Opinions - Normal or Unique Mushroom Trip (Synaesthesia)?

[fnord]

A roomate of grandmas just took her first trip down the rabbit hole against grandmas advice warning that those with mental issues should not take trippy substances,this is her experiance report,125lbs 3.5ish of older(weaker) mushrooms,what shes wondering is if this is a normal trip. I offered my advice but she wants that of others.

Alright so on St. Patty's I decided to do shrooms for the first time and before hand decided that I would not take my wellbutrin (300 xl) for 3 days prior to St. Patty's....incase the shrooms and wellbutrin didn't go good together. So St. Patty arrives and I consume an eight of shrooms. My trip didn't come for about an hour or so and when it did.. wow. I was seeing flowers...ying-yangs...lots of neon light doodles. I hallucinated A LOT. But the weird part was when I was seeing words appear out of nowhere! Like it first started when I was listening to people talk and random words from their conversation would appear in my vision all over the place. I had no control over this either. Then later on that night I went in my bedroom to just sit down and the word "genocide" appeared randomly and I didn't even know what genocide meant! So I went and asked my roomate and he told me....and then later on I go into my closet to look at my clothes and see the word "exodus"..and same as earlier I didn't know what this word meant either. So I continue to see a bunch of other random words; which I don't think were real words. Then I go into my bathroom to look at the floor pattern and see a whole sentence appear in bright neon 60ish looking letters..... it said " Exodus and Genocide is a world that remains in our mind." Also later Just wondering if this is normal.....???(oh and keep in mind I was not freaked out at all during my trip,I felt pretty calm.)

She reported intense syneasthesia during the night,tactile,audio and visual.

[cosmicruler]

every1 is different and every trip is different, so i think it is normal(ish) as far as tripping goes...but maybe recommend for future use to take even less just to be on the safe side...

would not taking the wellbutrin have played a part??maybe..

[fnord]

IMHO: No if anything stoping it a few days before hand would of been a good idea.

[kaczynski]

Sounds pretty normal, but SWIY's grandma is rpetty lucky man, when SWIM tried this he didn't have many cool visulizations as her , but it was still a cool trip!

[fnord]

Originally Posted by kaczynski

Sounds pretty normal, but SWIY's grandma is rpetty lucky man, when SWIM tried this he didn't have many cool visulizations as her , but it was still a cool trip!

This wasent my grandma whos is quite the vetern with shrooms,this was grandmas roomates first trip.

[TMM]

If these words were full-on hallucinations rather than just visual distortions or something of that sort, then yes, it would seem out of the ordinary.

EDIT: Wait, I might need some clarification. If this was in fact synaesthesia, sensing the 'feel' of a word or something like that, then that would be pretty normal, but literally seeing words (as in, they appear in your visual field, spelled out in letters) isn't synaesthesia, it's hallucination.

[dzc18l]

SWIM has experienced some very bizarre things, but never words.

[fnord]

she was seeing words not just feeling them.

[TMM]

In that case it's unusual, but that can just be attributed to individual mental reaction. I'm sure if there was any exacerbation of mental issues, she'd know all about it, and it would linger for a while after the trip. There's little danger of that.

[Shampoo]

I would have to agree that full-blown hallucinations, manifest through the sense by only the imagination, would be unusual, especially at this particular dose, for a mushroom experience. Granted, mushrooms are known for their variance in potency, but assuming an eighth of mushrooms with high-exceptional potency of 1.00%, 35mg of psilocybin is not excessive, nor on the high end of the dose spectrum and would most likely not elicit these symptoms in the average ingestion.

In my experience, many early trip reports undergo a mental revision or reevaluation after the subject has further experience with the chemical. For instance, after my friends first mushroom experience, many years ago, he told me that he had heard the sky screaming 'blue!'. After more experience with the altered state he describes in more detail,

"I did not hear the sky screaming blue, I merely felt it so strongly that I knew it was happening, so it was."

True-hallucinations are rarely a product of recreational-dose psychedelic tryptamines, so the experience does seem unordinary.

[Metomni]

Synaesthesia is very common for my penguin. Seeing the words doesn't seem to be the odd part, the fact that she kept seeing words, and that those words were ones that she did not know, and finally that they formed sentences, is the odd part.

All in all though, even if it is not normal, it sounds pretty fun. Sounds like it was a reasonably good experience.

[fnord]

Originally Posted by Shampoo

but assuming an eighth of mushrooms with high-exceptional potency of 1.00%, 35mg of psilocybin is not excessive, nor on the high end of the dose spectrum and would most likely not elicit these symptoms in the average ingestion.

These mushrooms are almost a year old there potency has gone down some.

[thenightwatch]

SWIM has seen textures such as stucco ceiling form strings of letters on various psychedelics, but they almost always disappeared once SWIM attempted to actually READ them.

The few occasions where they didn't disappear, they didn't form coherent words.

This experience, while definetely odd, isn't outside of the realm of possiblities while on psychedelics, espescially if the taker has a more... *ahem* psychedelic psyche than most in the first place. I wouldn't be overly worried. =)