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Who's done shrooms?

I'm moving into my first apartment ever next week, and my future roommate and I were talking today. He mentioned he wanted to get shrooms for our first night as a celebration kinda thing. I'm a bit apprehensive about this as I've always said I'd never do more than beer or weed (well in highschool it was "I'll never do more than beer" and in grade school it was "I'm never drinking beer").

What are your recommendations on trying shrooms? Are they relatively harmless (I know they eat away at your brain or something, but one time can't do any permanent damage, right?)? For anyone who has tried them, what is your experience with them? I've heard that whatever your mood is before using them, shrooms basically amplify it times a hundred, and then you can possibly get the visualizations if you take enough.

Well enough of what I've heard. What have you heard or experienced?
 

teepo

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DON'T DO IT WITH SOMONE YOU DON'T KNOW. DO NOT DO IT. YOU WILL HAVE THE WORST TRIP OF YOUR LIFE.

in fact, NEVER DO IT.
 

White Man

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Don't trip with people you don't know. You don't know each other's limits. And having a trip sitter is also a must until you're an experienced psychonaut.
 

border

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I think they're great stuff, but I can't really recommend them to someone I don't know. If you think you have a pretty firm grasp on yourself and on reality, it's maybe worth trying. I never did it with a "sitter", but generally with rather good friends.

If you smoke weed, how well have you handled weed-induced paranoia in the past? Most of the time I'm just laughing my ass off but a bit of uneasiness can set in too. I always thought of it like going to a "haunted house" at the Fair -- you might get scared but if you can keep in the back of your mind that everything's phony, then you'll never really be terrified.

Everything will vary by the type/quality of the product you buy.
 

Ferd

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Eat them. In fact, eat some sort of hallucinogen every few months. Good for cleaning the pipes.
 

Takuan

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I had shrooms with some friends and some relative strangers a few months back. They were good, except we did them too late to *really* enjoy 'em. One friend passed out while the other two guys stepped out to get massages, and me and my other friend just kind of sat there waiting for the effects to kick in. They began to kick in on the ride home, and I couldn't sleep at all 'cause my heart was racing and I was too hyper to lay still. Still, it was an experience. I'd do 'em again.
 
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just eat whatever the stranger gives you, it will probably be great!
 

miyuru

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Man, my first time I did shrooms was the best time of my life. It was such a FUN high. I was laughing on my friend's bed for about an hour straight, and I didn't know why. I was so happy!

Then we started walking around outside to get slurpies and stuff, it was all so mellow and chilled out, but not super chilled out, you felt in control of the high.

Then there was that night with the pinner, the blades, and then the mushrooms.

OMG.

I think I'll stop there :p.
 
You should definitely do them provided you're with good people and in a safe and comfortable environment. It can take anywhere from 20-60 mins before you feel anything and you may feel a bit nauseous when it starts to hit ya. You'll feel tingles up your spine and legs and everything you look at kind of pulsates. You'll get a body high the whole time, sense of touch and taste change a great deal, emotions are intensified(even sad ones so be in a good mood or you'll regret it), everything is funnier, you'll get odd visuals if you close your eyes, your sense of time is lost and time feels like it moves very slow, you'll hallucinate visually and sometimes auditorally and trips usually last 4-8 hours(depending on how much you take, etc.). I've also noticed your sense of empathy is heightened a lot. It's almost like a psychic sense. Other common things that'll happen is that anything you drink or eat will feel like air in your mouth but you'll still have your sense of taste and your sense of touch is kind of delayed. The peak hour is the best and it usually happens halfway through the trip. When you come down, the world looks so beautiful and soft and vibrant. Take a walk through the town or in a park or anywhere and everything looks gorgeous. It's amazing. After a night's rest, you'll feel completely normal the next day and your jaw will hurt from smiling and laughing too much from the trip. ;)

The only bad effect I can think of are memory loops and an increased sensitivity to light. They can be very annoying. You'll know what I'm talking about if you decide to take the stuff.

If you get a bad trip, just sit down and watch a movie or listen to music or something. It'll keep you sane and it acts as a way for you to record time and estimate when you'll come down and get back to reality.

