bad trips

[darkravenAMP]

Hey, while I've never done any other drug other than weed, I HAVE had one bad experience where I was too high to tell the difference between what was imagined and what was real and it was all way too intense for me.

BUT, i have heard that other drugs (shrooms, LSD, salvia) in particular have created what is called a "bad trip."

Describe your bad trip experiences here.

[Norvy1]

Usually you dont trip off of weed. But i have had a few bad experiences with being "too" high. One time comes to mind when me and some of my friends were at a party and i decided to run around the house with a lamp in one hand and a beer in the other. i ended up falling down, breaking the lamp, and spilling the beer everywhere.

[fAKdded]

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/su...ad_Trips.shtml

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Read Read and Read, But Also, don't focus on the bad trips, read the good ones too.

[marcelcol69]

im cracking up with ur story norvy cuz u know im high

[negligent]

i've only had 2 badtrips, one off datura and the other off of weed and ether.

the datura one involved me talkin to people who werent there and gettin attacked by invisible dogs and being able to actually feel them so it was fuckin weird

the ether one was super mind expanding but it was just a tad bit intense, i got some shit i wrote up on it so i'm just gonna copy n paste it, it got shit about the trip n also shit about what i learned from it


i was first made aware of the different ways mental processes are carried out when i tried inhaling duster. my brain would make a "wha wha" sound that would become quite frightening sounding when i was startled or lost balance. i believe this was only one of many ways the brain makes sounds and frequencies inside itself to produce what you are experiencing. well on september 4 i experienced many more thinking processes as a result of smoking weed and huffing ether. this was by far the most intense "trip" i have ever had, stronger than 1200mg of dextromethorphan and stronger than 8 hits of lsd. i was already extremely high to begin with before taking the ether but after i took the ether (10 ragfuls in a row followed by another bong of weed). i experienced something so powerful that i almost paniced on several occasions. i became aware that i was thinking and it was the same type of thinking process i had as a very small child. a baby can be made to cry very easily, it can take jus the slightest startle. well i hallucinated a voice that at the same time my brain was associating that voice with extreme danger like something was out to get me. well somehow i said this word outloud without knowing it, which isnt even really a word, just a mumble which was "bue it bue" and i was so startled that i heard the panicing sound of duster in amplified form going very fast (sounded like a siren going off in my head) and i was at the maximum point of fear i think one could experience. it was like someone else had said this though so this leads me to believe the voice came from another type of mental process that i was not experiencing at the moment, and it transmitted the voice through the brain into the state i was in and that part processed the noise. when you are totally sober, there is only a limited amount of fear you can experience from being startled by a voice. i believe this is because the part of your brain you use in everyday life is very advanced and adjusted to what the real world presents. the feeling of being a baby was like i didnt quite know wat to expect from anything, i felt emotions to the fullest extent possible. i think that when you are born you use a certain part of your brain and as you grow older through the years your brain develops out, the new layers being your present thinking processes and the more inner parts your past mental processes. when you see a map of a brain and it shows you where all your senses are well i dont know wats goes down underneath them but probably all your senses go all the way down to the core of your brain, they get smaller and less developed as it goes down and the combination of marijuana and ether made me explore the depths of my brain down to the very core. i think the core produces thoughts, then it goes though all of your mental processes you have ever had at extreme speeds and when you in your current thoughts finally receive it its all broken down, kind of like the impact is goin through a sponge/filter. so if you were to be startled instead of feeling that super impact and sent into panic you feel a reduced blow. at the point where i was in the core of my brain, i would hear extremely loud space type sounds kinda like if you would see a laser shoot in a movie. they also sounded very electrical. i could also feel a very extremely electrically charged 4x4 sized board like object runnin down my back which was my spine. you cant feel all of the "electricity" in your nervous system because the impact of it is just absorbed as it goes through your brain to you now. actually, i think i wasnt even all the way to the core of the mind yet, and that doing so would most likely result in complete loss of all motor control and possible paralysis or respiratory failure. there was also a time where i couldnt feel my arms or legs, and all i felt was a ball of energy inside of my brain and i began to fall forward and i felt this ball of energy spread out into the rest of my body and i caught myself.


yup, theres my bad trip along with a bunch of other shit... i wrote it while i was still feeling under the effect of ether and theres a few other things that happened, like i thought someone else was in the woods with me but i couldnt see them i thought they were hiding behind trees but i kept hearing footsteps n shit, twas quite odd

[weed_josh]

i personally have only had a few bad trip, despite years of acid and mushies. one was right after i broke up with my girlfriend and i was really angry so i decided to beat the shit out of a tree, broke a couple knuckles(i was on mushrooms). and once on acid i thought there were people in my house trying to get me so i spent 4 hours hiding behind a couch in my basement. there are 3 rules that will help you avoid bad trips. 1. know that weed/mush/acid cant kill you, you cant od and anything that happens (increased heart rate, "freaking out") is just your imagination. 2. never eat mushrooms if you are upset or depressed, because they will make it much worse, and might make for a scary experience. 3. if you are afraid/expect a bad trip, then you are going to have a bad trip. so just put on some grateful dead and trip worry free. peace

EDIT: if you are freaking out just talk to someone that is with you or call a friend, they will usually help center you and calm you down