r/PsilocybinMushrooms

I tripped hard about a week ago. Open eye visuals and a fantastic overall trip. I loved it. But I decided to masturbate 48 f) and had the most insane, mind blowing sex.....with a preying mantis.

Now, I do admit I am a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but something just doesn't seem right. I'm aware of how what we experience can be profound and sometimes life changing, but I've never wondered if it was real. I understand altered reality and I'm struggling to find the words to even ask the question.

Word on the street is they have released information that there are "4 confirmed races of aliens." One of them being the mantis people. However, I didn't learn of the confirmed species until after my trip. I think we all grew up hearing stories about them, but are they real? Meh. Who knows.

I'm laughing at myself for asking this, but can we actually see what's on the other side? If aliens are real, was my *session real* or am I just trippin?

All that said, it was the bomb and I would smash again, but this has stuck with me hard for some reason and feels off.

Thanks for reading. Mush love

Just took a dose and listening to music is my fav thing to do while tripping

Is any more effective than the other? I see it sold in all these forms.

Hi all,

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My hr goes to like 130 the entire time I checked on them things but if the heart increases are physiological then do the benzos work effectively solely on keeping hr normal whether there is anxiety inducing stimuli or not?

I took mushrooms two years ago and had a really bad trip; I was terrified and had to be taken to the hospital. After long time, Last week I tried it again—I took 2 grams—and this time the same fear and panic hit me, but I held on. Time seemed to stand completely still; it felt like two hours had passed, but only two minutes had gone by. I barely made it through the night . I’m planning to try it again today. What are your suggestions? How do you avoid a bad trip, and how do you pass the time? I’m a 65-kilogram man. How many grams should I take? I enjoy the sensations, but when it gets too intense, I get bored and tired from being overstimulated.

And why can’t I sleep? I tried to fall asleep and escape—I was so tired—but I just couldn’t fall asleep at all. Also, I took it by eating the mushroom directly, but it really upset my stomach. Do you have any suggestions?

Hey guys! So i had the most awful trip i ever had so far and i just wanted to share experience as it does really help me thanks for anyone who reads this!

So before i proceed with story i would like to share a bit of background.

So me and my 3 friends managed to finally be in same place in same time since despite living in same place originally now we are just either in other city or some in different country. So we decided we going to do some drugs, 3 of them decided to go for MDMA and i always do shrooms.

After getting all of it and getting to apartment where we are suppose to be i realized how bad the idea was to do shrooms there. Why you ask? Small place, they turned off light, loud techno music, tv with not the nicest visuals on it, my friend made some flashing light effect in the room and they all looked drugged af. i sat there one hour debating should i take it and i did push myself as we were all here ( i know awful idea).

So trip starts, i start to feel it in my head pretty fast which is surprising, it starts off pretty okay i am listening to some music video and watch a cool video of the music and i remember this felt really good my entire body was feeling it all colors were moving i really felt every color every sound. However thats about only good part.

Soon i realize how intensive it is as only 20-30 min into it everything is vibrating all colors are moving and it hit me in head pretty hard. I dont know how to explain it but i just know when its going to be intense i just feel my head changed.

First sign of how bad its going to be is i when i look a ty friend his face is disorted blurred out, his skin is pale, his toes are missing and are blended in leg which is just so weird. his body propotortions just start being weird his face is being more blurred out.

Next thing that happens is shrooms start to fuck with my weight problem ( i am a skinner guy that has been trying to gain weight) i start to feel way more skinny than i am, like i am talking skeleton level skinny and its making me more and more anxious (i am anxious about it when sober as well) my hand start to feel really small i can feel my hip bones and its just an awful feeling really bad one.

Same thing happens with my teeth (i have some issues there), it makes me very aware of my teeth and every issue that ii have there i feel it really intense

Shrooms are just fucking with every insecurity i have at this point, anxiety out of roof, i am starting to see bad shit mostly some kinda eyes, colors are more agressive my friend faces are disorted and blurred out.

At this point panick starts to set in and i just feel i am losing control in my head.

Small other things that i remember that i was feeling as well at this point: i heard someone talking like through radio for couple of seconds, wave of energy like wind would hit my body and i would really feel it like wind, zoom outs , some kinda glitch style effects.

