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Warning to those of you thinking of trying shrooms

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First of all, I think shrooms are an exceptional tool when used in the right setting for introspective and/or spiritual purpose. In no way do I wish do discourage anyone from using them as it can have benefits in moderation.
Using shrooms will often lead to you questioning what you want out of life, specifically relationships. However, your perception will often be distorted in the moment and you will find that when coming down you might not have the same values. For instance, a shroom trip recently led me to call up my old girlfriend from middle school. Now in a sober state, I realize that I do not have a particularly strong desire to rekindle my relationship with her, even though it seemed like the right course of action at the time. I might encourage you to turn off your phone to eliminate the possibility of you saying something that you might regret later. "Shroom dialing" would be a good way to put it.
Just remember that your values become distorted in some ways and not to take them to seriously. Although I would attribute my incident to an increased desire for intimacy/socialization while under the influence of shrooms. What are your embarrassing shroom stories?
 
I don't have any embarassing mushroom stories I think.
Let me think. I flubbed a social scenario once, where someone introuduced themself and shook hands and I zoned off and they didn't realize I was tripping and thought I was being a douche when I was actually just hallucnating and wanting privacy and to get away from there. Like when u forget peeps can't tell.
Uhhh. I've done the..."am I talking..can they hear me" thing to strangers.
Otherwise shrooms don't seem to affect me in the way your describing.
 
OP, it sounds like psychedelics just aren't for you as the experience that you describe is actually what many seek in the psychedelic experience. One of the best things about psychedelics are the way that they challenge your perception of reality and provoke wild thought patterns.

Just about everyone who trips knows to either shut off their phones (they're quite cumbersome to use when you're tripping anyway and quite often electronics do stupid things when you're high as if they're tripping with you) because they get us in trouble haha.

Trip dialing is worse than drunk dialing in my experience for sure.
 
^ really?

Shit.

I most certainly have.

The most embarrassing thing I ever did while tripping would have to be when I got lost in a public park because I was stoned out of my mind. Myself and my whole group of friends couldn't find our way out of the park and then when we came down, we all realized that we spent the last 45 minutes to an hour walking on the side walk at the end of the park right next to the street but were too high to realize it. *facepalm* moment.
 
MagickalKat777 said:
OP, it sounds like psychedelics just aren't for you as the experience that you describe is actually what many seek in the psychedelic experience. One of the best things about psychedelics are the way that they challenge your perception of reality and provoke wild thought patterns.

Just about everyone who trips knows to either shut off their phones (they're quite cumbersome to use when you're tripping anyway and quite often electronics do stupid things when you're high as if they're tripping with you) because they get us in trouble haha.

Trip dialing is worse than drunk dialing in my experience for sure.
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I actually quite enjoy psychedelics although I prefer the more analytical, external environment high of acid over the introspective high of shrooms. What I meant to outline in the post was that psychedelics can distort your values to the point that you are not on board with them while sober. Certain values may stick with you, but others (like the one I described), do not hold water when you are no longer tripping which is why I would encourage others not to jump the gun while under the influence like I did. See what I mean?
 
Yes I do and that is a very common trait of psychedelics in general. It sounds like you're not dosing very high if you haven't experienced this often. lol.
 
Actually I do think that switching your phone to airplane mode (no wireless connections of any kind) is particularly wise for the eBeheShroomehed, that should be part of the general set & setting checklist every tripper oughta go through. :)
I once received a quite disheartening phonecall on LSD and though I was able to let it go a little later it was just one of those times when you think: hopefully we can prevent that general kind of thing from happening to other people by informing them of the possibility and the serious consequences.

In a psychedelic trip you are much more sensitive and impressionable to things that might affect you. A proper setting can be designed to protect you from threats, but phonecalls also affect us quite suddenly even if remotely!
 
When I was a kid I use to take all the time, Im talking quarters and halves all the time. Then out of nowhere I started having bad times, so I quit. fast forward 2 years and I was hanging out with this hot ass mexican girl that Ive been fooling around with for a couple weeks and she wanted to do some shrooms. Im like ok, no biggie. We go and pick up 3.5 grams off of one of her friends, well turns out her friends was someone I kknew his whole life and Ive been friends with his older brother 12+ years. I didnt lnow he was into stuff like this so we was happy to see each other in this situation and when we left him spirits were high. Well, we get back to my boys house and split an 8th. No big deal, probably just get A nice body high and some of the giggles and maybe some slight OEVs. Oh boy, I coldnn't have been more wrong. I've still to this day haven't been in the condition I was that evening,well maybe close, but not from half an 8th. The most visual shrooms ive ever had major OEVs worst CEVs and I was just afraid to be by myself. So one of my best friends and that little mexican hung out with me all night. Speaking of all night, these things lasted forever, Im talking 8 hours+, and all the shrooms I ate before would only last 4-5 hours max, with like hour and a half to two hours peaking. These fucking things I was peaking 6 hours+, and it wasn't a good fun peaking, shit was nuts. Shit was moving like I ate L, which never happened before. Then these people from another party can up and they also ate the same things. At this point I wasn't as fucked but they all were, and two of the three it was their first time, and boy were they gone it was so funny. I am glad I was able to enjoy some of it. Though the mexican huss started dating my good friend shortly after that, but it was whatever, I had my fun with her. I mean, her nipples and clit was pierced, so she was just a fun girl. Oh I forgot to mention she was 17��


Im done with this for now......
 
