In recent months I've met a few people who have mentioned to me that I shouldn't have too many mushrooms in my lifetime. Most of them have tried mushrooms themselves or have had many friends over decades who have eaten them, sometimes in huge amounts or on a semi-regular basis. A couple of them had lived through the 70s and explained to me what they had seen, including a couple of their friend's deaths (due to eating too much all at once I'm assuming). They warned me of "becoming a mushroom" if I eat too many of them. What exactly would they mean by that statement? I'm sure they mean mentally of course, but what precisely do they mean? At first I thought it was foolish that anybody could want to stop eating mushrooms at some point, but now my mind is open to the possibility of unsafe risks from eating them too many times (if there is even such a thing).
I love mushrooms, they have made me into a much better person than I once was. In many ways they have and continue to shape me as a man and as a human being. They have made my mind a lot more beautiful, and with the use of them I continue to push my boundaries, in my art and in my every day life. I have the notion that these mushrooms can keep helping to make me better, but if this isn't true, then I need to know as soon as possible, for my own safety.
As far as I know, regular psilocybin mushrooms cannot kill you no matter how many you eat. Taking a shit ton of any psychedelics over a period of time however [I]can[/I] fuck with your psyche. You should have no fear of dying though.
[QUOTE=dedo678;41271821][I]can[/I] fuck with your psyche. You should have no fear of dying though.[/QUOTE]
But one must ask, which is worse?!?
most people try to rationalize it but doing psychedelics often will fuck with your mental state
I've done shrooms once and I loved it! Though it didn't completely alter my perspective on life and such I have taken a lot more time to stop and appreciate the beauty in nature even on days that just seem utterly miserable.
I definitely plan to try them again; next time I'll do 2gs since my first trip was on 1g. Let me tell you though, it's amazing when the effects kicked in. I was just sitting at my PC while my friends went to go pickup a laptop when all of a sudden the edges of things started buzzing and vibrating then changing shapes. Fun times indeed :v:
Yea it sucks when you become a mushroom
My friends will only see me in a winter and even then I will only meet them in forests after rainfall the night before
As with all substances, one must exercise caution and be aware of their personal boundaries. Misusing, abusing or disrespecting anything (even marijuana, in those unfortunate, susceptible few) can lead to temporary or permanent mental and cognitive hindrance. In regards to "becoming a mushroom," however: I have witnessed a few of my friends become progressively "slower" even after only several months of psilocybin usage. Their reaction times had clearly deteriorated since they began regular psychedelic (psilocybin/LSD several times per month) usage, and one of my better friends experienced very frequent episodes of paranoid ideation. Whether or not this can be attributed to their psilocybin usage is something that I'm still unsure of. I suspect that the paranoid ideation is a result of latent mental issues being aggravated by his drug use, and for all I know the slowed reaction times could very well be an uncommon genetic factor.
I'm very curious: has anyone else noticed delayed reactions in regular psilocybin/psychedelic users?
what do you mean become a mushroom
I am drugs
Have you played "the last of us"? It's a game with "zombies" but the infection is actually a mushroom. The zombies become mushrooms over time.
I think that's what they mean. :v:
looks like this (linked in case people wouldn't want to see a drawing of someone with his face blown up)
[url]http://cf.shacknews.com/images/20130204/infected_female_hn_03f_24567.nphd.jpg[/url]
[video=youtube;vZZP3Cqi7Lk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZZP3Cqi7Lk[/video]
had to do it
[QUOTE=dedo678;41271821]As far as I know, regular psilocybin mushrooms cannot kill you no matter how many you eat. Taking a shit ton of any psychedelics over a period of time however [I]can[/I] fuck with your psyche. You should have no fear of dying though.[/QUOTE]
I remember doing some sketchy math determining that you'd have to eat >3.7lbs of mushrooms to OD.
But you'd also have to eat almost 4 pounds of something so that would fucking suck
Eating 4 pounds of mushrooms would be the fucking worst thing ever
Blend it all into a psychedelic smoothie.
