Hey everyone. I'm writing to tell you all about my horrible experience with shrooms... Last May, i tried shrooms for the first and LAST time. I was a bit drunk and i went out and bought 60 grams of shrooms from a magic shop. One type was Columbian XTC and the other was some Argentinian kind. I went back home and took all of it at once, all 60 grams... About an hour after taking the shrooms i began to feel like i was losing my mind. It was a loss of control that i'd never experienced before. I lost all sense of self... i had no ego. It's hard to explain what that feels like... but try to imagine that your life until now has been lived out on a boat, ontop of an ocean... and then imagine slipping off that boat suddenly and finding yourself deep underwater, where no direction is up and you feel like you'll never find that surface again. You don't even remember what that surface was like. That is how it felt. I was lost inside the infinity of my own mind. HELL. I honestly can't imagine a worse torture. The experience of losing your mind is probably worse than any physical pain someone can experience. I just cried and kept hoping that i could somehow find that 'surface' or sanity again. Sometime into the trip i actually went Cataonic, and i couldn't move... my body was frozen with my hands up in the air. Slowly, I came back to life after what i guess was about 6 hours. I suffered from PTSD for about 4 months after the trip with frequent panic attacks... daily. It really was the most traumatic thing to ever happen to me. If this story stops one person from taking shrooms then it was worth writing it. People, you don't know what your messing with! Yes, i was stupid and not prepared... I shouldn't have drank alcochol, i shouldn't have taken so many shrooms, i shouldn't have been alone. But i am in a position to say that, if you do shrooms, you might end up experienced a mind state which will be HELL on earth, and i hope that no-one has to experience that.
nothing really, i didn't think 60 grams was alot... the shrooms looked small and i didn't know any better. Actually, that night i bought 90 grams of shrooms, thinking i'd need that much to see some effects. Luckily i didn't take the 3rd pack.
I'm not that educated on shrooms, are these psilocybin-containing shrooms we're talking about here? Because obviously 60 grams of cubensis would be like taking a sheet of acid or something... not exactly recommended for beginners (probably not recommended for anyone!) I have no doubt you experienced true hell, and thank you for sharing... however I do think, as you've acknowledged, that a better dose, set, and setting could've provided a completely different experience.
yeah, shrooms are a powerful experience for sure, whether positive or negative it has the ability to be bliss or complete hell. i've used shrooms and it's changed me mentally, i think differently, it's all about realizing that this world may not be the only one out there, and this reality could be false. your shroom trip was obviously brutal, but don't just say "i hate shrooms, i don't like them, i'm not doing them anymore" give them a chance to change you spiritually, let them have a good effect on you and change you for the better. don't just cast them out
Man when I ate 15 grams of cubensis I had a real bad time for a good portion of the trip, couldn't tell if I was still alive at one point, did manage to hold onto a few facts - namely what town I was in, the fact that I was at university, that I had eaten mushrooms, that I was in a dorm room...but all of that came out with extreme difficulty. I could barely recall my friend's names. And that was just a bit over a half ounce. I couldn't imagine what just over two ounces would be like. Maybe I'll get a chance to try sometime, though I don't know if I would want to eat THAT much. I'm just really surprised that you didn't get sick, I got incredibly sick after about 3 hours of trippin which is what made that one section so bad. I would say that eating two ounces is what made it so bad, especially since it was your first time - that was WAYYY too much.
First of all, you took too much. You weren't prepared and made a bad decision. "Hey, lets go do 15 lines of cocaine for the first time." "Hey, lets try taking advil for a headache. Lets take 12 of them." That was your first mistake. Second was not understanding shrooms and all and how to calm yourself down. I had a bad trip the first time, where for an hour I felt like I was being tortured. I felt the exact same thing you did. But I was around people who knew what to do, and I knew what to do. We turned the lights on and I drank milk. I calmed down and had a great time. The last 2 times I've done it, it's been amazing. Don't bash it because you made a mistake.
i declare bullshit upon the poster. where the fuck did you buy these mushrooms...they aren't legal in many places. 60 grams wet in amsterdam?
My assumption after reading the first post was wet. the walking into the store and buying 30 gram packs, made me assume it was WET. so 60 wet, is ROUGHLY 6.0 dried, which is not that much at all. But as wonka said, 6.0 that's tough for an inexperienced user. Come on people, most people aren't walking in to a shrrom shop and downing 60 grams dried, think a little.
I bought them from an amsterdam magic shop, i live here. They were wet. The guy in the store who sold them said the Columbian XTC were strong. He also said 'have a nice trip' as i left the store! I'm frightened when i think about how it felt. I'm scared just because i realise that such a horrible, hellish reality can exist. Which means i might experience it again sometime. Wouldn't you be scared ****** if you suddenly realised that your mind is so deep you can get totally lost inside of it like falling into a black hole. I've always been a bit philosophical, i am interested in dreams and i've some lucid ones... i believe that reality is shaped by your mind and that everyone kind of lives in their own world, or sees the world differently. Honestly, i'd rather lose an arm, a leg, my **** but still be standing on solid ground when it comes to my mental state of mind. If you lose your mind what else do you have left to lose? I won't be trying them again ever.
See, your entire problem is that you were not ready for what happened. Instead of learning how to swim in the shallow end first, you dove into the deep end and got scared. If you learn how to swim, when you finally go into the deep end and look around it's real tight cuz you know how to handle yourself, know how to come back up for air when you need to. I agree that we shape our world and all that, and that your mind is the worst thing to lose, but you're probably just not cut out for trippin - this shit isn't for everyone, and that's a risk you take when you decide to do something like that. I happened to have several friends that are good at reading people and judged based on my personallity that I'd have a really good time, and I did. But don't be scared now - you know that reality exists but in your mind; and you're back here where you feel safe. It's an experience man, just go with it.
I made this account just so I could reply to this. I've been looking all around the internet for what happened to you. I've tripped on shrooms a lot, and what happens every single trip i have, no matter if it's good or bad, is what happened to you (only part of my trip) . For example my last trip i was having an amazing, indescribable time, but for the last three hours all i could do was rock back and forth looping "I'm crazy, bad trip" . I've never been able to get past it or understand or control it but I have to tell you man i still like shrooms and continue to do them despite that. There's both a good and bad to shroom trips but i think the good definitely makes it worth it. I really think you should give them another try but eating less and having a good friend watch over you. Good luck and I hope I've changed your mind.
I remember this one time I got really weird and climbed into a storm drain and followed it for a good quarter of a mile out into the countryside before coming to my senses and turning back toward home.
