shroomin'
 

hey all.
i'm thinking about trying mushrooms for the first time. i was wondering if anyone would care to give me some advice on the subject. I've been trying to read up on the effects and what not of taking them and I think I'm ready to go for it. If anyone has any suggestions or stories to tell please do so here. thanks.

Stupid idea. Just find some new friends and do something better with your time.

Sorry can't offer advice on shroom's.
Just stick to pot and beer! A little coke once in a while is good too.

Check this thread out for some really good advice :

http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....threadid=11538

Quick summary : Be someplace safe with people you trust. Don't do more than you're comfortable doing (1 gram is more than enough). If you find yourself getting nervous/paranoid, take a few deep breaths, sit down, have some water and keep in mind that you might have some problems telling the difference between reality and a hallucination. Try to keep your wits about you, don't try to drive or fly, or jump into oncoming traffic. Just keep yourself in the most pleasant surroundings possible, sit back and enjoy the ride.

that is a compltely unbiased article on them. to be fair, my own opinion is that you should stay away from drugs, but you have to make your own choices. just be careful.

yeah man...the biggest thing is to be in a comfortable situation with people you feel comfortable with. also, this is very important...be in a good state of mind. if your day has gone bad or your just not in the mood THEN DONT DO THEM. and if with friends who are feeling the same way, its best not to do them either. you'll end up worrying about the and your trip will be terrible. any emotions that you feel at the time of your trip will be amplified ten fold.

other things to remember...

your trip will last a while. a good 5-6 hours is probable. and this is not something that you can snap out of either. be somewhere where you dont have to leave in a few hours, because you wont be able to.

also...have something fun planned. this may sound a little stupid, but try to stay outside. if at all possible be around "nature." trees, plants, water, grass all have a positive effect on my trip. stuff like concrete, city traffic, and strangers all tend to make me feel bad. try going to the park or something and playing football. just be a kid for a while. your worries will fade and you'll have a blast.

indoors can be also bad, especially if its a dark and dreery place. it will totally mess with your emotions (make you feel claustiphobic and depressed.) if you do get stuck inside though be active. sitting around doing nothing, like watching a movie, tends to bring down my trip.

one other thing that you may want to concider...what part of the shroom you eat. eating the caps tends to bring about more hallucinations. colors become more vibrant, things swirl. you may find yourself staring at shit for a good long time and be totally amazed. eating the stems tends to give you a more emotional trip. your feelings will be more easily influenced and amplied by eating more. i personally like eating more caps than stems. something like 60/40 or 70/30.

just so you know, this drug is pretty strong and can easily mess with your mind. i personally probably wont ever do it again. their are way to many factors that can send you the wrong way and ruin your time.

just remember to be careful. and i'd suggest not doing them unless you are good and prepared.

FOR ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT DRUGS:
http://www.erowid.org
then click on the specific drug (shrooms)

thanks a lot for all of your input, people. i am still considering trying it or not. for the most part i think i can handle it and if i do go through with it i will be with people who have done them before and know how to have a good trip. thanks again for all the help!

Things you might think about
1. if you eat a bunch right away you will trip for an hour or two and then have a strong peak(intense hallucination period)
2. If you start with a little(1 gram or 3/4 of a gram) it will let you get the gist but keep you from peaking too hard.
3. You need at least a friend who you can trust with you because it can be quite intense
4. Once you open your mind you will look at the world differenlty and it doesnt wear off(for me this was a good thing I have become a very open minded individual)

Also if you have any questions about drugs, www.dancesafe.org has great forums for asking.

I say for your first time its good to eat about half an eighth, or 1.7 grams. I have yet to eat an entire eighth at once and all of my trips (about 4) have been awesome. Just make sure you're in happy places. Also, changing environments alot is one way to keep yourself from having a bad trip. It gives your mind more to focus on that whats really going on in your head. If you ever start to feel nervous, scared, or otherwise...just remember that the trip will be over eventually and you won't stay like that for the rest of your life (this happened to me my first time tripping and it wasn't as enjoyable as it could've/should've been).

Avoid a common mistake.

An hour or so after you eat the shrooms, you may decide that they aren't that strong. You may feel a little. You may feel nothing yet. At this point, I would advise you - DO NOT EAT AN MORE MUSHROOMS.

