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

[Northside]

Never. I have taken probably 200 trips on shrooms, acid and mescaline. I haven't tried any of the newer hallucinogens, I tend to stay with what I know, and what I know I learned in highschool in the late eighties.

I will say that I have abstained from tripping if I didn't feel my mind or environment was right for it at the time, maybe that's how I avoided the bad trips?

A few times in recent years I was definitely tripping on ecstasy that was so acid-like I'm convinced that's what it really was. I'm not a test kit user.

 

[PepperSocks]

Some horrendous mishap can happen and ruin your perfect set and setting. If your tripping hard and some dire emergency somehow finds you no longer have the ability to go with the flow and are forced to try to function, and since while tripping its best to go with the flow this can cause serious brain conflict.

Totally. There is no insurance on setting unless you're in the woods miles upon miles from the nearest human not in your group and don't have a cell phone. Otherwise there could always be someone who comes calling with an emergency and needs your help. In a sense we spend our lives "on call" incase something happens and getting "off call" can be tricky.

Then again being in the woods isn't a guarantee of perfect setting either. Someone could really hurt themselves walking around in a trippy daze, trip (in the conventional sense) and smash their head on a rock, or encounter a nasty animal, get bitten, freak out hard and then have to get a rabies shot.

Dealing with this sort of stuff on a head full of psychs is much harder than sober and causes lots of brain conflicts indeed. Unfortunately there is no way to insure it won't happen.

 

[indigo_shades]

I have had my fair share of uncomfortable trips.

 

[kzorro]

I've tripped quite a few times and have never had a trip that went really bad. The closest to bad that I've had, and would consider difficult, are my most powerful shroom trips. The come up and peak are absolutely amazing, but when I come down I become paranoid about my future.

 

[MistaJeff]

I've taken mushrooms 10 times at varying doses. Acid 7 times at varying doses. And DMT once. I still haven't had a bad trip. I've gotten scared by my environment on acid a few times but that went away when I relocated.

 

[Immunity]

Difficult; yes, bad; never. My best and most useful or profound trips have been the ones I've considered difficult.

 

[Solipsis]

I've eaten mushrooms plenty of times and on some occasions it turned into complete chaos, I was just lost. period. Upon recovery I would be overcome with feelings of grace, thankful to be alive, so survive such a thing. It's always tricky to define these experiences because on some level they set me free only I was definitely not ready. The only part of it that was 'bad' was that this development was somewhat forced or asynchronous. To this day I reap the benefits of this and I am just unimagineably aware but there is also a feeling that it's impossible for me to develop myself on every level. Some things are just bound by preset terms and they can most hardly be escaped.

 

[bpayne]

the only bad trip I had was on a quarter of shrroms, and i got over that in about 4 hours, I even took 5 hits of liquid and climed grandfather mountain while I was tripping and never had a bad trip until those 7 grams of pan cyan cubes.

 

[MistaJeff]

I've gotten scared on LSD but I've never tripped badly for more than a minute at a time. Once my friend was being a dick when I was on 2 hits and waving his hands in my face. I got really claustrophobic (even though I was outside, my personal space was violated) and thought I was going to die. The other time I was outside smoking a cigarette in my back yard at 3 in the morning with a head full of acid. It was dark out and I hadn't turned any lights on. The darkness kind of swooped in on me and I panicked, threw my cig and ran inside. Once I was inside I was fine.

I've tripped at least 30 times. Mostly LSD and mushrooms, DMT once.

 

[isotopic_parody]

I wouldn't call it a "bad trip"... at least not now... many months after... It was just very unexpectedly strong.

My buddy had a bottle containing 500 hits of some really potent, very clean, liquid LSD. probably 75-100ug... but who really knows. At one point, the vial had been in his freezer, and towards to end, at room temperature. He ended up being about 30-40 hits short and could not explain where they disappeared to... he ended moving to bulgaria for 6 months or so and left me the empty vial we were supposed to rinse together when he left.

I only expected 3-4 hits to be left on the side of the vial... 6 or so at the most. In retrospect, I would say there was at minimum 1000ug in that vial... possibly 1500-2500. So... imagine, to my horror, having your front door turn 4 feet tall and you turn 8 feet tall just 10-15 minutes after ingesting with very little planning for a couple hits trip. I was still living with my family during this time and my mother ended up taking me to the hospital after finding me 10 hours after ingestion when she found her entire house covered in my blood... walls, carpets, mirrors, cabinets, counters, the whole nine yards. I can't/won't go into too much detail about the trip... but I had transcended reality, left this realm, and was going through the process of my soul or being transcending to the beyond.

One hell of a journey... but I still wouldn't say it was a bad trip... despite the repercussions of the trip... I honestly think that had I prepared for such an intense experience, I would have been alright.

On a side note.. I rinsed the vial with distilled water four times then handed it to my friend who washed the remains twice. He ended up having the equivalent of 3 hits of this liquid that he had taken before. No telling my actual dose... but I certainly felt that my receptors were more than saturated.

Cheers.

