DOSE:

5 g

oral

Mushrooms

(dried)

BODY WEIGHT:

150 lb

A little background story about myself, I've always been intrigued with Psychedelics and the wonders it has on our consciousness. I find myself to be quite a spiritual person, I practise Yoga and Meditation almost everyday and I often discipline myself to eating clean on a regular basis, with a few cheat meals every now and then.

The only substances I have ever done prior to this experience was Cannabis and Alcohol. I would consider myself to be a stoner to say the least and treat the holy herb as a sacred tool. My main purpose of consuming is basically to look at life from a different perspective and to grow spiritually and basically to enhance life on all levels by loving the people who are close to me and to be grateful for the things I am given.

I follow the teachings of Terrence Mckenna, Alan Watts, Ram Dass and few other psychonaughts who praise these plant teachers. After being informed from the knowledge they have provided, I found myself wanting to give psychedelics a try without any second thought.

My choice was of course, the classic psilocybin mushroom. I've always been fascinated with this molecule, and I feel like it would be the perfect first psychedelic plant teacher to trip on. I've been searching for them for months without any luck, until one day, I remember smoking with an old friend of mine from college, he's always been this big drug guy and we would often kick it and blaze it quite often even before classes.

I haven't seen this guy in almost two years and for some odd reason something in my head decided to message him about trying to score some mushrooms. It was completely random and out of the blue in which having that thought to message this one specific guy I once used to hang out with is quite weird when I come back to think about it. It was like the mushrooms were calling out to me in a weird synergistic and mystical way.

Anyways, we meet up and pick up from his dealer, he was quite experienced with mushrooms and I know I can trust this guy because set and setting is honestly more important than the dosage itself from what I was told. Keep in mind he lives quite far from my house and it was a hefty 2-hour commute via public transit. We make it back to his place and consumed it.

I was always the adventurer type and wanted to go big my first time (terrible idea) I know first timers were recommended to go for the 1-3 gram dosages, but I thought to myself I wanted to shoot in to orbit and trip some mad balls as the young bloods say. I thought to myself, I practise meditation and know how to control my mind by being mindful of the breath (which did help in some cases) and did not hesitate to munch away on the 5 grams of this wonderful mushroom.

My Friend only took 2 grams, and smoked a few bowls because he had a gig coming up in a few hours and wanted to stay on the lighter side of things which makes sense. I decided to keep away from the THC and have just pure Psilocin in my blood stream for my first trip. Not to mention, I was in a fasted state, so we downed the mushrooms at around 1 pm in the afternoon. The last thing I ate the day before I am not able to recall, however it was on the healthier side and about 16 hours ago, so I was in for a ride.

As we took the mushrooms, we head back inside in his room and decided to play some Xbox, I wasn't that into playing and just decided to watch him play instead. Thanks to my empty fasted stomach, I remember the effects starting to kick in rather quickly, I decided to take a leak and then that's when I felt a weird tingly sensation crawl up and down my spine. I head back to his room, lie down on the bed and started to see what it was like to be spiraled in the mushroom world.

It was said to be a blizzard in the late afternoon, which I had checked this morning but did not give it much attention as I should have. As I was laying on the bed, I remember having a quite similar feeling when I had edibles before but not the same of course during the onset of the effects. Everything in my surroundings started to become incredibly wavy and I remember looking at my friends Yu-Gi-OH tin can of cards and just zoning out looking at how it kept moving and swaying like it was a cruise ship undergoing a terrible storm at sea.

And then the audio hallucinations were unlike anything I have every experienced, he was playing Call Of Duty, and the sounds of the guns and explosions just seemed so distorted as if someone edited the sound making it extend each and every decibel of wave frequency, making it incredibly difficult to distinguish what sounds belonged to what. I then looked at the screen and just could not understand what was going on, it was like being a little kid again questioning every little thing that my friend was doing during his match.

As the peak was said to be even more intense than what I was already experiencing, I was just lost in thought and everything about life just seemed so confusing (in a good way). I was caught off guard when I received a phone call from my mom about picking up a tax return slip and could not even comprehend what she was even saying, she assumed I was still home so I told her that I was at my friend’s house and would be home soon. That phone call was incredibly bizarre to me because I had no recollection of what the phone call even meant, or even what a phone is. It just felt so foreign and strange to me.

At this point, time literally didn't mean anything. I was getting a little paranoid because I constantly had negative thought loops of my parents finding out that I had taken shrooms because one things for sure. I was not able to act sober for even 10 seconds, I was getting giggly at one point, and then having insane nightmarish thoughts about making it home safe and sound. My friend went to go out for a cigarette and left me alone in his room, I then looked out the window and thought how incredibly lost I felt. I remember looking at this very tall coniferous tree just standing in his neighbour’s backyard as if it were some type of entity. It was incredibly trippy to say the least, I knew it was a tree, however, parts of my mind were trying to understand what exactly it was and started forming and evil gremlin looking face. Not to mention, I did get a weird sensation of alien, spiritual entities watching over me.

