I'm really glad that you did research. So many people just jump into things, like this, blindly and it turns out less than acceptable. I knew someone who bought 6 grams of shrooms at a party and took all of them later that night when she got home. Needless to say, it was a really bad time for her. Quite honestly, it's her own fault and it could have been easily avoided. Anyway, thanks for the nice report...And the longer ones are better because they have good details!

It may be hard to accept or comprehend, but try not to think about any of your tripping experiences as good or bad trips.  Honestly, no matter how horrifying it can be for a few minutes/hours, you still learned something from it, be it positive or negative.  Life is a process of learning and these substances only expand the horizons, it's just how you interpret what they teach you that can lead to a "bad" trip.  Accept what it teaches, and your ego will fall apart easily.

My Friend danny had the SAME EXACT bad trip as your friend did. He kept asking if this were okay? or Normal? and "this is okay now, but any other time would it still be okay?" Over and over again. When you get caught in that pattern it is inevitable that it'll lead to a bad trip, but as long as you know that, by doing research, you wont have a bad trip. You certainly seem to have gotten alot out of your first time!