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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 guess it depends on if you're the type of person to peek into the dark side compulsilvely, also how hard headed, sensitive or mentally stable you are of course
 
pot and acid does it for me

i have never had a bad acid trip except when i have smoked pot with it. in 1992 or 3 at a jerry garcia band show, i made the mistake of taking part in smoking a joint during the first or second song. i was already tripping very hard at the time (and previous to this had never had a bad trip. i was 15. within minutes, people started having two heads, jerry started sounding evil, and black vines started encircling the stage and my seat. NOT A LEARNING EXPERIENCE!

Luckily, my friend was selfless enough to take me out of the auditorium (boy was he pissed) and walk me out to the parking lot. it took me a long time to calm down and boy did i feel stupid. but i really would have felt like a fool if i had made a real scene in the auditorium.

they wouldnt let us back in btw. :(

and being young and dumb i dont think i fully got that it was JUST from the pot. because a few more times after that, on mushrooms, or acid, i smoked pot again. but by college i knew, no more. and i was fine from then on.

But yeah, bad trips are NOT learning experiences UNLESS you can work your way through them. which often you can and do. but they are scary as hell. wow.


but i think general anxiety or bad times on psychs are different than bad trips.. they can be a good thing and help you to think through all kinds of yourself. very few trips are ever worthless. and psychs arent meant to be FUN. they are meant to be life changing. they can be fun but they are not a time killer.


and by the way, i have talked people down before. and that can be a really scary situation too, to be on the flipside of. where you know they are freaking out and you are taking a walk with them trying to get them to relax. not easy. anyone else been in THAT situation?

thanks
 
^ the last few times i did acid (over the last 3 years or so) smoking pot catapults me into a bad trip as well. i realised it was the weed's "Fault" because the "nightmare" part would end after 2 hours - ie the length of a pot high. acid alone is great for me, and so is pot alone (or with other various drugs). so why is pot+acid so bad? doesnt make sense. i used t love the combo. maybe its because lsd is so clean, and weed so "dirty" or earthy, kind of a black-magic-witch drug whereas acid is clean-hospital-rooms-and-skylines
 
My first experience with LSD (and my 2nd with illegal drugs in general) was beyond description. I've seen hell, and not the little storybook kind but the custom made just for you perfection type. It's been about 3 and a half years and I don't think I will ever fully recover.

I did try a second time after a bit more than 2 years had passed and it was not as bad, but not really pleasant either.
 
Well I had 2 things. My first trip was off salvia which just completley overwhelmed me, but was a normal breakthrough salvia trip. I dont want to say it was a bad trip it was just shocking. Than my first mushroom trip wasnt really a good or bad trip, but rather a neutral trip. Was in a mood where I was just bored.
 
yeah, i had a bad trip once.. i haven't had one on acid or shrooms yet but i had a horrible trip on around 1 gram of DXM.. i don't know how to explain the feeling, besides shear terror.. and it had nothing to do with something going on in my life.. no personal issues came up, i just felt a feeling of intense fear and terror wherever i walked or looked, and everything i heard made me shudder.. i did see some weird things i remember.. i saw a giant fucking rooster like the one the one in family guy.. except un-animated.. staring at me in the kitchen when i flicked on the lights (i decided to start this trip when my parents went to bed at around midnight.. (that was about all i actually had for straight on hallucinations.. most of the shit that was scaring me seemed to be like ghosts/demons being seen in the corner of my eye) so it was a late-night trip, and nothing about the dark scares me, in fact i LOVE night, just wandering around outside at night is the greatest thing ever.. and shit, before the trip commenced i was feeling pretty damn good.. idk though, the trip didn't mess me up in anyway, so i guess it could just be labeled as scary.. i mean the trip wasn't so bad it made me not want to do robo or any other drugs anymore (the only reason i don't robo anymore is because i get a gut-wrenching feeling at the fucking site of cough medicine)
 
I have never had a bad trip but a few years ago I was with someone who did. I was with a group of about 5 friends and we all ate 1/8 of shrooms. We were by ourselves at my friends house which was a pretty chill spot. About halfway through the trip this one guy starts thinking he is dying, this was not due to any physical symptoms but was all in his head. He was definitely having a hard time with this so everyone tried to calm him down it worked for a while anyway. The issue kept popping up and we would calm him down again by reassuring him that he was still alive and reminding him that he felt this way because he had eaten mushrooms and was tripping. Well this wasn't to bad in itself, I have gone through death and rebirth on psychedelics before and it was glorious, but this guy did not seem to handle it well. What made this particularly bad was about 8hrs after we ate the shrooms and everyone else's trip was definitely over this guy kept trippin on those same bad trips. In addition he convinced himself that he was going crazy. I wasn't to concerned when he had these reoccurring thoughts a few hours earlier because i could assure him and myself that it would be over when the drug wore off. what ended up happening was my friend who was freakin drove to his parents house(which I tried my hardest to stop him from doing).

A few days later I heard from him what happened. His parents took him to the hospital and the doctors found nothing physically wrong with him so they gave him some sort of sedative medication and sent him on his way. He did suffer any long lasting effects and is fine to this day but i dont think he will ever want to trip again.
 
It depends on what you mean by bad trip.

