Heh reminds me of this one time when The Borderline-Bitch From Hades* was still here as my housemate, and we went with an old mate of mine that I've known since I was a kid, a proper mad'ead too (got done for attempt murder, got away with it, and last time I heard of him he's in the hospital having shattered near enough every bone in his, and somebody else's body. A good lad actually, despite, he really isn't a bad person just has a knack and a half for getting into some right situations haha.
We went up to this spot on the moors that he tipped me off was top notch as a lib spot. So up we went, with The Borderline Bitch From Hades in tow (who had come over from the states, and she was very sheltered in that respect. Had never done any recreational drugs at all before she met me, and even then she'd only had hash and skunk cakes at the time (couldn't smoke it as the fucking bitch is asthmatic, may she choke the next time she sucks old Nick's damned dick, so we baked it for her when we got stoned together)
Never had any idea about shrooms, other than that they exist. She had to help me back home, because I'd been doing my harvesting, and going 'one for the bag, one for me, one for the bag, one for me, two for the bag, two for me, a handful for the bag, handful for me'

. We'd been picking for hours, snuffling about on bended knees, she seemed like she was a bit off, if you know what I mean, just...different. Slightly tripping from skin absorption, or eating a few when the rest of us hadn't seen. But nothing like what was to happen to me.
And after a while, they hit me, hit me like a fucking truck, she noticed my eyes had pupils blown up like dinnerplates, and I was all wobbly on my feet. I have absolutely no idea how many I ate that day, but it felt like at least the equal to 60-70g of dried P.tampanensis sclerotia. Had to get the bus back home, with the Borderline-Bitch From Hades assisting me to get on and pay the driver because I could no way on this earth, even attempt to count money (I am severely dyscalculic anyway, so not too good at it sober as a priest) and grinning like a marmoset on IV crystal meth, giggling at the ooohhhhlightsdoyuseetheprettylighttsesessswheeeeheeheehees
That trip with the Tampanensis was the only mushroom trip bar one I can even come close to comparison to.
Other one being what happened after we took a good many grams of P.cyanescens each, after actually beginning to trip pretty solidly from the act merely of cleaning the damp fruitbodies, having absorbed the equivalent of about a bit more than a half to three quarters of a gram dry from just the skin contact, before we either of us ate any. Those mushrooms were STRONG little buggers, the cyans.
The skin absorption episode, happened after we'd gone at her insistence to the local macdonalds because she was hungry and she'd been having cravings recently at that time for hash browns. So I took her, since she'd refused outright to go out on her own without me there, although she knew the way, to macdonalds so she could have her hash browns and I could get me some eats with her. And, lo! and behold; as we left, I spotted a mushroom, growing in the woodchip beds where the hedging was. Went, me being me and not being able to resist checking out an unknown specimen of fungal life sprouting from it's substrate.
And...it proved to be Psilocybe cyanescens on closer inspection, and it was not on its lonesome either. It was the herald, one amongst a veritable army of wavy-caps.
So we had to both of us go back into the macdonalds and beg a couple of free (empty) happy-meal cartons each, explaining that we needed them to get that many mushrooms back home, in the pissing rain and needed spare cartons in case they got wet through. We were granted my request, and off we went. Filled every one of those happy meal boxes ful-l of wavycaps, in a pretty wet state.
Had to clean all the woodchips and woodlice off the little beggars, using kitchen towel roll to wipe them clean of muck and capture the woodlice for release once we finished.
And after more than an hour into cleaning the big pile, of which there was a pound or two easily, wet weight, I turned to talk to the Borderline Bitch From Hades, and whilst we were talking, at first I pointed out to her, that her eyes were blown up huge, asked her how many she'd eaten, because while she'd had a trip before, from our liberty cap picking outing, needed to tell her that Cyanescens is much, much more potent than what she might expect and not to wolf them down without consulting me as to coming to a consensus about what we were going to dose and effect to aim for. The fucking cunting whore from the faecal abyss and dental-flosser-with-the-scrotum-hair-of-satan-himself told me 'none', and I hadn't seen her eat any either. Was there most of the time. Actually for one lonely femtosecond in the bitch's filthy vile existence, I believe her on that particualr statement.
