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Post by hidden_dude »

rt_hidden_dude wrote: post #103
hidden_dude wrote: post #71

(Using a throwaway account for obvious reasons) I had a stroke a few months ago, resulting in some long-lasting effects in my visual field. I have read reports that mushrooms can help the brain develop new connections; and I'd like to see if they can help improve my vision. But I have no idea where to get shrooms, how much to dose, etc. Any tips?

As said, grow your own. No need to deal with risky characters, you'll know exactly what you have, requires very little space, low risk as long as you can keep your lips zipped. It's about 6 weeks from inoculation of spores to first harvest, and the total investment to get started can be about $100, most of that for one-time expenses. Spores are legal to buy in most (47) states, and can be ordered from the open intern…

> Spores are legal to buy in most (47) states

Sadly, I live in California. For some stupid reason, Cali doesn't allow the sales of spores. And yet shrooms are legal in places like Oakland and Santa Cruz. W. T. F.?? What is wrong with the politicians?

Thank you for the link to Shroomery; I had not heard of this site, but I will explore it in depth. I have a pressure cooker and a garage, all I need are simple to follow directions.

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Post by throwaway_52828 »

acchow wrote: post #80
colordrops wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience is that LSD, when good, is great, but when bad, can be disastrous. Mushrooms, while not as crisp and euphoric as LSD, don't seem to ever leave me scarred, even with large doses. I'll be laughing about a bad trip on mushrooms after I come down, but will be left unable to function in society for 6 months after a bad trip on LSD.

Fully agree. Bad LSD trip changes your life dramatically. Bad shroom trip (example took way too much and end up in a never ending panic of “will this ever end?!”) has no long term negative effects. I also feel instantly better, smarter, happier, etc for weeks after shrooms. Don’t feel that all on LSD.

I got PTSD from shrooms. It took 6 months before I felt mostly functional, and another year after that before I felt “normal.”

My impression is that all psychedelics have serious negative effects for the unluckiest users.

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Post by galaxyLogic »

acchow wrote: post #88
tyingq wrote: post #14

Never did any type of psychedelics. You don't read much about "death by misadventure" associated with them though. I'm curious about this. Alcohol, for example, is pretty famous for clouding judgement, reducing inhibition, and so on. Such that otherwise rational people drive intoxicated, get into fights, fall asleep in inappropriate places, fall off of and into things, etc. Psychedelics obviously cause you to halluci…

People drink alcohol and then try to do things like catch a subway train to get home - possibly while still drinking more. Psychedelic users don’t really behave this way. If you’re planning to trip so hard that you can’t actually see reality anymore, people plan for this and do it in a safe space. People also dose their trips - they know how much they’ll be taking that day. With alcohol, it seems people just keep pou…

Alcohol is a depressant. It reduces your awareness. It even reduces your awareness of how drunk you are. It gives you pleasure and then you feel the need to drink more to stay in that pleasurable state. The idea that your actions might have consequences doesn't much enter your mind because alcohol depresses your thinking. You think less and you observe less when you are drunk. That is dangerous.

Re: Shrooms: What You Need to Know

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Post by rt_hidden_dude »

hidden_dude wrote: post #111
rt_hidden_dude wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As said, grow your own. No need to deal with risky characters, you'll know exactly what you have, requires very little space, low risk as long as you can keep your lips zipped. It's about 6 weeks from inoculation of spores to first harvest, and the total investment to get started can be about $100, most of that for one-time expenses. Spores are legal to buy in most (47) states, and can be ordered from the open intern…

> Spores are legal to buy in most (47) states Sadly, I live in California. For some stupid reason, Cali doesn't allow the sales of spores. And yet shrooms are legal in places like Oakland and Santa Cruz. W. T. F.?? What is wrong with the politicians? Thank you for the link to Shroomery; I had not heard of this site, but I will explore it in depth. I have a pressure cooker and a garage, all I need are simple to follow…

Go figure - but I wouldn't be surprised if that changes sooner rather than later. Attitudes toward natural psychedelics seem to be rapidly changing in both political parties.