I am trying to calm down and try to just ride with it but it's impossible my anxiety is just there i can feel it but worse thing is it didnt even start yet.

What happens next is really first time i ever experienced this and it was terrifying.

I start to feel hole in my stomach growing larger and larger, my body is just shrinking despite already skinny, i dont know how to describe this really but it was strange as hell i was lying in bed trying to focus on something else but as i would close my eyes i would be meet with really bad looking entities that were just straight up terrifying, it felt like i was in another dimension when i would close my eyes and this what i could only describe as demonic looking entities were just watching , its hard to remember here everything exactly but i remember how couple of them looked like, usually eyes with legs and multiple sets of teeths.

I started to feel like my body is dissolving, like its dissapeiring and i was having harder and harder time breathing at this point i am in full panic mode i am trying to sit up drink water which tastes like everything else but water, i am trying to walk i cant walk straight i am trying to lay down i am meet with very bad looking things, my friend gave me headphones to focus on something that didnt help either.

Couple of things to note here as well, i was starting to lose sense of everything like most basic things days of week, purpose of something so basic like glass was just strange concept to me just completely gone out of touch with reallity

Eventually it reached to the point where i felt like i was just laying in my bed and slowly feeling my body being dissapering, i had some really awful visions of awful things happening to my body and here is where i got really really scared as i did have bad trips in past but i have never reached this point. i always knew okay its bad but it will end but here i couldnt figure out how this feeling could even stop how could i get feeling of my body back to me.

i remember at one point thinking i just have outlines of my body and there is nothing in it, however strangely at same time i could still my entire body vibrating and kinda breathing.

i remember looking up at the floor and instead of light bulb it was a eye with a creepy smile just moving and watching me slowly that just sent chills down my spine.

Eventually i went up to my friends and i told them this has to stop or i will die, it has to stop and i asked them to slap me hoping this will somehow kick me back in reality as i really couldn't handle it anymore. they refused to do that and they tried talking to me i was having hard time understanding them and answering as i wasn't really fully there to be honest but i remember they hugged me and we started dancing and hugging i dont know how else to call it but this managed to bring me back and from there i managed to get back in my head slowly and after that trip was fairly enjoyable.

This was the most terrifying feeling i have ever felt in my life i was seconds from calling ambulance.

Thank you for reading this i really do appricete , feel free to ask any questions if interested and thank you for any comments.

Sorry for not the best English

Also it was 2 grams.

Take care guys.

I received some Magic Mushrooms from a friend last Wednesday and he also gave me the mushrooms in capsules, I took one capsule the day he gave me and didn’t feel anything, the next day I took three with one actual mushroom, now I took the capsules a half hour before I ate the mushroom and I think a 45 minutes after eating the mushroom I felt numb all over. I closed my eyes and laid side ways on the couch and I say colors moving vividly as my eyes were closed but after all the effects were gone my mind was processing things a bit different but Friday and yesterday I was back in my head and I noticed while feeling social anxiety and negative thoughts it’s a little easier for me to switch them off than before but, everyone is saying their psychedelic experience was with a guided therapist and it changed their mental health precisely, so moving forward I was wondering if I should do this with a guided therapist or find a better way to do it by myself.

So ive been on antidepressants for the last 6 months or so (currently on 150mg of venlafaxine). I understand that the effect of mushrooms probably will be muffled. I have B+ strain that i intend to take for meditation and introspective purpose. The most ive ever used was 1,75g of Golden teacher and had a blast but that was before i was on antidepressants (im F, 110lbs/50kg). Also used about 0,5g for meditation before and i had very mellow but not trippy experience. So my question is, should i stick to lower dose (0,5-1g) or up the dose cuz of the meds (1-1,5g)? Anyone with experience of using shrooms while on antidepressants? Thanks xx

Update: i think ive just experienced ego death lmao (might post trip report later)

I'm just looking for input on my experiences so far. I'm a newby working my up on dose for treatment of depression and anxiety.

