Marijuana and Mushroom Induced Panic Attack

[Powder_Reality]

SWIM has noticed a few posts regarding panic attacks induced by marijuana. SWIM had a very alarming panic attack during one of his last times smoking marijuana to date, and thought he would share it.

I should start the story off by mentioning that SWIM was a daily marijuana smoker. SWIM had a couple days off from work, and decided to eat a bag of mushrooms with his friend. SWIM had a lot of fun for the first hour, but then found himself in a negative headspace for the duration of the trip due to a negative change in his setting. When SWIM has a bad trip, he usually feels mentally burnt out and "blank" for about a week after.

The next morning, SWIM ran into an acquaintance that he didn't know very well. Let's call him H. H invited SWIM to check out his friend's house, and SWIM accepted. There were about 4 other people at the house, none of whom SWIM knew. When SWIM and H got there, everybody headed downstairs to get high. Everybody tossed in some weed, and by the time the pile was complete, there were 4 different strains of marijuana in the mix, including some freshly harvested buds, and some quality buds that one of the guys had brought back from BC.

They loaded a bucket (gravity bong) with a big bowl of the chopped up mix and proceded to light it. The bucket was made with a long hose that extended to the bottom of the 2L bottle, so that the smoke would filter through the water. The smoke that filled the bottle was extremely thick, and when SWIM took his hit, he was able to take it all in one go. He didn't hack a lung, just a few minor coughs. I should also mention that SWIM hadn't eaten anything since the mushrooms the day before.

Within a few minutes, SWIM was overwhelmed with an odd feeling. It seemed like he was starting to have minor visual distortions, and found himself trembling uncontrollably. He was getting very very high, and couldn't figure out how that could happen from one bucket. As he sat there, feeling very introverted and inhibited, he became very anxious, and felt like he was falling farther and farther away from reality. He excused himself, and walked upstairs and outside for some fresh air. He stood outside on the deck, and realized that he felt very similar to the way that he felt during his bad trip the day before. It was like his mushrooms had kicked back in and he had been thrown into the grips of a bad trip, surrounded by a bunch of people that he had never met before. He felt absolutely terrified, and dreaded having to return to the company of these "strangers" as he thought of them at the moment. He eventually got up the courage to return, but had to excuse himself again to get some more fresh air. All SWIM wanted was to go home and go to bed, but he didn't have a ride back until H left.

When the others were finished, they headed back upstairs and proceded to watch a movie. SWIM joined them, but was unable to concentrate on the movie. He spent the duration of the video thinking to himself how much he just wanted his high to wear off and go home. When the movie was over, H gave SWIM a ride home. By the time SWIM got home, he was feeling pretty much back to normal again, but felt very spaced out. SWIM had been thinking about quitting smoking weed for a couple weeks before this, and that night he decided that he would pursue his goal.

SWIM had a single hit with his friends a week later before quitting "until further notice." It was really just for the novelty value of having one more good hit before he quit. SWIM hasn't smoked marijuana for almost a year now.

[Bajeda]

Wow, thats sucks. Swim feels sorry for swiy that he had such a disagreeable experience!


Swim has had several horrible trips with psilocybin mushrooms which he plans on putting into trip reports for this forum sometime. Swim does want to mention, however, that one particular trip and after effects reminds him of yours.

After a long car ride through the night swim reached another city at around 6 in the morning. Being the idiot that swim was, swim decided this would be a good time to eat four grams of almost completely blue mushrooms that was about 75% cap, even though swim hadn't gotten any sleep in quite some time. Swim then proceeded to have the most horrible trip of his life. Swim desperately wanted to sleep but couldnt and felt he was losing his grip on reality. For about two hours or so swim waged a mental battle in his mind , trying to convince himself that he was still alive and would be ok. After that swim smoked countless joints for the next 4 hours while trying to make sense of what happened.

Swim smoked several times in the next week after with no side effects, though he was more paranoid while high than he usually was. (Swim is usually very relaxed and cool while under hallucinogens).

However the next weekend swim thought it would be a good counter to the shroom trip to take some H.B. Woodrose seeds to help him think about what happened. Swim took 12 seeds and laid on his bed. However, when the trip came in it wasnt the usual gentle euphoria of the woodrose, it was the same exact shroom trip coming back to haunt him!! Swim started experiencing shroom like visuals and was sinking into his bed (in the previous shroom trip the carpet turned into ramen noodles and swim was drowning in them), swim started freaking out and was about to go puke when suddenly, after swim got up (around 10 minutes into the craziness) the effects started fading, and the recognizable LSA trip from the seeds came back.

Swim doesn't know what caused the incident, as it was almost a week after the bad trip. Swim thinks the hallucinations caused by the woodrose seeds might have simultaneously triggered a flashback of the previous trip. This may also explain swiy's anxiety attack from the marijuana. The psychedelic feeling of being very stoned might have triggered a flashback of the previous night's trip.