Nightmares and Hallucinations

I'm 23 years old and I have taken drugs for soon 6 months.
Almost atleast once aweek but often twice and sometimes three
times aweek.

I started with Ecstacy, I only tried it for about
2-3 weeks and approx. 5 or 6 hits. I went over to LSD coz I
started to get nightmares and difficulties in sleeping. I also
thought I didn't had the real ecstasy feeling. With LSD I think
it has worked well for me. Nightmares has stopped and along with
a joint or two I had some faboulus trips with the music. People
at work and close friends even told me that I changed to the better.
I had become much happier and had a different view of life, before
very negative. So I thought that this isn't that bad like people say,
the most important thing are that you have control. But I think I
lost it for a month or maybe two months ago. I started to take Lsd
in the middle of weekdays. I were only taking it on weekends before.

I had vacation for 3 weeks and last week I started work again. I
decided to try Ecstasy again to see if I could get the feeling this
time. So on Monday I took a hit with 3-4 pills, and yes it worked.
I feeled exactly that everyone said I should feel and everything
were just great. So on Wednesday I decided to get further I wasn't
quite happy anyway so I took about 7-8 pills. You know it wasn't
pills it was powder I got this time so I took it in my nose and it
feeled different from other "e"'trips. It was something like a LSD
feeling and a Ecstasy feeling at the same time. It was very weird tho.
I tried "e" and LSD together before but it wasn't this feeling.

Well, when the hallucinations started they were very real, when I had
hallucinations on LSD I have always told myself "This is just a hall-
ucination" and have never been afraid. But now they were very frightning
indeed. I saw people but they weren't people they were changing and
got taller and looked like trolls. I was stunned I talked to them and
I even walked forward to them but they didn't exist. It was nothing
there. I were afraid but at the same time I weren't, hope you know what
I mean. After that night my nightmares started again, but this time I'm
so afriad I can't sleep. I tries sometimes but when I lay down and
close my eyes they start immediately. I'm even afraid of the dark, I
keep the light on very often or the television.

Maybe I got no control anymore and should stop with both "e" and LSD?
One thing is for sure I will never take Ecstasy anymore. But should I
even stop with LSD? But could a hit a month with LSD hurt??? One thing
is for sure, I most stop taking it every weekend, not more than once
a month.

A close friend of mine are willing to take me to a shrink but I
refuse to. He will only say that drugs are dangerous and you should
stop with it completely. But I haven't had bad experiences with LSD
so should I stop completely? I know that my trips must come much more
less than at weekends. But what should I do with my nightmares? Do
they dissappear when I start Tripping again like they did last time
or should I just stop for awhile? Maybe I should take some sleeping
pills?

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