LSD - Experienced - Hellish, Ego-Dissolving LSD Trip

[Dusk]

Well I'm 19 years old and last night was the most terrifying, off-the-wall experience I've ever had.

In the past two years I became very interested in psychedelic drugs. I started smoking weed about four years ago, I've tripped on a variety of different mushrooms on various doses anywhere from a gram to an 8th.
I've tripped on acid about 15 times, doses varying from 1 hit to 4 hits.

Before last night it had been over a month since my last trip. Last week I had been preparing myself for a solo trip, I was aiming for a spiritual and introspective journey.

Here is the account of my story as best as I can describe it.

I returned home from work at approximately 10 yesterday morning. I was anticipating tripping all night at work and my mood was good, I dropped the first 1 and a half hits of some grateful dead prints.

I relaxed on my computer waiting for the effects to take place, after only about 30 minutes I began to feel the acid changing me. I felt like I should eat one more hit so I did.

After about 2 hours after initial dosing I have a very good body high, colors are vibrant, many complex patterns, the walls are breathing. This continues for about 4 more hours until I feel the peak was over. During this time I was very calm and had no feelings of being overwhelmed or panic.

6 hours from initial dosing my good friend(Jon) came over. I am still tripping but not near as much as I was earlier and I knew (Jon) wanted to smoke. Jon rolls a pretty fat blunt probably around a 2g.

We smoke the blunt between the two of us and this is when things start to get crazy.

3/4 way through the blunt I kept forgetting what I was doing, even though I was just sitting with my friend in my apartment, watching a movie. It felt extremely similar to a salvia breakthrough. The deep current feeling in my chest. I remember even telling Jon aloud that I felt like I was on salvia.

Time began to have no meaning.

All of a sudden a terror crept down me, I felt my heat rate increase and I began sweating, for some reason I didn't feel good in the room I was in. I attempted mumbling to Jon that I didn't like it here but words didn't really come out.

I left the room, and went into the living room. It felt a little better in there and I then tried to piece together why my visuals and intensity of the drug was just shooting up and down almost like a battle between good and bad. After awhile thinking about it I told myself I was floating in and out of conscious'.

I returned to the room with Jon to try watching the movie again. If I would keep my eyes open to long It would feel like I was being split into two between my sub-conscious and conscious mind. When I felt myself slowly slipping away my muscles would tighten, heart rate increase and my jaw would lock and bite the sides of my mouth.

After this happened twice and catching myself and bringing myself back to consciousness and realizing what was happening I was very freaked out.

It almost felt like a battle in my mind between, Good(my conscious mind) and Evil(my sub-conscious mind)

I found closing my eyes and clearing my mind completely would help keep me grounded. Because drifting into the sub-conscious mind seemed very dark and frightening.

During this whole process I felt like I had to figure out the way to beat this and many times I felt I did beat it but then I would start thinking about what had happened to me and it kept coming back.

Eventually I just fell asleep and slept the rest off. I woke up about an hour ago and Im writing it all down now while its fresh.

Has anyone had any type of experience like this?

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[acidicweed_69]

yeah man right here... i didnt get ego dreath, however i came 99% close to a panic attack on lsd+weed once and man it was not nice..

ok basically heres how it happened- i was also alone, solo trip and i was in the bush near my house in the sunlight loving life then i decided to have a sesh. now back then i could have any mount of weed and be fine. i so i was on my 4-5th then my thoughts started going very down hill.. i wondered if i was crazy, listened for voices (nothing, luckily lol) then i got the worst feeling of my entire life- it was this hot flush jolting throuhg my body and then mmy heart got fast and i had read what a panic attack was, so i knew how to avoid it i tried to ignore it adn listen to music while calling friends to meet them and yeah... basically what it did it to me was open pathways to anxiety and anxious thoughts (i used to hav them mildly as a kid but forgot about them til very recently) and there was 2 months where it was really bad, then i learnt how to think about it and slowly i have learnto completely deal with it again... i cut down on drugs, i shud of stopped but i didnt but after my last acid trip its lokced back away..

if its something u dont want to think about, dont do ti but if it is something u think about n feel upset about it then sooner or later just face up and think what happened, why it happened and i promise u will learn to understand it better.. lsd+xanax is a great combo for doing it because it removes that anxiety that u might otherwise have, but leaves u only with the acid thought patterns so u can think about why u shudnt feel that all the time ..

i dunno if u have anxiety after it, i hope u dont, but thats how i eventually overcame it mentally.. i wrote it just in case lol

 

[Propyl Power]

It was the blunt.

I smoke cannabis multiple times daily, but never with LSD... the two simply do not work well together. Many many many people experience fear & anxiety with this combination.

