Mushrooms - P. cubensis (Golden Teacher)

DOSE: T+ 0:00 4 g oral Mushrooms (tea) T+ 1:55 2 g oral Mushrooms (dried) T+ 2:35 2 g oral Mushrooms (dried)

BODY WEIGHT: 76 kg

Description

Location

My partners' hotel room. Lots of wood, fabric window blinds. Corner room with shitloads of windows. Huge bed. Cozy lighting.

Set & Setting

[Partner A] brought the Sonos speakers, I set up internet and had prepared a 9hr playlist. We all had brought lots of snacks, sweets and fruit. Colorful gay mood lighting and lots of small warm lights around the room. Had just explored [a very cozy place] together and shared tea there. Super cozy and cuddly. Kinda first time shrooms for [Partner A], first time psychedelics in a loooong time for [Partner B] and my 2nd time shrooms. Though we were all somewhat experienced with LSD and DMT.

Focus point

9hr playlist timed to the different phases of the trip.

vibe-y liquid DnB, techno and breaks to come up to

Jamie xx, Culprate, Maribou State, Portishead, Draft Punk, Pink Floyd, Hozier, Tame Impala, Porter Robinson plus some classical music, psytrance and trip hop during peak

progressive house, techno, psybient to come down to

And of course just being with each other and socialising.

Dosage(s)

=> approx 100mg of psilocybin total

The mushrooms were QTESTed at approx 1.3%

19:15 4g lemon tek tea w honey

21:10 2g raw with salted nuts

21:50 2g raw with salted nuts

Note there was probably some residual tolerance, as I had done 50ug of 1S-LSD 7 days prior to this experience.

General Effects

tldr; level 4 on the effectindex.com psychedelic intensity scale

Cognitive

Very distinct psychedelic headspace

Emotions became so strong they also became physical sensations

Strongly reduced focus, unable to steer it at all for a good bit there, strongly reduced short term memory. Non-cohesive thought stream and becoming unable to process logic. Both coming together to send me for very strong thought loops for a while.

Thought I was learning deep insights about the universe, time, life & death, and the concepts of how anything can exist, but at the same time not understanding it

Never lost the concept of self fully, still had limited access to my long term memories

Still able to navigate the hotel room

Communication

Generally possible for most parts of the trip, but often I did not want to speak

Cognitive effects became so strong for about 45min that keeping a useful conversation was impossible, as I could no longer understand concepts such as time, reality or much of anything really. The others reported I kept saying I dont understand time anymore intermittenly.

Physical

Physical sensation induced by the music or thoughts at times

Touch and cuddles were AMAZING

Keeping balance when standing/moving felt challenging at times (but always still possible), mostly cause depth perception was strongly effected and coordination was strongly reduced

Some nausea during comeup; mostly gone for 2/3rds of peak. Late peak into early comedown strong nausea and physical unwellness (as I did not eat in 10+hrs due to nausea or forgetting about it. I am unsure how much I drank, but should have had at least a litre of water)

Emotional

Very euphoric and somewhat giggly in comeup and early peak, to the point of feeling kinda very daring and enthusiastic to a reckless point

Felt extremely safe and comfortable with my partners at all times

Generally an extremely pleasant headspace during the entire trip until late peak to early comedown where physical unwellness started

A little paranoid about taking drugs and having to hide to from judging others at times, but forgot about it quick

A little scared at the perspective of anyone sober entering the space at times, but forgot quick about it

Medium-scared when loosing understanding of the concept of time and not understanding how I am to partake in the outside world/society again. Felt unsetteled when realising time/thoughts kept looping and I kept not understanding stuff.

Felt relieved when realising that time is relative and thus death doesnt matter. Am back to scared of death now that I am sobre :D

Visual

Extreme color & contrast enhancement; seeing colorful shadows on things

Flowing, morphing, symmetric pattern repetitions in textures

Inconsistent depth perception and field of view

Smoothing-like filter of things like skin

Very well defined complex geometric shapes (3D closed eye visuals) also showing on any uniformly colored surfaces (ceiling, skin, etc). Tended to be very defined on the edges. Though generally rounded edges with colorful smooth gradients in the surfaces. DMT-like.

At times it took a lot of concentration to make out reality enough to cuddle my partners or make my way to the bathroom, though this only lasted for a very short duration, for most parts I could make out reality perfectly fine.

At times leaving the perspective of "human looking though eyes" but instead slowly flying off into hallucinations and geometries (only lasted a few seconds at a time)

Auditory

Increased music appreciation by a LOT, even in early comeup

Audio-induced synesthesia (shapes/geometries + emotions + physical sensations following music)

Completely lost track of music all-together for about 30-45min during full peak where I was thought looping, cannot recall any songs playing during that time

Timed Log

Total Duration around 9.5hrs from intake to "feel safe/sober enough to walk back to my hotel"

-- Notes taken during tripping were left unchanged or with small spelling corrections. Comments and notes added in after the trip are in cursive. --

Comeup (2-3hrs)

19:15 intake 4g lemon tek tea

19:30 fist effects: strong body high, screen already hard to read, increased music appreciation; no textures moving in the wood/curtains yet

19:45 wood flowing, curtains breathing, whilte cieling has colorful gradients and I can feel the music holy fucking shit; language starting to get hard

19:55 whole room distortions, heavyyyyyyyyyy body high

[Partner A] redoses here. I am struggling a bit with nausea and am waiting it out at first

Though I think that the comeup is done here in the moment I was still very much in late comeup

Redosing

21:10 redosing 2g [nausea had calmed down]

Also general note having someone to talk to others is good, incoherency starting hard, open eye visuals stunning

21:50 did another 2g let�s see where this goes. Seeing fucking shit in everything weeeee. Music is great holy hell

This is where things went kind of out of control. I was clearly not waiting long enough for the first 2g to have any onset yet. I did not have a grasp on time at all. I was clearly not waiting long enough for the first 2g to have any onset yet. I did not have a grasp on time at all.