Preparing for my first shroom... Advice welcomed here!

Well folks, I'm getting ready to feed my head this weekend hopefully.

For anyone that reads through this and helps me, I will be grateful as I am pretty new to the shroom scene.

First of all, I want to try this because it seems so interesting, and from what I've read on the effects it seems that I should be A-OKay if this is done sparingly enough. I don't even plan on doing it more than once, but I get the feeling most everyone who uses them a lot said that at the start. Any of you?

Anyhow, I think I am going to eat them fairly slowly, really take my time and see how they are effecting me as I eat them. For instance, I may only eat half an eighth at first, and see how it feels to if I want to eat the whole eighth or not.

I am scared of having a bad trip, though. That's why I'm going to be so careful with how much I eat and make sure I am in a really good mood when I do. I will also do my best to remember that I just took a drug, if I have a bad trip, so that I can remind myself that it's not me and that I will be fine. How well does that seem to work?

It's lookin like I will be shroomin' with about 3 or 4 other friends over at my apartment. We are planning on putting Alice in Wonderland on or maybe this old trippy Mickey Mouse cartoon for background buzz. Then we will see if we want to keep watching TV or go sit on the porch or whatnot. Any good activities for a first timer?

I will admit, I am a little concerned that I will like it too much, and want to do it too often. I do have an addictive personality, which I have control over but it can still be a hinderance at times.

When I first started smoking weed I only wanted to do it about once a month or so, but then I started doing it several times a week. I took a 3 month break over the summer and it was fine, so if the mental dependency on shrooms is the same or weaker then weed, I think I'll be fine. Do most of you that use shrooms find that you have gotten into other things, or do you just stick with the natural stuff like I am intending to?

I wish erowid had a more detailed effects list up, they don't say much about the magical mushrooms.

Finally, I don't think I am really planning on doing these to reveal some new hidden part of myself, although I guess that's not a bad thing if it does happen, right...? I am more interested in the sensations and visuals that I hope to get from watching trees blow in the wind or something cool in a movie or something along those lines. I also just want to be happy and have a good time. Does this sound pretty decent for someone wanting to try shrooms?

Thanks so much if anyone reads this and replies, it will be most obliged!

 

i just recently tried shrooms and i loved them, they arent the kind of thing that you can really do alot because you build a tollerace very fast. like, if you take say a gram and a half it will take that and another gram and a half ontop of that to feel the same effect that you did the previous time, it takes like 3 weeks to finally get your tollerance down fully. the secret to not having a bad trip is to drink heavily right after you take them. so have acouple 12 packs on hand. youll enjoy them, i know i sure did

 

I think the idea of eating them very slow is going to be shitty, because not only is a low shroom trip not AT ALL the same as an intense one, there are different stages to a shroom trip. 2 hours after you take them you certainly will not be feeling the same as when they had first kicked in, and when you're coming down, that feels nothing like any part of your entire trip.

I've never had a bad trip, but i've felt really overwhelmed while on them, you just need to take a pause sometimes, and remind yourself that you'll be okay, and what ever you're freakin about, is really no big deal. The only time i've ever felt like that though is when i've been with the wrong people, and when i've had a guilty concience the day before.

Don't do anything messed up, and don't do it where there are people who aren't on mushrooms...that's the worst. Don't plan what you're going to do, just let it happen. I layed on bed for 6 and a half hours straight staring at the ceiling listening to music (you'll figure out the best shroom songs while ur shroomin...different music for different periods of your trip, and the diff moods your in) while shroomin, and it was hands down one of the best trips i've had so far. I love shroomin', it opens my mind to so much, and i feel so much more complete every time i do them.

I've never gone on to any other drugs, i stick to the basic 3 (booze weed & shrooms) and i've been doing shrooms for about 6 years.

Contrary to the above post, i wouldn't drink HEAVILY after shroomin, you'll hurl your ass off. If it's your first time, you should be okay with just the shrooms, but if you want, share a J between the 3 of you, a lil bit after it kicks in that really makes you tingle...lol...and sport a king can the rest of the night (or whatever it usually takes to get you a nice mellow buzz when you're drinking...) You don't want to overdo the pot or the booze, or else you'll just be too fucked. Good luck, I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MUSHROOMS but now i want to do them SO fucking bad.

