tell me what you know about mushrooms!

[Cadsuane]

Yeah, I've tried it. First time we didn't have a pipe or bong on hand, so we rolled a joint with tobacco and had basically no real effect, maybe a sort of anxiety ridden funky high that lasted awhile but come to think of it I can't be sure if it was just tobacco... hm.

So yeah, if you're doing salvia make sure you have the proper accessories to take a good strong hit or you're just blowing dough.

[Iremire]

Everything looks like it's breathing. Couches would inhale (They would inflate) then exhale. But it would be everything trees cars bikes. Its pretty nice unless something happens to ruin your mood. Then you might find yourself in a weird feeling situation.

Worst thing about them is the taste, it's earthy and you need something to wash it down with.

[Tellahh]

I've eaten shrooms a good four dozen or so times (not exactly my favorite psychedelic) but all of the highs people are describing, are all spot-on for any different trip. It can vary so much from person to person. One will experience extreme LSD-esque visuals, objects moving that aren't supposed to be, walls/ceilings "breathing", intense color/spectrum fluctuations or distance distortion. Another person will experience a complete and utter oneness with the universe or the world around them, contemplating everything and anything about their life or the lives of things around them (as described in-depth a few posts back.. kudos btw on that, amazing descriptions~).

That being said if you haven't taken shrooms before, it is very advised to have a babysitter as you don't know how you'll react to them (since you haven't done it before, better to be safe then sorry). I've had a few bad trips and what people have said they're either cause by a negative environment or my own negative thoughts getting the best of me. Mushrooms are more "spiritual" then LSD IMHO, I've taken LSD much much more then shrooms and the more important self-retrospected trips I've had were on shrooms. Some of my friends will really debate this with me (LSD vs. Shrooms in terms of mind altering) and I won't deny I've had very spiritual trips on LSD, but the most extreme retrospectives I've had were on shrooms. LSD is alot more of a visual mindfuck, you haven't experienced a visual high until you've seen the ceiling melt away into the wall.. then to the floor.. melting away the exoskeleton frame of the area to the bitter nothingness of the space and universe surrounding it.. then falling through it perpetually.

Also, just man up and eat 1/8 right off the bat. Anytime I've seen someone eat 1/16 they barely get anything from it, and if you try to eat more after the trip hits it really doesn't do much. You want it to hit you hard, all at once.

I'd beg to differ... I had eaten about a 1/2 one night and was fried out of my mind already (about 2hr~ after taking them initially), and some "friends" being the ingenious/mischievous bastards they are persuaded me to take the rest of my sack, about another 1/2.... Suffice to say I started to fade out of memory but what I do remember was getting more in tuned to nature (I think..). What really happened was, after about 30-60min after eating the last of my caps (rawdawged the shit, ate them dry too..), I was rolling around on my friends floor flapping my arms and squawking like a god damned eagle. I remember about 20min after eating the 2nd batch and experiencing intense visuals and body waves of euphoria then nothing, after that I remember being in my friends car, getting out and being escorted to my front door and inside to my room. After that I experienced intense body highs and tripped the fuck out watching The Animatrix (my all-time favorite psychedelic movie^^).

Anyone tried Salvia? Had some this weekend, and got the wife to try it also. The best way I could explain it to her at first was an intense mushroom trip for about 5 minutes.

This is exactly how I'd describe Salvia, it's one of my favorite psychedelics now to do socially or even solo, as it is more low-key (in terms of duration) but the potency is just... wow... First time I smoked Salvia was with my friend out of my double-barrel bong, we were a little skeptical after the first hit, didn't feel much of anything so, being so naive we opted to take another rip each... the trip that proceeded after this was so intense I can barely describe it, like being thrown into the depths of a shroom/acid high 2hours into the peak. We were just stareing at each other laughing uncontrollably, we couldn't even speak a coherent sentence, just laughing and laughing. Visuals on Salvia are spectacular, he has a bunch of black light triptastic posters in his room that I was getting lost and falling into. You smoke a rip, nothing for 5-10min, then BAM... /mindblown... 15min~ of high depending how much you smoked then a very steep come-down to about a super-baked mary jane high for a good hour or so.