I've had good and bad trips but all in all, it's definitely worth it. I don't know of or experienced any long-term effects whatsoever but then again, of all the times I've tripped, it was only once every 6 months for a few years.
 

White Man

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About 3 years ago, when I was very very bad and not a decent example of any sort of decent human, I cocktailed shrooms and a couple of other unmentionables and ended up with a borderline psychotic breakdown. Long story short, I was tripped out so hard that I was seeing the same thing whether my eyes were open or closed. Tactile sensations were screwed. My back was screwed. The only sensory function that wasn't COMPLETELY off-hooked was hearing, and even that was subject to some rather extreme lapses of coherence.

I was a very experience psychonaut at this point, too. But I wasn't used to mixing shit. I think that was the clincher. Overall, it was a fun experience. It was just a BAD, BAD idea in hindsight and I realize I could've very easily hurt myself or others around me.

And if you're wishy-washy about trippin' in the first place, I wouldn't do it. Your mood going in determines how you'll handle the situation. Also note that unless you're eating an awful lot of shrooms, you probably won't be transported to a psychadelic, tie-dyed, Yellow Submarine wonderland. You'll probably just giggle a lot, want to listen to music, and think pretty profane thoughts.

Acid > The Halogen Hallucinogens > Shrooms. That's how I'd rate the common hallucinogens of the post-Acid Crash world. Damnit, talking about this shit makes me wish I wasn't clean now.
 

Fusebox

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Just to echo borders great advice:

If you have a strong mind, ie drugs dont usually effect you much than shrooms are really ace.

If you're one of those unstable people who gets uncontrollably stoned and sees pink elephants on acid then I'd suggest not going anywhere near them.
 
i've always had a good time on shrooms. i've never bugged out or got weird, no matter who i did them with.

marijuana, on the other hand, freaks me the fuck out every time i do it. i start believing everyone is conspiring against me and crazy shit like that. needless to say, i don't smoke that shit. does this happen to anyone else?
 
={<SMOKE>}= said:
marijuana, on the other hand, freaks me the fuck out every time i do it. i start believing everyone is conspiring against me and crazy shit like that. needless to say, i don't smoke that shit. does this happen to anyone else?

Never used to, but in the last six months I've been smoking it a lot (first year of uni, suddenly it's much more available), and around three times what you've described has happened to me. Needless to say I've drawn a line in the sand and am no longer going to smoke it...I may smoke some in summer because I'll be able to get outdoor grown bud, which is much less paranoia-inducing and overall a less intense, more enjoyable high, but even so, I won't be smoking until then, and when I do it will only be occassionally.

However, I just bought 10 caps of shrooms today, never done them before and am looking forward to it!
 

shibbs

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Did it a few times, heavy tripping (but that also depends on the kind of shrooms).
But it is fun, lots of laughing and seeing weird stuff. Dont eat too much tho, the effect stays 2-6 hours. And its nothing like weed.

Anyways have fun and report back here :)
 

Tuvoc

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Just try it. Keep it under 3.5 grams the first time. You're not gonna be seeing pink bunnies or anything like that so don't worry about doing it w/ your new roomate.

Just eat a little to test it out. It'll take about a half hour to feel the effect. Don't bother smoking it because it hardly does anything.

BTW, you might get really bad gas after eating them, its a common side effect. Made me poop a lot. :)
 
Well I just found out that my roommate is growing them himself (and he is an old friend, not just some new roommate), so I feel much better about their source. At least I don't have to worry about them coming from some shady dealer.

Also, for my first time, I think I'm gonna do around 2g of dried shrooms. Does it matter what part of the shroom I eat, as long as what I'm eating adds up to 2g?
 
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I always had a good time on these things, except this one time when my ex XTREME CHICK flatemate was around, fucking, terrible.

All she kept doing was saying "ERRRR OH MY GODD, you guys are like, so like, so like so totally wasted dudez!" It was so bad and my friend who had never done them before started stressing something bad. Then the disaster went like this.

ME: (whisper) Dude, we have to get away from spaz, let's go into town.
MATE: Shit yeah, I have to get away from her bad, I'm freaking out, lets go to town.
MATE: "HEY SPAZ, WANNA GO TO TOWN?"
ME: sigh.