Be patient. They will kick in.

Edited. Old, bad advice.

If you decide to take mushrooms...
You may understand that the earth IS INDEED Flat.

jump up in the air
get the joke
laugh like a Motherfucker

realize that all all those lightning bugs are SUPPOSED to be there.

see all of your epiphonys illustrated in the next days Sunday Newspapers comics section(most notably "The Family Circus")

have fun!!!

*edit* Oh by the way...if you can be near large groups of trees it may be helpful.

Be prepared to giggle.

Edited.

giggle and yawn and have fun. I've tripped probably over a thousand times (only twice in last 2 years though). Nothing bad ever happened. Helps to have a little pot. Don't give up after a half hour of nothing and go somewhere else.

Is a particular reason you need to try them, or are you really that much of loser. That you can't find anything productive, or fun to do.

i have tried mushrooms a couple of times and didnt find them to be anything particularly outstanding. most of the time, i was rather energetic and was running around not making much sense. another time, i did them at night when i was quite tired after a starting work at 5am and i ended up passing out. i havnt really experienced any negative effects with them thus far. i would prefer to smoke pot anyday however.

Edited. College

greg700 - boone, eh? now i understand your shroomin' knowledge.

shrooms were very intense for me. we used to boil half of the dose into a tea, and eat the other half. that helped with speeding up the onset.

if you are going to do them (and please understand that i am not encouraging you to) listen to the aforementioned advice: be in a safe place with people you trust. have some activities in case you want something to do. err on the low side of your dose.

be careful and respect the power of hallucinogens. if you are manic depressive you should never take them.

c_b

random tips
I used to love shrooms, but eventually I went off them.

1. avoid sugary foods and drinks (or if you are not enjoying your trip, eat sugary foods and drinks like orange juice)
2. turn off the tv
3.if you smoke, be sure to have plenty on hand. <--very important
4. if you smoke weed you may find it necessary to smoke a joint to sort of jumpstart your trip.
5. kleenex is good to have around too.

what's the kleenex for?

you should definitely trip with a few choice friends, shrooming in a crowd is bad idea. Take 1/16th of an ounce for your first trip; that's what I took and it was very mellow. an 8th (3.5 grams) would give you a very intense trip, but it can make you freak out. consider your body weight when choosing a dosage. Also know that the caps will give more hallucinations and the stems more of a body high.

A few times I've tripped I got very introverted. The last time I took a whole 8th I sat completely motionless for four hours straight, aware of what was happening around me, but my inner monologue was going full blast. My friends thought I was comatose and threw a ball at me, which I caught and scared the shit out of all of them :lol: the moral here is if the shrooms are good, you don't need a lot of them. Too much of a good thing can definitely give you a bad trip. smoking weed is fun on shrooms, and in my experience helped clear my head wheni was coming down.

Another tip: Shrooms taste like SHIT. You do NOT want to taste them. Have a good thick chaser like a milkshake or smoothie handy, plug your nose with one hand, and use the other to shovel shrooms and pour the chaser in your mouth. The more you chew them the quicker they'll kick in. Keep your nose completely plugged untill you've gotten all the little bits out of your teeth. The cleaner your mouth is before you unplug your nose, the less you'll taste the ass flavor. Somy of my friends say it's the pussy way to eat them, but they can go ahead and enjoy eating dehydrated shit. You'll probably feel a little nauseated for a while after eating them, but you won't throw up (maybe some dry heaves at the worst)

Just remember, it's all just a trip. It may make you think about things in a different way; but the world hasn't changed, just your perspective. If you're worried about freaking out (which can happen if you let it get to you), go to a local GNC or equivalent beforehand and pick up some niacin (vitamin b3). If you start to freak out and want to bail, 250-500mg of niacin will have you feeling more normal within 20 minutes or so.

I'm not one to condone illegal drug use, but it's your decision to make, and I'd feel much better about it if you had the benefit of other's experiences and knowledge before you take your first step into a bigger world. Go forth and have fun! :D

edit// and yeah... what's the kleenex for??
2nd edit// Also, going for a walk with your friends can be pretty fun, just remember where you're going! I've gotten lost a couple times :lol:

Q. what's the kleenex for??

I imagine to wipe the tears from your eyes. either from laughter or crying. (emotions experienced while shrooming can run the gamut)

www.shroomery.org

By the way... for god's sakes no matter how hard your gag reflex freaks out (shrooms taste awful) do NOT barf them up, or else it's time and money down the toilet. Or all over your floor.

