I have little experience on mushroom. Essentially I didn't go much more than 1.2 and it was kind of big. We usually do for watching some cool movie and eat whatever we want.

But I ve read that you can also have some type of "revelation"/hallucination with God trippy time. Maybe even work on some past trauma or anxiety/depression.

I ve read that the "start" line is 1.5 to 2g. It sounds more bigger than I can chew ? I swear I am a light weight with drugs. I don't need much to start and be happy/horny or chill.

I am willing to do it this weekend with my husband. He will take a lower dose to still be functional and I will go to maybe 1.5 or 2g.

The thing I want to understand is how can you "control" your tripping time into a more "open eyes" experience.

Do you need a plan ? question already setup on a peice of paper ? Control meditation ? I ve read a lot of experience but no explanation on how they achieve that state.

I never ever have any bad trip. I always had a open, happy personality. I go with the flow type of attitude.

Hey all, hope you are having a good day

Recently I took 3.5g of mushrooms, I have only done them previously twice before so this was my third trip. One good and one bad, I think this was too much honestly as the trip I had was honestly insane.

I will try to explain it to the best of my ability, whilst it was very scary at the time, I now reflect on it and can kind of see positives from it, however it has changed my way of thinking to some regard.

I was with some friends and the time in an amazing place surrounded by mountains and green scenery, honestly it was amazing visuals.

Basically without rambling too much, we all took 3.5g then went on this scenic walk to enjoy the experience. At first it was cool everything was twisting and turning as I looked into the view, I kind of felt a bit uncomfortable as I was coming into it. When I closed my eyes I could see various shapes.

We got to this patch of grass and then decided to sit and watch the scenery, whilst sitting down I could see the grass moving and trees moving, because it was a lot I had to lay down to kind of take it in. At this point we were all crazy high including myself but here’s where it really started.

So as I’m lying down I close my eyes and I can see these figures. They look like two ladies who were calling me in with their hands. Either that or they were giving me something with their hand I couldn’t tell they kept calling me and for some reason I then turned around with my face against the grass.

From here it went insane, I could feel a buzzing sensation in my forehead (I guess it was my pineal gland) and then I was transported in my mind to a place where I was surrounded by all these people, from what it seemed like they were shocked at my presence and almost trying to help me up I couldn’t really understand. This was whilst my friend’s were chatting in the background and staring at the sky.

Fast forward a few minutes, these beings I don’t know what they were started talking to me or communicating to me through my thoughts i was so scared at first but I sort of managed to ease into it. They were surrounding me and touching me the first thing I got from them was ‘you need healing, you need to heal’.

With my head buzzing it felt like I was fully in another dimension and these people had taken me in to try and help me from what I could gather.

From there I was transported to from what I could make out was the gates of hell, there were dark figures and evil demonic spirits. They would come up to me and tell me that they have me, I was theirs and they said you will come here (I’m not religious btw more spiritual). The beings that I was with earlier said to me something along the lines of ‘these are the forces that are taking over earth, can you not see this is why you need to heal’, they said ‘earths people are being taken by this evil’.

They then pulled me back up to the light, I was surrounded by them again. They said to me that ‘it’s the medicine’ ‘humans don’t naturally get ill’ ‘the evil has taken over through the medicine’. They said that humans are ‘god like beings’ that actually can do anything they desire but the ‘evil has made them believe they can get sick’.

They then showed what looked like a vaccine, they pointed and said ‘this is why you need to heal’ ‘you and earths people are in great danger as the evil has gotten you through these’. As they were saying this, shooting pains all along my body where happening, I assume as they were trying to show me the damage that had been done to me I don’t know.

I know this sounds crazy but then what I could make out (as I was fully freaking out) they said that the purpose of life was to ‘be in a high vibration and be positive’, these medicines and the way of living was making us negative. they said that where you go after death depends on ‘what vibration you leave earth’ and that the evil that has taken over is purposefully lowering our vibrations to make us ‘follow them so we don’t return to our true self’.

They said as a ‘light worker’ I must heal, at that point I was so scared I jumped up and had to take a few minutes. My friends were laughing at me as my face was against the floor yet I was shook up. We then decided to leave and I tried telling them but didn’t want to sound crazy.

