a really scary experience...and questions to follow;

i've been tokin' and chokin' happily for almost 6 years now. never had a problem; sure, the occasional paranoia, munchies, or brain-fry, but never something like what happened to me last night. it was extremely frightening.

my friend and i smoked more than usual last night...and don't get me wrong, i've smoked blunt after blunt, and we smoked maybe only 4 little bowls. all of a sudden there was LITERALLY a splash of a vibrant scarlet red that splattered across my vision much like a blood splatter would, from the left where my friend was sitting. it's the only way i can describe it. it wasn't solid, textured, or very detailed; it was much like a blind spot you get in your visual field, in a very vibrant red shade. it was definitely a visual of some sort.

i don't know if it was that that set it off or if it was just the beginning of what happened to me. i suddenly felt the panic and fear you feel when you begin to think negative thoughts whilst tripping. take note, i have taken mushrooms a handful of times, as well as acid. i've taken some pretty amazing journeys. this is a source of concern for me in regards to this situation. once you open those doors, you CANNOT close them.

i sat forward and said my friend's name like i was distant (she knew something was wrong), trembling quite heavily, not feeling in control and afraid i was losing my mind. i almost wanted to ask her if she could hear me, or if she was there, but couldn't communicate. i kind of had trouble breathing, and got up and walked into the kitchen trying to escape the loud and overstimulating and overbearing television. the only time something like this happened is when i had to abort a trip on mushrooms, and then also, the tv had to be turned off. it was too much. i really felt like i was having a bad trip. this must of lasted only 2 or 3 minutes from what i can remember, at least severely. and there were NO psychedelics involved, just weed. this has never happened, no matter how high i am.

we sat there in silence and i kind of got a grip on myself. i trembled for about 5 minutes afterwards. i still felt strange, and slightly uncomfortable by what had happened, and on the brink of tears for about 10 or 15 minutes. then i felt very confused for the rest of the night, and still now. it was extremely frightening for that to happen so unexpectedly and without any warning, very abrupt. the feeling came back very briefly afterwards while my friend was telling me a story, and for some reason i began to think she was evil and was going to hurt me but i knew not to believe it. a red aura seemed to encompass a lot of things ever so slightly. i told her i was feeling badly again and that i needed a minute. i fought it off, but i am/was still very scared of what was/is happening to me.

i would like to think this was my very first panic and/or anxiety attack. although the visuals/hallucinations and strange thoughts make me worry otherwise. i really felt like i was under the influence of acid or mushrooms for those brief moments. i don't know if this is worth it to me anymore, i know that my mental health is not pristine as i suffer from depression amongst other mental quirks; have been for 8 years. i know i am probably prone to other things. this is not something i want to deal with often, or ever again. i don't need other things wrong with me, life is hard enough as it is.

i just wanted others' opinions, and perhaps maybe somebody here has gone through the same thing. sorry for such a lengthy post, and thank you for reading. just a scared young lady looking for some kind of clarity....

peace and love

 

laced?

 

i thought that too...but my friend was just fine, and i was fine for a few hours before this even happened.

 

just a bad time then. something didn't synch right with your body/brain.

 

Maybe you got so high it triggered a flashback of a negative experience you had while tripping and you panicked. It's happened to me before. I don't think you have anything to worry about in regards to your mental health. Just remember that weed is technically a psychedelic and that this can happen, and be more conscious of how much you smoke in the future. I hope you feel better

 

People underestimate marijuana. I don't mean this in a useless accusitorial tone, I mean that it's better to think of weed as LSD-light, so to speak. It can sometimes take you places you don't wanna be in.

 

I came to post my own story and this story caught my eye and basically says everything i was about to say....yesterday i went to canadas wonderland and smoked one bowl with my friend before going in and i was high happy and fine....2-3 hours later we went out and smoked 2 bowls...this was not a lot of marijuana, not at all...im a pot head, i smoke pot everyday. i could smoke a lot more than what i did smoke...its not laced, my friend was fine, and we've been smoking the same stuff for a week.....but it soon got very scary....I do shrooms, e, and lsa, but i havnt done either for 3-4 weeks and it was a very mild dose...the visuals i got yesterday just got way too intense, like a high dose of lsa and mushies together....everything i saw would turn to lines of paint, and depending on how scared i got, the visuals would change...when i was okay, i could focus on reality, but if i turned my head, the change of view or something would scare me and the 'lines of paint' start to shake and vibrate and i couldnt even tell what i was seeing....peoples faces were anouther thing that scared me, cause they would morph into this scary looking painting...i keep using the word paint cause i dont know how else to describe it, there was no shades of colours, just the colors themselves...all the reds were red, and all the greens were green...there was no lighter shades or darker shades, just all the same....it was one of the most fucked up experiences of my life and it was only off a little bit of weed....this lasted a long time...i think the scary part of it with me trippin hard and freaking out lasted about 2 hours...and i had to walk around the park for about anouther 5 hours coming down before i felt okay to drive back home...it was during that time i decided to stop doing all chemicals and mushrooms forever, they have to be to blame...it came on so strong, and so unexpected and i never want that to happen to me again...i was a zombie the rest of the day, and still feel like a zombie today...i dont even feel like i went to wonderland yesterday, it feels like something that might have happened months ago...this is not the first time this has happened, but definatly the strongest....a similar experience happened when i first tried oil, but it was no where near as intence as that

i was suppose to take my sister shrooming for her first time in a couple weeks and now im scared to....scared that ill do more damage to me, and scared i'll expose her to the same thing which i know she would never be able to handle...the only reason i think i got through it is because i've been pretty fucked up off other drugs before and knew how to keep myself under control and calm, but really i was terrified on the inside

 

yah I smoked 2 fat ass mango blunts the other day. and jesus christ I was having relapses from hell. like I went literally dead for like 5 minutes while my friend was talking to me and I felt like I was spinning and I had people like poking and dragging there fingers on me. it was weird. no crazy visuals like that tho man :/

 

wow.
thats like alot of words.
summarize.

 

To the person who posted this, I know exactly what you're talking about, I've had the exact thing happened and it scared the shit out of me. It was just a panic attack, you probably got a little zap of panic from getting visuals out of nowhere and then tricked yourself into feeling freaked out.

If I dont smoke for more than a week and I get really high really fast in a setting that Im not completely comfortable with I will start to feel like Im slowly going into an LSD trip that never quite hits but its a panic feeling, Ill usually just go to another room alone and get some water and find something to concentrate on for a while then Im fine.

 

whoa i just skipped through it all once i was half way through the page already had a headache coming but. if you dont want it let me have it