Experiences - Trip Reports: Bad Trips from Magic Mushrooms

[purifymymind]

SWIM agrees that ultimately you are responsible for your own actions, even when on drugs, but at the same time SWIM doesn't think it's fair to completely discount the effects of the mushrooms and say that it was entirely his fault for the bad trip. Mushrooms are powerful, and just because most people don't have bad trips on them doesn't mean that another person won't (especially when combining them with weed/alcohol).

SWIM's advice would be to not drink the next time you trip--SWIM spoke once with a psychologist who researches psychedelics (it was for a class), and his one piece of advice to SWIM was to avoid alcohol while tripping. Now SWIM know plenty of people have probably drank while tripping without any bad side effects, but if you reacted like that SWIM thinks it's best for you to avoid any combinations with shrooms.

Also: was this your first time tripping?

[SHPONGLE SPORES]

damn, maybe shrooms arnt a good choice for you lol

[IntrepidTraveler]

I realize Matthew probably doesn't check this thread anymore, but shit people doing stuff like that is what gives psychadelics a bad name. It sounds like you were just really wasted and decided you didn't want to control yourself anymore.

I know some people who are mentally unstable, and tripping can make them scared, anxious and sometimes very depressed, but they would never do what you did. Assuming that your story is actually real, and not some bullshit some guy made up 3 years ago to pollute the internet with, you should not do ANY drugs, EVER.

[WaterMonger]

Not on marijuana but a bad trip just the same

SWIM dropped about like 1.5 grams of cubensis grown in Seattle with a friend, first trip ever. At first it was kind of and edgy but psychedelic stoned feeling mixed with some nausea and nice visuals. After about 45 minutes it became a bit to much for SWIM to handle, considering it was SWIMs first time and SWIM kept thinking it cant get any stronger. At about the 1 hour point ,or SWIM thinks SWIM sort of lost track of time, SWIM and his friend went to another friends house with a few more people there cause SWIM wasn't feeling to great in the environment SWIM was in no idea why though. As they left and took a shortcut through some wooded area SWIMs friend was marveling at everything in nature and how it was so beautiful. When they got to SWIM friends house it was still gaining in intensity everything SWIM looked at was changing and SWIM could sit still and forget about everything and then SWIM realized that SWIM had forgotten everything and it had seemed like an hour had passed and it had only been a few seconds. and this kept happening over and over again thats when SWIM started freaking out. Now SWIM hasn't cried over something in a LONG time but the whole of what was going on was scaring SWIM. SWIMs friend on mushrooms with him was trying to comfort SWIM and was telling SWIM to just let the drugs take hold, but SWIM couldn't so SWIM told him to stop talking cause he was under the influence and he needed to talk to someone sober, so another one of SWIMs friend came over and tried to talk him down, so SWIM finally stop crying after about 20 minutes and just sort of sat around for a while tripping out on different story line's in his head. The whole of what was going on from about 2 hours into the mushroom trip till about 3 hours into the trip he was just lying on the floor trying not to focus on the nausea SWIM would shift around into the strangest positions The ceiling in SWIMs friends house was dancing everybody's faces were like LOL WUT? There was just the strangest abstract sounds he could hear, like it was part of the noise around him. People would disappear and reappear in different places, Everything had a fuzziness about it until SWIM look at it closely then he could see every part of the object so clearly and intensely. Somewhere during the trip SWIMs friends started ripping an album onto there Xbox 360. It was called "this is not a test" This made absolutely no sense to SWIM at all, and as they started playing music SWIM became confused and lost all thought every second SWIMs not really sure how to describe what happened at this point so SWIM'll try his best, SWIM saw everything as spinning together and fractaling apart and folding over each other then mixing and repeating and it made him think of the scene from Bevis and Butthead do America when Bevis eats the cactus in the desert. SWIM became convinced his life wasn't real and that By taking Mushrooms SWIM had broken reality, SWIMs not sure how to say, It was like his life had been leading up to this point and at the end of the trip SWIM would cease to exist, SWIM handled that thought quite well. at about six'ish the trip just sort of stopped and SWIM was like. Ok none of this is real let me try something so he gets up and turn off the TV while there doing something and they did nothing so he thought "ok I'm hallucinating all of this or I never existed in the first place". Then, "What the fuck where did this glass pipe come from I've never seen it before in my life". Now this made SWIM go "wow I've lost it totally" then SWIM turned to his friend and he asked SWIM if SWIM had any nuts in my family, SWIM said no and was sort of coming back at that point.

Now SWIM still don't remember half of what happened during SWIMs trip so he tired to explain it as best as he could. SWIMs friend said he barely got any visuals and his mind trip stopped at about 5, so uh yay SWIM for having a super low tolerance to tryptamines. SWIM said he'd definitely do them again.

