Whos actually had a bad trip with acid?

I really dont even see how its possible.. I guess if you got arrested or something, but even if I got arrested tripping on lsd I would be forced to see only the positives in the situation lol, its like if you've ever driven on lsd stopping for a full 3 seconds at the stop sign makes you happy to be alive? I mean getting screamed at is no fun, but its happened to me my parents were screaming at me because I came home so fucked up, and I just laughed at them.. First I backed into the corner and screamed all scared, but it changed really fast because I forgot that they were mad and thought they understood even under their screaming lol

 

It happens when you take too much and do too little. Stay within you dose limit and keep active and you'll never bad trip.

You still might but, probably not.

 

I'm certain that I've never done too much, but I can definitely verify that if you do too little the trip can get depressing. For me on a low dose (1-2 hits) all I'd get is minor patterning and then it would go away and the trip would become 100% mental. From then on I'd think too much, realize that I have the entire world figured out, then realize how pointless continuing to live after I've figured it all out is and want to commit suicide

 

I've only had bad trips when I've taken too much so I wanted to say both just in case.

But you're totally right. Bad trips are from when you get inside your own head rather than having crazy shit happening.

Instead of thinking during the trip, you should feel
:sunny:

 

You didn't understand me correctly, when I start thinking too much on acid it's because I'm no longer seeing visuals or feeling the high. It's like a combination of coming down and psyching myself out of what little trip the low dose might have given me

 

Ohhhh ok. My bad

 

I mean I've had one on mushrooms, but I'm sure you can see how the came to be lol

 

Ive had 1 bad trip on acid. It was last summer and i was a festival here in Michigan when i found a guy with some perfed Calvin and Hobbes blotter. I took two hits just a get the feel for these doses not knowing how strong they really were. I guess with my experience i would say a bad acid trip is caused by a chain reaction leading up to the bad trip. For me it just started by me not being able to pay attention to what people were saying to me. Then combined with the hot weather and me just thinking too much and tripping so hard, i felt like i lost the ability to communicate completly. Like i completely forgot how to talk. Then it just hit me.... im having a bad trip.

 

I had a panic attack on acid and I thought I was dying once

 

Definitely. I made the mistake of thinking I would stay put during a trip. I felt trapped and couldn't go outside because I thought my housemate would notice and he's extremely paranoid about drugs.

 

is that a serious fucking question....... you can snap into a bad trip in a second.

 

can't really remember having a bad acid trip. just really strange ones. shrooms on the other hand has given me terror.

 

I never did,but had to guide a few out of the "terror" of getting lost and forgetting it was the L.

 

I dosed once when I had what I though was just the beginning symptoms of a cold that ended up some kind of flu virus. The acid didn't help, I still felt progressively like shit only in a bizarre, incomprehensible way...closest thing to a bad trip that I can remember.

 

The few times ive done LSD ive experienced anxiety which can be scary but its more like waves of fear that go away quite quickly.

 

I have had one "bad" trip on LSD, though I would never call it that. Pretty infantile distinction; there are psychedelic journeys only, and sometimes a journey is difficult.

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=401948&highlight=one+shiva&f=117

 

was this the time that you took it and went out to the bar? that story has always given me a classic acid vibe. even if it was a bad trip, i remember reading that and just getting super fear and loathing vibes.

 

yea.... this is the worst. probably all bad trips root from anxiety and or panic attacks. or the infinite time loop... where time repeats itself as if it were circular not linear, replaying the same situation over and over again..... scary stuff

 

