DOSE:

1.8 g

oral

Mushrooms

(dried)

BODY WEIGHT:

130 lb

I have taken shrooms three times in my life, my first time with 1.5 grams ground up and eaten in a Subway sandwich (delicious), and the second time with 1 gram in tea. The tea was prepared by blending the dried mushrooms into powder, placing the powder in a coffee filter and running boiling water through the coffee machine. The resulting mixture was thick and tasted disgusting, but induced a very pleasant trip. I ended up putting a ginger tea bag in the shroom tea to disguise the taste, and to help settle the nausea and stomach pain that can sometimes come with shrooms.

I have also had multiple previous experiences with hallucinogens. Aside from the two previous shroom experiences as mentioned above, I have also taken LSD three times, and N-bombs four times.

The first two times I had consumed shrooms were very mild and pleasant. Around half an hour after ingesting the shrooms, I began to feel slight stomach pains and had the beginning of trails in my vision. Around 15 minutes after, I started to experience extra colors in my vision. Around 1 hour after consuming the shrooms, the walls started to ripple and bulge, tv screens dissolved into rainbow fractals, and I felt the euphoria and comfort that comes with a shroom trip. The first two times I consumed magic mushrooms were both in a pleasant setting at a friend’s house, around a lot of good friends. We tripped out on a soft bed and watched the walls melt around us. These experiences were definitely positively affected by the setting at which our trip took place.

My third time taking shrooms was significantly different. This time I was on a camping trip with a large group of friends and strangers, and five of us had decided to take shrooms during the trip as we had yet to try them in the wilderness. I had found a different source for shrooms, and not knowing what strain of mushrooms I was taking, I decided to take 1.8 grams as my previous experiences had been so mild and pleasant. I ate the shrooms loosely broken up in a campfire hotdog, making sure to fill my stomach as much as possible, as I had learned from previous experiences that I was unable to eat for 7 hours after ingesting shrooms.

After half an hour, I started to feel the effects. The stomach cramps started, and my vision began to feel focused and the colors seemed more vivid. A thunderstorm had suddenly rolled in at the campsite, and our friends were all hustling around getting the tents fully set up to withstand the storm. Six of our friends ended up hanging out in my tent, three of us tripping on shrooms and watching the thunderstorm from my tent mesh window. The thunderstorm looked incredible while high – as it was still daytime, the sky was bright, and the shrooms made it exceptionally vivid. The lightning flashed multiple colors and the thunder felt like the ground was purring. I would definitely recommend shrooms during a thunderstorm (obviously from a safe vantage), however, this was where the trip started to get a little weird.

My hallucinations continued to increase far beyond the point of my previous shroom trips. I’ve always seen objects bubble and ripple, colors have always been very intense, and I’ve seen fractals on objects before, but nothing compares to my visuals at the campsite. The entire tent and all the people in it soon became completely covered in beautiful rainbow triangular fractals. All objects had little red and blue versions of themselves that would move around independently, almost like 3-D glasses gone wrong. When I looked too long at my friends’ faces, their features would start to jitter sideways like they were moving under a strobe light. I was still at the uncontrolled laughter stage of my trip, so this was immensely enjoyable. I also started to crave physical contact with people, which is another common symptom of a shroom trip for me.

Around 2 hours after eating shrooms, the thunderstorm stopped, and the friends in my tent decided to leave and try to start a fire. My friend and I who had both taken more than 1 gram both started to have trouble walking. Every time we stood straight or took a step, we would pitch forward or sideways like we were on a ship in a storm. We literally could not stand up, even with our friends giving us support. I’m not entirely sure how this is caused, as I’ve never had a shroom trip that affected my inner ear (my balance). It was a lot of fun, and we both laughed our way around the circle of tents, as we were completely unable to make it down to the campfire. At this point, our visuals were also peaking into a complete distortion of reality. Night was falling at this point, and the tents, the grass, and the other scenery around the campsite started taking on an ethereal appearance. The ground glimmered and flickered with rainbow lights, and the trees waved and bulged in a nonexistent wind. Tall plants and leaves started to ripple a turquoise glowing light in beautiful patterns. There was not much left of the world that was genuine reality.

