what is the actual cause of a bad trip when taking mushrooms?
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A bad trip can be caused by anxiety, dose, the setting, your company, or nausea.
Personally, I can’t enjoy mushrooms due to the intense nausea I get from them. I’ve tried every method of ingestion and it makes no difference, every trip is horrible.
A bad trip can be caused by anxiety, dose, the setting, your company, or nausea.
Personally, I can’t enjoy mushrooms due to the intense nausea I get from them. I’ve tried every method of ingestion and it makes no difference, every trip is horrible.
One feature of psychedelics is that they enable (or force) the mind to drill down into very specific and granular thoughts and feelings, to assess a given thought or feeling from an almost infinite amount of perspectives.
You can’t consciously choose which of your thoughts or feelings get interrogated in that way and it’s very influenced by your state of mind and the environment you’re in (set and setting, as Timothy Leary called it).
Therefore if your mind decides to focus on something happy, you’ll experience indescribable bliss but if your mind goes somewhere negative you’ll have an equal intensity of horror.
Often it’s possible to work through the negative feelings but it requires submission. You have to accept what’s happening to you and not shy away from it. That can result in long lasting positive effects because you’ll have thoroughly worked through something that’s been bothering you. But if you fight it, or you’re otherwise not able to “solve” the bad thoughts it can have long-lasting negative effects because you’ve “proved” to yourself that it’s an intractable problem.
One feature of psychedelics is that they enable (or force) the mind to drill down into very specific and granular thoughts and feelings, to assess a given thought or feeling from an almost infinite amount of perspectives.
You can’t consciously choose which of your thoughts or feelings get interrogated in that way and it’s very influenced by your state of mind and the environment you’re in (set and setting, as Timothy Leary called it).
Therefore if your mind decides to focus on something happy, you’ll experience indescribable bliss but if your mind goes somewhere negative you’ll have an equal intensity of horror.
Often it’s possible to work through the negative feelings but it requires submission. You have to accept what’s happening to you and not shy away from it. That can result in long lasting positive effects because you’ll have thoroughly worked through something that’s been bothering you. But if you fight it, or you’re otherwise not able to “solve” the bad thoughts it can have long-lasting negative effects because you’ve “proved” to yourself that it’s an intractable problem.
One feature of psychedelics is that they enable (or force) the mind to drill down into very specific and granular thoughts and feelings, to assess a given thought or feeling from an almost infinite amount of perspectives.
You can’t consciously choose which of your thoughts or feelings get interrogated in that way and it’s very influenced by your state of mind and the environment you’re in (set and setting, as Timothy Leary called it).
Therefore if your mind decides to focus on something happy, you’ll experience indescribable bliss but if your mind goes somewhere negative you’ll have an equal intensity of horror.
Often it’s possible to work through the negative feelings but it requires submission. You have to accept what’s happening to you and not shy away from it. That can result in long lasting positive effects because you’ll have thoroughly worked through something that’s been bothering you. But if you fight it, or you’re otherwise not able to “solve” the bad thoughts it can have long-lasting negative effects because you’ve “proved” to yourself that it’s an intractable problem.
I think “tripping” will always rely on the user and their self-confidence/level of content with themselves and their surroundings.
I think “tripping” will always rely on the user and their self-confidence/level of content with themselves and their surroundings.
I think “tripping” will always rely on the user and their self-confidence/level of content with themselves and their surroundings.
Lots of long comments.
Your *MIND* is the answer.
It’s all about Set & Setting.
You have to submit totally to the experience. Any hesitation, or trying to hold onto *yourself* and your ego. Will result in a bad trip. You have to let go.
Somebody said there is no simple answer but there is it is a very basicd / cascading effect that simply starts with one bad feeling or bad thought that perpetuates a direct correlation in that direction of continued thoughts.
This is a very good example of why it is important to have a babysitter when tripping, not just so you don’t use knives to draw pictures on your skin thinking they are markers or something absolutely psychotic but also to be able to bring you out of a steep fall in case your mind or you’re feeling start to perpetuate towards the negative.
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