sparkle_jez
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A Return to Mushrooms-fairly experienced-40 grams mexican cubensis
Dose: 40 grams fresh Mexican Cubensis. + appox. 1/16 of Skunk + Alcohol
Due to the fact that fresh magic mushrooms may be coming illegal here in the UK in June, I took the opportunity to buy a kilo from an online supplier…..Well that and the fact I hadn’t taken them for 6 months and I knew inside me that it was time to rekindle the power of the mushroom (at one point I was taking shrooms once a month, and I can honestly say during that period I felt extremely good about my life and saw everything with an almost perfect clarity!)!!!
I was delighted to finally collect and sign for them from the postman at my door on Wednesday morning. I had been slightly anxious about the fact they had to come all the way from Amsterdam, and was worried that they’d go mouldy or pick up some nasty infections. But as it turned out, they looked very healthy and quite delicious!
Now I didn’t take any the mushrooms until the following Friday night because to be honest I didn’t really have a window of opportunity and didn’t want to trip with my parents in my house (tried that one before, I didn’t like it very much!). So Friday night a friend of mine had a free house.
To be honest, it was a spare of the moment thing.
Me and a group of friends were sat in the pub, as you do on a Friday night. Though me and one of my best friends, who we’ll call K, had decided to go easy on the booze because we planned to trip by the river out in the sticks the next day.
As it happened however, we met another friend in the pub who said he had a free house and that we should go back to his to take the mushrooms (we‘ll call him E). After a bit of convincing, K agreed. Also, my childhood friend and undoubtedly my best friend who I’ve known since I was 4 (we’re now both 21) M said he’d get a taxi to E’s a bit later. Hurrah!
After stopping off at my house to collect the shrooms, me K and E get a taxi back to his.
Now, it must be said E’s house is probably one of the best places you could take psychedelic drugs!
It’s actually situated in the middle of nowhere, out in the countryside in a big valley with a river not too far away. It’s basically a very large cottage surrounded by a massive garden which backs up into some woodland. In the garden are seats in the shape of mushrooms, all sorts of weird plants, and lots of Alice in wonderland-style figures.
Once you get inside the ’cottage’ you have beautifully bright and vibrant walls and furniture, all highly decorative. You have tapestries absolutely everywhere; on the rugs, carpets, walls etc. It’s very cosy.
Once we get there we basically cut straight to the chase.
K and E put some music on whilst I get to work making one of my ‘special’ tea’s.
I basically chop about 120 grams of mushrooms up into tiny pieces, and add them into 3 separate mugs. Then I add a dash of ground ginger. K and E moan at this, but I ensure them that ginger will eliminate virtually all nausea and any chance of vomiting (especially for E who has disregarded my advice yet again and had several pints of lager in the pub beforehand).
Finally I add tea bags and hot water, a tiny dash of milk and liberal amounts of sugar.
We all sit down at the table in the dinning room. We decide to put on the ‘Moldy Peaches’ album. We start drinking the tea. Me and K chug it down quite easily and quickly, E is having problems with the texture and is gagging occasionally. This is what you get for drinking before attempting to eat mushrooms kids!
After about 10 minutes me and K are already feeling the first effects, having drunk the whole brew within about 5 minutes. E is drinking his slower, and can’t believe we are feeling effects already.
I’ve always favoured the mushroom tea method of administration. It hits me hard and very fast. No waiting around . Straight to the ‘point‘!
It’s T+0.10.00mins. I’m feeling that anxious-as-hell feeling accompanied by thoughts of; “perhaps 40 grams was too much for us….”, but I know this is most probably just the mushrooms talking. I try to ignore I as best I can.
I talk to K to see how he’s getting on. We smile and look into each other’s eyes with a knowingness off what both of us are feeling! I begin to get the giggles. This sets off K and E too. The music is starting to sound very very weird and loud. It seems to be vibrating all the way through my body, which is alittle bit uncomfortable, so I ask E to turn it down a little.
I look down on the table, and I’m sort of find myself trying to read the newspaper, but the only word that I can focus on is the word ’magic’ on a headline.
I start laughing wildly. K and E look at me like I’m a crazy person, so I try to open my mouth to explain, but it comes out entirely wrong, and I’m just rambling nonsense. I now have a serious case of the giggles.
