Trying "magic mushrooms" for first time

Oh, and eat them with some cool ranch doritos, it's great.

It's fun if you live in a nice area to go walking the streets late at night too. Be sure to bring cigs (if you smoke them) and a friend, cos it will look strange if you start talking to trees and no-one else is around.

I never was a big fan of mushrooms, you shouldnt worry about anything cos they don't do too much besides make you hysterical, and that's if you get the good kind. If you have a good full day and a half open, you should really look into Robotussin. And im not joking.

A brief search of the net shows that you shouldn't rely on this potentially dangerous advice

DON'T TURN ON THE TELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"This train journey is really reaching with the tedium levels." I tell my friend and announce to the rest of the carriage.
"Something interesting needs to happen."
"Yeah man, this train needs to be interesting-up the place."
"You aren't allowed to smile on the tube - stop it!"
"Aw man!"

and then we wait some more and it's unbearable - we just want to explode with laughter at our situation and the crazy little people going to places on the tube and the scenery going past. Then a voice next to me:

"Excuse me is this train going to Portobello Road?"

Next to me is a girl. My age, blonde hair, quite big framed with a friendly face. She spoke with a light American accent. She was travelling with a chubby middle aged woman who turned out to be her Mum who was grinning and laughing almost as much as us.

"Oh I'm not so sure - we're not from London as you can probably tell. Why are you going to Portobello Road?"
"Oh we went there once when I was little and I wanted to see it again."
"Right, so you don't live here either then?"
"No we're from Wisconsin."

What ensued was one of the twee-est and most charming conversation with the friendliest folks we'd ever met. We all laughed when the girl asked if our city had a tube service too. I had to explain that, no we live in a town and as far as we knew, London is the only one with a tube. We remarked upon how the question was a really classic American thing to ask.

They told us about Wisconsin and then we started chatting about accents and all doing impressions of Texans and Noo-Yawkers and laughing. Then their stop came and they said goodbye, waved and got off the train. We later wondered whether they knew we were all on drgs. The girl seemed so sweet and naive that we doubted it somehow. I was half expecting her to ask "So, does everybody do that thing with their jaw in your city?".

"There you go" says my friend, "INTERESTING! We just met the sweetest Americans in the world - and we even managed to avoid talking about politics!"

(This is where buzz harshers all go "yes yes but the new dizzee single KILLED MY FAMILY" obv)

Huh? The one about having a tube? Are you on drugs? London's not the only city with an underground!

Yes, and Letchworth isn't one of them. They asked the question as though every single town had a tube service, that's all - it was just very sweet as they said they'd never seen anything like it.

damnit, why did i even bother telling the stupid story !

But why do I now feel like a dick?

i do have a feeling that glasto is going to be RAMMED with ppl having their first mushroom experience, what with their non-illegality (if you see what i mean) leading to them being sold pretty much everywhere...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1095822,00.html

they sell em in a shop in Letchworth town centre but not everyone's mashed off their heads all the time.

but actually that might be acid specific

If you take acid 7 times, you're "legally insane"!

xpost for reals, the trip reports on erowid always make for a good time, but the Datura ones are on a whole nother level.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Datura.shtml

I remember hearing that rumour years ago, that it was some kind of psychiatric classification, but it's probably just paranoid druggie talk ;)

xp

like pretty much every drug legend

I dunno, I heard it from this guy I know who thought he was an orange juice.

coming down off acid drinking hueg glass of cold orange juice = awesome

i've seen "things" btw

Don't think I've ever seen anything made from whole imaginary cloth, distortions and comical ideas only afaik

a roommate of mine in college took shrooms and was complaining that she wasn't seeing any hallucinations

i was like "are you sure, cuz you seem really out of it?"

she was like "i'm not seeing anything....but the ground is moving"

I've been done w/ this sort of thing for more than ten years, tho there were some good times. I was always too cautious to take a "committed dose," tho I wouldn't be opposed to experiencing a more "complete" hallucination if it were on a very short-term basis, which is why I've kept an ear to the ground for DMT (not too common in my circles, I'm afraid). Any DMT or peyote experiences out there?

