I'm going to trip shrooms for the first time in about 20 minutes. 2.5g-3g my friend and I weigh about 140 lbs and haven't eaten all day. Will we get very strong visuals? thanks in advance, community.
no answer can be given because not enough information has been provided to us. as has been noted, it depends largely on the species of mushroom you're consuming (but since its ohio and its your first time and you didnt likely grow them yourself, i'm assuming it will be Psilocybe cubensis). it also depends on if you're discussing wet or dried weight (again, i'm assuming dried) it also depends on if you're taking 2.5-3g EACH, or if you're splitting it. it also depends on your stomach contents, how quickly you consume them, in what manner they are prepared for ingestion, and personal bio-/neurochemistry affecting how you react to these substances. any way you split it though, none of us can tell you how you will react. everyone is different. i can tell you how I would react to 3g of dried cubes on a light stomach prepared as mushroom tea -or- eaten...i'd get a strong body buzz and a much different than normal perception of the world, but would have little to no visuals of any sorts without added influence. but then, i seem to be somewhat hard headed in regards to visuals...it takes either really high doses of normal psychedelics or regular doses of really profound psychedelics for me to get visuals. now most people seem to get -some- visuals at about 3-4g of dried cubes, even though i nearly never get much to that end. this is often characterized primarily by patterning of things that are really there, shifting surfaces, "breathing" walls, the likes of this. if anything you can expect mild to moderate alterations in your perceptions of reality - it should NOT be enough to make you see things that ARENT there, just to see things that ARE there in a different manner. though with this type of dose you may be able to get some sort of kaleidoscopic patterning when you close your eyes, particularly if you smoke some grass and/or meditate well. it really depends on the mushrooms, but even more than that it depends on you and it depends on the whim of the gods..... personally, i like visuals and often take higher doses of mushrooms than most folks when i do trip, but even still they are elusive to me. this is fine and not at all a problem - it doesnt make it much less of a trip. open or closed eye visuals are interesting for sure, but in many cases the real benefits of tripping are in the psychological changes, not the visuals. hope this has helped clear up a thing or two. and once you get more accustomed to psychedelics, you'll find there are other ways that will more reliably provide visuals, many of which are very, very safe...but this isnt necessarily a beneficial thing, like i said, and most of the time it involves a much heavier trip, with increased chances of a negative experience in celebrants prone to enterpreting trying experiences as "negative"
I'm with nesta. I've never taken more of an 1/8th of mushrooms, but even with a whole 1/8th I didnt really get any visuals. There might be the occasional slight bending of an object when I would look around, but thats about the extent of it. However, I too am content without them, I dont really need to get visuals to have an outstanding mushroom trip- the trip itself is strange enough and works well enough in its own way without any crazy visual distortion. Don't be worried with the visual aspect of it. The trip is cool enough, especially for a first-timer, it will blow your mind, visuals or not. EDIT: How did you like LSD?
yeah....how much did you take, what was the experience like, and how did you feel about it? LSD can be a wonderful substance, if it's strong enough (i, too, live in ohio, and have taken acid a number of times, all of which involved pretty weak blotter that was way overpriced )
like i said, most acid today is really weak and overpriced. but its not the fault of the LSD, its the people who MAKE weak doses and the people who charge 5-10 bucks a hit for weak acid. for your money, these days most folks are better off going with shrooms. i'd still prefer a strong acid trip to shrooms, though.
Very hard to say, some mushrooms have reported having strong visuals at 0.5g. The mushrooms I get around here produce some crazy phycadelic visions starting at 4 grams and it is really intense at 5 grams. They also give this really drunk and silly feeling. I get some good insight from them though. If they are like the ones in my area, then I'd say you would get some light and easy visuals, nothing too intense. This includes: tiles swaying back and forth, walls slowly pulsating, some visual distortion etc. Have a fun one!
