Even my terrifying experiences were good afterwards. I think of them similarly to watching a scary movie, or riding a roller coaster: it’s simulated danger. The ones I tried are fairly safe, so even when I had the emotional experience that my mind interpreted as dying, there was still that thought in the back of my head that it was all a simulation.
Of course your experience may be different, but I wouldn’t want to forget them. The details always are very fuzzy, and maybe dream-like in some ways. Also my “bad trips” were only scary for part of the time. Later, I enjoyed myself.
I’m not encouraging you to take hallucinations, but if you chose to, I encourage you to not overthink it too much beyond finding a safe place, with safe people, doing things that you enjoy doing.
No it’s NOT simulated danger! The danger of permanently and seriously reprogramming yourself in a bad way during bad trips is real. It does sometimes happen. It’s not guaranteed that psychedelics change you to the better. If bad trips were only extremely unpleasant and maybe very destabilizing for a few weeks or months, I wouldn’t be afraid of bad trips. But this is not how it is.
Even my terrifying experiences were good afterwards. I think of them similarly to watching a scary movie, or riding a roller coaster: it’s simulated danger. The ones I tried are fairly safe, so even when I had the emotional experience that my mind interpreted as dying, there was still that thought in the back of my head that it was all a simulation.
Of course your experience may be different, but I wouldn’t want to forget them. The details always are very fuzzy, and maybe dream-like in some ways. Also my “bad trips” were only scary for part of the time. Later, I enjoyed myself.
I’m not encouraging you to take hallucinations, but if you chose to, I encourage you to not overthink it too much beyond finding a safe place, with safe people, doing things that you enjoy doing.
No it’s NOT simulated danger! The danger of permanently and seriously reprogramming yourself in a bad way during bad trips is real. It does sometimes happen. It’s not guaranteed that psychedelics change you to the better. If bad trips were only extremely unpleasant and maybe very destabilizing for a few weeks or months, I wouldn’t be afraid of bad trips. But this is not how it is.