Worst experience of my life and I will never do them again. Though, it's kind of interesting to see what your mind is capable of.
I'd contemplate doing acid since I hear it's a lot harder to have a terrible 'trip' but too scared of turning permanently schizophrenic or something.
Dude, never take advice from this friend EVER AGAIN
Should be Seanshroom.
IMHO, People fuck up in three very obvious areas:
1) What the fuck are you taking! You can never be 100% with something you did not cultivate or synthesise but test kits are available.
EXAMPLE:
The British Isles have these mushrooms in abundance.
Psilocybe semilanceata is psilocybin mushroom--the good guys, imo. Psilocybin is ingested, it is broken down to produce psilocin, which is responsible for the psychedelic effects and partly ripping off this paragraph from
wikipedia.
Psilocin (also known as 4-OH-DMT)a substituted tryptamine (dat indole ring) alkaloid and a
serotonergic psychedelic substance. Good vibes, man/woman.
The typical image of mushrooms for the uninitiated:
This potential monster is Amanita muscaria/Fly agaric of the genus Amanita, and is not to be taken lightly. Wait, yes it is: extremely lightly--if taken at all. Newbies steer well clear, imo.
Fly agarics and family are quite different from the psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms: Fly agarics contain ibotenic acid and muscimol. Muscimol acts as a potent, selective agonist for the GABAA receptors and displays sedative-hypnotic and dissociative psychoactivity.
What the risks of taking fly agaric mushrooms?
- Are you sure that mushroom you're about to eat is a fly agaric? Are you willing to bet your life on it? The Amanita mushroom family contains some of the deadliest mushrooms out there, so if you pick and scoff the wrong variety, quite simply, you could die.
- It's very common to experience intense nausea and stomach cramps in the hours following ingestion.
- There is no way of predicting what your trip will be like, and whether you will find it enjoyable or extremely upsetting.
- Body perception and motor skills are changed, making you clumsy, dizzy, and more likely to injure yourself.
2) Environment: internal and external. Clear head, eliminate neuroses, relax. Safe, private and familiar surroundings with outdoors area and observation provided by somebody you trust, ie who isn't going to
surprise you with his Wolfman mask or end up saucer-eyed and emitting a garbled stream of noise in effort to communicate.
3) Do you want to take this drug, or is it peer pressure and what is the potential for abuse/addiction, employment drug testing? Any hesitation considering these should indicate something not right.
HALLUCINOGEN CRITICAL:
The
experienced friend who insists a first time user should match their (typically) large dose
to feel the true effects of whatever
hallucinogenic while in a mosh pit at a Black Metal festival is not your friend, buddy.
That's the heavy drinker encouraging the teetotaller to down a bottle of Bourbon, the backseat driver(located in different vehicle) telling the new driver that his/her car is wasted on them unless they experience hitting top speed on a public highway.
They help to fill A&E departments every day and are a very common occurrence. Thankfully, soon to be less common in the UK, since the Tories awarded the Rascal Re-education Program contract to Findus.
Future dickheads will be caring for elderly horses and other unwanted pets at the Meat Island Ranch where MMMBop by Hanson is played on loop and Findus' R&D team teach them ways to enrich and nourish society. Maybe I hallucinated that.
If you feel you have to do a drug: research, research, research and more research. Reputable sources and agencies.
You
may then have parallax inkling of what to expect. Low dose: build up from there should you wish to continue.
KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL:
Ideally,
since you are intent on playing games with perception and chemistry that regulates just about every function of your body, it may be of benefit to learn basic brain and drug chemistry--just a thought ;p
Also, less unknowns = gud
Categories, compounds, active alkaloids, prodrugs/precursors, half-life,
applicable transmitter receptor affinities and functions, agonist or antagonist,
synergistic effects/dangers, toxicity and LD50, MAOI or SSRI, short term & long term side effects and useful recovery methods and nutrients.
REMEMBER:
