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Mushrooms, first time.CRAZY HELL

jex

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Well, I've never written a trip report, but i thought I might like to share this insane experience I once had.

My friend's and I had never tried psychedelics before, but had once heard mention of magic mushrooms which grow in cow shit. I live in a farm area so my friends and I thought we'd go for a stroll and have a look. It was that simple, I did not have to look. My friend glanced down and noticed two blue-tinged mushrooms poking out. We then proceeded to collect more. Hundreds more, which would allow us each to consume aproximately 60 shrooms (predominantly copelandia cyanscens, but some cubensis as well) or 90 grams fresh. I was a little intimidated by what we knew was a large dose ( we did not know how freaking large it really was though) but my friend assured me that we'd be fine, you can't od, and he's sure we could take it mentally. Naively I agreed.

My boyfriend consumed his proportion of the tea first. As soon as he finished he began acting strangely, claiming "his arm had run away from him" and acting energetic. I was next. Within 5 minutes ( I drank mine very quickly) I felt...indescribably odd, knowing somehting was about to happen...Something...Overwhelming. I warned my last friend doing the mushrooms to not drink all of his tea - he did not listen, even as I rolled around in the extremely deep grass, my closed eyes exploding with never-ending patterns.

I recall everything being so dark... I couldn't see. It was all patterns everywhere, and the tiny park we were in ( about 7m by 7m) was endless. Simple things were so confusing, sounds came from the wrong area. I lost my phone and later discovered I never had it on me to lose. The sky was blinding. I walked over to the bark in the bark and it deveoped into patterns and 'sent me a mind message' to not lie down. So constantly I had this fear that if I lay down, something dreadful would happen. What seemed hours later I eventually lay down - a mistake. I couldn't get up. I was paralysed, my muscles wouldn't work. It was all so confusing and absolute hell. Everything kept happening in circles. My boyfriend who drank his first kept jumping around and screaming "ow, kurt cobain, suicide note! ow! kurt cobain suicide note!!!!" (he has no recollection of this). A phone kept ringing the same ring tone. Over and over. My friend who drank the tea first disappeared ( he was later found by his neighbours in his boxers and one shoe, no idea about anything). It was HELL! ABSOLUTE HELL. I couldn't move and nothing worked. I was crying and screaming, and hoping desperately the cops would find us and take us to hospital. My friend who'd had his last was next to me. At one point we had a rational conversation about how sure we were that we were dying. I admitted I didn't believe I would get any effects, then porceeded to beg desperately for him to kill me. He was incapable of helping me. I just wanted to die, to end it, I just wnated to hurry up and reach death. I desperately desired a knife, or gun, or rock or anything. HELL, ABSOLUTE HELL. It went forvever and ever, forever and ever....In circles...phone ringing...suicide note... I wasn't sure if I was lying down or standing up, I couldn't talk, my tongue kept getting stuck and my own voice was so loud within my head. So I couldn't communicate, couldn't move, couldn't die, though I wnated nothing more. My greatest fear was that I was dead, and this was the afterlife and it would go on and on. There was a point - a point where I knew I could let go and lose my sanity and never come back. I just knew. I knew it would help make me make sense of things if I agreed to sacrifice my sanity, and as I tried to let go, the moment passed, and the hell returned.

Eventually I stood up, capable of movement, things were becoming clearer. I found some toilets and washed the vomit out of my hair. My friend found me, didn't believe it was me, then went outside to look for me. I was goign to help him, becuase i really hoped I wasn't me. My veins were so blue... It turned out it hadn't been a whole night, a whole day and into the next night (as I was sure it had to have been) but it had only been 3 hours. We proceeded to walk the 3km home, and never ever take such a large dose again.

SUMMARY : DO NOT EVER DO THIS MUCH. EVER. EVER! Especially on a first time.
 
Fuck, that's the kind of thing that scares me about mushrooms more than LSD. Glad you got through it in the end!:)
 
Wow... Thank you for the nice report. It sounds absolute horrible. I had an experince like that a couple of years ago, so I know a little about that suicide-feeling. Have you done shrooms since?

--Chaos
 
It doesn't seem like you were exactly a pro at picking shrooms. Is it possible they were sprayed with some funky pesticide on the farm or it was something different? It really didnt seem like a trip to me? Just an all out nightmare? Ive done 15g of dried mushrooms and tripped intense, but a good trip. Sounds weird.:( Ive never felt suicide feelings either. My best guess is that your body which has never had psychs wasn't ready for something so intense and in such a volume. It is very good you were outside and not near anything that could hurt you though. If you plan on using mushrooms again maybe it is a good idea to get a sitter?
 
Yes, I've done shrooms since. A few different doses - I've had a couple of light trips and another strong one that was just over half the dose. I'm suprised I did it again, every time at the beginning one of my friends and I just start thinking... oh god... why did we do this again!? But they all ended up to be enjoyable and fun. The shrooms we picked were definately magic mushrooms - not amanitas or anything. We were aware of the various poisonous mushrooms after a few hours of research. We carefully identified each one - but - we weren't aware to steer away from femented mushrooms, and a few we included were nearly completely black. The tea we created smelled awful - not mushroomy like the future teas we made.
 
I've had this happen when I was first beginning to pick shrooms. My friend and I had an abnormally large find, so we just cooked all the shrooms into a tea split amongst 5 people. Everyone ended up insane... I had to spend most of the night convincing someone to at least wait until they were sober to decide to kill themselves, which wasn't easy as I was sure I had become part of my bathroom wall.

If I can say anything about it, its that you need to know your dose. Nobody was prepared, and it sounds just like that in your report. Tea can be really unpredictable like that.... I generally don't like shrooms anymore at all, but when I do choose to do them still, I make sure I count each and every shroom I eat (if fresh), or know the weight if dried.

Random amounts in tea can be wild...
 
Yeah mushrooms are no joke. I quickly found that out on my first trip.
 
i was in amsterdam on my first trip about 3 months ago! Never again am i touching them, i was sooo scared, n was thinking fucked up thoughts! i think i'll stick to ecstacy
 
That 'fear of insanity' thing really destroys the good vibe during a trip.:)

I've had similarly intense trips where I knew this was the end, 'when these drugs wear off I will awake in a straight jacket, padded cell, never to be let free, and my friends will come and watch me like some zoo animal'. At the time suicide never entered my thoughts, but I accepted my life as I knew it was over, and just embraced insanity. Unlike LSD trips, on mushrooms my entire field of vision began to rotate uncontrollably, like someone had taken a still picture, and then pinned it to a wheel and randomly rotating it. My entire sense of balance was gone, and the only thing I felt comfortable doing, was laughing hysterically and rolling / convulsing on the ground. I remember forming the sentence 'I'm in desperate need of medical attention', but then finding the sound of my own voice so hilarious that my friends were convinced I was joking, as was I. Thankfully I was at a good friend's house, so there was no paranoia about getting arrested or engaging with straight people. I feel mentally I am quite strong, and it wasn't long before I calmed down and knew the drugs will slowly wear off- I could focus on coherent thoughts, recall the names of my friends, where I was, and kind of understand the dislocated thoughts, fragmented gibberish that had filled the air for the last eternity.

Kudos to the OP for having subsequent experiences with mushrooms despite such an overwhelming first time.:)
 
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