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Mushrooms - First time! - not what I expected but in a good way!

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Mushies - First time! - not what I expected but in a good way!

I posted this in reward's thread but it turned out more like a trip report so, posting again!

Last night I had my first mushroom experience too! It was almost exactly like you described.

We were given mushrooms in a capsule (ground up, dried maybe??). There was four capsules. We were told by the person who gave them (as a gift <3) to wait until we were in a park or something to truly experience it. And I had planned to; but I just woke up from a big sleep after an awesome party, and I had had a couple of glasses of wine and felt in the mood to get high again. As you do.

My boyfriend was sleeping on the couch and I did my best to wake him up "Hey baby I want to take the mushrooms!!" He went "nerrrr neeerrrrrrrr" (which means, "fuck off, I'm sleeping") so I reluctantly just took one myself. 1/2 hour later he woke up - I think my words had sunk in, he had a beer and decided to join me.

By this stage I was feeling *different*, but it was nothing major. Just a lovely, peaceful glow, and all the sketchiness and body aches I had been feeling from the night before had dissapeared. I described it to my boyfriend as like "a pill without the come-up", and it was. LOVELY, is the only word that encapsulates that first moment.

Because I was feeling so good and yet not fucked up, I thought, to hell with it - and suggested we take the other one.

I took my 2nd mushy cap about an hour in; my b/f had his maybe 15 minutes after his first. We sat in the computer room talking shit, listening to Pearl Jam and Faith No More... I was still just feeling mildly happy, content and no visuals (yet).

I got the sudden urge to move somewhere more comfy, so I set up the loungeroom: lit some candles, put 5 CD's on random (Silverchair, FNM, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots and Nirvana), got the uggies out. My b/f came in and we put on a dvd of Silverchair's Diorama concert on mute. Thats when the visuals started. We had incence going, and were smoking ciggarettes, and all of a sudden the background of the room sort of "faded out" and all I could see was the two types of smoke, mingling in the air. Then the smoke formed a kind of a "grid", which merged into another image, sort of like a very pixelated photgraph.

I am not a fan of psychadelics at ALL, I don't really enjoy acid, I abhor weed....and I am scared of "seeing things", but this was strangely okay. It wasn't anything to panic over. I didn't feel out of control at all, like I had feared.

I looked over at the couch and my b/f was rocking back and forth. I was just getting into the music, feeling good, enjoying my mild visuals... but by now, he was in another state ENTIRELY. He was squirming and laughing at nothing, hugging himself, rolling around on the couch... all the while being still *concerned* about me: "It's okay baby, I'm fine, I'm enjoying it.... it's just, whoa... can't you feel the rushes???" I'm like "No, not really" *bemused*

It was funny at first, especially when he said "I feel like a lump of plasticine! ! I just want to squish myself!"

I think we laughed for 15 minutes straight after that.... it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard (another 'had to be there' moment )

But then then he just got annoying. I was really chill, feeling amazing, but he was starting to freak me out with all his squirming and rolling around, eyes rolling back in his head. Killing my buzz!!! grrrr. In the end, he went into another room (his own idea - he needed to get away from the stimulus I guess) and I just relaxed back on the couch with the music.

That's when I started to see the colours.... OH... the pretty colours! The picture on the TV started to change and eminate rainbow colours from it in a vibe pattern, like sonic waves. Everything I looked at had a ring of colour around it. And not only that, I've never felt so happy in all my life.... I felt like I realised, for the first time, how beautiful everything actually was. No jadedness, no cynicism, just an acceptance of the wonder of life and feeling really humbled by it. And this was in my *loungeroom*, shiiit, imagine feeling that in nature

My cat started miaowing and so, feeling so magnanimous and benevolent, I fed him dinner again.

I checked on my b/f, who said he was fine, not to worry. So I hopped on the computer then and made a few gushing entries which I'm laughing about today.

Slowly, slowly started to come down. The visuals left me first.... started to see normally... but was still left with a residual happiness and peace. I actually felt hungry! So I ate a peice of pizza and felt really happy about that too. Then I joined my b/f in bed (he'd put himself to bed by now - just too intense for him) and slept like a baby all night.

Today I feel fine. Mushies were NOTHING like I expected.... I expected so little, I guess; I'd always avoided them, thinking it would be some kind of head-fuck, but instead it was more like a pill only gentler. I can't wait to try them with MDMA next time, and in the company of others Outside!
 
I forgot to mention: part of the reason I was so calm was I discovered I could turn the trip "off" if I wanted to. It sounds weird, but one minute I'd be deep in visuals, spacing out about colours and sounds, and the next, reality would invade in the form of a) needing to go to the toilet b) needing a drink of water, or c) needing to blow my nose.

As soon as I set my mind to do any of those things, and got up from the couch, the room went back to normal again. I didn't have any problem functioning normally at all, or seeing things normally if I wanted to. I'm like: Cool! I can turn it on and off! :D

Although I must add, when I blew my nose, I got an explosion of colours in my head ... and I never thought that would be fun, but it kind of was :)
 
It sounds like you had a great first trip. Do you think you are going to try a higher dose next time or the same again?

