Has anyone ever had a bad trip because of the people that you tripped with?

[jackie jones]

I have always preferred to trip alone, with as little external stimuli as possible. Just traveling through the cosmos in my mind.

 

[TangerinO]

See, I've never had a bad trip as such from being in a drunken house party, perhaps I could if they were full of arseholes, but I remember dropping acid at a house party of drinkers before (where everyone was lovely). When I found it impossible to communicate with any of the drunkards I just went 'ah fuck it' and spent the rest of the night with the 3 other trippers. I can see how being the only tripper would be an issue, but then I wouldn't want to be around anybody if I was tripping solo anyway.

These days I only trip with my group of friends who are all trippers, and I know none of them would ruin a trip. Even before that, when I'd trip with inexperienced folks and chaos ensues with everyone panicking and ruining each other's mindset, I tend to be the one still having a whale of a time. I could safely say nobody has ruined a trip for me. However I know it could happen, so I make a point of surrounding myself with people I feel comfortable with completely

Honestly it was less the environment, and more a bunch of little specific things that all just sort of mounted on each other and I was way too confused to deal with any of it.
I had no issue when any of the people there really, I was just trying to be a superhero and prove to myself I could eat acid anywhere and got my shit put in line and rightfully so.

The only negative outcome from that experience is now I'm perhaps a bit too cautious. That experience scared me big time.

I have always preferred to trip alone, with as little external stimuli as possible. Just traveling through the cosmos in my mind.

I've been meaning to do this for ages, I never seem to find the time with my scattered Uni and work schedules.
I either do it during designated group party time, or not at all but I always tend to go find some personal space at a point during the trip.

 

[malakaix]

Yeah plenty of times; most of my experiences have been at doofs, so that really speaks for itself lol.

One of the more memorable uncomfortable experiences for me was when I had some acid at a psychedelic party in Amsterdam, I honestly did not expect one tab to have the effect it did.. Because I was traveling on my own I was thrown into sorrounding people's issues; everyone started to mirror myself back to me through there words and actions.. the synchronicity of everything began to collapse in on itself so tightly that it felt like every word and action was pre-determined as though all reality was been acted out from some universal script.

There was no separation between myself and others, they were all reflections of myself.. so every conversation I had with someone was quite literally my own deepest issues been reflected back at me through the words of others. I understood what was hapening as I've been through it before.. But it's quite unnerving to feel so exposed with the idea that this person knows everything about you.. especially when your in a foreign country on your own.

I also managed to fall into a canal with my passports which really spun my experience in an awkward direction, it wasn't one of the city ones thankfully.. just a small grass covered one on a property outside of Amsterdam but I'll never forget that smell, christ.

 

[dralexpatterson]

Yes, definitely.Bastards.

 

[treezy z]

i've always been damn careful of who i took psychedelics with, so no to the OPs question. however i've had many a marijuana high killed by assholes i was with.

 

[OGKooosh]

you can get caught in some nasty loops and i dont think anyone can even intentionally set you on one, but god damn i was stuck in one recently. the short version is i thought i had to die, on top of doubting everything i've even been taught; i ate dirt and was convinced water was poison, i tried not to breath... well you get the picture. as grueling as it was there was a very valuable lesson it that im still working on haha.

 

[zaggy]

For some reason I've always been able to keep a stable and strong mind and psycho-emotional boundaries when dealing with unpleasant people while tripping. For that reason I've never had a bad trip because of the people I was with. Like Splitz said, I remember being with drunk and stoned people partying, but some friends and other trippers were there. Either way, I didn't care. I was happy lying down in the sand looking into the ocean horizon with my guitar. That could have had something to do with it. I was tripping so hard I decided to go wherever the universe spouted me out by the end of the night... I ended up in unknown territory a ways down the peninsula... I ended up crashing in a real bad household situation (a violent drunk intruder). My friend started having a bad trip, but I still was able to hold my ground and take care of him.

Another time I was tripping on 2 grams of mushrooms and a hit of acid at a concert, and there was this poor abrasive drunk loser behind us. I appeased him for the time being and was nice and had conversation. My buddy's cards got shuffled with his though, and we ended up relocating so that I could calm him out of a bad trip.