Should I Do Mushrooms?

I have some chocolate mushrooms here and am contemplating having a little nibble. I am on the fence, however, because the weather isn't so favorable for going outside today, should my little shoe box of an apartment start to feel too confined while I am high on mushrooms.

So I thought I would ask you, the experts, and leave this decision in your capable hands.

Should I do mushrooms?

 

I really enjoy going outside on mushrooms, so waiting for good weather would be ideal

However if you are just doing "a little nibble" it probably won't matter much either way. If you take a sufficient amount though, regardless of if you feel confined or not, for an indoor mushroom trip, I HIGHLY recommend tripping with the lights off and have some tunes and water/juice ready.

 

We have three chocolates with 2.5 grams in each, and my husband and I were thinking of having a quarter of a chocolate each....not much to really get super blitzed, but just a touch or so.....

 

No! live a safe normal life.

 

You don't really get high or "blitzed" on mushrooms, you trip.

Generally you have to cross a certain threshold to trip. If you want a more moderate experience, the trick for you, if you decide to take them, is getting over the border into trip land without necessarily tripping balls.

Others may comment on the dosage levels, it may vary with potency or other factors. Generally the caps are a lot more potent than the stems.

Whether or not you should do them is a highly personal decision. If you feel like you are a little too out of touch with reality or mentally/emotionally fragile, I would say stay away from them. If you feel like you are highly grounded and resilient, able to chill through any potential freak-outs, and are really eager to experience an altered mental state, then that weighs in favor of doing it.

It might be worthwhile for you to think over whether or not you really want to do these. Simply having them in your possession is not reason enough to take them, imho.

If you took them, it would probably work out fine, but from the perspective of tcm, it can disturb your heart shen, or in other words, you might feel kind of mentally imbalanced for a while.

I recommend staying in a safe setting for your first trip if you go through with it. Potentially having to deal with cops, people, traffic, barking dogs, or weather events might make the experience less than fun.

You might prefer trying one of the empathogen drugs, which for obvious reasons are popular with couples. My guess is that you would get the most value for your experience from one of these.

Worth researching first though if you go this route. Over consumption of water while on MDMA all too often can lead to death. The problem seems to be that people dance their asses off and drink more water than they piss or sweat out, leading to injury of the brain.

 

Since you're asking... I say NO... it seems you have no idea so give them to a friend who does!

 

I've seen them seriously fuck people up. You need to really, really, really trust your source a lot.

 

Really? I've never really known anyone to get bad mushrooms except one person who tried to pick them herself and didn't know how to correctly identify them.

So Ash, did you ever eat them?

 

I used to do mushrooms. If you've done them before and know what to expect then I suspect you can answer your own question, but if not... let me tell you. I am prone to wandering while shrooming. I can think of two times right off the top of my head where I didn't like where I was at or needed to leave where I was at or something. I ended up prowling around some storm drains, public parks, going on missions across town. If there's any question about doing them in a dinky apartment I would not unless you are very used to that environment.

 

Yeah, I had a tiny nibble and went to the beach. I still have two huge chocolates in my freezer.

 

dont eat this sh*t. yes well, i had some nice mushroom trips many times, but
one time i almost didn't die from magic mushrooms! and it was not some kind of super huge portion i ate!
this "bad trip" ended in psychiatric hospital! and even worser, after many years, i still cant recover.


yes, i admit that some mushroom trips were very colorful and pleasant.
but i suggest everyone not to risk to suffer so much with many years lasting mental damage.

 

We ate lots of (psilocybin) mushrooms in highschool and beyond, I never knew anyone to have a really bad trip or get poisonous 'shooms. We almost always got them from trusted friends anyway. Except the ones who [ab]used it so they could drink more, I never knew anyone who physically hurt themselves while tripping.

My buddy was taken to the hospital after eating some amanita mushrooms though. Skinny little drummer, tossed 4 orderly's off trying to hold him down, lol
He didn't remember a thing except "a kind of tension"

Ash, I wouldn't waste 'em nibbling little bits. Save 'em for when you have a reasonably private, natural environment you can hang at for 6-8 hours. Then take a normal tripping dose, whatever is recommended for those particular 'shrooms. If you don't know what that is, you should try to find out first from someone who's eaten the same batch of chocolate ones you have.. Mushrooms can vary in potency quite a bit, depending on type, the soil or medium they grew in, if they were exposed to sunlight, method and duration of storage, etc

In general about a gram of dried mushroom is a good safe dose to start with.

I'm like soulcompromise, I want to be outside, move around, walk, explore... the hardest thing to do is find a place you can do that with out having to deal with traffic, authority's or a whole lot of other people ( who aren't also tripping, lol)

 

There is no "damage" from psychedelics from the physical stand point. You can not harm your brain or reduce its function in any way. You can certainly have a experience which will change you mentality. If you really went to a psych ward that is on you and not the substance you took. Mushrooms have been used for thousands of years and for the majority of people they are beneficial. People can die from Tylenol a small portion of people have a severe reaction to it. Should we not use Tylenol because of that?

 

Potentially fatal misinformation. We need to end this conversation before somebody gets killed. I can't imagine anybody taking life and death medical advice from random strangers on the internet, but it does happen.