DOSE:	2 g	oral	Mushrooms - P. cubensis	(dried)
	2	smoked	Cannabis	(flowers)

BODY WEIGHT:

60 kg

Being a regular weed smoker having not tried any other drugs, I had heard a lot about magic mushrooms and did some research. I was very keen to give them a try. I had the impression I would feel very 'high' and just see awesome stuff (hallucinations). I had only seen mushrooms once before from some school mates & ate one cap and it had no effect.

Setting: It was towards the end of my first year out of school, not being very productive as I had taken a gap year. Mind set was great with little stresses of life. It was a Saturday morning when I got a call from my good friend 'W', saying let's chow magic mushrooms tonight. My Girlfriend at the time had work that evening, knowing she was against 'drugs' (even though she smoked just as much weed as me) I agreed, thinking I didn't even have to tell her about it.

I met up with 'W' early to organise the shroomies as he was experienced with them and knew a decent supplier. I was really excited to finally experience the magic I had been anticipating for about 2 years. Although I had to keep this excitement a secret as I was with my girl until about 7pm when I dropped her off at graft.

I raced back to my uncle's house where I was house sitting for him, this is where we were to trip tonight. 'W' was waiting there for my arrival along with 2 other friends 'J' & ' B'. Another friend 'S' was on a date with his girlfriend and he didn't want us to start tripping without him. He normally finished around 9pm. We agreed without 'S', as we were all in anticipation & so keen, that if he was not done by 08: 30pm, we would chow without him.

It was now 08:15pm & we realised we didn't have anything to eat the mushies with, so me & 'W' drove to the garage to buy some yogi sips as they said apparently it's the best. Just after buying the yogi sips, 'S' phoned me and said he is ready to be picked up. We picked him up and got back to surprise 'J' & 'B'.

(All times are predictions as I was not aware of the time at all during this experience)

(T + 00:00) It was around 9pm now so we got right down to chowing the shrooms in the kitchen. We each had 2g's of Golden Teachers. I remember it tasting like dirt (earthy), but the yogi sip really helped it go down. I had no second thoughts. Let the Magic begin...

To set the mood we turned all the house lights off and turned on only the green LED lights on the outside patio. We decided to roll a Joint as apparently it helped to start off the trip. We were sitting at the outside table and I was rolling the J. 'W' said that he knows it's kicking in when he starts feeling tingly and can see 'colors and patterns'. 'J' agreed, but I felt no different and carried on rolling. We smoked the joint, while talking some shit, I then decided we should go for a walk to the park. I was hoping this would start the trip off, and it did. Walking to the park, I remember someone saying, 'just go with the shrooms, whatever you feel like doing, just do it'.

(T + 00:40) As we got to the park, the grass looked so green and soft, so the first thing I did was stop everyone and said, I feel like sitting on the grass, let's just sit for a bit. It was as if the grass was calling me in. We all sat down in a circle and spoke, don't remember about what or for how long. Everyone decided to get up and move along, but as I started getting up, I felt extremely nauseous. I crawled forward on all 4's to the bushes close by and gagged.

Nothing came out, but it felt terrible. As I looked up, the moon pulled me in, it was so abnormally bright and so big. I could see the energy radiating from it, fulling the sky and the Earth. There were pine trees all over the park, and the moon was 'sucking' them in as well. The trees stretched taller than I've ever seen, as if they were elongated into the moon. The trees also radiated the same energy as if it was traveling from the moon through them.

I quickly snapped back to reality with the estate security guards shouting at us, I felt completely normal again and jumped up. My heart was racing as I quickly explained to the guards that we were just drunk and came for a walk. We apologized as there was apparently no one allowed out after 7pm, and we agreed to head back to the house.

The one security guard in a bakkie decided to follow us back, to make sure we got there safe or some shit. As we were walking, 'W' was up ahead followed by 'S' & 'J', me behind them and 'B' behind me. 'J' turned to 'S' and said look at the floor. I heard this and as I looked down I went straight back into it. The tar roads became a bright orange beach sand (think the orange came from the road lights). The sand (tar road) was swirling in and out in a circular motion in the direction I was walking. Once again the orange color felt like waves of energy, washing in and out with the patterns of sand. Turning from dark to light to all different shades of orange.