What followed was the most akward drug experience i ever had, my friend go so wound up with this chick walking about a step behind us and constantly questioning us that he snapped, turned around and quietly told her that she needed to go home. In my state I couldn't comprehend it all and ran away for a while.
 

Fusebox

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Ew gross - I used to put them in spaghetti or on toast or something and make a decent feed out of it.

>>marijuana, on the other hand, freaks me the fuck out every time i do it. i start believing everyone is conspiring against me and crazy shit like that. needless to say, i don't smoke that shit. does this happen to anyone else?

If you get that feeling its recommended that you stop smoking - it may mean you're prone to schizophrenia. Ever had any in the family?
 
First of all, do NOT underestimate shrooms. They can be very powerful and can play tricks with your head sometimes. It is safe to do them (as in, they themselves won't do any damage to you) though you should not do them often, as with most drugs that aren't weed. I've done them four times (five including once where I didn't get much off them) and they are powerful experiences. They are nothing like marijuana.

I really only hallucinated (open eyed) my first time and last time, besides seeing colours in lights, which happened in all of them. My first time I basically saw pixels of colours flying everywhere, and my last had full on hallucinations, with the paint in paintings seemingly melting and swirling about and watching TV (it was a Calgary Flames playoff game, the one where they had to decide whether a goal counted or not) was crazy. It was going slow and then fast, and the ref's head was expanding and contracting, and the colours of everything kept changing.

However, although hallucinations are the most oft reported effects of mushrooms (at least that's the usual public opinion), the greatest change is to your thinking. Basically, taking shrooms frees your ego and you start thinking about things you've never thought of before and your mind just processes everything in a different way. This can lead to bad trips, as it's kind of hard to keep your mind in perfect control sometimes. The solution is to stop fighting it and give up trying to keep your mind "together". You need to surrender to the shrooms, basically.

I've always taken a half-quarter (3.5 grams) when tripping, but you might want to start off with 2 grams. In regard to your question of what you eat, for the most part it doesn't matter. Caps are more potent then stems, but not by much really. You're going to eat mostly stems anyway. Good luck, you'll probably have a good story to tell. I know I have plenty.
 
Idle Will Kill said:
Opti, be sure to report back with your experience.


Okay. Look. Do them. Seriously. That's my report.

So, I was in some club with some friends at 3 in the morning, feeling pretty jaded because I hadn't been able to get in for a while, while everyone else did (I'm almost 18...). But anyway, a friend and I sussed a way to get me in. So yeah, I was feeling a bit shit. So. I felt the need to save the night and make it a memorable one. I had the shrooms on me. My dilemma though, was this; it was fucking 3 in the morning, I'd never done shrooms, so I did not know what to expect, and I was in an unfamiliar environment. So I just took one cap. Then, 15 minutes later, I just went fuck it, if I'm going to do it I'm not going to fucking do it half arsed; so i took another.

We then caught a cab home, and the drug started to take a hold of me on the way. Something wasn't quite right, but at the same time it wasn't "wrong" enough for me to cross out the possibility that maybe the whole thing was just a placebo effect. But when I got out of that cab...fuck! I was just bulldozed by it. I stood outside my house for a while, mesmerised by uh, the ground, and then the trees, which seemed to be forming some sort of bridge or arch over the road. And everything seemed...3d, that might sound ridiculous but, it was like everything had more depth, everything was more...real. So, I then got to thinking - shit, I can't just trip by myself, that'd be...well it'd still be cool but at the same time pretty fucking lame. I ring one of the friend's I caught the taxi with, and asked him what he thought of taking shrooms at 3.30am in the morning. Needless to say he was down. I grabbed my bike, and rode over to his joint (this was one crazy bike ride...the shrooms also gave me this incredible sense of well being and empathy with freaking everything. Everything was beautiful and utterly fascinating).