When we got home I was too shook up I kept thinking about it, they were obviously trying to tell me that I was in trouble and needed to heal my body and I started to think about how I still eat bad food and drink alcohol. I knew that they were talking about the Covid vaccine which I took two shots off back in 2021. I had my doubts about it after but never like now it’s sent me into a lot of fear surrounding them.

I don’t believe in religion rather spirituality, but why did I see hell? Was it a fear tactic I don’t know.

Since then I’ve gotten over it a little, but the information they told me has definitely changed my perspective. I knew the Pharma industry was evil and now I don’t trust them at all. I think they were right, humans are gods and can heal from everything naturally.

Anybody have a similar experience, or think im just going crazy?

I've been tripping for about a year now, and holy hell has it changed so many things in my life for the better. I'd already done a lot of processing prior to trying psilocybin and considered myself a fairly psychologically healthy person with a reasonably stable identity, but these experiences have introduced a whole new level of happiness and fulfillment into my life.

So anyway, one thing that occurred to me since the very first time I tripped was that my body was storing emotional pain as chronic physical pain. Often tripping and confronting this emotional pain ends up making me feel physically better (esp. pain in my shoulder and lower back, and I feel it release, sometimes for days). Last week I had an amazing experience where I had aimed to "integrate" some of my specific old wounds, suffered as a child. Now I feel like blood is flowing through my hips and spine in a way it hasn't for years.

Anyway, I'm just wondering if your relationship with physical pain has changed in any way through the use of shrooms. I'm not trying to cram others' insights into my own or negate other reasons for physical pain, but I am genuinely curious about whether people have had similar experiences, different ones, negative ones, whatever, in this area.

Every year, I try and do one “ego death” trip. It’s not always easy, but I always come out a better person. I’m always timid beforehand because I’m not sure what will come up.

This year I am going through some intense and confusing things, right now in the thick of it. Not sure how I feel or what my thoughts are right now. I feel too afraid to trip this year.

Now seems like a terrible time and a nightmare. Or is now actually when I need it most and will provide clarity?

I’m 51, male and this year had an experience on shrooms that I’m trying to understand and would very much appreciate insights from others please.

Background

I discovered MDMA relatively late when I was 49. I used it with my now ex girlfriend and was blown away at how it opened up self understanding and relationship issues. The sex on MDMA was incredible, but the real surprise was how it unlocked compassion and non judgmental connection. I researched everything I could find on the topic, from MAPS to Youtube videos and anything remotely connected, with topics from trauma and self discovery to quantum physics. 

Around the same time, my relationship with my girlfriend was in turmoil and my career had stagnated. I questioned everything and was struggling to find my place in the world. I possibly was in the dark night of the soul. I have had depression on an off in my life time and often when faced with serious life changes, I struggled to adapt. I now recognise my behaviour would be best described as often being in the frozen state from the fight/flight/freeze notion.

Mushrooms

As I researched psychedelics, I learned about magic mushrooms, which I had never taken. I’d heard of them as a student, but never encountered them, and previously thought they were an urban myth. 

Where I live, it is legal to grow them for personal use, so I got a kit to cultivate some Cubensis shrooms. My first trip was a full mystical experience. I prepared fully, spring cleaned my house and carefully prepared the setting with full respect for whatever was to come. My girlfriend kindly was my trip sitter.I had created a playlist and as “Sit around the Fire” and “Welcome” by Jon Hopkins played, I dissolved and became the music, mesmerized outside of space time. I was conscious, but outside my body. There were incredible visuals, 3D lattices of geometrical shapes dancing in the air. At one point I was a bee flying, my point of view from behind the bee’s eyes. A moment later I was conscious as a plant, seeing translucent green biology from inside the plant. My hearing was multiplied, it seems, 100 fold. I became some of the songs. I remember looking at some plants on my shelf and saw a stream of mist flowing between them. Energy? Information? No idea. My sense of taste went to unbelievable intensity. I had prepared some tortilla wraps with salmon and took them out of the fridge. After I chopped them into a few pieces, they morphed into alien life forms, seemingly taunting me. Mentally I had done a lot of preparation and was half expecting scary stuff to come up, so I was unphased by what I was seeing. I giggle at them and said, “I know you are trying to scare me, but you’re a figment of my imagination and I’m going to eat you!” As soon as I did, the salmon and dill stimulated a knowledge of thousands of years of history around a river setting. 

I came out of this trip with my whole understanding of reality changed. 

