My first trip came with shrooms just before they were made illegal for sale in the uk (still disgusted by that) It was at a small festival, some might say that's not an ideal place for a first experience but the atmosphere was great & very relaxed and I was with people I trusted. It turned out to be a great trip, I didn't go overboard & it was a perfect introduction. After that shrooms became much harder to get hold of obviously so my next experience came at the same festival the next year when a friend got hold of cid & I spent the whole weekend enjoying his company. I should say that I always put in a number of hours of research before I try any new substance. After that weekend I decided that psychedelics had real benefits & the experiences I had already enjoyed had helped me to figure out some issues and improved my outlook on certain things, so I knew I wanted to carry on experimenting with them. Shortly after that weekend when I met cid for the first time & was on erowid checking out various psychedelics and reading experience reports when I came across Morning glory. Now I'd heard rumours about how you could get high with these seeds when I was a kid, but never paid much attention and thought it was just made up.
After spending a couple of weeks reading everything I could about them - which in some respects was quite little, plenty of trip reports, but little in the way of traditional use by the Mexican Indians & I'm always very interested by the traditional use of ethnobotanicals. Also the books I had read on psychedelics all focused on shrooms, acid, cacti, and made only passing mention of morning glory. Anyway, I decided I wanted to try it & I got myself a 25g bag and tried them for the first time. I was nervous because of the number of people who mentioned severe nausea, but apart from a half hour of slight discomfort I didn't get any of that. I only took 150 seeds that first time but I felt enough to know they were the real deal & to know that they had real potential.
So a number of trips with these seeds followed, mostly around the 200-250 region as I was mainly interested in the head trip & that number was perfect for those purposes. They helped me in a number of ways, I was also doing a lot of working out at the time as well as meditating and smoking herb. It was the first time I'd had any real spiritual sense & belief that there was more to life than the obvious. I don't have words to describe the sheer euphoria that some of those experiences brought me, it came each time I used the seeds and would fade into a deep and blissful contentment which would usually last long after the effects of the seeds had worn off.
These experiences took place over a period of years, sometimes once a week for a short time, or once a fortnight, often once a month. There were also more experiences with shrooms and cid in there. Each time I felt like I had learned a little something more about myself, other people, or the world in general.
Eventually there came a time when I just didn't feel the need to trip & I stopped for 3 years....and counting. But lately the feeling that I need to get back into psychedelics has crept up on me & so I got myself a bag of MG's and I'm hoping to have my first trip in 3 years or more tomorrow. I had been planning to do it today but felt a little unwell, shame because it's a perfect, clear, warm sunny day - and those are very rare in Britain. But whatever the weather is like I will be taking that trip tomorrow. At first I felt a bit nervous about it, but reading experience reports and books over the last few days has gotten me to the point where I KNOW I want to get back into this & that there is still plenty to learn and a lot of ways I can benefit from psychedelics.
If you've gotten to the end of that.....thanks :thumb_up:
