Bad trip in public?

[bitchamonth]

Obviously tripping in public can be very dumb, nevertheless I wonder has anyone ever taken some psychedelic drug in public, tripping in town or in some pedestrian zone when the trip suddenly turned bad, because some drunk fella or gal, or group/gang i.e. felt threatening or scary. The reason is less important, do you say "fuck you bad trip, and enter a cafe and take a cup of tea to calm down " If you are able to actually keep your shit straight in those situations. Any stories anyone wants to share?

 

[sean107]

I've had it happen and I've been lucky enough to get to a secluded area before my ego was shattered and just did whatever. That's why it's always important to have a sitter that you TRUST. Bad trip with a sitter you don't trust probably won't go too well. Never has for me!

 

[188thStreet]

Try not to get too far from home. If shit starts to get crazy, I would go to the nearest park and just chill. Idk about goin into a cafe, might work for you but I might get paranoid in there too cuz of all the people.

Every trip is different, its gonna be a case by case thing and depends on whats making u paranoid. If your paranoid about cops, probably none of these is gonna work if you think the cops are after you.

Just try to remind yourself that realisistically all these people barely notice you and are more worried about whats goin on with them right now than whether your trippin or not.

 

[bitchamonth]

I've had it happen and I've been lucky enough to get to a secluded area before my ego was shattered and just did whatever. That's why it's always important to have a sitter that you TRUST. Bad trip with a sitter you don't trust probably won't go too well. Never has for me!

Pedestrian zone = walker
I think I`ve never experienced ego shattering/death.
I really want to take a long walk one evening with the street lights and side walk shops lightening up, the only thing worrying me is if my trip gets bad at some point, as I will probably walk alone or with a friend. There will also probably be a couple of people outside and in town at this point.

Are bad trips more likely to occur in public you think?

Ego death is characterized[note 7] as the perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment,[18][19] a sense of the loss of control,[20] personal agents, and cognitive-associations.[21][22][23] This re-organization, reidentification, and reinterpretation of boundaries between self and environment experienced through sensations[note 8] of wholeness[note 9] or by refutation of the "I".

 

[bitchamonth]

Try not to get too far from home. If shit starts to get crazy, I would go to the nearest park and just chill. Idk about goin into a cafe, might work for you but I might get paranoid in there too cuz of all the people.

Every trip is different, its gonna be a case by case thing and depends on whats making u paranoid. If your paranoid about cops, probably none of these is gonna work if you think the cops are after you.

Just try to remind yourself that realisistically all these people barely notice you and are more worried about whats goin on with them right now than whether your trippin or not.

The town is quite sparse with people at the time I plan on wondering about.
Though I live relatively far from the "central" part of town, but if I start freaking out, the best thing would be to either somehow pull my shit together and get home by foot. I could also go to the park as it`s literally inside the city. However, it`s winter here, so Ill probably have to dress up good.

 

[lovepsychadelics]

I keep my shit just fine. Low to medium doses of psyches are no issue at all. Most people have no idea I'm absolutely shitfaced on psychedelic drugs. Hell I could work on psychedelics as long as they were not stupidly high doses, I mean "heroic" stupidly high doses. Basically if you can't stand up, are covered with sweat, puke you ring out etc you've done a tad to much. Also if your morphing into your bed as the whole room becomes part of you... again a tad to much so stay at home. What is a bad trip, getting paranoid about people? That is not a bad trip. A bad trip IMO is one where you OD on psychedelics and lay writhing in a pool of sweat possibly vomit, shit and piss your self as you've done a tad to much, usually aya. 35-40 mg 4 ho mipt is also seizure territory for me so that is a bad trip, add sweat and muscle cramps + seizures = bad trip. Take 1 mg clonaz and still pretty fucked = feeling a tad better and now know that dose is to high.

For the "ego loss", "machine elves", "bullshit" trips they happen at home. Basically I've never had the elves but I had doorways to the wisdom of the universe and all creation appear before me on a 20 mg 2ci snorted + 80 odd mgs of mxe trip that was a stay at home experience. Sweated buckets (despite the mxe???) saw the doors unfortunately I couldn't reach a single handle. It was a "breakthrough" and "ego loss" zone there. Also I might add really fucking dangerous.