Did you experience many closed eye visuals? I often see the most amazing things with my eyes closed.

Good luck with your next trip!
 
Great report! How would you compare the euphoria of mushrooms with that of MDMA? Different? Better?

I can't wait to try mushies properly... tried them once before but didn't eat enough :\
 
SLM.... That's a wonderful trip report! It's just soooo accurate to what I have experienced/seen.

Reading this made me wish I had the opportunity to do them! Alas, parenting limits possibilities...

for now I'll live vicariously through the trip reports!

oh, and for doooofus:


Doooofus
Great report! How would you compare the euphoria of mushrooms with that of MDMA? Different? Better?

I can't wait to try mushies properly... tried them once before but didn't eat enough

Wait until you try BOTH together! The best highs of my life - without question.

For me, mushies alone and MDMA both give comparable "euphoria".

I'm happy happy joy joy with both. But with mushies it's a joy/wonder about the world, nature around me and in my head, whereas with MDMA it's joy/happiness with the people around me.
 
Doofus: I have developed such a tolerance for MDMA, I'd almost say mushrooms were better in terms of the body feeling, the euphoria, the absolute bliss-happiness. It's very, very similar imo.

The only thing they didn't give me was that unique "Love" that mdma gives. Instead, there was more a sense of caring and concern towards people, in a mothering way almost. Like you want to wrap everyone up in a blanket and take care of them, rather than rip your clothes off and touch each other ;) It's not so much about relating to your fellow human, as relating to them in the context that they are part of the wonder that is nature.

It was really beautiful.

I have heard that MDMA and mushies together is the absolute pinnacle. I can *totally* see how that would be the case.... and I can't wait to try it!
 
awesome report! sounds similar to my first few mushroom experiences, make sure you don't jump dosages from small to big, slowly work your way up if you enjoy it, mushroom rape is fucking scary 8o

interestingly enough, while i enjoy the hippyflip, the internal "toxic" feeling is harder to shake
 
...dare I ask :D

mushroom rape?



ps. yes, that was another thing I liked... very 'clean' feeling the next day, not yukky or toxic at all, just refreshed and normal except for a slight headache (probably the alcohol and ciggies).
 
mushroom rape ---> the bad side of mushrooms. bad trips are bad trips, but bad mushroom trips are as invasive and gutting as rape.

try the park next time, mushrooms produce a delightful internal synergy with nature and the untainted wide eyed feeling of discovery is remarkable.

[i'm pleased to see you broke your plans of not being a tripper ;) ]
 
Sounds very much like my first trip on mushrooms. I also was reluctant to try psychedelics and was scared of "seeing things". But I decided to give them a try a couple years back. I remember saying to my boyfriend "I'm just so surprised how real this feels." It wasn't the fucked-up drugged out feeling I was expecting. Everything was just so MELLOW, and I absolutely loved it. I had a few visuals (the very idea terrified me only a few hours earlier) but I was ok with it because I knew the visuals weren't real. LoL... actually now that I remember back I only had a couple visuals, and the most distinct was an Alligator. I was in the Florida Everglades that day and saw a lot of alligators, so I guess that's why. Anyway, I just remember thinking while I was tripping... well I'm over here... and I'm seeing an alligator over there... but he's a chilling alligator so it's all good. Everything just seems so light and fluffy and OK on shrooms.

Anyway, glad you had a good first experience. It was fun thinking back to mine...
 
Yeah the whole concept of visuals NOT being scary was a real revelation to me. Previously, I considered that a nasty side effect I did not want to experience under any circumstances.

But on mushrooms, not only is it totally okay when you start to see stuff, it's also fucking hilarious! :D
 
im scared of mushrooms. havent touchd in ages. but yeah i do agree there are moments were u keep on laughin hysterically even more then the weed giggles. and yeah mushrooms do have a dark side, its weird being scared of something you dont know. just really scared and frightened and the trip keeps spiralling down
 
Nice trip, very similar to my mushroom trip but I haven't done it since my second experience... I had a bad trip and god, I seriously went insane.
 
i dont believe in bad trips, just scary ones. Scary or good, I learn alot each time. Im glad you enjoyed it. You have many many more great times ahead of you. One thing I can highly sugest is Nature! I love Nature so much....especially at night! Take care and have fun and be safe.
 
Mushrooms are a medicine. They make you feel good throughout the experience and there is also an awesome afterglow. Effects to increase greatly with dosage but I myself find mushrooms a very gentle psychedelic. Not as gentle as Mescaline though, but thats another story ;)
 
Strawberry_lovemuffin said:
Yeah the whole concept of visuals NOT being scary was a real revelation to me. Previously, I considered that a nasty side effect I did not want to experience under any circumstances.

But on mushrooms, not only is it totally okay when you start to see stuff, it's also fucking hilarious! :D

Its not really the visuals that one would find scary. Its more the mind-frame the accompanies the visuals.
 
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