ok. so ive never tried a physcedelic before and i've been wanting to try them for a while now. im not sure whether i should try shrooms or acid, so i have a few questions about both. Acid Qs 1. When buying acid, what should I look for? 2. What is the trip like (euphoric, mind-blowing, etc.)? 3. How much should I use the first time? Shrooms Qs 1. What should I look for? (size, smell, or anything like that) 2. What should I expect? 3. How many caps should I eat the first time?
Acid As 1. Difficult to say. Most liquid has a slightly bitter taste. Good blotter on this forum is recommended to be White on White or Shiva. 2. Many factors such as set, setting and dose. In general, euphoric and insightful, sensory enhancing and distorting. Higher doses change the way I think. 3.) One hit, two maximum. Even as an experienced LSD tripper this is always how I proceed with new acid. Shroom As 1.) Go to Google.com and click on the Images link, then search for Psilocybe Cubenis - these are the ones you are most likely to see. They should be dried. Best ones are small to medium in size with the skirt (the part underneath the head of the shroom) intact. Caps and stems are psychoactive. 2.) Even more difficult to predict than Acid. There may be some physical discomfort/nausea. Again, set, setting and dose. On lower doses, euphoria, visual enhancement, bonding and a fundamental (for me) Earthiness or connection to the planet. 3.) Get a scale and weigh the material. Eat caps and stems. Try 2 grams.
1. Most often they come on little pieces of paper (blotter) with some artwork or just a little square piece of paper, you can also get liquid and less commonly tiny pills (microdot) as well as a few others. 2. The trip varies as Spicey mentioned depending on set (your mindstate: happy,sad, tired from work, just bought a pet rabbit, etc) setting (where you take the drug I.e. Your house, party,concert, etc.) and dosage (50 micrograms vs. 500 micrograms) Generally lower doses are stimulating and feel good with slight changes in perception occur like colors brightening, at higher doses it becomes much more eratic like objects lose form, you connect/associate random objects 'tHis tree is amazing its got so much life' and experience a wide range of emotions. It can certainly be mindblowing. 3) if you're in a good set and setting I would go at least 2 hits. 1) check out some pics online they tend to have bluish color in the stem and the caps kind of cup around the stem for the ones ive had as opposed to spreading out and get the flying saucer disk shape. 2) same as acid but more sedating compared to acid, also can feel like slight food poisoning. 3) you should weigh them out and if you're in a good setting with few distractions 3 grams.
Whoa, I don't agree with that at all. I always found shrooms to be very high energy. Make me wanna go out and run around (but I don't, cause I'm on shrooms and the people out there are real =P)
Thats another thing op psychedelics effect individuals differently... To duck I find shrooms energetic too sometimes but hardly ever as frantic as LSD. I certainly can't dance all night on shrooms like I can on LSD. But they do often make me wander about once the trip gets going.
^ well, I was careful in wording, because I've never tried LSD. I just can't imagine them being described as sedative from my own personal experience.
I was careful in my wording as well. yawning is quite common on the comeup of mushroom trips and they have a more dreamy character to me compared to LSD's lucid, frantic, flowing trip.
I did shrooms my first time, culturally thought of as the next thing to do after weed is not as fun anymore, at least where I am from, at least that's how it was when I was in high school, I think mdma is what my area is throwing around more now though. Do your research and decide what you want out of it, if your looking just for a good time then I would take 2g of shrooms just to get a feel of psychedelics, save LSD for when you have a bit more experience handling yourself and are ready for it. All personal opinion of course.
My best advice from my shroom experience, eat a bunch. An eighth is a good amount to trip good, and smoke a lot of weed. I ate a half eighth my first time this weekend, didn't have any visuals, it was actually putting me in a wierd place, acid has never made me feel bad. But after I smoked and got pretty high, I had some visuals and it was pretty fun. With acid, take a hit for your first time imo, I had a friend eat 2 with no prior experience and it took his breathe away, he wasn't prepared for it and had to face a lot of difficulties. But then again he was outside wandering around, abandoned by his trip buddy before I found him and took care of him =). Smoking imo will enhance the experience, I know some people don't prefer it, but for your first time it will help take the edge off that psychedelics can create. Most importantly, have a safe place to be.