I heard 'S' & 'J' tripping out to this as well. I was so freaked out and quickly turned back to look for 'B', but he was so far behind. I thought he definitely must have started tripping out as well. (It was both of our first times). I felt so weird and just wanted to get back to the house, I was really uncomfortable, especially with the guard driving just behind me. We got back to the house and the guard was still watching us, 'B' had somehow caught up and now everyone was waiting for me to unlock the gate, so we could get in. As I pulled the keys out my pocket I looked at them and thought how the fuck am I going to do this?

My fingers were all of a sudden huge & swollen potatoes. I could not even feel the keys in my hand, all I could notice was the fact that I was trying to hold tiny keys with huge real potatoes as fingers. It took me a little while to unlock the gate, but I got it right. We entered and the guard left.

(T + 01:15) I could not handle being in the house and went straight through to the back yard. As I got outside, the nausea hit me again and I ran straight to the flowers and went down to gag. As I vomited, I noticed miniature reindeer and small weird gnome like creatures (no taller than my knee) jumping & running around in the flower garden. Dancing and moving in the direction away from where I had just purged, as if they came from inside me. I was so amazed, as they seemed so real. Even when I tried to blink them away, they stayed there. I had definitely just entered what I now know as the 'dream world'.

I turned back to sit on the grass, as I was so overwhelmed, trying to just chill out a bit. The moon caught my attention again. It was just as big, but this time it was radiating purple energy everywhere. Everything now had a purple glow, coming from the moon. I could see the energy coming down in splashing waves of purple. Onto the grass, all the trees, the plants & the house, it was as if my eyes got a veil of purple over them. The grass was dancing and swaying to the movement of these purple energy waves splashing down onto it. Once again, the purple was turning from dark to light and all variations in between. As I was watching the grass it felt like I was a GOD looking down on a world of tiny people, my people.

Next thing these 'people' were all seated on huge rows of grandstands all cheering and clapping, shouting, all for me. The cheering started fading into a marching noise, and the people & grandstands morphed into hundreds of huge black ants. All marching and running over each other (insect noise carried on in back of mind most of night & this was not so enjoyable). The entire grass had turned into these ants. All purple. Everything still purple hues radiating from the moon. This tripped me out way too hard and I snapped out of it, to realise I had moved to the middle of the back yard. I got up and started walking inside (hole back yard still purple & the patio was still luminating green from the LED lights). I think everyone else was inside.

(T + 01:45) All I remember next was standing in the lounge, looking at 'J' speaking to us. There was a big canvas painting hanging on the wall behind him. Splashy type painting with all different colors in patterns. The outline of 'J' started fading away into the painting, the colours started morphing in their patterns out of the painting and in front of 'J'. As this happened I quickly shook my head and freaked out. I walked quickly towards the door and told everyone, let's go chill outside. We all went and sat around the table, where they decided to roll another J. I was feeling too weird to roll, but was keen to smoke, hoping it would make me chill out.

There was an empty bottle on the table, which the gents had been using for their stompies & our roaches. Someone noticed and said out aloud that the ash in the bottle looked like millions of little insects crawling all around, fulling the entire surface. Weird but awesome. (This effect remained the rest of the night). We all tripped out on this until the J was lit and going around. It came to me & I remember taking one drag, the smoke felt like I was inhaling a bunch of dust or dirt. It hurt my throat and I realised straight away that I should not have more. I told the gents I can't smoke as I am too high, and passed the J on. The next thing I felt extremely uncomfortable and uneasy, the nausea had returned.

I stood up to go inside, but as I stood, my bottom jaw felt as if it stayed low down and did not move up with my head, as if it had dropped to the floor. My feet felt like my bottom jaw and everything in between my feet & my top jaw felt like an open mouth. Empty and hollow, as if I could feel the air flowing through me, as if my body was my mouth. Walking away from the table was hard, it felt as if I was dragging my jaw along the floor, trying to walk on it (extremely weird sensation). As I got inside this effect disappeared.