TL;DR: It's always safe to have a babysitter when trying a psychedelic for the first time or binging with a hardcore dosage, it also doesn't hurt to take them around people that aren't complete assholes (see squawking eagle story) or completely inept morons. People can talk shit all they want that they can take all they can and feel perfectly fine but all it takes is that one wrong thought to tip the scale to a paranoia mind-fuck hellhole in the depths of a psychedelic high. The mind is a powerful thing.

P.S. Fucking LOL@ comparing psychedelics to methamphetamine and PCP, learn to troll a little better.

[Kerberoz]

Yeah, I've tried it. First time we didn't have a pipe or bong on hand, so we rolled a joint with tobacco and had basically no real effect, maybe a sort of anxiety ridden funky high that lasted awhile but come to think of it I can't be sure if it was just tobacco... hm.

So yeah, if you're doing salvia make sure you have the proper accessories to take a good strong hit or you're just blowing dough.

Don't you need a blowtorch or something for salvia? Stuff kinda sounds like deliriants, tbh. Legal but not fun.

[Effluo]

Don't you need a blowtorch or something for salvia? Stuff kinda sounds like deliriants, tbh. Legal but not fun.

A torch lighter is highly recommended. The temp required to release the chemical is pretty high. A regular lighter will work, but torch lighters work much better. Also, a good water bong is great to have.

Never tried deliriants. Yes, Salvia is legal, but i consider it fun. My next time will involve me in a dark room. Last couple of times I've been watch TV, and I felt like I was sucked into the scene. Was hilarious to be watching Gabriel Iglesias and feel like I was sitting in the audience. It was an experience...

[Tellahh]

A torch lighter is highly recommended. The temp required to release the chemical is pretty high. A regular lighter will work, but torch lighters work much better. Also, a good water bong is great to have.

^This.

I use a Torch lighter, available at most 7-11/corner stores or at worst a smoke shop. It's realy worth the try honestly, there's literally no negative comedown and if you only smoke a rip or two it doesn't hit you THAT hard, just be ready for it cause it's sudden as fuck and will take you over haha.

[Zalius]

on the subject of bad trips, you need to be your own beacon of willpower. get it ingrained in your head BEFORE YOU DO THEM that you are comfortable, the high will be over and that you are completely fine. You're fuckin trippin balls, but you're fine. stuff will go back to "normal", but i always come out of my trips with a positive overall experience, even the one really bad one i had.

the bad one was like...holy shit visuals. if you have ever seen how an iphone keypad works, you may or may not have noticed that when you touch a letter, this little tab comes up that's like a big version of the letter you just touched but only for a fraction of a second. yeah well, my trip started with those letters like fucking exploding out of my phone and into the real world which started freaking me out cause it was my first experience with heavy visuals.

the climb to the peak was very very enjoyable. i still fondly remember me and my friends walking out of his house at like 9:30 at night, walking the fuck out like cavemen giggling with our eyes darting around us to look at the outside world (we'd been inside...which, if you've fried...you know how fuckin different being outside is), all in a really close pack, inching our way off of his lawn into the mysterious world around us.

eventually, i laid down in the back of my truck bed. it was a cloudy night (this was on april fools also), and at first everything was fucking chill, and i was comfortably laying down thinking about something or another..when i noticed the sky was different. it took me a second to discern, but there was a skeletal ghost gekko flock flying through the clouds. Skeletal. Ghost. Gekkos. walking/flying on 4 legs. inside of the precipitation of the clouds, moving as the clouds moved with the wind. i freaked the FUCK OUT for a mild second, talked to my friend and remembered i was on mushies and calmed back down.

after that, me and my friend had your standard oh shit we're fucked up conversation:
"dude, im not fucking scared of cops right now. if one saw me, i'd just be all dude we're not doing anything wrong at all. i dont judge you for the things you do with your free HOLY SHIT THE FUCKING SKY JUST RIPPLED WHAT THE FUCK"

"THAT is why you cant fucking talk to cops. because the sky is fucking rippling. because the sky is fucking rippling, dude."

lightning starts striking horizontally through the sky. i go back inside. we watch some tool videos and i get an awesome little spinning psychedelic experience for a couple mins. then...oh then, the horrible started.

