shroom trip, need some insight please

im not particularly a newbie when it comes to drugsi guess. i mean ive been smoking pot daily since i was 15 (almost 18 now). dabbled with many kinds of opiates in the past. and dropped acid a few times... I LOVE acid.

anyway..so this past halloween, i thought it was time to try some shrooms. a friend of mine had them.. i had no money on me at the time so she just handed me one long mushroom and said if i ate it all i would get a nice trip, not too strong not to mild.. this was the shroom i was given



i went home.. layed the shroom on my table and took a pic of it with my phone to send to one of my friends who now lives in other state to show her in excitement (mushrooms are her favorite)

i was so psyched and was in the right mindset to do them. then one of my other friends freaked me out sayin she had a horrible trip on shrooms once. that she ate too much and everything turned into a cartoon and she said like the walls kept switching sides and crap.. and this friend would never lie to me.. shes the most honest person i know, but when i showed her what i had, shes like.. 'oh thats nothing, i ate like 5 caps and a whoole buncha stems' so i immediatly felt better

now, as the time approached for me to go hang out with my friends and eat the shroom.. to make a really, ridiculously long story short.. i ended up getting in an argument with my bf at the time.. and got really upset.. and went over to my other friends house and ended uo getting piss drunk. i woke up in the morning and realized i had put the mushroom the night before in my pocket of my jeans (stupid, i know.) really pissed off at myself and at the current circumstances.. i grabbed a baggie and gathered what was left of the shroom.

from that whole mushroom pictures above.. i was left with pretty much the whole stem and a little less than half of the cap. i blacked out that night and i honestly dont know where the rest went.. i know i didnt eat it.. but now to more recent events.. sorry if this is getting long, i appreciate those who are reading.

since halloween, i but what was left of the shroom in the baggie under my bed and left it there until when i decided to trip. the whole month of november was a bad one with relationship problems and family troubles, so i pretty much forgot about the shroom.

after having a great christmas, i was in an awesome mood. just scored some ani difranco tickets for my best friend and me, got a kickass home theater system.. i felt awesome. so the day after christmas (yesterday) around 3pm while watching the new TOOL dvd on my home theater system.. i remember the mushroom! my mom & sis had just gone out, i thought, hmm its only a stem and like half a cap.. i wont be tripping hard at all, i might not even trip.. from what ive heard and also have read on erowid.

i think i must have eaten the stem at 3:30pm and the half a cap around 3:50ish.. just as my friend camover before she went to work. we chilled in my room, which is extremely trippy looking without the use of drugs. i put in an alex grey dvd, he was describing all of his paintings in the chapel of sarcred mirrors. 4:00 came and i was feeling it. i would look at my dressed and poster and they would sort of be rippeling and moving kind of, the texture was more appealing and i had alot of interesting thoughts in my head, just like the start of an acid trip. i was feeling so good, i was describing alot about alex greys CoSM to my friend since ive been there before.. then i started to feel a little anxious. i went up to my tv and hometheater and shut it off. i told my friend that i was freaking me out. we started to get into a deep conversation about life and death.. and how were friends.. and how this moment is special and it means something.. just all this in depth crap. this friend who was with me, has only smoked pot and is not at all familiar with being around people who are tripping.. she knew i had just eaten the shrooms though. it seemed like she was making weird faces at me, and shes like 'your freaking me out col'. i got angry and yelled at her to stop, that she was scaring me.. then it hit me.. dude, im tripping.. like hard.. the colors everywhere in my room stuck out to me so much and were so much for floresent. i had sparkles on my pants and it almost seemed like they were popping out at me. when id stare at my friend, id almost see like 2of her, ofset sort of.. like i could see the texture all in her hair.. she started having a purple hue to her.. and i wasl ooking at pictures hanging on my wall and saw blue lines in some of them.. i looked over at this collage i had on a wine bottle, it it was a monkey on top of lips.. and it looked like a REALLY fucking scary face.. i looked over at my johnny depp poster and it was CREEPY.. my immediate reaction was.. 'i have to throw this up' and ran to the garbage to try and make myself throw up.. then i thought to myself 'wait? what am i doing'... 'i cant be tripping like this, and then have my mom come home.' 'oh know im going to have to tell her im tripping and have her take care of me'

