Young fella; 20 at the time, about 16 stone weight.

Hey guys, thought id share my experiences with ye as i consider myself to be a fairly seasoned picker/harvester of mushies, edible and hallucanagenic, which are in abbundence where i live in the west of ireland, well thirteen years is a bit any way.

Apart from dedicating quite a few mornings to picking and searching, i indulge from time to time, not too frequently, with a mild trip, usually about 50 - 100 small to medium sized shrooms, just for old times sake, but the majority i pick, i dry and sell, which is illegal here by the way, so dont tell any one :p

About 7 or 8 years ago, after a sucsessfull picking, my brother and i decided to arrange a house party for the crack. Tripping on mushrooms to us back then required several vital componants, tunes(rave music to all ye who don't know); toke and munchies. So i stuck my pan on the range, picked the grass out as best i could(country job!) bunged in the shrooms (about 4,500) and several litres of boiling water and got em cooking.

Mushroom tea in these parts is usually a disgusting concoction of dirt and scum, thrown in any old cup and guzzled down with a peg on your nose. But being the tea totaller perfectionist (yeah right) i am, i had developed a filtering system and made a rather splendid :D cup, that actually tastes quite nice.

About eight o'clock that evening the lads called over, mad for a few cups of eggys famous mushroom tea. Id say there was abot 10 or 12 of us at that stage so i poured them out, handed out the munchies (biscuits to go with the tea) and we all just carried on havin a laugh and doing all the usual things ya do in a house party. Thats untill they kicked in.

I dunno how it started, but one of the guys there decided he didnt get his fair share, so i poured out another cup. Then my brother felt he was short changed as well, so in a short space of time, my mate my bro and i downed another cup, then another then i think a fourth as well, and at that stage everyone there was beginning to trip so with everything going on i forget exactly, but after estimated about 650 - 700 shrooms each, which is about ten times as much as you need for a mild trip.

At first i felt flushed, like my blood was boiling, and felt sick so i sat down in the armchair and painstakingly skinned up a rather large cone which took me around 20 minutes i guess, just to take my mind off the blood boiling sensation. Then things really started happening, i heard a knock on the door, next thing my mate Karren stepped in, but as she walked over to me she seemed to leave a perfect tracer of herslf, best compared to the start of startrek, where the ship takes off and seems to stretch. At this moment i realised i was really peaking.

I looked at the tv, but even though i really cant fully describe how i saw it, i could see it from the inside out, every component, and how they fitted together and i felt at that moment like every thing in the universe had a funtion and i understood it. tbc.....(loads more)..........