Thread: Psychodelic Mushrooms

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

Whose tried them, what'd you think? Any funny experiences?

Great stuff. Mellower than LSD, makes everything very funny, specifically seeing surfaces ripple- a very common effect. Strong doses can be scary, sensory functions like hearing in particular going heywire, which can be disorientating and freaky. Lower doses, i.e not enough to make you trip, bring on a slight X like euphoria.

Basically much like LSD except the trip is not so 'clear'. It feels more muddled.

I had fun on them 2 out of the 3 times I did them. You just laugh at everything. They mess your stomach up though. Your stomach feels like there is knots in it and you can't fart. You also can't sleep for 12-14 hours after take them. Maybe that was just me. I had a fight with gf before I took them once and that made me have a bad trip. I haven't done them since. I would not recommend doing any drug.

Fun times. I've never done acid so i can't compare, but mushrooms are the funnest experience. You just laugh and things look really cool. Closed eye visuals are also very fun. When i ate a lot one time i lay down and closed my eyes, it was an adventure in my head. I felt like i flew out of my body, and into the clouds, landed on top of a mountain and saw very thick forest/jungle all the way up to the horizon. Then i kept getting sucked into vortexes and spit out into different 'worlds.' It felt like i was gone for days, but people told me later it seemed like i passed out for about 30 min.

Another time we were walking around and i was tripping really hard on shrooms. We saw a kid we knew on a bicycle and he did like a skidding u turn. The sound the tire made against the asphalt had me laughing for 10 minutes, i don't know why but it seemed funny.

Incredible experience, but if you over-obsess about stuff I would pass.

Originally Posted by Doublebase

I had fun on them 2 out of the 3 times I did them. You just laugh at everything. They mess your stomach up though. Your stomach feels like there is knots in it and you can't fart. You also can't sleep for 12-14 hours after take them. Maybe that was just me. I had a fight with gf before I took them once and that made me have a bad trip. I haven't done them since. I would not recommend doing any drug.

It's not as bad as LSD for this. Combat it by smoking loads of weed.

Tip: If you have a bad trip/ need to come off the trip early:

1) Drink loads of Orane juice for the Vit C. Seems to take the edge off.
2) Get drunk, this works a treat, and brings you right off it.

My experiences with psilocybes always involved lighting effect hallucinations, sometimes it would seem like I was viewing the world from behind the Aurora Borealis, other times it seemed like someone had painted everything with highlighting markers, looking at repeating patterns like Aloha Shirts your mind would get board and make little jungle animals poke there heads from behind a leaf or flower, beach sand looked like it was covered in grains of jewels, ruby, sapphire, diamond, topaz,.......lights like stop lights would glow so bright and you could hear their intensity, as the sun dunked and fizzled out in the distant ocean on the horizon, clouds were shades of pink and blue like little tufts of cotton candy infused with helium....

I've done shrooms at least 50 times. They grow in my family's cow pastures. They are my favorite drug, even better than pot. I don't think it is possible to overdose, because I have eaten an entire brown paper bag's worth at one time (50-60 caps). It really blew my mind, but I was fine the next day with no hangover or ill effects.

I have never had a bad trip. To be honest, I feel more normal and relaxed on shrooms than being completely sober. I am always aware that what I see isn't real. I don't see purple elephants or any of that stupid shit that people make up to sound cool. On that note, I have tripped with many different people, and nobody I have ever tripped with said trees talked to them or that they thought they could fly. If someone said they did, they are probably lying.

On the other hand, I have seen people freak out. The problem was they had something bothering them before they took the shrooms. Shrooms purge the soul and mind, so beware. Your demons will come flying out like flying monkeys from the wizard of oz. One friend walked to the very middle of the pasture once, and yelled at God for about 4 hours. I was too busy rolling around in cow shit laughing my ass off to care.

I have a very general sense of well being for weeks after a good shroom trip. I recommend them to anyone with a strong mind. If your mind is weak, you have a very high chance of flipping out and maybe hurting yourself. Always surround yourself with close friends during a trip, unless you are an advanced user.