I use Ochras that I grew myself and make tea. I tried .5g and was fine, then 1g a month later and was also okay overall but had some dizziness and headache. Then I did 1.25g another month later and was quite uncomfortable. I felt very tired/sleepy and somehow restless at the same time. I also felt very scatterbrained and had racing thoughts. It was very difficult to concentrate on anything and I was just kind of miserable because I didn't know what to do with myself. It was just a really bizarre headspace. I had very light closed eye visuals and slight open eye ones as well.

Someone on here said maybe I was just in a weird in-between spot where I wasn't really fully tripping and that those issues may go away if I went higher. They suggested I go to 2g next time. That was 3 weeks ago and I'm considering doing it tonight or tomorrow night and am just nervous. I just don't want to end up even more uncomfortable and anxious.

Any input welcome.

one of my friends take 4 g of hillbilly mush’s and he’s tripping like to much. It’s been almost 4 hours. He’s almost unconscious and can’t drink water or say anything. It’s not he’s first time, it is normal? What should i do?

took about 4 experiences to realize this about myself.

the trips are fine, sometimes good, occasionally uncomfortable. but the 2 or 3 days after a 2g session are the thing I actually look forward to. everything feels slightly less urgent. I sleep better. I'm more patient with people in a way that doesn't feel forced.

last time was about 6 weeks ago. nothing dramatic happened during the trip, sat in my backyard for 3 hours, some visuals, a few thoughts that felt important in the moment and kind of obvious by morning. but the following monday I was at work and someone said something that would normally send me into a 2 hour spiral and I just... didn't. responded and moved on.

I don't know if that's the point for most people or if most people are chasing the experience itself. curious whether others use it more for the residual effect than the trip or if that means I'm doing something wrong with set and setting.

I’ve always used psilocybin with great reverence and appreciation. Every one of my trips I have had seemed to be similar to other peoples except for one. It was a couple hours in and I was drawn to turn on the TV and watch a comedy show called Tosh.0. I was watching it for about 10 minutes and belly laughing so hard. I thought my brain was gonna split. All of a sudden, one of the skits involved, a person holding a giant lizard. Once I saw the lizard time froze and the reptilian race communicated with me. They turned a dial and I turned into static and then they turned me back on. It was the most terrifying experience that I’ve ever had and trust me I’ve had a lot of terrifying experiences. I’ve never been interested in the reptilian race, and I still am not interested in the reptilian race. The only sense I can make out of this is that it was another way for me to surrender. The Reptilians were basically showing me that they were in control of everything that I did and so I might as well let go and trust the universe. I did get a sense that there was something else that was controlling the Reptilians in the same way that the reptilian thought that they were controlling us. I know all this sounds completely crazy and I’ve never heard of anyone having a similar experience but I thought I would post this just in case someone has

So I'm pretty much a new by on shrooms, I've had like 5 trips total, being the greatest dose I had about 1.5 gram up to the other day.

After a long time watching videos on YouTube about dosages, I decided to do a 2 grams trip, wich was sold to me as a low dose.

Anyway, I took the shrooms at about 10pm and almost immediately I started to feel like an intense feeling of low blood sugar or something, I thought I was going to pass out.

I started panicking because I thought the shrooms were laced with something and because my house was full of people that were about to leave, but the shrooms were kicking in and people weren't going away. They were talking to me, asking questions and I tried my best not to show I was freaking out.

By the time they left I was having full visuals and started to think that I was getting crazy and felt like I was about to die.

I told my wife what was happening and urged her to call my shrink, who didn't answer, and to call an ambulance, but she was on hold for like forever.

By this time I was having triple vision, almost getting crossed eye. My wife left to call my brother who lives really nearby, and I was alone for the first time, seeing all types of crazy patterns on the walls, seeing what felt like ancient symbols, feeling like there were wild animals nearby my house, like cougars and stuff. I started hearing noises, like knocking on my door, the door bell ringing (no one there).

I was fully aware that this noises were hallucinations, and was sure I was going crazy and I was about to die.

I managed to call a friend who is a doctor, my hands trembling, really hard to read anything on the phone. He said I just had to ride it out, wich made me even more scared.

My wife got back with my brother in what felt like half an hour, but it was like a couple of minutes.

Once they were there and we started talking, I was finally calming down and the rest of the trip was just the visuals.

An important thing to add is that I've had gastric bypass surgery, wich I think explains the rally fast come up.

