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Shrooms Mother and my first shrooms trip

Shikari

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Hello everyone, I had my first ever shrooms experience so I thought I would share it. I'm a newbie with psychedelics, having only tried DMT 3 times before shrooms.

7:00 PM - I ate 2 grams of dried Psylocibe Cubensis, very chewy but I do not mind their taste, I choose to go with a low dose because I didn't want to go nuts on my first time. I was doing this trip with two other people that took 2 grams each. I knew well only one of them, with the other guy I talked a few times but I really didn't know much about him. Setting was my friend's house.

7:45 PM - Effects start to creep in as we are sitting on the couch watching TV. I start to see people faces make sudden swirls of colours and I start to find myself staring at random stuff, feeling something is off and creeping from behind reality. The fire in the chimney looks so gorgeous and vivid, energy that is being released by the burning log to heat the house. I reckon a DMT flavor in the mind set.

8:00 PM - We go out and the other two guys decide to smoke a joint. I refuse to smoke because I wanted to experience the shrooms by themselves and also marijuana didn't feel right cause I started becoming a little paranoid. The guy I didn't know looked strange and like he was hiding something, or at least this is what my mind was telling me. He was a strange dude even when I talked with him sober, but I never really felt strange about him cause I'm odd myself. Now that we had this experience I know he's a good guy, but at the time my mind was playing tricks on me, I tend to be a little paranoid when I smoke marijuana around strangers and I guess shrooms were bringing out the same feeling. I felt like I should've kept an eye out for him.

8:15 PM - The guy I was paranoid about decides that 2 grams are doing nothing to him and eats another 2 grams. I definitely feel effects start to rise. My dad calls me during this time asking If I could find his phone operator's green number. I go search for it on Google and the page says " 187, a Number made of people". I feel odd and I stare at this phrase for about 10 minutes, feeling like our telephone services control us, and that's what they meant with that phrase. This thought loop stays for the whole 10 minutes and I felt like in a Black Mirror episode. Now that I write about this, it feels kinda stupid but the paranoia was getting to me.

8:25 PM - I'm overwhelmed by a burst of insane energy that flows down my entire body. I feel the need to start walking around to let go of this energy. I feel very uneasy and I decide that my paranoia is going too further out. I lay back on the couch, take a deep breath as I feel effects raising. My friends are locked watching Rick and Morty like zombies, while I quickly shift my gaze to every angle of the room as patterns become more and more visible, fractals and colors that pervade reality suddenly start coming out of the walls. Suddemly I feel watched, a feminine presence behind my head, out of the perception. I feel her intentions, I feel her motherly gaze and love permeate me, she feels that I'm refusing to let go, to relax and go with the flow. I take a deep breath and I finally think: "I let go! do whatever you want with me, I let go". I feel like reality is a giant baby box and someone outside is watching us learn, like a parent who lovely watches the son play. I feel like a grown child that doesn't know a thing about what it means to exist and to be alive, that knows nothing about the hidden workings of the universe, and that our sober perception is nothing but a little illusion for us to navigate and grow out of our inability to grasp the truth under an invisible veil.

8:45 PM - Paranoia fades away, as I ease up in the shrooms mind set, I feel really good. My body is full of energy. I have to move and I start walking around the house again as I feel the need to express this energy. This time it feels good. It's like I am a turned on engine that can't help but use its energy and exchange it with the world. On the contrary one of my friend is a little ill and starts taking all the space on the couch to rest, as he seemed completely out of energy. The 4 gram guy is now starting to stare at random things in the room. The paranoia about him has passed and I start to feel the need to connect with them. They notice that I am furiously walking around the house with a smile on my face and as I proclaim loudly and proudly "I must walk! I must exchange my energy!" they break in a long and loud laugh that I follow along.

9:00 PM ? - Everything I stop to watch is now covered with patterns, walls are breathing and an underlay of color permeates them. Collective laughter is now uncontrollable and every chat I have with the others springs in pure genuine laughs. The guy that took 4 grams evidently has stronger visuals, as he sometime stops maniacally laughing while looking in nothingness. We manage to cook a plate of pasta, even if we all agreed that what we just cooked looked like a prison lunch. We laugh about it. Eating is almost impossible as we start laughing without control every time that we watch each others in the eyes. I say to my friend that we are certainly gonna choke and we all started laughing with food still in our mouths.