Body Charge 

On subsequent trips, I saw myself growing up as a kid, lacking emotional security in my family, questioning myself and feeling alone, unsure. I was born a month premature, and I felt I received stress that I have never understood. Long story short, I began a spiritual awakening with questions around my ruminating thoughts, procrastination and limiting beliefs surfacing. 

I probably took shrooms every couple of months over the next two years. My average dose was 2g dried. Once I tried a hero dose of 5g, and noticed nothing different, just the usual trip. I had insights on life after death and reality. Slowly, the trips became less fun. The visuals and synesthesia started dropping and I noticed an uncomfortable body charge more and more and I would get restless. The body charge became more and more uncomfortable. I remember telling my girlfriend that it felt like something was alive in me, hard to describe. 

I did some microdosing in between, which helped with concentration. Overall, I felt like I was benefitting from the antidepressant effects of the mushrooms. Meanwhile, I broke up with my girlfriend. 

Challenging trip

In March this year, I took a 1.5g dose by myself. Within 15 or 20 minutes I started feeling a physical sensation which scared the living daylights out of me. It was a diabolical, physical feeling of something really bad rising in my body. Like a foreboding. As if I was heading for death. I have never felt anything like it. It quickly became more and more intense and then it felt like a panic attack or anxiety attack (which I had never experienced before), which was intensified as I was on shrooms. Then there was shooting painful energy stabbing my body, mostly torso. Like when you get a fright, adrenaline shooting all over. I called my ex girlfriend to come and help, which she did. I didn’t sleep that night. It went on for hours. In fact, I didn’t feel right for days, possibly weeks. There were aftershocks of anxiety. One of the realizations during the trip was my heart had been broken during the experience of my relationship ending with my girlfriend. It felt like I acknowledged this during the trip and my heart allowed itself to break. At one point I tried to vomit in the bathroom to purge whatever I was experiencing. I remember retching and very little coming up, mostly saliva. But I did visualize black clouds as I retched. 

Aftermath

Two days after the trip, I had a sore area on my chest, where my heart is. And bruises showed up there. I didn’t bump this area during my trip. I feel as if something toxic was released. I also felt sore on my forehead, but there were no signs of bruises. One of the realizations during the trip was I tend to procrastinate. I was worried about the heart issue and felt a message from the shrooms was I need to act on issues, so I went to my local health clinic and had it checked out just in case. The nurse was wide eyed when I explained my trip, but the doctor was calm, checked my heart vitals and said everything was fine. I was relieved. 

In the days and weeks after the trip, I was super sensitive physically and emotionally. I’ve been overweight for a while and I understood from the shrooms that emotional eating was my problem. So I cut that out. I lost about 10 kilos in the following weeks. One thing I noticed was if I ate or drank too many calories or consumed anything not good for me, I would get instant feedback in the form of back pain and/or bloating. 

Spiritual awakening

I noticed several synchronicities which I don’t need to go into here, over a few weeks. Things felt surreal. Several times I thought I was losing my mind. Slowly, things got back to normal, but I am left trying to work out what happened, and how to live my best life. 

I did some microdosing in the following months, very light. On all but two occasions, nothing unusual happened. The last of these was a month ago. I took 0.08g (1/25th of my standard usual dose of 2g). This should be sub perceptual. It wasn’t. I noticed the same bad feeling rising. I did some ETF tapping which helped, and the feeling disappeared within 5 or 10 minutes. 

Conclusion 

I don’t like the idea of this ever happening again. At the same time, I wonder if it is something being released, that is uncomfortable in the moment, but might release negative energy/trauma and ultimately help me? During the height of that challenging trip, it felt like I was possessed. Afterwards I wondered if it was ego dissolution. Or an anxiety attack. Or panic attack. Or kundalini awakening. Or spiritual awakening. In the weeks after the trip, for example, I observed myself doing things like washing the dishes, or driving, where it felt I was an observer. I remember previously doing a guided meditation where you observe your hands to help you train your body, your thoughts, emotions etc, so you work towards enlightenment and understanding that you are not your thoughts. It never really resonated with me, and I’ve always struggled to quiet the monkey mind. 

Questions

I feel that overall the mushrooms have helped me and scared the living daylights out of me. I have questions. Does anybody have experience of something similar? Any ideas what happened? Any advice?