Well like everyone else said, be in a quiet, calm surrounding, with someone you trust.

Also, you may find paranoia creeping up on you, that this was a bad idea and you need to stop. It's very important that you tell yourself that you made the choice already, and you need to buckle down and relax.

i've never barfed while being fucked up, but i have heard that if your feeling sick from the shrooms its best not to throw them up. i guess its supposed to make the whole thing way more intense.

Someone said turn off the t.v. That's the best adivce you can take, honestly. The T.V. will seriously mess with your mind.

yea, tv fucks u up.

Last time a friend told me about a trip on shrooms, he had been in the bathroom, the wall started breathing, then laughed at her, then bled, and the faucet started trying to bite her fingers. She ran screaming and hid in a closet for 6 hours until her friends started thinking clearly and realized that they hadn't seen her for 6 hours.

They claimed that the shrooms weren't laced with anything stronger and they kept to small doses.

they were dorks?

www.erowid.org tons of info on any drug... make sure you are emotionally stable when you do shrooms bro!

Mood has everything to do w/ the quality of your trip, especially the first one!!!! Shrooms intensify your moods, keep the trip upbeat and the onversations on light topics for your first trip. Relax, set a couple rules for yourself...1. no matter what you cannot drive! 2. no matter what you cannot fly! other than that have fun!

goto erowid, everything u need to know. period.

Shroomery.org

I highly recommend doing them... you'll learn a lot about yourself.

drink some orange juice

trip with a friend

dont be paranoid cause there's nothing to be paranoid about

dont watch tv

listen to music

play a mmorpg

Ok, here's my advice......

Eat at least a half an 1/8th if not an entire 1/8th. I don't know how big you are, but I'm a fairly big guy. The first time I ate shrooms I was about 220 lbs and I ate an entire 1/8th and it was just the right amount. If you're nervous about taking an entire one, try half.

Now this is very important to the enjoyment of them.... When you eat them, grab a handfull... as many as you can get in your mouth, plug your nose, put them in and chew but make sure you have something to wash them down with (preferably something sweet.. O.J., Soda, but water will do in a bind), reason is they taste like shit!!! (It's really no wonder though because thats where they grow, on shit). Another way to get past the taste is to put them on a pizza, or in spaghetti sauce.

Finally be comfortable, a good time is early evening. If you smoke buds, the feeling of shrooms are just enhanced by it. You will have a shit eating grin on your face and feeling a bit giggly within 40-45 minutes, you'll get a strange feeling in your jaw and teeth, this is perfectly normal.

Eat away and have fun.... Don't forget to let us know how it went.

I forgot to mention, do it with someone you trust, who's done it before.

make some oodles of noodles, add majik musshies, season to taste, enjoi.

NO, mirrors are baaadd!! I'd stay outside, definately, although christmas trees are nice. almmost like a candy store for your eyes.

shroomery.org has way more info than you'll ever need.

One thing that hasn't really been touched on yet is body heat. Depending on what strain you take there can be significant increases in body temp. Your central nervous system is going to be excited and consequently your temp will likely go up. Avoid strenuous activity, even walking may have you dripping with sweat. Have a cool dark place you can retreat to if need be. Also keep plenty of cool clean (you'll likely be able to taste significant impurities) water on hand. Keep to a wooded/nature area if possible, go camping.

Hey, don't forget to let us know whether you decide to try them or not. And if you do try them, tell us how it went.

Here is my suggestion...DRUGS ARE FOR MORONS SO DON"T DO IT. My nieghbors in college (3 19yr old girls) tried them one night and used colored markers to draw all over the kitchen floor. One of them got freaked out and had to call her boyfriend because "the pictures were coming to life and attacking her".

Ever notice how only the people who are anti-drug call those who disagree with them "morons", "losers", and things like that?

Should tell you something.

As far as shrooms (and psychedelics in general) go, as many have already said, Erowid can be a wonderful resource. However don't get too bogged down in reading trip reports before you do it yourself, as other people's experiences can give you expectations of your own, which your experience will most likely not match up with. It can be disappointing, or even frightening when your experience is going nothing like you expected. Better to have no preconceptions going in, so that whatever does happen you can take in stride.

