DOSE:

2.3 g

oral

Mushrooms

BODY WEIGHT:

63 kg

Context

I've tried shrooms before, a week before this experience. I ate 1.5g on Sunday night which had no noticeable effect, then tried the same amount the day after with some from a different batch which left me feeling like I had just smoked a little bit of weed. I tried using weed to amplify the effects which worked a little and left me feeling clear headed the next day so I had a bit of an idea of what I was getting into.

I've been smoking almost daily for 2 years, and I’ve tried Ketamine a few times. I have ADHD and strong social anxiety. I also have aphantasia meaning I have no visual imagination, though I still dream. I've been fascinated with psychedelics for a while, especially LSD and shrooms after learning how physically safe they are for your body. My main goals or hopes when taking them was to see visuals, especially closed eye visuals, and to see if they could help me face some of my mental issues and other problems in life. I also just really like altered states, that’s what makes me enjoy dreaming and Ketamine because it feels like a different realm or timeline in a way, so I was hoping to feel something like that.

I waited a week since last eating them to let my tolerance reset enough and weighed 2.3g which I felt was a good middle ground. I decided I’d eat them after midnight so everyone was asleep because I feel much more comfortable alone which I believed would help minimize the risk of a bad trip.

+0:00
At about 1:30am after an hour and a half of procrastination, I turned my light a dim blue and ate them along with a few wafers to mask the taste and texture which worked well. They were really dry. The caps crumbled into a gritty mucky powder. I turned my pc screen off to let my RGB lights take over my room and sat in bed on my phone to wait for the effects. I had a few trippy visual type videos pop up on my feed and although I’m not superstitious or anything this just felt like a good sign.

+0:20
My gut started to twist and churn which I was sure was a sign they were working. It wasn’t too unpleasant because I have gut issues often so I’m used to it, and it was more of a squeezing feeling than normal indigestion. I then started to feel a cold sensation spreading through my chest as if I had chugged a slushy, it made me feel a bit anxious so I got up to put some music on and the feeling went away. When I got up I felt a bit weightless, standing up took less effort than normal and felt faster. My arms were lighter, my hands felt skinnier, and they were easier and smoother to move. I put music on and got back into bed.

+0:40
I noticed a glare on the text on my phone screen, I thought it was just from tired eyes from it being late at night but it was still there after blinking a few times. I also noticed my phone had a greenish yellow tint over it. The ringing in my ears started to get louder which I always notice when drugs start to kick in. I got up to change the song and started to look around the room. There were some occasional flashers in my vision, similar to the stars you see when you stand up too quick. Patterns and repeating things started to stand out more like wood grain, wrinkles in my blanket, and the coil on my headphones cable. It felt as if there was more in each pattern but I could still easily see there wasn’t. After I got back into bed with my phone I noticed the glare on the text was turning to more of a sparkle like a lens flare and the green tint would fade away and come back randomly.

+1:00
I decided to put Ten by Pearl Jam on which is my favourite album. Then I looked around the room and now the visuals were really starting. The patterns in my wall and bed were now much more detailed and my wall started to breathe. The grain was slowly moving and waving and the whole wall started to stand out as if it had a drop shadow. The longer I looked and the more I got lost on the pattern, the more interesting it got. I looked at my bed now and it was really going. There were many more folds in the blanket than before and the whole top of the bed was moving in a slow breathing wave. As I stared, the bed started to change size and distance, getting further away but wider at the same time. I looked back at the wall where the room light was reflecting and the tiny light reflections in the grain started to move and change colours. Each row of lines in the grain was moving opposite to each other and it felt like a superhighway for these tiny little lights.

I turned and looked at a poster of Pearl Jam I have and it was changing scale and distance like my bed was before. The poster stood out like the wall did with a sort of drop shadow like I had selected the object in my brain. Then the different layers in the photo started to separate. The band popped as if there was actual depth in the photo. The background looked blurry and far away with smoke and lights moving. The effect suddenly stopped but there was now a glow around the band and a strong glow around the mic. I felt a strong connection to the mic, it felt like I was supposed to get up and sing. Then I noticed I was swaying and couldn’t stand up straight but it was because I was so relaxed so it was very pleasant. My arms were moving more freely too. It felt like I had let go for once and released all the tension in my body.

+1:30
I lay back down in my bed to try and focus on the music. I stared at the ceiling, trying to keep my eyes in one spot. Some faint swirly rainbow patterns appeared over the whole ceiling around my eyes, but it was always weak in the middle of my vision so I couldn’t make them out well. When I moved my eyes, the patterns would reset. I found that a little funny at the time. I could tell they were swirly and intricate, smooth swirls with small dots. The music was second in my mind now because I cared more about the ceiling. Standing up made me feel more in touch with the music, so I got up again. The poster looked amazing now because all the details were standing out. I got up close and the lighting in the photo looked and almost felt warm. The film grain looked more evenly spaced and kind of formed some tiny circles, then colours appeared.

I looked at my bed and got lost in it, I let go as best I could. It has a pattern of stitch lines so I put my eyes on an intersection and zoned out. It almost looked like an ocean. Outlines of shapes were appearing, like faces or random blobs. On the stitch lines little colourful sparks of light started appearing. Then the bed looked flat shaded, like it was painted with only blue and peach paint.

+2:00
I lay back on the bed to finish the album with Release which felt like the perfect song to head into peak with. I got distracted in the visuals on the ceiling again though so I forgot the song. I restarted it and got up and listened while looking around the room. Once it finished I fell on my bed feeling really relaxed. I took the headphones out to see what silence felt like. I got lost in a point on my wall and a bunch of visuals appeared. Lots of soft colourful patterns falling into the point. The posters had more intricate patterns with shapes, like radial patterns with intricate lines and dots. I started feeling a lot of euphoria and connection, as that grew stronger though I started getting brain zaps. It was split seconds of a loud, high pitched zip sounds and jolts in my brain. It was getting too much so I broke the trip, I somewhat regret not letting it pass and going deeper though.

+3:00
I got up to brush my teeth, and I looked in the mirrors. My pupils were clearly dilated and I felt really happy. When I looked at my face close up it stretched out as if my FOV was going up which made me laugh. As I was going back to my room I stared at the chrome pattern on my door but it didn’t look any different. When I looked at already intricate things they didn’t change, but bland and repeating things were amazing to look at. My cat followed me in, he started to change size and his fur was getting darker and lighter. I got into bed, it was around 4:30am now. I had been up since 9:00am, so I was tired enough to fall asleep despite still being high. I figured this would be good anyway, leaving me on a high note.

Next Morning
I woke up around 9:30am which wasn’t much sleep. I still felt slightly high, I was slow to move and couldn’t focus on things. I also had a slight headache. This went away after an hour or so. I didn’t feel clearheaded like last week which was a little disappointing but I blame myself for the lack of sleep.

It was a really fun experience and I’d like to do them more. I’d like to try microdosing too. Next time I take them though I would like to be outdoors or on a road trip with someone else driving through beautiful scenery. There’s not a lot of interesting things for me to look at at night or in my room. The experience was different from what I expected, I thought I would be really introspective and fall into this other realm feeling but it was more like I was present and loving life. The only downside was the brain zapping, and that I forgot to try closing my eyes. Overall it was like an amplification of everything good. It was just a nice night of relaxation and visuals.

Exp Year: 2025	ExpID: 119200
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 21
Published: Oct 10, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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