Thanks 

Two days ago I ate 6 albino teachers. They are pretty small and I’ve eaten some from this batch before. In retrospect I wish I’d weighed them.

Started coming up after like 30 minutes. I took them on an empty stomach and ate some mozzarella sticks about 15 min after eating them, which I feel like didn’t help with the stomach ache.

At about 45 min, give or take, I was extremely high. I was trying to watch Stranger Things as I enjoy the colors in that show but man, it quickly became overwhelming so I switched to Adventure Time.

I was sitting in bed and noticed myself becoming a little anxious. I identified the problem which was my stomach hurting, so I drank some Sprite and took some deep breaths. I was sitting in my bed and all my blankets morphed into smooth, geometric shapes.

Not even an hour and a half in my visuals were so intense I was fighting to keep my eyes open and they felt like rolling back. Everything is was moving. Reached for my vape and saw an infinite amount of tracers. I started getting overwhelmed because I simply hadn’t expected this strong of a trip. I lay down and took some deep breaths. Not my first rodeo but always a little humbling when you have to talk yourself through it.

My vision would shift from constant movement/a view of my room & the TV to complete DMT visuals, like full blast off: fractals, patterns, grids/lines, and eyes. I started laughing a bunch because I was just blown away by what I was seeing/feeling.

Entities visited, which has never happened to me on psilocybin. Everything around me was moving when suddenly there was like, movement within the movement and I felt a sudden sense of fear, almost, as I saw these long fingered tall humanoids pulling back the fabric of the air and peering in on me. They were only around for a short period of time. I was caught off guard and didn’t try to engage with them.

At some point the deep thoughts came. I spiraled into thinking about everything I needed to fix in my life, how I’m not living up to my potential and how much time I’ve wasted when I’m blessed with having so much time to fix the things I need to. This was rough but much needed. I dealt with the discomfort and reflected on it.

After about 4 hours I stopped peaking but was insanely high. I got up to use the bathroom and my body felt like it weighed a ton. My vision was still moving a lot, lots of tracers, and it was hard to focus on more than one object at a time.

After about 5 hours I started coming back from the visuals and noticed an intense body load, which hadn’t been present for most of the trip. I chilled in bed and kept watching Adventure Time. After 7 hours I was basically back to baseline.

I felt a sense of gratitude and was awestruck with how enjoyable my experience was, even with the semi stressful self reflection. Massive afterglow the next morning, a sense of awe still and felt humbled. Two days later I’m feeling more motivated than ever and I woke up early and cleaned/took care of some things I’ve been putting off. Hoping to ride this motivation as long as I can.

Mush love!

Edit: I’d like to say more but honestly very hard to describe everything I saw. Hardest I’ve ever tripped on mushrooms and shocked I achieved it from such a small amount. Funny thing is, I almost took a tab of acid with them and I’m definitely glad I didn’t.

I froze my stash. It’s been frozen for several months. They were extremely dry prior to going in. Some research here says it’s not good for them so the question now is do I leave them in or do I take them out? What’s the best path moving forward to preserve them?

I'm looking to take some JMF soon but have read that it was a very potent type of psilocybin. Do any of ya'll have some experience on this particular strain?

Does anyone have experience with them? Really considering it.

I seem to always have a bad experience with psilocybin if i haven't had a good night sleep. Is this your experience, or it doesn't matter?

please help if you can.

we’re at a hospital.

10123 SE Market St, Portland, OR 97216

We have spore prints and the mushrooms

Black prints. Bruising blue. Azerescans

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe…

Washington Coast.

found in grass. Not in wood chips, logs #mushroom #poison #Emergency

I recently had my first experience with mushrooms and I am a little fuzzy on the result and my experience. A little about me. I'm not very satisfied with where I'm at personally or how I got here. I can be an a-hole, I don't particularly feel love for anything or anyone, I have removed myself from most of my families lives. Some of that is my fault and some of it isn't. I retired a few years ago from a very rewarding but crazy stressful job. I'm hoping someone can share some insight. I lemon tec'd 3G of GT. It kicked in in about 20 minutes and was immediately dark. My setting was very comfortable, reclined in bed with a ton of pillows and I had a trusted close friend and soft meditative music. My first image was a red "curtain" that took up about 25% of my view. From there it moved to lots of unpleasant faces kind of smushed up against each other in some sort of collage. Still very dark. I told myself to just accept what I saw and try to make progress. I could not feel or see any type of locomotion in my efforts to move forward. After a while I did start to see very small portals of pretty skies and space. Only one small portal or window was ever visible and I was never able to get closer to it or did it enlarge. This lasted about an hour I think.