 

Like you might know it's not advisable to eat anything couple of hours before you ingest the shrooms. You also shouldn't drink a lot right after swallowing them. If it gets out of hand and you wind up in "the darkside" you might want to drink something with vitamin C. It should help.
But the best help for NOT having a bad trip is to ENJOY, LAUGH & LEARN. Don't get stressed out. Have a smile. Draw a picture. Play some instrument. Or close your eyes and travel through your own personal universe or fairyland or where ever you happen enter!
You won't get "addicted" to shrooms like you MIGHT get on weed.
And last but not least, you should respect the magical powers contained in those mushies! I seriously believe that bad trip is a result of a lack of respect towards 'em. Just take a right attitude and you'll end up discovering amazing things!
Have a great trip.

 

this is mostly innaccurate. you do build up a decent tolerance pretty quickly, but its not long lasting at all. in a matter of days you get over it. just give yourself at least a week (most need less) between trips and you'll never build a tolerance. but you can get bored with it or tired of it if you do it too often, which is worse (imo) than a lasting tolerance.

a more reasonable way of looking at tolerance to these types of drugs is how a person responds to taking them regularly. for example, DMT is very short acting when injected, and it does not show a tolerance when used daily. it has to be administered several times within the same day to build a tolerance. on the other hand, related chemicals with a longer period of action can build a tolerance when taken once a day daily. if the same amount is taken each time the effects will continue to steadily decrease each day until the third to fifth day when what was initially a fully psychedelic dose loses any major effect whatsoever.

you CAN build a tolerance, but as long as you're putting a few days rest in between the tolerance will be minimal. however you'll be much more USED to the effects and they will seem less earth shattering.

 

If you are scared of having a bad trip, then you WILL have a bad trip. Personally, I've never had abad trip on shrooms because the onset is really gentle, IMO. Just try not to resist anything that the experience throws your way and you will be alright. If you just forget your worries, I don't see any reason why you should not eat the whole 1/8. Just remind yourself of the FACT that it WILL NOT HURT YOU.

 

you sound like you're pretty excited for it, i'd say just eat the wohle eighth at once. watchign a movie can either be really cool, or extraordinarily boring and confusing. just go with it man, dont' worry about trying to find stuff in your mind, jstu go with it and thats the best advice to ahve with shrooms imo. dont' get too worried about anything, just chill with some music and stare at a poster or a lava lamp and you may even find the meaning to life if you think hard. but its a good time, especially the first couple trips, so enjoy em while you can, for me they got different toward the end of my use of them, totally different kind of trips than what went on the first couple trips i had. just have fun dude it'll be all good.

 

lol i jsut realized youposted this 2 weeks ago, so i'm pretty sure my advice is useless seeing as you;ve probably done them by now

 

I got stuck in Texas last weekend actually, so there was no way I could have shroomed yet. So keep the advice comin'!

 

Hey I wonder if you can be hypnotized into not having a bad trip? Maybe if you make the mind know theres no worries, then you CAN'T have a bad trip.

 

I'm getting them for the first time pretty soon also. Your advice will be helpful.

 

hey, caterpillar... did you get your shrooms in the midwest? or up in chicago-ish-land?

 

I sipped on some Capt. Morgans when I tripped the first time and it was repulsive tasting. I dunno, when I was tripping I just wanted simply tasting things, like water and fruit. I only took half an eigth, and smoked a good deal of pot, and I was feeling pretty good. I wasn't tripping balls or seeing crazy shit, but my way of thinking was deffinitely affected, I was laughing pretty hard, and patterns were crazy to look at. At no point did I feel it become overwhelming or could I even imagine having a bad time. So for a first time, Half and Eight was definitely enjoyable.

If you start to feel sick, try eating a Tums or two, that helped me last time. Pepto Bismal might work too.

Oh yeah, it might make you more comfortable and relaxed to have someone sober just to keep an eye on things. Not even sober, they can smoke or whatever, just someone who isn't going to be freaking out. Just having someone responsible may keep you from worrying and you'll enjoy yourself. There is a connection between close friends when your all tripping, but I dont think having someone sober there would diminish that or anything.

 

over the period of one summer i injested about 4 ounces of cubensis, I was never the same again, ill tell ya that much... my trips were very profound, and had all to do with what the mayans, and hopis, and other ancient schools of thought, have pointed to as "the consciousness shift" wahts happening right now.

 

I still haven't bought them yet actually, haha. But I know a few contacts here in C'dale that are gonna hook me and my pals up!