If you go deeper it's kind of like fever delirium that's when I get the old black wolf thing. Elves have nothing on going that deep. Experienced on hallucinogenic fish, massive doses of aya, fever ridden sick in bed delirious and a couple of OD situations involving stupidly reckless doses of drugs, usually in combination. BTW my theory is basically that people see humanoid forms because of mental programming. In my case doors as I'm always seeking new sources of knowledge and doors create an effective barrier to accessing said knowledge. Seriously how many elf visitors on DMT have come back with the secrets of the universe???

Anyone care to impart these earth shattering revelations. For me it's always a reflection of my own psyche etc. To think otherwise is basically super ego inflation ie person 1 "I was granted all the wisdom of the universe by the machine elves" (smug smile) person 2 "what did they have to say" person 1 "umm... Well it was to complex for you to understand..." person 2 "you have no clue do you?" person 1 "ummm..." looks at feet, no longer feels such inflated sense of self worth "no".

 

[bitchamonth]

I keep my shit just fine. Low to medium doses of psyches are no issue at all. Most people have no idea I'm absolutely shitfaced on psychedelic drugs. Hell I could work on psychedelics as long as they were not stupidly high doses, I mean "heroic" stupidly high doses. Basically if you can't stand up, are covered with sweat, puke you ring out etc you've done a tad to much. Also if your morphing into your bed as the whole room becomes part of you... again a tad to much so stay at home. What is a bad trip, getting paranoid about people? That is not a bad trip. A bad trip IMO is one where you OD on psychedelics and lay writhing in a pool of sweat possibly vomit, shit and piss your self as you've done a tad to much, usually aya. 35-40 mg 4 ho mipt is also seizure territory for me so that is a bad trip, add sweat and muscle cramps + seizures = bad trip. Take 1 mg clonaz and still pretty fucked = feeling a tad better and now know that dose is to high.

For the "ego loss", "machine elves", "bullshit" trips they happen at home. Basically I've never had the elves but I had doorways to the wisdom of the universe and all creation appear before me on a 20 mg 2ci snorted + 80 odd mgs of mxe trip that was a stay at home experience. Sweated buckets (despite the mxe???) saw the doors unfortunately I couldn't reach a single handle. It was a "breakthrough" and "ego loss" zone there. Also I might add really fucking dangerous.

If you go deeper it's kind of like fever delirium that's when I get the old black wolf thing. Elves have nothing on going that deep. Experienced on hallucinogenic fish, massive doses of aya, fever ridden sick in bed delirious and a couple of OD situations involving stupidly reckless doses of drugs, usually in combination. BTW my theory is basically that people see humanoid forms because of mental programming. In my case doors as I'm always seeking new sources of knowledge and doors create an effective barrier to accessing said knowledge. Seriously how many elf visitors on DMT have come back with the secrets of the universe???

Anyone care to impart these earth shattering revelations. For me it's always a reflection of my own psyche etc. To think otherwise is basically super ego inflation ie person 1 "I was granted all the wisdom of the universe by the machine elves" (smug smile) person 2 "what did they have to say" person 1 "umm... Well it was to complex for you to understand..." person 2 "you have no clue do you?" person 1 "ummm..." looks at feet, no longer feels such inflated sense of self worth "no".

Love your reply
I have never dropped more than 100uG of acid (if it even was 100uG). That was my first time I - (I can remember at this moment) that I have in my life - experienced psychosis, probably moderate to you(serious to me) amounts of paranoia, and had my first panic attack and felt like going insane/went insane(again to me it felt like insanity in retrospect), but I guess on a scale many people would probably not consider it to have been THAT bad.

Quite happy it happened to me though I feel I can deal with it better next time. :D

Dont know much about these elves and shit, but I swear I saw a goblin in my peripheral vision at one point on 100uG, which was kind of cool now, but creepy then - was maybe an hour before the trip turned uncomfortable.

Anyhow...., you can basically keep your shit together even when the trip turns bad, - REALLY BAD? And thats on low--medium doses? Whats a low to medium dose to you hint: erowid.com, your opinion.
Shitfaced?

 

[GolemGolem]

I've always been able to keep my shit together on nervy uncomfortable trips in public. Had a harder time keeping cool when I'm having a great time. Singing loudly at 4am walking though town isn't a good way to avoid attention. Though even that worked out ok in the end with me home safe and sound. Won't know till you try but, do keep your doses reasonable.

