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5g mushroom trip advice?

Octarine

Octarine

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Hello BLers I am thinking about taking 5g cube mushrooms. Any thoughts on Mckennas advice of silent darkness, with this dose?

I've read around and seen several reports, also am not new to tripping at all.
Most of my shroom experiences have been in a social setting, but was more comfortable alone.

If anyone has ventured alone on this dose, I'd like advice on what to expect, and if the whole darkness idea is good.

Also I'd like to add I'm looking for a deep experience, has anyone felt "changed" in perspective weeks/months after shrooming?

Hope to get some replies
Thanks!
 
Darkness is fantastic on psychedelics if you can handle it.
Complete darkness allows an explosion of colour and fractalization not seen in light.
Your visuals become much more tangible, even possible to control to some degree simply by thinking about it.
Throw on some tunes on a comfy bed and enjoy yourself.
You say you aren't new to tripping so I think you'll be okay.
Allow yourself to fully come up and get used to tripping alone before you take the plunge into garbage
 
Octarine said:
Hello BLers I am thinking about taking 5g cube mushrooms. Any thoughts on Mckennas advice of silent darkness, with this dose?

I've read around and seen several reports, also am not new to tripping at all.
Most of my shroom experiences have been in a social setting, but was more comfortable alone.

If anyone has ventured alone on this dose, I'd like advice on what to expect, and if the whole darkness idea is good.

Also I'd like to add I'm looking for a deep experience, has anyone felt "changed" in perspective weeks/months after shrooming?

Hope to get some replies
Thanks!
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I've only ever tripped alone, so I'm comfortable letting people know how I handle this dose/setting

-Have plenty of distractions, so that if things start to go south it shouldn't be that difficult to turn things in another direction.
-Have a comfort zone; something that's always treated you right, or something that you've always felt 100% safe doing.
-Nice light snacks/fruit juices/precut fruit in case you feel the need to nibble or ground yourself.
-If you don't want to be disturbed, turn off cell phones or take phones off the receiver.
-Consider having a movie ready to go at the touch of a button, or your favourite music loaded.

Your 'deep' may be different from mine; I tend to get a long lasting anti depressant effect, and I'm more accepting of other people. Generally though, there is no after shrooming.....I shroom once a week if possible.

Oh yeah, forgot to add that I've got 3 dogs and 2 cats....cats seem to behave very well when I'm tripping; the dogs not so much.

Tom

Good luck
 
Hah great replies, I usually trip with my pet and they definitely seem to act more funky.

What do people think about building up the dose? As in eating 3.5, seeing how it feels and increasing after.
Does this make the peak less intense, I can imagine possible problems with taking the plunge

Thanks for the answers, appreciated =D
 
The silent darkness experience is mega, I would advise having a candle or an easily switchonable soft light source, you may not need to reach for it but it's sure as hell a good idea to have it available IMO, I don't think I've ever made it through a whole 5+ gram experience without at some point shedding some light on the room.

as for dosage, it's a tricky one, does the 5 gram experienced get compromised in some way by experiencing a lower dose first ? hard one to answer, either you have had a first experience of 5+ grams or you haven't, you cant have both so it's very hard to quantify the subjective differences.

I would say (after dozens of various dose experiences) that if you think you are up for it and have no obvious underlying psychological issues then dive right in with the 5 grams, however not everyones physiology is the same so say maybe 1 in 1000 people (purely an abstract number) have an adverse reaction on a physical/medical level, well you don't want to find out you are one of those exceptions 2 hours into a 5 gram dose, so maybe take 1/2 a gram just to test for personal toxic or adverse reaction to the chemistry, like rubbing the leaf of an unknown possible plant food source on your skin to see if you get a rash, step one before an oral bio-assay, and 1/2 a gram will not in any way really prepare you for a full 5 gram dose imo but 3.5grams first will take some of the shine off perhaps.

either way - be safe and let us know how you went.
 
