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Mushrooms - Third time - Clarity, insight, awe

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For my first time, i did 0.75g, and it was a moderate trip but somewhat underwhelming

For my second time, i did 1.2g and the peak was intense and amazing but was followed by feeling very scattered and down. During the peak i felt so stimulated and my head felt so 'swizzzz' i thought i might get a seizure or something

Dose: Decided to go in between and use 1.0g. This did turn out to be the perfect dose

Set: It's been well over a month (maybe two) since my second time. I was waiting for when it felt right, and it felt right today so 5 little magic fungi down the hatch. Ate immediately after jogging and came up in the shower

Setting: My home, alone for the most part

Chronometer

T+0 : 10pm ate shrooms
T+0.25h : Odd feelings, especially in my head
T+0.50h : Visuals and body buzz manifest
T+0.75h : Peak
T+2.0h : Plateau (plateau was quite weak)
T+4.0h : Came down. After-effects (mainly visual and body feelings) until I woke up the next morning

Visuals

After showering I went up to my room. For a (long) while I occupied myself with the carpet. The familiar aztec-type sharp geometric colorful patterns were embedded into the carpet. Interestingly, some of the patterns rotate in the carpet, but the colored patterns are still. After closing my eyes and opening them, the patterns are gone for a split second before returning.

The visual-spatial distortions (objects growing and shrinking, moving around, waving) were full-blown but these never interested me

While laying down with my eyes closed, I saw many scenes, all of them very difficult to describe. One of the common themes was checkered imagery. Both 3d and 2d scenes were often checkered in the same way. The most common color theme was red&green&blue. This is in contrast with my first trip (brown and green) and my second trip (pink and bright green)

It's fascinating to close your eyes, still see light and things, then cover your eyes completely with your arm or pillow to block out all the light, and there's still plenty of light. At times the visions were peaceful, at times chaotic

The imagery was deep and beautiful and interwoven with my thoughts. But it wasn't all just pretty pictures

Clarity

At one point while laying down with my eyes closed, I was thinking about my life, and society in general. Everything was clear. About a book's worth of information was flowing through my head. Everything that is important to me was vigorously analyzed, and I felt as if I was viewing things 'from above,' with a sort of super-mind

Peace

My heater and my AC were on at the same time for some reason. About 15 seconds after I predicted the fuse would blow, the fuse blew. So I had to take a trip to the basement to switch it back on. Getting off the bed was hard. I felt warm, safe, euphoric and peaceful just laying under my blanket, and moving was the last thing I wanted to do

After switching back the fuse, I saw my cat sitting on the couch in the basement. The next period of my trip was spent sitting with him. The only lighting was from a TV screen showing just blue--which made for an interesting tripping environment

When I closed my eyes, visuals and thoughts and combinations of the two were accelerating towards me chaotically, and when my eyes were open, everything was wavy and novel-looking. My mind was completely different from its normal state. All of reality was chaotic yet significant. I accepted the chaos and accepted everything being thrown at me and, ironically, felt totally and absurdly peaceful

I was floating on a sea of peace/contentment

Peak over, shows over, bye

Around this time the peak subsided. I still saw patterns in the carpet, and in some rooms they were crawling up the walls, and myself in the mirror--WTF. I also still felt the body buzz, which felt amazing. The visuals were milder than during the peak, though, and my mind was back to normal

For most of the plateau I was talking to my gf over MSN. When she went to bed I watched star trek and ate poppies, eagerly awaiting the mix of opiate body buzz with shroom body buzz. I missed the peak of the poppies, though, as I lost track of time commanding troops in battlefield 2...

