[Bad Trip Subthread] Have You Ever Had a Bad Trip?
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tripmonkey505
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what the fuck did you take??
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.
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.
jamaica0535
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You dont consider salvia powerful?
i mean i have never really found much meaning in the experience, but anything that can tear reality into a billion little pieces in under a minute is powerful stuff....
I don't see a bad trip as a bad thing, it's a scary thing yeah, the scariest experience i've had so far in my lifetime, yes i'm 17 and the word lifetime is an understatement, but i learnt how much of a powerful mind tool LSD is and that it isn't to be fucked with. I spent 12 hours in an absolute nightmare, and i don't mean tables were trying to eat me, i mean i was completely taken out of my setting, couldn't see my friends or surroundings, i was just in a dark place with things worse than the stuff i have seen in my nightmares. And obviously because i lost sense of reality i thought it was actually happening. To this day i haven't met anyone who's shared the same very fucking scary experience i've had. To be honest though i was going through a rough patch, feeling down as fuck, lethargic as ever, so it wasn't the best of times to drop as much as i did (6 tabs). I'm not kidding i saw the baphomet for the first time on that trip, i've never seen it before and didn't have a clue it had something to do with the devil until the day after. That night i woke up in hospital, handcuffed to the bed, with the security guards at the end of it and my mum in tears at the side, for some reason i was in absolute agony, found out i'd wrestled my mums boyfriend off of me and attacked him, so my mum called my uncle round who works as a bouncy and is a pretty big cunt, now i weigh 9 stone wet through and he weighs about double, and i was told i wrestled him off me before they both pinned me down, i learnt at the hospital that it gives people superhuman strength and that i was that strong because i thought my life was in imminent danger, must've been a fucker of an adrenaline rush, i can remember them holding me down the night before and not being able to move anything, like i was paralyzed, it was the worst feeling i've experienced, like someone put me in cement. Bad night turned worse when i got home and found out my samsung pixon i got a day earlier [this was boxing day btw] was smashed. Bastard
phishy2
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just keep on tripping and one trip, the set and karma will just be wrong enough for a bad trip
recipes for bad trips----too high a dose, tripping with the wrong people, cops, bad weather, trips u thought were bunk and took more and BANG, ZOOM!!, hit u like a lead pipe cross ur head all at once, stupid people, cops, too much alcohol, failure of communication, fake concert tickets, no money, no way to get home,severe case of murphy's law, cops
NOONE IS BAD TRIP PROOF!!!
phishy2
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tonner, yea, i think that does qualify as a bad trip in my book!!!
i've had the first parts, avoided the handcuffs and hospital part, but if sure there were times when i though my cactii were trying to eat me. oh, these cactii are special, they talk to me, just really slowly!!!
Had a awesome first trip at xQlusive (hardstyle rave)
Then tripped again the day after, was loving it, best drug ever!
Shit went everywhere, did everything, really trippin out..
First time experiencing egoless-ness =p
Then had some acid after The Sound of Q-Dance at 6am in the morning, after/while coming down off some hectic pills that fucked me up so much i was having a terrible time at the best rave ever!
I was with my best mates and they were tripping for the first time, then it started to go bad, i realized that all we were talking about was hardcore, and how we loved beats, but then i didn't know why we did.. they continued to talk about the same thing over and over and over again for about 4+ hours.
I kept asking them "sooo when are you leaving?"
There wer like, err wahht?
I did not want to be around my friends, just wanted to goto sleep, over analyzed everything, nothing made sense, was not having fun anywhere, no matter where i went.
Said i would never do it again..
2 weeks later (few days ago) i think to myself, nah, was just bad timing.. I should try it again and ill have a great time..
About 30mins into the trip i start thinking fuck, nah, fuck this, i want to goto sleep.
Leave my dealer/half-friend (only really a friend because we both use drugs) without saying goodbye.. because i could not stand trying to communicate with them.. They were stuck in the "hahhahahahaha, what? why am i laughing?" loop and it was doing my head in.
So i catch a taxi back home..
Sneak in without waking mum.. goto my room, close my eyes.. then was just out in what i would call "void", there was nothing there, i couldnt not stand it..
So i wake mum up and tell her im having a bad trip and i really want to goto sleep but cant (1am)
So she drives me to the hospital where we wait in a room, theres a movie on the TV and it made no sense... communication, i did not fully understand.