While I was waiting for him to come out I started looking at the grass, and after a while it started swirling and pulsing, like it had suddenly come alive (well err, more so heh). I gave him two caps and had another myself, and after standing out there for a while, we headed off. Now this was one great walk, we wnt around the neighbourhood, while the day unfolded before us. It was so surreal (yeah I hate the word too but), the night slowly dissipated before our eyes. There was one point, where we were standing in the middle of the road, and looking one way, it was still pitch black, in the direction of the slowly rising sun, the sky was turning this beautiful pale blue colour. It was amazing.

And I also noticed something else. Stare at any one thing (any natural thing actually, staring at a car doesn't do shit), and some weird visual shit will start happening. I stood spellbound by this tree, which seemingly started growing in different ways before my eyes. We kept walking, and as it got lighter I thought it'd be an ace idea to look at the clouds. Woah, woah, fucking woah. The centers of the clouds, the slightly darker parts, remained solid, but the surrounding, whispy part of the clouds started swirling around in fucking unison. They started taking on the patterns of like a fucking regiment of soliders marching (they didn't look like soldiers or anything like that, they were just synchronised in movement, and all took on the same vague shape). My friend saw the same thing too.

But yeah, we kept going, and came to this half built house. For some reason I was really fascinated by this, and the smell of sawdust was great. And after a while we arrived at where we'd left off. We'd gone in a circular motion back to his house. It was night when we left and day when we arrived back. I had a coffee there, and then took the scenic bike ride home...on the way I saw another house in the process of being built and had the urge to walk around that too. So I did. Then I rode home as this awesome day (it's one fucking nice day today!!!) came to fruition. I got home at around 8am, and realised that I needed to hear some music. I wanted something fairly tripped out, but not pretentiously so (ie: Floyd), so I cranked some Hendrix (Electric Ladyland). Can't go wrong with Hendrix. And wow, it was a new experience listening to that cd in my state. Fin.

Oh, and a few things - at no point did I feel nauseous, or that the trip could in any way turn pear shaped. I was never overwhelmed* by it, and I had a fucking great time. I also, I found that my thinking wasn't really compromised, it was certainly different, less impeded, conversation seemed to flow more easily, but it didn't make me stupid as bud does...and I was filled with goodwill towards everything.

Kurashima said:
Basically, taking shrooms frees your ego

Yeah, I got a sense of this, but it didn't quite happen, at least not completely. I probably didn't take enough...I felt like it was on the verge of going but unfortunately it never quite did. I'll take more next time and see how it goes.

*stare at one thing for too long and it might feel like a bit much, but you can just look away and everything's cool again
 
Fusebox said:
If you get that feeling its recommended that you stop smoking - it may mean you're prone to schizophrenia. Ever had any in the family?

that's interesting, i've never read or heard that. i'm not aware of anyone in my family who has had schizophrenia, but i understand mild cases may go diagnosed.

i have read that it's common for marijuana to produce paranoia and schizophrenic-like symptons in people who use it. where exactly did you read this?
 
Wow Opti, sounds like you had a great trip. Any idea how many grams total you took?

What you had is exactly what I'm looking for. Some pretty good visualizations with no nausea. Sounds like the perfect first experience with shrooms.
 

fart

Savant
there's such a thing as latent schizophrenia too. my friend snapped on a trip, ended up in an institution for 2 years. so it's not an unheard of thing
 
Idle Will Kill said:
Wow Opti, sounds like you had a great trip. Any idea how many grams total you took?

What you had is exactly what I'm looking for. Some pretty good visualizations with no nausea. Sounds like the perfect first experience with shrooms.

Sorry, I have absolutely no idea how many grams...the caps were bigger than normal capsules, but they were only a bit over half full...if it helps they were 2.5cm long and 1cm wide. So probably the same amount as in normal sized capsules you'd find at your local health food store. I guess if you've got any lying around you could weigh 3 of those, that'd give you a rough estimate of how much I took. But even so, grams are only a rough guide, as the potency of mushrooms varies from batch to batch - also, indoor grown mushrooms are usually much more powerful (or so erowid.org tells me) than wild ones.

As for the nausea, yeah, I think it's lessened if you take it in caps as opposed to having it "raw" in food or drink or something. And I guess it also depends on the person. Do you get sick from alcohol or anything else easily? If not you probably won't feel very nauseous, if at all. I didn't. But as everyone's different I still think take the advice given in this thread and start small. If I didn't have such a sound constitution for these sorts of things I probably would have approached it with more caution.

