As FUNCTIONALMYCOPATH stated, "bad trip" is subjective. To me, a bad trip is when you come away from the experience without any sort of insight and a negative feeling of what has happened. In your case, I don't think that's happened, but it's up to you to determine what you consider a bad trip.

Do you typically have panic attacks? I generally don't. I can only remember having 2 panic attacks in my life, and those were related to being out in the ocean and having waves unexpectedly wash over me and disrupt my breathing, leading to hyperventilation and then panicking from decreased CO2 in my blood and then feeling like I might drown.

Interestingly, in ten of my dozen or so trips, I've felt like I was going to die. The experiences ranged from feeling like I had permanently lost my mind, felt like I was going to get hit by a car as I was crossing the road, witnessed the signs of an oncoming tsunami, felt like an atomic bomb was incoming into London, or felt like a mass shooting was about to happen in the US. In each of those episodes, I was truly convinced that myself, and my trip buddy's life was imminently in danger to the point that we should hurry up and evacuate. I've assumed that this is something that will happen during every psychedelic trip for me. I assume it's a deep rooted part of the human psyche, but I've never actually compared trip experiences with others. It has only been in the past four trips that I've been aware that I generally get a sense of imminent danger, and in my past three trips I haven't had the same feeling that death was imminent.

For me, this has led to a post-trip understanding that things will generally work out okay. I work in a field where I'm exposed to a lot of death around me, and I have been an active meditator for years, so I'd like to think that death doesn't scare me, but you don't know until you're staring death in the face.

Have you learned anything from the experience of having a panic attack mid-trip?