Submitted 15 hours ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I had a friend explain it like
hey if your trip is bad, just focus on old fashioned death and pinup art of the devil and stuff. Just go full blast into it like YEAH TAKE ME MOTHERFUCKER and it should turn around on you.
I always loved that advice but never got a chance to try it
Honestly, that isn’t the best advice. A bad trip can be anything from mild discomfort, to paranoia, to a full on traumatic nightmare experience that has the potential to scar your psyche for a while to come. I had one of those nightmare experiences about 20 years ago after eating datura stramonium seeds. It was a 2 and a half day death trip, that I only came out of by being forcibly strapped to a bed and injected with haloperidol in a hospital. That experience messed with me for about a decade afterwards.
Gotta be desperate for a high to take datura. That is a poisonous plant with unpredictable results. It grew regularly where we lived, and we had a physician family member who basically said if you’re going to get high even some of the harder drugs were a better choice than datura. He’d seen too many people who didn’t survive or came out with permanent damage. It was a poorer rural area where they worked, and combined with boredom people tried other shit to get high. Datura’s got a bad track record.
I had one try to go bad on me, but some friends took me on an adventure and it turned out great.
That’s awesome, friends are fantastic
I love friends. I’d sure love to have one someday!
I’ve found that being inside is a good way to have a bad trip, for me. Outside is great.
Ive been lucky enough to never have a bad trip. Im unlucky in that I’ve only been able to trip a handful of times.
As the meme says, there are no bad trips. If you’re serious about psychedelics and not simply taking drugs for entertainment, you’ll always get the trip you need, but not necessarily the trip you wanted.
A “bad” trip just means you either needed to process some difficult stuff, or you might have violated a bunch of rules regarding set and setting. In both cases, you get the expected outcome.
Honestly, difficult trips are often the most rewarding since they help break up stuck patterns of thinking and behavior or bring things to the light you’ve been trying to hide from yourself whose repression caused internal suffering etc.
This always assumes you’ve done your homework and you don’t suffer from e. g. preexisting medical conditions. If you’re schizophrenic and take psychedelics, you might have an actual bad trip, that’s a completely different story, naturally.
Nope. Bad trips exist. I was sat laying down in my bed the entire time crying whiley mind was spiraling down shitty paths that after the trip made zero sense. I was disguested with myself. I couldn’t make myself move. Not locked in but zero motivation. Like that feeling when you need to pee but stay in bed because you don’t want to move.
I tried to cheer myself up think logically about the shit going through my head. It made it much worse. I wanted to die. About three and a half later I finally got out of bed and into the shower to cry. I remembered everything I thought of and that I hatedyself but it all wasn’t true. Completely illogical.
What did I gain from this? Nothing. You can say whatever you want to pretend there’s some underlying massive rebelation or positive that trip should have given me but I reject that whole heartedly. It just made me feel awful for about 5 hours fucked me up for about a week and made me hesitant do mushrooms again.
There are bad trips. Sometimes, yes, ‘bad’ trips are just an expression of one’s mental state, exacerbed. You can look into it, ponder and maybe do some introspection because it is necessary.
But sometimes bad trips are just bad trips. The drugs just hit too hard, or you’re not prepared for it and you go spiralling down an infinite staircase of pain and anguish. But you have nothing to gain from it, except the memory of a bad experience.
People don’t like to hear it because it sounds like invalidating toxic positivity, but you’re right. Aside from fringe cases, there’s no bad trips- only challenging trips. It may even be traumatic, but that doesn’t make it an inherently bad trip- it’s all about how you respond to it and what you do with it after.
Retarded take. Yes, there are bad trips.
It’s not about the destination it’s about the journey.
Wait that’s a different trip.
Idk the first oath would probably really help when a trip starts going off. May not make it good, but could turn a bad trip into a challenging trip
Had a few, do not recommend
Thanks Bernie!
Whoa, that sign is talking to me.
The good old ecstatic condition.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A bad trip is just an anxiety attack while you are too vulnerable to understand reality.