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mushrooms - beginner - fun to depressing

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sh0ck3r

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dose: 2 grams of blackish white mushrooms
time: 12:00 midnight
mind state: somewhat burnt out from smoking bud a few hours before
company: 1 friend
past experience: did 1 gram of mushrooms a week before
i ingested 2 grams of mushrooms, which tasted like total shit. it took about 20-30 minutes to start to kick in. when it did, i got a cool, chilling body buzz and a rising feeling, and eventually, i started hallucinating slightly, thinking i was seeing shit moving in the corner of my eye. i was laughing pretty hard.
eventually, i was fully tripping. everything was fucked up. i was mindlessly racing from point A to point B, doing whatever to keep myself occupied. looking in the mirror was great fun. as i looked in a particularly dark mirror, i saw insanely red veins protrude out of my face, and it seemed like the surface of my face was a dynamic, ever-changing painting or something. it was freaky, yet fascinating and addictive.
i was having a fun time, and eventually i smoked a gram of good bud between 2 people, and i felt even more fucked up. my friend put in the movie "Hotshots" and we began watching it. i was totally uninterested in it and felt very restless and kept shifting positions. i don't know if the movie was good or not, but it was kinda pissing me off, and this might have been responsible for what happened next...
eventually i started feeling weird and depressed, and questioning the point of living. i soon went to bed. i was a total wreck. i almost felt like killing myself. i so desperately wanted the effects of the mushrooms to end. i sat there in great discomfort while my friend laughed and seemingly had a great time. i went to sleep and still felt like this, it wasn't cool at all.....but when i woke up, i felt normal. for the entire day after, i felt mostly normal, but still kinda shitty.
i talked to an experienced shroomer and he told me that sometimes people get caught in one nasty thought and they can't escape it from their head. usually when i'm high, i like to listen to music or play ping pong or something, but this time, i was quite bored, just watching a shitty movie. could this have been what set me into the misery? or did i just have a bad trip? were the mushrooms bad? i want to trip again but i'm terrified of that depressed feeling returning. i'm confused.
-shocker
 
a similar experience happened to me, where the trip kinda turned in a negative direction and i just wanted to end it and escape to the way things were... and honestly i bet it could happen again next time. you probably didn't have bad mushrooms, i'm pretty sure of that. After a little while, i talked more and more about my experience with people, and i thought about it more and more and i ended up taking only the positive things from the night...
maybe time will allow you to come to peace with your experience. if you enter your next trip still terrified of what MIGHT happen, there's a good chance that it will. if instead you find that you're very enthousiastic about your next trip and you're confident that you will be able to control it, there's a better chance that you'll have an overall experience. instead of fighting the negative, the best is to just let go and try and stay in the moment.
(keep in mind this is only the advice of a novice) ;) -chris
 
Yeah... i have expreienced two associates of mine have a similar time when eating shrooms... Both of them fell into fits of crying and could not stop, nor knew why they were crying... I think mushrooms can do this...
Next time don't sit watching a movie, go outside and play with nature, mushies are wicked for this, and when you don't feel like being outside anymore, throw on some music and have a boogie... don't allow yrself to have thorts, just yr brain on the move...
Next time too, try just one gram and iff you want after a while, have more... but as with all drugs take a low dose to start with and build up... :)
Peace
 
i think everybody has had their share of bad loops. i tripped on about 30 grams of fresh cubensis, that translates to about 3 grams dried, about a month ago. i was accompanied by my girlfriend who ate about 20 grams. as my usual practice, i blended them up in orange juice, sat on the couch and proceeded to watch tv, as tv gets me through the first hour in which i am very nauseated every time. it took about 20 minutes to kick in(hence the reason for blending ^^). and for the first time i actually got scared. a friend of ours grew them and they had some white fuzzy stuff on the stems, which turned out to be vermiculite growing up them a bit, not dangerous at all. but i still had doubts when i ate them, so for about 2 hours i kept thinking in my mind that this was it, i was going to die totally whacked outta my mind on shrooms. it didn't make it any better that Deuce Bigelow: Male Giggolo was on the tv. but after the movie was over i finally convinced myself to get up off the couch and instantly the fear of dying was gone. that had never happened before and i've previously done abuot 40 grams of fresh shrooms, but with different people. in my oppinion, the key to not freaking out, is to go into the trip with a totally open mind. be prepared to deal with a bad loop, but don't expect one. it also helps a whole lot if you do it with close friends. me and two of my other friends always have amazing trips if its just us three. it's wacky, but hey, do what you must to have a good time.
 
I am not sure if movies could make your trip go bad, I wouldn't think so.. depends on content I guess.. If it is annoying you your mind will get bored and on mushrooms, there will be 1000's of thoughts going through your head at a time like this.. bad ones can easily stand out and turn into 1000 bad thoughts. It may be interesting to note the first time I took mushrooms, I was at a house where people were watching movies, and disturbing ones at that. That could of been one of the causes my peak went bad.
Anyway, don't watch movies, they are way too hard to follow in the mushroom state of mind, and they seem to take days to end... and if you start to feel like you did, go for a walk (note: walking alone may make you paranoid.. so get a friend or think happy thoughts ;) ). Do something you enjoy, listen to something you enjoy.. Take a bot bath while listening to White Rbabit (but don't drop the tape recorder in the bath!).. etc.. just do something to change your state of mind.
Also, marijuana combined with mushrooms makes your mind race faster, and would most likely kick visuals in more.. this may to be too uncomfortable while peaking so if you are going to smoke, try doing it after the peak.. Next time you trip don't think about the last trip at all.. this could kick in more weird thoughts.. I know how you felt.. I was convinced I took the wrong mushrooms and I wasn't actually tripping, but I was poisened and was going to die. It all passes and know you ARE tripping and you are OK and you will be down soon.
Another thought about marijuana, I know pot comedowns for me can be bad.. headaches, muscle pain etc.. extreme tiredness.. this could of contributed to the uncomfortableness you encountered.
There could be a millions reasons, if you are the type of person that always needs to be in control of themselves and their mind, maybe mushrooms are not for you.. You just have to ride the wave and go with the flow.. Don't fight it.
BTW, Thank you for posting your report! :)
 
thank you for the responses. if i ever use mushrooms again, i'll be sure not to watch a movie and do something more enjoyable like listen to music or whatever. it was an interesting experience overall, i just wish it hadn't gone sour.
 
I really don't have much to add to the responses that others have made about your experience, but I myself dealt with a similar experience not too long ago. Here is a link to my report, and the helpful responses I recieved
torture
hope this helps a bit :)
 
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