Next was an open dark sky but I was contained within this massive cage of black bars. Not like straight prison bars but irregular lengths and angles but they all connected somewhere to another bar. No spaces between the bars were large enough to squeeze through. After a while of accepting this and trying to just let it pass, I started hearing noises to my right. I looked at the source of the noise and I identified the mass as "negativity". I guess I spoke out loud a little bit about what I was seeing saying "it's always there. It's always been there" (the negativity). This lasted about 45 minutes I think.

After a some time, I started saying out loud that the black bars were decaying like a coral bleaches out when it dies. Shortly after that, my mind was telling me that that was enough of the mask and I took it off. I sat and watched the street signs melt into the ocean and other objects shimmer and blend for the rest of the trip.

I was never really afraid, just disappointed that there werent all the pleasant things many people describe. I am in my late 50's. As with many many any other Gen-Xer with boomer parents, we all had our childhood trauma.

I'm open to any thoughts about this because I have no idea. My goal was a moderate exploration of myself. My immediate thought was that evidently, I'm a dark person, which is absolutely not true. I am told I am very kind, generous and empathetic. I'm sorry if I left out any important details, I'm new at this.

Mind blowing article on the possible deep relationship between psychedelics and civilization.

https://bigthink.com/the-past/a-new-spin-on-the-stoned-ape-hypothesis/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Nowhere else to share it because the world localized around me is not ready for my love of the shrooms :)

I know it sounds stupid but I just want to be 100% sure before something horrible happens…

I’ve done 4 to 6g.

Post 5-Meo-DMT breakthroughs I found im more sensitive and get to the void with 4-5g

Anything you can share much appreciated!!!!

I did shrooms as a teen and in my early 20s. I'm 44 now and terminally ill but in good health (I know that makes no sense but it's true, if you want an explanation, ask and ye shall receive). I've decided id like to start experimenting with shrooms again. Im starting slow, took 1g around an hour ago and not really feeling much, which is totally fine. I'd rather ramo up slowly and learn how they affect me than get caught off guard and have a bad experience.

Aaaaanyway, I actually have a question and all that info was totally irrelevant. Question. Is....do shrooms ever make you want to eat the way weed can? If so, is there any type of food in particular that I might want to have on hand? Or is it generally more of an appetite suppressant? I'm not noticing any affects at this point, appetite related or otherwise. I'll increase the dose a bit and try again in a few days.

what’s the difference in sensation between weed and mushrooms? i understand shrooms isn’t a “chill, eat food and play video games” type of substance like weed but I just am curious on some more specifics i suppose

I’ve been using magic mushrooms for quite some time now. Yesterday evening I invited my partner over; she took an edible and, of course, I decided to take 8g of P. Cubensis. Now, in my defense, my last dose was about 7g only 5 days prior to last night, so I figured given my tolerance this would be an intense, but not mind breaking trip.

I mixed up the dried mushroom dust with lemon juice and kiwi. I didn’t feel like making simple syrup and going through the effort to strain the grounds to make lemonade. I ate the bitter—citrusy mush with a spoon and used plenty of water to wash it down. Immediately, I felt nauseous. Every instinct told me to just vomit, but I didn’t want to diminish the trip. As I sat in the bathroom holding back the mushrooms, I distinctly remember seeing fractals in the tile floor; I reached out and touched them out of curiously to see if I was confusing cracks in the floor for hallucinations. The mushrooms were already taking effect.

Fast forward 30 minutes and I finally have the nausea under control. My partner and I laid on the carpet of my bedroom exchanging stories and sharing how high we both were. After a little while, we decide to go downstairs and watch cartoons. I’ve really gotten into The Amazing Digital Circus lately; it’s such a colorful, wacky show, and it’s only enhanced by my already warped visuals.