Don't worry about it too much, live and learn

 

[lostPixels]

Yup, I've even had that happen with just weed before, where you're so stoned you feel like you're fighting to stay conscious. For me it's cause I was a lightweight smoking high quality bud with some world class potheads, I definitely did too much as it sounded like you did.

 

[Dusk]

Yep, that makes a lot sense, everytime I've smoked on LSD it maginifies the intensity greatly. But I never would have thought It would have fucked with me that bad. Before smoking the blunt I didn't feel the acid all that much and figured I would be ok but I was wrong.

It was probably the hardest I've tripped and most overwhelmed I've felt but it wouldn't stop me from taking LSD again just definetely won't smoke as much grass next time.

Thanks for the advice and stories everyone.

 

[Mystery Brew]

whenever I get bad vibes I step outside and I feel a million times better for some reason in nature like something can never go wrong when I am in god's created land..and Im not even religious either.

smoking with psychs are nuts. it maginifies it ten folds at the begining. but eventually I cant even feel the ganja anymore. smoke on the come up I think gives a better transition from sober to balls on the melted mosaic wall

I remember one time shrooming on a 8th I felt my ego spliting away from me

 

[shienar]

Well i must disagree

Cones and acid = awesome

Its as simple as that. It makes everything better.

Glad you pulled through, sometime when your tripping that seems impossible.

 

[Sega420]

simple FACT-

Cannabis eccenuates the effects of other drugs.
eg- someone who is drunk as shit then smoking a blunt to the face will no doubt feel ill and boke everywhere.
whereas if they smoke first, THEN drink, this problem is way less likely.



try getting high, THEN drop your acid, im sure youll have a much better time.




also, my name is jon, and i stay near Helensburgh.
is this the BURGH u are at?

it'd be fuckin weird if it is...

 

[lyrrad85z]

weed never changed anything for me on lsd. salvia is a solo drug IMO, and one time i made a time capsule of all my shit because i knew that i was going away... and i did, but it was prison, not hell, so i never saw my stuff, ever again...

 

[BrutalRollar]

Weed+acid=heavan

 

[Tune in_Drop out]

considering you haven't had negative experiences with psychedelics in the past I'd have to say your setting was what turned the trip nasty...

I can never stand being inside when tripping- I much prefer being in nature or at least in a park. a lot of the negative body feelings you got- i often get from just sitting still.

Acid's a stimulating drug in several senses. It sounds like you had a pretty awful time but next time you trip on acid lay off the weed (and tobacco) until you know you're comfortable and in my opinion it never hurts to have a downer on hand (valium, kpin, seroquel)


happy tripping

 

[Delta-9-THC]

Personally I always smoke weed on acid. You can do too much though, especially during the peak. Despite this, during the comedown I usually smoke a lot with no problems.

There do seem to be a lot of stories of freak outs/Bad trips/psychotic breaks that seem to be ignited by the tripper smoking weed. Even on the comedown when you wouldn't expect it.

 

[Dusk]

simple FACT-

Cannabis eccenuates the effects of other drugs.
eg- someone who is drunk as shit then smoking a blunt to the face will no doubt feel ill and boke everywhere.
whereas if they smoke first, THEN drink, this problem is way less likely.



try getting high, THEN drop your acid, im sure youll have a much better time.




also, my name is jon, and i stay near Helensburgh.
is this the BURGH u are at?

it'd be fuckin weird if it is...

I have smoked before dropping it before and it definitely does help with the intensity issue but I always like to feel the acid come on whereas if I'm high I can't feel it come on as much.

and im from pittsburgh haha that would be pretty wild though.

considering you haven't had negative experiences with psychedelics in the past I'd have to say your setting was what turned the trip nasty...

I can never stand being inside when tripping- I much prefer being in nature or at least in a park. a lot of the negative body feelings you got- i often get from just sitting still.

Acid's a stimulating drug in several senses. It sounds like you had a pretty awful time but next time you trip on acid lay off the weed (and tobacco) until you know you're comfortable and in my opinion it never hurts to have a downer on hand (valium, kpin, seroquel)


happy tripping

Yeah I enjoy tripping in nature too but the day I had planned turned out to be a rainy, icy day so it kind of prohibited me going outside or even taking a ride with my friend. I should have considered that before dropping =/ but lesson learned. I also remember when I was tripping that I wished I had some xanax or valium to chill me out. Next time ill be sure to have some on hand.

Personally I always smoke weed on acid. You can do too much though, especially during the peak. Despite this, during the comedown I usually smoke a lot with no problems.

There do seem to be a lot of stories of freak outs/Bad trips/psychotic breaks that seem to be ignited by the tripper smoking weed. Even on the comedown when you wouldn't expect it.