This is where the bad part of the trip began. During my period of intense vertigo, I had started to feel some very unpleasant physical side effects. WARNING: this may get a little graphic. I started to feel like I needed to void my bowels and my bladder and vomit uncontrollably. It got to the point where I sprinted (while falling over) to the outhouse as I felt I could not control my bodily functions whatsoever. Upon reaching the outhouse, I could not do any of my business. The inside of the outhouse was flashing rainbows, the walls were melting, and it was quite frankly terrifying. I was unable to relieve any of my physical discomforts, and so after a short period of time I left the outhouse without having accomplished anything. As soon as I opened the outhouse door, whatever was left of reality dissolved and melted into a rainbow oblivion.

I attempted to cross the grass towards the campsite to put on more comfortable clothing. The grass and the ground had changed into a rolling, boiling mass of moving parallel lines and rainbow flashes. It looked like one of those optical illusion gifs that make your eyes uncomfortable. Whenever I passed several trees in proximity, I hallucinated intricate rainbow iron gates in my path. These gates were stunningly beautiful and I gazed at them with rapture, however, the appearance of objects that had most definitely not been there prior to my consumption of shrooms started to scare me. I managed to get closer to the tents, only to discover that they were all flashing brightly with fractals and floating through the air like balloons. Perturbed at not being able to access the tents as they were strewn across the sky, I turned and tried to head back towards the outhouse to make a second attempt at curing my physical discomforts. I could no longer distinguish the outhouse from all the hallucinations around me. The rainbow wrought-iron gates stretched across every path I could see, the optical illusion ground made me dizzy, and I couldn’t get my mind off the discomfort in my gut.

I was seriously distressed at this point. Luckily, my phenomenal boyfriend had realized something was badly wrong and took it upon himself to babysit me. He walked me back and forth from the outhouse to the tents multiple times as I tried to change clothing and deal with my gut issues, of which neither effort was successful. I could barely walk. I needed to puke and void this mushroom poison out of my gut. I couldn’t see anything that was real. My boyfriend looked like a jittery walking mess of rainbow fractals. It was beautiful, but I began to long to be less high. My bad trip started to take over entirely and I began to get quite upset.

I am a huge fan of space and the planets, and I frequently take out my telescope to observe the galaxy when I’m at home. My boyfriend, knowing this, distracted me from my bad trip by asking me to turn my face towards the sky and concentrate only on that. I turned my face upwards, and saw god.

The sky was the most unearthly beautiful thing I have ever experienced in my life. There were many thousands more stars there than the sky normally contains, and all were rippling across the sky in huge rainbow-colored flashing arches. There were thin filigree rainbow lines connecting some of the stars in a pattern that looked somewhat like the ceiling of a cathedral. Every few seconds the sky would take on a colorful sheen, like a thin sheet of translucent plastic was being held over it like a color filter on a stage spotlight. The bulges and ripples that were taking place all over the ground were considerably milder in the sky, and gave the effect of the ocean on a calm day. I stood in the centre of a field, between a circle of tents and an outhouse, and stared at the sky with my mouth gaping open for close to half an hour.

This beautiful vision calmed me down, and I could feel the peak of my trip slowing. This was around 4 hours after I had ingested the shrooms. I began to have short periods of lucidity – the ground would spontaneously lose its rainbow patterns, and would stop rolling and solidify into its regular mass. These lucid moments did not last long at first, but they helped me regain my sanity. They started at around 5 seconds in length at around 15-20 minute intervals, and gradually increased in length and in frequency until I was barely hallucinating at all. After hour 5, my hallucinations had decreased to the point where I only saw fractals with my eyes closed, and surfaces of objects would seldomly bulge. Everything had returned to its natural color and I was able to calm down.

This has been the most intense, terrifying and life-changing hallucinogenic experience of my life. If it were not for the terror and the uncontrollable physical effects, I would immediately buy some more of this particular strain of shrooms and consume it every weekend. I have never felt so at peace and in love with the universe as when I stared at god in the cathedral in the sky.

Exp Year: 2015	ExpID: 106575
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: 21
Published: Jan 3, 2026	Views: Not Supported
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