im thinking about doing just one shroom, becoz ive heard that a small dose like that will give you a trip thats only about half as long and not too strong, is this true? i wont risk anything bigger, coz i have to do it while everyone else is asleep, and ill have to do it alone. so, should i do it? and please dont berate me about my age, just pretend youre giving advice to an 18 year old.
I think you should probably take about a half eighth if you only want a really mellow trip but you would probably wish you did a full eighth. I did about 2 grams last night and wish I did more but I had no trouble controlling myself except when I was eating dinner I spaced out staring at the fridge and then I'm like I'm thirsty lol my parents thought that was a little weird.
i dont think you should take mushrooms at all, and i dont think it has anything specifically to do with your age. you are unsure, you are uneasy, and you are uncomfortable with the idea of doing mushrooms in the conditions in which you are doing them. i often have stated things to the effect that taking less than an eight is a waste if you are paying money for your mushrooms, and that anything less than an eighth evokes less than a full "trip" this is based primarily upon my personal experience, and i guess perhaps i am something of a hardhead compared to some people....but i must be careful not to overestimate my tolerance and fall into the trap of the psychedelic machismo. recently a friend at work, who had previously consumed LSD (in amounts and frequencies unknown to me) took an eighth of mushrooms and freaked the hell out..she ended up with a black eye and no real recollection of what happened to her glasses...from her stories it sounds an awful lot like she freaked the hell out with an unfamiliar substance and a friend simply didnt know how to handle the uncomfortable situation and just made things worse, not knowing what to do. dosage isnt the only important thing. dosage may not even be the most important thing. it may be that some people just aren't meant for mushrooms, but i find this unlikely. i think its far more likely that mindset and setting play an enormous role in the experience, and that if you aren't comfortable in your mind to begin with, if you aren't comfortable in your surroundings, its far more likely that you'll have an unpleasant experience than if you were in ideal conditions. try and save the psychedelics for when you feel good about taking them instead of curious.
maybe unsure wasnt the best title, im really felling pretty good about this. im comfortable with the environment, and ill be entering with a good mindset. mostly i was just wondering how much i should eat considering i cant wake anyone up.sorry about the confusion, but thanks nesta, if anyones asking me about psychedelics wen theyre unsure, im gonna tell em exactly wat you said.
If you have to worry about waking somebody up, I wouldn't eat any. Save them until you can go outside or have the house to yourself for 8 hours or so.
Yea man you don't really wanna be trapped in your room the whole time....and you want the strongest trip possible, trust me....its more than just seeing the walls move
as terence mckenna said, the problem isn't in taking too much, it's in not taking enough. you want to take enough that you can't fight it. i know some people would disagree, and obviously i don't mean everyone should take seven grams their first time or anything. but i think it's true that there's more chance for a bad trip when you think you can handle it, and try to control it. half an 1/8th might be enough depending on how good the mushrooms are and how your body reacts, i wouldn't take any less, and would probably take at least a full 1/8th. but if you think you'll freak out/wake people up, then just take half. the only problem with any psychedelic, since the ld50 of most of them is so much higher than the effective dose, is fear. and fear is a BIG problem... maybe eventually you'll want to go there but not on the first trip.
I completely agree with you prismatism! thats what I was tryin to say about wanting the strongest trip possible. Still don't think it'd be a good idea to do it with your parents sleeping though...would probably ruin your trip with paranoia just knowing they are in the next room
... anything below an 8th. will just make you see patterns move. shrooms are not as strong as you think. and the hallucinations arent realistic except maybe on very high dosages. they are just a ton of fun.
If I was going to give advise to a 18 year old, I'd tell him to go to the woods or just stay out of the house and trip with friend who are tripping. Also the fact that alot of 18 year olds live on there own has alot to do with it too. Seeing as you can do neather than telling you this is kinda usless so i'm going to give advise as if your a 13 year old as you are 13 and want to grow up too fast. Wait is the best thing to do, it isn't smart to risk huring your learning this young as you still need to make it though high school and you'll need to stay on top of the ball. When you are 11-12th grade or out of high school but not in collage, that is the earlyest time to use this kind of stuff. Lastly sence you are so young, if you're caught you'll just feel like shit, and be yelled at and thats it. Having parents yell at you while tripping will make you have a bad trip every time, speaking from experance. J.C
