Experiences - Bad LSD Trips

[Leafteaner]

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[Demonslayer]

Never had a bad trip, but what it really comes down to is what you define as a bad trip. I define almost anything as a learning experience.
I've thought that I'm about to loose my mind and go permenantly insane. I've seen through the eyes and mind of a serial killer and understood his motives as normal for him. I've lived the life of a jaguar, fought with demon gods, seen maggots crawling in my food and seen my skin become transparent.
The most frightening experience was on 5x salvia when I belived my life was just a trick played on me by evil gnomes, reality shattered like broken glass and I ceased to exist like a long forgotten memory of something that never was real in the first place. Really paranoid scitzofrenic panic delusions.
They are learning experiences, not bad trips.

[chrustol]

Once SWIM had a bad trip coused overdosing meth after 2 blotters..he puked for 2h. it was a terrible experience 4 him but from that day he hed no bad's

[gonzochronicles]

SWIM has indeed had a bit of a bad trip. He started the day by getting outrageously crunk, which of course was fun. As the night went on, he decided to venture elsewhere. About 5 hours after the smoking and drinking, he packed another bowl, and put ~10 mgs of 5-meo-dmt on the bowl. He took the first hit in his circle of three friends, and estimates he got about 5 of the 10 mgs. After going inside, things got bad. Everything around him was a symbol for death, and he thought he was going to die from all of these symbols. He had tried 5-meo before, but had never gotten enough of the smoke and hadn't broken the barrrier. This wasn't a barrier breaking trip either, but it wasn't fun. His only true memory of the terror he felt is the idea of a mime with a knife being in his closet. Not a very good close to a fun night.

[Philomel]

On the weekend, SWIM had a bad trip. SWIM thought she had experienced minor 'bad trips' previously, but this one took the cake. SWIM and her ex-partner SWAM were at SWIM's house and ate one cube of acid each. SWIM and SWAM had been together for about 2.5 years and hadn't seen each other in months since the break-up. SWAM also had some mushrooms. SWIM was not feeling physically great prior to eating the cube. She was hungover from drinking too much the night before and had a headache and a sore throat. SWIM had not eaten well that day and had hunger pains. SWIM should have just gone to sleep, but had been looking forward to having this trip for ages and went along with it anyway. This turned out to be a big mistake with big consequences for SWIM.

SWIM had a nice body-high and felt okay for the first few hours. SWIM listened to music, played with glowsticks and watched TV. On the one hand, SWAM was good to trip with because he knew SWIM so well and it was like they were on the same brainwave. Sometimes SWIM felt really comfortable around him and like she was still in love with SWAM. They had some funny conversations and giggled a lot. On the other hand, SWAM was bad to trip with because he kept telling SWIM disturbing stories about people losing control and doing crazy, embarrassing, even horrifying things on drugs. SWAM also kept breaking out into hysterical laughter. This really put SWIM off and made her feel like she hated SWAM and wanted him out of her house.

SWIM decided to smoke a couple of cones (bowls). SWIM hadn't done this for months and it hit her hard. She felt nauseous and regretted it. The pot made her lazy and like she just wanted to lie down in bed and do nothing. SWIM became hypersensitive and felt like her body was in pain. All she could think about was how cold she was. SWIM felt restless and could not get comfortable. SWIM felt things going 'pop' and grinding inside her brain. SWIM reassured herself that it was just the acid and it would be out of her system soon and her body would feel normal again, so she ended up spending most of the night just laying in bed, waiting for it to end, and trying to sleep. SWAM urged SWIM to stay awake, but SWIM and SWAM could not find anything interesting to do. Everything seemed boring. They could not go outside because it is the middle of winter where they live and was far too cold. The weather made SWIM feel depressed. SWIM kept putting music on that SWIM and SWAM had listened to while they were together. It brought back a flood of memories that SWIM had forgotten existed.