 

[anarchogen]

bad trips for me are just like dreams where your stuck in a pitch black room and a old cassette player is making a shitload of screaming and whaling noises and finally think you found it and none of the buttons turn it off, that includes painful time dilation..
seizures are a bad trip too espically when i fell head first off a bus, cause i had a almostseizurething beforehand on the bus and i forgot i couldn't walk when i came too, and had to watch myself in 3rd person being carried home

 

[Lt. Shiny Sides]

I have only done Shrooms a handful of times...but on my second time something quite extreme happened..that I dont know how to explain.

On my first time shooming, a couple of buddies and I went outside and explored the wilderness. If you haven't done this while tripping, I HIGHLY recommend it. You can truly see natures beauty, its breathtaking!

Buy on my second time...we decided to come back into the house while still tripping...BIG MISTAKE. As soon as we entered the house we all got bad vibes.

I just don't know how to explain it..I cant explain it. I went onto the kitchen floor of our 4 bedroom house and just sat there..contemplating everything in life. No question was answerable. It was as if living didnt have any meaning, and for once I could understand this. It was absolutely mind blowing, and it scared me to the point I was asking my roommate to take me to the hospital.

But it wasn't a "bad" trip. When I finally came to my sense and the shrooms subsided I realised it was a mind opening experience. I feel sorry for the people who have not or will never experience Mushies. It is a truly magical experience, and shows you HOW MUCH the brain is capable of.

 

[Solipsis]

I merged together two identical threads, with poll and everything.
The poll answers are also merged, though the answer "haven't I seen this before?"
has been removed, to keep it valuable.

 

[gelleng]

I have never had a bad trip on acid because I alway carry E with me when I'm tripping. If I start to feel shitty, I take the E. E always make me feel like a million bucks.

 

[whipcream]

idk if this would count as a bad trip but it certainly was not enjoyable... 12 x 25mg of Diphenhydramine. around 300mg. At first it started out was a little enjoyable I didnt feel sleepy at all and i was getting all amped up, I went to take a shower and get a drink and I felt it coming on more and more. I was talking to my gf on the phone and she realized my energy. She hung up to sleep while I was still up. Then I started to go pee, I made frequent trips to the bathroom and soon I couldnt get there anymore, I took two steps out of my room and peed on the floor like 5 times, Then i tried to get some sleep and I got up to pee, this time not even making it outta my room and I peed in the trash can. I tried to sleep more and I became more manic and started freaking out, I got up and paced around trying to breathe. And somehow I fell asleep. Following day I had school and I woke up late. I missed my ride and had to bike to school. My head was reeling with throbbing and I was completley flushed. Despite trying to stay in class I was sent home to recover from me being 'sick'. All in all it was my first bad trip and I still feel horrible as this is the day it happened. My recommendations. Dont use Benedryl or Diphenhydramine as a way to get high.

 

[InfamouzJ23]

My bad trip was soley due to three ghetto boys with 40 cals pointin at me and my boi trippin on 2Ci............they werent gona pull tha trigger they was jus drunk and stupid......man now that i think about it, i was so stupid when i was young (this was like 6 years ago)...........but even after we left that journey, we were walking down the street and there was a snake, I HATE SNAKES, and my friend who was also tripping, picked it up and threw it at me.........that set me off........and from there on I HAD A TERRIBLE TRIPP!

 

[Delsyd]

i have had very strong, very uncomfortable trips, trips where i wished i had'nt taken a drug and promised myself i never would again.

After coming down and giving some time to integrate the trip, anywhere from weeks to months, i never would call those bad trips.

Difficult yes, bad no.

things are what you make of them.

 

[187coopa]

The people who claim "There is no bad trip" have never had a bad trip. I've had rough experiences, I've had hard times, I've had trips where I was forced to confront issues that I didn't want to confront at the time. And those trips hurt, but I learned from each of them.

That's not a bad trip. A bad trip is when you lose your mind, and issues mean nothing to you. The only thing you feel is fear and paranoia. Skeletons are rattling chains at your door, ready to send you to some sort of eternal punishment for sins that you didn't even know you committed. Walls bleed, your mind begins to fracture, and you hear voices begin to tell you things that aren't really coming from your own mind. Then, at the end of it all, you try to look back on it all with a positive light, because you've heard things like "Every trip is a learning experience, and there is truth in every trip." So things that before the trip seemed insane, ideas that are in fact the beginnings of paranoid schizophrenia, begin to seem like they might have root in fact.

That's a bad trip.

Ya man I got some tabs i thought were some potent acid turned out to be like 30 mg's of 5 meo dmt.
I can say though with time shit gets better 2 years later and im coming out of it i think. But my gma is a paranoid schizo so maybe im just goin schizo.

 

[cosmic charlie]

i have had very strong, very uncomfortable trips, trips where i wished i had'nt taken a drug and promised myself i never would again.

After coming down and giving some time to integrate the trip, anywhere from weeks to months, i never would call those bad trips.

Difficult yes, bad no.

things are what you make of them.

I feel the same way , Ive sworn of Psychedelics a few times but I always come back

Sometimes I need a rough trip to happen when Im taking them to often

It helps me get my priorities straight

 

[Sustanon]

I have never had a bad trip on acid because I alway carry E with me when I'm tripping. If I start to feel shitty, I take the E. E always make me feel like a million bucks.

U said it mate. A double drop of clean mdma pills saved my ass from tripping out in a nightclub on 2.5 tabs.