T+0.20.00minutes:
M rings the doorbell. But we don’t know it is M.
Me and K jump out of our seats because I’ve got it into my head that E’s parents have come home early, and I think at how bad that situation would be, with a fridge full of magic mushrooms (not too mention a head full) in our condition!
We are both relieved to see M walk into the room.
Me and K are seriously spaced out now, just sat down at the table, looking around at the walls with suspicion. Pupil dilation is extreme, as it always seems to be with me and psychedelics.
Me and K are already getting some powerful visuals, and I know this is going to be a strong trip. This doesn’t bother me however, as the anxiety has begun to subside and I know things settle down after about 30-45 minutes. K, however, only having done magic mushrooms once before, does not, and is looking scared! He doesn’t seem to be able to communicate, but nods when asked if he is alright.
M is finding the whole situation quite hilarious, whilst E is beginning to come-up now.
M decides he wants to join us in psychedelic, so I let him help himself to my mushies.
T+0.30.00minutes:
M has made himself a shroom tea with a mint tea-bag! I find this hilarious.
E has gone to the toilet because he thinks he’s going to spew.
K is just looking around and occasionally smiling at the walls. I can tell he’s really far gone.
The anxiety for me has almost subsided now, but I’m feeling really restless.
This is unusual because I usually just want to sit down or lay down whilst on shrooms because they seem to make me sleepy. But not this time. I get the urge to dance and I want to explore my environment. I’m starting to get very euphoric. I can’t stop smiling.
The walls are now breathing, I’m getting wild trailing on movement, and white lights and candles are radiating a beautiful rainbow colour. I’m getting constant movement , not just in my peripheral, but everywhere. I’m beginning to really let go, go with the flow, and appreciate everything around me.
T+0.40.00minutes:
E has decided it’s all too much and wants to be left alone, so goes upstairs to his room. Me and M try convincing him that this a good way to have a bad trip. I try getting him to come downstairs for a bit to see how he feels but he wont have any of it. So we decide to leave him alone.
K, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be fairing much better. Me and M have retired to the longue, but K is just sat by himself on a chair in the kitchen. He is totally irresponsive. I sit by him and ask him if he is okay. He can’t really talk, only stare blankly at me and nod. I’m pretty worried because I can’t recall someone looking this spaced out on shrooms ever! So I go through what I’ve memorised off of erowid about what to do if people are having bad trips (psychedelic crisis FAQ). I ask him if he feels bad, scared, upset etc. He nods no.
So I ask if he’s too hot, cold, etc. Again, he nods no. Finally I just give up. I ask if he’s alright to be left alone, he nods yes.
I felt a bit selfish for doing this, but I was having such a great time I didn’t want anything to get in the way of it. Besides, M was right when he said to me that there is fuck all we can do for him, especially since he can’t communicate.
T+1.00hrs:
I’m peaking now and loving it!
M has only just become to come-up, and is disappointed because it always takes extremely long for drugs to hit him. For example, I drop a pill and after 20-30 minutes I’m up, whilst he has been known to take up to an hour and a half! Mushrooms don’t seem to be an exception here.
Still, we both agree that it’s time to go for a walk outside!
We walk around the garden for a bit, and it’s about 1.30am now. The only light we have is from the security lights, and we go into the edge of the woodland where it’s pretty much pitch black. This really fucks about with me, as I’m getting insane visuals in the dark. Imaginary branches seem to be a favourite here!
We then begin to walk down what seems like a narrow gully. We have the urge to just keep on walking, M is beginning to trip now, and we’re both fucking about making noises trying to scare each other (but instead we’re just making each other laugh). We’re both feeling quite masochistic and agree we both want to sketch each other out as badly as possible!
So we continue walking down this gully. I suddenly point out something in the distance. A dull sort of greenish slight. We walk further. I’m really curious to find out what it is. M asks if we can turn back, I tell him to stop being a pussy.
Suddenly I point out that this thing in the distance looks like a hollow pipe. I convince both of us we’ve stumbled across an opening to a sewer! But why is it glowing green?
We walk closer and closer, and I suddenly point out there are two silhouettes starring back at us! We freak out a bit, and walk closer an closer sort of holding on to each other! We are shitting ourselves completely, but are driven on by our curiosity.