Psychedelics can be a wonderful thing. Don't listen to all these people telling you that only a moron would do something so stupid and that you need to go get some friends who aren't morons. Do your own research, and make your own decisions. Know that you aren't going to have a sudden urge to run out in traffic or jump out the window. Know that you aren't going to get stuck tripping and think you're a glass of water for the rest of your life. Just take it easy and you'll be fine.

the simple truth is that, most people are gonna do drugs, whatever drug it is just be safe. no one is gonna scare you into not doing drugs, simple be knowledgable and take your time.

edit:
i think that means they didnt want you to stay, cause u were probly doin something wrong.

How hard is it to acquire such a fungus?

Has anyone here ever been 'busted' for possession?

I'm really becoming interested in 'expanding my mind' after reading all of these great reviews...

it depends on who you know, I'd suggest you ask your trusted friends. shrooms can land you in some serious trouble.

The fact that you had to stay and actually think on whether to take them or not means you shouldn't be doing it. Find something more productive to do man!

go for it - like everbody else said (almost everybody), just make sure you are in favorable surroundings. I've tried them in small doses and just hung out with friends, and I've tried them in large doses and just wandered around the mountains for an entire day halucinating my ass off (seeing indians behind trees - wearing very colorful blankets I might add). I'd start slow - you don't want to see the indians on your first trip...............

growing "shrooms" is legal in some states, but drying them out for consumption is illegal. in other states, spores are legal but growing them is not. it varies by state and country.

to get them you gotta know someone thats got some, where i goto college, we've gotten them a few time butsimply cause someone came across them.

my god.

you are absolutely right on that note.

never again but so....very glad i did.

dude mushrooms are very strange...i have dont them about 15 times and i hate them...but i love them....like i love the whole tripping out part but i hate the fact that its poisen and u only see things because ur immune system is trying to fight it off

i duno if anyone needs advice on mushrooms im the guy who will hook it up

hallucinations are the result of neurotransmitter interactions within the brain, not your immune system fighting the chemical.

i didn't like the trips i've had. but shrooms definately amplify the mood yr already in. so if you're in a bad mood, or suppressed negative emotions w/ anything.. don't do it. i learned that the hard way :T

I tried an 1/8 for my first time and it was at a Phish concert. I wish I would've taken less though. It took about an hour to kick in, maybe because I split up the eigth on 2 burgers over about 15 minutes. I was feeling really cool for a long time then it got really intense and I was sitting down most of the concert just chilling and smoking. Weed helped me a lot because at one point my stomache was aching like a bitch but every hit took the edge off then after a while I relaxed and started seeing some cool shit but a previous poster is right, don't over-hype it too much or you might not be satisfied. Anyways, now that I know what to expect I am gonna try them again just not at an insanely huge concert like Phish.
Some other tips:
know the people around you.
don't expect you will be able to control it because if you take enough you will be fucked for like 6 hours and there is no off switch although that vitamin B tip is good advice if it is true.
be in nature

good luck man and have fun

And definitely do NOT look in the mirror... mirrors mess you up really bad! And stay away from streets....

Methinks you have been exposed to some particularly ignorant propaganda.

Poison? No. Hallucinations from your immune system fighting the mushrooms? Definitely not.

Ok I am also thinking about trying shrooms msyelf and have a few questions for ya guys.

FIrst of all thanks for all the advice given on this thread.

now then, I am probably going to try them with 2 buddies of mine (yes I know and trust them) however none of us have ever done them. Is that ok? Also what is a good amount to buy for 3 people and how much will it cost? (I'm 290 lb's but my friends are 120ish and 150ish)

We were thinking of going camping and doing it. Is this a good idea? On the one hand your around nature which alot of you have been saying is good, but also you have camp fires, possibly animals (but unlikely anything dangerous) and getting lost in the woods.

SOme of you say weed is a good mix with shroom, should we have weed our first time though?

Also any suggestions on places to do it would be appreciated. None of our houses would be a good place due to parents.

Edit: Also some days I am a very depressed person, other days I'm happy as a whistle. Will I be ok if I do them on a day where I'm happy as a whistle?