What is it about mushrooms that makes you say this? If you don't know, that's OK, I am just curious. For me, I am choosing shrooms as a candidate because it's a low intensity psychedelic that also has a plant spirit with it. I think fungi are amazing in the natural world and they are intelligent. I'm going to buy shrooms, grind them into powder, and measure out 25mg doses in capsules. I'll take those twice a week. Then I'll upgrade to 50mg, then eventually 100mg. At the point that it becomes too much, I'll downgrade to the previous level. This seems to be the microdosing regimen that therapists are endorsing.
How would you compare 1p-LSD to LSD?
I've done shrooms before but always at higher doses, causing breakthrough hallucinogenic experiences. We're talking out-of-reality experiences. I've never done mushrooms at a sub-threshold level with microdosing like I have with ketamine, so I'd be interested to explore this. I just want to be safe. I am so paranoid about triggering my auto-immune condition. But part of that paranoia is my PTSD that I need to work on. Underneath that paranoia is a lot of hurt over everything that has happened to me that I have been unable to unpack. I need a psychedelic ally to do so.
Btw... apologies if I seemed harsh in my request for support. I hope you don't feel dismissed. I'm just kind of desperate and I need more focus on my shit.
Higher doses of mushrooms completely remove me from reality. I would call them shamanic. I have to lie down and then my eyes close and I'm off to another universe. The imagery is extremely vivid and in technicolour. For example, last time I did mushrooms, when I hit the bed, I closed my eyes and suddenly I was seeing the formation of planet Earth from outer space, during its fiery, volcanic tectonic epoch, before life ever existed. I mean, who knows if that's what it really looked like, but the vision was intensely vivid and real like I was watching it from the viewpoint of the creator. It was really cool -- but what was the point?
Mushrooms connect me to earthly things like that.
I have never microdosed LSD or mushrooms. How do you even microdose LSD, anyway? Do you need to use liquid LSD? I only have blotter.
I'm attracted to mushrooms because they have a spirit signature, and because I think fungi networks are similar to neural patterns. According to the doctrine of signatures, they would be good medicine for the brain. This is confirmed in how mushrooms cause the release of neural growth factor.
LSD is utterly magical and cosmic. I love it for that. But... it's ungrounding for me and doesn't really help me unpack trauma. Also it lasts too long and I don't want to get stuck in what feels like a forever-trip.
That's totally fine. I understand better now that you are really using this thread to try to find info to help you with a big issue. I didn't think you were harsh at all.
What's the highest dose of shrooms you've ever taken?
I've never taken more than an eighth (I mean, for most people that's just the default dosage) and probably done them like 8-10 times, and only the very first time did I get INTENSE AWESOME hallucinations, and the 2nd time I only got 2 very brief hallucinations. All the other times I got none and was disappointed, but they always come with such a great feeling of peace which IMO is probably as good or better than hallucinations, certainly better for therapeutic usage like you want.
However, I am sure that the fact for all but the last shroom trip I was on Prozac, and that for the last one I was on Klonopin and Lexapro, have TOTALLY reduced my hallucinations and dulled my trips.
That's why next time I want to try about 5--5.5 grams.
Anytime I told my friends I wanted to try more than an eighth cause I rarely got visuals they'd tell me not to and that I'd freak out, but none of them were on meds and I don't think they realized how much SSRIs and benzos dull trips and how they would probably make me much more likely to be able to handle those higher doses.
I am also interested in microdosing, but because my meds dull my trips I assume my "micro" doses would have to be higher than most or else they wouldn't even do much of anything, and I don't know what the right dose for microdosing while on these meds would even be.
I love mushrooms and fungi too (hence my name hahha), I mean, I'm even interested in edible mushrooms as food, poisonous mushrooms, just mushrooms culturally in general.
Right now my living circumstances aren't good for it, but as soon as they are I'm going to buy spores and a full mushroom growing kit and use the Shroomery site to learn how to grow my own.
Almost seems like a crazy loop hole that spores are legal, and people on that sight say they are able to grow so many they don't even know what to do with them, so maybe you might want to try growing your own. I mean, I always find it hard to find them on the street personally.
On a seperate but related note, since you find mushrooms interesting, you might want to read a really cool book I once read called "Toads and Toadstools".
It totally goes into the entire history of BOTH mushrooms of different kinds and their associations with Toads of different kinds (MOSTLY the discussion is on psychedelic mushrooms and psychedelic toads, but not entirely) and it really goes into depth with the cultural significance of both mushrooms and toads to different cultures throughout history, in mythology and fairy tales, why it is that they are often associated with eachother (the book says, but I actually forgot why...), etc.
It's a fun read.