ive ever said, and usually always believed too, but yes, you should be scared of tripping
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I would say "repectful" would be more appropriate than "scared". There's nothing to fear except for whatever you have inside and expunging that crap is well worth any harrowing times that you may experience during a bad trip.

But that's from the perspective of someone who has never really had what I could honestly describe as a bad trip. Terrifying moments, for sure, but the blissful revelations are well worth it. For me at least :).
 
I think on the inside I must hate myself. When I'm with my friends its ok coz I'm distracted, but when I'm left alone with my own thoughts I end up hacking at myself and tearing myself into shreads.

Like on acid you see more. like you look at the poster on the wall and you really appreciate the prettiness of the picture like you wouldnt otherwise but aqt the same time you're also overly aware of how the wall is covered in dust and spinderwebs and whatever other filth, and so everything you see is simultaneously beautiful and ugly, and its just whatever you focus more on.. and your own imperfections are highlighted just like the wall, and if you forget to appreciate the beauty of the you as a picture, you can do your head in going over all the imperfections..
ond then once the posters eyes start spining around at you and you get confused you cant understand the picturre so you cant see its beauty but you can understand the spiderwebs and the dust no matter what.

when your a kid you see a puddle and you think boy it would be fun to splash in that. but then you grow up and you see a puddle and you have two simultaneous thoughts. on the one hand you think boy it would be fun to splash in that, on the other you think, but the dirty water and your expensive outfit and the cold and the germs and disease it will bring.. when there is no longer two thoughts, when there is just the filth and disease, thats death, and death has you surrounded, and everything you turn to grows rotten and falls away.
you take the drugs to try and split the duel reality back down to the enjoyable part you remember feeling a long long long time ago when you were full of wonder and hope, and the drugs split you back down to one but not the one you wanted. its too late by the time you realise the drugs left you with the bad one and took away all of the good.

pwnd!! they tricked you, you're a fool! and YES everyone is laughing at you!

And then its like how could i have been so stupid to think that I could liberate myselfe by hiding away in a basement and shooting up drugs. if you wanted to liberate yourself you should have turned around and said fuck all you cunts you can look at me like a wierdo i dont really give a fuck, im gonna splash in that puddle!

why are you afraid of yourself? theres nothing wrong with you, its them, its the system that has the problem. stop hurting yourself, start looking after yourself. it's time to switch sides and fight like never before. fight for your life. feel your heartbeat and dont let it slip away. breathe. eat. drink. its hard, keep doing it, it will get easier.
 
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