9:30-10:00 PM ? - Eating is my gasoline, I think. My role is to consume and use energy in order to fulfill my place in the universe. The idea doesn't bother me, I feel like reality is tapping into an infinte sourche of energy and that we exchange that energy on different scales, I feel like I'm fulfilling my role just like everything else, like stars and particles and everything else: we are all putting this energy to use to create the material experience out of a permanent and infinite source. I feel alive. We start playing together with a ball and I feel like a child. Everything feels refreshing and new, I can just play with a ball and have tons of fun just doing that. My imagination is open and I can pretend that there are football nets just like a child would do. It feels amazing.

10:00-11:00 PM ? - We play some music and It feels incredible. Every song releases different vibes and sensations and I am capable of feeling them clearly.4 grams guy is going nuts with hallucinations. He's staring at a T-Rex photo on the wall and says that he can see it walking around alive in the Cretaceous forests. He starts laughing and crying at the same time while he sees shit happening. I decide to dive in my mind and I lay on the couch with my eyes closed. The visuals are indescribable. I was seeing all kind of impossible geometric patterns, shapes moving and forming incredible 3D sceneries. I decided to grab paper and a pen to try and draw something of the patterns I was visualizing. There is a funny exchange with the 4 grams guy: as we were sitting on the couch chilling, I suddenly stop with a 8o face to look at his jeans. I was seeing crazy geometric patterns in the fabric of the jeans. I suddenly question him " Dude, wtf is wrong with your jeans?". He turns and gets stuck watching his own jeans in awe, then he starts LITTERALLY crying and laughing at the same time mumbling "that is too beautiful, that is too beautiful..." I can't help but laugh like an idiot.

11:00 PM - 01:00 AM - Effects fade away minute after minute and I felt very tired. My chest was hurting from the insane laughter and I decided to go back home to get a full night of rest.

1 to 3 days after - I experienced peace and tranquillity, I felt good and refreshed from the experience. I felt the need to care more for the ones I love and for the life of everyone and everything, and to rediscover the wonder of being alive and expressing childish and imaginative behaviors. I acknowledged that I also need to let go more in life, because I was experiencing paranoia and the trip showed me how much fun can you have and how much more can you enjoy little things if you let go fears and bad thoughts. I'm definitely looking forward to try shrooms again, even if I respect them even more after I tried the potential they have, given the fact that I was on a low dose.

Hope that someone finds this report interesting or useful :) Thanks for reading.
 
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I really enjoyed reading :)
Strangers/unfamiliar people and psychedelics are a mixed bag, at least from most people I've talked to, learned from, shared experiences with etc.
I think for most people it's an instinctual and primitive thing simply being brought to the surface. We live in a modern world where the thought of other people existing is normalized. In hunter gatherer societies the fear of unfamiliar people was a justified one as it could mean gifts and cooperation from neighbours or travelling bands of people, or something more darker and potentially something you don't get to wake up from.
We do not know nor can vouch for other peoples authenticity other than the contractual social agreement we make with each other that we must be civilized and we believe in the written/unwritten laws of belonging to a society. I think there is always that primitive awareness of others we do not recognize even when we are not tripping, it just doesn't seap through the filter that reduces much of our conscious awareness down to the 'meat and potatoes' information we need to survive.

I guess it also depends on you as a person. If there is a complex story behind why you get paranoid around others ie trauma, this can find its way out. This is why psychedelics are so profound in healing because they can be used to access this trauma in it's raw form and then integrate it. Difficulty with this is of course that most people don't intend to be with this trauma, and perhaps cannot handle it when it appears. And also you can't be your own therapist when you're midway through a heavy trip! For lots of people though, maybe yourself included, it's just a fleeting experience which has no depth to it other than you so happen to be experiencing paranoia right now and it will fade. For some people, including myself, that paranoia usually has underlying content to it. I myself was severely abused growing up and felt invalidated and isolated as a child, was scared of everything and pretty much brought up to believe something was wrong with me and that everyone was out to get me. Narcissistic family members will tend to do that. Anyway, point being... it can and also can not have underlying core issues behind it. For most people it's nothing to worry about. For some it's the artefacts (to put it in an academic way) of psychic content that has been repressed and not integrated. This is why you'll find some people often having bad trips. It's not specifically the paranoia that makes it bad, it's the content underneath that unleashes extremely difficult material.

This was a good trip report. Really nice to hear you had a great time!
 
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