It sounds like a normal trip to me. I still don't know whether I had a "bad trip" in my life on psychedelics. Edibles though - that's another story, much scarier experience to me than even "5g of shrooms in the dark".
A bad acid trip nearly ruined my life
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#23It sounds like a normal trip to me. I still don't know whether I had a "bad trip" in my life on psychedelics. Edibles though - that's another story, much scarier experience to me than even "5g of shrooms in the dark".
Edibles is kiddy stuff. Shrooms are not bad. high dose of LSD is awe-inspiring. and anything beyond that is beyond me
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#24tl;dr, he took acid in a bad setting, lost touch with reality, and ended up crying in bed for a few hours. It then bothered him for months after. I don't want to be too insensitive but I don't understand how that's getting even a little close to life ruining. I've had a similar experience before. It was scary, but it didn't bother me at all after. I understood I experienced my brain having it's wires crossed for a wh…
I'd be more sympathetic to the author here. You don't know what they experienced, and you don't get a choice on how these things are going to impact you. People can get PTSD from relatively minor accidents or disturbing experiences.
I had a fairly traumatic experience like the author's, it was relentlessly terrifying, and some of the things I saw were like precision bomb attacks on my ego that I couldn't just shake off by saying "well that wasn't real". I got over it fairly quickly, but I can fully imagine not being able to next time, and I will never be as cavalier with these things again.
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#25"An entirely avoidable bad trip fucked my shit up".
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#26Based on the description it seems like he took some other research chemical and not LSD.
Key things: - 15 minute onset - Massive hallucinations - Only lasted a few hours
LSD takes 45 minutes to start the effects and lasts around 12 hours. As mentioned in the article, you don’t hallucinate big scenes or things that aren’t there.
I once had a similar experience where I took some random tabs from a guy in a bar. I immediately had effects with in 15 minutes, with some big visuals. The trip was pretty intense, but not as bad as the author’s. The trip was over in around 5-6 hours. It was definitely a research chemical and not LSD.
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#27It sounds like a normal trip to me. I still don't know whether I had a "bad trip" in my life on psychedelics. Edibles though - that's another story, much scarier experience to me than even "5g of shrooms in the dark".
Edibles is kiddy stuff. Shrooms are not bad. high dose of LSD is awe-inspiring. and anything beyond that is beyond me
I find edibles throw me for a loop much more than extremely high doses of LSD ever did.
I find salvia entirely tolerable, even enjoyable, but strong edibles push my shit in somehow.
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#28Just say no.
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#29This shouldn't be flagged, it almost seems like people are getting defensive about their pet drug which is odd.
If someone wrote an article titled "Alcohol nearly ruined my life", most people wouldn't translate it into "No one should ever drink alcohol"
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#30Shrug. Most of this is just a description of psycadelics trips in general. It's not a bad trip in itself that you don't know what a name is, or that you spent a lifetime living on (or even being) the "aau" sound from the word "now".
Sounds like this person's other experiences have just been microdosing.
But you had bad feelings during your trip. Yeah that sucks. It happens.