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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
Bad isn't the right word. I have had harsh and tough trips because of all this stuff I had down my well (to steal a phrase) at the times of those trips.

But many have had an element of every type of experience, all passing away.
 
I think that a "bad trip" is bad only if you label it as bad.
I think that ego struggles are perfectly normal while tripping, and it is through these ego struggles that a lot of our wisdom and learning comes from through psychedelics.
I don't consider an ego struggle a bad trip at all. It's a helpful, immersive trip. :]
 
I've had one bad trip and a few "difficult" trips.

The one bad trip I had was from two and a half grams of very potent mushrooms and too much pot.

It was going pretty well for the first hour or so but then I started to get the fear. The two things that I remember most from that experience were the visuals, which were the most intense visuals I've ever gotten from any drug. Everything was made up of fractals, and every extension of fractals had fractals on them. If I touched something it appeared to grab onto my finger. It was incredibly intense.
The second thing that stuck with me were the thoughts that were going through my head as I was on the floor in the fetal position. I was convinced that I was in a "Matrix-like" situation. By that I mean I thought I was being woken up for the first time in the same way that Neo did when he ate the red pill.
It took me a while to figure out exactly how to describe the experience and to be honest, I'm still not satisfied with the description that I've given.
 
yes on dob a few times, and mushrooms, once on sum shitty lsd. but in comparison to the amount of times its a acceptable number. like incomparison iv had way more bad tripps from fake tabbs
 
I've never had a "bad" trip. But the first time I took shrooms, my friend and I took some and he had tripped before It was my first time.
I was having an amazing time, then he convinced me to go to his apartment from mine where I felt safe. It was fun, but once we got to
his apartment there were a good amount of people that I didn't know there and I started to feel uneasy because I did not know them and they were not tripping so I didn't feel connected with them.
I asked my friend to take me home but then he said he was tripping to hard to drive.

But luckly one of his friends was a nice guy and took me back to my apartment and I felt so much better once I got home even being alone,
I just felt better being at MY apartment where I felt safe and knew who was there and who would be coming over.

I wouldn't call it a "bad trip" but there was a moment I just felt a bit uneasy. I have never had a bad trip so to speak. All my trips, off of all the hallucinogens I have taken I have had amazing times every time.
Well with the exception of one occasion when I took way to many shrooms, but I still had fun until I was puking my guts out. But I just took a few xanax and layed down. Always helps me when I'm coming down off of anything.
 
I've never had what I would consider a full "bad" trip but I have definitely had difficult experiences. They range from times when I was able to just tell myself "relax, you're wiggin' out for no reason" to one time where I considered going to the hospital (but I never made any serious moves to do so, thank God). I thought I was done with drugs during that hellish experience but once I sobered up I realized I had just been mentally shattered in a way that I had never been before and that had caused my anxiety. However, I do think that having difficult experiences builds tolerance towards them in the future. For instance each time I trip harder than I have before sets a benchmark where I can be like "it's alright I've been through stronger trips than this".
 
Never had a full bad trip, but there was a rough patch on my last acid trip.

First: The come up was in a crowded rave that was blazing hot, smelled like a mix of shit and sex. At first it was ok, music was bumping and I was peaking on molly. Then I lost both of my friends and this is when it went downhill...After an hour of sitting off to the side telling myself it was just a bad patch my friend found me and took me outside. Well outside there were 20 cop cars and 3 fights going on at once. Things got really shitty here for a while. After another 30-45 minutes of just talking to my friends it got better and I was more social like I usually am.

A way I can describe it is a 1 hour ride through mental hell. After my bad patch it was a blast till the end and was my most "enlightening" trip.
 
One bad trip.
A few mildly difficult ones, mostly just felt like wastes of time at the end (at worst) or were productive and helpful in the end

The one bad trip - glad I was on 4-HO-MET. Most anything else i'm sure would have ended up worst
So i had a great time n 25mg 4-HO-MET orally, and it was on the comedown, and i was a bit blah, but doing okay. Then my friend tells me to listen to this song...

It's intricately written, very very well done. And very sad to anyone, but it contains things that bother me in particular. And I listened to it fixed full attention on it, and it's like 10 minutes long.

