on the weekend, me and 2 buddys got a nice oz bag of shrooms to try out. we each took aproximately 3-5grams each, and had a bottle of lemon juice ready to go (read it elsewhere to intensify trip) after muching the horrible things, i took 4 large chugs of the juice and only one friend took a single swig. after about 2 hours of laughing like retards, destroying a magazine trying to decide if its "wet" , and hitting the bong, i felt i needed to lie down and get comfy. Roughly 30-50 minutes later i began to lose myself to the bad trip, and spent the next 2 hours with no real understanding of who or what i was, and had several distinct thoughts that reoccurred: 1) I am dying- I felt soo empty and soo sure i had to use all willpower to avoid pissing myself due to the idea it no longer mattered 2) I want to live the life i had before these mushrooms- this was a very panicy thought that caused me to begin repeating my name, job, etc to myself 3) I have lived an entire life under drugs- due to my almost non-existent contact with reality, I could not tell whether The trailer i was in was merely a hallucination of me while being stomach pumped or trying to recall the past. 4) After this, something will need to change- this is what hurt me the most. I couldnt think straight on shrooms, and afterwards forgot much of what happened, and therefore gained nothing but a dislike of shrooms as a result. I spent most of these 2 hours attempting to sleep, interpret vuage moments of communication with others, and silently screaming into the matress while waiting to die. Can anyone offer some insight to this, because i gained nothing but faint memories of the above. for this reason, I feel compelled to return to LSD to gain a proper insight not only to shrooms and lsd, but to any future drugs.
dont eat as much, and yeah, im pretty sure lemon juice helps the absorption or something or other but i had quite the unexpectedly strong trip after this trippy dude who has mushies growing in his backyard boiled a bunch up with a shitload of lemon juice, not good at a party filled with gronks
it was freaky. i got so paranoid. kept hearing car engines from nearby beach and freaking out thinking my shroomed friend is trying to drive
^ Don't do them where you can get stressed out normally. And yeah it just sounds like you took too much. Different settings call for different amounts.
That's supposed to happen. If you try to fight it like that , it will only get stronger. You just have to remember that it's all an effect of the shrooms. You're supposed to just flow with it. If you try to fight it you'll end up with a ad trip. The laughing part is always fun , but people are seldom ready for the intensity of a quality shroom trip.
Im sorry you had such a bad experience, try some vitamin C (makes the trip alittle more interactive) and OJ is a lot easyer to down than lemon juice. and honestly, if you're trying to trip hard just eat more shrooms fuck any "enhancers" because that's just fucking with the chemistry more. I hope you gain the courage to try shrooms again and when you do I hope you have a mushroom experience not a fucked up dying trip.
Bad trips happen, but there are always good one too. The worst mistake I have ever made having a bad trip is trying to fight it, just go with whatever the shrooms do. It makes the whole thing much more enjoyable.
that is why the trip and mushrooms upset me so much tho. I did not learn any true decisions or life-changes from the experience, despite its overwhelming emotions. I am considering revisiting mushrooms with the use of LSD as an "interpretor", as i belive a small lsd dose will add mental clarity and decisiveness to the experience.
mushrooms allow you to think very clearly, i dont have any experince with lsd so i callnot say how that would be. but for me i am able to function (mentally) incredably well
I think its like having a switch in your head and some times it switches to 'bad' it does not always take a strong psychedelic to make it happen (sometimes just one hit of weed), but what ever you happen to be talking at the time determines the duration and intensity. yea fighting it, makes it worse but its difficult to go with it because its so personal I'm not always ready to blurt out "I'm not feeling well" I empathize with your discomfort. and hope to find away to get past it. if this was your first bad experience ,I hope it was your last. meditation and clonazepan also help
number 4 also happend to me ..it was intense and i then told myself i was done with drugs for a long time... it really hit home that day was just rediculous to me.
ive been to where your talking about quiet a few times before. its extremely difficult to integrate a bad mushroom trip. but i know that it can leave a bad taste in your mouth(in your brain really) and leave you feeling out of sorts for weeks or months afterwords. in my experience, ive had several trips that were very traumatizing and i thought i was going to die. also ego death. idk about other people but i see it as having a relationship with the mushrooms. i feel a bad trip happens when the mushroom gods are angry with me. they use it to punish, and humble, me. the first few times i had a bad trip i was scared off of mushrooms, and i was left with a pretty bad mindset. after one of my really bad trips back in the spring, i decided to trip again after a week. i felt as if i left of on the wrong note and needed to set things straight. i went into the trip humbled, and asking for forgiveness. as it turned out, it was one of the greatest trips of my life. i felt so liberated of all the fear and anxiety i had experienced during the previous trip. Mushrooms are a powerfull tool, and demand respect. i dont know if im like most people but this is what has worked for me. hope you can work it out. peace -blitz
I had something similar as well. There were a lot of insecure thoughts going through my head, rational as well, like: Will I die? of overdose? It's a rational thought, as well a an emotional/irrational thought. I was like "Yeah, I did took a whole box, and they looked kinda rotten, and the seller also said they were almost over date. Man I feel weird and I can't think straight!" I think this whole fear built up and cause me to feel a big dark cloud above my head, saying to me: "You've done something bad!" constantly without word. Then I took a quick stroll outside, went back, ate/drank stuff with sugar in it as much as possible. I think the moving/walking was good to get the stuff down a little, that works with most drugs. Then I went on watching Samurai Champloo anime and the intro-music was like god stroking my brains then it was all good again. Also, my first trip on half a box of shrooms, was kindof weird, and me and a friend, who had the other half, got to the (not so) brilliant idea to go 'out' in the city. I don't know why, but I guess it was one of the stages that makes you feel energetic. Anyways, halfway walking towards the city we decided it was a very bad idea, so we just made a circle around the less busy part of the city (not very big: Groningen) I remember very well standing still at one point and looking at the Martini-tower and saw it warping really weirdly, that was a little weird and scary for me, so I kept walking. The walking then really stopped us from having really weird vision etc. Anyway, years later I tied again and had much intenser trips.
You cannot win the fight against psychedelics in your mind. You will always lose. Therefore it's better to enter the experience with an attitude of submission, being wholly open to even the deepest pain you may receive. And guess what, with that attitude, you probably won't receive deep pain. It's funny that way. If you are prepared to die, then you won't die. Weed is also a major factor here and the reason why it was so mentally cloudy and you can't remember anything. That's the marijuana. Not the mushrooms. Again, people treat MJ like it's a lollipop you just suck on whenever you're bored . . . marijuana is as powerful as lsd or mushrooms. It's just that drug culture plays it off like it's nothing. I also don't think LSD would make the trip clearer. LSD intensifies, it doesn't clarify. It is you who must do the clarification, LSD would only overwhelm you with emotions and sensations and thoughts and dramatically increase the effects of the shrooms. Remember you want a LESS intense experience not a more intense one. LSD guarrantees a much more intense experience with no guarrantee of lucidity. Your world could become even more baffling and incoherent. Definetely don't give up on mushrooms. It's like you just crashed your first car. Does that mean you're never gonna get in one and drive again?