Everything, i did not understand.
I did however think about the law of attraction and it did make some sense, but then i questioned the fuck out of it like everything else until my head exploded. not literally =p
I had a taste of 'psychosis', again, and it was fucked.
I did not understand anything, except for that i never wanted to do drugs again.
They did not give me anything because the doctor said she did not want me to develop a dependence on substances to fix my short term problems.
So i had to wait it out..
Anyway im sure you know what im talking about and have experienced it before..
It took me about 4 days to come back to reality, i think im here.. maybe.. =]
But the risk of that becoming a permanent thing is just one thing i don't want to take a chance on..
(bad post, but had to say something, i just want people to ease up on it because loosing touch with reality and the people around you is a scarey thing, i think people should just quit while they are ahead... ive learnt alot from it though.. but now its time to set some goals, move ahead and focus on something more positive!)
And the worst part about it was that the last 2 bad trips were only half tabs, hardly any hallucinations just massive head fucks.
Peace =]
Then tripped again the day after, was loving it, best drug ever!
Shit went everywhere, did everything, really trippin out..
First time experiencing egoless-ness =p
Then had some acid after The Sound of Q-Dance at 6am in the morning, after/while coming down off some hectic pills that fucked me up so much i was having a terrible time at the best rave ever!
I was with my best mates and they were tripping for the first time, then it started to go bad, i realized that all we were talking about was hardcore, and how we loved beats, but then i didn't know why we did.. they continued to talk about the same thing over and over and over again for about 4+ hours.
I kept asking them "sooo when are you leaving?"
There wer like, err wahht?
I did not want to be around my friends, just wanted to goto sleep, over analyzed everything, nothing made sense, was not having fun anywhere, no matter where i went.
Said i would never do it again..
2 weeks later (few days ago) i think to myself, nah, was just bad timing.. I should try it again and ill have a great time..
About 30mins into the trip i start thinking fuck, nah, fuck this, i want to goto sleep.
Leave my dealer/half-friend (only really a friend because we both use drugs) without saying goodbye.. because i could not stand trying to communicate with them.. They were stuck in the "hahhahahahaha, what? why am i laughing?" loop and it was doing my head in.
So i catch a taxi back home..
Sneak in without waking mum.. goto my room, close my eyes.. then was just out in what i would call "void", there was nothing there, i couldnt not stand it..
So i wake mum up and tell her im having a bad trip and i really want to goto sleep but cant (1am)
So she drives me to the hospital where we wait in a room, theres a movie on the TV and it made no sense... communication, i did not fully understand.
Everything, i did not understand.
I did however think about the law of attraction and it did make some sense, but then i questioned the fuck out of it like everything else until my head exploded. not literally =p
I had a taste of 'psychosis', again, and it was fucked.
I did not understand anything, except for that i never wanted to do drugs again.
They did not give me anything because the doctor said she did not want me to develop a dependence on substances to fix my short term problems.
So i had to wait it out..
Anyway im sure you know what im talking about and have experienced it before..
It took me about 4 days to come back to reality, i think im here.. maybe.. =]
But the risk of that becoming a permanent thing is just one thing i don't want to take a chance on..
(bad post, but had to say something, i just want people to ease up on it because loosing touch with reality and the people around you is a scarey thing, i think people should just quit while they are ahead... ive learnt alot from it though.. but now its time to set some goals, move ahead and focus on something more positive!)
And the worst part about it was that the last 2 bad trips were only half tabs, hardly any hallucinations just massive head fucks.
Peace =]
bloodypiper
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I havent had a bad trip yet..... But I have had moments in trips that have started to send things bad and ive had to change my situation to not let it happen.
A while ago I was tripping quite strongly and a couple of my friends decided they wanted to watch Metalocalypse. All the blood and violence started to happen around me like friends faces bleeding and really scared me.
Then this last weekend at a psytrance rave we were doing nos balloons and for some reason my friend just keep huffing on his balloon and he went into a much deeper level of unconsciousness then the rest of us. I had to take the balloon of him cause I was worried he wasn't breathing. He then collapsed and lay on the ground for a while and I was shaking him trying to get him to come round and could see his nose bleeding (it wasn't) and shouted for help. He came back and said it was the most amazing experience of his life but it really freaked me out.
