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 iamconfused
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 How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? 
#16729676 - 08/20/12 06:00 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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OK, so I finally had my first experience with shrooms. Prior to shrooms, my only true psychedelic experiences were from abusing DXM and smoking salvia when I was a dumb teenager. However, I never found DXM to be very introspective (although opinions vary on that), and for me salvia was both too brief and too overwhelming - I never got the psychedelic experience I was looking for from either. Well, I guess I also took MDMA a few times, but it didn't wcwb compare to what DXM and salvia could do from a hallucinatory perspective. I found it to be more of a sensual journey, although my perception of light and touch was always a bit skewed. And, yes, I have smoked a lot of weed, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, shrooms gave me what I was looking for. I had a revelatory, life-affirming trip. I learned many truths, and how to really believe. I felt like a kid again in many ways. I could see the world as it truly was, without all the bullshit descriptors and definitions we're taught to filer our thoughts through as adults. Oh, and I did finally learn what the Beatles meant with that line about "kaleidoscope eyes", and how to properly admire patterns.
So, yeah, after such a trip, I naturally want to take shrooms again. It sounds like fun. Why not trip a bunch? But then part of me thinks that shrooms should only be reserved for special occasions. I'm not sure if it's truly healthy mentally or spiritually to trip a bunch.
Am I worrying about nothing? What doth the Shroomery thinketh?
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: iamconfused]
#16729693 - 08/20/12 06:12 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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once every month or other month is where i like to keep it. too much and itll lose its magic. way to much and itll fuck with your head. its best if you reserve it for special occasions though because then it makes those occasions that much more special
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: lar20]
#16729752 - 08/20/12 06:46 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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once a fortnight
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: gullhole]
#16730004 - 08/20/12 08:36 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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Best is a mid point strong dose like 3.5 grams every 4 months. If you want to trip that bawd then every month for a few months straight is good. I was recently doing it every week or every 5 !days. Eventually my brain felt tired and overstimulated all the time. The shrooms even got somewhat.boring (losing the magic) remember that these are a powerful MEDICINE. NKT A RECEEATIONAL TOY. Unless your just looking to get high for kicks. In that case...be prepared for a bad trip or two.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: gullhole]
#16730017 - 08/20/12 08:43 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I think it depends on what you want from tripping really.
Bear in mind that that your intentions are going to affect the nature of your trip, so if you trip often and for fun you might lose some of that revelatory magic that can be so helpful. You won't develop a tolerance as such, but you will get used to the experience itself and the child-like wonder that you feel might fade away.
But that's just speculation really, I haven't experienced the above but then I don't tend to trip often, and when I do it's usually for insight or my own development.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: magicSpoons]
#16730048 - 08/20/12 08:54 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I've gone on benders where I was tripping every weekend for several months. Sure enough, it got boring and pointless, and my mind and body felt the impact.
I've found that many times a really good trip will leave us begging for more and chasing that experience time and time again, but you'll never get it back and those experiences are best left as memories. Sure you can have another great experience, but it will never be what it was the first time.
I think, from my experiences with psilocybin, that once every few months or perhaps a couple of times a year is a good pace to hold. Give your mind time to forget, and that will keep it fresh each time. Otherwise it gets boring.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: carnage11]
#16730216 - 08/20/12 10:07 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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too much can screw with your head and leave you with persisting visual effects. i'd say once a month. but don't hold to that as an absolute safety guideline. make sure to analyze your mental health before tripping. if it's been a month and you still feel off then perhaps take two months, or more. whatever it takes. i'd rather be tripping infrequently the rest of my life than burn myself out while i'm young.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: JacksonMetaller]
#16730295 - 08/20/12 10:35 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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No more than once a day
But seriously... Weekly is fine... But you will loose the magic after a while and need a break
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: HarryL]
#16730316 - 08/20/12 10:43 AM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I get the epic trip once a month and the breakthrough every three months. I try and trip once a week to chase that breakthrough trip. I'd assume if I just trip once a month; I would most likely have that breakthrough trip every month; but I still get a lot out of the trips in between.
I'd advise to trip once a month because there aren't too many people out there that can handle tripping every week (sometimes twice a week). I think I'm some weird alien or something cause I've had zero problems with tripping 1-2 times a week. <---- not the norm.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: FakePlasticSky]
#16731121 - 08/20/12 01:33 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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No more than once per month. Preferably every other month.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: searching]
#16732466 - 08/20/12 05:48 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I've done 7-10 grams once a week for 2 months. It definitely is to much. I would say once a month is about the most you should do. I don't think it is harmful at all to do them once a week, but it does lose it's magic.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: BTL99]
#16732638 - 08/20/12 06:24 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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It depends on the dosage and intensity of the trip. If I take 5g of
mushrooms and feel mild effects, then I might dose up the next week as
well. If I go over the edge and into the abyss, then I'll wait at least
another month, maybe two, or even longer before attempting another journey
of a similar magnitude.