This is usally the case. It's happened to me twice with mushrooms and once with LSD.
With the LSD I had purchased 10 hits and split them with my girlfriend, 4 for her and 6 for me. It was her first experience with LSD (she had taken mushrooms prior to this) and I wanted her to have the full experience but not one that would make it terribly uncomfortable for her. Anyway she had a few moments of confusion and fear but remained in control and level headed. I, however, had it shift gears on me and I lost all comprehension of what was going on, where I was, etc. I remember taking the blotters and immediately going out back on my porch to have a cigarette. About half way through smoking, which was around 5 minutes after putting the paper in my mouth, my body started buzzing but it was very powerful and I've never had it come on so fast before. My thoughts began to criss cross and slow down and my thought process in general was unraveling rather strangely. I looked to her and said something like "Are you feeling it already?" with a wry smile and let out a laugh as she replied "No, not at all". I told her that I needed to go lie down on the sofa because it was coming on very strong and very rapidly. As I tried to get comfortable on the sofa and pull a blanket up (this was mid summer, probably 95°) my son was sitting on the other end by my feet watching Tom and Jerry. My girlfriend sat on the other sofa so we were watching the cartoon together with our positions in an L shape (the sofas against the two walls) and as Tom and Jerry were running around on the screen with violence, I felt and saw a translucent, neon shimmering etheric pattern that definitely seemed to me to be of conscious force but was entirely without any definite form, move from the characters on the television outwards towards my girlfriend. As it was would "pass through her", temporarily taking possession, she would bend in a contorted, awkward way (almost like stretching in bizarre, pointless positions) and her face would show the impressions of grinning, frowning, scowling, then laughing, and the "thing" would pass out of her, into my son, he would repeat the process, then it would pass into me and as it approached I felt paralyzed and terrified; as I was consumed I went though the same motions and felt like I was being electrocuted, then it congealed and exited my self as it moved back into the television.
This happened twice before I regained my ability to function and move my limbs when I suddenly threw the blanket off and jumped up, proclaiming that "I need to go lie down in the bedroom and be alone, something is not right, I feel ill".
As I lie in bed tossing and turning while simltaneously cascading and ascending geometric floral prints rippled like waves (like refracted light, underwater looking up to the Sun) then grew outwards like roots, or like cracks in glass spreading outwards after the initial impact, I suddenly lost the ability to recall that I had taken LSD, a psychedelic drug, that I was ok and not going nuts, etc. I was fully convinced that I had been poisoned, then that I was genuinely going crazy, when suddenly the dream-like hypnogoic visions began. It was more similar to mescaline at this point, my vision was totally replaced with an otherness. I could no longer see my bedroom when I opened my eyes, but instead saw outspace, I was rushing through it at incredible speed, descending down on massive planets thousands of times larger then our Earth, meeting all kinds of beings in the stars that seemed to be composed of light and sparklers lol, and then memories of other peoples lives came crashing into the shores of my mind; I was reliving other peoples past experiences, some of them known and held to dearly to me, others I had never even seen before, or at least could recall seeing. I believe this to be my first authentic experience with the supposed Akashic Records. I do not exactly hold faith over this sort of philosophical or spiritual concept, but something like it, far beyond words, seems to most definitely be occuring, a network of mind juxtaposed with the material reality, branching out into all existance and in connexion on all points.
Anyway this lasted about 3 hours until I could get up and walk again, and I went back to the sofa where my girlfriend played with my hair and kept saying my name, trying to bring me back. It was the usual overdose effects, the rapidly shortening in length of coming into and out of the psychedelic dream worlds. For 2 minutes I'd be compltely non responsive, with visions bombarding and overtaking my awareness while my body locked up and my muscles got tense, then for 2 minutes it would suddenly cease and I'd be euphoric and grateful to be back, then it would suddenly come back for 1 minute, then I'd have 1 minute of it stopping, then 30 seconds, then 30 seconds, and so on until I turned on and understanding through silence the nature of reality until I was sober again and back to being a confused young man trying to find his place in the world. I dont think there is anything as painful as that part of a large dose trip, I lated said that it felt like every single iota of my body was in agony, even my sense of smell was amplified and hyper sensitive to the point of horrendous pain.
One thing I can say for sure from my own experience, a way-too-much trip on LSD is infinitely more a gentle exerpience than that of one with mushrooms. Mushrooms will fuck your brain up big time

 

are you kidding me OP? i have had NIGHTMARE trips. I believed aliens controlled my brain and controlled my reality and were trying to kill me to set me free. I have had trips where everyone around me was saying my thoughts out loud and making jokes about them. I had a trip where my friend flipped his car when i didnt have my seatbelt and somehow we managed to land back on the road on all four tires (act of god in my opinion). I have had trips where i was sure i was about to die and go to hell and be stuck there for eternity. BAD TRIPS ARE VERY REAL AND ALL PSYCHS SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT. Anyone who thinks they cant get bad trips have not gone far enough into their minds to realize how powerful psychedelics are.