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Thanks again guys, appreciate you taking the time. ill eventually come back to say how it went!
Done 4.5 before but never alone. Happy trips~
 
Did many trips with others but then also like very much to steal away and be by myself, get inside my head. I think it is something to get used to. Also prefer soft indirect light to darkness but spent a few nights spinning with complete darkness, it was good to have some input like mellow music.
 
dried or wet? the most i've ever eaten at once is an eighth ounce dried (ironically, my first time...) and i was seriously messed up, my memory of the experience is fuzzy and the body load (i tend to experience with shrooms, which is why acid is always more my favorite of the two) was a bit overwhelming at first. a few hours in, it subsided somewhat and i was tripping hard and having fun till the crack of dawn. nevertheless, my feeling is that the best shroom experiences are really around the 1-2 g range dried; you get a nice trip less distracted by body load and tend to remember more of it afterwards, plus you can make a stash last longer... but good luck and have fun if you take the plunge and eat the whole five. i hope you are a veteran psychonaut with a good mindset going in because i think it'll be wild. if i were you, i'd dose the shrooms around dusk, smoke some bud till it got dark, grab a pack of smokes and go for a nice long walk alone, especially if you live in a rural area, somewhere wooded... (avoid public parks, though, cops will not be friendly if they find you bugging out at three in the morning) maybe a camping trip? to me shrooms are always best enjoyed out in nature, though a good house party with friends can be just as fine a setting.

edit: you mean silent darkness like sensory deprivation style, just sitting in a pitch black quiet room? never tried that one before, though i'm intrigued by sensory deprivation. i would suggest if you're new to sensory deprivation maybe start with a bit more normal dose first and see how you react? i rather like being in the dark when tripping but, music, please! (most of the time)
 
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^ very much like those ideas!

Yes I was aiming for a sensory deprivation type deal. I've experienced on K but never with shrooms.
Planning on dosing in a couple minutes and tripping into the morning. Also I was talking about dried, and am going to try a little over an 1/8.

You guys are great, appreciate the advice, really helps put away any pre-tripping jitters
 
Back from space safely, had a nice talk with sir mushroom.
Webby is stuck on an asteroid, hope he lands home in peace!
 
Octarine said:
Back from space safely, had a nice talk with sir mushroom.
Webby is stuck on an asteroid, hope he lands home in peace!
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nice 2 hear! Would you mind telling us about the trip? how was the darkness coming? doesnt need to be a report but maybe some ups or downs or so?!
 
I am a solo tripper as well. Actually just did a 5g dose about 4 months ago and it was by far battling the spot for best trip ever next to 30mg 2C-E.

Tripped in complete darkness, with breaks to stare in the bathroom mirror and to smoke cigarettes in the backyard. Majority of time was spent on the couch with decent headphones on cycling through the best tripping albums I have (old phuture primative, Emancipator, Solar Fields and things like that). Best CEV I have ever had, and best experience where it seemed as though the music took full control of the visuals. Tried to repeat a few weeks later, with no avail with the only difference being the time of day. I generally dose around 11 pm right when girl is about to go to sleep, I got lucky and could dose right after work and it just sucks compared to night trippin for me.
 
Octarine said:
Back from space safely, had a nice talk with sir mushroom.
Webby is stuck on an asteroid, hope he lands home in peace!
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Back too, I think I saw you go past in the purple dot vortex but calling out was impossible at the point. :)
 
Yeah sure, I won't be writing a report just yet but I can say a little.
I started by just listening to echoes-Floyd, walking on the moon, and a few other tracks.

After an hour I thought nothing was happening and I had to sort of provoke the mushroom.
Visuals of pink and yellow rectangles and other tribal patterns were replacing the darkness.

Every time I seen the visuals I got strong sensations in my brain and body, almost like the shroom was saying "hello!"
Majority of the trip I was in a trance like state, seeing spiraling imagery and was pondering my life.

I would ask questions and get an answer sometimes, or nothing at all.
Eventually I would get very strange dreamlike visions, sometimes freaky shit like really old looking people creepily floating around

I'd have to ask for it to not be so scary and it would stop and go back to conversing.
It would and could take a very dark turn sometimes, but music eased things

Stayed up all night so the light coming in looked amazing, I could see streaks bouncing on the walls,
Sort of looked like the room was covered in spider webs made of light.

The emotions and feelings were the most amazing part of the trip, the visuals were nice but not the best part.
Def going to darkness trip again!

Also it would have been worth it to take the full 5g
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Thank ya'll for joining the mushroom support, have safe travels
 
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