My first mushroom experience was really incredible. I had read a lot about the whole subject - including here on the Shroomery - and figured I was pretty prepared for it. My friend A. had tried them once before and he had told me all about his trip, so I felt I was pretty prepared.
What made the trip strange was that it was my first trip and I didn't have a guide! If I knew then what I know now, about the power of these things, I wouldn't have tried this, but fortunately I didn't, ignorance was bliss, and everything went fine :-) I had a long-distance guide in a sense - A. lived in St. Louis and I lived in Atlanta. We were chatting over ICQ and I mentioned the 2 G's of mazatapec that he had brought me last time I saw him. All at once we decided I'd do them that day, and that he'd "guide" me over chat. LOL. Anyway I was still living with my parents at the time, and my dad was home - DEFINITELY another thing I wouldn't do if I knew more then. But, all went well.
I took the 2 G's Mazatepec at about 11:30 AM or so. Continued to chat with him for a full hour. Absolutely nothing. I felt really disappointed, like it wouldn't work for me. I told him I wanted to take a break from the chat to have some lunch. I told him I'd be back in an hour. I went over, made a sandwich, sat at the table with my dad who was also eating, and started eating and watching TV. Somewhere near the end of the meal, I started noticing that some colors were more vibrant on the TV than I'd ever seen :-) I knew this was the beginning. I finished very quickly and went back to chat. A. was there, and I explained to him how I was feeling. He told me this was it :-)
I continued chatting for a while, and I rapidly ascended. What was strange was that for a few minutes I experienced a *major* time dilation, even thought the rest of the trip I really didn't have much time dilation at all. For a few minutes during the chat, it seemed like I'd type something and then it seemed like literally MINUTES till his reply came (A types extremely quickly) and it seemed like I always knew what he was going to say, down to the word, before it came on the screen. That was strange. We came to the conclusion together that I felt in control and was safe to "go out into the world" as he said it, and leave the chat behind, to experience stuff. So I bade him goodbye and we set a time when I would rejoin him, when I was landing.
I went out on the net and looked at a lot of psychedelic art, which really blew me away. At one point my dad came through and went into the laundry room, then at what seemed like an hour later (after I forgot he even lived in the same house) he came back out of the laundry room :-) That seemed funny to me at the time. Ya know.
Anyway, I spent the trip in about 3 different places - sitting at the computer looking at art and listening to music (Pink Floyd) thru headphones, outside in the back yard wandering around looking at trees and talking to the neighbor's dog, or out front wandering around the front yard. I felt like I was seeing everything for the first time, and I gained a real appreciation for nature that endures to this day. I felt the trees were trying to communicate something to me, and I felt a closeness to the plants and trees, and that dog, that I found really amazing. It was definitely a spiritual adventure. The thought that there was a God of some kind seemed obvious during the trip.
When I listened to the music, that was fun too. I had a strange perception/idea that I could somehow "travel through" the music - to where I don't know :-). Also, when I went outside the music continued to play in the headphones at the computer inside, and I could "hear" the music still playing in my head (it was Dark Side of the Moon, which I'd heard hundreds of times) and when I went back in, the CD was pretty much where the music in my head told me it was.
There were myriad little other details, as anyone who has experienced these things can understand, but what stands out for me was *mainly* a real appreciation for nature, and a new state of being determined to "see more" and to appreciate more of life in the moment, which is still with me (this first trip was in the fall of 1999).
I touched base with A. at the designated time, and told him all about it. He was happy to hear that all was well.
I remember that right near the very end, when I was basically landed, I took a shower and changed clothes, and in the shower reflected that this was some kind of new chapter in my life, and that I had just opened a door for myself, or more accurately took a step on a path, where I realized I could understand a lot about myself and the world.
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---- Cantara
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