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Mastershake77
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My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows
#7869835 - 01/12/08 05:04 PM (16 years, 20 days ago) |
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Well, I took mushrooms for the first time last night. Ive always wanted to do them, but just have never been able to find them. Last week, one of my friends managed to get 2.5 grams of shrooms and decided to split them with me.
I wasn't really expecting much from 1.25 grams, but these things must have been extremely potent, or all the reading and preparing for the trip I did payed off. They were small and very dry mushroom stems, caps, and shake. Most of the shrooms very completely blue. The smell was gross, like a mold or fungus, but the taste was not bad at all. The taste wasn't strong and was similar to hay, not bad, but not good. After trying to eat Syrian rue seeds and HB wood rose seeds, these things tasted like chocolate. Although the taste seemed to linger in my mouth throughout most of the trip, even after drinking.
The trip itself was completely different than what I was expecting. I was expecting to just be really fucked up, to the point of seeing things, similar to smoking a lot of really good weed. But it wasn't like that at all, the body high wasn't very strong at all, similar to a bowl of indica dominant marijuana, but mentally the trip was unreal.
I put on a burnt CD, Radiohead's in rainbows CD 1 and 2, and just thought and discussed things with my friend. It felt as if id finally been liberated, like I'd been living my life in a shell up until that point and was finally awake. It was just amazing, and is incredibly difficult to put into words, it was the most spiritual moment of my entire life. The euphoria I felt was so incredibly powerful that all I could do was sit smiling, it cant be described in words, but it felt like I had finally connected to what I want to call god. When I say god though, I just mean the infinite. The place where we were before we were born, the place we go where we die, that which is intangible, yet makes up everything. It was incredible, right as I was thinking this, radioheads reckoner was playing.
"You are not to blame for Bittersweet distractor Dare not speak its name Dedicated to all you all human beings"
Thom sang, and I understood completely. All that I had been thinking about, this intangible connection that we all unknowingly share was there, as it always had been, and realizing this caused me such joy, that not even MDMA could compare.
The mushrooms gave me the most powerful sense of insight that I've ever had, and I never imagined it could do so. It was like the shrooms had given me access to all of the difficult questions I'd though of for as long as I can remember. I saw through all the bullshit in reality, I realized all the games that we play, the way that we go through our lives in auto pilot, and don't even live.
I felt like all the stupid things we worry about in our life were so completely absurd and meaningless. I thought about the social games we play with each, how we always have our guard up, presenting an image. It was as if everyone was constantly wearing mask's.
I felt like very little mattered anymore. School, selling our souls for green paper, even my very own life seemed so insignificant. This realization was hard to handle and really depressed me. The feeling that everything I had been doing up until this point was total bullshit, and I was just playing a social game.
It was very confusing, and I kept thinking that after this there was no returning, Id eaten the forbidden fruit, and almost wished I hadn't. I deeply regretted knowing that I'd have to put my mask back on, and wondered how Id ever be able to return to the bullshit world we live in.
I got caught in a few negative loops I think, just thinking about how nothing really mattered anymore. I started thinking about the role DMT plays in the human mind, the way that DMT is released in the brain when we die. I thought that maybe the reason that the the mushrooms gave near death experiences, and made me reach such nirvana that I wouldn't mind dying anymore had something to do with this (the active chemical in mushrooms is 4-ho-dmt I believe).
I gained insight into all the issues going on in my life, and it really helped me sort things out, from the possible mental addiction I was beginning to develop with marijuana, to my relationship with my family members, to the way I treat strangers. It was all so incredibly powerful, and I really think that this experience will change the way I view and interact with the world in a positive manner.
I'm in no rush to take mushrooms again, the negative part of the trip was extremely depressing, but I had read that to some, the mushroom trip is a manic depressive roller coaster with extreme highs and lows.
The reason Ive been writing all this is just to get my thoughts out in writing, Ive been so overwhelmed by the amount I learned from the experience. I believe the reason my experience was so positive was because of all the reading I did on other peoples experiences, and felt the need to share mine with anyone who might care. Mushrooms are a very powerful mental tool, that can really cause a positive change in people. I don't think of them like I used to anymore, I thought the focus was on the visual aspect and the fun from the experience. But that is so insignificant compared the the change in a person thought process and psyche that they can almost be viewed as side effects.
Thanks for reading, and check out radioheads newest CD, in rainbows, it'll blow you away.
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: Mastershake77]
#7877755 - 01/14/08 10:55 AM (16 years, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
The smell was gross, like a mold or fungus
Heh, yeah fungus does tend to smell like fungus 
I think the idea of mushrooms being a mainly visual drug is one of the worst common misconceptions out there, and it is especially common in teenagers these days. It pisses me off when people take mushrooms merely for the visuals and to get 'fucked up', I mean sure you can do whatever you want, but there is so much more there if you take a second to look for it. Mushrooms are a very spiritual drug, they can take you to places of insight that can drastically change your life.
Also this post reminded me that In Rainbows did indeed come out, and it is currently downloading
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: Bernackums]
#7894050 - 01/17/08 05:29 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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I felt like very little mattered anymore. School, selling our souls for green paper, even my very own life seemed so insignificant. This realization was hard to handle and really depressed me. The feeling that everything I had been doing up until this point was total bullshit, and I was just playing a social game.
It was very confusing, and I kept thinking that after this there was no returning, Id eaten the forbidden fruit, and almost wished I hadn't. I deeply regretted knowing that I'd have to put my mask back on, and wondered how Id ever be able to return to the bullshit world we live in.
Yeah, I love that. That's a good trip where one feels the compassion.
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: eve69]
#7894646 - 01/17/08 07:56 PM (16 years, 15 days ago) |
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Reckoner is indeed an amazing song. Radiohead has a knack for songs that really hit hard for things we think about but never say. "Harrowdown Hill" is another similar song that you might want to try out, overall that sounded like a great trip, even on 2.5g people can really experience something new
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: Cyrone]
#7900626 - 01/19/08 07:03 AM (16 years, 13 days ago) |
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VERY good trip report, you described it well.
The shrooms connects us with the ecstatic light flow of life and the darkness of death, it is a rollercoaster, you had a great trip,, most people on theyre first trip see confusion and delusion, you saw the clear light, that everything is connected, the feeling of "this is what the after life is", the social gameplay etc...
Let me tell you this friend, you may have only tripped once but you are a very experienced being to have come to these realisations during your first trip.
Beautiful!
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Mastershake77
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: Chronic7]
#7906251 - 01/20/08 04:05 PM (16 years, 12 days ago) |
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Thanks a lot for the comments guys. My first time with shrooms was definitely a good one. I really loved these things, and cant wait to try and grow my own. I'm really in no hurry to trip again anytime soon though, as fun as it was, I can definitely see that this is not a drug to abuse. Your better off tripping and then trying to incorporate what you've learned into your life, and tripping again when you feel its time. Thanks again, happy tripping!
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Re: My first trip, spiritual revalations in rainbows [Re: Mastershake77]
#7911502 - 01/21/08 07:25 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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I have also experienced the thoughts and feelings you were receiving from Thom on In Rainbows, he pulled me out of my first and most powerfully bad trip on LSD in my life.
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