What Does A Bad Trip Feel Like? - How To Avoid Bad Trips

Psychedelic trips can be terrifying experiences. It's important to understand the reality of bad trips and how to best avoid them.

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[blarewolf]

I had a bad trip yesterday.

I couldn't focus on anything. The brain's reality simulator gets confused. Short circuit. Time ceases to exist, the brain cannot process what is happening, what happened, and what will happen, so you cannot tell if they you are awake or dreaming. Severe disorientation, one remembers spaces and can move in them, but there is the sensation of forgetting everything at every moment, as if life were resetting every second. Panoramic vision disappears, everything around is darkness. Fear (absolute terror) is perpetual and sustained, and, obviously, you feel that you will remain in this state for eternity. For a mind with ADHD, distractions are maximum and you cannot focus on anything. The natural micro-deviations of the mind are expanded to the maximum: it is absolutely and entirely impossible to finish a task, you cannot do ANYTHING. It feels like a brain stroke since one becomes entirely dysfunctional and, moreover, dangerous. There is anger, rage, pain, and absolute loss of contact with reality. I came to entirely think that my bus crashed, I died, and that this was hell, the afterlife. It definitely was hell. Suicidal thoughts every instant, I looked at the knives in the kitchen and they tempted me to end this nightmare. I thought about my parents and how much it would hurt them to have lost their son. If I were alive, it hurt me to have lost my sanity, to have lost my musical ability. If I were dead, it tore me apart to think about the pain of my loved ones.

Total disconnection from the senses, I didn't feel hungry, nothing tasted like anything. And at every moment, everything is forgotten, at every instant everything is erased, and you find yourself violently thrusted into the present moment; and the moment you know where you are, you forget everything again. The perfect hell.

[garyalbertmusic]

If you have a bad trip force yourself to eat something, drink a pint of water, then lay down and surrender to the experience and watch it... On my bad trip it was hell on earth and finally, I laid down and asked God for help, and I was then overcome with safety and love and then went on a powerful and beautiful trip. Ask your guides, angels, higher self and GOD if all else fails! LOL And I am not religious at all. But asking Gid brought me straight out of the bad trip!

[Pst]

I had this once on an ayahuasca retreat and once on weed. I really believed that I had woken up from the dream of human life to the REAL reality that was eternal agony.

[Alexthebrokkie]

as a person who had many bad trips, this video made a sense that I couldnt express myself, thank you Sir.

[jamieiii]

Just comming down from a bad trip now that i know i caused myself. I thought i was experienced enough to take acid and go out in public and just enjoy the day, but i probably should have known that it would not end like that. Had a full on panic attack, and thought that i had gone permanently crazy. It truly was hell, calling it a bad trip doesnt do it justice at all. This video puts it into words that i would not be able to on my own, thank you

[EetjeB]

I started screaming for 6 minutes saying "i dont know where i am" and "help me" and "im so sorry". It was so damn terrifying, i remember not being able to recognize anything and everything looked fake. Even when i stopped screaming I had to do everything I could not to scream.

[martingoldfire]

I once had a two hour bad trip on a huge dose of Liberty Cap mushrooms. It started off like heaven, but then I thought about someone I had treated badly a few years prior, before I became a better man and changed my ways. The mushroom showed me how it must have been to be on the receiving end of my behavior, and I cried in agony for two hours, pacing back and forth, rolling on the floor, realizing how big a dick I was. This was an absolute angel who gave me my first mushrooms to treat my decades long depression, and taught me breathing techniques that I practice every day still. How could I have been so cruel to someone who literally saved my life and loved me more than I deserved? It almost broke me.

But, it made me call her, after years of silence. Turns out she knew I was suffering and lashed out at her, and she harboured no ill feelings towards me.

Bad trip? Yes and no. It was what I needed, and it brought me peace. We never spoke again, but I think that too was a gift from her, a chance to walk my own path. ✌️💚🖖

[DarkXagami]

I had the worst trip of my life and vowed to never do it again. I literally thought I died. And I was trying to retrace my steps as to how I died. It's like I was dead for a long time and just became aware that I was dead. It was so trippy and fucking scary because I kept asking myself, How long have I been dead.

Then my mind kept skipping timeframes. I would be in my bed, then just appear at my front door. Then in my bathroom. Then back in my bed. Then I would question if I even went to the front doornor did I imagine it?

