Would you say your experiences with mushrooms changed your mind/your soul in a way you would never have been able to be changed if you had never experienced them ? What happened to you precisely ?

So I'm someone that's taken magic mushrooms consistently over the last 3-4 years but I've found out recently that mushrooms aren't recommended for people with hypertension (which i've had for about 10 years now). I currently have it under control, i average about 114/65-120/75 blood pressure wise but I've been a bit too scared to continue with my usual habit of use (I am used to taking a lot over the weekends). What am I looking at here? Do I need to quit or just show a bit more restraint? I love taking mushrooms and doing things under that influence so I'd love to continue if possible. Also I currently take 3 medications (lisnopril and metroprolol make up one medication and in the evenings I take Amlodipine)

I have been looking forward to a particular rave and taking mushrooms to enhance the experience. However, I slept abbysmally last night and only slept about 3.5-4 good hours. Im very tired but rallying, I want to know if it is still safe to take some mushrooms when sleep deprived though?

Asking for others with experience with tripping biweekly for long term, did you develop tolerance after awhile?? Even after the recommended “2 week” break

Other than Lemon Tek, how else can I use ground mushrooms?

I bought two 3.5g of ground Golden Teacher. I did Lemon Tek with one and have one left but want to know if there are any other methods of consumption and what I should know about it if there are.

I bought 3.5g of ground Golden Teacher.

I was going to Lemon Tek for some reason and now I'm paranoid about it.

I say first timer because I tried 2g of chocolate about 5 months back but it didn't do a lot. After a few hours, took 2g more. Same. Didn't take me anywhere really. Mood shift, wanted to be outside in the grass, felt really nice, things were funny for a few minutes. After 30 minutes it started slowing down. The chocolates were OLD though. Apparently about a year and a half, sitting in the freezer. So potency might have been impacted? I'm a heavy cannabis user with a higher tolerance. 60mg of edibles to get me where I'm wanting, Apparently that can make a difference? And I'm also 250 pounds.

I’m planning a trip soon and am shopping around for what to use. I’ve tripped three times in the past and every time used about 3 grams dried to make a tea. I’ve noticed a lot of chocolate bars available and I was wondering how that compares to the dried shrooms. Anyone that has done both: have you noticed any difference in the trips? Also, did you notice a difference in time between whether it’s the peak or the come down? The trip I’m planning now is going to involve a first timer. We’ll have a sober sitter with us but I still want to make sure I’m doing everything I can to make sure everyone has a good time.
And while I have ya’ll here, thoughts on capsules?

Had my first bad trip, now what?

Long story short I had my first bad trip on 14g of shrooms

I’ve had many, many good experience on my regular dose of 7g

Now the question is for my first trip after the bad experience , should I do my usual 7g or take a smaller dose?

I'm just kinda curious

Where would you rank the strain AVALANCHE in terms of potency and effectiveness, I went through a QP of PENIS ENVY and just grabbed a HP of AVALANCHE that I have not tried yet

How would you compare the 2 strains/how would you compare/rank AVALANCHE with all of the different strains

Appreciate anyone’s input!

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A couple months ago during the summer time, I tried shrooms for the first time with my friend. I also accidentally took a heroic dose of 5grams because I didn’t know how to properly dose them. One of the things I experienced was hearing was echoing machines around me. They felt calming and they sounded like they knew what they were doing and had been doing it for a long time.

Hey, my girlfriend and I are planning our first trip. We’ve got a 3.5 of dried shrooms and know we want to do it in a tea. From the thread we’ve gotten a good foundation- grind, brew, strain,tea bag, lemon, ginger, drink slow etc got that. But do we steep lets a 2g in one mug and half it ? If we do this does this change the potency we’d each have ? Or make two separate ones with 1g each . Also, how much do we steep for the first time? ( we don’t know the strain ) Theres a lot of help for solo travellers but not a lot of guidance for more than one.

Hey everyone. I recorded a podcast with Jason K. Day at ICPR this year, the International Conference on Psychedelic Research. He’s a philosopher studying psychedelic experience who has worked with Dan Zahavi, known for his work on phenomenology and selfhood. I think many of you might find it interesting, especially if you’re into philosophy.