Then M bursts out into hysterical laughter. I tell him to be quiet or ’they’ll’ hear us!
They turn out to be our shadows! The ’sewer’ opening turns out to be the ’road’, and the ’strange green light’ turned out to be the fucking security light back from the house reflecting on the road!
We collapse with laughter. Then M suddenly without warning spews. Then we are plunged into total darkness as the security light from back at the house goes out.
We have to stumble back to the house, which takes about 10 minutes. It’s made harder by the fact that I’m constantly seeing figures walking next to me who keep putting there arm around me, but when I look around at them they look away…..These are some serious visuals.
T+1.30hrs-T+3.00hrs
We are safely back in the house now, and we are both in the lounge. We check on K. But alas, we still can’t get any response off of him.
We check on E. He doesn’t look like he’s really having a bad time, he’s just watching TV in his room in the dark with a grin on his face, yet he wants to be left alone and tells me mushrooms definitely aren’t for him. I agree this is probably case, this is the second time out of 2 attempts he’s found mushrooms overwhelming (but not paticulary ‘bad‘).
So it’s become blatantly obvious at this point that it’s just going to be me and M for the remainder of the evening. This doesn’t bother me, in fact I’m pretty pleased because like I said, me and M have known each other for around 16 years. We were completely comfortable to act like idiots around each other, and speak our minds!
We basically spent the remainder of the peak effects walking around the house playing with swords (until it got a bit dangerous) and acting like children. Mushrooms definately do bring out the child in me, and the same seemed to be happening with M.
We spent much of the peak discussing our childhood memories which seemed to be much more vivid and going off on stupid tangents and cracking jokes (and smoking A LOT of skunk).
T3.00hrs-T+6.00hrs:
I came down fairly abruptly at around T+2.30hrs-3.00hrs, the visuals subsided within 30 minutes of me noticing a change in my mental state.
We decided to put on the Simpson’s DVD and just chill on the two sofas smoking green and drinking a few beers.
Initially I did feel that feeling of sadness and disappointment in that the trip was subsiding. But I tried to focus on the fun risidual effects and I smoked loads of skunk and that seemed to bring me back up for a time being, and into a better mood.
At around T+5.00hrs K had snapped out of it. He was talking normally again.
We asked him what the hell happened. And if he had a bad trip.
Basically he explained that he was tripping so hard that he couldn’t see anything because everything was melting and swirling and blending into one. He explained that he couldn’t talk. He said it was actually quite a nice trip, just a bit too powerful! He said he felt absolutely fine an back to normal. Me and M were astonished.
T
he rest of the night, or what was left of it was spent enjoying the giggly after effects and getting very very drunk and stoned! We went off on some absolutely crazy tangents; e.g M kept trying to get me to climb into a fish tank……. I only wish we recorded some of our conversations!
We went home at about 7.00AM , at about T+7.00hrs. I had no trouble getting to sleep when I got home , probably because I was so drunk and had been up all night!
The next day I did feel quite down in the dumps for no apparent reason, but the day after I felt pretty much my normal self again.
Summary:
This was quite different to all my other mushroom trips.
Firstly, I seemed to have a lot more energy than usual, and had strong urges to dance and walk around and explore my surroundings. I’m usually not up for walking about too much. I find mushrooms to be almost sedating compared to the stimulant properties of LSD.
Secondly, this was accompanied by a very strong feeling of euphoria. Sure, I have experienced some euphoric states on both LSD and mushrooms before (not too mention a myriad of other drugs), but this was extremely intense, almost like I’d taken some molly, yet not artificial and more ’real’ and a genuine sense of everything being right with the world.
I had virtually no introspective moments on this trip, which is highly unusual for me. I can’t actually focus on what , if anything, this trip revealed or taught me. It was just great fun!
I don’t think there was actually one negative part of this trip. I just felt very euphoric, very childish and, most strangely; I actually found it much easier to communicate my thoughts and ideas and was willing to do so much more than usual. I was highly talkative.
How much of this was to do with the set and setting , I don’t know. But this serves as a very useful lesson on just how much influence the people around you and your environment at the time has on your trip.
It also taught me that I need to start taking mushrooms on a fairly regular basis again (it’s been far too long) and how wonderful and beneficial psychedelic drugs are.