 

[WeedDxm]

I have an interesting story to share. I was a senior in high school, and my school was doing a drug search. The police brought in the drug dogs, and they searched all the lockers. If the dogs smelled something in your locker, you were sent to the cafeteria, where teachers would search your locker, and anything you had on you.

So I was called down to the cafeteria, probably because my coat in my locker smelled like weed. I went down to the cafeteria, and after a few minutes, I realized that I had 7 DXM pills in my wallet. When no one was looking, I ate the pills, which came to a total of 210mg DXM. The teachers later searched me, and found nothing

Anyways, after school that day, I had to go in to work. I was pretty nervous, since I was somewhat high. It basically was the same feeling as drinking 2-3 beers. Thankfully I was able to keep my shit together, but this experience was really scary for me. There were so many ways that that day could've went a lot worse.

 

[Help?!?!]

^Should have just feigned a cough!

Shared this one a million times here but once whilst walking around in public on mushrooms my friend randomly lost his shit in a McDonalds, screamed at me to "STOP SNORTING COCAINE OFF A MCDONALDS TABLE!" while we sat for a second to decide what to grab, then as I went to grab said food which seemed to calm him down, he bolted while I was turned around for one second talking to the person at the counter. I got the food ran out and he was assaulting a very nice Caddy with an alarm in a Boston Market parking lot whilst continuously screaming "FUCK YOU, FUCKKKK EVERYONE!!!", a terrified worker/the owner of the car ran out but had no idea what to do as my friend was kicking his car with all his might. In the middle of this he just turned and ran full speed off into the night after whipping his cell phone at the ground whilst exclaiming "FUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT!". The elderly car owner turned to me and a friend and asked, "Do you know him?!?" to which we replied "Uhhh, no that shit was crazy!!". He somehow made it home safely, though he told us he attempted to gain entry to our school on the way to "Fuck shit up" or something like that.

Then another time he went nuts at a fest, was whipping his dick out asking if it was still there to fest workers, asking other random people "ARE YOU MY MOTHER?!?", and other insane shit like that. He took one hit of LSD/some mushrooms that day. It was all brought on by watching this one group of campers, seemingly out of their mind(it definitely seemed liked they were far to fucked as we witnessed this before they did so I could only imagine what they saw)as when we walked by these campers were throwing everything, and I mean everything they had onto their fire creating a huge bon fire, crazy fucks, it triggered my friend to think it was the end of the world according to him, my other friend that was with him and took the same thing was just rocking back and forth mumbling in the tent.

 

[snagglepuss]

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[nuttynutskin]

I made it through English class in high school on acid seeing my teacher's face changing color and huge tracers on the white board, you'll be just fine.

 

[SONN]

on 5grams of mushrooms I was playing hackey sack in the middle of my college campus for most of the trip and I started getting uncomfortable when people came to join the hackey sack circle who were naive to psychedelics, while I'm tripping face and my eyes/nose is watering and i'm cracking up at everything and they have no idea why. I kept my shit together though, unfortunately my friend who was on 1.75g of THE SAME BATCH OF SHROOMS freaked out and pissed herself about 10 yards from where I had my hackey sack circle going 8(

then it was freaking me out because I thought she was gonna be in trouble for being intoxicated or pissing in public and I was desperately trying to help her get to safety but she wouldn't leave she just sat there covered in piss

eventually she got up, went and took a shower in her room, and got cleaned up so all was well.

but afterwards I got really stoned and went to the dining hall with a bunch of other tripping friends and we were all yelling about how hard we were tripping and cracking up at all the nasty food lol

 

[Shadowsblaze]

Quite a few times I was screwed in public. The one that was the strangest was when a buddy and I split an aspirin size hit called green spec. They were lite green with chips of what looked like dark windowpane within. I brought a hundred and they were all individually wrapped in tin foil. I opened mine when we were downtown and it was all brown. Well we decided to split it and 30 minutes in we were experienceing waves of emotion already and a lot of movement. We delt with it for 2 hrs. then went under a bridge over a river for the night. My buddy asked me to sit closer because he said I looked like the wolfman. Early in the morning before sunrise still had long trails of airplanes so we stayed till the sun was well up. Gotta watch that stuff, lol.

 

[Ismene]

Sure, i've ran down the middle of the street naked save for one sock. Who hasn't?

