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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 thought the same thing until i got pulled into some drama between friends and ended up ripping my hair out and running down my street screaming.
 
I've had trips that I wished would end as I sat staring at the wall wishing it would finnally stop moving----I also had bad experiences (twice) where a friend and myself were drunk and decided to trip, then my friend either decided to pass out or first throw up and then pass out so instead of riding it out I tried to sleep and woke up thinking I was going to die ---
 
shrooms, 2/4 times thought I was going to die for long periods of time. I see that as a bad trip.

LSD - I've done it so many times I'd probably be considered clinically insane and never had a bad trip, difficult trips maybe, but not even really that, they all have been great.

I find shrooms to be the hardest on the mind as far as psychedelics but I haven't done anything else other than shrooms and LSD, none of the new chemicals like 2CB, 2CI, fly or whatever but will try them if get my hand on them.

It's wierd when I have a bad trip I'm scared of death but in real life I'm really not that scared of death, I do dangerous things all the time that could end my life. Like my psychiatrist said, I'm an adrenaline/dopamine freak and need high danger activities to feel normal. Definitely not what my mom hand in mind for me when she gave birth to me.
 
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Ive never had a bad acid trip in the way of scary visuals, I did lock myself in my room once because i thought i was going nuts and about to go out and kill everyone in the world. Ive never had a good DMT trip, after its over its AWESOME but every trip ive been scarred shitless @ some point
 
psychedelics are the only drugs that cause me euphoria (ironically, the drug i am dependent on causes depression in me, and it's an opiate)

my mind also seems totally suited for psychedelics. they revive me, show me everything, and i believe that my normal state of mind is somewhat similar to the "broken down barriers" of a shroom or mdma trip

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i once had a friend, a very "fake" guy, always puts up a fake self, though he learned to be very charismatic so he has a LOT of "friends". well, if i knew then what i know now, i wouldnt have given him any sort of psychedelic. but as you can imagine, it was judgement day for him, literally as he met jesus in my bathtub. after that day he wasn't my friend any more either :P i guess he didnt want to be reminded of the trip. some people seem to not be able to handle what they are shown and what is ripped away; their ego holds on too tightly to what they have constructed

it did become a somewhat difficult trip at the end, since it was at T+14 and i just wanted to sleep (morning glory seeds, 10-14g ea.)

normally (except the first time i had a small trip) morning glory seeds never made me trip. maybe i should give them another go now that i've experienced psilocybin quite a few times. though i don't seem to react well to too much extra DA and NE release (as per stims) so i'd have to be cautious with the ergolines
 
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I have done DXM approx. 5-6 times in the past year (I don't/can't do it often). I've puked my guts out twice on it, the first time of which was awful and don't wish to repeat. I ended up so exhausted I thought I was going to die. Thank god there was some bottles of water nearby...
 
Ive had hundreds of trips and none turned out bad. It went bad for a few mins when it got overwhelming but turned out the best trip ever haha each one was better. U have to control them not the other way around.
 
^actually it is the other way around. psychedelics don't like to be controlled. go with the flow, see what they are showing you, don't try to strengthen the walls when the psychedelic is toying with them or the trip will probably turn bad...
 
^actually it is the other way around. psychedelics don't like to be controlled. go with the flow, see what they are showing you, don't try to strengthen the walls when the psychedelic is toying with them or the trip will probably turn bad...

By control i mean contrl ur dose, set and setting and ur emotions and thoughts. If u dont respect them they will turn against u.
 
Ive never had a full on bad trip...At my first rave a few years ago i injested about a little over a quarter ounce of very potent mushrooms. For the first 30 minutes of the trip all I wanted to do was get the hell out of the venue! I was scared and just needed to leave. After that I was fine and danced my ass off..
 
Ive had difficult parts of trips, but never a bad trip, and never difficult for the entirety of the experience. Usually a problem surfaces, i fight it for a bit and it gets difficult, then focus on the problem, fix it, and im all good again :)
 
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I've never had a bad or even a very difficult experience with LSD which I have done 19 times now, all my trips were very euphoric, visual, entertaining yet at the same time deep in a very pleasant way. I find the substance to feel quite friendly and I haven't had any bad moment on it. Even in more difficult times of my lifes or when confrontated with something personal and unpleasant in a trip it seemed to .. not matter as much or being just swept away by the distracting beauty of everything so all my LSD experience have been extremely positive.

On magic mushrooms I haven't had a classic bad trip, but twice it happened that a fellow person tripping would pass out and both times that happened I found it quite scary, especially considering one of the times that happened the person cracked their head open and we had to sit in a hospital waiting room for two hours heavily tripping. I can easily say those weren't the easiest trips and I have had more mushroom trips with a slightly dark edge to them, however I never found it annoying or disturbing so I'd say I'm one of those people who've never really had a bad experience.



hi

I will be next week in amsterdam from south pacific where I live *snip* on best corals beach and coconut shade (-:

Thierry
 
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I wouldn't say that I've had a bad trip that has permenatly effected me but there have been some rough times.