-Jez-
*EDIT: title.
Dose: 40 grams fresh Mexican Cubensis. + appox. 1/16 of Skunk + Alcohol
Due to the fact that fresh magic mushrooms may be coming illegal here in the UK in June, I took the opportunity to buy a kilo from an online supplier…..Well that and the fact I hadn’t taken them for 6 months and I knew inside me that it was time to rekindle the power of the mushroom (at one point I was taking shrooms once a month, and I can honestly say during that period I felt extremely good about my life and saw everything with an almost perfect clarity!)!!!
I was delighted to finally collect and sign for them from the postman at my door on Wednesday morning. I had been slightly anxious about the fact they had to come all the way from Amsterdam, and was worried that they’d go mouldy or pick up some nasty infections. But as it turned out, they looked very healthy and quite delicious!
Now I didn’t take any the mushrooms until the following Friday night because to be honest I didn’t really have a window of opportunity and didn’t want to trip with my parents in my house (tried that one before, I didn’t like it very much!). So Friday night a friend of mine had a free house.
To be honest, it was a spare of the moment thing.
Me and a group of friends were sat in the pub, as you do on a Friday night. Though me and one of my best friends, who we’ll call K, had decided to go easy on the booze because we planned to trip by the river out in the sticks the next day.
As it happened however, we met another friend in the pub who said he had a free house and that we should go back to his to take the mushrooms (we‘ll call him E). After a bit of convincing, K agreed. Also, my childhood friend and undoubtedly my best friend who I’ve known since I was 4 (we’re now both 21) M said he’d get a taxi to E’s a bit later. Hurrah!
After stopping off at my house to collect the shrooms, me K and E get a taxi back to his.
Now, it must be said E’s house is probably one of the best places you could take psychedelic drugs!
It’s actually situated in the middle of nowhere, out in the countryside in a big valley with a river not too far away. It’s basically a very large cottage surrounded by a massive garden which backs up into some woodland. In the garden are seats in the shape of mushrooms, all sorts of weird plants, and lots of Alice in wonderland-style figures.
Once you get inside the ’cottage’ you have beautifully bright and vibrant walls and furniture, all highly decorative. You have tapestries absolutely everywhere; on the rugs, carpets, walls etc. It’s very cosy.
Once we get there we basically cut straight to the chase.
K and E put some music on whilst I get to work making one of my ‘special’ tea’s.
I basically chop about 120 grams of mushrooms up into tiny pieces, and add them into 3 separate mugs. Then I add a dash of ground ginger. K and E moan at this, but I ensure them that ginger will eliminate virtually all nausea and any chance of vomiting (especially for E who has disregarded my advice yet again and had several pints of lager in the pub beforehand).
Finally I add tea bags and hot water, a tiny dash of milk and liberal amounts of sugar.
We all sit down at the table in the dinning room. We decide to put on the ‘Moldy Peaches’ album. We start drinking the tea. Me and K chug it down quite easily and quickly, E is having problems with the texture and is gagging occasionally. This is what you get for drinking before attempting to eat mushrooms kids!
After about 10 minutes me and K are already feeling the first effects, having drunk the whole brew within about 5 minutes. E is drinking his slower, and can’t believe we are feeling effects already.
I’ve always favoured the mushroom tea method of administration. It hits me hard and very fast. No waiting around . Straight to the ‘point‘!
It’s T+0.10.00mins. I’m feeling that anxious-as-hell feeling accompanied by thoughts of; “perhaps 40 grams was too much for us….”, but I know this is most probably just the mushrooms talking. I try to ignore I as best I can.
I talk to K to see how he’s getting on. We smile and look into each other’s eyes with a knowingness off what both of us are feeling! I begin to get the giggles. This sets off K and E too. The music is starting to sound very very weird and loud. It seems to be vibrating all the way through my body, which is alittle bit uncomfortable, so I ask E to turn it down a little.
I look down on the table, and I’m sort of find myself trying to read the newspaper, but the only word that I can focus on is the word ’magic’ on a headline.
I start laughing wildly. K and E look at me like I’m a crazy person, so I try to open my mouth to explain, but it comes out entirely wrong, and I’m just rambling nonsense. I now have a serious case of the giggles.