But, slowly yet surely, we both began to giggle and laugh something nutty, our pupils expanded and basically, from just absorbing psilocin/psilocybin from our fingertips holding mushroom after mushroom, cleaning each one individually, their being fresh in from a drenching in the rain, not soggy just soaked piss wet through we both of us had absorbed a fair bit from my identification of that patch, and I knew she wasn't lying, from the physical autonomic signs she was displaying, the way she was acting could have been faked sure but not the eyes. And I realized I was feeling it strongly myself, no slight hint of doubt, I, and she, were both tripping good and proper. And as we continued to clean and de-duff-icate the mushies, it actually got to the point where we were having enough difficulty speaking to each other that we eded up resorting to sign language rather than verbal communication, and carrying our conversation on employing ASL, in fits and stops and starts, rapidly signing back and forth to each other in between the inter-shroom breaks whilst our fingers were free.
She had no IDEA how hard those lil brutes were going to smack her (and me) sideways when we actually went so far as to consume some, once they'd all been spore printed to make sure no Galerinas were in there (there was a single rusty brown spore print in amidst the entire harvest, which we of course, well, which I, instantly removed from the haul.
I'm not sure how much she took, but >2.5g, possibly as many as 5g of dried P.cyanescens! She took some, and then went to lay down in her bedroom, the room that formerly hosted my lab, which whilst for the duration of her stay, I took down and mothballed all my equipment and chemical reagents, vials of projects and the stacks of printed journal articles, and then put a bed in the room for her. Went to lie down, and I think, get on her computer to use her internet connection that I'd let her share with me, put a line through into her room etc.
And suddenly, after myself going to lie down in my own room, listening to music and turning the lights out, getting on my own computer whilst I began to come up, so I could have a nice relaxing devouring session amongst the scientific literature available through pubmed, the next thing I knew she suddenly came running, shot in through the door like a bullet from a gun, mumbled something totally incoherent, did this kinda, little jump up and down once in the air, then pelted out into the bathroom, and I heard a loud and distinctive, absolutely unmistakeable 'hooorrrkkkknnghhhargnhkghh arkghkargkhharkg horkgh hork-sporoorkgh khhmmnnhhhgnarkh-splorsh! hork-kasploorrsh!-ing noice weaving, wavering, flickering and wobbling from the bog and traveling thus to mine porches of mine ears. Then she pelted back in to my room, stood at the door, then proceeded immediately to spew on my carpet violently, althoigh thankfully there was little left but a splattering-worth of stomach-juice and semidigested mushrooms. I helped The Bitch From Hades back to her room, stayed in there with It for a while, made sure she was alright, fixed things up so she had a drink if needs be, cleaned my own room of her insides on their little jaunt outside then went back to my journal-munchery and rocketing up to a thorough +++ (1/2+). The Bitch, by this time, and me both were proper madly sprunted, absolutely bollocksed off our tits.
And these, were damn potent even for cyans, compared to other Cyanescens I'd had before
The nuttiest thing though about it all, circumstance-wise, was the look she had in her eyes. They were blown-pupilled, as to be expected, but the main thing was this weird look she was wearing, she had this strange manic glinting stare on her face, hard to describe in words, but kinda creepy seeing as it was being worn on the skull of TFBBFH.
But it was funny at the same time, because she didn't have much experience at all with drugs, as I said up previously as per this post, she seemed to be thoroughly enjoying herself, although almost regressive, autistic mannerisms and little speech at all. (she IS autistic mind you, as I am, although she s more aspie and I turn much more towards the Kanner's phenotype on the spectrum. But she was really strongly coming over as, temporarily, classic Kanner's-ey autistic-kind of autistic, if that makes sense. The really speshul kind, my usual phenotype, whilst she tripped FAR and away out of her box. Although, aside from her having to go hork up repeatedly on her come-up, she still seemed to be having a good time, although she was totally uncommunicative, but seemed to be smling anyhow.
Good time had by both, although for me at least, a solid, intense plus three and a quarter to plus three and a half when I'd fully come up. Entities (human form, phantom old fisherman's wife, holding armfulls of green, algae-covered clams in their shells, on board a sailing type fishing ship that moved along through a ghost ocean guided along on golden fine braided barbed wire, above it, like the inverse of a railway track)