Around 3:00AM my partner tells me she can’t keep her eyes open, and she falls asleep on the couch. I wanted to stay up and keep watching TV, so I did. In episode 2 of The Amazing Digital Circus, one of the characters learns he’s an NPC; his sense of reality and self is shattered. A few minutes later I feel my stomach churn. I rush to the bathroom and start vomiting violently into the toilet. It feels like my own sense of self and reality is shattered; it feels like I’m on a thin line between life and death. Everything seems dreamlike; like I could do anything without consequences to myself or others. The whole experience is a bit of a blur, but I distinctly remember apologizing: to the mushrooms, to the world, and to my myself “I’m sorry. Is that what you want me to say? I’m so fucking sorry.” I felt true, unadulterated terror—terror so real I considered calling an ambulance.

Strangely enough, about 30 minutes later, I start to come down and decide to take a shower and go to bed. I woke up refreshed and bubbly. It’s strange how an experience can be so traumatic yet so temporary. Anyway, I was reminded of an important lesson last night; the mushroom is not a toy, it’s a tool that demands respect. Measure out doses carefully, consider set and setting, and just wait the 1-2 weeks for a tolerance reset. The mushroom can be your friend—it can be very healing. But it knows when you’re being irresponsible and it will absolutely fuck your shit up. Stay humble, and let this be a warning to you, unless getting transported to psychological hell while vomiting your brains out sounds pleasurable to you.

Look for the microchews from started

Backstory - haven't done them in around 20 yrs, got some recently did 2g had a blast, took same amount next day and didn't really feel anything which I get.

My question is, does macro dosing say once a week or every other week negate the benefits of micrososing? Should I only be doing one or the other? Do I need to space or trips vs micro dosing?

Sorry if questions are stupid I've had eyes closed for past 20 yrs

Hi 😊 I've been micro dosing shrooms gummies .025mg twice a week for two weeks now. Today I ate 2 @ 7am, I am wondering would it be considered abuse to want to take more almost 4 hours later? I'm looking for more of a profound affect to help me get rid of my fears....

Thank you Sorry if that doesn't make sense?

I started journeying earlier this year and it was wonderful. It was helping me open up emotionally with loved ones and it was very enjoyable as I explored new realms and learned things about myself. Over the last couple of months the experience has increasingly become not great. It has started to cause intense anxiety and physical pain. My most recent experience had wave after wave of excruciating pain all over my body for several hours. Has anyone else experienced this? Are there ways to counter this? Or is it time to hang up the phone?

Psilocybin journeys can feel completely different depending on who’s with you (or if you’re alone!). Here’s a quick rundown of the three main approaches:

Solo Journeys

Going solo is all about self-exploration without outside influence. It’s a chance to go deep within, but it can get intense without anyone there to ground you. Great for those who are comfortable exploring solo and looking for personal insights.

Friend Trips

Taking psilocybin with friends brings connection and support. With trusted people, it can be lighter, fun, and comforting, though group dynamics can affect the flow of the experience. It’s a good way to explore in a safe, shared environment.

Guided Experiences

With a trained guide, the journey is structured for insight and healing. Guides help you set intentions, stay grounded, and process what comes up, making it especially helpful for working through deeper challenges.

Which style of journey do you like most? Do you have any advice for others on how to get the most out of these different approaches? Let’s hear your experiences!

3g, 4g, 5g, 6g,7g dried mushrooms?

Would be grateful to get a sense to understand intensity for those who have experience with both. I’m much more familiar with mushrooms.

Re: LSD 300mcg:

1. would you say the come up and peak (ie the first 3-4 hours) is one level of intensity - for instance 5g equivalent.

2. And the come down (after 4 hours to 8 hours) is a different intensity (maybe 4g equivalent)

3. And the final tail (after hours to 12 hours) is a lower intensity still (say 2-3g equivalent)?

My experience levels on mushrooms is 4g to 6g (together with Niacin and Lions Mane); after 5-Meo-DMT breakthroughs I found 4g to be much more intense then before…i ended up going back to the void (the white/grey void in 5MD) so I want to be careful and respectful before using LSD.

EDIT: Re: set and setting:

Setting: My setting is to take LSD at home in the dark with my eyes closed in my room listening to music; to take it on an empty stomach; not to mix it with weed, alcohol or any other substance.

Set: The main intention is to use LSD to help reset core beliefs and to release fear, sadness, trauma, anger. To connect to my authentic self and connect to my power and heal. Knowing that these things are always within us as long as we change how we view ourselves and circumstances around us.