(T + 02:30) I do not remember what happened next but I remember standing in the kitchen either drinking water or just splashing my face. As I looked up from the sink, 'W' was standing there to see if I was alright. He got a fright as he said I looked possessed as if I was not even there. He said my eyes / pupils were so enormous, dilated bigger than he had ever seen. What happened next was a blur but I do know I vomited again in the bathroom & then decided to go try to sleep as I could not handle what was happening to me. I climbed into bed hoping I could empty my mind and pass out, but this was not the case.

For the next 3 & a half hours or so, I entered a completely different state of consciousness. I cannot explain how this felt or where I 'was' but this experience was extremely insane & all I wanted was to be out of the trip and feel 'normal' again. I remember getting into a fetal position under the blanket, it was the only way I could forget the nausea and be comfortable.

(T + 03:00) I heard the gents down the passage in the lounge, they decided to give our mate 'C' a call as he was in Cape Town over news years. I could hear them talking normally, but as soon as 'C' answered, I heard his voice through the phone. He was on speaker but the weird thing was, I did not hear him with my ears. I was looking at the room door, still lying down, and there was a singular, thick, brown, rope like wave flowing into the room. As I was observing this wave with my eyes the 'noise' was perceived in my mind. I was literally seeing noise through the form of a wave. I was so absolutely gobsmacked at this that I didn't really notice what they had conversed about.

After lying in that position for a while & not being able to fall asleep, I tried to turn over and stretch out as I was getting stiff. As I turned to my left side to face the middle of the bed it felt as though I was right on the edge of the bed. But the drop felt like it was infinite and not just to the floor. I caught such a fright and immediately turned straight back over to the position I was originally in. Became extremely uncomfortable and uneasy again. I was tripping my tits off now and started to hallucinate intensely. There were all these lizard heads floating around the room. They were green, but when I started paying attention to the one head, they all started morphing into red devil like faces with horns (satan). I immediately felt terrified and thought to myself if I don't change my mind set right now this is going to be one hell of a bad and scary experience.

I started to think good happy thoughts and suddenly the heads started morphing again. This time into brown owls with cute little faces, flapping their short stubby wings. I felt a bit more at ease now. The owls seemed to kind of fly off, when my attention now changed to the walls of the room, which were breathing. I had heard of this effect before but never expected it to be that intense. It literally looked as if the whole house was alive and breathing, the walls expanding & contracting a good half meter from origin all in unison. I felt the life of a non living 'being' for the first time. I then noticed the lights on the roof. Normally there were 4 small round lights evenly spaced on the roof. But there were now hundreds of these lights all cramped up on the ceiling. They were vibrating and moving up & down, back & forth, in all directions, all in a certain form or structure. They started moving faster & faster until they formed a spiral like tornado which sucked the entire roof down, it was as if the roof came down in this spiral to kiss me. As I felt this 'kiss' I went straight back out of 'reality' and into the spiritual world.

This 'place' or state of consciousness was extremely weird, as it felt like I was in a lucid dream, but not sleeping. I knew I was 'awake' but I was not 'awake'. As I entered this 'place', there was a voice speaking to me, it was the voice of GOD, I knew this instantly with no doubt, although in a weird way. This voice also felt as if it was my own, coming from within. I was now at an incredible state of peace. The voice was exactly that of the voice from Tube & Berger's - Imprint of Pleasure. (now one of my favorites).

Basically the voice of GOD himself was telling me that I am worrying too much about life. It assured me that everything in life will be good & that it works out perfectly. Life is the way it is meant to be at any given time. I'm not entirely sure what else was said but the next thing I remember was encountering intense closed eye hallucinations. Kaleidoscopes & unexplainable patterns & objects all morphing & moving all with bright colours. It felt as though I was traveling between dimensions & universes, exploring different worlds. I was still not asleep nor awake but definitively not here on Earth (very weird effect).