SWIM has felt fucked up and a bit depressed ever since the trip, but is starting to recover. SWIM is so pissed off that this happened to her, she thought she would never have a bad trip. SWIM was overconfident and thought she could handle powerful drugs like acid - SWIM learned the hard way. SWIM had been looking forward to this trip for such a long time and wanted it to be her last, but SWIM doesn't want her relationship with acid to end on such a bad note. SWIM will wait until the summer when it is warm enough to go outside, so she can trip again in a different environment and hopefully with different people. Also, SWIM is only going to smoke weed during the come-down. From now on, SWIM will only drop acid when she is feeling 100%.

SWIM felt that the acid was somewhat weak. SWAM said it felt more like acid that comes on a blotter rather than a cube. SWIM was disappointed that her visuals weren't as strong as usual and the body-high didn't last for long. SWIM wishes she'd opted out and saved it for another time. SWIM will probably increase the dosage for her next trip.

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Nice report, & good example of when not to trip! Hope you're back on track soon...

[podge]

Swim has had one really bad trip on mushrooms,and another two fairly nasty trips on mushrooms.and swim has a terribly horrendous trip on salvia x10. Swim second time on shrooms,he was staying in a shared apartment after a concert and in my innocence didnt realise this was a recipe for disaster.swim couldnt get comfortable during the come up,kept asking for windows to be closed or lights turned off etc....just kind of aggitated.then the shrooms hit very hard....swim thought he saw blood smeared on the wall for a split second, trip was very strong for his second time.then swim and his friends were freaked at by a 50 or 60 year old man who was also staying in the apartment ( noone knew he was even their ) because of the insane noise being made by swim and his friends. he burst out of his room when the trip was really getting strong and started yelling that he was going to call security and get us kicked out. we went outside to try and get ourselves together but swim got more and more paranoid .went back upstairs ( quietly this time.lol ) and went into swims room while swims friend stated cooking something in the kitchen.lay down in bed ( noone else in the room ) and started thinking about getting caught by police and parents and was terrified.swim even consided slitting his wrists for a second or two but the idea just scared him more (haha).after what seemed like forever swims friend came and gave him food.he persuaded swim to get out of bed and roll a spliff which swim did and finally swim started to cheer up and start laugfhing.then swims friend left the room and swim started listening to classical music on the radio and had a beautiful closed eye trip before sleep.
swims other nasty trips were a lot milder as swim knew he was in a bad trip unlike the first time.but bad trips in my opinion are eye opening experiences .....iv learnt a lot about myself while bad tripping,inner most fears and problems are finally faced.i find a bad trip to be like your concious talking to your sub-concious.....literally back and forth dialogue between you and the part of you thats hidden away.swim cant speak for everyone but in swims experience thats how a lot of the life changing revelations while tripping occur.

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great post

[lostbos]

SWIM had bad trips on LSD similar to Raven's shroom trip but he couldn't stop it. Everything SWIM was doing seemed like a plan for his death, made it seem like SWIM is going to end up killing himself and there was nothing he could do about it.

Mostly thoughts about death were running through SWIM head. It seemed like the trip would never end and this was the last night of SWIMs life. SWIM started to think the people SWIM was with did this to SWIM to kill him and their faces started to look evil.

SWIM could not feel his body, it's like it wasn't there, SWIM was all mind. SWIM took acid 4 or 5 times after this and had the same experience every time but he learned to enjoy some of the trip. SWIM thinks these experiences made him stronger mentally but he also thinks putting himself in that position 5 or 6 times was not a very smart idea.

[WrtngCocaineTutorial]

If a person were to have a bad trip, wouldn't it be possible to just take a couple of benzo's, fall asleep. And when you wake up it's all over?

[Jatelka]

Benzodiazepines are the preferred method of terminating a "bad trip" (if this is required).

You will hear talk of using antipsychotics such as haloperidol or thioridazine to terminate bad trips. SWIY SHOULD NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. Antipsychotics often just physically incapacitate a person, without dealing with the extreme anxiety induced by the trip. Immobile and terrified: Not a good place to be.