A while ago I was tripping quite strongly and a couple of my friends decided they wanted to watch Metalocalypse. All the blood and violence started to happen around me like friends faces bleeding and really scared me.
Then this last weekend at a psytrance rave we were doing nos balloons and for some reason my friend just keep huffing on his balloon and he went into a much deeper level of unconsciousness then the rest of us. I had to take the balloon of him cause I was worried he wasn't breathing. He then collapsed and lay on the ground for a while and I was shaking him trying to get him to come round and could see his nose bleeding (it wasn't) and shouted for help. He came back and said it was the most amazing experience of his life but it really freaked me out.
whyterabbit
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i found that the best way to avoid a bad trip is to just really embrace whatever happens. when i feel myself starting to freak out, i'm just like, wow, hey, i'm freaking out...random!
anyway, the closest i've had to a bad trip is when i went to visit a friend 2000 miles from where i lived. i spent two days tripping there and sometime during the second day i got stuck in the house alone with a guy who i didn't feel particularly safe around. i realized that i was stuck there with him and kind of started getting stuck in my head, because i don't drive and plus i was far away from home.
i ended up texting my boss at the time, who has had extensive experience with psychedelics. i said 'dude, i'm having a bad trip'. his response was one word: 'love'. that effectively ended the bad part of my trip, because i got really preoccupied trying to figure out why he just texted me the one word. i spent the next couple hours wondering about that, and by that time other people arrived at the house.
i think i am one of the few people who can say that they adore their (now ex) boss.
anyway, the closest i've had to a bad trip is when i went to visit a friend 2000 miles from where i lived. i spent two days tripping there and sometime during the second day i got stuck in the house alone with a guy who i didn't feel particularly safe around. i realized that i was stuck there with him and kind of started getting stuck in my head, because i don't drive and plus i was far away from home.
i ended up texting my boss at the time, who has had extensive experience with psychedelics. i said 'dude, i'm having a bad trip'. his response was one word: 'love'. that effectively ended the bad part of my trip, because i got really preoccupied trying to figure out why he just texted me the one word. i spent the next couple hours wondering about that, and by that time other people arrived at the house.
i think i am one of the few people who can say that they adore their (now ex) boss.
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Didn't I link already to my experience with DXM & LSD ? Those fuckers potentiate eachother like CRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZYCRAZY if you get to the 4th plateau or possibly higher and take LSD, you'll go NUTS. Atleast, I never went further than the third many times and it was my first time acid but a 1 week lasting hardcore trip like smoked DMT is compared shit to what I experienced. I still suffer the consequences and hope that nobody follows me in this mistake of mine.
Don't mix dissociatives with psychedelics. Truly, the strongest trips possible. If you want permanent brain damage like I have now. Go ahead. But it's not fun.
This fucking tick of mine
Don't mix dissociatives with psychedelics. Truly, the strongest trips possible. If you want permanent brain damage like I have now. Go ahead. But it's not fun.
This fucking tick of mine
Aeon Psyche
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Oh, and whenever I have a bad trip I just watch porn. Immeadiate distraction 
In some cases this won't work however. But it's what I did on ayahuasca. Blah.
Funny though.
In some cases this won't work however. But it's what I did on ayahuasca. Blah.
Funny though.
Shambles
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Oh, and whenever I have a bad trip I just watch porn. Immeadiate distraction
I watched a 3-D psychedelic porn flick on acid one time. It was truly an unforgettable experience
Lachlan
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Embracing what you are experiencing is my most effective way to deal with unwanted thoughts. You have to STOP, realise.... and embrace what is happening.
Obviously dissociatives can be a little different if inexperienced. Sometimes things just DO go out of control and you need to be ready for it.
Although I find it much easier to manage 'bad things' while on trips after having bad trips myself. I've had panic attacks over totally irrational thoughts. Causing an increase in breathing, heart rate as I panic further down the spiral.
It's different for everyone, my head is clear, I have no regrets, no trauma, no suppressed memories that I wouldnt want to make public. It's hard for me to have a bad trip unless its caused by something external or an innapropriate mood before the trip which can change things quite dramatically as I have experienced.
Aslong as you're in a good mood, good frame of mind, are ready to experience the worst and have done your homework on a substance then you should be fine, trusting you dose correctly etc etc.
There's a lot to consider on a trip, set and setting, moods, people in your environment, commitments. The best environment for me is my home with either me, my significant other or close friends around and NOTHING to worry about for atleast the next 48 hours or more.
