Hi all- new to the boards here. I love tripping, I use MJ edibles a few times a month and have used LSD 5 times. Last night was my first mushroom experience. I purchased a mushroom chocolate bar, Polka Dot brand. The package stated it contained 4 grams. Also had dosing guidelines on the back: 1-4 squares: Microdose. 5-9: Mindful and elevated. 10-15: God mode. Walls may melt.
Well, why not go for god mode, I thought?
TW: Story contains vomit.
My whole goal with tripping is to have a very good, weird time. I am prone to very intense visuals, even on weed, weird thoughts, weird experiences. And I generally like to watch some trippy movies or just play with stuff in the house.
So I ate the bar, on an empty stomach to try and avoid nausea (which would have been more effective, I'm sure, if I didn't also you know eat an entire chocolate bar.........but we'll get to that.)
There was almost no wait. I started to feel a sort of buzz in my mind while I was only halfway through the bar. Which didn't taste bad, I did taste the mushroom but it reminded me of Hazlenut. I had honestly been a little afraid, especially after searching the brand and finding it for sale but also finding the wrappers for sale, that it might be a scam and have nothing in it. Or worse, weed, which would be worse because I was eating the whole thing.
So I sat on my couch and tried to watch some live concert videos from Tarot, which is one of my favorite ways to ease into a weed experience. I realized very quickly I couldn't do it, I couldn't look at people. They didn't look real anymore. So I asked my husband to put on Alice in wonderland for me.
I sat on my couch, looking at my ceiling and then it started to come down around me. The peak of the ceiling warped and the support beams curved and the cobwebs turned to intricate little patterns. Below that the air turned to this moving, swirling net of neon green but not too saturated, and my fireplace curved and my whole house took on a warm, comforting feeling that reminded me of seriously being in the white rabbit's house or another disney-esque cottage. I didn't really pay attention to the movie but it was creating a nice vibe so I asked him to just keep playing it over and over in the background.
I only got maybe 20 minutes in when I felt my mouth watering intensely and yelled "I'm gonna throw up." And he helped me rush to the bathroom. I could still walk unaided which was good. I can not walk on high doses of edibles. That fucking sucked, and I felt like I couldn't breathe and begged him not to leave until I could figure out how to clear my mouth and nose.
Props to that man for being such a good trip sitter. I wish I could say I felt okay after that but I did not. I didn't feel nauseous but I did feel really uncomfortable in my throat and mouth and core muscles, which has been a common, but annoying, theme that's occured to some extent with both LSD and high doses of edibles. I felt like I was freezing but every time I took my blanket and robe off I felt less cold so I was probably actually too warm and sweating.
The only thing that helped was water through a plastic straw and paper towels. At one point, as I'm exploring this woodland cottage that I am now inside with my eyes, I'm pouring water over paper towels and rubbing them over my face and hands and also spitting onto them. I must have gone through half a roll. I had to change clothes twice, once to get the vomit off and a second time because I was soaked from pouring water on paper towels.
There was some weird frenzy where I was trying to find the PJ pants I wanted and I was just tossing clothes around the bedroom saying "it's fine, it's fine, it's fine this is fine"
At some point I was handed a cup of tea with lemon and honey. I don't know if it actually helped or it just helped because he said it would, but does that matter? I thought of this, then, and realized I can make anything I want happen right now. All I had to do was take my mind off the discomfort and onto something else. So I drank the tea and my stomach calmed. That was when I got on the floor and started crawling around playing with my dogs and cats. Animals are the best when you're high. Looking into their eyes and finding it so, so neat that they are these little lives that you really know nothing about apart from that they choose to exist alongside you. Not to mention the texture, the fur, the beauty.
By the three hour mark, yes really only 3 hours. I was laying under my coffee table admiring the woodwork when I realized that I am exactly where I want to be in my life. How many people take mushrooms and realize *that* as their profound thought? I've had a lot more happen on LSD, but as I said I wasn't looking for anything other than a good time.
My husband reminded me that it's been 3 hours and several cups of liquid and I should try to go pee. I did. My bathroom tiles turned all psychedelic. Melting walls, indeed. When I got out he was outside with a dog and I went outside too. He tried to tell me no (my rules, set before hand.) and I asked to just lay on the deck for a while. I said give me 5 minutes. Those 5 minutes were so beautiful. I was laying on the deck admiring the old weathered wood and some leaves and flowers and a couple animals and the birds that were fluttering around the old dead tree. I felt like I could stay there forever, but it was really cold so I let him bring me back inside.
From there it started to come down. At some point I gathered up everything I had taken off and put it in the laundry. It had only been 4 hours since the onset, maybe it would have been longer if I hadn't vomited most of it. Now, with both weed and LSD, I'm accustomed to staying high until I pass out. So coming down and just feeling normal again was incredibly weird. It was only 7pm.
So....review? Different. Amazing. If/when I do this again I may try the lemon thing with some actual mushrooms and also have some kind of anti nausea medicine on hand. Because being sick once is whatever but it would have been nice to stop feeling awful after that. But the stomach/throat thing didn't get in the way of how amazing the rest was. It gave me the feeling of going to Six Flags Great Escape and exploring the old Storytown part. Summary? First mushroom trip turned my house and life into Alice in Wonderland for several hours and it was amazing. I really could not have asked for a better theme and I'm so glad my brain chose it.
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