[Mona Lisa]

While tripping on acid, SWIM suddenly felt the absense of goodness. Everything looked evil and negative and defiled, if that makes any sense. For example, wrinkles on the sheets and curtains looked almost pornographically defiled. They didn't look like genitelia as such; but they were smutty in a similar way (like labia lips and clitori as in Hustler rather than Renaissance Art). SWIM felt exposed and mocked. SWIM just wanted to crawl under the blankets and curl into a fetal position. SWIM felt persecuted and judged and worthless. SWIM felt cut off from the world and though SWIM could talk to people, SWIM still feel completely alone. It was the scariest event of SWIM's life; the only thing that got SWIM through was to pray as an act of will rather than as a feeling. SWIM sensed that something (maybe God) rescued SWIM and felt safe. SWIM never saw a presense but sensed a loving force intervene and keep her safe. But it was as though He was giving her a warning, not to take His presense for granted. It was a spiritual crisis in a way. It made SWIM think about how Christ might have felt when He descended into Hell. Very hard to explain...but it made SWIM aware of both the forces of darkness and light.

SWIM could percieve a duality of good and evil in people;she could read their character in their thumbnails and knuckles. For instance, lust is recorded in the hands. So is resentment. Very hard to explain...

It was if SWIM's soul was laid bare and felt completely exposed by a glaring penetrating harsh light; but there is also a loving force that is also full of light but its light is one of a cocoon of safety and purity and wholeness. Order versus chaos.

It made SWIM sense that this earth is a duality of Heaven and Hellish influences; there is both good and evil in the world.

Another aspect of the trip was that people's characters could be read in their faces; perhaps rather like a caracature. People looked distorted spiritually, not just visually. There were, interestingly, people whose faces also revealed purity, love and wholeness; this could have been a subjective observation but SWIM still even now believes that she was perceiving with a 'sixth sense'. She concluded that most (99%) are an ambivalent mixture of good and bad.

It was as though at the point of greatest crisis, that something invisible but omnipotent intervened and protected SWIM. SWIM felt such huge JOY and elation; SWIM felt almost a sense of rebirth and renewel. Of course, it might have just been a chemical reaction in the brain; but it was as though a loving force was cocooning SWIM. It was as though everything SWIM could imagine was part of this loving force, like the perfect security blanket. Everything dear to you surrounding you, enfolding you, like a womb.

None of this was visual; it was all about how SWIM was percieving the world...this experience gave SWIM hope but, like in the Wizard of Oz, it made her aware of the existance of both good and evil here.

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Very insightful

[sshsirp123]

First off, the setting and mindset had already gone to shit just as SWIM dosed, there was no way around it..SWIM wanted to escape himself of it the only way he knew how.People would call him insane but SWIM believes it was the only time the entire night he was ever free.SWIM was arrested naked in the middle of the street and spent a friday night in drunk tank.

[quili]

Swim once tripped in her friend's dorm room with a few others. They proceeded to walk around campus, visit people, talk to random people. Swim found this experience pretty overwhelming- but not terribly. She felt like all of the knowledge about social etticut and norms she took for granted in daily life had vanished. All of the expectations of "how things work" that allowed her to function everyday had disappeared. If nothing else, she thought it was an very interesting. Since she wanted to be in a comfortable place, she went to another friend's room- the only place she could think to go since she dispised her roommate and her roommate's friends who were always in the room. Her other friend, however, freaked out and got terribly mad. Then her roommate found out and started balling because of some weird stuff with her dad, finding out that swim was on drugs really upset her. Swim went back to her room, kicked everyone out- they all freaked out also (my roommate was apparently scared to come sleep in the room because she literally thought I would chop her up in little pieces and stuff her in the wall) and laid in bed. Once alone, everything was much better for her. She had strange, enjoyable thoughts about babies and other fun things. Even though it was pretty bad, swim always always tries to remember to just calm herself down as much as possible.

[Penline412]

I have heard of alot of bad trips, post your Bad Trips here.

[Jatelka]

Please UTFSE. There is much posted elswehere about this.

"Bad Trips" Meh!

Bad moments/minutes/even hours. NEVER a trip that was "bad" in it's entirety. Everything is a learning experience. Nothing lasts.