Well certain sexual experiences with my GF(current) 3 grams of cubes and 9 grams of syrian rue. I think I wrote some of that fabulous, hilarious time down, I want to read it again.
A time I did huge gobs of cyan mushrooms, at least 30 adult shrooms, and then handfuls more of broken bits and stems. Not only did I have a VERY intense trip, at one point I closed my eyes, and something with a blue face, that seemed immense, something as big as the sun if I were up close, and old looking face, (stereotypical wizard-ish face of an old man) Looked at me, and said.....
"your not ready for this, and shook its head back and forth vigorously, and smokey blue trailed from its face as it shook back and forth(this giant blue head) screaming at me. The rest of the trip was VERY intense to , I should write it down someday.
However, as profound as other experiences have been, almost dieing last summer, that takes the cake , and that I did write about.....
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So I figured I would post what I consider to be an interesting story for everyone here to read, this day has had a profound impact on me, some of it good, some of it bad. Either way, its interesting....
So here in BC we have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, so one fine beautiful BC day, 4 friends and I decided we would head out to one of our towns most amazing spots.
Let me try and describe it, at the end of the road there is a trail, and this trail takes you to a river, but not just any river, there are massive trees along each side, and when I say massive I mean huge trees 100's of years old, when I first arrived, it took my breath away, the trees, the river, the huge amounts of slate that could just be smashed off the sides of this vein of the earth were amazing.
I was picking fossils out of the side of the rocks  It was quite neat.
I wanted to stay there for awhile longer, we were only there about 20 minutes.
But we were on our way to an even "better" spot I was told. So to get to our destination we had to navigate the river and its choppy waters, which wasn't all that hard, we spent allot of time just following each other across rocks, and through water.
We saw little caves everywhere, and if you have never been to BC or the PNW, it might be hard to imagine how COOL this river and the surrounding area was, but its your classic untouched PNW forest. Huge slabs of rock just laying in the water, little caves, etc, words cannot describe it fully, (so I messaged a friend and told him to send a pic)
So we get to a set of waterfalls, one little one, which of course comes with its own little pool, and then the water drains over the side into the bigger pool.
And to get where we are going we have to jump, so everyone except one friend jumps, and now its my turn, I don't swim very well, and it had been awhile since I had even tried, but after some encouragement , I jumped, and came out of the first little waterfall, stood on the rock edge, and felt pretty damn alive.
so for the next jump I asked a friend to be close to help me out if I neeeded it, but after the first jump, I figured I should be fine, and then my friend said "I'm getting fucking cold down here man, shit".
So I hesitate a little and then jump............
I break the water pretty well, and go down quite deep,then...
Panic sets in, I was not ready for how deep this was going to be, and the light is fading from my eyes, FAST, I struggle and flail my limbs in wild motions, trying to get to the surface, I see some light coming up, I swim harder, break the surface, and quickly for a second, I hear my friends yelling, but I can barely make out what they are saying , they seem very worried, and then its back down into the cold dark water 
The next time I feel anything its a friends arm, they are helping me up, I'm going to be saved?
Nope, I'm dragging us both down, then this happens again, and again  This goes on for quite sometime, later I would find out, that I dragged 2 friends down several times.
So during one of these times that a friend is trying to help me, and I end up dragging him down, he lifts me above the water a bit, and punches me, right in the face, and quite hard, and its back under I go!! 
The next thing I know I am above water again, my heavy set friend is having trouble holding onto a little tiny piece of flat rock, thats attached to a very steep rock face.
Both his index and middle fingers are placed in a little nook ,and they are holding his heavy body, and my, weak as a kitten, average sized body up with his fingers. I just have no strength left. "grab the rock.................. grab the rock................. grab the rock!!" He keeps screaming, and I know I have to try, but I cant, my arms and legs are weak, I feel like I am just going to roll out of his arms and sink, and I feel very lightheaded. I'm spitting out water, and I really cant breathe, I try, but my breath is so weak I can barely maintain it. "grab the rock!!" "I'm trying" I whimper as I cough up huge amounts of water. I have my arms laying on top of his at this point, and I make a feeble attempt to grab on, I miss, and begin to slip. I cant stress enough, how weak I felt, after losing all that oxygen.
Finally, I do grab on,..... Now we have to get to another little ledge, one we can sit on, so we swim, sorta like one, well , if I was 1/4 of one 
We make it to the ledge, and we both need to sit and relax. I cough out water for what seems like 10 minutes, then I shake out of panic and fear for about 20 more minutes. 
now all we have to do is swim across the deepest part of the water , but this time, my friends have a plan.
They get a giant piece of bark, swim it over, and I use this to cross, with one friend on either side, and this point, we were just glad to be alive, and they had a bit of fun with me, they were like "kick mother fucker, kick those legs come on" Meanwhile one friend that was standing in the shallow end kept yelling stuff like "just 20 more feet, come on , kick those fucking legs bro!" 
Once we were all in the shallow end, I calmed down a great deal, and actually later that night, I felt so LUCKY to be alive, and I still do. One really weird thing has happened since then, sometimes when I rub my fingers together, I think of dead skin, and being dead etc, and drowning, and I freaks me out.
I don't know how I get these powerful images and feelings , but I do. I don't mind thinking about how I drowned, nearly as much as the weird , hard to describe feeling I get when I rub my fingers together. (sometimes)
My hands are dry, they see lots of soap and iso  But my skin isnt dead, obviously, yet now and then, i feel like it is for a short time, and let me tell you, its pretty fucking creepy.  Some of my friends asked the obvious question, why did you jump at all? I dont know, it was dumb as fuck, I can barely swim, and I wasn't depressed, I did feel some,pressure from my friends, but not much.
After the first jump there was no turning back, so I guess I should have just stayed up there.
Since that day I had not spoken the friend that saved my life, we don't know each other very well, in fact he is more of (or was) a friend of a friend.
However, the other day when I thanked him, he cried a little, he was at the bar, and he obviously was a little embarrassed, and just said things like "its cool man, I couldn't leave you down there"
I tried to leave him with the impression that no cash or gift will make up for what he did, although I will be giving him gifts 
Anyway, it felt good to write this out, has something like this ever happened to you??? What about weird psychological shit, like my dead skin problem?
I am very happy to be alive, but sometimes when I think about the experience, its like I am back there, and I lose the air in my lungs for a second at the worst times, other times I just see all the colour variation as I moved from the waterfalls surface, to the bottom. Its scary.
I haven't done any psychedelics since about this time last year, it was this summer that I drowned, but I am hoping it doesn't have any negative effects on my trip coming up, I want to sample the latest 's but I sure as hell don't want to feel as if I am drowning, or that all my skin is dead. 
Thanks for reading this, just getting it out there makes me feel better, writing did feel kinda crappy at certain points, but now that its done, I feel good.
Edited by Psilocybeingzz (01/12/07 12:35 AM)
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