Can You Have a Bad Trip on Shrooms?

While less intense than other psychedelics, it’s still possible to have a bad trip when you’re using shrooms.

[nieveslara]

Im grateful for the bad trip I had a while ago, It humbled me, before that I saw psychedelics as a fun toy that I could play around with as with every drug I had a that moment (weed, DXM and nic) now I dont even do those drugs anymore!, my motto now is "respect the shroom, or it will make you" 😂🍄♥️

[Legalthccartstore]

*Mushrooms have a way of amplifying your worst fears, meaning any dark thoughts before you take the shrooms are likely to play out in the form of a bad trip. If you're already annoyed or anxious about something, reschedule your trip until you're calm enough to handle the shrooms.*

[jordanaguilar]

It doesn't make you see what you want but what you need, learn and heal.

[jamiewermerskirchen]

I love the bad trips because it makes me maybe no you have a better experience and gain more truth in ones self.

[MassiveCatLittleLegs]

I've had a couple of bad trips. For me there was a message to those experiences; my subconscious trying to reveal something about myself or my life that was unproductive or just downright wrong. My bad trips help me make positive changes in my life.

BUT... it's important to be careful.

[dmtdreamz]

It's like jumping off a cliff into cold water. You really have to screw your courage to the sticking point. Every time I do it, I am absolutely delighted. It's just like, 'Yes!'

[adamdavis]

I've only ever had one trip that I would call bad that I wasn't able to get some kind of value out of. And I really only had one that just kind of sucked the whole time. But that was a lesson in dealing with discomfort for me.

It's always weird, because it's not so much scary as annoying. I know I'm tripping, but if you're stuck with unpleasant thoughts and imagery for like 6 hours it's not fun. So even if it's not scary, it's draining

But some of the absolute most intense experiences I've had with mushrooms where they are coming up and peeking, have also led into a come down that is usually incredibly introspective and euphoric and meditative.

Basically I take the risk of flirting with madness for a little bit in order to have a cheat code for enlightenment and meditation for the rest of the experience

[BrunoSilva-rkvu]

My bad trip brought me lots of enlightenment, I cried, saw side of things that I didn’t see and realize and things I need to fix in life and with my family… let is show you what it wants and ride it out….

[edledskal]

Probably the scariest and worst experience I’ve ever had was a “bad trip“. I didn’t really understand at the time what people meant by the term. I remember starting to feel the effects and thinking “this is getting strong” and then at a certain point, I remember realizing how bad it was. I remember trying to look at my iPad and everything look like it was rearranged and the screen was broken. Obviously in reality the iPad was just fine. As I was looking at it, a video was playing and it sounded almost identical to playing the sound backwards. That’s when I became extremely alarmed. When I realized I couldn’t actually hear the sound from the iPad anymore. At that point, I felt trapped. In my head, I knew the effects were temporary and I could still talk to myself. My clear self would come through and try and calm me. Close my eyes wasn’t an option because of how intense the feeling was. When I had my eyes open, there is so much going on and distortion that my eyes had nothing to focus on directly. It was the craziest feeling. It’s hard to describe exactly what my experience was. There really is no good way to describe it because it’s so abstract that I don’t know the terms to describe what I saw. I will say though that that those three hours were the worst three hours of my life. I hate even thinking about it. I remember not wanting to be in my room after that experience. I didn’t sleep in my room for over a week. When I walked in there to grab clothes, I was reminded of the terrifying situation I had been in. I wasn’t alone, because a friend of mine had also taking some with me. He’s not just a friend but a very close friend who I live with, when since I’ve known for 23 years. He was calm despite the feeling. He actually took a little bit more than me which kind of surprises me. He said that when he opened his eyes, it really wasn’t bad at all and he didn’t feel much, but when he close them, it was very intense. It was pretty late at night and embarrassingly I was able to make my way into his room, and had to lay on his bed, because being alone was so much scarier. He was pretty reassuring and calm, which helped, despite how slow the time went. It’s an incredibly suffocating and traumatic. I remember the point where he got up for some water and about 2 1/2 hours had passed. I remember, looking in the mirror and realized that I could see my face again. Then I went into my room and grab my iPad. My eyes were still doing kind of crazy shit, but I could feel that it wasn’t as bad. Honestly, feeling the way I did by that point would have been very alarming had a not just been through what I’ve been through. The walls are still moving. Things were waving on the wall and throughout the room but I could start to hear the iPad if I concentrated. It wasn’t perfect and I would lose the words sometimes, but I could tell it was coming back. It got easier and easier over the next hour. I can’t tell you the relief I had that it was over. It was an almost joyous feeling. I have had them since this, but I’ve learned to greatly respect them and be very careful. It was a hard lesson, but I learned that if you don’t respect them, then you will certainly find out why you should’ve.