When I went to bed ( 5 or 6, T+7 or T+8 ) I still felt stimulated, so I took 10mg zolpidem and the usual 6mg melatonin

Investment return

I took home personal benefits from this trip, as well as my first two trips, which I won't elaborate on as it's personal

In sum, each mushroom trip has left me in awe and put me in what I consider to be a 'higher' perspective of reality

The opinions and 'facts' 'normal folk' have about these mushrooms and what they do are so absurdly incorrect I believe it's more than just being people being misinformed. I think, below the surface at least, it's a continuation of the witch hunts of the medieval period. The persecution of witches and psychedelic drug users is driven by fear and religious intolerance

I can easily see how the state these mushrooms induce can be considered spiritual or 'magickal' by so many

An attempt at conveying some visuals

Psilocybin turned my carpet from blank to something like this (although the psilocybin induced carpet is much more intricate, intensely colored, geometric/sharp, and the visuals are 'alive' with color and energy shuffling about)

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One of the 3D CEVs was quite like this in both this trip and my second trip

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Brilliant trip report.

Written extremely well. I love the two pictures at the end, just help to convey that little bit more of your trip than words alone can.


Sounds like a great trip man.
 
Your vivid recount of a superb experience have inspired me to continue seeking mushrooms, despite recent failures of varying degrees. Thank you
 
I need to revisit mushrooms as well. They were the tool that helped to unlock my spiritual rebirth and their experiences have remained the most beautiful, glorious, horrifying, difficult, and real that I've ever experienced.
 
Ahhh, this makes me want shroomies so much. My mind is clouded at the moment and I am too seeking clarity. Great report man, glad you had a positive experience.
 
Terrific report I must say! I myself believe that the CEVs bring a more important aspect to the Psychedelic Experience than most people give credit too. I believe that these pictures created by the mind are a link to something more incredible than pretty colors. But a detailed description of how mind and Matter merge into our concious waking life. We just need to learn how to interpret the description. Maybe oneday through Science we will! Great just great, vey accurate depiction of the Mushroom experience in general
 
^ Yes, I agree, although Science will have to make a tremendous shift (one which it is in the process of making) to encompass first-person data alongside third-person data.

About CEVs containing significant 'content' - I couldn't agree more. Just look what happens when you increase the intensity of the CEVs (one starts forming 'entities' out of the chaos to apply meaning).
 
Nice report.

Although I have to say that I cannot imagine "mushrooms" and "clarity" in the same sentence... my experience with shrooms is best described as "muddy"... but I'm glad yours was better :)
 
Im saddened to hear that you had such an experience from mushrooms jamshyd.

Samadhi, what intrigues me most is how can the mind create such beautiful images that I had personally never ever seen before tripping, unless at some point beyond my own memories I was once alive in a form i am unaware of today.
 
Samadhi, what intrigues me most is how can the mind create such beautiful images that I had personally never ever seen before tripping
a lot of the CEVs/OEVs we see can be explained by overactivity in the visual cortex. if you think about it, when our brain takes in and interprets visual data, it is acting as a computer. it makes calculations. disrupt this system, and what you see should be mathematical in nature (hence the geometric nature of many of the visuals)

i believe one of the reasons it is so beautiful is because the drug is interacting with the parts of the brain directly responsible for our appreciation of beauty
 
I believe that these pictures created by the mind are a link to something more incredible than pretty colors. But a detailed description of how mind and Matter merge into our concious waking life. We just need to learn how to interpret the description. Maybe oneday through Science we will!
i also believe that what psychedelics are essentially doing is taking us deeper into our minds. a big enough dose and you go far enough down and you reach the source of consciousness itself, and i think reaching this is what causes the 'spiritual' experiences

this would explain why psychedelics can be so emotional and 'animalistic' (experiencing earlier life forms). when we go deeper, into earlier-evolved more primitive parts of our mind, these parts were much less cognitive and much more emotional

i suspect that at the 'very bottom' of our mind is the basic reward-punishment axis which directly links all of our brains' physical computations with whatever is producing our 'qualia' or 'consciousness'

of course, this shroom report detailed a little dip into the mind rather than sinking to the bottom. just taking a little dip into the mind rather than a big dive (a moderate trip as opposed to a 'cosmic consciousness' trip), you shed your upper layers of ego games/programs without losing your reasoning ability. and this is where the clarity comes from
 
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