So now i'm depressed... And then my friend, who's legit crazy (though she's usually pretty good) had a breakdown, and she had only me to talk to. I couldn't nearly keep up with how fast she was typing stuff to me, and tripping or not, I can't relate to all of what she was saying. Some of the time she was talking about the reason she was upset, other times, prophecizing the apocalypse, and my role to play when it comes...

and again, remember, I was already depressed and wasn't able to keep up with her or effectively help her.

I didn't feel normal for a few days after that, and didn't trip for a while after that. The next morning, I was not sure what was and wasn't real. Thank god I hadn't taken something that went deeper than 4-HO-MET.
 
At first for this poll I put "yes I have had a bad trip", but if I could I would like to take that back, my one "bad" trip indeed showed me many things.

The trip started with two very strong tabs and two boxes of whippits. At first everything was beautiful and then I started hitting the cracker and I had this overwhelming feeling that I had been plugged out of time itself and when I came back I was replugged into time. I came back completely egoless and slightly disoriented.

At this point someone in the group I was hanging out with said something along the lines of "come back to us", to my recollection I was acting as I always do when I trip but I guess to him it seemed "odd". Suddenly I felt very self conscious and I thought I was freaking everyone out. Then for some reason I thought maybe I was freaking everyone out because all the universe really was was the room we were all in, and everyone knew that but me.

By the six hour mark I was convinced I would never leave that room and this was the end, it was pretty hellish. I had come to my terms with my own non existence, I was put in a state of mourning over never being able to see any of my friends or family again, I wanted nothing more but to see them one more time. Then I left with a good friend of mine and everything was fine, at the time this trip was hellish but I certainly did learn a lot even though I wish to never repeat this experience.
 
roger&me said:
sometimes a bad trip is exactly what you need to force you to confront issues you've been avoiding. Sometimes tripping can be like a sparring session; you can get a little beat up and it might hurt your pride a bit. But you're certainly better off for it.
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^^^this
 
Never once. All the times I've rolled, ket whatever, not a single bad experience. My chemistry was made for the addition of mind altering substances. I was only half the formula before I tried MD, now I make sense :)
 
What I refer to as a bad trip wasn't as a result of anything I saw or heard. It was something like a panic attack and the complete inability of have a thought. It felt like someone had turned on 10 different radio stations all tuned to a different. This was profoundly BAD with 4-HO-MiPT. 4-HO-MET had a similar effect on the come up but subsided quickly into a wonderful experience. I'm not sure if what I experienced on 4-HO-MiPT was exactly a "bad trip". The visuals were minimal (walls looked like water) and I gained to profound insight. In fact I couldn't focus enough to experience any realizations whether positive or negative. 4-HO-MET was the complete opposite for me.

Is that what other's would refer to a "bad trip" or is a bad trip more like a temporary psychosis?
 
For me a bad trip is associated with terror, panic, extreme fear, total confusion, feelings of doom, over all extremely amplified negative feelings and sensations,
while the difficult ones are disforic & dealing with underlying issues in a more coherent but still forced and unwanted manner.
 
The only time I've experienced a bad trip, we had ingested roughly 100 grams fresh picked shrooms each. It was a long trip, about 16 hours, and only my second time. A few hours in I started experiencing ego death, definitely not cool considering how new I was to tripping, and my first trip was only about a half gram dried. I remember sitting in my closet watching the visuals dance and freaking out because I thought I was experiencing death. All in all from what I know now, that trip was amazing. Definitely helped me realize a lot, about myself and the world around me. Since then though, I've had numerous trips and they were/will always be positive from what I understand going into the trip now.
 
nope

i have had 2 difficult trips

one was physically difficult

in the second, i "died". as in, you're falling from a building and you know that you're going to die with a 100% probability
so i know exactly how it feels to think "well, that was it. i finally did go too far, and i didn't leave a note for my parents. i hope my body won't be too decomposed when people find it"

obviously i'm still here. so i didn't die, but i experienced the seconds leading to death, when you're aware that you're going to die

and that was an awesome trip!!!
really difficult, because as i didn't want my parents to be sad, i tried not to die
and freaking epic, as i had a psychedelic fight against death with everything in it. realizations, twists, hope, giving up, humility, inability to rely on my senses, whole sequences which i thought were happening but only taking place in my mind, discovery...

if it hadn't happen yet, i would absolutely want/need it to
 
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