My one friend and I's parents are friends, so we've known each other
pretty much since birth. He's moved around a lot, but we always end up
being into the same types of stuff and are pretty similiar in
personality. He doesn't live near me so everytime we hang out we
either smoke a lot of bud or trip or do some crazy shit or normally an
ultra-fun combination. We'd been talking about eating mushrooms
forever, and we decided to finally do it. It took a couple days of
searching and smoking weed to chill and pass the time but we eventually
got hooked up. As soon as we got back to his house, we got ready to
dose. It was both our second times tripping( I had eaten an 8th in the
past, and he ate a half 8th) so we were relatively experienced and
we're ready for another trip We grabbed a ton of shit, but we ended up
not using any of it, (drawing pad, colored pencils, movies). We both
got gatorades, and grabbed a lemon and the lemon juice. I took a
couple gulps from my gatorade, and then filled it back to the top with
the lemon juice. We started watching Apocalypto (good movie to watch,
but it has a terribly week ending, and Gibson is still an anti-sematic
prick) and I couldn't wait. I dosed about 3 grams, and took swigs from
my acidic chaser. I don't really particularly enjoy the taste of the
mushroom, but I can stand it. After munching all my shrooms, I just
chilled and watched the movie.
The movie was pretty intense, and I was getting pretty into it,
waiting for the trip. I'm gonna guess about twenty or so minutes pass
by, and I'm starting to feel some trip symptoms along with a bit of
excitement. The first thing I noticed besides minor changes in my
thought patterns was the lights. They appeared to distort like they do
if you squint and look at a light, with the whole stretching of the
light and whatnot. The movie was playing on a huge TV, and the
people's faces were beginning to stretch. A little before this
happened, both our dad's came down and were talking to us and watching
the movie. I was keeping my cool, but I knew from the speed and
intensity that I'd be gone in almost no time at all. Luckily they
decide not to watch the movie, and said goodnight. After they left, I
just turned to my friend and dropped out of my chair laughing. I got
up and started pacing around, telling him how they were definitely good
shrooms and that we'd have a great time.
He munched down 2 grams, and saved 1.5 for another occasion. I was
really starting to notice things going on, and I was losing interest in
the movie. I decide to call my friend, and tell him I was tripping. I
talked for a little bit and was still kind of paying attention to the
movie, some guy was looking up at the sky and made a weird noise, and I
made some comment on the noise that he made. My friend looked at me and
said "Dude, he just got his throat slit". Nontheless, the camera pulls
back and this dude's neck is fucking pouring torrents of blood and he
drops to the ground, that made me freak a little and hang up. We
changed the movie to the Alex Grey Spiritworld dvd. That was definitely
more like it, colors and Alex Grey is good for a come up. My friend's
girlfriend called him, and he had to go off and talk to her. So I was
sitting there in total anticipation of this trip. I thought a lot
about my previous trip, and was ready to have a total spiritual
experience (my past trips lacked any spiritual value). I was about
ready for some good karma. I had been working hard in school, and
treating people well, since my last trip I'd become vegetarian, I
stopped a lot of bad habits, was praticing becoming more environment
friendly, and on top of that my girlfriend cheated on me and I broke up
with her a couple weeks prior to tripping. In other words, my karma
was up and I was ready for an experience I could take something away
from. I had no idea what would be happening to me within the next few
hours.
He was still trying to tame a beast, and I was just sitting there in
the chair, half-aware of the tv, and the visuals and effects were
really picking up to say the least. I started looking around the
room. Shapes and patterns began to appear on the wall. The shrooms
were coming on so fast that I was seeing the evolution of the patterns
unfolding before me. I sensed that there was something more than
hallucination at work before me. The patterns were transforming into
other patterns, some more complex, some with a more simple design. It
seemed like it was all an artisitic language. Soon complexity of the
shapes made them undefinable, they were crawling all over the wall, and
intensifying beyond recognition. Soon what was once just a cosmic
display of geometric brilliance became the 'skin' of an organism. It
evolved from a slight hallucino-tease, into the dazzling shapely
vision, into a conscious 'lifeform'. If you've tripped before you'll
be familiar with those special revelations, that vary anywhere from
this wall is green, to a spiritual breakthrough, well it was one of
those. I realized all at once that there was a divine creature,
dancing for me all over the walls. And I looked into the eyes and
faces mixed in the rippling energy bar. It was more than looking into
any eye, it was like looking deep into a truthful being. I believe
that it was a minor spirit being, sent from some sort of gods that I'll
meet in later trips. It's as if it were a messenger to reassure me
that my actions are worth it, because whatever there is in the
metaphysical universe, created by only my mind, or otherwise, it will
always bless me with such vivid and divine spectacles of psychedelic
wonder.
I was amazed the my dose had produced this effect on me. I was not
only spiritually touched, but emotionally moved by the beautiful and
incandescent truth entity that swimmed through the reality before me.
I remember my eyes filling with tears and just staring at the thing for
so long, looking around at it, and realizing that it has been there all
along. I thought more into it, and decided that if it isn't a higher
being, then it was the skin of my my subconscious mind. But whatever
it was is always there around and controls the energy emitted around
you, and is the feeling of right and wrong. The most memorable vision
is when I looked at the post type thing on a fireplace type thing, and
an eye opened up and all of these beads and jewelry made of up popped
up around the eye. Any description is horribly off and nothing can
really describe what I saw. Every trip you see visuals better than any
art in the world, so it's really impossible to articulate.
This may deceive the overwhelming euphoria in my trip, it wasn't
all serious spiritual stuff, there was a good percentage that was
uncontrollable laughter. After the eternity that I spent with admiring
and talking to the alien wall entity, I went to check on my friend, and
I started laughing as soon as I saw him, and he was trying so hard not
to laugh and shooing me away. Throughout the night I thought I had to
shit myself or that I had shit my pants, and checked several times.
After he got off the phone we talked about life, people, religion,
school, the future, space, and everything for hours. There was some
mess in perception of dimension too. I was talking to him and
Letterman was on the tv in the background. I noticed something weird
going on with sounds. I was perceiving them strangely but i didn't
know what was going on. Then I realized that what we were saying, the
people on the show were saying. And not only that, but I was hearing
an echo of what they were saying on three distinct realities, one was
right beside me, and one was beside me to the left. If you're familiar
with music, it was like running delay on a mic, and saying something,
but setting the delay to alternate the left and right audio channels
during the repeating signals, so it seems like it's coming in from all
around. However, it was happening all at once but in the past too, I
don't know how to describe.
All in all that was the most rewarding drug experience that I've
every had, but I plan to have a psychedelic experience that will
totally disconnect me from reality, and one where I'll experience total
ego death. I've had a taste with larger dose mushroom trips but it
hasn't been the total deal yet. I learned about the parallel
consciousness that is our subconscious mind or something far beyond
it. I thought a lot about different religions and people, and I feel
like I gained a respect for everything in the universe, even spects of
space dust a galaxy far from ours, or any person in the world. I got a
better grip on reality, and I just fucking love mushrooms now. If I
were supreme ruler of earth, shrooms would be offered to everyone, and
if they wanted to trip they could trip freely. But I'm not, so I'm
just going to have to share the knowledge and pass on the love of the
divine mushroom to everyone willing to listen. Afterall it's our
responsiblity as psychonauts to tell tales of our adventures and let
the lessons of the mysterious metaphysical realm be heard. The whole
experience was an inspiring, reassuring masterpeice of the eternal
wisdom.
