Magical Mushrooms

[astfgyl]

It's looking like the best season in a good few years, they are everywhere

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yep, getting more than double what I got last year in my usual spots.

[Kurt Cocaine]

300 of the wee bad boys in the pot. Gonna be an interesting night... 

[astfgyl]

Interesting might be an understatement!

[ochoill]

I've never tried the mushies but the older I get, the more inclined I am to give a micro dose a go.  Was almost afraid of them when I was younger because of the stories of uncontrollable madness people were stricken with after them, one involving two lads rolling around in puddles in the pitch dark alone, holding each other by the scruff of the neck and roaring into each other's faces to harden out their trips after doing up a 700 brew between them into a flagon bottle for one evening.  I mean yeah fuckin hilarious but I was always wracked with a particular anxiety that gave me a fear of being the one case where it would all go wrong and I'd end up in a lake.  That didn't stop me drinking my skin off or absolutely living off more smoke than air for years of course.

Now that I'm older and a bit more settled I'd feel more comfortable meself with something like them on a very minor scale alright.  Maybe next year.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

If you've a general anxiety about it, which can be understandable, just start on a half dose. 60 liberty caps is a good rule of thumb for a proper but not too intense first trip, and if your set and setting is right, it's fairly fool proof at that dosage. So, if worry is an issue, take 30 some time when you can either just listen to tunes, go for a walk in nature, be with good buzz mates who have taken a similar dose, and that anxiety will dissolve.

I have a slight residue of anxiety about taking high doses, but I also know how to deal with a trip that starts to veer the wrong way, and know (for me personally) never to take a high dose if the setting is wrong...notably, anywhere there are lots of drunk, non-tripping people listening to shit music 

[Giggles]

I've never tried the mushies but the older I get, the more inclined I am to give a micro dose a go.  Was almost afraid of them when I was younger because of the stories of uncontrollable madness people were stricken with after them, one involving two lads rolling around in puddles in the pitch dark alone, holding each other by the scruff of the neck and roaring into each other's faces to harden out their trips after doing up a 700 brew between them into a flagon bottle for one evening.  I mean yeah fuckin hilarious but I was always wracked with a particular anxiety that gave me a fear of being the one case where it would all go wrong and I'd end up in a lake.  That didn't stop me drinking my skin off or absolutely living off more smoke than air for years of course.

Now that I'm older and a bit more settled I'd feel more comfortable meself with something like them on a very minor scale alright.  Maybe next year.

Yeah man if you're feeling anxious, start off with low doses like Chris said and work your way up. You can actually get a really nice body high on a low dose without experiencing any visuals, so I don't think you'd be in any danger of freaking out. The visuals are where it's at for me though!

Whenever somebody tells me that they tried psychedelics and didn't have a great time, I ask them where they took them. Almost every answer is the same: at nightclub while they were twisted drunk/ just before walking into the local pub "for the craic"/ at a houseparty where they didn't know anybody... In other words not prepared. Get your set and setting right, preferably somewhere where you won't be disturbed and you should have yourself a grand auld time.

[Caomhaoin]

Took a few in a yoghurt as a young long hair and I really enjoyed it. It was a small dose though, no more than 30 and I was with a bunch of pals doing the same. I haven't taken them since after doing way too much LSD at 4 in the morning once and weeping like a woman the next day, begging Jesus to end the nightmare.

So yeah, don't do loads or in the wrong setting.

[astfgyl]

I was put off for a long time after a few hard LSD trips, but I got back into it when a fella convinced me to take 5. Ah here I said, I'll get nothing off that. Lo and behold all I got was a warm fuzzy feeling and my vision sharpened up slightly. I then understood the concept of microdosing, and having been a 200 at a time man previous to that I couldn't believe someone could feel anything at all at such a low dose. Every year since I start low and build it up as the season goes on until it culminates in a good blowout and I simply lost the urge for a few months. Not even get put off, just the urge disappears. I've learned since that LSD and Psilocybin are so wildly different that the comparison is unfairly made between the two. Acid is a bit of a headfuck but the mushies are warm and inviting. The next day effect is brlliant as well. It always feels to me as if the cobwebs have been cleared from my mind.

And to concur with the lads, setting is very important. Just take a few at home with one or two people you trust and the fear factor shouldn't come into it.

one involving two lads rolling around in puddles in the pitch dark alone, holding each other by the scruff of the neck and roaring into each other's faces to harden out their trips after doing up a 700 brew between them into a flagon bottle for one evening

I might know those lads. It was a 2 litre milk carton!

[Blackout]

My plan would be locked away in my room with tunes and/or a movie. How long would a micro dose sesh last anyway?

[astfgyl]

depending on how micro, an hour or two is all

[Giggles]

Had my first ever successful pick today. Got over 300 between two of us. Happy days 

[astfgyl]

There will be giggles..

[Kurt Cocaine]

Had an amazing time on the Libs Saturday night. 

[blessed1]

The whole point of a micro dose is so that you won't actually feel anything so if your looking for a buzz 30 liberty caps would be loads for your first time. Someone mentioned 60 and personally I think that would be way too many for a first time.