Yeah I used to love smoking on acid too. I've dropped 3 hits before and smoked a blunt during the peak and was fine. I figured since I wasn't even peaking anymore I would be fine but as we were smoking the blunt I got in my head I wasn't going to be fine and thats when I made the mistake. After that my thought became mostly negative.

 

[drugfukkdrockstar]

This has also happened to me about 10 years ago, and it is an experience i will never ever forget, and neither will the people who were with me. I had a cone though, not a blunt. It was a very big cone too, far too much for what i should have been smoking especially while under the influence of other drugs. I wasn't on acid at the time, i had taken a lot of MDA and MDMA.

Basically i put it down to the fact i was run down from a big week at work and i had been stressed, and the fact i have anxiety. Weed is actually very bad for people with anxiety.

Anyways, i basically got psychosis for the next 4+ hours and ended up having to get rushed to hospital because i was completely freaking out realising something bad had happened to my brain and it was getting worse and worse and worse. I kept blacking out and seeing a baby in a womb spinning around in circles, then i would see 10 steps in the sky and each time id either take a step forward or a step backward, so that basically indicated how much worse i was going to be when i became conscious again. A very terrifying experience and i felt like i was possessed. i was hysterical and i recall telling everyone that if i was permanently like this i was going to kill myself.. So yeah, fun times but i learned. I now personally stay well away from bongs, i will only smoke blunts and i will limit the amount i smoke and also be wary that i am sensitive to it. I will never ever smoke a whole joint to myself as i don't need it. I tend to get stoned a lot quicker than a lot of people so i keep that in mind at all times now.

It came back to haunt me again one more time after the incident, about a year later. It wasn't as severe and i was able to cope with it better, and also someone had some xanax to give me which helped.

One thing i noticed when this happened to me was my eyes were soooo red, like abnormally red. Not just blood shot or typically stoned looking, they were bright red. The hospital told me that when i would black out each time the blood was rushing to my brain, and i was having a very severe anxiety attack and lost the plot.

10 years later and it hasn't happened again. Whenever i plan to take psychedelics and have some weed, i make sure i am well rested and not run down. I really do feel that for me being run down was a big contributor.

 

[Raw Evil]

Cones and acid = awesome

Its as simple as that.

I second this post.

 

[phatass]

i find weed makes acid exponentially stronger... sometimes unpleasantly dissorientating...

 

[Dusk]

@ Drugfukk


The night before I tripped I worked a 9 hour shift staying up all night which now really makes me think thats why the weed reacted so negatively to me.

I'll be sure to get more rest before tripping, I don't think I gave lucy quite the respect she deserves.

 

[ExtraOrdinary]

Sorry you had such a bad time! I'm happy to see you're experienced and won't let this ruin your view of the drug though! It definitely seems like the combination of being tired, stuck inside, and smoking weed are what triggered the negative trip.

It's interesting to me that you mention feeling the need to "beat" the bad thoughts. I can relate because any time I have negative thoughts during a trip, I sort of view them as challenges. I get in this mindset where I know I don't have to be thinking that way, so it's up to me to bring myself back into a good, light area and enjoy myself.

 

[skinnylegz]

Basically i put it down to the fact i was run down from a big week at work and i had been stressed, and the fact i have anxiety. Weed is actually very bad for people with anxiety.

Whenever i plan to take psychedelics and have some weed, i make sure i am well rested and not run down. I really do feel that for me being run down was a big contributor.

Both of those things are incredibly true. Well, at least for me they are. I suffer from anxiety as well, and weed has the tendency to make me REALLY anxious sometimes. For instance, this morning I came home from work and smoked a bowl. I live with my girlfriend, but after smoking this morning I felt so awkward and anxious that I couldn't even get to sleep. I kept thinking that she didn't love me, and why did she even want me here. Then we had sex and I slept like a baby, lol.

Also, the thing about being run down and tripping, that is a HORRIBLE combination. My anxiety is at it's highest when I am dead tired and decide to trip. I realized that about a month or two ago when I tripped for the first time in 3 years. From now on, I make sure I am well rested before tripping.

I usually only smoke weed on LSD during the comedown, because just like the OP, about a week ago my girlfriend and I each took 3 hits of acid and smoked a joint of OG Kush at the peak and she had a horrible ego-crippling experience. I was fine, but she lost touch with who she was for about 4-5 hours. I do not like smoking during the come-up because I like to feel the acid creep on in, and during the peak weed has the tendency to increase my anxiety, so smoking during the come-down is the only liable thing for me to do.

That's just my 2 cents.

-legz

 

[ResinTeeth]

Ganja can certainly give other drugs that extra little push that they need to take it to the next level. Sometimes you just don't realize how far that push can go