T+0.20.00minutes:
M rings the doorbell. But we don’t know it is M.
Me and K jump out of our seats because I’ve got it into my head that E’s parents have come home early, and I think at how bad that situation would be, with a fridge full of magic mushrooms (not too mention a head full) in our condition!
We are both relieved to see M walk into the room.
Me and K are seriously spaced out now, just sat down at the table, looking around at the walls with suspicion. Pupil dilation is extreme, as it always seems to be with me and psychedelics.
Me and K are already getting some powerful visuals, and I know this is going to be a strong trip. This doesn’t bother me however, as the anxiety has begun to subside and I know things settle down after about 30-45 minutes. K, however, only having done magic mushrooms once before, does not, and is looking scared! He doesn’t seem to be able to communicate, but nods when asked if he is alright.
M is finding the whole situation quite hilarious, whilst E is beginning to come-up now.
M decides he wants to join us in psychedelic, so I let him help himself to my mushies.
T+0.30.00minutes:
M has made himself a shroom tea with a mint tea-bag! I find this hilarious.
E has gone to the toilet because he thinks he’s going to spew.
K is just looking around and occasionally smiling at the walls. I can tell he’s really far gone.
The anxiety for me has almost subsided now, but I’m feeling really restless.
This is unusual because I usually just want to sit down or lay down whilst on shrooms because they seem to make me sleepy. But not this time. I get the urge to dance and I want to explore my environment. I’m starting to get very euphoric. I can’t stop smiling.
The walls are now breathing, I’m getting wild trailing on movement, and white lights and candles are radiating a beautiful rainbow colour. I’m getting constant movement , not just in my peripheral, but everywhere. I’m beginning to really let go, go with the flow, and appreciate everything around me.
T+0.40.00minutes:
E has decided it’s all too much and wants to be left alone, so goes upstairs to his room. Me and M try convincing him that this a good way to have a bad trip. I try getting him to come downstairs for a bit to see how he feels but he wont have any of it. So we decide to leave him alone.
K, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be fairing much better. Me and M have retired to the longue, but K is just sat by himself on a chair in the kitchen. He is totally irresponsive. I sit by him and ask him if he is okay. He can’t really talk, only stare blankly at me and nod. I’m pretty worried because I can’t recall someone looking this spaced out on shrooms ever! So I go through what I’ve memorised off of erowid about what to do if people are having bad trips (psychedelic crisis FAQ). I ask him if he feels bad, scared, upset etc. He nods no.
So I ask if he’s too hot, cold, etc. Again, he nods no. Finally I just give up. I ask if he’s alright to be left alone, he nods yes.
I felt a bit selfish for doing this, but I was having such a great time I didn’t want anything to get in the way of it. Besides, M was right when he said to me that there is fuck all we can do for him, especially since he can’t communicate.
T+1.00hrs:
I’m peaking now and loving it!
M has only just become to come-up, and is disappointed because it always takes extremely long for drugs to hit him. For example, I drop a pill and after 20-30 minutes I’m up, whilst he has been known to take up to an hour and a half! Mushrooms don’t seem to be an exception here.
Still, we both agree that it’s time to go for a walk outside!
We walk around the garden for a bit, and it’s about 1.30am now. The only light we have is from the security lights, and we go into the edge of the woodland where it’s pretty much pitch black. This really fucks about with me, as I’m getting insane visuals in the dark. Imaginary branches seem to be a favourite here!
We then begin to walk down what seems like a narrow gully. We have the urge to just keep on walking, M is beginning to trip now, and we’re both fucking about making noises trying to scare each other (but instead we’re just making each other laugh). We’re both feeling quite masochistic and agree we both want to sketch each other out as badly as possible!
So we continue walking down this gully. I suddenly point out something in the distance. A dull sort of greenish slight. We walk further. I’m really curious to find out what it is. M asks if we can turn back, I tell him to stop being a pussy.
Suddenly I point out that this thing in the distance looks like a hollow pipe. I convince both of us we’ve stumbled across an opening to a sewer! But why is it glowing green?
We walk closer and closer, and I suddenly point out there are two silhouettes starring back at us! We freak out a bit, and walk closer an closer sort of holding on to each other! We are shitting ourselves completely, but are driven on by our curiosity.
