What's the most you've ever done?

What's the biggest dose of mushrooms you've ever had? For me it was 5.4 grams dried. I ask because I'm planning on eating a quarter in the near future after some fasting, so I'm curious to hear what kinds of precautions I should take and what to expect. Let's hear it.

 

Ive only done fly agarics and when ive done them i havent taken strong dozes, so i dont know anything to say but: be peaceful.

 

11g dried. I was going through some emotional trouble at the time and made one hell of a bad choice, resulting in an 8 hour psychotic episode that took weeks for me to recover from emotionally. I won't go into the details, as I would rather forget all about it, but I definitely learned a lot from that trip, as it was by far the worst experience of my life. I hope nobody has to go through what I did.

2-4g is the sweet-spot, folks.

Weatherman, a quarter is a big dose. A lot of people can lose control at that level, so please be careful.

 

And why are you doing this to your self? lol

i find a fat 1/8 to knock me off my feet... its an amazing beautiful high... and I don't think i would enjoy much more than that.

 

for me it was my last trip, which was a couple weeks ago at about 5.7g dry weight....probably one of the better mushroom trips i've ever had, but next time i do shrooms alone it will probably be a solid 6 or 7g trip

before that, though, i plan on taking 3g with 2.5g syrian rue

 

The most I have ever done is 7 grams. I split a half with a friend, and we ate them on a hiking trip. Wow. It was worth the expeirence, but i don't think i will be doing that again for a while.

 

I've never had more than 2 grams, sadly

But I plan on eating an 8th this weekend!

 

What type of shrooms are you people talking about?
Cubensis? Mexican? Philosopher's?
I haven't tried anything but semilanceata's and they can be deceptevely powerful with even smaller doses. 0,5 g to 1,5 g (dry) is a standard dose, 1,5 or more being very strong and out of control trip.
Do you self-pick your shrooms or grow your own???

 

I would assume there talking about Cubensis since it's the most common strain I believe. Plus the standard dose is 1/8

 

The most I've eaten was 13 grams dry and that blew me into hyperspace with no ego
I would not recommend taking that much unless you know what you are doing.

Some people prefer a light trip, 2-3 grams. Myself.. 2-3 grams doesn't usually do very much besides give me a body buzz, I like to eat around 5-7 grams for a good heavy trip.
Everyone is different though. 5-7 grams could effect someone else in a completely different way.

 

i think i'm more where you are, shroomism. the "normal" doses aren't fully psychedelic, and i don't find them too useful anymore. too easy for me to handle, i don't usually "learn" anything, you know? i'm starting to think i'm ready for higher doses. or at least more powerful trips. i'm trying my mushrooms (about 3.5g cubes) with a couple grams of syrian rue next time. tho i'm very familiar with psychedelics, i'm thinking i may want to try the harmala on its own before mixing it with shrooms....i'll see.

morning maniac, most of us are almost definitely discussing cubes. for most of the united states, it's all thats available. even places where you can pick other shrooms, these are the most common to grow yourself because they're the easiest and most discreet to grow, and because they have the most information about their cultivation circulating. i've grown my own almost always, but the first two times i did shrooms and the last two times i've bought them from a dealer (they don't grow wild in ohio, its home cultivation or shelling out 25-30 bucks per eighth)

some places such as very humid areas in the south have wild cubes and other warm weather species. the northwest portion of the lower 48 states (possibly southern coastal alaska, as well) will produce a number of more potent mushrooms in the wild - even in mulched urban areas, as far as im led to believe. in such areas, mushrooms are more common and are rarely sold, and if they are sold its at a much more reasonable price.

hope that clears some things up...

 

Just to share my experience... that is an IMMENSELY powerful combination. I did 2grams of cubes with 1.5gm rue a few years ago and it was terrifying beyond anything i could have ever imagined, and it took several months to really come to terms with it, syrian rue massively increases the intensity of the experience. Ive tried smoking rue on its own, it has a very noticeable effect but it didnt seem psychedelic at all, just a relaxing feeling for 15 minutes. As for combining them, be careful with the dosage....