Motivation: I have found psychedelics to be very helpful in removing layers of flawed thinking and fear and worries accumulated through the passage of time combined with meditation, journaling, and therapy. I have been using them only recently but humbled by what it has helped me do to learn to let go and flourish in the remaining time I have in life by becoming the best version of myself and achieving self realisation. While the psychedelics do provide mystical and humbling experiences it is not what I want but to let go of the trauma that I haven’t been able to let go of even with therapy and other attempts

Dosing and Past Experience: I have used Mescaline, Mushrooms and 5-Meo-DMT and each have helped in different ways. Mushrooms in particular are wonderful and post 5MD I have found trips to be extremely healing (and physically and emotionally exhausting) and demanding respect as I enter the white/grey void and feel pinned down as (what I can only describe as) a wave of energy getting poured into me. Sometimes it’s a bit scary but I always come away as very grateful.

LSD Dosing: The lesson is I find the healing is best when I get to the void but not too much more (as the intensity increased a lot post 5MD). I want to use LSD as I think it could help my thought process and help release old emotions and beliefs that do not serve me. …. So I’m trying to figure out the dosing. I tried 120mcg and found it very light but still present. I am thinking 250-300mcg but want to understand what that is in mushroom grams

Sorry for the long post.

Any thoughts much appreciated!!

Thank you!!

Have you ever been able to pick up on peoples thoughts when doing hallucinogens?

I’ve had quite a few experiences over the past couple decades where I could. I never intentionally tried to. It just happened. Every time it happened I thought I heard the person say something, but I couldn’t make it out. So I would ask what they said. And they said they didn’t say anything. & I would say “oh it sounded like you said such & such”. & they said “no, I didn’t say that, but I was thinking that”. And they would ask me how I knew that. And I’d say “I don’t know, I thought you said that”. Lol.

• These were very specific thoughts.
• No they weren’t just messing with me.
• Yes they were also on hallucinogens.
• No I don’t believe I’m able to communicate telepathically. I do believe, however, I can plant the seed.
• I know for certain I can pick up on one’s thoughts, & can nurture that ability, but not completely.
• I don’t claim to be psychic. I don’t actually like that word lol.
• These scenarios have happened when completely sober, but are less likely.

Does anyone else experience this? I mean, it isn’t far-fetched, considering we are opening the doors to reality beyond humanity into that dimension. That is literally what a hallucinogen is. I’m so very curious however. I have a feeling that: yes, there are others out there, & no, that’s not how I’m able to read peoples thoughts. Lol.😉❤️

I’m 29 years old and in recovery from stimulants (crystal and coke my drugs of choice)

I was in active addiction for 10 years (lately used 2 times / week and reached my bottom, very painful and I’ve been in the dark because of drugs with sex and last one gambling that destroyed me literally).

Doing great progress, 70 days clean and working the steps with a sponsor and my counsellor. I work 2 jobs, do 5 kickbox trainigs /week, cook at home only healthy food, MEDITATE each day for 20 minutes.

I still have cravings and I’d like to try microdosing and occasionally guided trip to beat/keep in control my addictions illness.

My question:

1. How to use them? Microdosing or guided trips?
2. For microdosing how should I do it?
3. For trips, guided trips, how should I do it for the purpose of overcoming addiction and become a better person.
4. What should I learn before starting this journey?
5. Is this a journey that I should start considering my situation?

Notes: I’ve used mushrooms before but at parties and having fun on them, not for recovery, overcoming addictions.

I want to make it the rogh way if I go on this path!

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks !

To start off I've had a few trips over the last few years, usually small amounts and nothing larger than an eighth. I had today off of work and had about 6 grams of Casper's in my freezer. I know it's a lot more than I had ever taken but I figured why not give it a try and downed all of them with some airheads. At first nothing crazy was happening, everything began to have a red and then green tint, which was pretty common for any time I had taken shrooms. However when they fully kicked in it was like my body had completely melted away. I can't remember seeing anything, I know I was moving around my apartment but when I try to picture what I was looking at my brain becomes fogged. I ended up laying on my bed for what was probably a good hour just wiggling around like a worm and I don't know a better way to say this other than I thought of every possible thing I could think of. I remembered every dream I had in the last few years, every tv show and movie, space and history. I started thinking of conversations I had with old friends and my Dad, and even was thinking of conversations I was going to have in the future. All of these thoughts were happening so fast it felt like I had the entire world flashing before my eyes. It felt like I was stuck in an infinite stream of knowledge that was never going to end. Trip ended about six hours ago and I don't think I will ever take that many again but it was definitely a unique experience

First up, thanks to who has answered my questions about shrouds. I have had an excellent experience but it took some work due to my current SSRI medication. Can anyone recommend a schedule to transition to micrdosing?

