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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
fuck whatever you've been told, and how you're suppost to think. look with your own eyes and see that spiderwebs are beautiful. dust is beautiful.
 
I've never had a bad trip when I was the one responsible for dosing. I've tripped on psilocybin mushrooms (once), LSD (~20 times), AMT (~10 times), 5-MeO-AMT (~20 times), 2C-I (~10 times), DXM (~30 times), ketamine (twice), and 5-MeO-DiPT (~10 times).

The one bad trip that I did have was when I trusted someone else to dose me on DXM. He started me out on an upper plateau dose, which was very disconcerting. I had sensory overload, unbearable hot flashes, and intense nausea. I also felt uncoordinated to the point of just wanting to lie down (except to make my way to the toilet to puke...5 times!). There was nothing fun or insightful about it. However, I later learned that I enjoy DXM at the lower plateaus very much, and I ended up having an experience of great clarity at the 2nd plateau.
 
The time i badtrip was when me and a couple friends were supposed to get hooked up with some really good pure MDMA pills( witch was hard to find ) so my friend got them from some guy he met, and we all decided to pop 1 at first and go check our friends bands concert. after about an hour i still wasn't feeling anything and usually MDMA takes me around 20-45 minutes to hit so i decided to wait it out abit longer after about a hour and 25 minutes i popped another pill around that time it started to come at first was fun, i remember telling my friend it feels abit shroomy, with a MDMA feel to it, after about 30 minutes of that i tought i was peaking and by that time i could tell it definatlly wasnt MDMA. then i figured i was peaking and it was really intense but tought i would ride it out untill i got a hold of the buzz, then one of my friends was really badtripping hard and wanted to go home so i decided i come with him since he also lives close to me, the whole walk home when ever time i tought the buzz couldnt get more intense, it did. we finally got to my friends home were it felt safe and calm we gt some water and tried to relax on the couch maybe watch some cartoons we were both tripping out very hard at one point, my friend almost wanted to go to the hospital, and him tripping was making it very hard for me to have control of myself and try to take of him, also to make it worse his girlfriend( who didnt know much at all about drugs, and has only smoked pot once ) was telling me everytime i closed my eyes to stay awake because if fall asleep i might die, so that wasnt making things any better. after a couple hours it started coming to like a shroom high and he felt alright so i went home listened to music smoke a small bowl and went to bed.
I personally have done many, many pills. ive done shrooms about 10-15 times and acid once, but i was expecting a mellow MDMA lovey high and i later found it we got Microdots( the guy told us 1 of those pills was equal to about 2-3 strips of the acid going around ) it was too intense and having some not very experianced really badtriping to the point he tought he might die was giving off negative vibes and making me bad trip as well.
 
The only thing close to bad trip I've had was when I took DXM + 2ce. I saw blood spurting out of everything. My eyes, mouth, hands (stigmata style) etc. But that wasn't as horrific as it sounds and I wouldn't say it was anything like a bad trip. I didn't panic and I'm very used to blood.

The other time was when I was thrown in jail but that turned out to be an OK place to trip except for the coldness.
 
I've had one really bad trip. I actually didn't remember what happened until a couple days later. I went to an RX Bandits show and took two really strong tabs and then halfway through the show proceeded to take another two. (I was later told that they had twice the normal amount on each tab) It got super fucking crazy.... all these crazy visuals and the music seemed to flow through everyone like water. I remember thinking that it was the monterey pop festival all over again. And I swear to god I was watching Jimi Hendrix rock out on the stage.

Anyways, I threw up everywhere which made me trip even harder. Then I kind of blacked out.... and then I woke up in a fucking hospital with the cops asking me if I was raped. It was the the worst thing that ever happened to me.

Apparently, what REALLY happened is I went crazy. I started breaking shit and hitting my boyfriend and I couldn't speak. I also tried to undress myself and ran down the street naked from the waist down. Someone eventually called the police, and they had to restrain me and put me in the hospital.

Since then it's changed my views on tripping.
 
^ that's a real bad trip. it makes my bad trip look tame in comparison.

but you know what, shit happens. maybe all these dumb-ass teenagers popping acid is reality's way of compensating for a complete lack of natural risk.
 
Yes, on both shrooms and LSD. Actually, I had a very negative experience on LSD and my entire body felt poisoned. I fought vomiting for hours 2-5 and had severe muscle pains for 8 hours, until I finally fell asleep from all the Ativan I imbibed. Visual hallucinations that were terrifying, demons and vampires and shit. Then the negative guilt loops that I couldn't escape. In retrospect the benzos probably made the trip worse by hampering my ability to process what I was experiencing but at the time I needed it to STOP.
 
I haven't really had a trip that was 'bad' for a significant length of time - i feel i can tell when things are going a bit awry in my mind and can train myself to get out of the negative mindset quite easily. I can be quite a paranoid person even during normal life (probably more so than during trips to be honest!) so I know its just part of my personality and the thoughts probably do not have much basis in real life :)
 
The second time I did lsd, me and my friend had 4 blotters, and decided to take 2 each ( this was AMAZING LSD), needless to say we tripped complete balls, but during the peak I kept getting lost in my thoughts and losing reality. I had this mental image of reality being this glass of water, and it was just about to tip over and I really thought i was going to lose everything. It was nuts. Also, we tripped at night and we decided to get out of the vehicle we were tripping in and walk around the graveyard, we couldnt last 10 minutes. The world is too weird on acid :D
 
I have a single mushroom experience come to mind, that happened when I was 16 or 17. I ended up taking I think 5 grams of mushrooms at like 2:00 in the morning, and my parents were asleep in the room directly above me. It got a little more intense that I was prepared for. I ended up spending a whole bunch of time desperately wishing I had someone to communicate with, felt very paranoid, and the experience culminated with my music (Tools Lateralus i belive it was) being soooo overstimulating and had a scary tinny metallic robot sound, and my skin was so oversensitive that I had to take off my clothes, and I was just lying on my bed naked in a fetal position for a while. I couldn't think to get up and turn off the music. I was having depressing thoughts about the "state of affairs of my life" (which really wasn't even that bad at the time, I was just all carried away), and in the morning I felt all better, with just a "wow that really sucked!" sentiment. Didn't touch mushrooms for a little while after that.

