I haven’t tripped since I was in High School, let’s say 2004-2005. Back then I believe it was responsible for a massive shift in my thinking and a relief from my depression/anxiety. Basically, I had an intense experience and afterward decided to go through 2 yrs of night school and summer school in order to graduate on time and avoid the GED route instead of dropping out which I had previously planned to do. Fast forward to today I’m dealing with a number of issues, mainly PTSD and I’m MDD/TRD which all kinda kicked off 2 yrs ago when I found my Dad passed away in his apartment.

I recently acquired a 3.5 of some purple mystics (guessing they are a cubensis variety) and decided to test the waters last night. Ate a full stem and cap that weighed +\- 1g. It was pleasant euphoria and quite emotional, but not in a heavy or dark way. Since it went smooth and I didn’t have an issues with anxiety during I would like to up my dose next go round and planned on doing it tonight. That is until my friend told me I would feel about the same even with doubling my dose.

Do I need to wait till this weekend to have an experience? Also I have heard that if you were to take say half at one time and the other half a few hours after it you wouldn’t “add to the experience” or feel any increased effects. True?

Thanks!

I'm growing blue meanies, they are doing well. They are currently small like a half inch tall. When do I harvest? Do they have to dry out before I take them and how much do I take for a 1st time user?

Hi! I have a mild depression and micro really helps. I heard i should be taking it for 2 days and then 2 days off, on and on.

My question is, can i take it every day? At least for some time?

The thing is, i am doing great on it. Days without - not so much... and i wouldn't want to go on having 2 good days, 2 bad days, 2 good days, 2 bad etc.

My other idea was to stop micro and do a full trip every weekend for a month or so to see if this would help me.

Hello to all in this awesome group!

I'm new to Microdosing but I had a great kinship with psilocybin in my younger years. So far, this has been a great journey. I'm sourcing here and there and I just got some that are gigantic and like nothing I've ever seen before. They are called Code Blue and I'm struggling to get info on them. Can anyone tell me anything about potential strength and suitability for microdosing?

Please and thank you 🙏

here’s some context, diagnosed Major depressive disorder, treatment resistant depression, haphazardly / diagnosed with no monitoring (just a questionnaire) bipolar 2 with no psychotic features, general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, audhd, and CPTSD.

I have had 2 horrible experiences with mushrooms, the first was when i and a friend dosed 3.5g of penis envy, i started feeling really off and weird, the visuals were just very basic and the classic “breathing” of everything, having involuntary muscle contractions and garbled thoughts, i felt very weird so i went to my bedroom and turned off all the lights and layed down to reduce stimulation. I laid down in silence begging god for it to end. That’s when my friend came in and started collapsing into the wall and onto the floor and begging me to kill him to end his trip, he was fully psychotic and couldn’t comprehend even basic concepts like being quiet to not disturb my mother and sitting down on the stairs to relax, i had to fight with him for my firearm. He wasn’t genuinely trying to hurt me but he kept saying kill me or i’ll kill you and your family as a manipulation technique to get me to kill him and end his trip. I ended up calling his father and we eventually settled him down and he left.

I’ve had the weird feeling on all mushroom trips besides my first 8th with the same friend and my macrodose with a different friend group, but besides those 2 it was more relaxed with no suicidal ideation / more in control.

The second experience was alone and around the same dose and strain, I just laid in my mothers bed having very strong muscle contractions, eyes wandering like a seizure and garbled dysphoric thoughts about suicide but i kept telling myself this will all be over soon to cope, i ended up toughing it out and i felt mentally amazing afterwards.

I’ve had 2 AMAZING experiences, one with lsd and one with a huge macrodose of mushrooms but albeit i was younger and it was before tryptamines started to give me this dysphoric garbled thought feeling. (possible PNES episodes)

I’m currently on the fence of if i should try a very low dose of shrooms to test it out, normal dose of lsd since that in my experience was the best and healthiest trip i’ve ever had (no dysphoria, pure euphoria, understanding of how bad my life is and why it’s so bad and how to fix it), or a low dose of dmt to test it out since i’ve only ever had one dmt experience which was a puff of a pen, i was able to handle it but still felt pretty dysphoric albeit there were no PNES symptoms or suicidal ideation, just an off feeling.

thoughts?

