you were probably told the powder is more potent so when you buy a bag of them your not pissed that you got all shake
Eman Resu, you assume I bought a bag of powder, instead of mushrooms. That would be pretty stupid. What I did buy was about 1 ounce of mushrooms, then when I was done all the actual mushroomed shaped pieces, I was left with powder. I took this 2-3 grams of powder, and ate it all. Ended up with a way more intense trip then 2-3 grams of mushrooms usually cause. Also my bag of shrooms, started off with very little powder, because they are dry, and were in a small pouch in my backpack, the got bashed around and dustified. Anyway on this note, I think ill powder them every single time and soak them in lemon juice from now on, I think powder is a bit stronger, and if you grind up all your shrooms and mix them you'll get an average strength, and it will allow you to judge your next trip better. Plus drinking lemonade is about 10 million times better then chewing shrooms, I dont mind the taste, I mind the aftertaste, and the bits of shroom that I have to floss out of my teeth.
at coventry last year (or two years ago? man... ) i got some mushroom extract in a tootsie roll. the dude would only sell it in 1 gram increments because of it´s strength. i think he recommended no more than .5 a gram, too. anyways, this stuff had a totally different effect. on .5 gram, there really werent any visuals, just PERFECT vision. clarity, clarity, clarity. colors, too. but certain things looked like certain other things. for example, this one persons´s hair looked like a chicken/rooster. so it looked like they had a chicken for a head. needless to say, there were a lot of double-takes that night. and the whole experience was very mystical. subtle, yet totally far out there. i get all anxious and sweaty just thinking about it... anyways, so a friend of mine took his ball of mushroom tootsie roll (which was just like a gooey tootsie roll in the shape of a ball and no larger than 2 BB´s big - like the BB´s for shooting) and flatened it into a pancake. we all swallowed ours at the same time. my friend who squashed his puked after 20 min. or so and had a crazy-fast come-on with the effects. so, more surface area = the fast it will break down and be absorbed.
Ya the finishing of the tea for me was insane. I just downed the cup, and like rinsed it out, then a second later the carpet was lifting up with a pattern, and I remember saying... oh shit this is going to be bad, then I was basically knocked flat, couldn't move much for an hour.
I dunno, it seems to dissolve better in the tea, it doesnt actually get stronger, you just absorb more drug faster, making it seem stronger.
It turns out that this powder and lemon juice thing works quite well. Two weeks ago I ate 3 grams of whole shrooms and had a low level trip. A buddy of mine got 8 grams from the same batch did the powder n lemon treatment and split it between 3 people. The results? He said that all three of them tripped their butts off!
Me and my friend made mushroom tea last week, but first we ground the shrooms to powder. It was intense, it definately made a large difference. Faster come up, more intense peak, the peak lasts into the comedown though. Which makes it like shroomed shroomed shroomed... stone sober.