First Ever Trip - Truffles

[The Renaissance Man]

I'm going to share a few things I noticed about the new state of consciousness. Trying to get to the core of how Truffles have worked for me. It's too soon to generalize to "how psychedelics work". Anyway, here's what I found:

 

Characteristics Of The New State (Psilocybin Truffles)

• Sense-making/understanding/human mind remained identical. The process of having conceptual insights and reasoning was unchanged.
• Impaired when doing normal stuff. Talking, walking, working, even thinking (only when I tried to "force" a train of thought at least)
• EXTREME, laser-focus concentration and mental stillness. So, overall impaired externally, enhanced internally.
  • Connection with emotions clearly enhanced. Unusually able to recognize emotions and "zoom in" to feel them. I suspect it's a consequence of the laser-focus.
  • Tried to do some self-inquiry, didn't get to any breakthroughs, but used the laser-focus on "Being", just trying to Be, and got to a point where my heart started racing randomly, as if I was getting into territory where if I went there, I may not come back. I stopped there. PS, never did meditation or self-inquiry in my life, so this was an experiment, but it felt like the right direction.
  • Ability to recall memories with unwavering precision. Again, I suspect this is the laser-focus once again allowing this to happen.
• I recognized distinctions within consciousness:
  • Visuals and sounds - I feel like this was just the "background mind", just enhanced. So it was clear how insights into your Being could not be mistaken for those hallucinations. They're just two different things. Also unsurprisingly, I learned nothing from focusing on those visuals and sounds.
  • Awareness - Always there, witnessing and perceiving the experience. Unmistakeable from anything else.
  • Thoughts - Even mental images, thoughts were clearly different from the background visuals and sounds. This is why I recognized the first as the background mind. I could have those visuals in the background, while also following a train of thought.
• Absorption into the inner world. Grounding with the "outer world" was extremely reduced compared to when sober. Context: ear muffs and sleeping mask. Still, body sensations like gravity disappeared completely, I couldn't recognize the position of my head with eyes closed after a couple minutes. I believe this is at least in part because of the extreme laser-focus. It's just so one-pointed, that when you are isolated from the outside, it feels as if the outside isn't even there!

 

Context

• Insights from 3 trips done in 4 days. So for the 2nd two trips there was a lot of tolerance buildup. 6g day 1, 12g day 3, 6g day 4 of High Hawaiians truffles (psilocybe tampelandia), labeled as the strongest strain.
• Effects were very mild. With eyes open I felt almost sober. Almost no visuals, just basic warping if I stared at a pattern, no colors. And it took about 3 minutes or so to get "absorbed" into the "inner world", so again, it was mild.
• Only way to feel the effects was laying still in my bed, with noise-canceling ear muffs and a sleeping mask. Just sensory isolation.
• The insights above took me 4-6 hours of observing throughout 3 trips. Also, since they were my first trips EVER, and pretty much I didn't know about any of the stuff I wrote above, it took some time to even recognize what was going on precisely.

 

Overall, I called this a Bridge Experience: it was familiar enough to recognize how some aspects were just extensions of my sober mind (like the hallucinations or warping patterns when we look at stuff), while at the same time intuit how a stronger dose could work. Also showed me what it means to get in touch with emotions, and what it means to have a still mind. Huge advantage knowing where to look, especially when doing work in a normal state.

[Clarence]

Those are very small dosages. As you're describing your trip, you had a very light, threshold experience, which is normal with this quantity.

I would suggest waiting for two weeks before tripping again on magic truffles—as you likely already know—and consuming more next time to experience what a common dose feels like.

[LambdaDelta]

My very first psychedelic trip was on magic truffles. Nasty stuff, recalling chewing them still makes me uncomfortable. 15g of whatever strain, the strength claims are a marketing gimmick. Holy fuck was that intense and beautiful, saw God and all that. Next day got more, the effects were just as potent. But after that tolerance started setting in. 

Truffles are fine as a starter, but the real gold is with more potent things. 

Congratulations on losing your psychedelic virginity.

[Nemra]

52 minutes ago, LambdaDelta said:

Nasty stuff, recalling chewing them still makes me uncomfortable

I quite liked the taste of "truffles".

Tampanensis (15 gram) was the real deal for me. Although, I think after trying it my tolerance had gona up, however 1 or 2 out of 4 truffles that I tried probably were a gimmick.

The first one was terrifying. The more time passes the more I forget what I experienced and I was half asleep (I did it at night), so my mind kinda wants to be skeptical, but even if I was technically sleeping half of the time I experienced things that I never experience normally.

52 minutes ago, LambdaDelta said:

Truffles are fine as a starter, but the real gold is with more potent things. 

Isn't it all about the dose?

Edited 14 hours ago by Nemra

[LambdaDelta]

10 minutes ago, Nemra said:

I quite liked the taste of "truffles

I don't know man, to me it's what I imagine a blend of raw meat and wet soil would taste like. Lemon-tekking actually made it worse. 

12 minutes ago, Nemra said:

Isn't it all about the dose?

To a certain point. But there's some chemicals that provide very unique experiences found in no other, while there's tons of analogues that provide similar effects to psilocin. Some substances are simply more potent. To produce a trip like the one I had with 40mg of intramuscular 4-AcO-DMT one would probably have to consume a salad bowl of dry mushrooms, after which they'd probably just vomit. 

[Nemra]

21 minutes ago, LambdaDelta said:

I don't know man, to me it's what I imagine a blend of raw meat and wet soil would taste like. Lemon-tekking actually made it worse. 

Before trying it, I thought I would vomit, but luckily it wasn't that bad, although I have found that I like unusual tastes. The only thing that got annoying was that I was getting tired and sleepy. I was yawning and burping too much. But I wasn't nauseous at all.

Interestingly, when I tried to chew a big chunk of salvia leaves, I wanted to vomit so bad as it was so bitter. Sadly, chewing salvia didn't work for me.

Edited 13 hours ago by Nemra