It's not even THAT bad of a trip compared to some of you people, but it has probably been my worst one to date.
 
Yes, first time I ever took two hits of double dipped acid it was a bad trip with a buddy.

Second time I did it alone and it still felt really fucked. I can't stand that drug, never did it again.

Shrooms for the win.
 
trying to sell 2 1/4oz of weed to different people on a dark and cold nighht while trippin on like 8 hits of good cid = bad fucking idea. i thought every car driving past me was a cop car while i was walking to meet my friends...fucking terrifying, plus on the way home i started running and couldnt see shit in front of me so i ran into a fucking stop sign and almost smashed my face on the pole... even after getting safely home with my friend i kept asking if we were in jail and when were the cops gonna bust down the front door. MAD fucking paranoia...
 
My view may be simplistic. But I think bad trips/experiences come from resisting what is happening. Saying no to the experience produces ill-effects that can be hard to deal with leading to further discomfort and it becomes a self sustaining action. A downward spiral!
 
Demonslayer said:
You've never experienced that a trip suddenly drops down to almost nothing because you have to speak with a parent, policeman or someone?
At really high doses I agree with you, but most people don't do heroic handfuls of shrooms.
I recently killed a perfectly good trip on 2g of liberty caps by sitting down at the computer and typing a answer in a discussion forum. The post was exellent and no-body would have suspected that it was written during a trip, but it really brought me right down to the level of a weed high.
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My trips always happen in waves, the peak is tripping balls, the valley is like being really stoned on a sativa, but just more energetic and clear headed. It's not so much a matter of being able to pull yourself out of a trip at will.
 
omg yes.....
my first trip ever. i still to this day don't know what the hell it was. i was young, stupid, naive. i had only smoked pot before this. i was told i would be rolling and that it would be the best time of my life. my boyfriend got the pills, they were clear capsules with white powder in it. i got second thoughts right before and didn't want to take it. i was at a halloween party and i only knew my boyfriend and maybe 2 other people. he took his so i was like screw it *gulp.* i remember hitting a bowl and then i started to feel extremely happy.. overwhelmingly happy. i went outside for some fresh air. eventually the houses across the street started waving back and forth. i puked on the sidewalk so the person who owned the house had me move to the back porch. from there i do not remember anything except a magnificent trip that i don't think most people could ever imagine!

unfortunately it wasn't so magnificent for the people at the party. i was kicking, non stop screaming as loud as i could, scratching at my face, spinning around on the kitchen floor, knocking beer over... etc... someone decided to take me to the hospital, i kicked and screamed the entire time. i kicked some guy (the driver) in the face and gave him a black eye. they dropped my boyfriend and i off at a hospital, he went inside to get help while tripping his fucking balls off (he later told me the tiles were coming up off the floor and he was sitting there with his arm out trying to catch them.)

anyway, the doctors came out and i was under a bench scratching at my face. it took a couple of them to get me inside and i fought the entire time. (i was soo petite, and not even 5') i woke up strapped to a hospital bed. i asked the nurse to take off the restraints and she was like "no honey they have to stay on" ..she was talking to me like i was an idiot. i kind of shrugged it off like it was nothing. they asked me if i knew why i was there and i told them "because i was in a car accident" (i was, 3 months prior) my parents came and they were livid. i assured them it was alright because i was just getting a piss test for the car accident. i really felt as if everything was fine and this was all procedure for the car accident. that is until my dad said "you don't have to lie, your boyfriend is out there with the cops right now, we know you took something" -- it all sunk it. that wasn't just a dream, and i was in big shit.

i spent the night at a toxicology unit in harrisburg. mom knew i'd hate that, plus the doctor was filling her head with crazy talk saying i could start tripping again later in the night...

all i know is i tested positive for a lot of drugs, when all i did was smoke pot and take that pill. i remember my dad asking me if i did heroin, because the dr told him i tested positive for it. i don't think he ever believed me.

sorry for rambling, i'm pretty stoned and love telling that story haha. after this i was grounded for a very long time. when i smoked pot for the first time after i had a massive panic attack. i thought i was tripping again, and that i'd have to go to the hospital. but i didn't want to disappoint my parents again so i didn't go to the hospital. i had panic attacks regularly after that for a long time
 
I have only ever had difficult trips... even the difficult ones are difficult for a reason. Theres probably something laying under the surface that you needed to deal with and it gets brought up in the trip. Trips can be scary, horrifying, troublesome, chaotic, unpleasant etc. but at the end of the trip you usually get something out of it. Lifes not always rainbows and butterfly's and neither are trips.
 
I had one mushroom trip where my friend started bad tripping because his ego had completely dissolved. In all honesty I wouldn't say in my experience it was bad, it was just laden with anxiety and a bit of paranoia. I didn't let this show externally though. I simply got a hold of my brother who was sober and had him help me take care of my friend for the next hour and a half until he reached a point where he was coherent. My head was all over the place but I have yet to have a trip of that magnitude. In retrospect it was the greatest experience of my life.

"You learn more from the bad trips than you do from the good ones." - Terence McKenna
 
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