What are some of your guys' bad trip experiences on shrooms? I'd like to hear some if you've ever had any. Did you learn anything from them? I've only ever really had one true bad trip before. I've had a couple "almost" bad trips but was able to save them with the help of friends and music. It was I think the third time I'd ever done shrooms so I was still quite a novice and didn't know too much about them. I had come across about 3 grams one night but unfortunately all my friends were busy. My rents were gone that night so I had the house to myself and being as naive as I was, decided to down the shrooms myself. When they first kicked in I was having an absolute blast watching Independance Day on our big screen. But I soon noticed that I'd been becomming slowly more and more uncomfortable as the minutes went on. I remember going to type something on my laptop beside me and it jumped 3 feet to the left. This scared the shit out of me and I lept off the couch. (my first true blue hallucination) Now I wasn't having a good time as the scared feeling I got from my jumping laptop wouldn't go away. Suddenly I heard a crazy loud noise comming from my kitchen, this threw my into all out panic mode and I didn't know what was happening. I ran into the kitchen to investigate but couldn't pinpoint where the sound was comming from becasue it sounded like it was comming from all around me. (It turned out to be my fridge kicking in) It was then that I got the thought in my head "oh my god I'm having a bad trip" and as you may know when this thought pops into your head it's VERY hard to get out. I started hearing noises everywhere. I thought someone was at the door and this scared me to death. I ran back to my living room jumped under the blankets on my couch and stayed there until morning. The rest of the night was just spent hoping to hell I didnt hear any more noises (which I did, lots) I'm completely leaving out the hallucination portion of the trip which at the time was extremely unpleasant and frightening as well. I was terrified to be alone in my house at night for about a week after that and had lots of trouble sleeping for about the same amount of time. I'm sure this wouldn't have happened if I wasn't alone. I can enjoy tripping alone on the rare occassion now but it's always best to have someone with you when you're inexperienced (or experienced for that matter). It helps to kind of keep your mind from going wild. I dont regret the trip in the least though. It most definitely taught me not to fuck around with shrooms
I've only tripped twice and they were both bad. I started thinking too much about my life/the nature of reality. Bad idea. Do not think about the following topics while tripping: your life (unless you are really confident in what you're doing and what you're going), your love life, your past, your future, history, humanity, the meaning of life or lack there of, the fact that you are human, the fact that you have a brain, the fact that you're tripping, the fact that tripping can be scary, the fact that tripping could possibly scar you mentally, etc.
Every mushroom trip has hard parts for me. I had a solo trip that involved 30 minutes of the most intense self-loathing I've ever faced. Still wouldn't call it an overall bad trip. You work through the lows like you sail through the highs. - Stig
yea on LSD or mushrooms I will sometimes feel kind of depressed and happy at the same time its hard to explain. i start to miss normal reality after a while.
Yeah I agree that most trips have their ups and downs, and moments where a single thought can be taken outside the context of reality. I don't think I've ever had a trip where I didn't feel uncomfortable for at least a little bit but it usually passes with the introduction of a new thought. And yeah, when a trip is over, I'm always ready to welcome back reality. I have to disagree with part of your post. Although I don't really like to focus on elements of my life while tripping, pondering aspects of humanity and the meaning of life can be intensely interesting, (especially with other people) but maybe that's just a personal preferance. As for the fact that tripping can scar you mentally, I think change you mentally is more of an appropriate statement. Scar just sounds so negative, and though it does happen there's usually a just cause for it. I'd say just don't go doing a shitload of mushies on your first trip