I've never had a freak out where really bad things could happen.
I've never had a trip that left me feeling traumatized after it ended.
Never had one of the truly nightmarish trips like in some of the trip reports.

I have had some really unpleasant trips though.
Sometimes it is because of side effects which lead me to fear for my life (HBWR does this a lot)
I've had plenty of trips where I ended up in a mindstate of severe despair, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and self-hatred/disgust. These trips often turn out to be the most helpful and useful.

There was this one trip where I thought I had died and gone to hell. I ate about 75g of peruvian torch and 4.5g of mushrooms. I then decided to huff some ether. This was pure ether. Ether is an anesthetic gas and a dissociative. It's not like huffing solvents, it's probably more like nitrous as far as harmful effects are concerned.

It started after I breathed in ether for a few minutes. I got higher and higher, and less connected to reality. I reached a state of little awareness, just a feeling of warmth. I sort of awakened from that, and realized something was wrong, that I did not normally feel like this. I remembered what I was doing a few minutes ago. To my horror, I realized I had fatally overdosed.

I met the gods.

There were 3 gods, each an orb of light (actually reflections from a flashlight). I would have to suffer for killing myself and putting my family through pain. I was damned to stay in that one spot forever. My arms worked sort of lie pinball flippers, and I had to keep balls of energy from hitting me. I was begging and pleading for a second chance or for mercy. I then realized I would be freed from my punishment once the sun expanded into a red giant and swallowed up the earth. I realized I could move from that spot at some point. I now thought that I was a ghost. I went to my mother's bedroom where she was sleeping and waited for her to wake up and find my body on the ground behind the house. She woke up and knew pretty quickly that I was high. I now knew I was alive. I was afraid for the rest of the trip that this was god playing a trick on me. I feared I'd find myself in hell at any moment. I was afraid to go in the back yard because I didn't want to find my dead body lying on the ground. There was a tiny bit of fear for the following week that I might find my corpse or find that the gods were playing a joke on me.

The hell I mention is not the Christian hell. It is more a state of mental torture, not physical torture.
 
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yep.
14 grams of mushrooms.
one crazy ass night... or whatever the hell that crazy ass handful of hours
 
I won't use the word "bad," but I will say I've had a handful of "stressful" trips usually involving mushrooms or acid.
 
to me stress is always a massive part of acid. i should probably not take it, but i still love many aspects of the experience. but the whole time im kind of consciously or unconsciously gnashing my teeth, gnawing my fingers, so to speak.
 
I've never been so far gone that there was a danger of me hurting myself or others around me, but I've definitely had bad trips. I took acid the day after I got the most drunk I've ever been in my entire life (complete with puking all over myself in my sleep). I thought I was never going to come down, but I did. I've also had a few intense episodes of paranoia on high doses of psychedelics (e.g. thinking people around me were going to rob/beat me or were police that were going to bust me). Learning experiences, yes, but still bad trips.
 
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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+1. This is, in fact, exactly what happened to me.
 
yeah, but Im not writing them out again, ones on a previous thread in this forum, ones on erowid...I actually shiver when I write them out, I think I have PTS from that shit..I rarely use mushrooms anymore at all because of bad trips,everytime I ate them, something weird happened, really weird... but I'm thinking of facing my fears again when I'm settled down and don't have so much on my mind.
 
In my opinion there are no "bad trips". You just have trips.

Are there REALLY any bad trips?
There aren't for me.

I've had trips where I've seen something scary and cried for 6 hours +, but that doesn't mean I had a bad trip...
 
Ale[XTC] said:
In my opinion there are no "bad trips". You just have trips.

Are there REALLY any bad trips?
There aren't for me.

I've had trips where I've seen something scary and cried for 6 hours +, but that doesn't mean I had a bad trip...
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No Offense man, but yes it does. You did not have a good time crying for 6 hours because of the scary shit you saw. You in fact had a "bad" time. So, you had a "bad" trip. If you had just trips you would see scary shit, but think of it more like a scary movie. Now, you may have learned and taken something out of the "bad" trip, but thats what it was.
 
I have had one terrible trip on shrooms, my last one in fact. I lost complete touch with reality and not in the sense that I was in candy land, more like my mind ceased to work with my body, and I just kinda carried on like a huge ass infant that had the strength oh a small sized grown man. I wet myself, I pulled down my pants in front of other guys, I constantly tried to get out of the house I was in, and one of my friends, who was also tripping held me down in the same place for 3.5 hrs. I think I may have been one of the worst experience of my life. I couldn't even take anything out of it because my mind was pretty much blacked out for most of the trip. I would say it was a physiological break down. But, I do not have any psychological issue at all, and plan to use psychedelics again when I am ready. First time I have ever written about this.

Now on a side note, I went from 1.375 gram doses to 3.5 that day, and we where at my friends apartment. Everyone was tripping, and he though his girl was going to be out of town and she wasn't. She came over to his house unexpected with another friend of hers, and my friends made us go outside cause we where tripping balls. I am not sure why, but after coming back in the apartment and chilling with them for a few min I completely lost it, this was right after they left. I think what may have done me in was the completely unexpected knock on the door, it scared everyone shirtless, and I wasn't the only one to have a bad trip either. Another guy started having one a little before I did as well. (Whew some things are just hard to write about and get off your chest, but I think its important to discuss all points of your life with others at some point, even the lowest times.)
 
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