Whats the possibilitys of having a bad trip and becoming mental retarded or in a pych home for the rest of ur life?
That all depends on your own mind. Personally I don't believe in bad trips. There's always the chance that you might not come back from an acid trip. Not very high in probability, but still there.
In my bad trips and flashbacks I've certainly felt as if there was a point of no return. But I believe it's a decision to never return... both times I've chosen to come back. Before acid you should seriously estimate whether you'll cope with the during and after. You may have to rebuild your world afterwards... hopefully not from pieces too small.
Just go with the flow. The hardest part of the trip was the coming up. You will feel as if your mind has left you, but it comes back. and you feel this way of every moment of the trip.
just remember that everyone feels like they will stay that way forever what is teh difference between those that do and those that dont? none of us really know - it hasnt happened to us part of you will probably never come back though is it an important part? once again, no one knows. but that is probably because no one knows what is trully important in life but psychedelics seem to at least give a better idea of what is important ..to you..
I love you. Exactly. LSD will change you in the way that seeing a car crash, traveling to a completely different culture, falling in love, watching someone die, or getting to know a dolphin through a plane of glass will change you. You're just more likely to be paying attention to it all when you're on LSD, because it chemically nudges you toward paying attention. There is no reason to be afraid of LSD or anything you experience under it's influence. Really, there's no reason to be afraid of anything, ever... but if you take it, you might find that out on your own.
It's true, the only rational fear of psychedelics one can have is that they are no longer going to be comfortable with the sense of identity they have built up for themselves before the trip. And really, it is quite frightening, not so much with LSD as with other psychedelics, but when you see the blurry lines of good/evil, right/wrong, love/hatred, God/Nature, etc. all entangled and simulataneously determing the state of each other as awareness balances out the wave, you begin to wonder Where do I fit in with all of this? And really you dont, none of us do, the source of the sense of being is more illusive than God. When you breathe in you take in the pain of existence, when you breathe out focus on turning that into love as it rises from the lungs. Where are you in the middle of breathing in and breathing out? Nowhere, it's just in and out, in and out.
If I had to guess, the probability of someone being insane and in a psych ward for the rest of there life from one acid trip is 1/1,000,000. The probabitly of not enjoying the experience and having a bad trip is 1/50, but the people who do have bad trips also must not be content with their own life, and lsd drags out your problems. LSD was first used as by the medical community because it helped people discover the root of their unhappiness and problems. Actually LSD might have be used by the gov't first as a truth serum, I'm not sure. Im all fucked up on xanax so I hope this made sense.
when you say ill leave part of me behind...thts a scary thing to think about even tho i havnt done any psychadelic only smoked mj and drank it sounds like its going to change my personality.
No it richens your personality to become a better, thoughtful, and more caring person. You are still you. Plus your young, everyone changes as they grow older, but you'll always be the same person inside.
a friend of mine once had a bad trip, it was funny at the time but bad for him ... lol, he did loose it ... ended up in hospital and everything that goes along with it. Fortunately he did come out of it.
I think Mr Writer articulated some of what you leave behind in one of his recent threads: http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=334422&f=117 When put like that it's far less scary
sorry to be ignorant. I have never done LSD or any psychedelic for that matter. I really want to, to find myself. just have a greater understanding. There is really nothing holding me back except im the only one out of my friends that really knows about psychedelic to an extent. I know not to do it alone but am contemplating it because i believe i have a strong power of will and practice it whenever possible. First off, could this be a possibly good idea? but next off, there has been a rumor(?) going around our community that involves someone tripping on LSD that got so fucked up that he thought his arm was an orange and he started peeling it open...i dont beleive i could let this happen to myself. i know its impossible to determine what will go through my head under the influence. Anyway, this arm peeling scares the shit out of my friends. Is this arm peeling even possible???
