{"id":144,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/bad-trips-good-trips\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:41","slug":"bad-trips-good-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/ask-the-old-hippie\/bad-trips-good-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Trips, Good Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #003300;\">I have never tried mushrooms, although i know that i want to. recently,<br \/>\nhowever, my friend had a bad trip. he said that it was the worst he<br \/>\never felt and that he became so depressed that he actually considered<br \/>\nkilling himself. this is the first time i have ever heard of a bad trip<br \/>\noff of mushrooms. i am wondering if it is common or if this is some<br \/>\nfreak occurrence? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: purple;\"><br \/>\nThe way psilocybin, the active ingredient in mushrooms affects the brain is similar to that of LSD, affecting neurotransmitters. This can lead to a number of psychological manifestations. Depression is more likely if the dose is large and the trip is deep. Contributing factors can be a tendency towards depression, or a bad mind set going into it. Perhaps your friend was thinking he was just going to get high, and wasn&#8217;t prepared to undergo an intense inward experience. The setting is also important since some places have good vibes (like nature), and others can elicite negative responses (like cities). Perhaps most important is having someone supportive, who isn&#8217;t doing mushrooms, around to monitor the situation and help out if necessary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that people are doing these drugs (still) without realizing<br \/>\nhow powerful they are. LSD, psilocybin (mushrooms), mescaline (peyote)<br \/>\nare all heavy hallucinogens whose dose is very hard to gauge.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these drugs has the potential of giving the user one of the most intense<br \/>\nexperiences of his\/her life. They are not to be taken lightly, they are not<br \/>\nfor kicks or to get high. Many people take these psychedelics for the first<br \/>\ntime expecting a party. It may start that way, but often it turns into<br \/>\nScream, or some other horror movie gets shown at their own private cinema of<br \/>\nthe ego.<\/p>\n<p>If you are prepared for this, knowing what might happen, and have the proper<br \/>\nset and setting then the chances of a good trip are maximized. What is a<br \/>\ngood trip? I suppose it would be the one where the layers of the ego are<br \/>\nstripped away, and the now humbled tripper sees himself as an infinitesimal<br \/>\nspeck in something so wonderful, that being just a speck, something alive<br \/>\nand aware, is far greater than anything he can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>What a long strange trip,<\/p>\n<p>The Old Hippy<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: skip<br \/>\nViews: 76500<br \/>\nTopic:10\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never tried mushrooms, although i know that i want to. recently, however, my friend had a bad trip. he said that it was the worst he ever felt and that he became so depressed that he actually considered killing himself. this is the first time i have ever heard of a bad trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,88,107,127],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-the-old-hippie","tag-lsd","tag-mushrooms","tag-psychedelics","tag-tripping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}