 

righto, well, i always believe in learning from other people's mistakes....so...since i have 2 ounces of syrian rue on hand, and since i have the knowledge and skill to at least grow personal supply amounts of mushrooms (should i so wish to resume that endeavor in the future), i'm in no rush to go overboard. methinks it may be wise for my first "psilohuasca" experience to be more around 1-1.75g cubes with no more than equal amounts of rue. i know it can be very intense, and thats what i'm looking for, but thinking about it more, i think you're right and 3.5g does seem a little too cavalier for a first time. i've heard it said "just because you can eat half a sheet of acid and still keep your wits about you, don't think you can handle ayahuasca" - or something to that effect. while i'll be using psilocin/psilocybin/etc. rather than dmt, from what i've heard i should expect this combination to be rather ayahuasca-like. always better to take a bit too little and know better next time than to treat a sacrament with disrespect for its power and be scared of psychedelics for the rest of my life..........

 

for the record, while i've had times on psychedelics that weren't all too pleasant (last time i consumed i went to a park, had to deal with cops showing up, hiding my glass piece and pot, some other kid getting arrested, then driving home before being 100% back to baseline cause there was a possibility of them coming back with dogs) i've never actually had a frightening or "bad" trip. and never scary, except twice on some way-to-strong salvia. i've always been able to keep myself peaceful and grounded, even if i wasn't blissed out with cosmic euphoria....

that said i know "i've never had a bad trip" are simply an unknown number of people's infamous last words....so i think i should look at it as, i've never had a bad trip, and i'd like to keep it that way. so i need to find out what an appropriate dosage of this combination is for me in a slow, safe, and cautious manner.

 

The thing is, even though bad trips are SO hard to deal with, and can really mess you up for long after the trip has ended, it has to be said that you learn MUCH more than you do during a pleasant experience. I am very grateful indeed for my shroomahuasca experience now, although for months after it i was cursing myself and wishing that id never touched it, it took time to integrate the experience, but after having integrated it, it greatly improved my sense of spiritual wellbeing.

 

Bad trips can be highly beneficial once you take the time to figure out what went wrong, why it went wrong, and what positive changes you can make to your life as a result. Some of my worst trips led to the best life changes in the long-run.

 

perhaps i should clarify - i've had some very unpleasant portions of trips - parts where all the things about me that are bad or immoral or confusing are brought out to the forefront; painful realities about my life are shown to me, both internal and external things; i've felt like i was about to go insane; sometimes i just get really lonely and melancholy when i'm tripping......

but to me these aren't BAD trips. they are, like any other trip, learning experiences. i've always contended that i don't use psychedelics for fun, even though they can be a hell of a lot of fun. i use them as tools, and the unpleasant times are of equal importance to the times where i feel overwhelmed with awe and beauty. to me a bad trip would be one that was not only very negative, but which freaked me out to the point where i become frenzied and scared to the point of being a psychological or physical threat to myself, others, or my surroundings. in this sense i've never had a bad trip, but i've had some scary, sad, or unpleasant ones. but sometimes the best medicine for you is the most bitter.....

 

Well put. That's describes me pretty accurately I think.

I am also at the point where lower doses are completely uninteresting and have been exhausted of their learning potential. I used to still think that 1/8ths could still be put to good use, but last monday I ate an eighth and tripped pretty decently, but there was absolutely nothing significant about it. I had an overwhelming feeling of "been here, done that" and I remember thinking of it as something like casual sex. I didn't like that feeling at all, since shrooms have been such a good friend to me but it was there all the same.

This is why I think I really need to go all out on my next trip. I was glad to hear what people had to say about dosage and all that. See you on the other side comrades.

 

i think part of my issue is psychedelics, to me, have unique personalities. i like spending private time with them, learning their ins and outs, getting to know them. this entails tripping alone more often than not, and thats almost always how i do it. so while alone, an eighth won't be that good for me, whereas if i'm with a good person i respect and can just sit and talk to for a few hours and smoke a few bowls, my main focus will be on the person and what i can learn from them, and what i can learn from myself. in this situation, the mushrooms are a catalyst for learning, not the teacher. when i'm alone, the mushrooms and myself the teachers, and so i want to pay more attention to the mushrooms and want to have a higher dose. its just i have to be careful who i trip around, because some people just really bum me out when i'm tripping.