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

[chiko]

I had plenty of bad trips. but one of them was just very bad to forget it ever. I was tripping on mushrooms in Hampstead Heath Park. at night. and as usually we come to point where everything is possible. rality is made by uas. all of us. we are absolute mind who playing a loong game. - life. so we get so deeply in this, that we couldn't come back. and my mate start to bleeding from his mouth!!! and everything around became red and covered in blood.
after he had a heartstroke of somesort, he couldn't move. u can't even imagine how scared were we. but at least it made us more sober. we made him bleeding with our thoughts. it is like we pressed an emergency button. RESET. ) so after he stoped bleeding we sat down and little by little reality came back.

 

[Mjäll]

Yesterday I tripped and came to an interesting conclusion.

The way to turn bad things good is to think about what is bad and try to weigh that against what is good. You will probably find that the good things - a roof over your head, food, and whatever, outweigh the bad.

 

[coelophysis]

^ That works, sometimes if it's a little too difficult to try to think it through like that, I'll always turn to my "this too shall pass" mantra. Never fails, it always passes

 

[Mjäll]

Yes, but people always say that it's good to "think through" your problems rather than fighting them. And I agree, because riding with the trip is more fun than fighting it. If you manage to transform the mental pain into joy, you won't have to fight it.

But I can see that your mantra is just another way of weighing positives against negatives. But it must be an intellectual activity, IMO. Not just a mindless chatter, because that might as well turn into a frightening loop

 

[coelophysis]

And you know what happens in that frightening loop if it occurs? That too passes. Finding a mantra that assists you in damn near everything is hardly mindless.

 

[Gldm]

Took half a tab of a supposed Hofmann yesterday morning and while I never had a bad trip, I did get some disconcerting thoughts.

One prevalent worry was that when the Large Hadron Collider finally gets put into action properly in a couple of years, it'll just create some kind of cosmic anomaly restarting time. The universe is just stuck in one big cycle that always starts and ends when those large hadron's get collided. Twas pretty profound at the time.

Here try this one notch higher one from mine:

The entire universe is a delusion constructed as a defense against insanity from the sense-deprived void that is reality. But it can't be perfect, and the flaw in it is there's an escape, which is LSD. So basically it restarts each time as the perspective of a different person, and lasts as long as they don't take any. So each time the goal is to prevent the ingestion of LSD. Since you now know this, obviously it's because you gave in and took some. So you just lost, and now it's over along with everything and everyone you knew, and now you have to do it all over again as someone else just like the uncountable number of times it's happened before. All the investment in the current life is now forfeit since not only will it not be remembered, nothing and no-one in it ever really existed anyway. You are alone, and it drives you mad, which is why you're stuck in this perpetual madness, and now you've just remembered it despite all that effort to try and forget. Good job. You lose. Forever.


So yeah that one was pretty upsetting.

 

[Danashae]

But what would you do once the sun exhausted its hydrogen supply and started to expand?

But reality was subject to my whims. That would never happen, if I was given the choice.

 

[missvee]

Well, If You want to call them that.

Looking back, I personally now believe that rather than bad trips, they were learning experiences for me, and very therapeutic. most of my "bad trips" were because I had to really face myself in times where I was trying to block shit out that rreally bothered or disturbed me, and took I was at my lowest point with myself and really needed some wake up calls and deal with personal issues head-on. as I have said in my TR, I am grateful for these trips now, they have contributed to my rediscovery of myself.

 

[SKL]

Well, If You want to call them that.

Looking back, I personally now believe that rather than bad trips, they were learning experiences for me, and very therapeutic. most of my "bad trips" were because I had to really face myself in times where I was trying to block shit out that rreally bothered or disturbed me, and took I was at my lowest point with myself and really needed some wake up calls and deal with personal issues head-on. as I have said in my TR, I am grateful for these trips now, they have contributed to my rediscovery of myself.

You have a GREAT perspective there, sister ... the one that I try to take and to educate others on whenever the subject of "bad trips" comes up. I truly don't believe such a thing exists as I've said before (pretty much...except maybe for a psychotic break) ... very very very wise perspective ... you have a great mentor though

 

[missvee]

You have a GREAT perspective there, sister ... the one that I try to take and to educate others on whenever the subject of "bad trips" comes up. I truly don't believe such a thing exists as I've said before (pretty much...except maybe for a psychotic break) ... very very very wise perspective ... you have a great mentor though

thank you SKL! youre awesome!

 

[Gldm]

But reality was subject to my whims. That would never happen, if I was given the choice.

Once you start using the cheat codes, the game's still fun for a little while. But eventually you'll realize there's no point without any challenge or restriction.

 

[Danashae]

Once you start using the cheat codes, the game's still fun for a little while. But eventually you'll realize there's no point without any challenge or restriction.

Yeah, well, thank the Creator that you regain some sort of normalcy afterward. I can't imagine how I'd still be alive today if I genuinely believed that I could bend reality to my whim. 8)

 

[Shambles]

I don't think I've really ever had a bad trip as such. At least not all bad all the time. A few "difficult" eternal moments, to be sure, but something good has always come out of it afterwards .

 

[nevets]

I've had my share of bad trips and they suck while they are happening but after the fact they are some of my favorite drug experiences. I fell like i get more of an insight into life from them.

 

[danalprazolam]

Never had one in my whole life.

 

[lazydullard]

Haven't had a bad trip yet! I'm glad. But I've only been at it for like 2 years now. I haven't even had any trips I'd classify as difficult or painful... I'm so spoiled.

 

[the_ketaman]

Yep I had a bad trip off 2 1/2 hits of acid, I think it was caused by me being drunk before I took them and I had a house party that night which I clearly couldnt control, I ended up getting beaten up that night too. Luckily after I kicked everyone out the trip turned good and all was fine and dandy, I basicly forgot all the bad bits, I think my brain subconsciously blocked it out.

 

[[eK]]

^^ shiiit!!!
that would have been the worst party to host. sucks to hear about that shit.
i had a bad trip off two, probably the 3rd or so time i tried LSD.
a bad phone call to an ex triggered it. after that it was like a dark downwards spiral of depression it didnt get better until i fell asleep.

 

[B9]

Yep I had a bad trip off 2 1/2 hits of acid, I think it was caused by me being drunk before I took them and I had a house party that night which I clearly couldnt control

I sympathise - i once dropped a couple of trips after a bottle of vodka - it was fine - till the hangover kicked in at about T + 5 hours - NIGHTMARE!

 

[swilow]

^Hell yeah, that can be utterly awful. I usuaslly end up vomiting and in tears when I get hungover; add psychedelic madness in, and its fuckery. Though one of the best acid trips I had was after about 8 beers; 5 decent hits of acid with Miss Swilow at about 12am and proceeding forth into utter bliss for the ext day. This one went okay; I've had hangoever ttrips to hell though.

One of the most negative experience I had involved dropping acid (not a huge dose 200ug~ thereabouts) about 4 hours after slamming meth. I felt great initially, but as the paranoid methy comedown appeared, I turned into a loon. Utter terror....Never again I says.