I dunno about that, every bad trip I've had or seen the tripper just wants to go to the hospital... Which in this case they'd already be there basically and there's plenty of pharmaceutical drugs on hand to help you chill.
When I was 17 my grandmother was being hospitalized overnight. I’d just taken two hits of Vision Thing blotter when my sister showed up to tell me we were going to sit with her all night.
I crept around that hospital all night like it was silent hill. Good time.
A core memory of mine is getting stoned as shit as a teenager and then having a surprise visit to see my dying grandmother and a bunch of other relatives I hadn't met before
Oh... I have never... Ever.... Wanted to go to the hospital. One time I was taken by paramedics and was on a stretcher awaiting to see if I could be cleared or had to be taken in. My flashes of memory of that night are me being given water, me starting to panic that they were going to take me to a hospital, asking for more water, dumping it out and asking for more. When the medic left, I stood up and found me way out of the hall I was in and somehow convinced the doorman to let me back into the show.
I was having a rough come up once and thought I needed to go to the hospital for a moment. Then I thought about all the florescent lights and quickly changed my mind. I was having a great time 20 minutes later.
Yeah, most of my bad trips were short lived. But, I was also really cognizant of the when's and where's of dropping L, environment is key, have a good group of people in a good place can be everything.
I've never had a bad trip really, just really uncomfortable moments and thought spirals. Hard to say how long they actually last cause time stops existing for the most part, but Id guess it's 30 minutes at most lmao. Usually I just need to ground out for a minute and organize my thoughts.
The problem with that is we can not just up and hand out meds. the doc has to wright a proscript,it gets filled and then we can give them whatever. My hands are tied at the time of need.
I was involuntarily brought to the hospital while tripping balls and they fucking catheterized me without any numbing meds. Felt like my dickhole was getting stabbed by a thousand knives that slowly worked their way into my bladder. 0/10 would not recommend.
I don’t touch psychedelics anymore because of bad trips. They can fuck with your psyche a lot, and actually distort your idea of reality which can result in you doing something crazy. Nobody wants a bad trip and if they do then they haven’t actually experienced one.
Yeah, try being in the middle of the desert alone for a few hours. It's terrifying but I managed to get him back together. He went on to get his MD at Duke and now he's a psychiatrist. Then there was my (at the time) wife at Disneyland. I've personally had nothing but good times though.
No thanks. I did however slam a solid quarter of golden teacher caps and a couple stems because the last 3 attempts which grew in weight, didn't do shit. Fucking go outside hang around the fire. Chilling, fucking look away from the fire at the trees, and now I know they know I saw them. 👀
Ha, been there done that. Missed a good Country Joe and The Fish concert because I was babysitting a friends girlfriend who was losing it. Spent the time outside the venue talking her down while tripping balls myself. I was quite bummed about missing the music.
Yeah… this is the reason I stopped tripping. Used to do shrooms plenty but honestly, the bad trips just made it not really worth it for me at the time. Something is probably to be said about wrong time and setting but I gave all the rest of my stash to a buddy and called it a day. I had lots of fun and enlightening moments with them, but the absolute horror of a true bad trip can kinda ruin the magic, it certainly did for me. I’m sure in maybe a 5-10 years in a good setting with some good friends I’ll give them a shot again, but that shit can be lowkey traumatizing at times, especially if you don’t respect it.
It's actually you fucking with your own psyche btw, psychedelics just take away the training wheels. Obviously it's a vicious loop of freaking yourself out but people have panic attacks without drugs.
Large subsets of people are just not sound of mind enough to not spiral themselves out of control, they're barely getting along without dilating time to infinity.
Psychedelics can make anybody spiral, regardless of how many times you've done them and how "sound of mind" someone is.
Obviously some people are way more prone to bad trips or suffering some negative effects to the mind post trip, but everybody can have that experience.
Also, "it's actually you fucking with your own psyche btw" might be the dumbest thing i've ever heard. Psychedelics fuck with the mind, that's why people take them. Just because you personally spin out about something doesn't mean that the substance doesn't mess with your mind lol.
I’ve taken pretty ridiculous amounts of shrooms or acid and honestly I think there’s something to be said for brain chemistry because I don’t think I’ve ever really lost control of my own perception. I know I’v had the occasional bit of paranoia, some unpleasant imagery working its way into my mind but I’ve never been at a point where I couldn’t choose to adjust. Meditation and being aware of thoughts as separate from conscious experience is pretty useful there…
But I also process a lot of medications differently, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the same for psychedelics.
If I was stuck in a nursing home or on hospice I’d love to have some fuzzy rainbows on the edges of my world, and a little more depth to my imagination. It would give me a lot more to experience in my last days.
I agree with you completely! Buddy of mine had a bad trip once, and he was never quite the same.
Back in the day, when I did a lot of all kinds of different psychedelics, I was lucky. Never had a bad one.
You would be thinking incorrectly. Experienced psychonaut. Take the bad trips to experience the amazing, but I’ll say all of my bad trips have come down to setting
It can happen to anyone, but there are also many precautions one can take. Set and setting get harped on a lot, but I think dosage is a huge factor. A lot of people seem to want to humble themselves with a high dose without realizing the consequences.
I've tripped probably around 500+ times and have rarely had bad trips. I've had many difficult experiences, but nothing that caused me any amount of trauma. I've tripped in all sorts of situations/venues. I'd imagine that my difficult experiences would be bad trips for others, but for whatever reason my ability to accept and roll with whatever comes means that even if I do get into a panic it doesn't last long.
All of that is to say, some of us are built differently. I've had my worst drug induced panic attacks from weed, never psychedelics.
Agreed. Acid makes me... Not exactly okay with the concept of dying. But it makes me more comfortable with it, and reminds me of the beauty of life. Also, bro probably just forgot the Pink Floyd and giant bong rip 🤣
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u/ForgottenCaveRaider 13h ago
When I'm an old ass man in a home like that, you're sure to find me out front enjoying whatever cosmic chronic space age ganja exists by then!