I start coming 'back to Earth' and realise I am sweating intensely & also have tears flooding down my face, drenching my pillow (although I do not feel sad at all). I also immediately start experiencing the yawnies (In & out of dream world) every time I yawn, tears start flooding my face again. I notice the gents sitting at the outside table which is just outside my window, so I can see them. They had been in & out of the room several times to check on me but I kept on telling them I'm too fucked to join them. I pulled a thumbs up to them from the bed, through the window, & they cheered me as if I had been dead and now alive. I was obviously peaking now as this was the most intense experience of the night. Entering & exiting 'reality', still traveling & exploring the cosmos.Something I really cannot describe or put into words... The insect crawling / munching noise was still loud & intense in the back of my mind this whole time.

(T + 06:30) I suddenly snap back to reality with the urge to vomit immediately. I got up and ran to the on-suite toilet and let it all out for the final time. I bent down to the toilet and as I vomited, I left Earth again. My puke immediately became a colourful kaleidoscope traveling in the direction away from me. I didn't know I was in front of the toilet anymore as my whole vision had changed. All I could see were patterns & colours vibrating & moving in & out, past me in all directions. It was as though I entered a dimension fulled with bright, colourful energy comprised of patterns & exotic shapes. I feel like the base colour, or colour of the 'world' (background) was an orangey yellow.

All of a sudden I snapped back to reality with 'W' patting me on my back, I had just finished vomiting and still in front of the toilet on my knees. He asked if I was alright, and I said yeah, I got up and splashed my face with water. I noticed myself in the mirror and was totally amazed. I looked so different, like an alien. My pupils were enormous and my eyes wide as can be, this reminded me of a baby, with huge eyes intrigued by everything around them.

I went back to the room & sat on the edge of the bed to re-collect. I still felt immensely weird, in awe of what I had just been through. Definitely feeling a lot better than the past few hours though. With some motivation from the gents, I decided to join them back in the lounge. I stood up from the bed and all of a sudden I lost my 'balance'. Not literally, but it was as if I had forgotten how to walk. The whole passage leading to the rest of the house felt like it was at a steep angle going down to the right side. I was not sure how I could walk on such an 'incline'. 'S' was next to me and noticed I was struggling, so he helped me continue walking normally. It was as if I had to learn how to walk again. It also felt as if I had no energy left in me, as if I had just been 're-born'.

(T + 07:00) We all took a seat in the lounge and I was speechless. I had nothing to say or ask, I was utterly gobsmacked by what I had just been thru. I had a sense of total peace & comfort, nothing mattered. I felt like a GOD with no worries or stress. All of a sudden, all of us look at the same time at 'B', he had just started yawning. The biggest, laziest most tired yawn we had ever seen. We all burst out laughing hysterically.

The gents start talking & I remember my phone. I take it out my pocket and wow. The whole screen is covered in rainbow colored waves swaying in a rainbow type pattern down my screen. I see I have no messages so straight away put it back into my pocket as I couldn't be bothered about it and the rainbow colors were way too mesmerizing. There was a deck of cards on the coffee table next to me, so I picked up 1 card and looked at it. As I turned the card over I was so amazed. Just by that simple fact. The movement of my fingers and the way the card swirled through the air to show a different duality of its self on the other side was absolutely mind blowing. Hard to explain but I was so intrigued and showed the gents saying 'wooow' while flipping the card again and again. They obviously didn't get the same effect and just all laughed at me. I understood how stupid I probably looked. I didn't say much still but the gents all decided to have a last blaze before trying to call it a night. I did not want to smoke as I was wary due to what I had experienced earlier.

(T + 08:00) It was about 5am and we all decided to try rest. I had intense closed eye hallucinations still and the 'munching / marching' noise was still in the back of my mind. Still feeling like an alien. But managed to fall asleep peacefully.

Summary:
The next day I felt very weird but normal. The state I now know as marshmallow, or the shroom over. We didn't speak much about the experience as I was still in great awe. Only over the next few months and even years looking back I now more deeply understand and cherish this experience as it brought me so much understanding, insight and knowledge.

Expanding my love for higher consciousness, leading to many more amazing experiences of magic mushrooms and DMT (haven't tried any other psychedelic but plan on doing so)

This was most definitely one hell of a trip and way more than what I had ever expected!

Exp Year: 2013	ExpID: 111242
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 19
Published: Aug 7, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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