the peak starts to kick in on us all. my friends start talking all crazy and shit about the universe and blah blah blah perpetual goes on forever blah blah blah time is a circle blah fucking blah blah blahhhhhhhhhhh and they get inside my head. this part i dont remember, but apparently i yelled at them to stop talking...and they all shut up. after it got all quiet, for like 5 seconds, i yelled something like "SERIOUSLY GUYS SHUT THE FUCK UP" and they all started giggling because it was funny but their giggles freaked me out worse.

theres a small time gap i dont remember but after that i went into the backyard. i laid down on bench and realized that i was a weird bug type thing on a spherical rock and that up down left right north south east west and all that other shit were all perceptions. i started thinking laying down on my back that the earth could be upside down and id be stuck to the bottom of it, but then i realized there was no such thing as upside down.

and then the clouds turned into demons. monstrous, soul stealing demons. coming to get me. i ran inside.

i sat down on the couch, everybody explained that they went out back too and it scared the shit outta them so they came back inside too. i found this weird blanket because i was getting cold (people kept letting the cold monster in through the door), but the blanket was like, fucking evil. it felt like it was consuming me. my natural response was to throw it at my friend. he dodged it though, nobody else would touch the blanket. that same friend made the discovery that if you cup your ears forward with your hand, you can hear your own voice a lot better.

4 dudes on mushrooms...all with their hands cupped behind their ears. talking to hear the sound of their own voice while staring at each other laughing and giggling as the walls around them distort into weirdness (but are still discernibly walls in the house).

enter horribad trip. i see the demons from the clouds appear on the walls, and im pretty sure they want to talk to me. i give in and decide to see what they have to tell me...BIG FUCKING MISTAKE. BIG MISTAKE WOAH BIG FUCKING MISTAKE. i rest my head down on the couch and my world is INSTANTLY OBLITERATED. there is no such thing as day or night, time is an irrelevant form of synchronization, reality created me and im perceiving reality and thats all i know, etc. i instantly feel that i will NEVER be able to go back to the real world, and that right there is what destroyed the trip. my friends were all super fucked up too so there was nobody to really calm me down.

i went into the bedroom, laid down and tried to sleep but the visuals were way worse with my eyes closed and they were all panic and fear and hysteria. my friends said they were walking to 7-11. my friend said "sorry we're in your reality right now dude, try and shake it off". totally brought me back to the real world, but i still had all the bad mojo of the bad trip and couldnt shake it. they left and i decided that i really needed to be at home and comfortable.

i got in my truck and was like...instantly fucking sober. i cannot explain to you how awesome it is to be snapped out of a bad trip. i drive home half happy and half spooked but still very aware of the fact that im still fuckin shroomin balls. i get out of the truck and fuuuuuuuuuuuck im all sorts of bad trip again. i rush inside, try and sleep it off but no dice. my pillow is fucking rapidly expanding into a giant pillow, my walls are made of ghosts (they told me drywall is overrated) and my computer is now the enemy.

my body tells me its time to throw up, and it was a wonderland of pain. all kinds of crazy colors (orange and brown and grey and shit) came out in the throw up and it like exploded out of my body. it hurt like fuck. it hurt like FUCK. i lay back down, calm the fuck down, pass out.


as shitty as i felt most of the high, when i woke up the next day i had a really strong respect for life, my family, my friends and my composure. i started looking up the fibonacci series and stuff and had a really good morning after. it took me like 2 days to fully come back to reality (this was only on 3gs. they had a really clean white stem and a really vibrant yellow cap. was like 3 shades of yellow in a gradient).

almost had a bad trip on 4th of july but i pulled myself out of it. was a bad body high, everything started to hurt and there were tons of people around, anxiety was terrible. mushrooms sucked though, didnt even trip mild the whole time. just felt bad. a wood picket fence looked weird. thats the story of those mushrooms. a wood fence looked weird.

good luck time traveler

[Cyn]

LSD > mushrooms any day of the week imo. I think I've even mentioned this, but at one point in my life I had a pretty decent mushroom growing operation going and used the money I made selling shrooms to purchase acid for trips.

Eating mushrooms on some good blow has led to a couple interesting experiences for me though, but it's a fucking hardcore trip, so I wouldn't suggest anyone try it.

Mushrooms are much more tolerable for me if I have an ecstasy pill to take with them to mellow the buzz a bit. Last time I ate them though was a quarter ounce I picked up at bonnaroo a few years back, every trip since has been acid.

