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My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience?
#23889460 - 12/03/16 12:31 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Decided to go ahead and post my first shroom experience as it wasn't really what I was expecting and I'm curious to see if anyone has had similarities to my first time. A little background information about me, I'm a 20 year old female and have never done any other drugs except for cannabis, and kratom. I also deal with social anxiety (ties in with my trip).
I've researched shrooms quite a bit and have wanted to try them for the longest time, but never felt ready. Finally about a month ago I had the sudden urge to do it and ironically enough the perfect opportunity to try them with experienced friends got presented to me.
Through the research I did, I decided it was best to fast the whole day in order to prevent nausea (which worked, i got absolutely no nausea or stomach pain). After fasting for almost 24 hours I consumed around 2.5g of dried shrooms and ate them raw. 30-45 minutes in I began to feel very subtle effects. Mainly a sense of relaxation of my muscles, similar to the warm sensation you get after drinking a few alcoholic drinks. I also started to feel similar to being lightly stoned.
After a little over a hour, the ONLY psychedelic thing that happened to me were the letters on my phones keyboard would continually go from small to big, as well as my vision appeared to be slightly sharper. Heightened colours, waves, vibrations, etc., never happened throughout my trip. We decided to go for a walk at night, and thats where the fun began...
For starters, walking felt amazing, it literally felt like walking on clouds when we walked on grass. It also felt AMAZING to breathe in air, especially cold winter air, it felt like i could expand my lungs to full capacity without any resistance. I can't describe the feeling, but it was one of the best experiences/sensations I've ever felt. It almost felt like I didn't have a body, everything about me just felt so light and "floaty".
I'm definitely a introvert at heart and found myself wanting to distance myself from my friends, which concerned them, but I was all good, i found myself appreciating the moment and wanting to be completely alone.
Throughout the whole trip I felt like shrooms barely affected my cognition... which I find really odd as I've read plenty of other trip reports. My intellect and memory were not affected at all, I had zero thought loops or drastic thoughts, which again, surprised me from what I've read online. In saying that, I think it might be important to note that when sober I am EXTREMELY in my thoughts. I constantly have existential thoughts, and I am always thinking about "what ifs" and hypothetical situations (not sure if that has any role to play in why shrooms didnt affect my thought process in the way i expected).
What i did find shrooms did to me was quite the opposite of what I've read online, it PREVENTED me from thinking! I could not think about the past, nor could I think about the future. All I could think about was the present moment and how amazing and happy I felt. I was completely content with my life and everything around me. I have to say, being someone with anxiety, this was an amazing experience to have.
Other than that, I laughed. Alot. When we came back home we smoked weed and thats where my cognition/comprehension really got fucked up. I still couldn't think about the past or future, but weed definitely made my comprehension go to shit. It felt like those scenes in movies where everything around the person is in slow motion. My friends kept talking to me but I couldn't process barely anything they were saying. Still in a great mood, not nervous or anxious at all, still completely content.
And thats the way it ended, I went home after roughly 6 hours, still felt different but not necessarily high anymore. Although I will say shrooms made it impossible to sleep! It was the weirdest sensation ever, I was physically so tired as I had been up early that morning, but wide awake and energetic at the same time. And not being able to sleep wasn't due to racing thoughts, as I've stated previously, I still was not able to think about anything except the present moment. Finally passed out after a few hours, woke up the next day feeling extremely off (but not sick or anything bad) which lasted the next few days for me.
All in all, it was a GREAT experience. I am completely satisfied with what I got. I'm just curious as to why it didn't really seem like a psychedelic experience for me. I know 2.5 grams isn't necessarily much, but through what I've read it should of been a little more psychedelic then what it was, no?
If you've read this, thank you for taking the time to do so! Any (polite) thoughts are welcome
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: initiation]
#23890486 - 12/03/16 12:26 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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2.5 grams isn't too high a dose! It's a great time but not too "psychedelic" I would say.
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: initiation]
#23890559 - 12/03/16 12:53 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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i read on here that the active compound in mushrooms can vary widely from each mushroom, even from the same spawn. so 2.5 might be perfect for you in the beginning, but you just got slightly unlucky with the mushies. my cousin ate only a bit more than you and had a full blown out-of-body experience his first time :/ needless to say he did not enjoy it
but heck yeah sounds like a really enjoyable first trip! integrate it and go back in! i'd argue to stick with 2.5 or 3 g's maybe once or twice more so you have a wider range of experience to draw from when/if you decide to go deep.
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: zero123]
#23890664 - 12/03/16 01:26 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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To alleviate that issue I like to take all the shrooms from all the flushes from a single grow and ground them to a powder and mix the powder really well. You now have average potency powder! (Or get a monoculture going on agar)
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Edited by Tiamo (12/03/16 01:26 PM)
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: zero123]
#23891725 - 12/03/16 07:15 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn, yeah theres no way I would have been prepared for a full out of body experience my first time! Hopefully he got something out of it though. Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely start with 3 g's the next few times.