I questioned everything because I believed nothing around me was real. And I was genuinely convinced that I was stuck in an endless time loop and this was now my Hell. The only way to get out of this endless misery was to kill myself and hopefully I would wake up in the real world.

It was literally the worst 7 hours of my life. Felt like an eternity. It even fucked me up for a few days after. I questioned my existence and did not know if I was dead or alive. I guess they called it Depersonalization Disorder? Where you don't feel alive.

Never ever again. I genuinely feel bad for people in a vegetated state. Worst thing you can do is keep that person alive.

[xProtobro]

I found that doing exercise helps snapping out of them, like.. just jog or run fast in circles until you ground yourself. The mind will be too immersed in the body for it to focus on whatever fears crawl nearby.

[Actaeonnd]

He talks about worst nightmare. I recall my worst nightmare as being trapped in a dark cave with no exit. Kinda like being buried alive but being able to move about. This caused me to sleep walk, fumbling around desperately in the dark for an exit. I found a door handle, opened the door to let in the light and I woke up. This was sober dreaming; not under the influence of anything. Maybe I should restrain myself to micro-dosing, which I haven't even tried yet. I am hopeful to receive the spiritual benefits of psilocybin dosing. Therapy helped but didn't get me across the goal line. I had a nightmarish childhood full of abuse and terrible losses.

[rngx]

I got hella experience with bad trips to the point I can control any of them but having a bad trip and loomin around seeing people look at u jus adds to it stay safe people do these things in a safe space and environment 🙏

[Nr]

This is very important video. This is the only video I found where person describes what I felt.

[Spachia]

Those downward thought spirals are the worst on a lsd trip. I never gave it enough respect and it bit me in the ass tonight. I was able to walk around my neighborhood smoke a cigarette, but the hardest part of a bad trip is to try to distract your brain from thinking in on itself. My best advice, if you’re by yourself you should take a seat outside or in a different environment. Take a breath and just know you’re powerless from doing anything rational for the next five hours and that includes going to sleep. Just find distractions until it’s over basically.

If you are with other people, I could see it becoming very very bad very quickly. I could feel it turn in a matter of seconds. Best thing to do is again, find distractions for your mind and hopefully the people and the conversation can take you away from that space.

I wouldn’t wish a bad acid trip on my worst enemy. Weed can feel panicky on a bad trip. I’ve had those but it’s not even close. Because acid won’t let you stop thinking about the next thing you’re going to think about and you can see how downward thought loops happen from there. And there’s 0% chance of trying to nap and snap out of it

[karimhan]

When this happened to me on LSD, me and my friend described it as hell. Everything seemed like the literal definition of hell that nobody could explain. You feel trapped inside the experience especially since your ego and/or memories are dissolving in the moment. Just observe

[Dzeividz]

Have been there, every minute lasts 10 times longer and you just want this hell to stop. After this experience i am more careful with LSD.

[JoJoRock]

The worst trip I ever had gave me effects that lasted for days after I sobered up. DAYS!!!

[harrybeauberry]

I like how he said lower your doses!!! PERIOD BC MODERATE DOESES don’t make you “hallucinate” unless your really staring at something thinking about it. Everything’s just HD and colorful… Unless it’s lsd then stuff might make things shrink or grow “in your head”. Shroom visuals are more mild for me but the headspace is stronger.

[northside.shawty]

Great video, it's very true that a really bad trip can convince you that the temporary reality experiencing will be the one that you will be stuck in living forever. It can be very challenging and scary. I'd say a good tripkeeper could potentially be able to talk you out of madness.

[tnfteedoe]

ate a whole chocolate bar not thinking it would do much AND i was unaware to my predisposition to schizophrenia. trip really isn't stopped since its jus went from ghost pepper level to like jalapeno yk. bearable.

[nikericky]

I had a really really bad trip 6 hours long non stop on Molly… but I think it is worth it. I saw all my nightmares happened for past 32 years of my life. Yes it is truly hard and devastating. But again it helped me to understand what exactly happened to me when I was a child. I’m now grown and I prepared to face them again with different perspective. Instead of being hate and resentful towards people who did those to me I forgive them. I let go all that trauma inside me. The key is to face it and have a healer on your side remember to forgive them which you prepared earlier. It works and I felt a lots of sense of relief. It still reminds me of what I saw but I let them go as they appear. I take the chance to RE-wire replacing my bad thoughts with new thoughts and emotions in positive way. Hope this helps and yes what Leo described is correct. Do once you learnt to forgive others and yourself..