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I Am Dead
Mushrooms
by Jd
Citation:   Jd. "I Am Dead: An Experience with Mushrooms (exp116852)". Erowid.org. Aug 24, 2025. erowid.org/exp/116852

 
DOSE:
9.5 g oral Mushrooms
BODY WEIGHT: 165 lb
One day, me and my girlfriend decided to take shrooms. I got us like 12 grams with the intentions of only doing 3 or 4 that day and saving the rest. Me and my girlfriend were in my room and I took out the plastic bag I had them in. I didn’t have a scale so I just figured I would mental math it out and divide them up, horrible mistake. I gave her a small stem that was probably about 3 grams and I took a large stem that was about 6 grams. We sat and waited and waited for the visuals to kick in while watching a movie and after about 45 minutes nothing happened, I make the horrible mistake to open up the bag and take the rest of the shrooms.

Another 30 ish minutes passed by and I started to get the abstract visuals I would normally see on shrooms but then felt a horrible feeling in my stomach. I knew I was dehydrated so I went downstairs and grabbed a water. I drank the water and went into the bathroom and used the bathroom. After I use the bathroom I washed my hand in the sink and looked at myself in the mirror. While I was looking at myself it was like my eyes were gazing through my head and then in an instant my eyes locked onto my eyes in the mirror and I stared deep into my soul. The visual started to kick in like crazy and it was an experience like no other. I was locked onto the mirror and constantly looking at myself. Every time I would try to close my eyes I would see black gray and white swirls all around my vision with a large all black figure waving around and distance.

I was in a constant state of opening and closing my eyes for about 30 minutes while still being stuck in the bathroom. My girlfriend came down to check on me but she was also tripping, so she had no clue any of this was going on until afterwards when I told her. She knocked on the bathroom door and I am immediately snapped out of it and felt this immense feeling in my chest that I was going to die. I locked myself in the bathroom and endured six hours of mental torment. I did not know how to escape, I couldn’t.
She knocked on the bathroom door and I am immediately snapped out of it and felt this immense feeling in my chest that I was going to die. I locked myself in the bathroom and endured six hours of mental torment. I did not know how to escape, I couldn’t.
I started to get even crazier visions the longer the trip went on. It was similar to looking in a kaleidoscope that’s constantly spinning in 1000 miles an hour.

When I tried to close my eyes to escape the visuals I continue to see the black figure get closer and closer until he got so close that he was right in front of me. The figure had arms down to its legs and had the most terrifying face I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And when I became face-to-face with this figure I felt like I couldn’t open my eyes. The figure and I locked eyes with each other and I felt this immense feeling that I had died and this is what hell is, not burning fire and lava everywhere as people always think, stuck in constant fear with no escape.

My girlfriend stayed outside the door and talked to me. The entire time but for some reason I didn’t let her in. She knew that I was horribly stuck so she kicked open the bathroom door and the moment she touched me I opened my eyes and I was still looking at myself. I turned around and threw up all over the toilet, not in the toilet, on the toilet. But because I was tripping I thought that my vomit was red, meaning blood. I remained throwing up for 20-30 minutes and I finally sobered up from the trip, I feel like me looking at the figure and me snapping back to looking at myself.

I was taking a deep look into my soul and how dark my life was and I was terrified. That was the last time I’ve done shrooms and it’s been 2 years since. I will never do them again.

Exp Year: 2022ExpID: 116852
Gender: Male 
Age at time of experience: 17
Published: Aug 24, 2025Views: Not Supported
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