Effects - Mushroom Effects Altered After Using St. John's Wort

[KyleM]

SWIM has used mushrooms on 3 different occasions after his St. John's Wort experiments (to upregulate serotonin receptors) and plans to use again next week as well. The first 2 sessions used 3.5 grams, the 3rd used 7 grams. All experiences happened within 1-2 days after consuming MDMA, ironically, so that may have had an influence. His highs appeared to come on noticeably quicker with greater intensity from the beginning than they used to and have 2 peaks rather than the normal 1 peak. The first peaks are reminiscent to how mushrooms used to peak on SWIM. The second peak is always too much to handle it seems, with everything visual completely changed, eyes open or closed. The entire experiences are over within 5 hours. What seems to be missing are the "impossible" hallucinations SWIM used to get (large object morphing into other large objects within what appeared like the normal world), but now it seems like the entire world is completely different, way more psychedelic, but the extremely bizarre, impossible hallucinations aren't occuring. All 3 experiences were nearly identical regardless of amount of mushrooms consumed. SWIM has never abused mushrooms (about 8 total experiences in a 4 year period). In the end, mushrooms seem to work very well, but something is definitely missing from the experience.