Worst Bad Trips And Life-Saving Shrooms
About three years ago, Tim and his buddy went on a hike in the Los Angeles National Forest. They ingested some shroom on the way up. In the darkening woods, they soon realized that they were lost. The anxiety and horror of being trapped in the national forest with supernatural beings and potential killers marked the height of their collective experience. Buddy was convinced they had encountered the “slender man,” and Tim still holds footage of possible paranormal activities.
The truth is somewhere lost on their way down.
“Alternative Consciousness”
“One of the most interesting things we’ve learned about the classic psychedelics is that they have a dramatic effect on the way brain systems synchronize, or move and groove together,” explained Matthew Johnson, a professor in psychedelics and consciousness at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
“When someone’s on psilocybin, we see an overall increase in connectivity between areas of the brain that don’t normally communicate well,” Johnson said. When that happens, the brain can get “very, very disorganized.” Boundaries between auditory, visual, executive, and sense-of-self sections of the mind begin to break down, and thus create a state of “altered consciousness,” explained David Nutt, director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London.
“Let’s be adults about this. These are no longer ‘shrooms.’ Psilocybin mushrooms are nonaddictive, life-changing substances,” mycologist Paul Stamets told CNN.
Indeed, psilocybin has the ability to rewire one’s brain and change one’s perception of life and related matters. Even one’s perception of the bad trip itself.
“Our human existence is like a psychedelic trip,” Tim shared with me. “The bad trip itself could be therapeutic, like death.” In a significant way, he was reborn, but before that, one had to go through the passage of death.
There’s no denying that a bad trip is horrible, especially when the wound is still fresh. After spending hours sweating in horror and pain, there’ll eventually be an end to this hell ride. Many coming out the end of the tunnel would even rate their bad trips among the most meaningful experiences in their life.
When A Bad Trip Also Changes Your Life
In a study that surveyed 2,000 people who had bad trips with shroom, 62% said the experience was amongst the top 10 most difficult times of their life. A third ranked their trips in the top five most spiritually significant experiences in their lives.
“I got stuck in that place of feeling like there was no happiness in anything that I’d think of,” wrote a Redditor. “I was pouring sweat and then freezing cold… Anxious and didn’t know what to do.”
Surviving that, it “just really showed me how terrible things could be. That life is so much better than you think.” It was “by far the worst,” but one that gifted him “a perspective that I couldn’t have even imagined.” “Having felt that low made me see that things are so much better and it could always be worse,” the Redditor explained.
“I thought I got sexually assaulted and died and went to Hell and got permanently stuck there in an infinite time loop. I also thought that I had become permanently vegetablized and that I would never see my friends or family or pets ever again. It was horrifying,” wrote another Redditor. “You will even back out and it's normal to feel different and ‘off.’ Even when I sobered up from my first trip for a few months after, I felt like something in my brain changed.”
In fact, psilocybin has such mind-opening effects that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration described it as a breakthrough medicine to treat PTSD, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, various forms of substance abuse, and such. For people who saw no light in life, a change of perspective means everything. There have been plenty of clinical trials conducted to study psilocybin’s therapeutic effects.
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