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

[any major dude]

^ i've noted similar things with my friends... it seems to be fairly random in regards to experience. I think other factors probably have more influence. Also, if you use any substance enough times, something bad will eventually happen while you're on it that may be completely unrelated to drug use that can cause you to have a generally bad time that day/evening.

 

[Bella Figura]

I've only ever had very few difficult trips which I tend to be able to sort myself out of eventually.

Generally my trips are a pleasant and wonderful experience, but there have been times where I've been trying to grip onto my sanity, pulling at my hair to no avail (or at least until the drug's effects wore off).

I simply rely on set and setting for the best possible experience from psyches. I really need to trust the company I'm in, feel completely secure in where I am, or else I'd probably get started on the ol' anxious thoughts.

The more I trip, the more comfortable I seem to become with the state it puts me in, I still have a long way to go and I'll never deny the possibility that I can have a bad time.

The beauty of psyches imo, not such a predictable class of drugs

 

[orangelicker]

Try some high strength salvia divinorum extract... cuz you're in for a surprise. Good luck

 

[Flipout]

hahah, damn rite orange

 

[any major dude]

yeah, that stuff weirds me out every time... yet I inevitably end up doing it again

 

[NextLineIsMine]

Never bad only "uncomfortable", I know I may be proven wrong one day but honestly when im tripping I feel like I have this special shield that lets me feel like I could bear the worst things that could happen to me.

I just couldnt ever imagine losing my shit, Ive been so far out but still felt me there

 

[Excido]

I've only ever had 1 bad trip, 30 strong hawaiian baby woodrose (Didn't think they'd be that strong). Only bad trip I ever had, but before and now none. I'm practically immune to them, I think maybe its because I don't try to hold onto anything, I find when friends have bad trips they keep commenting on trying to hold on to some form of sanity or normality. But I just let go completely and go for that dissolution of reality. For me there is never such a thing as too intense (Bar the 30 seeds, I attribute the bad trip to setting more than anything, was at a friends house).

 

[stipppy]

ive had 9 trips and never a bad one. i have had moments were bad things have happened and its easy to get caught in a repeatative bad thought but mind over matter prevails.
ive had friends freak out on trips, and i understand the importance of set and setting.
if all goes according to plan, i wont ever have a bad trip

 

[drug_mentor]

I have never had a "bad trip", there have been periods during certain rips that were difficult but no trip I have ever taken has been so negative or disturbing I would define it as a "bad trip".

 

[retrogamer]

noone is impervious to bad trips... i had around 50 shroom, 10 mescaline and 2 acid trips (often these were combined with other drugs... mdma, ketamine, weed, alcohol), i experienced some unbelievably intense experiences, i'm talking ego loss, skipping back and forwards in time, intense loops, leaving this world altogether - the works.

all of these trips i considered 'good', i rarely felt paranoia, sometimes had physically uncomfortable experiences but i was NEVER the one to bug out.

however i believe there are good trips, uncomfortable or difficult experiences from which there is often something to gain, but rarely a full blown psychedelic meltdown occurs - far too many drugs are ingested and it just becomes a massive mess, a psychedelic soup, confusion of all the senses.

i experienced one of these and let me tell you - if you ever experience one for yourself you wont dismiss bad trips as 'a relic of the pre-psych myth' theres no control whatsoever, and some seriously horrific shit can go down. you lose yourself, all your memories, everything just becomes a blur, pure terror and emotion, animal instincts - fight or flight. rebuilding yourself after such an experience is hit and miss, such trips can destroy people.

in short

my mind just seems to be perfect for taking psychedelics

dont be so arrogant.

 

[retrogamer]

Only bad trip I ever had. I'm practically immune to them

For me there is never such a thing as too intense

that's how i used to feel, and that conviction nearly ruined my life. believe me you are in no way immune to them, dont fuck with psychedelics.

 

[NeosMatrix]

Oh sure I've had my bad trips and good. My worst trips were candy flipping in 1997 and coming down to just the acid and being in clubs walking around. I tried to transchannel Nostradamus at these times and become an alien. DONT DO STUFF LIKE THAT!