Low dose trips (level 1-2) - Wait at least a week before tripping again
Moderate dose trips (level 3) - Wait at least 2 weeks before dosing again
High dose trips (level 4-5) - Wait a month or longer before taking mushrooms again
That's (roughly) what I go by.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: Bawks]
#16732735 - 08/20/12 06:42 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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im on a bit of a psychedelic binge so its been about weekly, maybe even around every 5 days if i have time. however phenethylamine tolerance is starting to build finally so ill probably have to cut it down. other than the next day being a bit bleh, i havent noticed any health issues, maybe trippier weed highs but thats a good thing.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: lovesexdubstep]
#16733283 - 08/20/12 08:17 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I've had times where I would trip every year or every few years due to avaliblty and now that I grow its 1 to 2 times a week typically I'm fairly healthy as far as mentality goes but I suffer from manny health issues but then again I use mushrooms as a medican. The cleanse my body and have less pain. I just enjoy the side effects but with most people they loose it. I've lost my mind before from dailly tripping for about a year almost a year ago it was a combo of dxm shrooms and peyote shrooms once a week peyote once a week and dxm daily. I was in my own world lost touch and nearly destroyed my marriage. I've dropped dxm for the most part but hey I used it off and on for roughly 12 or 13 years by most accounts I should not be alive. In short only you can answer this question because mushrooms are not a one size fits all substaince what's right for me may not be right for you and vice versa
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: basqueshaman]
#16734188 - 08/20/12 10:48 PM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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I started taking shrooms about 13 months ago, right after I graduated from High School, and as I entered my college career I had become fascinated and dangerously in love with this magical fungus. I did it a little too much too often (about an 8 every month, with one occasion where i did an 8 and a half). Now some people could probably handle that amount per time period, but I would advise against it. However, if you have confidence in your own willpower to be able to stop yourself from getting sucked in to shrooming all the time, I would say that you should just go with the flow, and if you overdo it then you will know. Everybody has different personal limits, so really you just need to find out how often you are comfortable doing them and don't exceed that. It can be a dangerous lesson to learn, but one that I feel is worth it. Now if you don't have that much faith in your own will power, than the standard limits I tell people to follow (if theyre asking my advice) would be a 6 times a year maximum, or once every 2 months.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: TheChef]
#16734400 - 08/20/12 11:21 PM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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I do it every other two weeks or so.
Not sure how healthy that is.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: Deadkndys420]
#16734741 - 08/21/12 12:15 AM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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Id say no more than once a week.
Of course if you used once a week for years, you would be a very heavy user. But most people wont have the desire to use shrooms that often. In fact, most people wont need to worry about how often is too often because they simply wont have the desire to trip that much.
Only a very small % of mushroom users ends up absuing them and even those people, most of them eventually have a trip that causes them to cool off a bit. Would you guys agree?
Anyway, at my heaviest I was tripping twice a week (mushies and LSD) but that only lasted a month or two. Now I only trip a few times a year.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: Deviate]
#16735212 - 08/21/12 01:48 AM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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I would definitely agree with Deviate in that hardly any people end up having problems abusing mushrooms, and those are the people that are most infatuated with the psychedelic experience, and even those people don't have much of a problem with managing the amount of shrooms they ingest. It's mostly because when you start tripping that heavily, it is extremely mentally exhausting and you will most likely start becoming concerned with your mental health, for good reason, and thats when almost everyone will know to take a break.
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Re: How often do you think it's healthy to take shrooms? [Re: iamconfused]
#16735235 - 08/21/12 01:53 AM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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iamconfused said:
OK, so I finally had my first experience with shrooms. Prior to shrooms, my only true psychedelic experiences were from abusing DXM and smoking salvia when I was a dumb teenager. However, I never found DXM to be very introspective (although opinions vary on that), and for me salvia was both too brief and too overwhelming - I never got the psychedelic experience I was looking for from either. Well, I guess I also took MDMA a few times, but it didn't wcwb compare to what DXM and salvia could do from a hallucinatory perspective. I found it to be more of a sensual journey, although my perception of light and touch was always a bit skewed. And, yes, I have smoked a lot of weed, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, shrooms gave me what I was looking for. I had a revelatory, life-affirming trip. I learned many truths, and how to really believe. I felt like a kid again in many ways. I could see the world as it truly was, without all the bullshit descriptors and definitions we're taught to filer our thoughts through as adults. Oh, and I did finally learn what the Beatles meant with that line about "kaleidoscope eyes", and how to properly admire patterns.
So, yeah, after such a trip, I naturally want to take shrooms again. It sounds like fun. Why not trip a bunch? But then part of me thinks that shrooms should only be reserved for special occasions. I'm not sure if it's truly healthy mentally or spiritually to trip a bunch.
Am I worrying about nothing? What doth the Shroomery thinketh?
Every time i started tripping every weekend, I would start having bad trips every time, till i slowed down again.
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