Experiences - Respect the Fungus

[malbulja]

Advice for individuals considering consuming psilocybe cubensis mushrooms; respect the magic mushroom because if you don't, they will kick your ass and then laugh at you.

A guy I know just finished his first grow of Penis Envy shrooms last week and he decided to test it out so he could compare the experience with Mescaline, LSA, and LSD.

These forums and other places recommend 2.0g-2.5g as the starting dose so this guy used a cheap department store food scale and measured out between 2g and 3g, which turned out to be about 8-12 dried mushrooms.

The experience began instantly, within 5 minutes or so of ingestion (which should be a HUGE warning with hallucinogens) and so began an insane sensory overload that just can't be properly articulated in spoken words.

The first 6 hours or so were incredible (including the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony) but when his wife went to bed everything changed. In fact I'd have to say that he lost control in that he had feelings of overwhelming shame, regret, humiliation, and paranoia. The confusion of not knowing who he was and what was happening to him kicked off a chain of events that led to him on his hands and knees scrubbing the floor with bleach in an attempt to cleanse his filthy soul.

Thank god this guy's wife woke up and sacrificed the rest of her night babysitting him or things would have turned out very badly.

SWIM still doesn't understand how an expected 3 hour experience could go on and on relentlessly for 16+ hours unless the scale was exceptionally inaccurate or these mushrooms were exceptionally potent. The mushrooms were consumed around 3pm Sunday and the visuals didn't stop until Monday morning around 7am and SWIM was not able to sleep until Monday night.

This guy tells me that this is an experience that he cares to not repeat.