Paintbox
Morning Glory
Citation: m. "Paintbox: An Experience with Morning Glory (exp118177)". Erowid.org. Nov 24, 2025. erowid.org/exp/118177
| DOSE: |
2 Tbsp | oral | Morning Glory | (seeds) |
For an about a day and half after I obtained the seeds, I left them in a bowl to sprout. Around 8pm, I began to take each individual seed and squeeze out the sprouts into another bowl, this took around 25-30 minutes. After I finished, I ate all the sprouts that I managed to get out. I mostly spent around three hours but I felt ‘nothing’. I thought I would be feeling something, I began to think that the seeds did not work and I decided to eat around 2 tablespoons of the seeds that were not sprouted. I was hoping maybe this would do “something”. The taste was quite bitter and unpleasant but nothing too crazy. I decided to get some of my records together that I wanted to listen to.
Around 45 minutes after I ate the seeds, I felt something in my mind that I should put on “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” by Pink Floyd on. I started to feel a bit strange after this thought, so I decided to put it on. As the album started, I laid in bed and I started to feel warm throughout my body and achy. After side 1 was finished, as soon as I flipped to side 2 of the album, that’s when I really started to trip.
It came about all of a sudden, I remember thinking “holy shit, it’s starting” my head felt like it was expanding and light. I started to see these geometric patterns in the wall of the corner of my room, it took up the entire space of the wall like it was imprinted on it. The music was really getting to me, the sounds took up the entire room like it was speaking and guiding me through the trip. I paid attention to every detail in the songs
the sounds took up the entire room like it was speaking and guiding me through the trip. I paid attention to every detail in the songs
I couldn’t take it anymore so I stopped the record. I began to feel slightly nauseous and I felt the urge to throw up. Walking was quite difficult but thankfully, the bathroom was extremely close to my room so that was not an issue. The lights and the fan in the bathroom were all horribly bright and loud, it startled me. The bathroom felt like a completely different place, like I had completely forgotten what it was. I sat by the toilet and puked a little bit. I became entranced with the sides of the bathtub, the patterns became way more noticeable. I felt sucked into everything, it was hard to take my attention off of anything in the bathroom. Time felt slow, I could’ve spent up to a half an hour in there, I have no idea. I stared at the towel and I could see every little bit of the towel, like I had HD Vision or something, it was absolutely mesmerizing. Finally (after god knows how long) made it back to my bedroom. It was about 1:00-1:30 am by now, so I decided to put on “Echoes” God this song was an insane to listen to in a new mindset and different level of consciousness. I could just “feel” the song, I became fully aware of everything in it. It was like Pink Floyd was really in the room with me, it was so surreal. Towards the end of the song, it became too much to handle, emotionally, physically, mentally. I couldn’t take it so immediately ran back to my record player and shut it off.
I started to feel slightly paranoid and panicked. Time loops began, I began to go back in forth between sitting by the toilet in the bathroom feeling like I had to throw up, to going back to my room and checking my phone. I did this about six or 10 ten times (it could have been more) I felt so disconnected from reality and my thoughts were racing, filled with introspective thoughts and seeing the world as beautiful. “I open the door-to an empty room-then I forget” stuck with me during this time, it just kept repeating along with a million other thoughts I could not comprehend. I felt afraid to lay down at my bed because I thought I would choke on my vomit, and to my mind that I would “die like Jimi Hendrix” so I made it a priority to sit up when I was in my bed. Closing my eyes took me to another world. I can’t explain really what I saw but I can only describe it as 90’s CGI looking shapes, triangles mostly, that were coming to together and building with each other (kind of like hammers) It was like looking into space or the universe in a way. The space felt so open and outwards like it kept going on forever. I saw everything. Creating itself with one another to form what we see and perceive. Around this point, I could see myself. I fully recognized myself, my eyes opening up in this space through the shapes. I come to think about it now as myself being everything, letting my mind expand through the use of psychedelics. every shape, color, object that makes up the universe. This ended quite quickly so It made me jump and frightened so I opened my eyes. I went on my phone a lot to try and calm down. Words were hard to comprehend, everything was blurry on my phone screen.
At 2:00 2:30 am, I started to calm down and I sat my with my thoughts for quite a while. I stared at my ceiling and my posters on the walls. Everything was very saturated and bright still. The patterns kept coming in. For some reason, I felt a immense love for my stuffed animals in my bed, like I literally remember thinking in my head that I loved them all, I just had such an a immense and child like joy for them. After this thought, I ran to the bathroom to throw up, for real this time. This made me feel so much better and I started to calm down a lot more. I spent the next two hours just sitting quietly in my room just thinking, observing and being present. I noticed that my hands and arms felt very far away from myself. I also had mild tracers when I moved my hands. My hands also had a rainbow hue and geometric patterns around them which interested me for a while. I was very observant about my hands so this kept me occupied for around 30 minutes or so. About 4:00-4:30 am I became hungry and I kept thinking of fruit for some reason over and over again “apple and bananas” I felt confident enough to head downstairs. I grabbed the banana from the kitchen and headed back up to my room, as soon as I made it to my room, I had forgotten on what I had just did. Later I did eventually eat the banana, It tasted strange and felt wrong, very weird sensation but I finished it and decided to brush my teeth.
Up until this point, I had not looked at myself. When I was brushing my teeth, I looked absolutely insane. My pupils were dilated and my skin had a yellow hue to it. I looked younger for some reason. I smiled at myself while brushing my teeth, it was a little silly. I was so tired by this point and I really wanted to sleep. I went to turn off my lights in my room and the darkness began to take form as the patterns I saw in my closed eye visuals. I knew I could not sleep like that so I went back to turn the lights on. I laid in bed for hours up until 8:00 am when I finally was able to fall sleep. I slept for a good two hours.
I woke up suddenly and felt strange but refreshed in a way. I didn’t feel high anymore, I just felt tired. I still felt slightly nauseous but I made my way down stairs to make some coffee. The sun outside shining through the blinds in the kitchen was incredibly bright. My father and sister were downstairs, I couldn’t even fathom looking at them but I still made some conversation. I still saw some patterns on the walls but nothing as crazy as before. I still felt nauseous but overall refreshed and felt like a new person.
Overall, this was a great experience for my first time trying anything! I did this a few more times after this but it wasn’t as intense as this trip. I will definitely remember this strange night for the rest of my life.
| Exp Year: 2023 | ExpID: 118177 |
| Gender: Female | |
| Age at time of experience: 19 | |
| Published: Nov 24, 2025 | Views: Not Supported |
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