i can't take any committed doses, i would seriously jump off a fucking cliff.

everyone who disagreed with my post upthread is pretty much otm. most i've ever eaten was 5 grammes and my experience has been no full-fledged hallucinations (as in, seeing a nonexistent THING for more than a split second while you're turning your eyes the other way) and that, upon interrogation, people i've spoken to who have claimed to have hallucinated big time admit to being hyperbolic ("well i didn't see zeus per se, but this cloud looked just like him and i swear you could see his lips moving".) i'd like to experience hallucinations, though, and it was a major cause of disapointment during my first trip--i've just learned to change my expectations.

Wow those datura experiences are something else!

yeah people def. make too much of having literal hallucinations. most I ever saw was the usual, trails, shifting patterns, breathing walls, etc. which can be easily identified as minor, garden variety distortions of your normal visual processes. but yeah when I first took LSD/shrooms I thought other trippers' stories about "everything turning into a Dr. Seuss cartoon" or whatever were literal. and they were not.

from what I can tell its entirely different story with stuff like DMT, datura, shamanic stuff.

haha this one's good

I remember asking myself where my cigarettes were. Just then there was a knock at the door, it was my girlfiend wondering where i was, she had brought three friends with her, all people I had went to school with in earlier years and had moved away, this did not seem odd to me at the time. I invited them in and we started talking about something. I can't remember exactly what, I reached in my pocked for a lighter light a cig my girl had given me, but when I looked up they were gone. I mean VANISHED. The odd thing was I still had the cigarette.

After letting the now greenish liquid cool for a while I decided that the only way to drink this tonic was with the help of some mellow tunes playing in the back ground. I didn't have any mellow tunes however so I sprung for the next greatest thing since sliced bread, Mr. Bungle

I boiled 100 seeds for 15 minutes, then drank all the juice and ate most of the seeds (this stuff tastes horrible. Its hard to eat alot of it, my body has some sort of super aversion). This caused me to trip for about 18 hours, with maybe 30 hours of noticable mental after-affects. The trip was just a basic datura trip similar to the other trips listed on erowid, I experienced telepathy too.

Yeah I took like 40 dramamines once (which, was, way, too, many) and it was four straight days of people I knew appearing to tell me very important things and then disappearing when I tried to reply in conversation. And like a big purple hand coming out of the wall...not in the imaginy way like on mushrooms, but literally. Perhaps you are wondering why, if it makes you "see things" ala datura, why you can buy it OTC no problem? Bcz once is too many times. You never want to repeat it.

dude WTF

I felt kind of bad for my friends who drove me to an observatory (for the stars) and had to deal with me whispering secret conversations to a person who wasn't actually in the car. And I was talking to the passengers' side window, where no one could have even been sitting.

This is really embarrassing for me, and I am not sharing this experience as a brag, but as a no-no!

The scariest thing is I still have no idea what things were "real" and what weren't.

There is no reason why my friend would be sitting in tall grass doing nothing, but nonetheless, I thought she was. I called out to her several times, turned around and started walking, but when I looked back she was gone. I then started talking to a lamppost and asked it if it knew where my friend was, when an actual person started walking towards me. I asked them as well, but they didn’t answer and looked at me like I was crazy. There are no lampposts where I was walking, I now realize.

<3

I never had a bad experience with mushrooms. It never gave me the mindfuck of acid, but maybe I wasn't eating heroic doses.

First experience with them - I bought a sack from a fellow waiter to eat with friends. Started nodding off on the couch that night, decided to eat a button, wound up falling asleep. I wake up after a while and there's a whirlpool in the middle of the living room floor, like a swirling vortex. Whoaaaaaa. Freak for a half second, realize it's kind of pretty, stare at it for a while, decide I better go back to sleep, fin..