The Shroomery has a a spore exchange board, and plenty of people would be happy to send to CA, but you have to be registered for 30 days and make 50 posts to participate. They try to discourage drive-bys in favor of building the community.

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Post by _proofs »

betwixthewires wrote: post #91
acchow wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are so many varieties of psychedelic shrooms. Some don’t have strong visuals, some can make you hallucinate far beyond the capabilities of LSD.

If you're talking about different mushrooms with different compounds in them (like fly agaric) we are specifically talking about psilocybin mushrooms here. If you're talking about different species of psilocybin containing mushrooms like wood loving ones and what not, what are your experiences with them? I've only had cubensis mushrooms, but I assumed the primary difference between them would be potency considering t…

wood-loving generally oxidize fast and have a more psylocin heavy profile on consumption, so there's less come-up, and my anecdotal experience of eating large amounts of wood-eaters (blue footers, found around box elder trees/floodplanes in Bethany, WV area) -- the experience is like immediately intense and psychedelic with no playful buffer since the conversion is shortened -- and if you're not ready you will be properly fucking spun.

other than that, i've had some insanely intense experiences with them, both pleasant and unpleasant. but i have not had much experience with other species.

related to the thread however, my experiences with good L were way more pleasant, manageable, and desirable. but perhaps that's a result a more responsible, less reckless dosing (i had some experience by this time, dosing in clubs and stuff) -- when i was eating mushrooms (spring time, quite a few seasons not really outside of that window) simply eating whatever i am finding on a hike through the woods while having an afternoon coffee, while not really knowing any better, sometimes meant i ingested way more than necessary, shrug. YMMV.

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Post by antjanus »

stevehiehn wrote: post #105

Hmm, I worry about the doses listed. 1.6g of potent caps will get you right fucked. If you haven't done them before and are planning on having a couple drinks and socializing etc I recommend no more than 0.5g (for at least 1.5hrs) then re-access from there.

I've done 4-5g several times before, I guess it affects everyone differently?

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Post by hbosch »

stevehiehn wrote: post #105

Hmm, I worry about the doses listed. 1.6g of potent caps will get you right fucked. If you haven't done them before and are planning on having a couple drinks and socializing etc I recommend no more than 0.5g (for at least 1.5hrs) then re-access from there.

Hm. When I first tried mushrooms, “splitting an eighth” was the common dosage which is slightly more than 1.6g.

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Post by kcindric »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #15
shroomer wrote: post #11

I did 2g of dried shrooms about a week ago, having almost no prior experience. It was fun - I was seeing funny things, my friends looked funny, I laughed a lot, was a lot more talkative and social. My only issue was a tension headache which started about when the first effects came on and was even worse the day after, lashing until about 24 hours after the mushrooms were taken. My friends did not get the headache. Ot…

I ate 8g of dried shrooms a few days ago. Once things really got going, I spent the time mostly in the dark at home focusing on whatever came to me. The intentions I set were for ego death of some kind. Much of it was spent grieving childhood trauma and the state of the world, most of which was done while singing, snorting, making other mouth noises, laughing, crying, or some combination of those. Yesterday, I realiz…

What is your experience with handling trips with CPTSD? I'm on the verge of exploring mushrooms and have pretty serious CPTSD symptoms and burdens. I'm doing therapy and a lot of self-therapy like somatic experiencing, dancing, IFS and just doing whatever my body wants to do. I hope that mushrooms would be a great addition to that 'do whatever I want' therapy by intensifying my child brain, but also I'm fearful that things could get bad in the moment or worse in the long run.

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Post by sib301 »

a_throwaway_3 wrote: post #27

What you need to know is that it will make you dumb and stupid, and you'll sit there giggling to yourself incapable of any coherent thought, like a drooling idiot. At least that's what it'll look like from the outside. From the inside, you'll feel like you've opened a door to a magical land of true understanding, like the veneer of convention has peeled off the world and you can finally see the underlying superstrutu…

This gave me a good laugh
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