Long Bad Trip ?

[Telico]

Hi everybody,

The last time I did mushrooms (P.Cubensis) dates back to 2 months now. It was the first time I did shrooms alone, and it turned to a bad trip. I began to see my brain as if it was a kind of sticky brown spunge becoming extremely hot and melt down. It was horrible, but fortunately, I began to feel much better a few hours later, I began to feel really good, as if this bad trip was necessary to have a good trip. Recently, I did some nightmares, in those nightmares I'm under LSD or Psilocybin influence and I have to look like a normal person, because in the nightmare have to talk to many people, including family and friends. This night, I went on my bed, closed my eyes before to sleep. And I saw my head, and basketballs were thrown and knocked my head forcibly. Then, instead of basketballs, rocks began to hurt my head, again and again... I'm not sad or depressed, but I want to figure out what is really going on, why am I doing the same nightmares for one week now, why did I have those horrible visions of basketballs knocking my head (and I know that those visions are straightly related to the psilocybin-induced vision of a spunge-like hot, and melting brain).

Are those side-effects ? Should I take psychedelics in order to figure out what is going on ? Is it what we commonly call "flashbacks" ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

 

[Guest]

Hi Telico !

In my opinion, those are flashback indeed (I forgot the more precise term, sorry , basicaly it's a "common" psychological reaction after a trip), in my opinion you should stop psychedelics until you're feeling good enough to do it again

 

[Telico]

in my opinion you should stop psychedelics until you're feeling good enough to do it again

That's what I'm going to do, thanks a lot dude ;-)

 

[tryptonaut]

I was having psychedelic dreams quite a few times when I started taking higher doses of shrooms regularly. However they were never really bad dreams, a little frightening, maybe - but they just went away.
If you're having these nightmares on a daily basis like you described, I'd not continue taking psychedelics for a while. Maybe try to meditate on a daily basis - or take L-tryptophan before going to bed (I always sleep like a baby when I take 1000mg L-tryptophan)

It was horrible, but fortunately, I began to feel much better a few hours later, I began to feel really good, as if this bad trip was necessary to have a good trip.

happens to me all the time when I take higher doses. No enlightening without a little rough ride first. If it were just fun, then where would the learning/transforming come from?

 

[druglessdouglas]

its a sort of self induced post traumatic stress disorder. itll go away soon enough. natures way of telling you to take a break.[post-hallucinoen perceptual disorder]

 

[Telico]

Thanks a lot for your answers druglessdouglas and tryptonaut ;-) . I feel very better now, nevertheless I won't do mushrooms or something else until at least a few months.

So long !