The snow started settling in rather harshly and so I had negative thoughts about not being able to make it home alive for some reason. Furthermore, I decided to cross my legs and meditate while focusing on being mindful of the moment and to not attach myself to every thought my neurons were firing up and this made me feel incredibly relaxed and calmed me down for a little while. I haven't realised that my friend was gone until he came back and decided to play some modern hip hop music videos. I did listen to hip hop every now and then but I do prefer old school hits such as Wu-Tang, N.W.A, Rakim, Pac, Biggie.

I was looking at the music video and believe it was Big Sean, don't remember the title, I was just in awe of how weird and nonsensical the entire premise of the video was based on. There was near naked women, money flying everywhere, designer clothes, expensive cars (how every rap video is nowadays) and all of those things didn't matter at all, I came to a revelation of how meaningless and superficial those things were and that us humans are so materialistic these days wanting to impress everyone while wearing the latest and greatest thing that is out there, it made me really think deep of just being simply grateful for the clothes on our back, the roof over our head and a bed to sleep on.

I believe I was starting to hit my peak, apologies of not being able to recall the time, because it was meaningless at this point. My friend went for another smoke and so I decided to switch off the rap and watch videos I usually watch when I’m stoned which gave me peace of mind, I was beginning to lose sense of self, it felt like my ego was trying to fight off the mushrooms with every ounce of energy left (Quite Scary) the familiarity of these videos gave me a sense of who I was and remembering my identity.

I stepped outside while my friend was puffing on his cigarette, and was just amazed at the snow falling on the ground, it was starting to snow more heavily and the fallen snow on the ground was incredibly bright and vivid. I was just astonished of how beautiful mother nature was, I felt so connected to every piece of snow molecule dropping on the ground as if it was falling on me. We then headed off to a nearby convenient store to pick up a pack of cigarettes for my friend. And as soon, as I saw the cashier, it felt like she knew I was on shrooms for some weird reason, I was so frightened to see another human being and was just scary, so I stand 10 feet away from her zoning out at the lottery sign which also did not make any sense at all.

My friend finally had to leave as I was constantly urging him and asking him to walk me back to the bus terminal he lived nearby because I had absolutely no memory or sense of direction to even make it back from where I had come from. He drops me off and tells me to purchase a ticket and wait for the bus. I was incredibly scared and frightened when we said our goodbyes and then went our own way. Being alone on shrooms is quite scary, especially in public places. I remember heading downstairs, and then taking an elevator to a level 2 parking lot.

I felt lost, confused, hopeless, the whole bus terminal was just a mess to me, I couldn’t even find where to purchase my ticket. I then looked down from the level 2 parking lot overseeing everything and then finally, saw the office in which the tickets were sold. And so, I head on downstairs and march my way back, I remember a train disembarking from the station, the sounds and very essence of that train gave me a sense of realization that I was indeed having a bad trip like it was some type of creature. I then enter the office trying to see where I can buy a ticket, the entire place looked alien to me, and felt like everyone was watching me knowing that I was tripping hard. So, I eventually see a line of clerks and just assumed that is where I would buy my tickets. I remember my friend giving me spare change to pay for the ticket.

I told the employee I needed a ticket for blah blah and blah and so I handed her the money my friend had given me earlier and was just realizing how strange this exchange of money we humans do. Anyways, I wait patiently for the bus freaking out it was never going to show and eventually it does. I board the bus and suddenly everything starts to get better as the intensity of the trip subsides, however, the visuals were still very prominent at this point. It was mostly students on this bus as I recall, because on of the main stops was at a local college campus. My sense of relief was profound as the ambience and energy of the student’s chatter seemed so familiar to me thus, giving me a sense of who I was again. My friend had called me three times at this point and finally started to recollect everything and what a phone was, so I ring him up reassuring him that I’m fine and that mushrooms will seriously fuck you up if you’re not careful. (Exact words of the night)

As mentioned earlier, the commute is about 2 hours, and so I make it home safe and sound seeing my parent’s warm faces smiling at me if everything is alright because I did end up going home pretty late that night as they were watching their late-night movies. I just felt an overwhelming burst of gratitude as I entered my house, right from opening the door, seeing all the furniture, all the food, my parents and my brother and just being so joyous and connected to the universe. Once the effects have worn out after my meal upon arriving home, I got an amazing sense of well being and appreciation for life.

What I learned from this experience was on of the greatest ones and I’m thankful for being able to see what it was like under the spell of the super powerful mushroom as it showed me nothing but love and appreciation for this life we are living.

Exp Year: 2017	ExpID: 111626
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 22
Published: Jul 4, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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