I have been prety clean except for the occasional and I mean EXTREME occasional salvia. I do 40x of that and I'm gone. I really hate that woman. Or she hates me.

Now, between i think Tues. and Wed. I drank two 8 OZ. bottles of delsym and 35 robis. I learned sooooooo much! That's it man! You come to enlightenment of some kind. I didn't even know it was Ash Wed. yesterday but I was convinced I had become Catholic so I guess I am. It's just that I don't know what's true in the Bible and I feel there's some kind of darkness that goes along with Catholcism that I have grasped. I'm not saying it's the "right" religion it's just what I find working for me. I doubt I'll go to church.

Anyway if you haven't tried it and want to then do it. That MUST have been 4th plateau i reached on it. I tape recorded parts of it to listen to later. I'm a writer and working on my first novel (hence the LONG posts) and I'm going to be putting all this stuff into. Also, watch some band Tool Videos. That has to do with reality as it is. Amazing stuff and just enjoy each and every day of your life!

 

[Pixelated_Pixie]

I was just wondering the same thing although I've only done LSD 7 or 8 times and never consumed any other psychedelics I haven't had a bad trip and I don't feel like I ever could on acid...Then again I won't know until it happens.

 

[NeosMatrix]

I was just wondering the same thing although I've only done LSD 7 or 8 times and never consumed any other psychedelics I haven't had a bad trip and I don't feel like I ever could on acid...Then again I won't know until it happens.

Well, you can have bad experiences just smoking pot. It's about frame of mind. The older I get the easier it is on me (except salvia that is ALWAYS a strange experience). It's very easy on me now and I used to FIGHT it. Let yourself go and just relax with it when you're on whatever. Just be safe too! It's about positive mind frame< and karma. Make peace with yourself and love yourself. Only then can you for CERTAIN be guranteed peaceful trips.

 

[Too many doses]

I've used basically every semi/common hallucinogen, and knock on cyberwood, never had a bad trip. I have had overwhelming trips though, in the sense that they were hard to process or where the hallucinations almost cause motion sickness as they were so extreme. IME less is more there is nothing to gain eating a ten strip(unless the shit is weak), I think the negative far outweighs the positives when it comes to extreme doses.

 

[*Love*Lite*]

Poll added for pure pleasure.

I am a psychonautess and I have NEVER had a BAD trip. Difficult yes. Talked about this before too :D but its always a good topic.

 

[GreenMachine]

I've only tripped about 30 times, and none have been "bad" trips. Some were definitely more difficult than others but always more enjoyable than not. I guess I'm just very careful about waiting for the right time/enviorment for it.

 

[jamaica0535]

on conventional psychs, never a bad trip....

Although i experienced my death and judgment on salvia through a televised show....

Although i wouldn't really consider that bad, hardly even difficult.... I live without a fear of death, so the notion of "oh i must be dead" was not terrifying notion... Although i could have literally died during that trip by walking into a fire... a friend tackled me out of it after i stepped into it...

 

[Bakardi]

My first acid trip was bad, I get really paranoid in social situations on weed so acid plus weed around eight people and getting a little telepathy effect made me freak out but I couldn't speak the whole time I was so overwhelmed. I thought that I was tricked into taking the acid so I would get stuck in the acid world and after I went to bed Id wake up forget the whole thing and try to trick others into getting into the world I was in. Basically I was stuck in a loop of craziness and thought that was the end of my life. The next day I woke up and still felt like I was stuck in some fucked up place and that's when I got really scared cause it was only supposed to last 12 hours but eventually I felt normal 23 hours after I initially dosed.

That turned me off from acid for about three months but was so fascinated by the fact I actually believed that my life was ending and I was tricked that I did again and had a heavenly experience on my eighteen birthday. I was so amazed on how good it was that three days after that I dosed three times in three days. This led to the most amazing experience in my life and I was in a pure state of happiness for a month or two. After those three days my life had a meaning and I didn't want to trip after that for a long time.

 

[MistaJeff]

Mushrooms 6 times, LSD 4 times. I've taken things like MDMA and Saliva but I don't consider them powerful enough psychedelics to include in my history of tripping. I've never had a bad or difficult trip, scary and bad shit has gone down while I've tripped but I always stayed positive.