Mushrooms are the only drug I'd still do, if I had a connection for them. Far and away the greatest of mind-altering substances.

music on shrooms

need i say more

fucking, on acid, while listening to music (Spacemen 3, to be specific)

woah

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html

In one of Dr. Griffiths’s first studies, involving 36 people with no serious physical or emotional problems, he and colleagues found that psilocybin could induce what the experimental subjects described as a profound spiritual experience with lasting positive effects for most of them. None had had any previous experience with hallucinogens, and none were even sure what drug was being administered.

To make the experiment double-blind, neither the subjects nor the two experts monitoring them knew whether the subjects were receiving a placebo, psilocybin or another drug like Ritalin, nicotine, caffeine or an amphetamine. Although veterans of the ’60s psychedelic culture may have a hard time believing it, Dr. Griffiths said that even the monitors sometimes could not tell from the reactions whether the person had taken psilocybin or Ritalin.

The monitors sometimes had to console people through periods of anxiety, Dr. Griffiths said, but these were generally short-lived, and none of the people reported any serious negative effects. In a survey conducted two months later, the people who received psilocybin reported significantly more improvements in their general feelings and behavior than did the members of the control group.

The scariest thing is I still have no idea what things were "real" and what weren't.

Now that this experience is over and not likely to recur, try looking at this phenomenon a little more inquisitively. It is quite interesting when viewed dispassionately.

anybody who is still convinced that acid cant cause hallucinations should have a long talk with the friends i had that were stuck trying for 30 minutes to convince me to walk through the chain link walls of the tennis court i wasnt in, or my unfortunate ex who tried to get all sexy with me and got rebuffed because her fingers had turned skeletal and 12 inches long, and the room was on fire because the candle had exploded.

hey kids, dont do drugs, stay in school

After letting the now greenish liquid cool for a while I decided that the only way to drink this tonic was with the help of some mellow tunes playing in the back ground. I didn't have any mellow tunes however so I sprung for the next greatest thing since sliced bread, Mr. Bungle

did Yelp acquire erowid?

i was in lolcollege and i had a long talk with god while standing on a four foot by four foot rock and when I asked for a sign that I was being heard, it started raining. all things considered, one of the great positive experiences of my life.

...and no drugs were involved!

fucking, on acid, while listening to music (Spacemen 3, to be specific)

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To this day I'm thankful for the friends who babysat me while I was on a "committed" dose of psilocybin.

At one point I tried to go swimming while fully clothed in a lake at night. On the trip back from the lake I jumped out of a car while it was pulling to a stop and thankfully ended up in a pile of brush. By the end they found me rolled up in my friend's rug, everything around me knocked on the floor.

I'm not saying coming down off that trip wasn't one of the more profoundly beautiful experiences of my life, just that I went through 4 or 5 hours being blacked out and out of control to get there. Scared the shit out of all of them, they still talk about it. Glad I did it the other 5 or 6 times though.

There wasn't any music on when I fucked on acid. (One of my greatest positive experiences)

I've never used magic mushrooms.

I can tell you, as a medical professional (Medical professional! Ha! I'm a glorified housekeeper and personal assistant! But I know a little bit about this stuff), to avoid delirants. Delirants= poisons that are just enough below the lethal level to make the body very sick. They kill a lot of people a year.

pretty sure anyone who claims to have hallucinating on mushrooms lsd whatever are all bullshiting tbh

ah, no. you just didn't take enough. it's all about the Heroic Dose.

but if you're talking about full-blown hallucinating stuff that's not there, then yes, psychedelics don't do that. you want deliriants - datura, belladona, mandragora - hardcore shamanic witches brew shit.

you guys must have had poor batches of shrooms!

you're so snippy

i took 5 grams my first time. it sounds like a lot. i was sixteen years old and had never even been drunk before, or smoked weed before. i choked them down and there was nothing for a while then a WHOOSH and i was in another world. i distinctly remember that moment, when i was just suuuuckked SHLOOOOPPPP into another world. i had no idea where i was. i wasn't even really aware anymore of an 'i' or whatever. shit is like trying to describe a dream or something. it's impossible. or it just sounds dumb.