I used to think a lot like you...that my mind was made and molded for psychedelic use. I was a young, sheltered kid from the burbs who often tried to impress my friends and was extremely cocky with a high self-esteem that had no real support. I thought I was the shit and boy did the mushrooms show me that I was wrong.

For example, I'm very sensitive to shrooms with 1.5g sending me into a full on visual trip and anything over 3g sends me into another dimension for a while. When my friends began following me into psychedelics they seemed more resistant than me. It took full eighters for my best friends to get visuals and have a complete trip. Being the psychedelic person in my group of friends, I felt like I had to take more then them to prove that I was cool or something stupid like that. Well I got what was coming to me after downing 7 grams of some top quality shrooms in a party set and setting and had an excruciatingly bad time there.

Soon psychedelic use turned to abuse and thats when things got shifty for me. After my first few trips on mushrooms and acid had gone extremely well, I started to push the envelope and began to use them as any other drug (horrible idea). I was taking shrooms in school and at my house with my parents home just because I was bored. Long story short...they kicked my ass into gear. Yeah, it was rough and unpleasant but I know that I've become a much more empathetic, respecting, and humble person because of it.

So, in retrospect I don't ever think I've had a "bad" trip, only rough times in a trip. However, I would never trade those rough times because they have probably taught me the most and I gained a lot out of those experiences.
 
^^that's pretty intense about the bum with the sign.

try being immensely screwed on a few strong tabs whilst your best mate who cant handle it is having a psychotic episode and trying to kill himself.. that was a long fucked up night to remember.


but as sustanon said, you've just got to have the power to handle it and convince yourself that it will eventually come to an end, no matter how intense things get.. if you have a weak head you'll probably just spiral downwards.
 
Never had a bad trip really. Some trips in where the situation made the experience opposite of what i wanted. Besides for doing TOO much dxm. As in lethal dose, never had one and do not really believe in them. All about state of mind.
 
I would say never assume you will never have a bad trip. I have tripped on over 20 dif hallucinagenic substances as I know if you think your immune its gonna get ya. Respect the drug and you should be good.

As for all the people assuming that they've tripped a couple times on acid and they're good forever try a high dose shrooms trip with powerful shrooms. Besides ever if you keep it together it can only take one person to freak out and fuck it up for everyone else. Having to drive someone to the hospital on mushrooms for example can test your "perfect mind".

The only bad trip I've had, and yes it was def a BAD trip. Was one time my set and setting got fucked up while I was blasted on super shrooms. I got heinously naseous and began projectile vomiting, which I could handle because I figured I'd be good afterwords. Unfortunalty I seems my stomach wanted to be difficult and ended up sick for most of the trip, which I could still deal with.

However my friends dog, which is incredibly friendly and would never ever bother anyone, decided he didn't like the trip vibe and turned in Cerebus the trip monster and began biting everyone.So after fleeing from the dog we decided we would go smoke some weed and relax. Then my friends mother called his house phone. He wouldn't normally have answered but she had a sudden emergency and only he could help her. So we had to pack in his car( figured at least we could support him) tripping balls which is a horrible idea

It then procceded to thunderstorm mid car ride and made seeing anything impossible. He drove us to another friends house cuz he didn't want us to meet his mother while tripping face and then left to go get her. Well it turned out that she decided she had a new emergency when he showed up and finally got fed up from the undue stress put on his trip. He ended up curling up in the fetal position in the passenger seat and wouldn't respond to her at all. She then called a the mother of the friend who's house we were at and asked what we gave her son and she might have to take him to the hospital now.

All in all the lesson is don't think you immune to an awful experience. Some horrendous mishap can happen and ruin your perfect set and setting. If your tripping hard and some dire emergency somehow finds you no longer have the ability to go with the flow and are forced to try to function, and since while tripping its best to go with the flow this can cause serious brain conflict.

I must say though that one trip was the only bad one I've had while I've had a much miuch larger amount of very awesome trips
 
I had one difficult trip from mckennaï shrooms, part of the hawaïan shrooms family.

... At first it started out with some euphoria about the wonderfull visuals, but then.. Because of the weather i got torn up with myself, it's cold, we should go inside. But it's so nice out here, i can't/don't want to move. What should I do. I started fighting with myself, telling myself I've always been an undecisive person, etc. The trip got SO strong, i had to lie down while it was actually three degrees Celsius (37,4 F) outside. It was freeeeezing cold!
Yet it didn't bother me, I kept struggling with myself untill the trip got so strong i could only ask myself: "how did i get here, what did i do to get here, why am i feeling like this?" It made me feel shitty while there wasn't any call for it. Often shrooms do this to me, while never as strong as this time.

Still, i wouldn't call it a bad trip, more a difficult trip. I did learn from it, to 'go with the flow' during a trip. And that i shouldn't make myself feel bad.
 
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