DOSE: T+ 0:00	500 mg	oral	Tabernanthe iboga	(rootbark)
T+ 0:45	1.5 g	oral	Mushrooms - P. cubensis	(dried)
T+ 2:15		insufflated	Tobacco	(ground / crushed)

BODY WEIGHT:

80 kg

This report is mainly to document a new interaction of psycho-actives. New for me, but hopefully not for others, as I would like to 'compare notes', as it were.

So the elevator pitch is that I had a very late-onset mushroom trip that was uniquely flavoured and probably also delayed by prior ingestion of iboga root bark. Let me get into it.

Preamble

(Well rested, balanced lifestyle. No recent trips or psychoactives of any kind. No meds, supps, pills, caps, blabla.)

The evening before at around 19:30 was my first encounter with Iboga, just a tiny 200mg of finely crushed root bark kept under the tongue for 5-10 minutes before being swallowed and after another 10 minutes or so of checking out the taste, washing it down with water.

I was sitting in a beach house with some very good old friends, kids asleep, chatting about stuff and of course the 'wood' that I just had my first taste of. The effect started almost immediately and was subtle and soft. Felt like I was calmed and 'gentled' with a bit of numbness of the mouth, but no major shifts (not expected at this level. My friend had tried 500mg earlier that day and said it was like being ganja-stoned without the loss of clarity).

After maybe 30 minutes my friend and I went outside for a hapé blast in the moonlight. This is a teamwork insufflation process whereby powdered wild tobacco mixed with plant ash (which together is hapé) is blown into the nostrils of your hapé-buddy using a pipe of some kind, usually a bone pipe called a tepi.

I've done this many times before but not in the last 3 months or more, so was expecting harshness and maybe some serious humbling in the form of the overwhelm that can come with it (and also since my friend is no slouch when it comes to scoop sizes or 'jungle-whipping' the hapé into not just my sinuses but also the sinuses of my ancestors).

But interestingly, the hapé onset was beautifully smoothed-out and made soft by the wood. Usually, a hapé blast kicks in within 1-5 seconds and gets heavier for the following 30 seconds or more (depending on how long you take to blow some of the hapé back out). But I could just stand there and feel the building intensity and stay with it; face tingling, lips and nose starting to feel like their vibrating and a general big nicotine rush feeling that goes into the legs and feet.

Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary. Slept as normal.

Next day, by chance (not intentionally) I ended up not eating breakfast or having coffee, just drinking water occasionally until about 12:30 when I (and 2 of the friends) had 500mg wood. Around 45 minutes later I also ate 0.7 g of dried shakti mushrooms (v. strong cube strain). Hapé buddy had around 1.5g shakti and other wood buddy had 1g and we headed out into the mountain for relaxed hike.

I'm used to mushrooms kicking in fast, 15-30 minutes, especially on an empty stomach. After one hour, I'd only felt very light onset indicators, like a yawn or two and a little uncanniness in the natural environment, but I assumed that I'd not taken enough of a dose, especially since hapé buddy had been tripping balls for the last 30 minutes already; some uncontrollable laughing and also one unmistakeable double-take mid sentence like he'd briefly been overcome with some cubist vision.

I had one or two semi-awkward moments, since I'd never been the sober one in a tripping setting and felt a little out of sync, but it was still great to be out in the mountains with great weather, crazy clouds and a crow that soared and circled around us when we reached the turnaround/chill spot.

What I'm guessing was 90 minutes or more after eating the mushrooms, I remember starting to describe to my friend that for the last while it felt like the mushrooms were straining and pushing up into the cloak of calmness that the wood had made and I'm not sure where that conversation, because the next moment I was spacing hard on the clouds, complete with mushroom-fractal visuals and a sudden quiet that enveloped me. It was like I was in the middle of the mushroom ramp-up without any of the pre-steps.

The mushrooms were strong, but the wood was still present and I had a mushroom experience that I've never had before. I'm used to a strong mushroom experience being accompanied with a healthy dose of abstraction and even confusion, where the spirit of the experience is just too different from the everyday to be able to keep up. However, I was now able to stay with some chaotic thought processes and open-eye visuals in a calm and clear way that feels like it must have something to do with the wood.

Soon after shortcutting into the deep-end of the mushroom trip, my friend took out the tepi and asked me if I wanted some hapé. I've always enjoyed the grounding effect of hapé in a trip, as my first encounter with hapé was during my first and difficult ayahuasca trip. I think there might be an actual pharmacological thing there, where it gives your brain a reprieve from the psychadelic mechanisms at play during a trip, not sure though and I've seen that it's not like that for everyone. The hapé blast that I now got was positively angelic, but also fucking intense and not really grounding. It seemed to unblock some more of the mushrooms while at the same time doing its nicotine thing, so within a minute I was breathing deep, long and slow breaths while it felt like my face was quietly melting and I was watching with open eyes how the clouds in front of me got glowing golden lines appearing in them. At the same time I was calm and not feeling that anything was getting away from me. As well as feeling a surge of bliss that built and built as my deep breathing continued, a bliss the level of which I hadn't experienced before on any psychedelic and definitely not because of hapé. Not speaking from experience, but it seemed almost narcotic, dreamy-like bliss.

The rest of the trip and the hike back is nothing out of the ordinary. The bliss dissipated over the next 5-10 minutes and I gradually felt that the mushrooms were completely overtaking any wood effects. One other thing of note is that the back-to-baseline experience afterwards also seemed to happen relatively quickly.

I'm curious to find out whether the strain of mushroom had much to do with the uniqueness of the experience, so will try it again sans wood.

I also remember saying many times to my friend that the low dose ibogaine is an excellent companion to a mushroom trip, especially for the more jagged elements that it can have; a sentiment that was shared wholeheartedly.

Exp Year: 2026	ExpID: 119742
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 38
Published: May 29, 2026	Views: Not Supported
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