Then M bursts out into hysterical laughter. I tell him to be quiet or ’they’ll’ hear us!
They turn out to be our shadows! The ’sewer’ opening turns out to be the ’road’, and the ’strange green light’ turned out to be the fucking security light back from the house reflecting on the road!
We collapse with laughter. Then M suddenly without warning spews. Then we are plunged into total darkness as the security light from back at the house goes out.
We have to stumble back to the house, which takes about 10 minutes. It’s made harder by the fact that I’m constantly seeing figures walking next to me who keep putting there arm around me, but when I look around at them they look away…..These are some serious visuals.
T+1.30hrs-T+3.00hrs
We are safely back in the house now, and we are both in the lounge. We check on K. But alas, we still can’t get any response off of him.
We check on E. He doesn’t look like he’s really having a bad time, he’s just watching TV in his room in the dark with a grin on his face, yet he wants to be left alone and tells me mushrooms definitely aren’t for him. I agree this is probably case, this is the second time out of 2 attempts he’s found mushrooms overwhelming (but not paticulary ‘bad‘).
So it’s become blatantly obvious at this point that it’s just going to be me and M for the remainder of the evening. This doesn’t bother me, in fact I’m pretty pleased because like I said, me and M have known each other for around 16 years. We were completely comfortable to act like idiots around each other, and speak our minds!
We basically spent the remainder of the peak effects walking around the house playing with swords (until it got a bit dangerous) and acting like children. Mushrooms definately do bring out the child in me, and the same seemed to be happening with M.
We spent much of the peak discussing our childhood memories which seemed to be much more vivid and going off on stupid tangents and cracking jokes (and smoking A LOT of skunk).
T3.00hrs-T+6.00hrs:
I came down fairly abruptly at around T+2.30hrs-3.00hrs, the visuals subsided within 30 minutes of me noticing a change in my mental state.
We decided to put on the Simpson’s DVD and just chill on the two sofas smoking green and drinking a few beers.
Initially I did feel that feeling of sadness and disappointment in that the trip was subsiding. But I tried to focus on the fun risidual effects and I smoked loads of skunk and that seemed to bring me back up for a time being, and into a better mood.
At around T+5.00hrs K had snapped out of it. He was talking normally again.
We asked him what the hell happened. And if he had a bad trip.
Basically he explained that he was tripping so hard that he couldn’t see anything because everything was melting and swirling and blending into one. He explained that he couldn’t talk. He said it was actually quite a nice trip, just a bit too powerful! He said he felt absolutely fine an back to normal. Me and M were astonished.
T
he rest of the night, or what was left of it was spent enjoying the giggly after effects and getting very very drunk and stoned! We went off on some absolutely crazy tangents; e.g M kept trying to get me to climb into a fish tank……. I only wish we recorded some of our conversations!
We went home at about 7.00AM , at about T+7.00hrs. I had no trouble getting to sleep when I got home , probably because I was so drunk and had been up all night!
The next day I did feel quite down in the dumps for no apparent reason, but the day after I felt pretty much my normal self again.
Summary:
This was quite different to all my other mushroom trips.
Firstly, I seemed to have a lot more energy than usual, and had strong urges to dance and walk around and explore my surroundings. I’m usually not up for walking about too much. I find mushrooms to be almost sedating compared to the stimulant properties of LSD.
Secondly, this was accompanied by a very strong feeling of euphoria. Sure, I have experienced some euphoric states on both LSD and mushrooms before (not too mention a myriad of other drugs), but this was extremely intense, almost like I’d taken some molly, yet not artificial and more ’real’ and a genuine sense of everything being right with the world.
I had virtually no introspective moments on this trip, which is highly unusual for me. I can’t actually focus on what , if anything, this trip revealed or taught me. It was just great fun!
I don’t think there was actually one negative part of this trip. I just felt very euphoric, very childish and, most strangely; I actually found it much easier to communicate my thoughts and ideas and was willing to do so much more than usual. I was highly talkative.
How much of this was to do with the set and setting , I don’t know. But this serves as a very useful lesson on just how much influence the people around you and your environment at the time has on your trip.
It also taught me that I need to start taking mushrooms on a fairly regular basis again (it’s been far too long) and how wonderful and beneficial psychedelic drugs are.
-Jez-
*EDIT: title.
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