Hopefully this is the right place to share this, if not apologies.

I am 37 years old. I have been using psilocybin mushrooms since I was in my early twenties. They have always treated me well. I have had some trips that were a little scary, but never a terrible experience. I would usually do around 2-3 grams at a time. When I first started for about two years or so, I would get a little nauseous, and threw up a couple times, but by the third year this nausea subsided. I continued to do them about two or three times a year. Sometimes once a year. They seemed to help me understand my anxiety and I would say that it helped me a great deal in understanding myself and what's important to me.

Fast forward to about two months ago.

I met someone and became very good friends with them. They had some mushrooms, and suggested we do some. I naturally said yes. Had a great trip, albeit a little mild. Since then, we proceeded to trip every other weekend, or twice a month with various strains. The trips were great. We'd usually take 2 grams each, and then more throughout the night. One night we went through about 14 grams between the both of us, in four doses throughout the night.

Then something happened during my last trip that I do not understand, and was absolutely terrifying.

We each took 3.5 grams. Usually it takes me a bit for the effects to start. So long that my friend will wait thirty minutes after my dose. For some reason, this dose hit me within 5 minutes, and I became disoriented, and my stomach felt very strange, but no crazy visuals. I started to have breathing issues. It was like breathing was extremely heavy, and i found myself exhaling, drifing off to sleep and then it was as if i would wake up and "remember" to breathe. After about 30 minutes of this I got very nauseous, and felt as if I had to throw up. I communicated this to my friend, and asked them to get me something to throw up in. I tried, but was unable to vomit.

Then, all of a sudden I felt an extremely strong vibration and numbness in my chest. I then felt same vibration and an even stronger numbness in my forearms. The closest thing I have felt to this, is like when your arm falls asleep, and you start to lose feeling in it, but it was both my forearms at once. I started to shake my hands, to try and get blood flowing. The vibration and numbness kept growing until my forearms got extremely tight and dense. They were hard as a rock and it felt as if they were going to explode. They eventually got so numb that I lost motor function, and i could barely squeeze my hands or move my fingers. I began to drip sweat profusely. My friend went to get a pill for nausea. The next day after we were done tripping, they said that when they came back to give the pill to me, that i was completely white and had lost all color in my face. When they tried to give me the anti nausea pill, I was unable to take it from their hand. They had to put it in my mouth for me. I was so dizzy and lightheaded, that I was unable to stand. This feeling of numbness and vibration lasted for about, three or five minutes and I was about to have them dial 911, but it subsided. I regained the ability to stand, and we went to lay down in the bedroom. The walk from the living to the bedroom made me extremely dizzy and I began to feel nauseous again. So I went to the bathroom, in hopes to vomit, and the vibration and numbness in my arms started to come back, but this time it wasn't as strong and only lasted about one minute, then subsided. This cycle of being so dizzy that I would get nauseous and sweat profusely continued on for about the next two or three hours. Very slight visuals during this period, but nothing like i have experienced before.

Eventually I felt a little better, and thought a shower would help and took one with my friend near by. This seemed to help, but then it was as if the shower made me digest more of the dose or something, and I felt another peak, and the nausea came back, but without the vibration and numbness in my arms and chest this time, thankfully. After about an hour or two of sitting in the shower and sipping water, I got out and felt dizzy still, but was able to walk. I thought that watching some TV would help distract my brain from what was happening, so we did. After about thirty minutes or an hour, the dizziness subsided, and I finally began to feel a little "normal".

My friend did not experience any of this and had a completely typical trip, minus the fear they had from what i was going through. We ate the exact same mushroom. It was very large and weighed 7 grams. The strain is supposedly tidal wave.

Not sure what I'm seeking in posting this to be honest, maybe just some insight as to what happened. Im still trying to figure it out myself, and I thought maybe seeing others reactions or thoughts on it may help me do that.

Thank you in advance.

I was just offered 8ths, 7s, half’s and zips, I’m new to this stuff what do those terms mean?