I expect to feel and think weird things during a trip, by definition, that's what a trip is.

That last thing I would ever do is pick up a phone

I've said nonsensical/stupid things to people tripping with me, but that's about as bad as it gets
 
stormcharger said:
Never done anything embarrassing while tripping lol
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Same here... I usually trip alone, but I sometimes call/text/fb msg people during and it always goes well..

Now benzos + phone is a whole different story. And the worst thing is that you don't even remember the stupid shit you said.
 
I personally have experienced more delusional mindsets on mushrooms than LSD. I by far prefer LSD. Though I'll only take LSD with MDMA now, in order to enhance emotional intelligence to go along with the intellectual revelations imparted by LSD. MDMA= teacher's assistant for the "acid test". I've tried MDMA with mushrooms....I find they didn't have synergy like with acid, I was separately on MDMA and mushrooms, didn't really improve my experience with them. The only natural psychedelics I like that I've tried are DMT and mescaline, and I find acid superior to mescaline. Ibogaine and 5-meo-DMT don't sound fun, so I don't think I'll be exploring them. Salvia flat out sucks.

Phones should be unplugged during psychedelic experiences, they are not helpful. If anything important happens, a psychedelic state is not the time to deal with them, so being in contact isn't good when tripping, and as you mentioned, even unimportant things might not be best dealt with when altered. Then again, once my buddy texted me while he was on acid and I was on acid and we met up and had a good time, so....whatever.
 
Speaking of phones/computers... do some psychedelics cause anyone else to just not see text displayed on their screen? 2c-e does it for me, screens with mostly text just look blank while text on paper, videos/pictures on the same screen are visible (morphing and stuff if the dose is high enough).
 
black53 said:
Speaking of phones/computers... do some psychedelics cause anyone else to just not see text displayed on their screen? 2c-e does it for me, screens with mostly text just look blank while text on paper, videos/pictures on the same screen are visible (morphing and stuff if the dose is high enough).
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That sounds pretty close to my general experience. While tripping, I lose pretty much all ability to work with electronics. I'm more inclined to look at my cell phone and think, "I wonder what that is?" than to pick it up and start texting someone. No way -- I'm never that together. Trying to play music is another big problem. Navigating YouTube? Forget it. I've got to set up everything in advance and not count on my being able to perform later on.

*Receiving* a phone call would be a different story, however -- and a potentially terrifying one at that. Phone always gets turned off, put away, whatever...
 
I thought.of another one which is more just awkward if.that's okay but

one time I was on mushrooms a few years ago and I was at a party thing with people already, and I went out alone to smoke a cigg but it was freezing. and then this chick was grinding on my leg and this other woman was like yea I'm into younger men I was just riding someone barely legal for two hours yesterday.
and I was just like, I have no idea what's going on, but I'm here with somebody and I'm on mushrooms and those lights are terrifying me and walked away.

I always think that's weird tripping like that when yer just doing your.thing like almost watching the experience and sober people are going on normally, and yer like I have no idea how I just got to the end of this conversation. like. strangley normal feeling even tho your somewhere else in your mind.
 
Gratuitous Grace said:
That sounds pretty close to my general experience. While tripping, I lose pretty much all ability to work with electronics. I'm more inclined to look at my cell phone and think, "I wonder what that is?" than to pick it up and start texting someone. No way -- I'm never that together. Trying to play music is another big problem. Navigating YouTube? Forget it. I've got to set up everything in advance and not count on my being able to perform later on.

*Receiving* a phone call would be a different story, however -- and a potentially terrifying one at that. Phone always gets turned off, put away, whatever...
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With 2c-e I'm more like "I know it's a phone/computer and what it does, I can see the keyboard, I know what the screen is supposed to be showing, but all I see is a blank space". This is with 'normal' (aka. not enough to be completely out of it but enough for it to be obvious I'm tripping) doses.
 
Another incident of contacting sober people while tripping came up recently. Basically there's this friend and we've known each other for years, been in a lot of fights but always talked about it and were ok after. So I was tripping and thought about some people who got mad at me over stupid shit and refused to talk to me after while she always did. So I texted her about how we're still friends when we were mad at each other many times (not that I minded being friends). We talked a bit how we always talked about why we got mad and shit instead of just ignoring each other. Told her about how I may not show it well but that I appreciate us being friends, and her helping me with various stupid shit and so on. Conversation ended on a positive note:)
 
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