[christianmartinez]

You should breakdown the different levels of a bad trip. For example: there are uncomfortable trips but usually still tolerable. There's bad trips, as you've described. Then it can go even worse and some people experience nightmare trips that are just beyond your typical 'bad trip' the kind of trip that would likely give you ptsd and does more harm than good. It's important to learn from your experiences, from what I've seen people tend to learn a lot and grow a lot after going through a scary bad trip.

Just a side note, bad trips are generally caused by a variety of things: how are you feeling physically and mentally? Are you in a safe comfortable environment? What are your intentions going into the experience? Have you dealt with a lot of traumas? Are there any mental disorders you're dealing with or genetically prone to? Do you have a substance abuse disorder? Are you mixing any other substances with your trip? Are you resisting the experience? (This is a huge one. Letting go and surrendering is what you need to do, the more you fight the harder it'll be to process and push through or understand, it's overwhelming as it'll present to you all of your problems and shadows and past traumatic experiences forcing you to look at it and work through it) & finally do you have an out of control/chaotic mind where you feed into every thought and desire that comes to you? Or struggle with discipline?
Remember to just let go of control and trust the universe to guide you!

[el]

John’s Hopkins tells you to ask the trip why it is intense or scary and what that is trying to show you…. Bad trips can be the most beneficial for sure.

[henryswanson]

I got locked into a dejavu once, it was super weird. I did everything I remembered

[SamJusBc]

I took shroomies last night and had a complete ego death and felt like I was going to die. Questioning the concept of reality and my mind and questioning how I even exist. It completely humbled me and now I know to be safe and respect psychedelics even tho I know I can't even take them because I will always question how I exist.

[barrelofmonkeys]

you dont get the trip you want.. you get the trip you need.. fighting it just makes it harder than it has to be... bc you are going to learn.. like it or not

[Jkeb]

My second, and most recent shrooms trip was pretty bad, but it hasn't put me off using it again. In hindsight I was very stupid and took far too much, and the setting wasn't great. I ended up experiencing ego death, feeling like I no longer existed, and that humanity didn't exist. I also felt really guilty and like I'd done something terrible, probably due to my parents and my friends chastising me for "doing drugs" a couple days before the trip. Once I snapped out of it I just broke down crying, laying in my bed hearing voices with these overwhelming visuals surrounding me.

I was doing it with a friend who also had a bad trip and saw some horrible things, and I think it's put him off the substance for life. My main takeaway was that you have to give psychedelics the respect they deserve, they can take you to places you never even imagined possible, and your demons can manifest in so many different ways. But with that being said, they can offer profound, beautiful experiences unlike anything else.

[jackster]

I had a bad trip from shrooms, ever since I’ve been extra careful with any drugs. Like one comment said it isn’t no toy, I almost died.

[reesedropemoff]

On my first and only psilocybin trip so far, I had a bad/ informational trip and for about 2-3 hrs straight i was saying/feeling how bad of a person I was. At the end of the night when the experience was over I still was crying and I never cried that much in my entire life. I felt so renewed honestly. 0.5-1g of APE.

[RustBelt]

Had a trip about eighteen months ago. Starting stressing after I ate the shrooms cause I remembered seeing mold like discolourement on it (which is what makes you trip) so I tried making myself throw up. I tried really hard. Eventually I chain-smoked a couple cigarettes, retiring to the couch in my bedroom. There i layed in the silent, dark room for the next three hours. thinking about what it is that I have to do to make myself succeed in my future short term & long. Surveying the possibilities of what it is that I want to do and who I want to become. What started as a frightening experience became the most self reflecting experience I've had in my life almost like a therapeutic mediation. I will never forget it

[claynspray]

My first time trying mushrooms what is at my friend's uncles house, the mushroom I took was called pearly Gates. As I was at the peak of my trip we had to go to my friend's mom's house which was just a couple blocks away his uncle drove us and I couldn't engage how fast we were going I know thinking back on it we weren't going very fast but I couldn't tell and was super anxious the whole way. The come up was extremely new to me and I had a lot of anxiety, picture a dirty room that's a garage added on to the house where his uncle lived with his parents we all three sat on a couch while we waited for the trip, I was just silent most of the time while my friends were watching some trippy video behind the couch on the tv, I didn't even try to turn around to look at it because I was too afraid, the come down took a while but around 3:00 in the morning we drove back to my hometown. I had a terrible first trip in my second I didn't like the anxiety and build up so I never tried it again.

[ballinboii]

Idk why people confuse a shroom trip to a dmt trip