Also, although I obviously don't know much about mushrooms, I think the batch I got were pretty potent...apparently people usually need to take around 6 caps to get a decent trip but 3 was enough for me, and some friends also did them a few days before me (same batch), and they only took a small does too. So yeah, take a small dose at first, and if you feel alright with that or want a stronger effect, have some more.
 

DaCocoBrova

Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Stick to weed. Have a nice 'wake and bake' your first morning. Great for bonding.
 
If you want an amazing experience, do not stick to weed. Weed is a pretty underwhelming experience. Fun, but it's peddled as something amazing when it's really not...it's a "fun" drug (most of the time) like alcohol, but it's not going to give you any new perspective on life or change your perception.

DaCoco, have you even tried shrooms or are you just talking shit? :)
 

DaCocoBrova

Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Never done shrooms. Walked in on my cousin while he was tripping *in the nude*... At that time I knew shrooms were not for me.

There are many different types of weed. I'm waking up to some silver diesel and I will be feeling good for most of the day. No one saying weed is 'amazing' but it carries none of the risk shroooms and other hallucinigens (sp?) do.

It's facilitates conversation among other things, so given the situation, its seems like the more appropriate poisen.
 
Aha, shrooms facilitates more conversation than bud (assuming you don't take heeeaps), and it's higher brow. When you're on shrooms (from my own experience, something you lack ;)), you don't become stupid like you do on bud. Sure, the severity of this temporary loss of intelligence varies on the type of weed, but chances are conversation will be considerably dumbed down. Shrooms changes your thinking patterns, but it does not impede your ability to express yourself.

It sounds like your cousin just took a huge dose, or perhaps he's normally a bit of a nutter? As for shrooms being risky...uh, what? Providing you get shrooms off someone you trust, they're probably just as safe as weed.

And what "other things" does bud facilitate? I mean shit, half the time it doesn't even facilitate conversation, people just completely zone out, especially with hydro. Seriously, you should not be giving advice about something you haven't tried for yourself. It's pretty clear that a. you haven't done them, and b. you haven't read about them in depth.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not campaigning against weed, just your ignorant comparison between it and 'shrooms.
 
The mushroom is a god. How you approach a god makes all the difference regarding what you can take away from the experience - only the penitent man may pass etc. etc.

Approach the mushroom god confident in your humility, and he will grant you an audience, and be your companion on a tour of some of the many wondrous, wondrous things in the world, like skies and trees and half-built houses ... things which are taken for granted by most people, as a background for getting up, going to work, and having a bad day.

Shoutouts to those who have posted some of their experiences; good stuff! I've only tried them once, and adored the experience. The thing I couldn't get over was how organic my state of mind was - I didn't feel aswim in foreign chemicals, and sure enough after a good nights sleep, I felt several times more with-it than I would had I spent the night blazing weed.

Strongly recommended, with all the usual caveats about where, when, why, how and especially with whom.
 

Musashi Wins!

FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
I'd definitely recommend shrooms over any other foreign substance I've ingested. They always had the most explosive effects combined with the least strain on the body. They certainly make weed seem like a big waste of time. I haven't done them or similar in years...but they add a tinge of subjectivity and beauty to how you look at your personal perceptions that never quite fades. It's utterly indescribable to those who aren't fellow "psychonauts".

I should grow some :)
 
Glad to hear you had fun without any ill effects.

More people should do shrooms. You haven't lived until you've tried them at least once.
 

demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
Man, shrooms sound awesome. I'd probably considering trying them if I knew anyone who could possibly get any.
 

Nikashi

Banned
I've done shrooms twice, but at this point, I think I'm too resistant to them to bother trying again. First time I got a few mild visual 'abnormalities' (basically textures would shift slightly as I watched them), but my friend just went totally out of it from the same dose (I couldn't even talk to him, he was just laughing and asking really loud questions.. no one could get through to him).

The 2nd time I got NOTHING AT ALL. :/

And I had to pay for the shrooms too :/
 
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