Ok so first off, this could just be a case of bad set and setting, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
Myself and two others took some mushrooms yesterday, the strain was p. cubensis 'Ecuador'. My girlfriend and I are pretty experience with psychedelics, I've used B+ cubensis twice before, p. semilanceata once, LSD twice, 2C-B seven times, mescaline three times, 4-AcO-DMT twice, and MDMA about ten times (doses usually at about 'standard' level, 2.5g shrooms, 150mics acid, 20mg 2cb etc), my girlfriend similar but a little less. Our tripping buddy had tripped a low dose of semilanceata once before, has used quite a bit of MDMA and has done bk-2C-B twice.
The mushrooms we got were ground to a powder and mixed with cranberry juice, only 1.75g each (we had a nice trippy and introspective buzz off a gram of semilanceata last week and wanted to get a similar experience just turned up a notch), we vaped a small amount of hashish and had a few balloons of nitrous oxide then we all downed the mixture at about 4pm. The first weird thing I noticed was after another balloon I felt the first mushroom effects, only 10 minutes after ingestion, and after another 30-40 minutes it seemed to be at its peak. I get come up anxiety normally but the trip itself felt very strange, I was extremely confused and couldn't really string sentences together, I also had the very confusing feeling of being kind of sober while at the same time tripping very intensely. I kept cycling through waves of sobriety, confusion, anxiety, nausea, etc.. My girlfriend became very confused and seemed to forget who and were she was, she kept standing and staring into space, sitting in strange positions, myself and my friend were doing this also but not quite as bad. She was also gurning somewhat and clenching/stretching her jaw almost as if she'd taken MDMA. I also had a similar mental feeling to when I have had negative experiences on MDMA. It felt like I had been poisoned/become kind of delirious. Anyway eventually I became very concerned about my girlfriend and gave her an etizolam 1mg which calmed her somewhat, I eventually took one too. Our other friend said he was having a good time although on a fine line between freaking out due to the confusion. He went to see another friend briefly while we both calmed down with another sober friend who had brought some diazepam. At about 6pm our other tripping buddy came back and the effects seemed to be mostly wearing off for us, which seemed strange considering we'd only dosed two hours earlier. Anxiety seemed to be returning so we each took 2.5mg diazepam and finally managed to relax. We were mostly fine after that but my girlfriend felt a bit mentally traumatised from the experience.
So basically I'm wondering if you can get 'bad' mushrooms? That could make you feel ill/poisoned in this kind of way? The lack of ability to think coherently or put words together made it feel as if I'd consumed something toxic. Of course it could be just a bad set/setting and therefore bad trip, but I've had one very bad trip before on 2.5g of cubensis and although it was terrifying I was still able to think and process the experience while it was happening, where in this case I felt too ill and confused to process anything if that makes sense. Also everyone that took them experienced similar effects. Thanks for any advice you can give.
Edit: the mushrooms came powdered btw, I didn't powder them myself
Myself and two others took some mushrooms yesterday, the strain was p. cubensis 'Ecuador'. My girlfriend and I are pretty experience with psychedelics, I've used B+ cubensis twice before, p. semilanceata once, LSD twice, 2C-B seven times, mescaline three times, 4-AcO-DMT twice, and MDMA about ten times (doses usually at about 'standard' level, 2.5g shrooms, 150mics acid, 20mg 2cb etc), my girlfriend similar but a little less. Our tripping buddy had tripped a low dose of semilanceata once before, has used quite a bit of MDMA and has done bk-2C-B twice.
The mushrooms we got were ground to a powder and mixed with cranberry juice, only 1.75g each (we had a nice trippy and introspective buzz off a gram of semilanceata last week and wanted to get a similar experience just turned up a notch), we vaped a small amount of hashish and had a few balloons of nitrous oxide then we all downed the mixture at about 4pm. The first weird thing I noticed was after another balloon I felt the first mushroom effects, only 10 minutes after ingestion, and after another 30-40 minutes it seemed to be at its peak. I get come up anxiety normally but the trip itself felt very strange, I was extremely confused and couldn't really string sentences together, I also had the very confusing feeling of being kind of sober while at the same time tripping very intensely. I kept cycling through waves of sobriety, confusion, anxiety, nausea, etc.. My girlfriend became very confused and seemed to forget who and were she was, she kept standing and staring into space, sitting in strange positions, myself and my friend were doing this also but not quite as bad. She was also gurning somewhat and clenching/stretching her jaw almost as if she'd taken MDMA. I also had a similar mental feeling to when I have had negative experiences on MDMA. It felt like I had been poisoned/become kind of delirious. Anyway eventually I became very concerned about my girlfriend and gave her an etizolam 1mg which calmed her somewhat, I eventually took one too. Our other friend said he was having a good time although on a fine line between freaking out due to the confusion. He went to see another friend briefly while we both calmed down with another sober friend who had brought some diazepam. At about 6pm our other tripping buddy came back and the effects seemed to be mostly wearing off for us, which seemed strange considering we'd only dosed two hours earlier. Anxiety seemed to be returning so we each took 2.5mg diazepam and finally managed to relax. We were mostly fine after that but my girlfriend felt a bit mentally traumatised from the experience.
So basically I'm wondering if you can get 'bad' mushrooms? That could make you feel ill/poisoned in this kind of way? The lack of ability to think coherently or put words together made it feel as if I'd consumed something toxic. Of course it could be just a bad set/setting and therefore bad trip, but I've had one very bad trip before on 2.5g of cubensis and although it was terrifying I was still able to think and process the experience while it was happening, where in this case I felt too ill and confused to process anything if that makes sense. Also everyone that took them experienced similar effects. Thanks for any advice you can give.
Edit: the mushrooms came powdered btw, I didn't powder them myself
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