[Effluo]

... just be ready for it cause it's sudden as fuck and will take you over haha.

The first time I tried Salvia, I didn't really know what to expect. We had a bunch of friends over watching a Football game and everyone told me to try it first. I took 2 good hits and just fucking zoned. Everyone was asking me what it was like, but I couldn't say a damn thing and it felt like I was literally glued to my chair. It had a calming yet giddy feel to it, similar to ex but different. I'm not real sure where I went for that 5 or so minutes, but it sure as hell was someplace other than my living room. After seeing my reaction and my inability to function, everyone pussed out and refused to try it... I enjoyed it, and have the couple of times I've done it recently. It takes some adjusting, but then again, it's different for everybody. It's a different type of trip if you ask me

Stuff kinda sounds like deliriants, tbh. Legal but not fun.

I looked up deliriants. Never tried 'em, and after reading that, never will. The fact that most people say they will never ever try it again is a sure sign you probably don't want to try it to begin with. While I have never done deliriants, I can say, salvia is 100% no where near that bad.

[Shalafi]

Now I wish I could unread this thread...

[Sythe]

I finally did shrooms and i have to say... i should have taken more. It was like a really nice E roll without the crappy come down. I had very few visual effects but i think that was the low amount i took. Over all it was fun and i def wanna try it again soon. I saved a piece of a cap to try to grow it. Do you think i'll have any success?

[Bikpik]

Whatever you do, don't watch Natural Born Killers.

[Takedown3]

last time i did shrooms was camping with my baby mama before she was my baby mama. and let me tell you fucking a bitch in a tent at night on a lake in the bush on 2g's of shrooms is pretty wild. esp when she's on just as much.

my trip before that however was not quite as good. half way thru i figured out that i needed to poop. hit the can with no issues but i had the worst fucking gut rot/slush poop ever, now i dont know if it was just my shit that made me feel bad or the shrooms combined with my nasty shit that made it horrible but you DO NOT want to take a nasty gut hurting shit on shrooms i can tell you that much

i also tried growing them back in my 3rd year of college, i bought a prefilled syringe of the net with the shroom spores stored in liquid suspension. i went thru all of the careful instructions to clean the jars and properly set up the beds. only yielded about a half ounce when they dried but honestly they were the best shrooms i had ever had personally. not saying im a champ or anything it was prolly because they were freshly dried i think.

[Tellahh]

LSD > mushrooms any day of the week imo. I think I've even mentioned this, but at one point in my life I had a pretty decent mushroom growing operation going and used the money I made selling shrooms to purchase acid for trips.

Eating mushrooms on some good blow has led to a couple interesting experiences for me though, but it's a fucking hardcore trip, so I wouldn't suggest anyone try it.

Mushrooms are much more tolerable for me if I have an ecstasy pill to take with them to mellow the buzz a bit. Last time I ate them though was a quarter ounce I picked up at bonnaroo a few years back, every trip since has been acid.

Amen, Brother~
I used to candy flip (LSD + X) a lot when I was into the rave scene, or just to get super high chilling. Ecstasy fucking destroys your brain though so I stopped that a while back but never refuse it for an concert or party^^.

[Zoolander]

thread pushed me to find some shrooms, got some from an old friend today lol. Got about 1/4 and 1/8 (3/8 I guess) of dried ones for $60.

Not a great price or anything, but honestly for how often I do these and how much I enjoy it I would pay significantly more if the market demanded it.

Now the quest to find a cool chick I can trip with and fuck while on em...shit is tough to find lol. Might have to just trip with some friends...i almost did them alone tonight but despite my lack of ever having bad trips it still seemed like a poor idea. Can't wait though, I have a huge and amazing list of music I've been adding to my tripping playlist over the last year.

[Neoscrilla]

thread pushed me to find some shrooms, got some from an old friend today lol. Got about 1/4 and 1/8 (3/8 I guess) of dried ones for $60.

Not a great price or anything, but honestly for how often I do these and how much I enjoy it I would pay significantly more if the market demanded it.

This is an excellent price in Michigan. 1/8's go for roughly $30 here for the good stuff (blueish white stems, golden caps, yadda, yadda.) An 1/8 of these have you tripping balls.