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Hoping something I have learned along the way can help an other if there is such a thing.
I’ll give a brief overview here and if anyone wants individual trip reports I can start compiling them on the trip report side of the forum.
My first experiences were with Salvia Divinorum extract (30x); I was 15/16 years old - all my friends told me it was “legal cannabis” and being in an extremely conservative household, I figured why break the law when I’ve got the power of salvia on my side. I worked with the material, every evening, for a period of ~6 months before I finally worked the courage up to try pot! Boy was I surprised! I put salvia down at that point and became a daily smoker. I went to university in Manhattan, NY when I was 18; and within the first week I was told “if you like weed, you’ll love mushrooms”.
That experience (3.5g in an “end of day” dealers bag mix of bits and pieces of pills, a small amount of mystery powder, and some little pieces of paper) was fundamentally life altering - what I saw led me to destabilization and ultimately finding “my way”. I dropped out and did a 360.
A calendar year later, back at uni; I experienced LSD fully and wholly.
I dropped out again, spiraled, began abusing OTC and prescription medications and the people and spaces around me. I had an accident around that time that resulted in the fracture of my skull and a TBI. My life would never be the same, my decisions had cost me nearly every relationship I had at that time.
One night, I decided to flip a coin, heads or tails would decide if I was going to paint the walls of my apartment with my dura mater, and then an idea. What if, instead of blowing my brain out physically…I did so chemically?
My neighbor at the time was growing mushrooms and I had pounds drying on my kitchen table.
I ate somewhere between 30-60 grams of mushrooms that night (dry equivalent) as what I had actually eaten was 120 grams of still wet, but drying down…. I say 30-60 because I had set aside 240grams of wet aborts that had been drying for approximately 24 hours, of which I ate 120g and left the resultant 120g to dry; anticipating that both would ultimately dry down to 12g or so (10% of wet weight).
I was reborn, by the end of the week a friendly bear I had never met before dropped by with a 10 strip saying only “I live down the road, I’ve got something I think you’ll like, here’s how I Iike to do it”
Two weeks later, that remaining 120g pile of aborts dried to a cracker dry 60g.
And the rest, is history.
If any of that interests you or anyone else, lmk. I can go into detail (names and locations changed of course) about any of it (within reason of course) - this is all well over a decade ago now.
Thanks for being kind, thanks for being you.
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