I had the house alone to my self and decided to take shrooms. Strain is just penis envy they had been my go to for a minute. I was planning to just chill and watch movies when all of a sudden they started kicking in like never before. This instantly put me into panick because the visuals were becoming over welming and the high. I was not prepared to go this deep especially in this scenario. I had always been paranoid of going to deep and the battle I may face. But anyways it continued to escelate to the point where im freaking out and lose the ability to even talk. The visuals made everything else pretty indistinguishable to the point where figures and faces starting appearing which sent me even farther. The worst part of the trip was eventually what I would describe as some entitity telling me im living in a simulation and everything I do is controlled, all the awful things that happen in this world is from this one entity. I was shaking from anxiety and feeling manic losing my mind thinking I would never be the same person again my life was going to change. At somepoint I thought I was going through some form of ego death. Since this trip mushrooms have not been that same. I tried another dose a couple months later and some similar type of entity was still there even with a way lower dose. I just felt its evil presence and it left me feeling crazy and scared again for the remainder of the trip. Has anyone else had a similar expierence or a way to shake it off, it lives in my head non stop.

I have borderline personality disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, PTSD, and ADHD. I’ve been in therapy for 10+ years. It really doesn’t help.

I knew I wanted to try something psychedelic because a big problem I have is trying to rationalize my feelings or shut them down. I dissociate a lot, so I thought this might be an interesting experience for me. I was really apprehensive because I had a very bad experience a long time ago with some homemade shatter. I was stoned for 3 days and had some weird amnesia-like symptoms where I couldn’t remember who I was and it caused this insane panic. I saw god and some other inexplicable things and that was just weed, albeit extremely concentrated. I’m very sensitive to pharmaceutical drugs, so that only increased my anxiety around the idea of trying mushrooms. I smoke weed regularly and one cartridge will last me six months. The smallest puff, and I’m stoned for hours.

I took about 2.5-3g of what I think was Golden Teacher. I took half a cap a few days ago, just to make sure I wouldn’t have a very negative reaction before I took a macro dose.

It was incredible! I had such a good time. I was excited initially, and I wrote down some things I wanted to concentrate on during my trip, which I think helped with my focus and lack of anxiety for much of it. I saw some people say having a playlist could be helpful, so I did that as well and had it waiting for me when I started to feel a little off. Listening to the music was almost like hearing it for the first time—-it took me to places I’d been long ago, all the memories buried in the songs. I saw colors and shapes, green and purple glowing, and my zodiac tapestry above my bed was spinning enchantingly. All the walls were moving and flexing like they were breathing, and I saw brightly-colored patterns in every surface.

I giggled a lot. I cried frequently, pushing through all kinds of memories and feelings and emotions. I had a therapist tell me once to imagine I was on a train watching the memories go by through the windows. She said to let the feelings fade out with them and disappear. This felt like that, how it was supposed to feel but never did when I was in therapy. I got to feel everything wholly, without resistance, and let it be filtered through my body and out somewhere into the ether. Things I didn’t even know I had been holding onto.

I wanted to post my experience here because reading through your posts gave me the courage to try it. I’m really glad I did. I thought it might be helpful to have someone with some fairly serious mental health issues talk about how it impacted them. Obviously it’s risky when you have a lot going on mentally, but I think my going into it with excitement and really making sure I planned the trip out, made me feel secure on a subconscious level. I found myself repeating “this place is safe, you’re safe, everything here is safe”, and believing it.

I had some anxiety coming down, so I did some cleaning and tidying which helped. I also spent time with my pets. My dog was very concerned! The only weird thing I noticed was that my pupils were misshapen and even more uneven than usual (one is always bigger than the other for me). They were kind of oblong and not fully round. I took a picture because I thought for sure the mushrooms were just causing me to see them that way, but nope! My pupils were messed up for sure.

I took some notes while I was on my trip, but the iOS app won’t let me paste it. I’ll see if I can add them to the comments.