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: initiation]
#23892078 - 12/03/16 09:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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ehhhh actually he got nothing out of the trip. he's a very stubborn and pig-headed person with some pretty broken personality traits. racism and other such things.
not that we all don't have our own issues, but he's the type of person to think that he's never wrong and that there's certainly nothing about himself that he feels should change for the better.
i had to force my entire trip on the back burner in my head so that i could talk him through the terror that he was feeling. he thrashed around on the covers beside my bed, trying to fight against the mushrooms. i imagined him hovering in the corner of my room, staring down at his own body and frantically waiting for the time when he could finally float back inside.
before you go feeling bad for him, he walked through that door very willingly and quite cocky if i say so myself! i warned him at least 3 times that "dude, this is gonna be the strongest drug you've ever done so far. you need to go slow, cause you might be diving in the deep end when you're way better suited to splashing your feet ankle deep right now."
but nope, he ate the whole 3.5 with a shit-eating grin on his face. i kinda passed out as we watched a dumb movie, and he left. maybe 45 mins later, he comes to wake me up and begging for help. it's too much and he deeply regrets eating all of it.
we just laid there for about 2 hours, him still moving around under the blanket. i calmly talked to him. explained the limited history that i know of spiritual psychedelic use. reassured him that he was not trapped out of his body forever and had to give constant reminders of how long the trip lasts and when the worst would be over.
and THAT , i feel, is the type of person that should not eat psychedelics. maybe someday if he starts to open his mind up (for lack of a better phrase) but i doubt it strongly. he swore off mushrooms and the like forever.
i love him and would never wish him ill-will. i know that my opinion of him has no kind of value but wouldn't you say that we all have flaws that CAN and SHOULD be worked on to become the best version of a human we can be?
wow this was pretty long-winded, sorry! welcome to shroomery!
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: zero123]
#23892683 - 12/04/16 01:33 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow thats crazy. I made sure not to take too much my first time for the exact reason of a potential bad trip. Oh yeah i agree, we all should try to better ourselves. For me thats partly what life is about. It's unfortunate that people view it differenty but different opinions are cool too haha. No need to apologize, it was interesting and thank you!
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: initiation]
#23905144 - 12/07/16 09:01 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Try 2.5g of some good Azurescens next time.
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: initiation]
#23921593 - 12/13/16 02:44 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
initiation said: After a little over a hour, the ONLY psychedelic thing that happened to me were the letters on my phones keyboard would continually go from small to big, as well as my vision appeared to be slightly sharper. Heightened colours, waves, vibrations, etc., never happened throughout my trip. We decided to go for a walk at night, and thats where the fun began...
For starters, walking felt amazing, it literally felt like walking on clouds when we walked on grass. It also felt AMAZING to breathe in air, especially cold winter air, it felt like i could expand my lungs to full capacity without any resistance. I can't describe the feeling, but it was one of the best experiences/sensations I've ever felt. It almost felt like I didn't have a body, everything about me just felt so light and "floaty".
I'm definitely a introvert at heart and found myself wanting to distance myself from my friends, which concerned them, but I was all good, i found myself appreciating the moment and wanting to be completely alone.
Throughout the whole trip I felt like shrooms barely affected my cognition... which I find really odd as I've read plenty of other trip reports. My intellect and memory were not affected at all, I had zero thought loops or drastic thoughts, which again, surprised me from what I've read online. In saying that, I think it might be important to note that when sober I am EXTREMELY in my thoughts. I constantly have existential thoughts, and I am always thinking about "what ifs" and hypothetical situations (not sure if that has any role to play in why shrooms didnt affect my thought process in the way i expected).
What i did find shrooms did to me was quite the opposite of what I've read online, it PREVENTED me from thinking! I could not think about the past, nor could I think about the future. All I could think about was the present moment and how amazing and happy I felt. I was completely content with my life and everything around me. I have to say, being someone with anxiety, this was an amazing experience to have.
Other than that, I laughed. Alot. When we came back home we smoked weed and thats where my cognition/comprehension really got fucked up. I still couldn't think about the past or future, but weed definitely made my comprehension go to shit. It felt like those scenes in movies where everything around the person is in slow motion. My friends kept talking to me but I couldn't process barely anything they were saying. Still in a great mood, not nervous or anxious at all, still completely content.
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All in all, it was a GREAT experience. I am completely satisfied with what I got. I'm just curious as to why it didn't really seem like a psychedelic experience for me. I know 2.5 grams isn't necessarily much, but through what I've read it should of been a little more psychedelic then what it was, no?
If you've read this, thank you for taking the time to do so! Any (polite) thoughts are welcome 
I took the not important to my comment bits out. First off, I congratulate you on your first trip!
Secondly, I really just want to express that what you described here IS part of psychedelia. Feelings about your body changing, feelings about your mind changing, feeling like your anxiety melts away. That is all part of the psychedelic experience. You might have expected a more visual experience, but that's not always how mushrooms react with the human mind, especially at low doses. At higher doses you may see some of the phenomenon you're looking for, or you may not. It's fickle.
Next time, if you would like to take the same amount, try closing your eyes. You may be surprised at how visual it gets. Take a moment to meditate with the mushroom.
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Re: My first shroom experience (2.5g) was barely a psychedelic experience? [Re: GRAVE]
#23921983 - 12/13/16 09:02 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Well that makes alot of sense, thanks for clarifying that with me. I guess i just got caught up in other peoples experiences and expected something different. I will definitely try to see if i get closed eyed visuals next time, thank you for your advice
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