I'm a huge fan of the Cure, and as some may know, they have a fairly dark vibe behind them. RObErt SmItH is the lead man behind the cure with vocals and guitar and he himself experimented with LSD and other psychedelics during his prize album Disintegration. Being probably my second favorite band of all time, I'd like to try listening to them on my next trip. And I'm not sure if that's too risky. Here is a song by them, and this is about a bad trip Robert Smith had where he wasn't eaten by spiders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOHQs405XcU&feature=related"]The Cure - Lullaby [Music Video] - YouTube If I listen to this, how bad can it get?
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking but here is another song that sounds like how bad a trip can get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MPjfZ_8vE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MPjfZ_8vE Here is a dark ass song I listened to on my last acid trip which I loved while tripping... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEaj_W8p84"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUEaj_W8p84
Sometimes with the darker stuff, you can be really sensitive to there pain, and you can sort of see it be released through the song. If the trip is going good, it can show you the light at the end of that dark tunnel. Depends though, I hope your ready for black spiders if they come!
Are you apprehensive about listening to something because it might make you feel bad during a trip? Screw that! Psychedelics are about pushing the envelope, opening your mind and exploring all the depths of your own mind. This even means the dark parts and if you're tripping and specifically trying to avoid any dark feelings/thoughts, it will catch up with you eventually. How bad can it get? Why does it ever have to be "bad" in the first place? Why does "bad" have to lead to a negative trip? You should be able to embrace the darkness within you and within the human race because it is part of all of us, like it or not. Some of my favorite music to listen to while tripping is Tool, NIN or really dark classical music. It can't all be flowers and sunshine, right? Embrace all emotions and learn who you are even if that means facing the dark sides of your own personality. When really digging deep with LSD, I think its important to surrender and accept fear for what it is to be able to move past it, otherwise the threat of a "bad" trip will always linger in your mind. Btw- I have read that song is about a re-occurring nightmare that Robert Smith used to have.
You seriously could potentially have a worse time listening to happy music that you don't enjoy rather than darker music that you do enjoy.
I love stuff that makes me feel something. I would say stay away from it at the start of the trip, I don't know if anybody else experiencing this, but the first hour seems to shape the theme of the trip for me and everything keeps calling back to that. Other than that your mood can swing so quickly that listening to something dark can affect you for a few minutes then you move on.
^^You know, I have that too. It's the oddest phenomenon. Like in the beginning it doesn't even seem important, then near the end of your trip, everything seems to relate back to that moment. Whatever happened. So yeah, that's good advice. I'll probably consider this at the end of my trip, my first trip I did some sort of dark stuff at the beginning of my trip and I know that made me feel extremely intense, but it also seemed to make the trip stronger. It could have just been because it was my first experience and there was zero tolerance. But I feel like it was because of the music. I had headphones on, and the music made me vibrate.. I don't know how to explain it, but that was probably my favorite experience was that bit right there. I don't mind if I have bad thoughts rushing through my head, I think dark all the time, sometimes very depressed for months on end. But I don't want to be seeing weird shit that isn't there if that's possible.
exactly! But that was all good, the clown part was sooo random, but it didn't scare me. But I don't want to be seeing spiders or snakes crawl around. We'll just see how it goes I guess. I think I'm trying it tomorrow
What's wrong with spiders or snakes? Just not cute enough for ya? In all seriousness, so what if you see spiders? What you see isn't the problem, it is how YOU react. You're only going to see things that come from your brain so now matter how "bad" the things you see are, they are come from your mind and are part of you. Psychedelics can show you the killer in yourself, the animal, the scared child and so much more. This is part of the personal exploration that comes from using these drugs and I think one needs to embrace this to fully benefit from such experiences. So I for one hope you see plenty of spiders, find some beauty in their existence and let them spin some psychedelic webs for you...
^^I totally respect that. Here's my thing with Acid though, I've gone through the bad, and i respected that. I've always found it funny as Psychedelics are fabled to show you "heaven or hell". I've never seen either - at least I'd imagine them to be more drastic. I've experienced terrible contradicting thoughts leading me to question suicide more seriously than I ever have. But then I had another thought that was circulating that showed me the beauty in life. See LSD was important to me, I've always loved the dark, death and complex, but LSD showed me the beauty in light, life, and the simple. I remember thinking on one trip, instead of seeing all these, it would almost be more of a miracle to just see a solid color, something simple. Everything's always so complicated, why is it so hard to embrace the simple? I don't mind if LSD has bad parts, I almost enjoy it more than I enjoy the bright parts. But on an LSA trip, instead of feeling a psychedelic euphoria, I felt delusional. And that's something I don't want to see, if I had the sensation of spiders climbing all over me, that'd be ridiculous, but in that state of mind it would mean so much. And maybe you're right, maybe it's something I need to comeover, but I'm sure as hell don't want to do it on purpose. So I guess my real question is whether I could listen to the Cure on my come up and not lead myself into a darker realm that I have ever imagined? Thanks for the posts by the way
