Experience Report: Amanita Pantherina, Cocaine and Alcohol

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Sorry about the massive length, but SWIM wanted me to make this as detailed as possible. SWIM hopes this will be informative to other SWIYs

About SWIM: SWIM is a healthy white 24 year old male, 5'10", weighing around 12.5 stone.

Substances used and doseage:

Cocaine - about 2gs in total throughout the day

Alcohol - about two thirds of a bottle of rum consumed throughout the afternoon and evening

Amanita Patherina: one portion as sold in shop, probably one whole dried mushroom, 12.5 grams

Total Duration and chronology of Amanita experience: coming up - slowly over around 1 1/2 to 2 hours, sudden and intense peak over the next 2 hours, fairly intense tripping for another hour, then gradual come down followed

SET: A little apprehensive, but calm while SWIM was eating the shroom. Day before SWIM had felt a bit uncomfortable and out of place the night before and physically not 100%.

SETTING of Trip: in my friend's flat; a bohemian, laid back evironment but not much light or air, and quite hot

BACKGROUND: SWIM had recently re-established contact with a friend from high school after losing his mobile number. He was quite pleased to have re-established contact and pleased to find that SWIM's friend C had been reading a lot of books about spiritual development, quantum mechanics, politics, philosophy etc. as he used to be a real sceptic. He's always been a real dreamer though, and now he wants to jack in his job, do a degree in astro physics or something along those lines. SWIM used to be very fond of psylocibin containing mushrooms before they were made illegal in the UK, and had a number of incredible experiences with them. C had been reading up a lot about them and was pleased to find someone to talk to about them. He was especially interested in destroying conceptions of space and time, becoming one with everything, gaining insights about himself through the use of psychedelics, but was (perhaps a little irrationally) scared of any "man made" product.

Over the course of the next few months he found a shop that sold Amanita Patherina. One of his friends told him that he had had an extremely intense experience on this mushroom and that made C want to try the experience. SWIM warned him that he had read this particular mushroom was extremely unpredictable, but C was adament this was what he wanted to do. Not wanting to piss on his bonfire, SWIM agreed to join him.

Last weekend SWIM travelled from his city to C's city on the train on the Friday evening after work. He hadn't seen him for a long time and was quite looking forward to seeing him but was very tired from a hard days work. It was nice to see C's new girlfriend and new flat, and to see that C now had a decent full time job and was doing OK for himself. Last time SWIM saw him he was in a slightly less enviable position. SWIM also noticed that random people kept on phoning and coming round to Cs flat, handing over money and receiving suspicious packages in return. Hmmmm. SWIM caught on and soon was the happy recipient of a free ecstasy tablet and plenty of free cocaine.

Later on he tried ketamine for the first time,and found it to be like tripping on mild mushrooms without any visuals, and with a seriously heavy, drugged feel. He had a moment of peace and clarity but that was it. He wasn't sure if he liked it. SWIM doesn't think he took enough. SWIM and his friend watched Memento until 4:30, smoked some spliffs and fell asleep. During Memento SWIM thought he had actually lost his ability to create short term memory for a while. Very strange.

Anyway ... the next day SWIM woke up at around 10:00m and started snorting some coke that was on the table. It woke him up a bit and made him feel nice, but he noticed that coke wasn't really producing any high or euphoria. In fact, he didn;t really understand why he was doing it, other than the fact it was there in abundance. C woke up an hour or so later, with his misses and they continued to snort coke, totalling about 4 - 5 medium sized lines and then went into town, where they had a huge, gorgeous meal at a Japanese restaurant. Cs misses was much more talkative today and that made SWIM feel happier and more comfortable, but they started to talk about how on earth SWIM could lie to his gf about doing class As which made SWIM feel very guilty, and vow that he would quit soon. Cs misses then left to visit her friend, leaving SWIM and C alone to catch up properly.

SWIM and C returned home at around 4:30pm. They continued to snort coke and SWIM continued to drink Bacardi and coke. SWIM had about three B&Cs and about 4 - 5 lines of coke. SWIM and C chatted, watched some TV and then went for a walk in the park at about 6:30 so that C could distribute some produce. The park was packed with people, quite beautiful and a great place to be in in the sun. SWIM noted that they should try and come to the park later while they were tripping.

