My first (and best) mushroom experience, and to offer a flip side of the coin, I’ll give two co-workers bad first experiences
I was camping with a group of friends that planned to have all but 1 “designated Dave” sober volunteer do shrooms. We always keep 1 sober person just in case any clear-headed emergency type things need to be done, such as driving. My buddy whipped out a big bag of shrooms and we all piled them down. I was warned that they would taste awful and make me feel like throwing up, just the nature of eating an uncooked mushroom. One member of our group did actually throw up, not just this time but every time to the point where my friend gave up on giving him mushrooms because it was a waste of $$ lol. I still remember my friend saying to him after he barfed “that was like $30 of shrooms you better still eat that shit”
I did feel some minor nausea which I powered through. I know that anything you put in your stomach takes about 30 minutes to feel so I waited. The first thing I noticed was a completely artificial sense of dread. I felt like something bad was about to happen for no reason at all, because I am not normally a scared person even when experimenting with substances. After that subsided I felt nothing out of the ordinary
I assumed that I had gotten a bad batch as this was all I had felt by around the 30 min mark. I went to go make myself a hamburger, almost completely forgetting about the shrooms. I happened to glance up from making the hamburger and noticed the grass in a field nearby was now a brilliant blue, sparkling in rays that were beaming off the grass towards me. I remember commenting out loud “holy shit” and then to my closest friend there “are you seeing this?”. He laughed and said yea. I then said “hey man, let’s take a walk”
So for the next 30 min to an hour we walked around the woods just pointing stuff out. We probably would have looked like aliens in human skin who had never seen earth before. We were constantly like “look at those flowers! Holy shit look at that tree! Look at those bushes!”
Basically everything had a kaleidoscope of beautiful colors coming off it. I remember thinking I had never seen something so beautiful in my life and the thought actually caused me to sit down mid step. For anyone that hasn’t done them, that’s how shrooms work. You won’t see any object that doesn’t exist, like a little purple dragon or something, but you will see brilliant colors and patterns on objects that do exist. It also creates artificial feelings of happiness, which may only be partly artificial due to the fact that you are really seeing something more beautiful/colorful than the human eye can normally perceive. This lasts for about 4 hours, tapering down in effect
Sounds great? Not for everyone it’s not, two bad experiences
My co-worker tried shrooms, didn’t like the feeling, and chose to lay in her bed with her eyes closed. So the patterns were all on the blackness of her closed eyelids. She said she was extremely anxious waiting for hours for it to go away. I wasn’t there when she did them to help coach her
Another co-worker did way too many shrooms at once with a friend co-worker of mine. My friend related that the first-timer who took too much just paced around the backyard for hours commenting “I feel so fucking anxious, this is miserable, when is this going to go away?” Again I wasn’t there to help but he always overdid stuff and with the amount he took I don’t think any verbal coaching would have helped. He just had to ride out the bad trip
So to not overly-glorify drugs (although shrooms really are about as safe as it gets), I offered good and bad experiences
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