i have 1mg lorazapam pills on hand incase.. the absolute only reason i am even a little sketched about trying mushrooms is my last dmt trip scared the living shit out of me and i seem to still have flashbacks when i smoke weed.. not everytime but maybe 45% of the time
Open a door that you cant close?
I found mushrooms to be on the mild side, I have not had the pleasure of trying DMT by itself, but i remember when young we smoked some of our mushrooms (yea i know, not a great idea to inhale fungi) But at that moment, the trip got VERY strong, my friends face just melted and i was GONE for a few minutes.
Later on I read that certain strains contain DMT in them. Explains the shotgun blast to outer space for such a short duration.
I also recall a strange "Fully visual" hallucination experienced after tripping on mushrooms and taking a hit of N2O (this when in the 'after-glow' stage of the trip, 6-10 hours, cant remember exactly). It was strange because it started in the center of my vision and slowly consumed my entire field of view, it consisted of an array of eyeballs reminiscent of Alex Grey's work. While in this state, my eyesight was completely gone, replaced by this vision, but every other sense was alert and fully aware that i was still sitting comfortably in my lawn chair, aside from the mild numbness from the nitrous, i was sober, experiencing one of the most intense visual hallucinations i have ever had.
What. The. FUCK.
In retrospect, one notion that always helps me is that everything is always there... you just don't see it all the time or maybe even ever. I'd consider myself lucky for the things i have experienced in my life, bad or good, I am always able to eventually get something positive from the experience and this helps me the next time around as-well.