[QUOTE=dedo678;41271821]As far as I know, regular psilocybin mushrooms cannot kill you no matter how many you eat. Taking a shit ton of any psychedelics over a period of time however [I]can[/I] fuck with your psyche. You should have no fear of dying though.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.shroomery.org/9122/How-many-dried-mushrooms-would-I-have-to-eat-to-die-from-an-overdose-of-psilocybin[/url]
[QUOTE=dedo678;41271821]As far as I know, regular psilocybin mushrooms cannot kill you no matter how many you eat. Taking a shit ton of any psychedelics over a period of time however [I]can[/I] fuck with your psyche. You should have no fear of dying though.[/QUOTE]
This is what I meant, I should have elaborated a little better. Essentially I am questioning how much mushrooms could fuck with my psyche permanently, if that is even possible. Is it?
Just take an 8th and go bananas, you'll be fine, you don't trip THAT hard until you start taking obscene amounts
One trip can do that
[QUOTE=Tophat;41274866]This is what I meant, I should have elaborated a little better. Essentially I am questioning how much mushrooms could fuck with my psyche permanently, if that is even possible. Is it?[/QUOTE]
On a chemical or physical level I doubt you'd fuck your brain (and hence your mind) up unless you did a LOT (and I mean a LOT) very frequently.
On a psychological level... I guess it depends on your mindset, your general outlook on life, how strong willed you are, etc. I mean I had a terrible freak out recently on five tabs of strong acid and basically lost my fucking mind for maybe an hour or so (or maybe it was less or even more, I'm not too sure). Was absolutely horrifying. LSD wore off though (eventually - my pupils were still totally dilated 21 hours later) and I came back to reality. It was just a trip, none of what actually happened in my mind really happened so I'm not gonna let it get to me. My friend (who had a fantastic trip on the same dose) afterwards said that he imagines if most people went through what I did (he obviously saw how bad I got at my worst) they'd probably be pretty badly traumatised afterwards for a very long time, but I shook it off really quickly and went back to normal.
I am good for it in that sense, I've had mushrooms about 5 times now, and every trip has been fantastic and insightful.
Perhaps everyone I've been talking to about this issue is wrong, or over-thinking it?
Don't worry, your friends are probably just worried about you.
Just remember to trip in a safe environment so that no silly accidents happen.
Good adventures to you, Tophat.
[QUOTE=Solidskei;41271912]But one must ask, which is worse?!?[/QUOTE]
I'm here to say i'd rather have died than gone through what i did.
year long psychotic adventure. they dunno what i have but they like to say schizophrenia and bipolar.
[editline]2nd July 2013[/editline]
every say i'd wake up and i'd have around 5 minutes before i fully woke up not aware of the terror.
then basically the rest of the day i'd have the terror, and i'd internally constantly be pleading the world to kill me in a freak accident. the more painful the better.
yeah... so don't take psychosis or inducing a bad mental state upon yourself lightly. wouldn't take any thing back though, that's just cause i'm stubborn.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;41290510]yeah... so don't take psychosis or inducing a bad mental state upon yourself lightly. wouldn't take any thing back though, that's just cause i'm stubborn.[/QUOTE]
I feel like I empathize with you there. After almost completely destroying my mind, friendships and family relations I totally turned my life upside down. Despite how traumatic and depressing the bipolar roller-coaster was, for some strange reason I believe that my episodes were totally necessary and served as the insane wakeup call that I feel like I've needed for years.
I hope all is well and that your symptoms have subsided, if not disappeared completely. Psychosis sucked.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;41290510]I'm here to say i'd rather have died than gone through what i did.
year long psychotic adventure. they dunno what i have but they like to say schizophrenia and bipolar.
[editline]2nd July 2013[/editline]
every say i'd wake up and i'd have around 5 minutes before i fully woke up not aware of the terror.
then basically the rest of the day i'd have the terror, and i'd internally constantly be pleading the world to kill me in a freak accident. the more painful the better.
yeah... so don't take psychosis or inducing a bad mental state upon yourself lightly. wouldn't take any thing back though, that's just cause i'm stubborn.[/QUOTE]
you sound like me
sometimes i wonder if im schizo
i am bipolar
Is it just me or does DD have a remarkably high amount of people suffering from bipolar disorder relative to its low population?
dude isn't it obvious that this section would have the highest concentration of people with profound mental disorder?
not to seem rude... kinda dunno how to put that in a non rude way right now. se la bi-polar.
but really this is the forum's subsection for drugs. internet forums themselves have an inherently high rate of mental dysfunction for other reasons even more obvious that i won't even go into them. people with mental dysfunction are at an insanely high risk of self medication, which is considered as recreational drug use.
way more people start using drugs to cope with problems than people who just want to try something new.
i wouldn't be surprised if pretty much everyone here has some kind of actual dysfunction in one way or another, profound, deep under the surface or somewhere in between. That goes for pretty much the rest of FP as well, but the figure drops a bit.