at that point it must have been almost 4:30 and my friend had to leave for work a 4:45. i started crying to her, yelling at her to try and calm me down.. she wasnt much help. i told he she CAN NOT.. leave me alone.. that theres no way i could be left alone like this. i begain to think of my friends bad trip on shrooms but then i was like dude, she ate so so so so sos o soooo much more than i did.. the amount i ate was considered an extremely light dose. i finally got ahold of one of my friends who was with her bf driving back from the mall.. im suprised i could even dial the phone. i held my cellphone and it looked and felt like rubber, it was so fake looking.. like i could bend it. my hands looked so stange and everything was so unreal and sort of...blobby and distorted looking. my friend showed up just as my other friend was leaving for work. waiting for her was the hardest though. i remember thinking my mom could come home any second.. i was waiting by my backdoor while my friend was in the bathroom. i didnt want to look at anything. my christmas tree looked stange i remember thinking. then we walked outside and i felt like i was in a snowglobe. i got in my friends car and i was immediatly relived to get out of my house. sitting in the backseat i still was tripping. she was so annoying asking me all these question i didnt want to answer. i thouhgt i was gonna throw up but i didnt. i layed my head against the window in my jacket and closed my eyes trying to make it go away.. but then i thought to myself 'WHY AM I BEING SO STUPID.. JUST ENJOY IT.. JUST FUCKING ENJOY IT.. YOUR OUT OF YOUR HOUSE COLLEEN.." i lifted my head up and tried looking out the window.. everything was still bizarre looking. the christmas lights on the houses and the stop lights, the colors were so vibrant.. the whole time though i was nauses. i think thats what bothered me alot.. because with acid i didnt get that feeling at all.. i didnt like this nasaus feeling. i looked at my legs and they looked all jello'y... my legs felt like jello.. people just looked rubbery.. i remember looking at my hands holding the phone and they looked like they were bending backwards... i dont know man, but we ended up going to this kids house and chilling there.. i sat on his computer chair and i felt alot better. i usually would be bored out of my mind at this kids house, but was content with sitting there watching amy whinehouse perform on tv.. after that my trip started to die down alot.. it didnt last long and wasnt so intense.. like i still felt 'off' but iwasnt seeing what i was seeing before.. oh and i forgot to mention whenever i closed my eyes id see like geometric patterns.

sorry if this was long, i just had to get this out. i dont understand why my trip was so intense at first.. what freaked me out the most was for eating the amount that i ate, i wasnt expecting to trip that hard at first otherwise i wouldnt have been at my house alone.. and would have planned it out better.. you know. is it normal to trip like that from the amount i had?.. so strange.. trip wasnt loong either..
idk man.. any insight would be helpful though.. thanks for reading and also thank you to everyone in this forum, without you guys.. i dont know what i would do, you have helped me with so many questions.. just want to shout out another thanks! peace


..also forgot to mention i take zoloft.. but its only one dose of 50mil at night.. i really dont think that has an effect.. but ill just throw that in there

 

Sounds like a pretty good trip for your first time. Remember, dont use psychedelics to get fucked up; use them for enlightenment .

 

yup, i know.. im just confused as to whyi tripped so hard for the amount i ate

half a cap, and a stem?
is that normal>?
i hear people usually eating a half an 1/8th or a whole 1/8th and telling me to start out there...

 

You should trip next time in a better setting. I personally despise tripping in my own house and within range of my parents. Find a trip buddy and go nuts haha.


... ok I'm gonna go drink a ton so have a great night :jester: ....



WARHORSE

 

judging by the picture thats a big mushroom id say it weighed close to 1-1.3 grams i dont think you had a full-blown experience by any means.
But that being said i can completely believe you did get high from the mushroom.
you wont have a bad trip unless you become worried, and getting out of your house was an excellent idea, a change of scenery can fix both nausea and the potential of a bad trip.
I think you learned a few valuable lessons here, congrats on a successful first trip!

 

Just remember that its all just a trip, Dont use them for recreational uses. IT actually sounds like a good trip. Just dont worry about the trip. I know people who cant handle it. Maybe yor one. Try again, and see what happens, go into it with a good state of mind. Look deep inside of yourself and ask what is the purpose of you eating them. And the setting has alot to do with.

 

The shrooms I get here in Montreal look exactly like the ones on your pic. Rather big stems, kinda chews like little bits of wood and the cap is similar as well. And indeed, I've had trips of 1.5g more intense with those than others of 3-4g on shrooms with a different look (ex: smaller stems, different texture caps)
I disagree with those who propose to start with 3.5g because shrooms' potency are often very different. My first mushroom trip was something like 2g and it was the most intense trip of my life. Never had another one like it on anyother psychedelic, not even acid, higher shroom doses or mescaline.
My opinion when it comes to psychedelics is just... fuck the dose. Start off low and who knows man, those drugs open up something that already has the potential to be opened in our minds, and in some circumstances the setting and mindset, that have nothing to do with the drug you've ingested, will importantly define the trip.
Psychedelic users tend to give way too much importance in defining the trip on solely the drug and the dose, but the mystery behind a trip is our own will.

 

Maryjanegirl:
The problem is that you thought all shrooms were the same strength. They are not. I took one look at that pic and I said to myself, 'I hope she didn't eat the whole thing'.
Properley grown indoor Cubensis, which is exactly what that was, are 2-3 times as strong as the old, poorly dried, outdoor crap that your friend ate
Look for stems like the one in the pic. If they are that white, or even whiter, you're looking at the real deal holyfield. Handle with care!

 

Mushrooms is something you should take seriously. you tried acid before so im sure you know the experience.but i dont know if what you ate was dry or fresh.but a fresh mushroom is much more different then a dry mushroom. if you eat a dry one some of the psychoactives died.but if you eat a fresh one you can trip out much more so like salmon4me said it really depends on the kind of mushroom you ate. different mushrooms is like a whole different experience