Mushrooms can be alot of fun. It really depends on the state of mind of the person taking them and the environment. First time I took mushrooms I ate an 1/8 of some amazing mushrooms at my house all alone. It was one of the craziest experiences in my life. Besides visual distortions hallucinations this is the only time I had insane auditory hallucinations. I was listening to talk radio and the accents of the person talking would switch from English to Australian to drunk and slurring to Asian to Southern, it was crazy also everyone on the TV started aging. I was watching Married with children and through out the episode they got older and older until they died started decaying and eventually ended up skeletons. Still the most intense trip I have ever had. Surpasses any acid trip.

I have tripped over 25 times since then, hell after that first day I liked it so much I ate them the next 2 days. I would recommend researching them and make sure you dont have any major black cloud hanging over your head. Most importantly an entire day aside when you plan to eat them. I really havnt had a bad trip but the few times where I just ate them spur of the moment without planning ahead always werent as fun.

They are different for everyone. For me they can vary from a laughing fit and visual and audio hallucinations, to total out of body experiences.

Originally Posted by goob

It's not as bad as LSD for this. Combat it by smoking loads of weed.

Tip: If you have a bad trip/ need to come off the trip early:

1) Drink loads of Orane juice for the Vit C. Seems to take the edge off.
2) Get drunk, this works a treat, and brings you right off it.

Have ecstasy.

If its going bad, pop it. In no time you will be loving it.

I concur with most i have read here...

Not as harsh as LSD, no bad trips or heavy blackout style hallucinations.
Not as chemically edgy as mescaline. (plus no stains from the dots)

Very laughy and organic tripping buzz.


or so I have heard, because I have never done drugs -

Oh...

take them when you are outside...

Not stuck in a room watching cartoons or something...
Nature is super enjoyable when wigging

Someone told me

I suggest sitting in a bean bag chair and listening to Primus, OMG! the walls are bouncing to the music like speakers!!!!!

Beavis

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Incredible experience, but if you over-obsess about stuff I would pass.

Short of just saying no. This is great advice. If you think you are fat(for example) before taking LSD or shrooms... when you are on this stuff you'll be in fat hell or bad teeth hell or what ever you worry about hell. If you are OK with yourself you will be fine unless you get busted.

All good posts.

I've never tried them, but it's something I'll try in the future.

Sounds fun.

Originally Posted by KelJu

I've done shrooms at least 50 times. They grow in my family's cow pastures. They are my favorite drug, even better than pot. I don't think it is possible to overdose, because I have eaten an entire brown paper bag's worth at one time (50-60 caps). It really blew my mind, but I was fine the next day with no hangover or ill effects.

I have never had a bad trip. To be honest, I feel more normal and relaxed on shrooms than being completely sober. I am always aware that what I see isn't real. I don't see purple elephants or any of that stupid shit that people make up to sound cool. On that note, I have tripped with many different people, and nobody I have ever tripped with said trees talked to them or that they thought they could fly. If someone said they did, they are probably lying.

On the other hand, I have seen people freak out. The problem was they had something bothering them before they took the shrooms. Shrooms purge the soul and mind, so beware. Your demons will come flying out like flying monkeys from the wizard of oz. One friend walked to the very middle of the pasture once, and yelled at God for about 4 hours. I was too busy rolling around in cow shit laughing my ass off to care.

I have a very general sense of well being for weeks after a good shroom trip. I recommend them to anyone with a strong mind. If your mind is weak, you have a very high chance of flipping out and maybe hurting yourself. Always surround yourself with close friends during a trip, unless you are an advanced user.

Yikes....I've done them a few dozen times. They used to be real fun, but eventually the kind of lost their magic and just starting hurting my stomach and making feel uneasy...no bad trips, but the last few times I did them, I would always say to myself- "When is this going to wear off....its been at least 5 hours and i only had 2-3grams...I feel like I've been peaking for hours"

meh, all drugs got old for me.

