People who expect acid to be mellow probably turns into the the opposite of that experience. Shit will start to get intense at some point.

Just gotta learn how to go with the flow. If that flow includes crazy **** that kind of scares you, that's just the experience, maaan.

In another life you'd be that guy who hits the blunt longer than everyone else and then makes fun of people who can't maintain as well as he can in front of their parents at church.

Ja...in another life.

At typical doses acid is more jarring. I’ve never taken way beyond doses but I’ve heard it said that shrooms can take you further. I’ve never had a full on bad trip but I’ve had some trouble stages on both. Shrooms don’t always let you off easy.

My advice to novice trippers is even if you start feeling frightened don’t say anything about it. Recognizing it verbally gives it strength.

Just keep telling yourself that literally nothing is any different than any other time. It's just that you're on drugs. Usually calms me down.

I've had shroom trips where everything got too crazy and intense to handle because of disorientation and overstimulation, but it's always had a fun and playful energy to it. I've met evil incarnate on acid.

For me that can be a menacing or even panic inducing point of focus.

I think what Frownland said about letting go and flowing with it is a more on point strategy, for me.

Did you make a spectacle of yourself or keep it personal?

I was quite a silly man on the shroom trips in question. I go inward during scary acid hour.