I think I'm onto something here. Call bad trips acid-dents. Like and accident, with acid. That sounds a lot less scary and would have less of a negative connotation than the words 'bad trip'.
Upperlevel I like your way of thinking as acid dents sounds less daunting to newbies like myself :sunny:
I always call bad trips educational experiences. If you haven't gotten to that point in your psychedelic adventures.....keep trying and be more honest with yourself.
Bad trips are bad trips, no need for euphemisms. Its really an oversimplification on the matter but a bad day is a bad day eventhough it can have good parts and can be learned from.
Bad trips are no more than trips that take you to places you didn't plan for. They shouldn't be called bad, as the word is indicative of a judgement of a subjective experience. Judging emotions and internal experience is dicey since subjectivity doesn't fall on a binary, black-and-white scale and thus words like bad and good should not be applied. I just finished a book on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and that is my application to "Bad Trips." I hope it makes sense.
I dont want to think of them as 'bad trips'. Instead, I want to think of the darker moments as acidents, something you didn't plan for, unexpected, possibly a mistake. This way, you don't encompass the whole trip, just the 'bad' or unenjoyable parts.
You can make the same argument for EVERY single thing we refer to as bad. This need for euphemistic language is adopting the current majority cultures language imo and completely dismisses and downplays the profundity of psychedelics. Psychedelics can push emotions and feelings in all directions.
