so i had eaten mushrooms before..about half and 8th and i didnt trip..whatsoever...i was mad..but i decided to try them with 3 of my friends again at college...my 2 guy friends had done them many times before and my friend T...she had never done them at all..i figured she would be the one to have a bad trip because i was so open to trying it and not afraid at all...we ended up goin to the beach which was empty..beautiful day...an hour after taking them i had a mild body trip and so didnt T...the guys were already trippin heavy..then T started too but i hadnt...we stayed at the beahc a long time and i didnt start til like 3 hours after taking them just when we were leaving..worst thing ever..i started in the car ride back to campus..and i dont kno what was wrong with me..i think allergies but my nose..eyes and mouth were watering like crazy and sicne i was trippin i didnt kno if it was the mushrooms or what was wrong with me..i kept askin people..and then after i asked i felt like an idiot..so i kept apologizing for being so dumb..when i got back to campus everyone was outside and it freaked me out..the guys and T had finished trippin and i had just started...the boys went to shower and told us to stop up later..and i started freakin out because i didnt know why i was still trippin and they werent...i went with T back to our dorm room..and then we went up to the boys room..tons of drunk guys in there hall croweded me and kept askin how my trip was which made things worse because i thot i was supposed to be done..and i was now fully having hallucinations..which they sat around and were asking me to show them...being assholes...i knew they wouldnt see what i was seeing and it made me feel so dumb and that i was doing things that i wasnt supposed to..i felt so bad i had to go back to my ro0om and made tara come down and i talked to her for 2 hours about how i thought everyone was making fun of me and i was being annoying and asking too many questions..i felt i was in a downward spiral and i kept digging myself deeper into a hole..everytime i asked someone what was wrong with me..i felt like an idiot and kept trying to explain why i was asking..it was really bad.,.but i liked the feeling of trippin..i wasnt upset..just very insecure...i want to do them again in a better environment and not around so many people...does anyone think that i shouldnt do them again or was it because i was around all those people? let me know!!
Here's my advice. Try 'em at least once more. If you still don't like them then they're probably not for you. BUT! As with any psychedelic, I strongly urge you to employ a babysitter; that is, a person whom you trust with your life who is sober to watch over you, make sure you have a good trip, talk you out of a bad trip, make sure you don't do anything dumb like jump off of something tall or something. I ALWAYS have a babysitter when I use psychedelics, especially mushrooms, because the intense body high it gives me combines with the altered state of being and I get really crazy and start putting things in my mouth. I want to make sure that whatever it is I put in my mouth isn't sharp or poisonous so I have the babysitter give me safe things. That's the basic idea. Another idea is to eat more: evidently if you eat a couple you just get giggly, 1/2 and 8th makes me all crazy body high/hallucinations. I've never eaten more, but I've read that if you eat a full 8th you get more of the philosophical meanderings that are so often associated with psychedelics in general. That's my advice, take it or leave it. But hey, it's cool that you're into asking fellow trippers for advice. I wish there was more of that going on these days, at least in Salem anyway.
personally, i would feel very uncomfortable having a non-tripper just sitting around WATCHING me while i'm connecting with god and rolling around in sand by the water's edge. if you need someone else, make sure they're tripping too because two trippers will understand each other, but sober people don't have a clue. they look sooo weird...
i know what you mean exactly... once my boyfriend and his friend were trippin on acid, and my friend anna didnt.. so i felt SUPER CONNECTED to my boyfriend and his friend.. and not to anna.. she kept asking me what i was seeing and how my trip was going and stuff.. i was like no.. grr... we eventually ended up bringing her to our other non-tripping friends and she hung out with them while we had the trip of our lives!
Environment is everything. The people around you dont even have to be trippin, just as long as its people you feel comfortable with. Being inside always messes with me, so I usually dont stay inside.
I'm sorry you had a bad trip. Just take it easy next time, don't force it. Don't expect to be tripping at the same level as everyone else. Also, remember the old saying "a watched pot never boils"; the more attention you spend focused on waiting for it to hit just makes it seem to take a lot longer--relax and find a nice way to occupy yourself while you wait (I recommend meditation, personally, but with friends that may not be possible). It takes time with any drug to "learn" its effect. Once you become more experienced smaller doses can be used for relatively powerful trips. If you're wondering why the come-up took so long, RaeRae13862, did you do the shrooms on an empty stomach? Or did you do them right after you ate? Food in your stomach slows the absorption rate (your body is busy digesting food), makes the trip last longer but makes it less powerful. On an empty stomach you should feel the effects within 30-90 minutes typically (though for some people it can take longer, you could be one of them, so don't rush to take a double dose!). Try doing it on an empty stomach if you didn't the first time, and see how that goes. Remember that many drugs have what I like to call an "acquired taste," where it takes several tries until you are able to get the full effects. Actually, to some extent, I believe that all drugs have this. I think it's just your brain getting used to the new chemical you're introducing into your body. The first time I smoked weed, like many people, I didn't get high. The first time I did mushrooms, I didn't trip. With subsequent attempts, though, I certainly did. I find it very useful to meditate before a trip. For me (and many other people) it seems to amplify the effects and almost totally eliminate negative or racing thoughts. Calming the mind is invaluable for psychedelics (and for normal life as well). Good luck in future!
my first time hallucinating was when i was 5 or 6. I went to the dentist to have a cavity filled and they gave me the gas stuff and I fell asleep then woke up and thought i saw disney characters above me. It was weird, true story though.
