Yesterday I tried eating psychedelic mushrooms for the first time. The experience was euphoric, familiar, eye-opening, beautiful, and blissful at times.
I ate 2 dried grams of psilocybe cubensis. My other friends ate 1, 2, and 3 grams, respectively. My friend who at 2 grams is considered, by our group, to be an experienced psychonaut, and we were considerably confident that he would be able to help us understand and enjoy the experience. which he did.
About 20 minutes after the initial ingestion, I started feeling something. At this point, my body started feeling lighter and I noticed my arms began to feel strange as if they didn't belong 'there'.
The first 30 - 40 minutes were mostly occupied by shifts in the way my body feels, how wavy, heavy, or light it felt.
The next thing I noticed, in terms of my reality being altered, was that colors began to intensify like someone had turned up the contrast of reality. This became apparent about 40 - 60 minutes after initial ingestion.
Now we were in the spa. We were at my friend's parents' house while his parents were on vacation and we decided to use their spa. In the water I felt very relaxed and calm, more so then I've felt in years. It felt very similar to how I've felt in meditation. Labels started melting away as if I was seeing things for the first time in my life. Objects, trees, everything was perceived with a childlike, virgin perspective.
At this point, about 2 hours into the trip, I felt like a child. I felt like I was my inner child again. That I was living as the child that is always inside of me (this part is hard to explain).
Feelings of connectedness to other people and the universe also became more intense and, in a sense, obvious. Thoughts and feelings expressed 'why are people ever angry at each other', 'this is just a game', 'just go with the flow', 'life is for fun'. I felt a very motherly love coming from the universe to me and flowing out of me towards the universe.
We were in the spa for at least 4 hours, where we would laugh, describe our experience, and relax deeply. While we expected to have our minds blown and our realities shifted, we were still surprised, confused, and awestruck by the actual nature of it. It was not what we expected, at least for the 3 of us who had never tried psychedelics before.
After being in the spa for a good while, we found ourselves around a table outside about to smoke a joint. I've smoked a lot of marijuana in my life and it seemed natural to couple weed with psychedelics as I've coupled weed with any other psychoactive substance I've ever ingested in the past.
After the first couple of hits, I started feeling very high. The feeling became very intense, very rapidly, and I started feeling overwhelmed. I've felt this exact feeling before and I knew what was happening. Even as I was drifting, I was very aware of what was happening. This was the classic shock that sometimes occurs when smoking weed. Some people call it a nicotine shock, explaining that not all of the nicotine in the tobacco has been evaporated and that it's basically an overdose of nicotine. I don't know what actually happens, but I've tried it many times and because of that, I knew how to deal with it. The very start of this 'shock' was nothing more than 'smoking too much weed'. The struggle of trying to be ok while feeling intense overwhelming discomfort, light-headedness, and cold sweats, became too much and I felt that I needed to lie down. Immediately after standing up in this condition, I knew that I was going to pass out if didn't sit back down, which I then did.
When we had been in the spa I had tried closing my eyes and I remember not being surprised by it. What I saw was slightly more significant then what I would usually see by closing my eyes and applying pressure to them. Now, however, as I was collapsed onto the table, shifting around in discomfort, I was tripping.
Exactly what I saw is hard to describe, but still vivid enough that I could animate exactly what I saw (if I could animate). I was shown objects that shifted in and out of form. I saw objects in their full form and then I would be zoomed in, to see the building blocks. I would see small orbs as information in a grid, describing the full nature of the object. It was exactly like the trip simulations you can watch on youtube.
At a point, I realized that by chanting words in my mind, such as 'love, friendly, and calm' I completely changed the situation. By saying these words, their meaning manifested in every way you can imagine. Now, instead of enduring, I was calm, happy, and extremely fascinated. I was just looking at whatever was happening and it was beautiful. Eventually, I felt it fade away and I knew it was time to open my eyes. there was no more to see.
