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Mushrooms -- First Time -- Shroom Horror Experience!!!!

rollballs

Bluelighter
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First Time Shroom Horror Experience!!!!

PLease excuse misspellings and long report.
Me: 31 yrs old,professional. Very analytical and busy mind. A little worried type of person that does over react sometimes. Some insecurities about relationships,what people think of me and how I do things.Although basically a "good guy" I am fascinated with bad behavior and people who misbehave. Weekend drinker only once to the point of puking.Do get impatient when I shouldn't. Smoked pot a half a dozen times. Done E three times (which I prefer and will stick with because so far it's the best I've comeacross). No existing medical condition.No meds.
Pre-Disposition: Think finding yourself through drugs is bull. Talking to God or higher being on drugs is bull and you can controll your trip entirely.
Setting: Vegas Baby!Was and still is my favorite party city.(first mistake for 1st time shroomer)My birthday. Hotel room waiting for my friends pals to get in to town. Guys weekend>
People: A guy I had known for about a year and 4 of his out of town friends.(second mistake..always do it with people you know and who are doing it the first time)
Finished eating shrooms at 9:15p.m. I had about enough to fit into the palm of a normal size guys hand.
Don't why I went for psychedilic drugs. When I see movies that have "acid scenes" it turns me off and I wonder why folks want to do it. About 9:45 the rest of the gang starts showing up and they are pumped. Then I start feeling strange! Racing hart getting nervous. Tried to talk to keep my mind off it but I could tell folks were beginning to see something was wrong. I called my buddy to the next room and could feel I was losing it and freaking out. I told him what was up and he tried to calm me and relax me. Told me to look outside but the Vegas skyline didn't help but me me feel sufficated like the loudly decorated room. My sentebces became incoherent and I told my buddy to go on out so as to not ruin his time and his friends. He was reluctant to leave but I insisted.
Like a glass of water filling up I became more and more confused and delerious. I started feeling clostaphobic and noticed fine detaels in the wall paper and curtains.CNN announcers voice on TV sounded louder as though she were trying to scream at me then sounded slurred as if a tape recorder was low on batteries. I flipped the TV off and immediately started hearing what I interprted as demonic whispers in my ear. Then my body felt heavy espeicially around my knees and I crashed to the bed to try to calm down but it was no use. I started saying, "God, I'm so tired please let this be over!" My mind or God said, "No, you and I have some things we need to talk about."
Colors were becoming vivid and bright but in an unpleasant manner. "You have been filling your mind with crap trying to become something you're not or find something you can't," said my mind/God. I thought that maybe I should get out of the room but thought of a public freak out in the casino all caught on tape and a trip to jail or the hospital. "you've really fixed yourself now!" said my mom's voice. I really started freaking. All of this happening while I was pacing around or squirmming on the bed. I thought fuck it I could call an ambulance to come and give me a sedative and face the consequences. Then thought better and put the phone down.
My mind was spasming every emotion it could think of and shutting down the others that weren't present. Then all of a sudden I couldn't smell and my naked shoulder looked like a swelling baloon. I ripped off my clothes and my necklace broke spewing beads everywhere. I started crying saying, "Please make this stop!! I can't take it!!" Pure fury took over because I was in my favorite town terrified while everyone else was partying. I hit the wall with my fist but no damage.
Voices/thoughtsping over and over and over in my head some from Bluelight threads. "You might not want to do shrooms your first time in Vegas!" "What if i stay in this permanenet state?!" Istarting throwing up but couldn't. The walls around the toilet seemed to suck in around my head and I started doing repetitive/obsessive disorder like things. Turn the TV off to make me fell better which didn't work so turn it back on (about 6 times). Became very cold so I ran a bath. My feet felt good under running water but the noise paniced me so turned it off. Silence was madening so I turned it back on (did this about 12 times).
More voices, "you should have been filling your head with better stuff for the journey." "If your mind is normal than you want freak out!" Then I went through a period of exctacy like euphoria for about 10 min. The room looked like you were looking through a yellow tinted glass that was slightly smokey. I felt poetic and started talking to myself saying things like,"and you wanted this stop before now stupid!" I started to write things on paper like "don't follow the insane scribe." The paper looked like it was down a long tunnel along with my hand which brought me back into terror!!
In order to wrap this up so you don't get even more bored....I started cying over the death of my father and the loneliness of my mother. Started saying hoe beautiful my niece was nad how I loved and longed for my beautiful wife. I laid on the bed switching from one TV station to another because if I stayed on one too long it would agitate me. The religious channel's preacher was making a whole lot of sence and even now that only two days have passed religious verbage doesn't seem as silly as I once thought. My heart was beating very fast while all this was going on and I was worried about a heart attack so I tried calming myself down and bout 4:45a.m. I went to sleep...finnally
The next day I felt very depressed. Around 1:00p We strted drinking a little and I felt better. Then went to a rersteraunt to eat. When I set down I started feeling the panic feelings. I controlled them better but almost lost it and had to do splash my face with water in the bathroom a couple of times. Then as the night went and we were out in the casino I started feeling better. I'm sure I will feel better in a few days. This was a much worse comedown/hangover than E. The entire experience I felt like Tom Cruise in Vanilla sky when he screamed for a tech or what's his name in The Matrix when he was freaking out learning about what reality was and he ended up puking.
I'm definately through with hallucinagens. Even though E is considered one there is no way you can tell me the "freak out factor" is as much or even close with E as it is with shrooms/acid.
 