What was getting me really scared was the build up. I thought that if with so little time I was already in that shape, it would get a lot worse. I was really afraid of having an ego death because I really wasn't ready for it.

I guess I would like to know if, from what I described, it was just a bad trip or also an ego death. I've read some stuff that an ego death can feel like you're dying and going crazy. What do you guys think?

What I find most interesting about this study is that it appears to move the conversation beyond “psychedelics reduce symptoms” and closer to something many people working in preparation/integration spaces have been observing for years:

Insight itself plays a major role in healing and personal transformation. Not just the experience alone, but the meaning-making, self-awareness, and pattern recognition that can emerge when rigid or fear-based belief systems soften.

At the same time, I think it’s important not to romanticize this. Insight and intuition are not automatically easy to navigate for everyone. Mindfulness, emotional honesty, self-awareness, and the ability to remain present with discomfort probably matter a lot in terms of whether those insights become integrated into lasting change.

I'm loving the direction the research is exploring!

3 days ago I took 1.1g of mushrooms of unknown variant. I always take around 1g, so I was expecting the usual brighter colors and stronger feelings etc. It was the first 2 hours, but then it took a turn.

Suddenly I got colorful visuals and I struggled to stay in this world. I know it's bad to resist the trip, but I was walking outside with my girlfriend, so couldn't really sink into goblin mode there. I felt really disoriented and the main thing that was going on was that I kept forgetting what was going on. Like every, maybe 2-5 minutes I began wondering that did I do the mushrooms today. Like a dementia simulator. I was able to explain all this while tripping, so I was still able to recognise that it's just the mushrooms doing their thing.

The whole experience was really uncomfortable. I didn't freak out or anything, so I wasn't even sure during the trip that I was having a bad trip. Mainly it was just uncomfortable.

I still felt a little bit foggy brained the the next day, Something similar to a hangover brain fog, I felt anxious, and I feel like my memory is still not back to normal. I do tend to do this hyper scanning for any weirdness after my trips, since I have this anxiety that sometime I'll fuck up my brain with the mushrooms.

Its been 3 days now, and I still feel a bit foggy brained, a bit anxious, and the memory still don't feel like it bounced back 100%.

My question here is, is it normal to still feel a bit off 3 days after a surprisingly heavy trip? It was the most intensive trip ever for me, since before, like I said, I've only experienced brighter colors, heightened interest on things, stronger feelings etc.

Thanks for reading.

I normally trip on home grown ttvbi, about 2.5 to 3.0gr not a light dose about every 2 to 3 months. I know they are strong from friends whom I have given them to. I don’t take any meds at all. When I do it, I’m in bed in a dark room in the quiet. After 20 minutes I know it’s starting but then I basically black out for an hour or two. I really don’t know what happens during this time, no visuals or deep insights. I feel great for many days after but I wish I could experience what others say they do. Anyone have any similar experiences?

** edit : sorry for confusion: question is if consuming (not during taking shrooms) but in the weeks/months following, if alcohol shortens the psychological benefits of psilocybin?

I posted that I recently just experienced the MAGIC of magic mushrooms and have subsequently been content with the improvements in my mood. I have avoided any alco beverages because they are known depressants and don't want this improvement to my mental state to diminish. Has anyone enjoyed alcoholic beverages afterwards and still maintained positive mindset or would a reset be needed (no that I'D mind 😇😜). Appreciate your insights! Thank you ☺️

Hi all,

I did a introspective session on a retreat that used High Hawaiians shrooms. I did 18 grams there. That was a good dose for me. I'd want either higher or equal, but not lower than that experience.

Now I am going to another retreat, and they use Mexicana shrooms. I heard these are considered much lighter than the strong potent High Hawaiians. However, they are using a 30g dose.

So now I'm wondering, 18g of High Hawaiians vs 30g Mexicana...Will I have a much less deep trip on Mexicana? Or will the 30g > 18g make up for that?

I know trips cannot be compared and there are many other factors, but a bit worried it wont be strong enough.

Thanks!

my friend really wants to do some shroomies with me but he has consistent heart murmurs, will he be okay? trippy wiki says to watch out for heart problems when taking shrooms and it's really hard to find anything on google