I read trip reports on erowid.org and I cant believe some of the people who trip while driving, at home with parents, have things to do, work the next day, school on the same day, exams, this and that and god knows what else. I can't believe the things people are doing and wondering why they had such an uncomfortable and terrible trip. As they say, there's no school for common sense.
Obviously dissociatives can be a little different if inexperienced. Sometimes things just DO go out of control and you need to be ready for it.
Although I find it much easier to manage 'bad things' while on trips after having bad trips myself. I've had panic attacks over totally irrational thoughts. Causing an increase in breathing, heart rate as I panic further down the spiral.
It's different for everyone, my head is clear, I have no regrets, no trauma, no suppressed memories that I wouldnt want to make public. It's hard for me to have a bad trip unless its caused by something external or an innapropriate mood before the trip which can change things quite dramatically as I have experienced.
Aslong as you're in a good mood, good frame of mind, are ready to experience the worst and have done your homework on a substance then you should be fine, trusting you dose correctly etc etc.
There's a lot to consider on a trip, set and setting, moods, people in your environment, commitments. The best environment for me is my home with either me, my significant other or close friends around and NOTHING to worry about for atleast the next 48 hours or more.
I read trip reports on erowid.org and I cant believe some of the people who trip while driving, at home with parents, have things to do, work the next day, school on the same day, exams, this and that and god knows what else. I can't believe the things people are doing and wondering why they had such an uncomfortable and terrible trip. As they say, there's no school for common sense.
dread
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In response to rsrkt:
Well you obviously should learn a bit about set & setting and the substances that you take. No offense, but sounds to me you didn't treat acid with due respect, and ended up having a bad time. It's not a drug you should take casually if you're not really used to it's effects.
Acid is not a drug that gives you this feeling or that feeling. It simply magnifies and enhances what's already inside your mind, it's a mirror to your soul, so to speak. Acid shows you yourself. If you don't like what you see you shouldn't blame acid...
Next time, do a bit more research on the effects of LSD, and pay attention to the set & setting: make sure there are no issues that bother you, that you are in a comfortable place with people that you trust, and that you have no plans or obligations for the next 12 hours. Then just drop and let go, don't fight it. You will have a good time, I'm sure.
Well you obviously should learn a bit about set & setting and the substances that you take. No offense, but sounds to me you didn't treat acid with due respect, and ended up having a bad time. It's not a drug you should take casually if you're not really used to it's effects.
Acid is not a drug that gives you this feeling or that feeling. It simply magnifies and enhances what's already inside your mind, it's a mirror to your soul, so to speak. Acid shows you yourself. If you don't like what you see you shouldn't blame acid...
Next time, do a bit more research on the effects of LSD, and pay attention to the set & setting: make sure there are no issues that bother you, that you are in a comfortable place with people that you trust, and that you have no plans or obligations for the next 12 hours. Then just drop and let go, don't fight it. You will have a good time, I'm sure.
Sustanon
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You need to learn how to control trips. U need to know how to get out of them too. Ive had massive amounts of acid or shrooms where i couldnt distinguish reality or a dream. If you can control them then ur all good. U have to think of other stuff. Good stuff that ur proud of and think about ur goals and what u want to acheive. Think of why u took the shrooms or acid.
Ive encountered pretty much all the things mentioned above. Bleeding walls, being arrested. Ive also had injuries where i was bleeding bad and i thought i was going to die. You know wat? I just said fuk it, its only a trip. If ur meant to die then u will and if ur not then ur not. U got to ride the dragons back and go with it. Dont let the drug control u.
Ive encountered pretty much all the things mentioned above. Bleeding walls, being arrested. Ive also had injuries where i was bleeding bad and i thought i was going to die. You know wat? I just said fuk it, its only a trip. If ur meant to die then u will and if ur not then ur not. U got to ride the dragons back and go with it. Dont let the drug control u.
Esotericism
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Never bad tripped, had bad moments in a trip like seeing a dead heroin junkie, and when I got lost at the casino, but those cleared up once i moved away a bit. Closest thing to a bad trip would of been when a homeless guy came up to me and couldn't even speak, holding out a sign saying acid caused the government to steal his brains speech center or some other messed up communication, made worse by my drunk friend repeatedly saying that was me in the future for the next half hour, took me a whole hour to get over that one.