Mushroom Issue

[Lord Armagoth]

I have tripped hundreds of times in my life on Lsd, mushrooms mescalin(spelling?), I got a hold of some mushrooms like 5 years ago and I only ingested 3 grams, well I had a trip like I've never had on shrooms. I saw a giant alien like beetle eating my legs off, blood and all. I had intense visuals, such as talking trees, asparagus growing everywhere lol. anyway I have never had a trip this visual and intense on shrooms. I have grown mushrooms and was very experienced in tripping at the time. When I take good acid or mescalin I get very vivid visuals. Mushrooms I always get pattern like visuals, a more sloppy kind of trip compared to acid in my opinion, where acid feels like a more clean trip, more smooth. The longest Ive tripped on acid was 53 hours before I started to come down, I took 5 hits of blotter, I would take one hit and then when I started peaking I would take two more and then two more. Ever since I had that bad trip on the shrooms I'm kinda scared to take them, I've eaten acid plenty of times since and no problem there but something about mushrooms makes me worried I will have another badf trip. Anyone think those mushrooms I took were a bad batch or just some really kick ass shit I couldnt handle. I would really like to take shrooms again in my life and enjoy them. I dont trip like I used to, now I only trip like maybe twice a year. any suggestions on how to get over this???

 

[Karcinogenious]

There are different types of mushrooms that are much stronger than typical cubes, like azurascen for example, sounds like it could have been that perhaps...but who knows really, no one could tell you for sure especially people on the Internet.

 

[Lord Armagoth]

Yea I have tried many many diffrent strains of shrooms, liberty caps were my fav that I grew. People I've discussed this with around that time believed that they might have been more of a poisonous variety than phsycadelic, or that they were somehow laced with something. what got me was the visuals, never got anything that real on shrooms. Any thoughts on getting past the anxiety of taking them again? I'm just really worried about another bad trip. And its my belief that you need to be in a really good mind set before taking any hallucinagen.

 

[thoughtsUnThought]

Practice meditations to quell anxiety

Hold them and feel their presence, ask them f you are to return. If you silence yourself you should be able to feel the gravity of their resonance with your thoughts.

Best of progressions

 

[Lord Armagoth]

Never thought to try meditation,

 

[thoughtsUnThought]

Works Wonders, if you'd like to chat about it you can pm me

Mushrooms can be pretty overwhelming. My last exp was giving me mixed signals about their place in my life...ultimately though, the exp helped me to grow, and for that I am grateful. often the path of our progress crosses the swamps of struggle, but without them the days we spend laughing in the fields and discussing existence with the woods would be less profound. The balance of human exp, ever to catch ya off-guard

 

[thoughtsUnThought]

I've got like 3 friends on here whom have asked about my input regarding anxiety and meditation. After just reading this I wrote a fatty response to all of them, and if you'd like me to message it to you as well I will. It's pretty poetic and abstract, possibly a lot to take in. Lol, but it may be insightful, it is my take on the energetic and experential dynamics of anxieties, taken from my own work of evolution through 7 years of daily meditations. I've definitely had anxieties and recently been processing the break-up of my first love whom I lived with for a year...so I've been bouncing fresh ideas around regarding the process of not becoming overwhelmed and swallowed-up-consciously by our emotions and/or thoughts. It's been working for me lol

 

[eye_wide_open]

Anyone think those mushrooms I took were a bad batch or just some really kick ass shit I couldnt handle.

Dude I have had tons of shrooms before too but recently found a real super massive ego death on just two grams of what I deem to be the most powerful shrooms I ever had.

I took some before that, about two grams, with some MXE.. and it was the most beautiful and colorful experience I ever had on drugs before. Rainbows everywhere. Rainbow speccghetti and meatballs CEV. Walls breathing and rainbows and stuff mooving and melting and dripping with OEV.
Even broke through my own egeo death on that trip. (should have seen the next trip ego death coming!)

Faces and melting things and eyes everywhere and scary thoughts of suicide and creepy thoughts like nobody loves me and nobody cares and mushrooms were a truth serum etc etc etc. All just a bunch of tripped out nonsense I couldn't see around while on such powerful shrooms. I called for my sitter and needed help.

The thing is, I still value mushrooms and I'm not scared of them.

Only, this bag, I don't need to eat a full two grams anymore. lol
A gram gets me right where I'm happy to be.

Slightly confused, body feels like the fungus is flowing through me, have some giggly effects and some visuals, some walls breathing and some colors and stuff moving in the corners of my eyes. Lasts about 5 hours and I pass out feeling the fungus in me feeling great and wake up refreshed but slightly depressed. lol

I think what you had was some powerful shrooms that you dosed too high for what you were expecting and things got out of hand.

Keep in mind your dosage can vary from day to day what you can handle too.
Settings and friends can help a lot.

If you just sit here in your room and take stuff like me things are bound to get a little out of hand sometimes. Having somebody there who understand and knows what you are doing and can help if you get scared is the key I think.

Love really is all you need man.
If you know people love you and you know they're there to help and care about you I think you'll be alright even if you do have a bad trip. The shroomies will wear off and you'll be back to normal as long as you don't do anything stupid to hurt yourself.

Our loved ones understand our explorations and want to help.
Find somebody who will help and explain to them the help you may need.
Then you have nothing to fear. Let losoe.
Whatever happens will be good for you, even if it's a nasty all too real ego death full of the truth.

I don't regret my ego death trip on shrooms. A real eye opener.
I do regret not better preparing my sitter though. She was quite surprised and unready to handle that. haha. She knew I was on shrooms but none of us knew it could do that to you. After all I thought I had taken shrooms tons of times and nothing could go wrong..

I think the point of all this is..
buy a large enough bag to experiment with how many shrooms you need to eat.
So you don't feel like you have to eat the whole eighth or whatever it is just to hit threshold. You can start with half a gram , see what happens, then do a gram, see what happens next night... and so on. Until you find your dose for that strain/bag of shrooms.

Personally, I've come to realize all this has lead to a preference for a milder strain of shrooms. lololol

 

[Lord Armagoth]

yea thoughtsunthought message that to me I'd like to check it out. Yea I havnt taken any hallucinagen in a few years now but its something that I have really enjoyed in the past. Something that definatley clears my head and allows me to open my mind a bit. I totally agree on the settings of your surrounding and the people with you. The next time I'm able I think I will try the meditations and be with good friends. I had just never had a time like I did that night. I was so freaked out I almost checked my self in the hospital. It just goes to show that no matter how experienced I thought I was there was something out there that blew me away. I dont even have anymore connects for fungus but maybe ill order me another kit and grow again. My life has been stressfull recently dealing with opiate addiction and I need to go back to my roots. Shrooms have always allowed me to deal with mental stress and feel good about myself, I miss them honestly. Thanks for the input guys.

 

[webbykevin]

I scared myself shitless on a heroic 8 gram dose, It took ages before i could get the courage up to do them again, but I did find a way to gently re introduce them into my life, I started by taking really sub threshold doses, like 1/2 a gram, then 1 gram then 2 grams, then back to 1 gram, I found that I had heaps less anxiety because I knew that i was not going to get my ass kicked and when the first wave hit it was really soft and gentle, like a low dose of mdma, really comforting and reassuring.

I also dropped 1 gram about 2 hours onto a big lsd trip and the shrooms came on in a really colourful way and just added some amazing shroomy organic iridescent blues and purples to the acid visuals, was really cool.