after the peak, i was conscious of who i was etc. but i had no idea where i was (i was in my bedroom, in bed) and for a while i thought i was in the hospital but i wasn't sure and i thought doctors were talking to me but i wasn't sure. like, i could look at my bedroom and see just something completely different. i can't even fucking describe it. to this day. then finally, five, six hours into it, i could see. everything was moving and humming and it was fucking crazy and i never wanted to do it again but i eventually did.

that was it.

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http://www.times-standard.com/ci_15174272

Bailey said that Wyatt was in a good mood on the way to Klamath. When Powell and Davis showed up, the three men began making mushroom tea, and they all tried it. Powell and Davis had a difficult time stomaching the concoction, she said, and Bailey said she was teased by Davis that she should drink the tea or be the only sober one there. She testified she drank some and then lay down on the couch.

Bailey said that the three men went outside, and then Wyatt came to the door saying that something was “burning his eyes.” Davis was trying to leave, Bailey said, and Wyatt was trying to prevent him from going. Wyatt then yelled to Powell to get him his guitar. Powell's behavior had changed since he'd taken the mushroom tea, Bailey said, and he responded harshly to Wyatt's demand.

He said, “You wanna f'ing die,” three times, Bailey said.

She then heard what she believed to be Wyatt and Powell wrestling on the kitchen floor, then talking about surfing. Bailey then said that she saw Powell standing over who she believed to be Wyatt, and that Powell was spitting on him. Bailey testified that she heard sounds she thought were sexual in nature, though she said it could have been something else.

But Bailey appeared to have a difficult time putting the events in chronological order. At one point, she said that the lights in the house were out and she'd covered her head with the hood of her shirt. Bailey said she felt “pressure” on her legs, and Powell's voice saying that he could see her face. She sensed that someone was pointing a sharp object at her.

At that point, Bailey said, she heard glass breaking in the kitchen. She said she was afraid of Powell, and that she left the room and went to the bedroom, and that she felt she needed to be protected from Powell. At some point later she could see Wyatt curled up in a ball on the floor of the living room.

Under cross examination by Riese, Bailey said that she realized something had happened to Powell when she saw Wyatt curled up on the floor with Powell on the couch.

”I didn't know what to think, what I even just saw,” Bailey said.

Fallman said that the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing showed that Wyatt was having a psychotic break and couldn't form the intent that would make him responsible for premeditated murder. Fallman also tried to say that Wyatt overreacted, trying to defend Bailey after he discovered Powell pushing down on her legs.

”My client was trying to silence the devil,” Fallman said.

what about the alleged "acid flashback"? i've never experienced this, nor do i know anyone that claims to have had this happen, so i think it's a myth. amiwrong?

It's the same thing as a PTSD flashback, I'm told.

I've certainly never had one. I've got a friend who claims to have had them, but he described one and it sounded like it was a panic attack to me.

Ha, yeah, for a while, any time I felt kind of weird, or had an implacable physical sensation, my first thought was "flashbacks???" That was silly!

Recommending this movie to all of u, it was surprisingly awesome and is on Netflix Instant:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492486/

that looks... really bad.

you know what i WOULD watch though, would be a documentary documenting the different trips among a variety of different people. maybe ten people or so, from all different backgrounds. like The Real World (or to a lesser extent Jersey Shore), but with more of a research bent to it and a more representative cross-section of american society (i.e. including old people, smart people). establish their pre-trip personality, haul them out to some forest somewhere, watch them munch some shrooms, maybe puke 'em up, then treat the viewer to a good solid hour of fun and weirdness and hopefully even some sweet real-life terror. that i would watch.

Shrooms is really really bad. Shrooms on the other hand are amazing. I still rue the day that they were made illegal in Ireland, after that one amazing summer where they were available left, right and centre.