theAlkēmist
Alchemist
SWIM’s Amanita Muscaria experience.
The mushroom’s main psychoactive chemicals are ibotenic acid and muscimol. Ibotenic acid is notorious for nausea, stomach pain, headaches, etc, and is a neurotoxin. However, when the mushroom is dried or heated, ibotenic acid decarboxylates into muscimol, making it totally safe and edible. SWIM can say he felt absolutely no negative effects.
Warning: if you don’t have advanced experience identifying mushrooms, do not just pick this mushroom willy nilly off the side of the street as it looks very similar to poisonous mushrooms.
Erowid puts a light dose at 5g or under (1 mushroom), moderate dose at 5-10g (1-2 mushrooms), and strong dose at 10-30g (2-6 mushrooms). So SWIM decided to play it safe at 15g (3 mushrooms). SWIM said it tasted pretty nice, he made a shake with a cup of coconut milk. NOTE: this was fucking strong.
It took about 90 min to kick in. HOLY SHIT. Unlike any other experience. Objects, material, things were starting to flicker in and out of existence. And things that didn’t exist were flickering into existence. SWIM cannot explain what was happening, honestly SWIM was freaking out a little lol, if SWIM had more this would’ve been a breakthrough experience. SWIM had music playing and the track would spontaneously skip forward then flick back about 10-15 secs. SWIM knows what it’s like to ‘think’ you’re stuck in time because of subjective time-space perception leading to very slowed time-dilation. But SWIM was literally stuck in a time-loop, going forwards in time then backwards. Lucky SWIM is very used to the ‘feeling’ of being stuck in time, someone new to these feelings would have a really tough time comprehending what’s happening to them and have a full on freakout. Well apart from tripping the fuck out, SWIMs entire vision would go different colours, new colour SWIM cannot describe. There was also unformed random geometric patterns that would come out of thin air then disappear as fast as they were created. These were nothing like the smooth, warm, welcoming fractals and patterns of your classic psychedelics. After about 3-4 hours SWIM fell asleep for 2 hours (SWIM just felt very hypnotic and tranced, so SWIM closed his eyes) when SWIM awoke things got interesting. SWIM kept noticing very distinct patterns in everything, eg. his fan would spin twice, then there would be a noise in the bush, fan would spin once, something else would happen, etc, and this repeated over and over again. This was very new to SWIM and he didn’t know if he was just very in synchronisation with the universe or still stuck in a time-loop. So SWIM called one of his housemates, SWIM was so relieved when they appeared. No SWIM was not stuck, phew. But like SWIM said, for someone new this would be wayyy too intense. SWIM talked a bit (SWIM knows he said some weird shit), then SWIM’s housemate left and things got fucked up. SWIM was lying on his bed and kept having this feeling he was drifting off the bed and falling off, but the fall down was like falling off a highrise and SWIM could feel everything splat very distinctly but with no pain. Then SWIM would be ‘reborn’ on his bed and this happened again, it probably happened about 60 or so times. SWIM cannot put this experience into words (well SWIM assumes he doesn’t have the vocabulary), but SWIM’s best description, it was a constant psychedelic loop of a death-rebirth experience. This was not scary as you might think, but intriguing and fascinating. The last few hours of the trip were fairly mellow and just with a little psychedelic headspace.
This rocked SWIM’s socks, he gives it a 7/10. SWIM is super eager to explore this mushroom more, it’s healing and spiritual development qualities, and where it can take SWIM on a breakthrough.
Again, like with most natural psychedelics these experiences are not for having fun, they are not recreational. They are insightful tools for spiritual development.
The mushroom’s main psychoactive chemicals are ibotenic acid and muscimol. Ibotenic acid is notorious for nausea, stomach pain, headaches, etc, and is a neurotoxin. However, when the mushroom is dried or heated, ibotenic acid decarboxylates into muscimol, making it totally safe and edible. SWIM can say he felt absolutely no negative effects.
Warning: if you don’t have advanced experience identifying mushrooms, do not just pick this mushroom willy nilly off the side of the street as it looks very similar to poisonous mushrooms.
Erowid puts a light dose at 5g or under (1 mushroom), moderate dose at 5-10g (1-2 mushrooms), and strong dose at 10-30g (2-6 mushrooms). So SWIM decided to play it safe at 15g (3 mushrooms). SWIM said it tasted pretty nice, he made a shake with a cup of coconut milk. NOTE: this was fucking strong.
It took about 90 min to kick in. HOLY SHIT. Unlike any other experience. Objects, material, things were starting to flicker in and out of existence. And things that didn’t exist were flickering into existence. SWIM cannot explain what was happening, honestly SWIM was freaking out a little lol, if SWIM had more this would’ve been a breakthrough experience. SWIM had music playing and the track would spontaneously skip forward then flick back about 10-15 secs. SWIM knows what it’s like to ‘think’ you’re stuck in time because of subjective time-space perception leading to very slowed time-dilation. But SWIM was literally stuck in a time-loop, going forwards in time then backwards. Lucky SWIM is very used to the ‘feeling’ of being stuck in time, someone new to these feelings would have a really tough time comprehending what’s happening to them and have a full on freakout. Well apart from tripping the fuck out, SWIMs entire vision would go different colours, new colour SWIM cannot describe. There was also unformed random geometric patterns that would come out of thin air then disappear as fast as they were created. These were nothing like the smooth, warm, welcoming fractals and patterns of your classic psychedelics. After about 3-4 hours SWIM fell asleep for 2 hours (SWIM just felt very hypnotic and tranced, so SWIM closed his eyes) when SWIM awoke things got interesting. SWIM kept noticing very distinct patterns in everything, eg. his fan would spin twice, then there would be a noise in the bush, fan would spin once, something else would happen, etc, and this repeated over and over again. This was very new to SWIM and he didn’t know if he was just very in synchronisation with the universe or still stuck in a time-loop. So SWIM called one of his housemates, SWIM was so relieved when they appeared. No SWIM was not stuck, phew. But like SWIM said, for someone new this would be wayyy too intense. SWIM talked a bit (SWIM knows he said some weird shit), then SWIM’s housemate left and things got fucked up. SWIM was lying on his bed and kept having this feeling he was drifting off the bed and falling off, but the fall down was like falling off a highrise and SWIM could feel everything splat very distinctly but with no pain. Then SWIM would be ‘reborn’ on his bed and this happened again, it probably happened about 60 or so times. SWIM cannot put this experience into words (well SWIM assumes he doesn’t have the vocabulary), but SWIM’s best description, it was a constant psychedelic loop of a death-rebirth experience. This was not scary as you might think, but intriguing and fascinating. The last few hours of the trip were fairly mellow and just with a little psychedelic headspace.
This rocked SWIM’s socks, he gives it a 7/10. SWIM is super eager to explore this mushroom more, it’s healing and spiritual development qualities, and where it can take SWIM on a breakthrough.
Again, like with most natural psychedelics these experiences are not for having fun, they are not recreational. They are insightful tools for spiritual development.
