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Amanita Muscaria - 2nd time - sparkly flashy vision with flashes of cartoony imagery

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First try (test dose): Ate 4g with dinner. Onset 3hr, peak 4.5hr, sedative body buzz.

Second try (this report): Ate 12.5g after jogging on empty stomach (chewed it up plain and washed it down with water, like a MAN!)

Initial effects: sedative

Sedative body buzz started around 30 minutes after eating the caps, and built up for a couple hours. I layed on my bed listening to music, and fell asleep. A half hour later I woke up tripping

Mental effects

My thoughts for a while after awakening were very odd and, looking back, don't make much sense. At the time, though, they felt revelatory and amazing. While I can't explain what i was thinking, the 'topic' was my physical location (I was trying to figure out where I was) and my house which was divided up into a grid in my mind

After I fully woke up from that nap, however, my cognition was fine. Thought patterns were a bit eccentric, though

Visuals

The visual aspect of the trip was very unlike any other psychedelic or quasi-psychedelic i've tried (5ht psychs, cannabis, zolpidem, salvia, dissociatives). The only similar visual was "visual snow" or "static". Besides the static, my vision became 'sparkly' with mini fireworks

There were imagery-type visuals, but these were only flashes. IE, for a split second there'd be a cool looking cartoony image overlayed over whatever i was seeing, then it would be gone. These cartoon overlays repeatedly flashed by multiple times per second

There was no difference between CEV and OEV (in both cases, sparkles/fireworks plus flashes of images)

Side effects

Once the psychedelic effects started, so did the side effects (though the side effects trailed off about an hour or two before the psychedelic effects did). They were profuse sweating, salivation, and muscle spasms (that last side effect is a very odd sensation while tripping).

As far as nausea goes, as usual, my stomach of steel leaves me lucky. I had a hint of nausea about an hour after eating the mushrooms, took half a dose of pepto bismol, and it never came back

Easy sleep

As the psychedelic effects were trailing off 5 hours after taking the mushrooms, and the side effects were already gone, I went to bed. I fell asleep fast, had great sleep, woke up right when I wanted to even though I forgot to set the alarm, and had fun vivid dreams. I woke up with zero after-effects

Conclusion

12.5g produced a low/medium intensity trip. The visual and mental effects were definitely psychedelic, though very different from the normal psychedelics. The visual effects were much more pronounced than the mental effects, except during the peak. I can see a high dose producing intense entheogenic experiences. Intellectually, though, these mushrooms are lacking compared to other psychedelics like the 5HT's or cannabis

If I were to do a higher dose, I would want pure muscimol. The neuron-murdering ibotenic acid and the parasympathetic-exciting muscarine are nasty fuckers
 
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You detailed it out very nicely, enjoyed reading it - very informative. Been wondering about Amanitas for a while, this helped give me a better understand of the effects.

Thanks for sharing!
 
^then explain the heavy sweating, muscle twitching, and salivation? they are all characteristic of parasympathetic nervous system activation (muscarine is a peripheral cholinergic agonist)
 
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