[CrumbsInTheBed]

Wow, you basically just described SWIM's first trip word for word. It's was beyond intense, overwhelming, and genuinely terrifying at its most intense parts. Though it was pure bliss for the first hour and a half or so. I find it funny you mention people appearing and disappearing, SWIM had exactly that. He would look at the couch, and see his friend sitting there, then turn and look at the the staircase and see the same friend walking down the stairs. Nuts.

SWIM gets extremely nauseous while on mushrooms, and the two times he did them, the trips were extremely intense. The nausea took over the trips and made them living hell. So next time, SWIM will make sure to both take a smaller dose, and to to take something to relieve the nausea, such as pepto bismol.

[Lazarus]

SWIM would suggest doing shrooms in the comfort and safety of one's own home, with a friend or two that SWIY is comfortable with, and while in a sound state of mind. Set and setting. Any trip can turn bad if care is not taken to minimize the possibility of finding oneself in a southbound situation. Just try to control the variables until SWIY is comfortable with and confident about the experience.

[acolon_5]

Drop the dosage if it is too much for SWIY. Hard-core trips can be quite overwhelming and having a few benzo's around just in case is always a good idea. SWIM and his wife ALWAYS enjoy mushrooms in the comfort of their home or similar comfortable situation. Not something that SWIM thinks should be done in public. Start with .5-1gram and work up from there. Some people are very sensitive to certian chemicals, always go slow with a new drug.

[Lazarus]

Damn right, Acolon. The prospect of eating mushrooms in a public setting gives SWIM the shakes. SWIM has never had a 'bad' trip per se, but all the crappier ones were due to the people SWIM ran into and the situations SWIM found himself in. Never had a bad trip while hiking/camping with some close friends or hanging out at home. SWIM usually won't even answer the phone or door while tripping.

[lexmark]

Swim has been waiting for the new resident evil movie to come out for years and now that it finally has he wants it to be memorable and he wants it to scare his pantaloons off!


Swim doesn't scare easily so he was thinking of taking a low dose of mushrooms before going to the theater but hes been reading the same advice for years..."always do shrooms in a positive environment" so his plan would be the complete opposite of that advice....


could this be a dangerous? does one think this is a good idea?

[Remedy]

You'll hate it. You might not get scared at all but when you'll start shrooming you'll just not want to do it. At least that's how it was with me. There were things that I thought would be cool and things that I couldn't stand. I'd get really picky about music for example. So what you think you'll like sober, there's a chance you won't want to do on shrooms.

Other than that I'd say that depends on the dose, if its really low I think you might have fun. I'd say the trippy shit will distract you from the scary parts of the movie

[lexmark]

Originally Posted by Remedy

You'll hate it. You might not get scared at all but when you'll start shrooming you'll just not want to do it. At least that's how it was with me. There were things that I thought would be cool and things that I couldn't stand. I'd get really picky about music for example. So what you think you'll like sober, there's a chance you won't want to do on shrooms.

Other than that I'd say that depends on the dose, if its really low I think you might have fun. I'd say the trippy shit will distract you from the scary parts of the movie

swiy is right, swim would probably end up tripping out and watching the visuals instead of paying attention to the movie....but on the other hand he could totally loose it and curl up into a wet ball under a seat hiding from zombies


swim is thinking 1.5 to 2 grams should be enough without really freaking him out.

trip report coming up

[JDreaming]

If SWIY is experienced handling mushrooms at a variety of different dosages I doubt taking a low dose and going to a horror movie would be "dangerous". SWIY could always leave in the middle if he needed a change of environment. I certainly wouldn't recommend it for a first time trip.

SWIM personally could simply not subject his altered mind, and the beauty of a mushroom-induced adventure, to the horror of a Ewe Boll movie. That guy's video game movies all seem like the script was written on a bar napkin at two AM. Perhaps SWIM will rent "28 weeks later" and watch it on a big screen next time he wants to scare his own pants off during a low-dose hallucinogenic experience.

[radiometer]

Originally Posted by JDreaming

If SWIY is experienced handling mushrooms at a variety of different dosages I doubt taking a low dose and going to a horror movie would be "dangerous".

I will assume this refers to my post, as I was the one who used that word. What I said was that taking mushrooms with the express goal of a "frightening experience" could be dangerous. If the tripper succeeded in this goal, in public, I could see lots of different ways for the shit to hit the fan.

[radiometer]

Of all the reasons to take mushrooms I can think of, "I don't scare easily" seems one of the worst and most potentially dangerous.

[rocksmokinmachine]

If SWIY doesn't scare easily then SWIY certainly will watching zombies, horror, blood and gore on mushrooms.