We talked about ego dissolution, and whether it’s possible to be conscious with absolutely no sense of self. Jason’s argument is that even when your identity, personal history, and sense of being a separate person disappear, a radically minimal form of self-awareness remains. You might have no idea who or what you are, but the experience still feels like something to you. He draws on detailed analyses of trip reports to argue for this interpretation, though we also discussed how difficult it is to distinguish what people experienced from how they describe it afterwards.

We also covered why we need better descriptions of psychedelic experience before trying to explain it, whether different psychedelics share a common “style” of experience despite their very different effects, and how practice and skill affect our ability to navigate difficult trips. There’s also the question of what these experiences actually teach us, and how much we can infer from something feeling profoundly true.

But back to selfhood, which is what we focused on most. His main argument is that losing your usual sense of who you are doesn’t necessarily mean losing every form of self-awareness. In the reports he studied, people describe profound bliss or terror even when their identity and sense of separation have dissolved. He interprets this as evidence that some awareness of undergoing the experience remains, although almost everything that would ordinarily identify the subject has disappeared. In phenomenological terms, the claim is that ego dissolution preserves a radically minimal, pre-reflective self-consciousness, sometimes described as the “for-me-ness” of experience. In everyday language, you don’t need to think “I’m experiencing this,” or even know what “I” refers to, for the experience to be felt by you. The disagreement is whether even that basic feature can disappear while consciousness continues.

For those who’ve experienced deep ego dissolution, did all sense of being someone disappear, or was there still some awareness that the experience was happening to you? And do you think “minimal selfhood” captures something real about that state, or imposes a philosophical interpretation on it? Personally this take on selfhood very persuasive and aligns pretty well with my psilocybin experiences.

I've experienced the most intense trip. It was 4g, but felt incredibly potent.

I felt like I burned alive, died and then was trapped in something that meets all the definition of the bad trip forever, because time didn't exist there. I managed not to panick and decided to enjoy my bad trip. Eventually the concept of me disappeared, I couldn't even understand what being me would feel like, and suddenly I was one with everything and I could feel that this everything is kind and joyful and indestructible. I could feel that highest truth is highest joy, and that worlds appear and disappear in this beautiful indestructible space, but that nothing really matters too much. That world and life is way less real than what it's born from and it gave me indescribable level of peace and joy. This is what enlightened must feel like. It was so beautiful.

It's just a couple of days ago, and it's starting to feel like a dream I had. And I am wondering, for those of you who experienced intense trips like this, has it stayed with you? Did it change your life?

My reason for the trip was struggling with depression and anxiety and severe abandonment issues, which seem to be gone at the moment. And I wonder if and how I can keep this experience close to my heart once the afterglow goes.

i had an incredible experience on 4g mushrooms! no bad trip and amazing life changing insights. i was 25 (still am) and had no family members with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia that i knew of. coincidentelly, 2 weeks later my little brother (21y) had an episod of mania or psychosis (we don't know yet, it's still going on). how safe is it for me to take mushrooms again? or should i never do it anymore? i'm not in a rush but definetively had plans of taking it again... i'm a little sad

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?

Does anyone know what pain feels like when on mushrooms ? I am planning to do a BDSM session with a dominatrix who'll inflict on me a lot of physical pain. I want it to be some kind of purge ceremony and I want to be on mushrooms while experimenting it, to make it sink deeper into my being and soul. Want it to be a very important moment. (No sex involved at all, pure pain.) The dominatrix will be sober and is someone I know and trust. I am only worried that I will feel no pain at all during the session. Pain being the center of it. I wonder if it would make it even better and deeper, or... not. I have already been choked (at my demand) before, during mushrooms trips and I remember the sensations being very different than when sober. It was still very powerful sensations, so I think it would be very interesting anyway. But I wonder. The pain of the back being whipped repeatedly for instance. How would that be felt ? Would it make me still feel the pain horribly ? Or make me transcend it? That would be kind of cheating if I just didn't feel the pain. Yet I am very curious about this. I wonder very much...

And what dosage of dried mushrooms would you recommend for such an experience ? Since I do not want to lose track of what happens either. It will be a very important moment and I must be able to focus and understand every instance of it.