DOSE: T+ 0:00		oral	4-AcO-DMT	(liquid)
T+ 2:00		oral	4-AcO-DMT	(liquid)

BODY WEIGHT:

250 lb

[Erowid Note: The substance(s) in this report is not properly identified. Although the report is included in the collection, the substance might be something other than the author believed it to be.]
This was a trip report where I was initially getting into psychedelics. I was into the idea of seeing things that weren’t normal and I wanted to experience it myself. I wanted to take something like mushrooms or LSD. I have tried mushrooms before this at 3.8 grams and it was a great trip.

During this time of my life I was slightly financially struggling and I was trying ways to get high, but I had a job that had random drug tests so I couldn’t take the usual oxys or Xanax or even weed if I wanted to. My girlfriend at the time wasn’t one for doing drugs but she liked to smoke weed, so trying psychedelics was new for us. She didn’t try it this time, because I was by myself.

I’m not sure how much I took. I bought this as a “shroom product” thinking it was initially mushrooms. As someone who’s new to psychedelics, I initially thought I was tripping on shrooms but I indeed wasn’t. I ordered it and it came in the mail in the form of a water flavoring shot like the brand “mio.” It said on the website that a full bottle was the equivalent of 5 grams of mushrooms. I’ve tried these once before and I did believe they had close to the same effects as the mushrooms I’ve tried before so I believed they were in fact mushrooms.

+0 hours. I believed that I was truly ready for the supposed “5 grams hero dose” that was inside of this liquid container. I took the whole thing as a shot and washed it down with some lemonade as it did have a mushroom taste. I sat on my couch and waited for the effects to come up.

+0 hours and 30 minutes. I started to feel the effects of this substance start to take over my body. Very slight visuals and a warm fuzzy feeling started to take over my body. It felt amazing and it was a much stronger euphoric feeling that I’ve belly with the mushrooms before.

+1 hours. I really started to feel the effects and if I looked anywhere for more than 5 seconds I noticed that place I was looking at would start to melt and twist in a beautiful way and I was completely encapsulated into these visuals. It was both visually and physically pleasing.

+2 hours. At this point, I noticed that anywhere I looked no matter what, things would be nothing and breathing. Even the videos I watched on my tv, even if they were fast-paced video games, I would still get visuals. This is where I said to myself, “I think I can take more.” So I grabbed the other bottle of this concoction I had and prepared myself a little bit less than half of the bottle into a little shot glass and took it. Little did I know, this would be the worst idea I could’ve done.

+2 hours 45 minutes. I started to feel the effects of the second dose come onto me. It was unfathomable to me how crazy psychedelics could get. Everything was warping much more than I ever expected, and if I turned off my tv and listened to the silence, my brain would start playing sounds instead to fill the quiet void. I felt amazing too. Very fuzzy and warm. Almost comforting. But I was in fact overwhelmed. This is when the paranoia started to set in.

+3 hours and 10 minutes. I finally reached my peak. But things weren’t moving. They stopped. I started to look around to see if anything was moving at all. Instead, there was this blue and red and slightly green overlay over everything and anything that had an edge to it. The tv, the coffee table, the light, anything and everything looked like I was looking through 3d glasses. I was terrified. I went to the kitchen to grab some water and gulp it down to make a disappointing attempt to bring myself back to reality. It didn’t work. So what I did was I started talking to myself and telling myself to calm down. It also didn’t work. I went to my tv and looked up calming music on YouTube and started playing it in the background while I tried breathing exercises to calm myself down. It slightly helped. As this was happening my ears were playing tricks on me. It started to play this falling whoosh sound in my ears over and over and over again. I felt like I was going crazy. I thought I was about to die. I started to tell myself, “you are you, and you are from earth. You don’t belong in this place you are trying to go.” I was afraid.

+3 hours and 30 minutes. I called a friend that I met who used to be an experienced psychonaut who quit doing psychedelics after a life changing trip. I told him I did the hero dose and first thing he told me is that I was stupid. Second, he talked to me to calm me down. All while I’m talking to him, the visuals were going crazy and the whooshing sound persisted. I started to cry in fear of my life. We were on the phone for about an hour until he told me he had to go. And before he goes he said, “while you’re still tripping, use this as a chance to reflect on your life. Write things down that you love and you cherish, and think about those things.”

+4 hours and 30 minutes. I got a pen and paper and started writing things down that I loved and cherish. “I cherish my girlfriend. I cherish my parents. I cherish my brother.” At this point I’m crying tears of joy. I was crying harder than I ever have in my life. It was a beautiful moment of self realization.

+4 hours. At this point I was starting to come down. I felt fine again and realized the trip would truly end.

+7 hours. The trip was finally over. My mental suffering was gone.

+12 hours. As I was going to bed, I had closed my eyes and saw slight visuals and tracing of a castle that I was walking through. It was very interesting.

Use this as a lesson. Don’t take crazy amounts of something you don’t even know much about, and have people there for you if something goes wrong. This was a life changing experience for me and I believe I am truly a more loving person from this. Thank you for reading my first trip report.

Exp Year: 2024	ExpID: 119175
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 20
Published: Dec 21, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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