[lexmark]

Originally Posted by radiometer

Of all the reasons to take mushrooms I can think of, "I don't scare easily" seems one of the worst and most potentially dangerous.

thats why swim is asking


but swiy's gota admit, it does sound kind of fun...

[Colours]

I remember trying to watch Profondo Rosso for a scare...after maybe 15 minutes I couldn't handle. Course, the movie is still too scary to watch while not tripping. yeesh

Visually stimulating films (microcosmos comes to mind) are really interesting to watch though

[jayjohnson81]

SWIM says that knowing now what she does about the beauty and `experience`

[jayjohnson81]

(sorry)

of the shroom - she is disgusted at the immature usage the OP is describing.

However, to each their own, SWIM says you've basically heard it already: "you won't think it's fun when you are there", "you might draw attention to yourself and get in legal trouble",

and if you don't know shrooms, you may do more than you intend and the experience could lead to a mild or not so mild PTSD.

If you insist though - please share the experience for forum-folk to discuss.

Be careful.

[Metalcore322]

It's still in debate whether it will ruin his life or not. He may be in a rehab (fucked if I know why) or he might be sent to a mental institution (Makes more sense...

Here's the run down:
*Mr . Angry did 2 1/2 grams of shroom inside of chocloates over his friend's house. It didn't hit M.r Angry barely at all during the night but the next day was the worst part.
*So we wook up this morning in a daze when his friend's mom woke us up (Mr. Angry could barely stand) so he got kicked out of his friend's house for goodzies...
*So he left and everything around him started to disappear and reappear and skipped like 30ft for people around him. It just took him now to get that him wasn't with anyone this entire day but at the moment he thought he was with a bunch of his friends. He (with his not friends) walked into a restaraunt. We ordered...somehow...but this waitress, painted like a japanese hooker, kept staring at him....so he yelled at her and left (dropping his fucking wallet in the process!!)
*After that we ran around and figured out a rediclous way to become invisable (by holding your head and nose, and breathing deeply then exhaling.) Keep in mind, he was still completely BY HIMSELF. We then went to this wooden bridge we always chill on and his guitar appeared out of nowhere, he playing it for like 2.2 minutes, then dropped it and it completely disappeared. Baffled at this, he looked everywhere for the guitar.
* He walked up to someone's yard and chilled until his mom passed and he got it the car. He had to be home at 7:30 for something (Mr. Angry thought he was late, in reality, it was only about 3:30.
* When he got home he got BITCHED OUT, taken to the hoptial, got a tox screen, piss test, and a cat scan. All in all, it took about 4 hours...
* All in all, they're gonna send him to Rehab (if the results come back with drugs in them) or their gonna send him to a mental institution (if the results come back negative.)

Now Mr. Angry feels as though he's fucked REAL BAD because he may have ran out on a check at a very local pizza place, can't go over my homies house and his homie can't go over his, his parents are crazy and now he fucked on that, he has a massive amount of suicidal thoughts, he's extremely lonely and just can't figure out any way to make this right.

Mr. Angry was always mildly skitzo but never to where he couln't distinguish reality from not reality. He really scared, someone please help with anything that could be useful....

[Metalcore322]

nope, it was Datura....
Mr. Angry has a dealer to kill!

[JDreaming]

Are you freakin' serious? Someone put datura in chocolate and called it mushrooms? Where did your friend even find a distributor so thoroughly twisted as to do such a thing? Did the hospital confirm atropine was in your friend's bloodstream or are you assuming datura because the trip sucked and led to a hospital?

This seems strange to say the least...

[acolon_5]

That is not only not cool, but DAMN DANGEROUS. SWIM would be more than pissed...he would be outraged. Nice "friend".

[Metalcore322]

The dealer wasn't Mr. Angry's friend...
And yes, the hospital confirmed it....
Mr. Angry isn't very experienced with psychedelics but aside from the really bad aftereffects and loss of most nearsight vision for about 3 days, the trip was kinda interesting. Mr. Angry was just with his friends (not really with anyone though lol) running around and it was acually fun. This was the day after Mr. Angry took them. He fucked up his friend's room because, the night he took them, it was kinda like a seizure that my dog would have...Mr. Angry kept trying to get up and walk around but constantly fell down, sometimes rediculously, knocking shit over but couldn't understand why...kinda scary. Don't get me wrong though... Mr. Angry told me the trip was interesting but he DEFIENTLY NEVER wants to do that again. He has scars from falling so much not to mention no wallet.

[Metalcore322]

Oh yeah, and if you were wondering
The hospital tested for it because of a request from Mr. Angry (after the day-long trip, he kinda suspected Datura...he was, sadly, right.)