some advice from hunter s. thompson:
But nobody can handle that other trip - the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.
i really can't find anything in your post that suggests why you might have badtripped. if you're usually nervous, or inexperienced with chemicals and not yet over the initial paranoid worry about getting caught, that might have some part in it. also, the trip seems to be largely dependent on what you're feeling as you're coming up and just prior. if you're nervous (even if it's just excitement, it's still adrenaline) as you come up, you seem more likely to badtrip. from experience, once you start thinking things like "a public freak out in the casino all caught on tape and a trip to jail or the hospital", it's too late; you will badtrip unless you take drastic measures (benzos or alcohol seem to work). being very happy and relaxed at the beginning of the trip seems to help.
other people can also be a major factor in badtripping. if you're with people who aren't tripping too, you might think they'll think you're acting weird, which can cause some problems. it's also difficult to be a first-time tripper surrounded by more experienced users. depends on your mindset.
or maybe you just ate too much. a handful of shrooms does seem like a lot for your first time. on an empty stomach, that could quickly send you into a dangerous and scary world.
 
When you are on shrooms and you start to feel weird and you have weird inner conversation say to yourself "mushrooms" The mushrooms are making me do this and everything will be okay; just sit back and enjoy the trip. You can learn a lot about yourself and people when on mushrooms just enjoy it and see all the pretty colors
 
I can never get enough of these stories, they are amazing. Once on a trip with friends I didnt know well I had 2 hits and lots of drinks altogether, and luckily I cant remember the night well but it was one of my shameful days of my life, from my friends reports, all I would go and talk to them was nonsense, saying random words...the alcohol might have helped in this forgetting stuff, however the other day i wanted to die!!! the depression was awful, i just felt i didnt belong there, and it was really messed up, all i could think was my bed, but i was on a trip in a strange house...during this period one thing that happened was that i couldnt stand pot (i smoke every day)...just the idea of smoking would make me get nausea...then 2,3 days after i completely recover :)
even still im sure im having more acid ... my experiences are not over :)
 
I'm like you: a little nervous, very analytical, thoughts, words, sounds, images, memories always streaming through my head. It never stops. I've had a few experiences with MDA, which is a long hallucinogenic high but probably nothing like shrooms, and I hated every minute of it. I don't think hallucinogens are for people like myself (even pot drags me down and makes me feel too off and weird). Maybe they're not for you either. I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way, bad trips can really suck. Stick with the happy drugs like e ;) . I hope you at least had fun with the rest of your trip in Vegas!
And, if curiosity ever gets the better of you again and you feel like you need to "conquer" this drug, I have two words for you. Baby steps. Very very small doses at a time, at home, with at least one sitter that is a close and trusted friend. Get comfortable with the feelings, just get a buzz, and only do 1 dose 1 night. Also, your friend shouldn't have left you alone your first time tripping, he should have at least checked on your periodically.
 
In my opinion, it had nothing to do with vegas. You weren't walking around in the casinos, you weren't seeing all the lights, wierd people, etc. you were sitting in your room "thinking". Yes, I have seen fear and loathing in Las Vegas and you cannot even compare that movie to what you went through in your hotel room. If you trip in your hometown you'll see what I'm talking about. Whenever I used to trip it was ALWAYS better when I wasn't in my home town of Baton Rouge.
Read the post that I wrote in the other "mushrooms from hell experience".
 
I am sorry to hear you had a bad time, but thanks for posting your story for other people to read. It's been a while since your first post, do you feel like "normal" again yet?
 
I feel better now thank you!! Going to try E for my fourth time on Friday...looking forward to it!! Last two times (three months apart) have not been any where near satisfying though. If I fail this time then maybe drugs aren't for me!??
 