[editline]3rd July 2013[/editline]
hopefully you've worked your shit out and you guys aren't self medicating anymore.
Yeah I can understand why this is, naturally people suffering from such disorders are more likely to resort to drugs, especially if it involves depression in one way or another. I was just surprised by the number of people specifically being bipolar on here and found it to be a curious observation.
And I wouldn't generalize saying everyone on here has a dysfunction of some form, though I can agree that the percentage of such people would be higher on an internet forum and especially one dedicated to drug use.
Then again if your definitions for dysfunction are loose enough everyone in the world can be considered having some kind of dysfunction.
[QUOTE=Loch;41290929]I feel like I empathize with you there. After almost completely destroying my mind, friendships and family relations I totally turned my life upside down. Despite how traumatic and depressing the bipolar roller-coaster was, for some strange reason I believe that my episodes were totally necessary and served as the insane wakeup call that I feel like I've needed for years.
I hope all is well and that your symptoms have subsided, if not disappeared completely. Psychosis sucked.[/QUOTE]
love your AV
But I've been broken to pieces and have had to rebuild myself at least 3 times in my life so far. and that's a pretty conservative estimate considering how fucking scattered i am. I wouldn't take it back though. even though i've been through worse than hell multiple times i'm pretty sure because of those experiences i'm exponentially better mentally with just about anything.
like the saying says, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. only in this case it's not completely letting go of your sanity. it's fuckin hard.
in this game you never fully recover, you're constantly in recovery. I do experience a lot of shit but for the most part i've learned to ignore it and/or deal with it. like having both headphones in makes the voices (inside my head, outside, all of them) go away.
the best kind of recovery is not through medication. medication is a crutch. the best kind of recovery is objective retrospect and rebuilding with the help of professionals. that way instead of becoming more weak and also dependant upon drugs that hardly work, you get way stronger and more tolerance to the world around you in general.
i dunno. while i would never wish mental illness upon someone it is kind of a wondrous thing. it's terrifying, at least at first (hopefully just at first, but there's so much that can be gained from it if you recover properly.
In a weird way i'm glad all this shit happened to me. in fact really glad.
[editline]3rd July 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;41302703]
Then again if your definitions for dysfunction are loose enough everyone in the world can be considered having some kind of dysfunction.[/QUOTE]
it is quite loose but the way i use it is when you cannot function properly in our society. even then it's still quite loose there. but i'm tired and moody so i can't put the words together quite right.
also there are those who have recovered or who can cope and having this debilitating thing but they're still functional.
generally if your disability makes life much more of a struggle than it should be. i guess that's what i mean
if you have the depression equivalent of the sniffles you are not on my pity list.
I ate 4g of the portabella today, I feel like a really changed man. These ones were way more potent than I could have even fathomed. I learned to look past all of that; I can see what they were talking about all along, but I can see where they faltered. I realize that by being positive, and always moving forward through life with a decent amount of grit I can be anyone or anything that I want to be.
I had a good time by the lake with some of my friends that I once worked with. Sometimes the feeling was really overwhelming, and dipping back into "society" felt like a dream, a blur, an overload of information, something intangible I guess.
I still feel it right now, more than I expected... Probably because I'm drinking OJ :v:
Time for Chivalry!
Just always know what your doing OP. In 2011 I took 6 tabs of strong acid and had a nightmarish trip because I had no fucking clue what I was doing and just threw them in my mouth. The full year afterwords was filled with panic attacks and existential crisis's that haunted me day by day. I am a lot better nowadays, not the same as before due to a depersonalization disorder, but I function and live happily.
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