Hi pals, has anyone found success in microdosing for OCD? I am planning on using the NeuroBotanicals 50mg microdose capsules with the Fadiman protocol.
I am 30 years old and have suffered from debilitating OCD now for the last 20 years or so. I’ve done mushrooms in the past but never stuck to a proper and consistent microdose schedule. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts, tips, etc.
Thank you ! ✌️ 🍄

So for my first time I took 1.5 and I felt pretty out of it and very euophoric. My second time I took like 3 grams, I was very very out of it and forgot some of my past. I now want to take 5.5 g because I just wanna see how crazy it is. Anyone know what to expect?

im M24 I tried shrooms once, I liked LsD a bit more ( took it about 9 times in my life) i stopped with psychs for about 7yrs now, thinking about buying grow kit and grow some shrooms myself.

Don’t get me wrong I’m very excited and looking forward to taking them again, but in the back of my mind i’m kinda worried and scared that it will go bad

I’m an adult now and have responsibilties(obviously), bur for a few yrs, i’ve been feeling unhappy (nothing dramatic, sometimes i just feel lost or wish things were how they were before) burnt out from job which im kinda stuck in and i’m pissed that i dont even know what i want in life to make it better, also some friends drifting away…

I wanna have fun, but at the same time, I thought it can help to make me realize something (i hope…) even though it could be at the cost of having good time and laughs

What do you think? Should I?

Found growing in a field (also found lib caps in the field) from what appeared to be poo. They have the same gelatinous pellicle as liberty caps which I'm pretty sure is unique to the psylocibe genus. They look almost identical to liberty caps but with a much wider cap which makes me think they're fimeteria. What species do you guys think they are? I'm in the peak district in England

So its been a little over 34 days since the last time i took some fungi, last time i took 5 gs and had a mild trip so im assuming its because i dosed every 2 weeks for about 6 months. Is 34 days enough of a break for me now to dip my toes back in it again?

Hi there! I am looking for menstruators who have endometriosis and have tried psilocybin as a way to eleveate symptoms. Did you have any lasting relief? I am working with a Director of Psilocybin Research and Education at at university in the US, and would love to hear if anyone has first hand experience. Since psilocybin is showing promise in easing conditions that a lot of people with endo already experience (PTSD, gut issues, chronic inflammation, treatment resistant depression etc.) I am trying to make a case that we would be a good cohort for a clinical trial. I really appreciate any feedback!

When I stop taking psilocybin, things feel really hard. I struggle with problems, regrets, and worries, and I think too much about everything. I feel so tired, and everything feels like too much to handle.

Should I keep taking it?

Hi All,

Planning a ‘heroic dose’ coming saturday. How long before ingesting should i have my last meal. Is 3 hours after my last meal enough ?

Thanks !

Just harvested and this guy is too thick to fit in between the racks of the dehydrator. Can I just cut it to fit?

I plan on doing a facilitated psilocybin dose with a private therapist at an Oregon clinic. My goal is trying to resolve childhood traumas and ego death.

The fee includes up to 50 g Of psilocybin. From my research it looks like 25g is the most studied for providing a benefit from a psychiatric standpoint. I’m going to have a call with him today to discuss further, but I’m not sure what strain they use. Would this be recommended?

Hello, I had tried my hand with an all-in-one bag and a cooler on the floor in the corner or my bedroom with no success. It just stalled out and never fruited. I was so bummed, $75 down the drain and time wasted. I waited, watched tons of videos on mycology, and finally got some gear to try my hand again.

This is extremely important to me, and I need this medicine in order to break through this "untreatable" condition. That's the major reason I was so bummed and so i spent money money on gear this time. The cabinet is definitely gimmicky, this I know. However, it's exactly what I need at this time to get going, and will take care of FAE for me. Three 4lb bags fit perfectly, and so I will be cutting the bags just above the substrate for fruiting. I'm imagining a lovely canopy, lol. https://a.co/d/03HJGWsy

I plan on using B+ liquid culture, 3ml per bag with a 10ml syringe. Any advice would be so greatly appreciated!! Thank you so much! Bless'ed Love ❤️

I’ve always just thrown them in the back of my mount chewed with my molars and then washed them back with a drink.
Anyone have any recs for something easier the taste just gags me every time.