The Attendees Me: Had mushrooms about 10+ times between 2-4g per dose. Friend: Same as me, regular and best shroom journeying partner. Sitter: No 'drugs' at all, very quiet, passive, relaxed, non threatening, helpful and good close friend. Sat with me and friend [tripper] before on many occasions and my personal favourite sitter.
The Setting My friends house, no other people in the house, dim lighting, familiar house, secure, safe, warm comfortable location. Ideal setting. No 'parties/raves/festival' tripping for me. I like safety. lol
Pre-Consumption My friend and I had been chilling for an hour, smoked some weed [I hadn't smoke for 6 months+] and just talking waiting for the right time...
The dose After smoking, we went inside were we weighed up the dried shrooms [Golden Teacher, 3.1g each [scales to 0.01g]]. We always 'weigh the dose' and even had to go back to another friends has 20mins away before hand jut so we could.
Preparation My friend finely chopped the GT into micro chunks which we then mixed around and used that to weight the dose [ensuring we eac had an equal amount of stalk/head ratio].
He juiced 2 lemons while I weighed the dose. We then put the dose into some small tea cups before pouring in the lemon juice then filling to the top with boiling water, putting on a lid and allowing to sit before smoking another one.
Consumption My friend downed his quite quickly after adding some sugar, I had to refil with more boiling water to help dilute the strong acidy'ness of the lemon.
Waiting While we wait I decide to make another spliff to smoke and for something we do while we wait for things to kick in. I rolled a strong fat one and we went outside about 30mins later
30mins in After smoking the spliff, my friend said he was starting to feel it - and I was to, but only slightly stoned - like from a bong.
We went inside after and sat on the sofa, my friend fell asleep as he'd been travelling all day, I sat talking to our sitter [who is a FANTASTIC sitter]. I started getting a bit more trippy feeling but it was about 45 mins in at this point and was considering eating some more, maybe like another 1g or something. I didn't bother though because shortly after my sloughing on the sofa meant I was having that kind of lethargic body paralysis - can't be arsed to move - type thing.
My friend [Sitter] was talking to my while my other friend [Tripper] was sleeping and I was beginning to go through that 'antsy' stage, you know where your just trying to hang on in there while things begin to change. I decided to sit on to the floor as I always prefer tripping on the floor so as to be 'grounded' in a kind of cross legged meditative style position - but very lose and comfortable. My friend [Sitter] continued to talk to me and I was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain focus on what he was saying and rather focus on rhythmic movements to maintain a sense of self while observing the changing coloured moving carpet. He'd ask me if I was interest in 'x' film/tv show and I'd just be like, 'nope not interested' : 'why?' : 'too boring'. . lol
1:30 ish I was going through some temperature fluctuations with hot then cold, increased bloodflow to the hands and face, increased sweating of the hands and face.
One of my mental theories around this point [level 3 ish] was thinking how life is like a mushroom. That there is a sea of conciousness [the mycelium] and each human life is a node [pin/mushroom/abort] etc and when a family is made [my wife and children for example] it creates a lovely cluster of energy and growth. Like glowing entities - but not that single pins an issue of course.. and even bad people, everything fitted into this theory.. which I was pretty confident about at the time as an explanation of 'reality'.
At this point I was really 'hanging on in there' willing my friend to wake up - who I couldn't believe was actually sleeping. I wasn't sure if he was sleeping, trip dream / sleeping or dieing.. but either way, I felt it best to leave him be, but when I was some signs of life asked him if he wanted to come on the floor with me [help with the grounding ]. . he did and things really started to take off from there.
1:40 and onwards About 10 minutes after my friend work up, we got into 'the laughter zone'.. and I mentioned I'd heard about 'laughter being the highest form of medication/vibrational resonance'. . we proceeded down this 'road' of laughter meditative journey into what became an indescribable state of being. My friend and I both enjoyed the journeying 'down/up' into where this laughter takes you. If you've never fully explored the depths of this, please try it is incredible.
Eventually the insane laughter turned into the uncurling and peeling back of the layers and layers of reality. I try to describe this whenever I regain speech and encourage my friend to talk about what this is also and he described it as, 'like a lettuce, peeling back the layers' - while I describe it as 'irreducible' - 'the mind reducing everything down [layer by layer] the infinite of time and existence'.
I would also describe it as reality, unfolding being opened up infront of you continuously and where every event in time as a transitional phase in some parallel universe of infinite possibilities. . and where every effort to explain it, it itself proving the very existence of it..
Once we cam slightly from this infinite never ending reality of existance.. I reasoned that the only grounding element between mushroom and non mushroom people would be that non mushroomed people are aware of the flow of time and can log and track a steady path through the passage of time using their bodies and age and time and death as a measure of that passage of time.
4:50-5:30 By this time we had regained enough composure to talk more about what 'it is' and I personally find that by talking about 'it' and rekindling the flame so to speak, helps maintain the feeling / memory of what 'it' is.
I made one more spliff which we smoked outside before parting ways and going to bed for the night.
Overall a fantastic experience.
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