:sympathy:
I had an experience almost 90% similar to yours.
I will have to concatenate it since...its long too but so similar..
Last spring, staying at lodge near killington on ski trip with older boss (boss is old dead head)
gave me 'roomies for first time, ate a couple stems and a cap. my brother was also with us in our room.
it was my first time ever tripping on shrooms, and boy a year from now i dont want to do them again (acid, i have much more confidence over and have used since safely)
but i went through hell on them.
the first dose i took i loved, the swirly colors etc, but i ended up eating more because i thought i was coming down. BIG NO NO. it all went south from here. The tv in the room scared me, the news reporter sounding like a robot and then music videos looking and sounding way out of tune. My innocent and unknowing brother staring at me with alien eyes and a huge face while i couldnt move on the couch. My boss was cooking some kind of shrimp and it made me feel naseaus. i went to lay down in another room and then all the same thoughts of paranoia and hell in almost the exact fashion as yours it made me anxious now again!
Thoughts of calling an ambulance for help and dealing with it, attempting to take a shower but being way to scared of the water and being naked and slipping, then i took off my shirt and socks, and rolled around on a bed in utter hell while i got angry at myself for considering suicide to end the trip since i thought i would trip forever and i wouild have to kill myself to stop it. Suicidal thoughts made me think of my loved ones back home in boston (parents, mainly) and how much they loved me and how selfish i was to think i should kill myself. I was really freaking out.
See, i had redosed myself, so now i was headed back down another full trip. First dose-1pm, start coming down around 5pm, ate MORE. Time felt like it had stopped. i figured since time stopped i would be tripping forever. I was lost in my own thoughts, and the room was no longer pretty swirly colors but jittery crawling things, like if you look at the ceiling on a bed and watch a bazillion bugs crawling up and around.
around this time i was spared by my boss, who gave me a large dose of xanax to take after pleading with him to make the trip stop. these lessened my axiety, although i continued to pseudohallucinate for what seemed eternity. I ended up falling asleep around 9, and following weeks led into depression.
(note: the first time i rolled was about 2 months after this hellish trip and about 1 month into my latent depression) Doing E that one time was the perfect therapy for my depression, i havent felt that way since then. it was like the E unlocked the key to the seratonin reserves which the bad(understatement) trip had locked up on me.
The whole thing has matured me immensly.
 
well i myself have never had mushies or acid, so i know i don't have as much experience as the others peoples replies.
so all i can recomend is my opinion as to maybe one of the reasons why u felt so paranoid.
i personally believe all drugs work with your personality.
i too am a pretty paranoid person and i think self conciously in your mind maybe u were thinking "hrmm i don't know if i should" or "why am i doing this" and that may be 1 possible reason as to why the drug gave u the effect you got.
but anyhowz, thats just 1 option, i hope u r feeling better now though mate.
ciao.
 
Interesting report, but I'm sorry it was bad. When I was tripping bad on my peak, it all went good on the come down.
 
damn y so many greenlighters??
and damn dood if ur 30+ and uve only smoked pot 6 fuckin times and e 3 times damn dood thats inexpierenced times 50. u had a bad trip cuz u lived 30 fukin years and never had such an out of mind expierence. Those kinda situations are best kept inside the hotel room with close friends...
 
Gee...Thanks wood!! preciate ya! Yes, I'm inexperienced in the drug world because I wanted to get my life straight with finishing college,good job,marriage,etc. Now I've done that and I am a lot more grounded and have much more self control not to mention a shit load of money to buy the drugs! If I'd done drugs when I was younger I would have been a total life time druggy loser. Better late than Dead. Peace wood!!
P.S. Of course just because I stated "better late than dead" I'll be the one found dead in the fetal position from a bad pill one morning while you guys are looking over my dead corpse saying "Sux tyo be You!"
[ 23 January 2002: Message edited by: rollballs ]
 
you tripped out your first time doign msuh? it took me and most of the people i know at least three times before feeling anythign. HOw much mushrroms did you have?
 
Thinking back I think I had 3grams plus and from what I hear is way too much for a first timer.
 
I think age is a factor. I've found that a lot more geezers experience bad first time trips than do us younger folks...dem da breaks I guess
shrooms 4 ever :)
 
mushrooms are wonderful. as far as the drugs go, they are relatively safe and healthy. my college professer once told me never to touch anything unless it came from the earth. i guess what could be considered a downside, for some people, is the ability to control the trip. you influence whether its going to be a chilled, introspective trip, or a wild adventure- running through forests or dancing to your favorite music. the first time i tripped i took a little over an 1/8th of very strong shrooms. and ive had a bad trip. it happens. and it is possible to have bad rolls. shrooms lets you have insightful and mind-bending journeys- if you let them.
 
man, have you heard of music? That's what you should've done to begin with. That and the right people to be with - I noticed that with most drugs the equanimity of the people around is highly important. I mainly do E, and only had a couple of pot experiences, mainly because I am not interested in what weed has to offer, but even weed, the first time you smoke it, can give you bad trip if people around you are not WITH you. But, as far as mushrooms, I think music should let you in and let you out, and good thoughts (safe[er] drug, natural drug, etc) should also figure highly and help you along. A lot of my friends recently have been using shrooms, and I've been a designated DJ for them, selecting the music and taking care of them in case anything went wrong. Nothing did, and some of them ended up running around the forest and having a blast. Basically, plan for a good trip. Peace.
 
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