My first illicit drug, which then proved to be my gateway drug, was magic mushrooms, namely Psilocybe Cubensis GT. I was 19. I would never have started experimenting with other drugs had it not been for this article about psychedelic mushrooms that I found by pure serendipity on the Internet. I remember staying up all night, scavenging for trip reports and cultivation instructions, and then I find this famous guide, and I am taking notes. A week later, I am in my kitchen, wearing gloves, a syringe with mushroom spores in my hand, and I am inoculating my vermiculite+rice flour cakes. The shrooms sprouted in 40 days. I ate 3 medium-sized mushrooms, and in 4o minutes I was laughing hysterically into my pillow so as not to wake up my neighbours next door :D No visual and auditory hallucinations, just roaring with laughter for no obvious reason.
I also remember this feeling of mental clarity and infinite love towards everything and everyone that followed the trip and stayed with me for a good week. It was an especially authentic and overwhelming sensation that no other drug has given me so far. When I take MDMA, I am also rather empathetic and sensitive, but there is something artificial about it, and my mind simply rejects it. For what it's worth, I am glad it does, because I don't want to open my heart and reveal my secrets to a wrong person.