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Trip Report

Magic Mushroom Trip report

Dose: 4 grams dried Psilocybe Cubensis

It was a Friday afternoon. College had finished and it was finally time for my mystical journey. T and me arrived at the friend’s house that we had planned to trip at. Four other people were there already (one who wasn’t planning to trip). We chilled out for a bit. I had been thinking about what the come-up would be like (4 grams of Cubensis powder) and was expecting some intensity. I knocked the powdered shrooms down with water at about ten to five. T put on some of The Doors and we sat back and chilled. Within about ten minutes I was starting to blast off from reality. Surfaces were shimmering, colours were changing and Adrenaline was pouring into me so I decided that now was the time to close my eyes. I watched the Closed eye-visuals progressively grow more and more complex. The first closed eye-imagery that I remember seeing was psychedelic circuit board patterns. These then formed into robots, which started dancing about to the music. The music playing at this point was Orb live 93 and it sounded amazing. Huge bass lines would rumble in, split into multiple layers of sound, blend back together while moving into a higher pitch and split into multiple layers again. I could visualise how each sound came in, how it was all woven together and structured. It was catastrophic.

People started moving about. I opened my eyes and realised that the music had ended and new music had to be put on. I was in no state to do this. My surroundings were now made up of shades of purple and looked completely unreal. It looked as though I was at the bottom of the ocean. I closed my eyes and saw purple tentacles moving about in the distance. I reassured myself that everything was cool, but it was a freaky moment in the trip.
The come up was hitting me in very pronounced waves. Each wave became more intense and at one point the wave died down almost to the point where I wasn’t tripping at all only to come back at me a minute later with full blast intensity. I felt as though my organs had all become square and rectangular and that my whole insides had bent into a right angle shape.

The first three hours of the trip consisted mainly of deep complex thought trips. I thought about how I worked and how other people work. I could see my whole self laid out before me and I could view it all. I would think in great depth about the structure of ‘me’ and how my mind works compared to how other minds work. I could see exactly how I related to my parents and could see everything in me that I have inherited from them. I felt as if I was thinking on the highest level and it was utterly mind blowing.

All this information started to freak me out though, and I started thinking about how the shroom had shown me too much and that I wasn’t ready for this amount of knowledge. I had heard a little earlier that the time was 7:30 and I started thinking about when the journey was going to end. I then promised myself that I would never touch the shroom again! I kept thinking about when the experience would end so that I would be able to say "yes, it was a good experience, but they showed me too much and I shall never do them again". One person then lit up a joint and I was certain that this indicated that the trip had ended and we were coming down. I asked what time it was; it was 8:00 (roughly half-way into the trip).

At around 9:00 the trip mellowed out and the more relaxed stages of the trip had begun. I was able to open my eyes and see what was going on around me without it all going completely insane. Psychedelic lizards were dancing around my field of vision and I watched as doors and objects danced to the trance music that was playing. As I looked around the room, everything would build out of squares that would spiral into vision and make up the scene around me. I felt absolutely amazing. I looked at the bed surface that I was sitting on and watched as it rippled like water. I felt so connected to everyone around me and wanted to stay up all night having psychedelic conversations. I felt as though I was a lizard in the jungle with green plants and Aztec temples surrounding me. After about 8 hours of tripping, everyone including me started thinking about sleep. So I put some Dub in my Walkman and pondered life for an hour or two before falling into a deep sleep.

I worked so many things out that night and had so many views on life and the way in which the mind works. It was an incredible experience. Four grams was a very powerful experience for me.