They went home and finally consumed the amanita at around 7:00pm

TRIP REPORT:

7:00pm SWIM didn't want to eat all his mushroom at once, so he ate just over half and kept the rest in his pocket. Initially SWIM didn't feel that much and neither did C. C,who had eaten the whole thing, started to describe a feeling similar to coming up from a pill or rushing. SWIM didn;t feel anything of the sort, but did start to feel a slight change in perception of reality after about twenty minutes. SWIM had another couple of lines of coke and another drink of Bacardi and Coke. AT around 7:30 C's boss came over to purchase some coke from C. SWIM, C and his boss chatted for a bit but SWIM noticed no real notable changes in perception.

8:00pm Feeling more confident that he wasn't going to go crazy (and quite happy about this) SWIM slowly consumed the remaining half, after having another line and topping up his drink. To be honest, other than feeling a bit wired and a bit under the influence of alcohol SWIM didn't really think the coke and booze was effecting him that much.

8:20pm SWIM started to feel a distinct change in his perception of reality. He felt a rush, a tingling, distorted floaty sensation inhis head and body unlike anything he had experienced before, sedated disorientation and a strange kind of body load. It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Playing with blutac felt comforting.

8:?? Soon after SWIM started to feel the effects he remembers saying to C something like "shit these are really working, this is really fucked up", but then SWIM loses all memory entirely. SWIM was in an entirely different world, but not like when he was tripping on traditional psylocibin shrooms. He lost himself completely. SWIM has never ever lost a large chunk of a drug experience like this. Very odd indeed. According to C we weren't really doing that much, but when SWIM came around he was half naked, with his glasses broken and blu tacced to the wall. Wounder.

10:58 SWIM suddenly remembers suddenly snapping out of it at exactly this point and saying to C "I'm back, I'm back, where am I, what's going on?" SWIM became conscious of what was going on at this point but still tripping quite heavily.

There were no OEVs at all and no CEVs that SWIM could notice.

He felt like he was floating and his vision consisted of snapshots of reality. As per normal on psychedlics SWIM's thoughts were wandering all over the place very quickly. He can see why amanitas are sometimes described as deliriants. He kept on wandering around trying to get a sense of where he was, but to no avail. His friend suggested going out, and tried to contact some of his friends but SWIM didn't think this was a good idea at this point. The floating sensation was all consuming, and was combined with a feeling of stimulation (eyes wide open, heart racing, wide awake and unable to relax or settle), disorientation and the desire to pace around.

This is a VERY different feel to psylocibin containing mushrooms. SWIM cannot emphasise this enough. SWIM at least expected vague similarities, but there were very few.

There was no euphoria to speak of, only a twisted, dark distortion of reality. Psylocibin flows naturally, makes you feel blissful, at one with reality, a part of everything. It gives you wonderful insights, sends you on a journey. This felt more like mental poison. It felt wrong, if slightly interesting.

11:30pm C put on a tape of some Buddhist meditation techniques, which told SWIM to imagine himself as a pulsating point of energy filled with love,peace and warmth. SWIM found it extremely hard to concentrate and keep focused, and felt unsettled and tense as a result of this forced trip, but managed to do as the tape asked and began to feel better for it. SWIM actually managed to imagine himself as a ball of energy for a while and found this to be a pleasant excercise, but a constant battle to focus.

11:45 C started to feel extremely nauseaus and this continued until he went to bed just before 1:00am He said it is the worst he has ever felt from any drug. He described feeling horribly ill and was sick on a number of occasions, but this did not make him feel any better. In the mean time, SWIM was feeling slightly sick and unable to get comfortable. As C was wretching into the sick SWIM tried to align the sick sounds with the movement of some red and white lines SWIM was imagining in his minds eye, which in turn he tried to align with the floor boards. These lines served no purpose and SWIM doesn't know why he conjured them up.

12:30 SWIM was starting to recapture a semblance of reality, and started to feel quite tired. C went to bed and SWIM settled down on the couch, although it took him a while to settle down. He was still feeling a bit sick, very uncomfortable and kept on moving in and out of reality.

After he settled down SWIM slept quite well.

He woke up fairly early as did C and they continued snorting coke the next day, although SWIM didn't enjoy it at all. SWIM has now decided not to do coke anymore, as he didn't really feel any benefit or any high from it at all. He just did it because it was there.

The next couple of nights SWIM had some very vivid trippy dreams and has been quite introspective, thinking a lot about himself and his future.

Reputation Comments on this post:

Thanks for posting swiys experience.