Saturday was my 10th time tripping on boomers. I've done acid about a dozen times as well...all of this occurring over the past 2 years. My connect hooked me up with an ounce of decent 'shrooms (no idea what specific strain they are, but I've used him as my connect for the past 2 years with zero problems.) A month ago I tripped with my wife. She did 4 grams via a tea prep. I did 6 grams by powdering the shrooms in a magic bullet blender and adding the juice from 2 lemons and a lime. I blended the mixture, adding a bit of OJ, and put it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes I add more OJ, blended again, and slammed it down. It was kind of like drinking a glass of vomit, texture-wise. But the taste wasn't terrible. About 2 hours before I drank the mixture I took 1600mg of Piracetam, and 400mg of Choline. I just wanted to see if it would have any affect on the trip itself.
Great visuals during that trip. I was able to get a bit of writing in before I got bored and wanted to go outside. Spent a large portion of the trip just walking around the yard, staring into the woods, looking at flowers, being blown away by how cool bumble bees looked. Birds would fly by trailing rainbow tracers. Soft edged geometric patterns filled the sky. I alternated between listening to music via headphones, and listening to it on our home theater system. Both were amazing. At the peak of the trip I picked up a guitar, something I haven't played in 20 years, and was able to remember pentatonic blues scales, chords, and songs I thought I had completely forgotten about. My wife was blown away by that...as was I.
Anyway, as I said earlier, that was a great trip. No dark spirals, almost no nausea. However, when I came down I couldn't help but feel I hadn't really pushed the barriers much. It felt like I came close to a real breakthrough / spiritual experience, but didn't quite make it. So this past weekend, I thought I'd give it another try, but with an increased dosage.
I did the same amount of Piracetam and Choline, and I prepared the shrooms in the same way (Lemon Tek). The only difference this time being the amount...11 grams vs. 6 grams.
The trip started well. Spent some time looking at the iTunes visualizer while listening to my trip list. It didn't take long for the visualizer to start bugging me though. It just felt, I dunno, too busy? This was in the home theater, watching it on my 110" Stewart StudioTek 130. I turned away from the screen and faced the back of the couch, just laying on my side and listening to the music. This part was very enjoyable.
After about an hour or two of that, I suddenly felt very sick. I tried to stand up but my legs were having none of that nonsense. So I crawled to the bathroom and tried to throw up, but nothing was coming out. I called out to my wife and she suggested I try sitting outside. Felt like a good idea. Some fresh air sounded great. I sat on the side patio just looking up at the sky, trying to will the nausea away, but it wasn't going anywhere.
I spent the longest two hours of my life writhing on the patio feeling like I was going to throw up at any second, but never did. To make it worse, it felt like someone had turned by brain to the static channel. And when I wasn't being slammed with the equivalent of psychic feedback, I was being bombarded with random images and thoughts cycling through my head at what felt like an impossibly fast rate of speed.
I couldn't shake the thought that I was teetering on the edge of insanity....for 2 hours. Might as well have been 2 weeks as my perception of time no longer worked. I dumped a few glasses of water on my head, and asked my wife to spray me with the garden hose to see if it could snap me out of it. It didn't.
After I dried off a bit, I stumbled back into the home theater room and turned off the music, thinking maybe total silence would help, and it did to a certain degree. I spent another hour laying on the couch willing my thoughts to slow down, and hoping that I hadn't done irreparable harm to myself.
Eventually I was able to function again and made my way upstairs. The rest of the trip was quite enjoyable. I spent time playing the guitar again. Watched The Sorcerers Apprentice (highly recommend you check it out while tripping), and walked around the yard in the dark spinning LED poi. I was still tripping pretty hard when I went to bed, crazy images were flashing through the darkness and eventually I drifted off to sleep.
I took the shrooms at 4PM and it was probably close to 5AM by the time I drifted off to sleep. Felt great the next day...but man, those 2-3 hours in the middle of the trip sucked balls. Next time I'll try 7 grams. But I think my cutoff is going to be 8 or 9 grams so I can hopefully avoid a repeat of the worst part of Saturday's trip.
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