This was more or less the end of my trip. in the hours to come, I was mostly tired and stoned.
Feel free to ask me anything as I'm trying to express my experience in order to understand and internalize.
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Hey rebirthing,
Thank you for sharing what sounds like an amazing, if not slightly underwhelming trip. There are some classics in there.
The feeling of wanting to faint is commonly reported, and it tends to be as a result,of low blood pressure. I often get it when I’ve managed to drag myself to the loo for another wee! The wee takes so long to come out, even though I’m bursting, I often start to feel woozy and like I’m swaying. Sometimes you just have to sit back down, or even lie down on the floor 
The other classic is how the cannabis potentiated the trip. This too is very common, and I would encourage caution when mixing the two. Don’t get me wrong, I have used mushrooms and cannabis together for years, and the way they work together enhances both exponentially. You just have to be careful and know when enough is enough.
Sometimes I’ve had to put a joint down then wait for 5 minutes with head in hands before “coming up for air”. It can be overwhelming.,and sometimes, when I ve reached the peak and hit that plateau; I’ll smoke some cannabis, then all of a sudden the peak starts increasing again. This can be very unpleasant!
These days, I try to wait until the peak is very clearly waning, ie beyond the plateau. I find if I get the amount just right, and not too much, the cannabis will bring back the peak for up to an hour. The next joint will work for about 30 minutes. After tha t there is no effect.
And the other classic thing you noted was the visuals. Cannabis makes the visuals go absolutely wild. And in particular, if you’ve taken enough mushrooms, the open eye visuals are insane; fractals stretching back to infinity,chunks of the sky just tearing open,mind chunks of reality just disappearing, you look like a complete stranger in the mirror (careful with this one on cannabis, it can really freak you out).
All good fun,and helps take you further into an trip, once you know what you’re doing. But you also need to start upping your dose from 2g for a full psychedelic experience.
Take care DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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No it was me that wasn’t clear! Nd I did think about this when replying, I was just being lazy! Well anyway, to be clear, I should have said: if you have taken enough mushrooms to have OEVs, then smoking cannabis just makes it much stronger and brings things to life. Seriously. It can be overwhelming for some people, so take it slow.
If you do overdo it, just sit there for 5 minutes quiet, head in hands, and breath. You’ll come down quickly that way.
Take care DJ Ed
-------------------- “It’s like when you see a mountain lion,” he suggested. “If you run, it will chase you. So you must stand your ground.” Michael Pollan: How To Change Your Mind “The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer.” Terence McKenna

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Rebirthing said: Labels started melting away as if I was seeing things for the first time in my life. Objects, trees, everything was perceived with a childlike, virgin perspective.
At this point, about 2 hours into the trip, I felt like a child. I felt like I was my inner child again. That I was living as the child that is always inside of me (this part is hard to explain).
Feelings of connectedness to other people and the universe also became more intense and, in a sense, obvious. Thoughts and feelings expressed 'why are people ever angry at each other', 'this is just a game', 'just go with the flow', 'life is for fun'. I felt a very motherly love coming from the universe to me and flowing out of me towards the universe.
I can totally relate to what you've said here. I did my first mushroom trip just under a week ago, and I felt exactly what you just described here. I'm one who can be prone to anxiety and overthinking, and was worried that that would affect my trip, but the opposite happened - the trip showed me just what life can be like when we remove the filter. I laughed like a child, at nothing at all. It occurred to me in that moment that I need to stop taking everything so seriously. That life is just a game, and it's meant to be fun.
It was not what I expected a trip to be like at all. I saw loads of visuals, but what really struck me was just how 'fun' the whole thing was. I was expecting something more 'spacey' or 'dark'.
I took my second trip last night (1.5g subaeruginosa) in lemon tek (probably the equivalent of about 3.5g of cubes eaten normally) and that one was a lot more like I expected the first to be.
The second time around, the 'fun' aspect wasn't there anywhere near as strong - you may find the same thing when you next trip.
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