me and my friend want to split an 8th of shrooms between us for our first time. my question is will it be enough to still hallucinate?
Don't expect too much. From what I understand, you probably won't see all too much, but will still get a bit of a body load and mental trip. If you're looking to see a bunch of crap you'd be better off with 3 grams or so.
Ive eaten 2grams before and tripped my absolute balls off Depends entirely on the quality and type of the shrooms
this is all assuming that you're using dried Psilocybe cubensis or a mushroom of similar potency. most people eat an eighth as a single dose. many people use a half eighth (1.75g) as a good "museum dose," or a dose which will give definite, and pleasurable, effects but which is low enough to still maintain an air of normality in public. it depends not only on what mushrooms you've got and how strong they are, but your personal bio-/neurochemistry and sensitivity to psychedelics. it takes me large doses of any psychedelic to even APPROACH getting visual effects, and though i've tripped many times over using cubensis mushrooms, i don't get visual effects until around 5-6g (dried weight) if you are sure you can handle tripping, i'd say eat an eighth each, at least. if you just want to try them out see if you like the basic effects but don't want to go overboard, go ahead and split an eighth with a buddy.
1/8 is good but can be powerful of course. I have been eating them for almost 8 years and in the hundreds of times, and this past friday I ate an 1/8 and my mind was blown out of my head. Uncontrollable energy and I couldnt get comfortable. But at about 2 am I took my son out of his crib and laid in the bed with him, and my mind drifted to heaven and I watched Krsna and his gopi chilling in a garden, and I was watching as if I was part of the enviroment instead of being a physical person. Then I realized why God is calling us to meditate when our ears start ringing. The birds and bugs, turning on lights, sound is the beginning and end of material existance. Om shanti. Cant believe it took me this long to figure out the circle of God in every sub atomic particle, we can pass it from heart to heart
Shrooms very widley in potency i have had some were an 8th barley does shit and otheres were you can get spun off a decent sized cap.
I did this same thing when I first tried mushrooms. My friend and I split an eigth. Having since tried them at higher doses I would say that this is a threshold experience. Assuming your mushrooms are of average potency this is what you'd probably be in for... - Enhancement of colors and overall visual perception (objects become more detailed and you can easily find yourself absorbed in always existent but newly emergent complexities of objects. - Increased enjoyment of audio / music. - Overall feeling of wellbeing, for me there was also a distinct spiritual aspect to the first trip. - Mental acuity. - Minor hallucinations if any. The thing about the visuals are that they usually come unbidden and in ways unexpected. Don't try to force them. In fact try not to think about them at all and see what happens. I would actually recommend the dose of 1.75 grams (dried) to anyone who is trying mushrooms for the first time. When giving them to friends who are first timers this is the dose i measure for them. Remember that you're trying to get a sense of the experience. Work you're way up. It took me about 10 trips to get to a full 1/8th and I imagine it will many more before i reach Terence McKenna's 5 gram mega dose, an aspiration for most serious shroomers. Where you are and how you have mentally prepared yourself counts a lot too. First timers should probably be using mushrooms only in the company of people they trust. They should do them inside in a familiar and comfterable setting. Most importantly one should maintain a certain reverence for the mushroom. You are in a way surrerendering a measure of control to something you will find is an abstract sort of intelligence that has the power to grant you great insight into the nature of yourself, the planet and reality as you expect you know it. Ritual may not be necessary but clear, courageous intent is. Mushrooms have been around a long time and were used in religious and spiritual contexts for centuries by people who devoted their entire lives to them. Only in the past 75 years have they been discovered and become increasingly available to most westerners. You are knocking on the door of something who's totality may be beyond the limits of human comprehension and barely within our speculative abilities. Better to knock gently, enter cautiously and respectfully in order to be recieved well and treated as a guest and not an invader. The last thing you want to be doing is bashing through that door and running with your head down into the unknown in pursuit of patterned hallucinations. There are many components to the trip, visuals are not always the most paramount and often the importance of visuals is in their signifigance to the experience and the individual. Good luck.
