Trip Report: No Mindfuck, Just Mild Weirdness

[phoenix666]

I wanted to experience a change in perception without too much of a mindfuck (which I had strongly during my first two shroom trips), so I decided to experiment with a low dose. 

I drank a hibiscus tea with ginger, since that’s supposed to prevent eventual nausea, with 2g of dried psilocybe cubensis.

Although I expected the trip to be less intense than my first two, I was not quite prepared for it to be that different. My first two experiences where like a roller-coaster. It was a an emotional up and down from blank panic to profound bliss (at some points they even merged together). I had lost all my past and identity. I couldn’t remember who I was, but at the same time feeling very present and aware. 

This trip had nothing with me pacing around talking to myself like a complete psycho, as I knew it from my past experiences. 

I was lying on my bed meditating as I waited for the onset. I noticed exactly when the effects began. it was from one second to the other: suddenly I couldn’t do the labeling anymore. It was just impossible because ‚hearing‘ and ‚seeing‘ merged. I just wasn’t able to separate them from each other. Then ‚feeling‘ joined them. After some moments of very strong closed eye hallucinations (mostly fast moving geometrical patterns with neon colors), they stilled and I turned back to normal labeling. Then it became impossible again and the cycle began once more. That went on like this for like 10-20 times more, varying in duration.

After a while I felt getting more and more lost in the patterns (like tunnels) and I had to give up the labeling. I tried focusing on my breath, but I had to give up that as well.

So I decided to surrender and to follow my visual sense, focusing my awareness on the colorful patterns. 

Now, this is where it gets very difficult to put into words…but I’ll try it. After a while I felt like I was floating through concepts in my mind. like every thought that came up became plastic: the thoughts materialized in front of my eyes (they looked like grey, sharp stalagmites and stalagtites shooting out of every direction from an orange background. I just floated through that orange thing with sort grey rays coming towards me and I left them behind rapidly. Sometimes I would catch a more detailed glimpse on those thoughts and something inside of me would react like ‚wtf, this can’t be. what the heck is this? now, this can’t be real‘ (I can’t recall the exact content now, but I think most of them related to friends and people I know). 

Then this strange thing happened like 5-10 times: I suddenly identified with one of my friends (often from the past). I literally felt like I was him/her. and then I thought: ‚wait, no! this can’t be me. this is my friend, so I must be someone else‘ then an excited: ‚well, who am I then?‘ and I actually didn’t know. not figuratively, but quite literally: I couldn’t recall my name. I couldn’t recall my face or my personal history. But it didn’t terrify me. Neither did I feel euphoria or bliss. I was just generally curious. I continued asking myself ‚who am I?‘. shortly after that either my name, my personal history or the image of my face would return to my mind. I always felt a little disappointed afterwards.

This trance eventually stopped and I felt hungry. I ate some fruits I had previously prepared for the trip. (eating whilst tripping I can only describe as a great delight: it tasted so sweet and fresh, I felt myself getting completely lost in that sweet moment)

Then the trip became weaker and I tried to do some more meditation. I tried the ‚do nothing‘ technique and it felt amazing. sounds, but mostly visuals and feelings floated by and I just felt very distant from them, glossing over them with something I could only describe as curiosity and a mild amusement.

 

I am not quite sure what to make out of this trip. It was just so different from what I expected (less emotional, less mindfuck and more of a calm state of flow) 

I hope I can elaborate this stuff the following days and integrate some of the experiences into my daily life. I still have to wrap my head around what the shrooms were trying to tell/show me. 

 

Thanks for bearing with me if you came so far. :-)

[nightrider1435]

Maybe just go along with the do nothing technique instead of labeling. My first mushroom trip was a rollercoaster as well, really the only thing I could do is just observe. I was seeing some crazy patterns with my eyes closed too. Eating was so strange on shrooms, it felt like the food was just going to fall right out of my stomach haha.

[phoenix666]

1 hour ago, nightrider1435 said:

Maybe just go along with the do nothing technique instead of labeling. My first mushroom trip was a rollercoaster as well, really the only thing I could do is just observe. I was seeing some crazy patterns with my eyes closed too. Eating was so strange on shrooms, it felt like the food was just going to fall right out of my stomach haha.

 yes, at one point I just had to go with the Do Nothing because everything else became impossible  that's a strange experience you had with food, but it doesn't sound that pleasant haha

for me eating on the trips was just so amazing! The texture, the smell, the taste were all so intense. I think the shrooms want me to eat more fruits und unprocessed foods. at least, that's how I got the message I got from my culinary shroom experiences