I don't like to plan my trips, but I just got an opportunity to have a place to myself for almost a week, and I'd like to try shrooms for my first time if I can get ahold of them. I've done acid a couple times All I really know what I want to do is pop on a couple of records, and play some instruments, and draw. I'm looking for a pretty strong trip, I haven't done any psychedelic in many months, so where should I expect to aim for dosage wise? I was thinking 3gs-ish from what I know. I really only want to do shrooms once, so I'd prefer to make it a great experience, not to weak. And I guess is there anything I should really know before I try them? I'm not really nervous at all, just very curious, and enthused.
For a pretty good trip 3 should be fine. I usually go with 4 for a great trip, only went to 6 once for a mind blowing trip. The only thing I can think of, is when I do shrooms i find myself always outside for the trip, its hard for me to stay inside. Where as on LSD I can easily stay inside. So if you can make arrangements to at least go outside, that would be my advice.
3 grams is good. mushrooms can have more of a foggy headed 'intoxication' to them sometimes so I would recommend not being too set on playing instruments or something that requires a great deal of concentration and coordination. I find scenic areas and/or darkness to be the settings where shrooms excel.
I'm going to have to agree with guerillabedlam here. The higher the dose with shrooms the stronger the intoxication and trance like effects. Regardless of what you plan I hope it's a great experience.
I do not like solo tripping mushrooms. It makes me feel very agitated and I get restless. I do not feel comfortable going about by myself when I trip, but I don't like being cooped up in a room. Hopefully you can find someplace in the middle of how I experience it.
Thanks for all the advice, and that's good to hear, because I was kind of planning on staying inside.. Not sure if I can find them anyways
I think I actually prefer solo tripping with psilocybin... At high doses (anything over 3.5grams) I can't have too many people around.. They are just unpredictable variables that can fuck with my trip and are entirely beyond my control. Lower doses (3.5 grams or less), it can certainly be fun to be with people... But if I get loaded on 5 grams I sure as HELL don't want anybody around.. I dunno if I would even be totally comfortable with my girlfriend around at that dose, and I love her to death... That's just me though. Also, I rarely ever have the balls to trip on 5 grams of cubensis... I've only done it two times, and one time with 4.5 grams. So for high dose trips (if we are talking about an experienced and responsible user) I recommend being alone... There is something there that is very much worth exploring at said doses, and I think the only way to really do that properly is to be by yourself for the experience, and also away from any sensory stimulation (like music, TV, art, books, etc).. Just yourself and a big fat dose of psilocybin :2thumbsup:
Yesterday I took 3.2 grams of dried mushrooms, and had the most intense trip I've had with psilocybin. I crushed them up and made them into a tea. Simple recipie: pour boiling water over mushrooms, and steep for 10 minutes. Then strain the mushrooms out of the tea, and sip it while it cools. You can steep the already used mushrooms again and again, but i doubt youll get much more after your third try. when i just eat the shrooms raw, it takes about an hour and 20 minutes to start up. This trip started within 30 minutes, and grabbed me right by the fucking balls. I had no choice but to lay on my bed. as i laid there, i stared up at this beautiful tapestry that hangs from the ceiling above my bed. I like to talk to the shrooms when i do them, sounds weird but it helps my trip. I told them that i was in their hands and please don't hurt me, I'm here for enlightenment. Tell me what you want to. time started to slooooowww doooown and i began to fall into a trance like state. my mouth just fell open and i just stared around my bedroom. My body felt so relaxed, as if i was sinking into the bed. i remember staring at a map of the world on my wall, but this time it wasnt the world anymore, it was a wolf stretching it's legs out like a house dog would. my mind was racing, and i had lost almost all control of anything in my life. The longer i laid there, the more and more intense it got, until i reached a point where it was difficult to keep my eyes from crossing. it was almost like they would jolt in a random direction involuntarily. then I closed my eyes. i can't begin to explain what the fuck i saw, but i know it was kalidescopic, very colorful, 3 dimensional and kept changing and changing. at this point i could no longer talk, words didnt mean anything. I would open and close my eyes to look around the room and to look at the CEV's. At this point im guessing about two hours had gone by, and i was beginning to peak. so when i closed my eyes i saw four colors; red, blue, green, and yellow. they began to swirl around and move and eventually turned into a beautiful naked woman. I was in such awe of this, for she stayed in my field of view. It was hard to make out her face, but i felt like i knew her. then she spoke. She told me that what i was looking for was right in front of me. Then she said the words, "All you need is love in this life." I opened my eyes and jolted up out of my bed. I felt incredible, better than any amount of ecstasy could procure. I wanted to tell the world! I felt what i would consider to be love, and my god was it powerful. So i put on my backpack, which had more shrooms in it, and ran to my friends who live next door. I raced into his house and up to the third story where he was in his study. I ran up to him and embraced him and started blabbing some nonsense. my friend told me that what i said was complete jargon, almost like i was speaking in another tongue. he said dude, slow the fuck down, are you tripping? then i spoke english and told him that LOVE was the thing i was searching for all along. i felt better than anything i had ever experienced, and later discovered that the girl i saw in my trance was my girlfriend, whom i adore.
I usually trip alone and my advice is to find someplace comfy to lay down and no matter what don't get up from that spot. Mushrooms can be disorienting at high doses.