 

[Shadowsblaze]

Another time a buddy an I skipped school and of all things to happen we ran in to his mother a post woman. She asked what we were doing and when we wouldn't get in the truck she said I'll handle this. Thirty minutes later her and a cop picked us up and took us to the station. Going through my wallet he found a dozen 1 hit pieces of hash. The detective asked us if we ever did drugs and I said we had sniffed some glue. He was a friend of my mom and when the captain wasn't looking he through them in the trash. What was really freaking me was that he had a triangle scar on the tip of his nose that was coming toward me one at a time getting bigger as it got close. At one point I had about 7-8 of these purple triangles entering me and passing through. My buddy was getting yelled at, "you think this is funny because he kept laughing." They let us slide so it was just another one of those days you got to deal with.

 

[bitchamonth]

I can`t reply to you all.

Another time a buddy an I skipped school and of all things to happen we ran in to his mother a post woman. She asked what we were doing and when we wouldn't get in the truck she said I'll handle this. Thirty minutes later her and a cop picked us up and took us to the station. Going through my wallet he found a dozen 1 hit pieces of hash. The detective asked us if we ever did drugs and I said we had sniffed some glue. He was a friend of my mom and when the captain wasn't looking he through them in the trash. What was really freaking me was that he had a triangle scar on the tip of his nose that was coming toward me one at a time getting bigger as it got close. At one point I had about 7-8 of these purple triangles entering me and passing through. My buddy was getting yelled at, "you think this is funny because he kept laughing." They let us slide so it was just another one of those days you got to deal with.

Haha, awesome! :D
Though by what you wrote it didn`t seem like a bad trip though?

#Help!?!?
Made me laugh, thank you

#nuttynutskin Was it worth it? Sure learning was hard, but was it cool? Any regrets?

 

[Shadowsblaze]

Yea it wasn't too bad knowing the cop but anytime your in the copshop its a bit of a downer. Later the same cop came to the drugstore where I was waiting for a bus for NYC and he asked if I still smoked and I said yea concerts an such, He says we got a big bag of reefer at the station that they were gonna save untill it became legal, lol. He saw that I was looking out the door waiting for the bus and asked where I was headed, so I told him a concert at Madison Square Garden. He hesitated then laughed. I wondered if he was giving me a hint about the buds being for sale because I'm sure he knew I delt. Oh well missed opportunity .

 

[bunnyhentman]

In the '90s I was living in the north Bronx, a 19 year old girl with bright blue hair. One afternoon I took 2 strong hits of acid at the Metropolitan Museum. It was maybe the fourth or fifth time I'd taken acid: I was not a pro. I had a great time at the Met, but eventually it closed and I was pretty much peaking when I found myself catching the subway back to my apartment, about 150 blocks north.

The subway ride itself was infinite and harrowing but the fear didn't set in until I was walking up White Plains road at the end of the 2 line around 11pm. Walking in front of me was a rowdy group of thuggish-looking teenage boys shouting and running around, causing mayhem etc. In the funhouse mirror of my mind, they seemed like they were seething like lava, splitting off into additional boys like a colony of protozoic thugs -- a kind of gangster slime mold pouring up the street ahead of me destroying everything in its path.

Unfortunately, the boys seemed to be walking the same way I had to walk. Every time they turned, it was the way I had to turn. I followed them for about 6 winding blocks, silently praying they wouldn't notice me, totally flipping out that they were walking directly to my house. I thought they psychically knew where I was going and were going to lead the way to my apartment and force their way in.

As we make about the 5th turn together, the kids finally turn to me and say "Stop following us, you are freaking us out!" and then they ran across the street to get away from me. I started running too, until I made it to my apartment and locked the door and sat in a dark apartment staying completely still for ages so they couldn't pinpoint me. In retrospect I can't even imagine how weird my vibe must have been to frighten a group of ten tough-looking teenage boys.

Maybe they were tripping too. Maybe in their memories they were silently followed up the street by a creepy weird looking little girl and no matter where they turned they couldn't shake her, like a scene from a psychedelic version of Silent Hill?

That's really the only time I bugged out in public. The Met has become a favorite setting, I trip in public in crowded cities quite a lot and it doesn't bother me.

 

[TangerinO]

I've done it a number of times with reasonable doses and during those times managed to keep my shit together. One time I went to do my banking on acid, that was ridiculously silly and funny.

Over time I realised despite the fact I could keep my shit together doing it, personally there was no real achievement in proving to myself that I could, nor was it ever really enjoyable making it a simple waste of good hallucinogens.