I just remember one of the best mushroom trips I've ever had just happen to be in the middle of an epic storm. It was a few years ago and my friend had just got some fresh mushies to take to a music festival. Between me and my friend about 5.5 mostly dried each.
The venue is in the Ozark mountains. Many of the festival-campgrounds somewhere aside this giant hill they have built their festival grounds around. Before the event even started it had stormed resulting in a torrential downpour the night before. Several of the campgrounds got flooded and became to wet and muddy to actually camp there. Around that area there are many year-round recreational campgrounds, a few being five or ten miles up the road from the festival.
Needless to say we had to migrate to one of those campgrounds because of the weather. Not that it was that bad, they provided shuttles but it was a 20 minute drive riding in a school bus up a narrow windy incline on the side of a mountain.
Well we had waited until the second day to eat the mushrooms. The second day ending early due to severe thunderstorms again. The entire weekend the main part of the grounds, where the stages were, had mud up and past your ankles. People were literally walking through a swamp. Not soon after we had eaten the mushrooms were bands being canceled due to weather. So we decided to head back to the campsite. By the time we had gotten to the shuttle location I was coming up so hard I could barley see. At one point I even lost my vision due to a burst visuals that left me more or less blind to the outside world for ten to fifteen minutes. Riding down that long narrow-winding road in a full-length school-bus (no seat belts) on a brain full of fungus is frightening to say the least. Finally arriving back to where we pitched our tent the storm was gearing into full swing and so where the mushrooms.
Our shitty tent skills led to our tent wailing in the gusts of wind. We had managed to grab it and all the steaks but were to lost to attempt try to put it back up under those conditions. We just threw it in the car and jumped in to wait out the storm. We had a wonderful view of the mountainscape with an elegant lighting storm that danced off in the distant night-sky. The rain streaming down the windshield had suddenly come to life with intricate mushroom designs twirling across the colliding water drops in blue and purple hues. Glowing and filled with even further design that intertwined, grew, and changed. The trees were radiating different colors and changing shapes, every tree even the ones miles off in the distance. All with random bolts of lightning lighting everything up every few seconds.
Best mushroom trip for sure. You can just feel the intense presence of nature during a storm. I defiantly suggest it if you happen to get the chance to do so, just make sure you're safe.
-------------------- Story teller makes no choice, Soon you will not hear his voice.His job is to shed light and not to master.
Edited by Lee (09/03/15 02:24 AM)
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