The "Stoned Ape" theory of human evolution

Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open — following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way.
Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. McKenna, referencing the research of Roland L. Fisher Ph.D. (College of Optometry and Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University)[14] [15] [16] [17], claimed enhancement of visual acuity as an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including a physical sexual arousal (again, not reported as a typical effect in scientific studies) — and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave evolutionary advantages to those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet. McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed the mushroom from the human diet, which McKenna argued to result in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to pre-mushroomed and brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
McKenna did not attempt to defend his hypotheses through rigorous scientific evidence; he consciously self-identified as a type of shaman, or ethnobotanist. McKenna and his followers view his theories as speculation that is at a minimum scientifically feasible and arguably gifted by special knowledge due to psychedelic plants. His hypothesis that psilocybin induced a phase change in human evolution is necessarily based on a great deal of supposition interpolating between the few fragmentary facts we know about hominid and early human history. But perhaps its most significant problem is its inconsistency with natural selection (the central concept of evolutionary theory) which cannot favor any variations, no matter how adaptive, unless they result from an allele or genetic factor.[citation needed] A live recording of his "Stoned Ape" theory can be found on the CD Conversations on the Edge of Magic (recorded live at the Starwood Festival).

Done them twice, first time I laughed pretty much non stop for around 4 hours, without a doubt the funniest 4 hours of my life!

Second time I started tripping bad on the come up, then when i changed my environment (left my friends living room) it got real good real fast, laughing like a clown for a long time.

All in all they were good at the time, but I dont think id ever do them again.

So... what other drugs have people tried?

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

So... what other drugs have people tried?

Almost everything. Apart from crack and meth & metanphetamine, I think all. Experimentally & recreationally you understand.

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

So... what other drugs have people tried?

Nymphaea caerulea, Lysergic acid diethylamide, MDMA, mescaline, hashish, opium, cocaine, heroin, Adderall, several prescription opiates, valium/xanax, ambien/restoril, DMT(smoked), LSA(Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds prepared by some surfer friends) and other stuff I can't remember probably due to use of all of them....

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

So... what other drugs have people tried?

Everything but heroine, PCP, peyote, and crack. I lived the drug scene for a few years. It was nothing to go through $1,000 worth of drugs in a weekend. When I decided I had enough, I basically quite everything. I have done shrooms a handful of times since then, and smoked pot here and there.

I'm done with the hardcore stuff. Lifting and making an honest living is more important to me now.

Oh yeah I forgot crack, I tried it once.....it didn't feel any different than drinking too much coffee if you ask me....my other friends were acting like they were amped to the sky but I really didn't like it, it also made my vision give a yellow tinge to everything and I felt dirty like I hadn't bathed in weeks my skin just felt icky all over, but I'm also not a fan of coke either....

You have to be in a good frame of mind, above all else. If it is your first time, get out in some woods that you know with some people you trust.

The first time I did it, I saw some funny designs for about 5 seconds, other than that I was just really happy and energetic. The second time I actually tripped. I was walking through this path at night in the woods. I started seeing funny patterns in the shadows. It was nearly a full moon, so I could see well. The craziest part was when I was walking along the trail and I saw what looked like a large rib cage in the woods, like big enough to walk into. I walked off the trail about 30 feet to it. I don't know if this part was real or not, but I finally decided that it was a large pine tree that had fallen over; you know how dead pine trees can look white when the bark falls off? Anyway, I was tripping my balls off so I don't know if it was really a tree at all or just something I was seeing, but I could have sworn I grasped one of the branches. Later on in the trip we stopped at a river bank to smoke some pot. My friends had these glow sticks, and we cracked them and threw them into the river. It is a really slow moving river. So then we got up and started walking again, and about 45 minutes later we stopped along the river again. We were sitting there for about 10 minutes and when we saw the glow sticks float by. The first one was blue, so we had a long argument about whether it was the reflection of the moon or not. The second one was red, so that solved the argument.

I also meant to say, get outside. The most depressing thing is being inside, IMO.

Anyone tried 2CI??

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