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Shrooms - a little or a lot?

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This is not a "how much should I take" thread, fyi!!

I wanted to know peoples' opinions, because I heard that a lot of people who take a low dosage of shrooms get the feeling of "stuck in a waiting room" and feel more anxiety. Is this true? And how much do YOU guys usually take to trip in order to not just have that uneasy feeling and "be in the waiting room" but to also not have a way too intense trip?
 
I haven't had a, "way too intense trip" and don't really think there is such a thing. Within reason of course. My typical dose has always been around 5g, although it really depends on what I plan on doing.

If I am going for a walk, alone or with friends then I will dose around 2.5g to 4g. However, if I am going to be in my friends basement the whole time staring at his deep posters I can dose up to 7g, to even 12g.

So I guess I like taking higher doses, but everyone is different. My girlfriend hates taking anything beyond 3g and I hate taking anything under 3g. I see it as, if you're going to do something worth doing, then it must be worth overdoing. Especially with drugs.
 
Mushrooms are definitely something you don't want to under dose. The "mushroom anxiety" that I almost always feel for a few minutes coming up on a mushroom trip can last the whole time if the peak kinda sucks. It's kinda hard to pick a good dose of mushrooms unless you have some kind of idea of how good they are. Some mushrooms with produce effects with a half-eighth that are stronger than 5g's of some inferior fungus.
 
According to Terence McKenna, "if you're not afraid you've done too much, you haven't done enough". :D
 
A small dose of shrooms goes awesomely with large doses of cannabis or JWH. Feels like an extremely psychedelic strain of weed, and can give wicked visuals.
I've taken smaller doses of shrooms plenty of times and never really had a particularly nervous 'waiting room' type experience. I think perhaps you're more likely to self induce that if you expect more than you get, or something? However if I'm not doing a large dose I almost always smoke weed with it, which I find tends to kill any uncomfortable feeling that the shrooms may be bringing on, and kicks up the psychedelia by about 100 notches
 
I've found smaller doses (2g or less) of mushrooms pretty pleasant, at least more so than small doses of something like, say, LSD, which can certainly produce that anxious waiting room effect in me.

And if you're looking for something intense but end up undershooting it, so what? Make the best of it with some cannabis, nitrous, ketamine, whatever. I once ate a weak eighth and wanted to go deeper, so I popped a single tab of acid and it was all gravy from there. As with most things, YMMV.
 
Depends on what kind of experience you're shooting for. I hear all these stories about anxiety, nausea, etc... I feel extremely fortunate to never get these feelings.

A small dose would be good for doing something semi-functional... museum, walking around a chill part of town, etc...

A large dose is for listening to Boards of Canada in a dark room with 10 blankets.
 
Two grams is a good dose with mushrooms. I have tried more and less, but that is my comfort zone with psilocybin.
 
Thanks for the responses guys.
And I'm going to take them with my husband at our house, and take it from there. Probably walk around etc, so I'm not looking for anything life-changing lol
 
That's crazy, I was just about to start a thread on the "just right" mushroom dose.


chronix said:
Mushrooms are definitely something you don't want to under dose. The "mushroom anxiety" that I almost always feel for a few minutes coming up on a mushroom trip can last the whole time if the peak kinda sucks. It's kinda hard to pick a good dose of mushrooms unless you have some kind of idea of how good they are. Some mushrooms with produce effects with a half-eighth that are stronger than 5g's of some inferior fungus.
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I agree with this. If the peak does not "push" the initial come-up feeling into new territory, then you might feel that awkward anxiety all the way through. There's just something about crossing from 'feeling a little weird' into 'an environment swirling with energy' that helps you to forget about the previous uneasiness. The last time I took a half-eight of decent shrooms, I spent hours in a lazy 'should I try to do something active or try and induce some minor CEVs' type of loop. However, once deep into eighth territory, the CEVs were so glowing and galactic that I couldn't focus on any feeling but that.

I always preferred 3.5-4g. This is enough for a full-blown trip, but if I go beyond this I find the stomach cramps and body high to be too distracting to enjoy it.

I like that quote by Terence Mckenna--"If you aren't afraid you did too much, you didn't do enough", but this doesn't apply if you have little to no experience with psychs.

If you are a newbie, then start at a half eighth, then judge it from there. You can always take more, but can never take less.

 
My dose for psychedelics depends entirely on the setting. When I'm in a social setting such as a rave, I enjoy threshold psychedelic doses. I only enjoy high doses if I'm in a setting where I can focus entirely on the trip and not have to think about anything else.

Most people start with too high of a dose the first time they trip, and have a bad trip as a result. Nobody predicts psychedelics to be like they are. Starting low is vital, as you experience something unlike what you could have possibly expected.

Would you dive into the deep end of a pool before having learned to swim?
 
A little can be pleasant, especially if you're smoking cannabis along with it, but be very careful not to under-dose, as that is quite unpleasant indeed. Depends on the potency - do not go under 1.5g if they're really strong shrooms, more if not. With larger doses I find more potential for 'getting lost' in shrooms than acid, and prefer to take comparatively higher dose LSD than shrooms. Intense mushroom trips can be rewarding and I like them, but I find they're also slightly more uncomfortable.
 
Again depends on the person and what sort of trip your looking for. Shrooms are easy to dose too much imo. Take some very potent cambodians for instance, 1 - 2 dry grams is workable for general laughter, social, out in the park type trips. When you start getting into 5 grams+ its a totally different ball game. Like I say it depends on where you wanna be. =D
 
chronix said:
Mushrooms are definitely something you don't want to under dose. The "mushroom anxiety" that I almost always feel for a few minutes coming up on a mushroom trip can last the whole time if the peak kinda sucks. It's kinda hard to pick a good dose of mushrooms unless you have some kind of idea of how good they are. Some mushrooms with produce effects with a half-eighth that are stronger than 5g's of some inferior fungus.
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This is my experience precisely and utterly, in every way. We do mushrooms exactly the same. :D
 
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