Lately I stopped smoking weed due to frequent bad trips and paranoia. And now I'm seeking out some LSD, and wondering if people who have negative experiences with marijuana can be free of fear and loathing whilst tripping on acid. I have some psychedelic experience... my mushroom trips have been postive; intense, but positive. But then again my shrooming days were before I started on this grim slide with potsmoking. I've been pondering it.. how THC and LSD are completely different chemically, and interact with different neurotransmitters in the brain, but have found nobody IRL to discuss it with. So, citizens of hipforums, do you think my pot paranoia will translate into a bad trip?
I don't know if the paranoia is a result of the pot, or just your subconscious activity right now. I believe it is the latter. In other words, if you are freaking out with pot, you will find a similar but more intense experience with LSD. I think you should actually smoke more often, but in good loving company. Or sit down with your eyes closed and do some deep breathing meditation. You need to go deep down and find out what the issue is. Remember, psychedelics are just a chemical key. Your own mind is what you are really experiencing.
Bad trips carried over to my use of MJ. So maybe the same will be true for you, it's just the few things I always catch that bugged me out on my bad trip always seem apparent on MJ.
Ganja appears to make me feel a form of paranoia. LSD has never created this sensation nor any other psychedelic.
you never know till you try sometimes. best you were positive. i had more paranoid times with weed and acid or weed alone then i did with acid alone. but that never made me stop doing it. i dont experience the paranoia much any more. i believe that this is because i am more confident now. the insecurities bring fear and loathing. i found that weed really brought out my insecurities. if i smoked when i was tripping the whole experience was so much more and as frightening as they were sometimes i understood enough to know why this was happening and searched for inner meaning and a light to show me the way. through the years i have somehow grown out of without any doctors or meds what most would consider a mental illness. my parents taught me how to be afraid - with psychedelic drugs i was able to change the person my parents raised me to be. this is obviously not how it is for many people as for some reason there are people who are unable to handle what happens to them while tripping. there is really no way for you to know until you try it for yourself. just remember that LSD is subjective and that any fears that you have may surface or come on with full force - if this does happen and you start to experience what most would describe as a bad trip, remember that the trip is showing you something about yourself - pay attention and learn what you can from your experience. if you dont cling to what is happening by being afraid of it whatever it is will pass as you realize what to learn or how to let go. make sure you are in a good set and setting. be with people you trust!
I used to smoke weed regularly also. I dropped acid for the first time then completely stopped smoking. For me there is absolutely no paranoia related to LSD. Like was said before though you may be having bad "trips" with the weed because of something going on in your life right now. LSD would magnify that feeling even more.
I have a friend who is going through tough shit in her life, she likes to trip and to smoke weed, and all kind of stuff. But she is never able to trip alone, only with me as the shit from her life is comming to surface and i know how to turn all that shit to loving and beautifull trip for her. On the another side, I can't smoke weed alone as it just stone me and i fall asleep, but with her it is soo funny and beautifull. What I wanted to say with all this shit? Sometimes other people can help you go over your fears and dramas witch definitelly surface with acid, so if you really want to try it, I would suggest you to do it with somebody who is always positive and smiling and you trust him completely. Beeing with person like that, you will feel safe at all the time and wouldn't follow your fears,and even if something bad comes up, that person would be able to show you that that ugly thing is so ugly that is qute! Maybe, I don't know.... As we all said for thousand times it is different from person to person!
I disagree. Pot to me, makes me feel fucked in a totally different unpleasent way. (depersonalization also adds to this) but Psychadelics are in a completley different catagorie, and your focus will be more on other things during the trip, and its more HAPPY
I think the girl in your sig is eating some bromo-dragonfly... that looks like a pretty big blotter to me hahaha
It all depends from you. LSD plays with your mind and it is much more intense than pot. Are you able to face your fears and problems? Are you able to say to youself yes its me I put myself into this and I made a problem out of it. Only then LSD can help you a lot and you can even find a solution. But our human mind is amazing. Its much more easier to point finger on someone else and blame that person for everything. From my experience only people who are running away from problems in life go on a bad trip. LSD will definitly put it in front of your face. Thats why its always good to have a fun loving person that you trust next to you. That way you can make jokes about everything and go through it nicely. Really only way for you to know is to try.
I think what it is about bad trips is that person is afraid of the trip. These are usually fairly materialistic people,who believe they need money to live or they need other physical things. They are also often people who have a lot of negative, heavy karma. Basically people who have a harder time letting go of their ego. I think anyone can have a bad trip as far as experiencing disturbing visuals goes, but the person who can let go of their ego can float through it all, well nothing sticks to them. Resisting is the worst you can do, followed by attaching too much significance to something you see during the trip. You can try to rationalize it all after the trip's ended but while tripping you need to remain serenely observant. Taking it all in, but not attaching yourself to any of it or dwelling on anything too much.
It's easy to think that LSD is clearer than pot, but I'm not so sure that's the case with 400ug+ doses. Anyway, I feel that although there will be exceptions both ways, you will probably react similarly to being ridiculously stoned and to tripping on 1 hit, as far as panic goes.
