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Siekoaktiv
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How to explain how shrooms work to a friend...
#7052421 - 06/16/07 10:08 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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It seems like I'm always hearing (especially from people who actually do them) about how shrooms make your brain bleed, or how the chemicals make your brain have an allergic reaction and that's why you trip, or some other stupid myth. I sort of know how psilocybin works, and how it's pretty much not harmful at all, and it DOESN'T make your brain rot... but how can I explain it to someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, WITHOUT using complex terms like "neurotransmitter" or "serotonin", etc.?
-------------------- I'm in need of a sterile sporeprint, if anyone wants to do a trade for some seeds or something, or maybe just for free if you have a lot of them............. i'd really appreciate it NuggetPorch said - "YES! YES!!!! Coaster its Faint, but its fucking there YOU see it!!! Perhaps we are both on some sort of unusual wave length associated with unusual neuro-transmitters, mind expansion white light, or something we can not even begin to understand or fathom to conceive because it is a gift of insight or a curse given to us by powers beyond our control, something we are not meant to know."
Edited by Siekoaktiv (06/16/07 10:19 AM)
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Jon

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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Siekoaktiv]
#7052428 - 06/16/07 10:13 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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It replaces the hormone that lets you see normally in the gland that allows vision (serotonin I think) with psilocybin, the unfamiliar neuro transmission causes the user to be confused and dazed until the psilocybin is completely metabolized and until the gland has reconstituted to its normal state of serotonin neurotransmission (the one we are all very used to) By the way I have no clue if any of this is true.
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GreenScreen
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Jon]
#7052437 - 06/16/07 10:21 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Straight from the mushroom FAQ http://www.shroomery.org/8753/How-do-shrooms-work-very-simplified
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In very, very simple terms... The brain is made up of billions of neurons (brain cells). Each neuron is 'connected' to thousands of other neurons. The neurons take input from all of their neighboring neurons, and if the input is enough they 'fire' sending an output to all of their neighboring neurons. This process leads to thought, cognition, etc... (Very simplified)
There is space between the neurons. When you take a drug, the drug gets into the spaces between the neurons and alters how/when the neuron fires. (Very simplified)
The neurons have receptors, which are a lot like a keyhole. Think of a drug as a key. The drug usually only effects a neuron if it fits into one of the neurons receptors.
A tryptamine has a shape very similar to serotonin. Because of this, it will fit into the same 'keyhole' that serotonin fits into... but because the tryptamine shape is a bit different, the effects are different.
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Jon]
#7052516 - 06/16/07 11:13 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jon said: It replaces the hormone that lets you see normally in the gland that allows vision (serotonin I think) with psilocybin, the unfamiliar neuro transmission causes the user to be confused and dazed until the psilocybin is completely metabolized and until the gland has reconstituted to its normal state of serotonin neurotransmission (the one we are all very used to) By the way I have no clue if any of this is true.
PLZ stop with the BS immediately, you have everything absolutely wrong except that it has to do with serotonin, but then you called that a hormone so I'd just smarten the hell up if I where you.
Also the original poster specifically asked:
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WITHOUT using complex terms like "neurotransmitter" or "serotonin", etc.?
Siekoaktiv: GreenScreen has explained it as simple as it gets if you want the explanation to in any way reflect reality.
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Siekoaktiv
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: GreenScreen]
#7052600 - 06/16/07 11:58 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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GreenScreen said: Straight from the mushroom FAQ http://www.shroomery.org/8753/How-do-shrooms-work-very-simplified
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In very, very simple terms... The brain is made up of billions of neurons (brain cells). Each neuron is 'connected' to thousands of other neurons. The neurons take input from all of their neighboring neurons, and if the input is enough they 'fire' sending an output to all of their neighboring neurons. This process leads to thought, cognition, etc... (Very simplified)
There is space between the neurons. When you take a drug, the drug gets into the spaces between the neurons and alters how/when the neuron fires. (Very simplified)
The neurons have receptors, which are a lot like a keyhole. Think of a drug as a key. The drug usually only effects a neuron if it fits into one of the neurons receptors.
A tryptamine has a shape very similar to serotonin. Because of this, it will fit into the same 'keyhole' that serotonin fits into... but because the tryptamine shape is a bit different, the effects are different.
Thanks! This is just what I was looking for! Hopefully now I can help end the stupid myths that surround shroom use...
-------------------- I'm in need of a sterile sporeprint, if anyone wants to do a trade for some seeds or something, or maybe just for free if you have a lot of them............. i'd really appreciate it NuggetPorch said - "YES! YES!!!! Coaster its Faint, but its fucking there YOU see it!!! Perhaps we are both on some sort of unusual wave length associated with unusual neuro-transmitters, mind expansion white light, or something we can not even begin to understand or fathom to conceive because it is a gift of insight or a curse given to us by powers beyond our control, something we are not meant to know."
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Nalim
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Siekoaktiv]
#7052612 - 06/16/07 12:04 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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That is an honorable thing to do indeed.
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Seventy
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Nalim]
#7052829 - 06/16/07 01:26 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Please, do all you can to convince people that shrooms do notmake your brain bleed.
Everyone here should play their part and kill that myth as much as they can.
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Re: How to explain how shrooms work to a friend... [Re: Seventy]
#7052867 - 06/16/07 01:37 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I don't even know anybody who thinks that. I'm very disturbed that this idea is apparently so prevalent. How stupid is that, how can people think shrooms make your brain bleed? Where the hell would such an idea even come from?
-------------------- Enlil said: You really are the worst kind of person.
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