Swayambhu
Rising Star
So, I have my doubts about micro dosing as a thing. I have my suspicions that it is, at least in part, a phenomenon borne of the intersection of psychedelic culture and "life hack" douchebaggery, or maybe appealing to people who want to get involved with the current psychedelic fad that seems to be going on, but can't commit or are afraid of an immersive experience.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Anyway, I thought I should try it out. A week, maybe two, of microdosing.
It's been less than a week, and I think that I am done with this iteration of the experiment.
My findings;
It was hard for me to find the right dose. Day 1 I started out with a single mushroom taken in the morning, followed by one in the evening. This is way too much.
The mushrooms I have are P. Semilanceata, and I don't know if mine are particularly strong examples of this species, or if I am particularly sensitive, but I definitely feel one mushroom.
These mushrooms are very small, and correspondingly quite difficult to weigh in whole or powdered form as a micro dose, which is why I ended up dealing in fractions of mushroom rather than grams.
If I only felt the positive effects, it might be okay. I did feel extra clarity, richness of vision, improved stamina, concentration, etc.
But, I also felt the "oh dear, what's this" sense of bamboozlement tinged with angst that I feel at the beginning of a mushroom experience. Some kind of ego-defence mechanism wrestling with the mushroom. It seems that this feeling and the more pleasurable feelings are not on the same curve or coefficient in relation to dose. This feeling lasts for about 40 minutes and is distracting, and disproportionate to the minute level of perceptible pleasant feelings from the mushroom.
The dose in the evening was again one mushroom. I had not been sleeping very well, but slept like a log.
Interestingly, a case of haemorrhoids I was suffering from was instantly banished. Possibly a coincidence.
I then continued the experiment with an -approximate- half mushroom taken twice a day.
The lowered dose dose seem to have eliminated the unpleasant feelings, but the noticeable benefit is also less, and after a few days, things started to get a bit weird. Nothing major, just a vague feeling of over extending the capacity of the micro-dose experience, kind of a strung-out feeling, and also some distortion of time, which is really not good.
I am not very much given to woo-woo, but I do hold mushrooms in high esteem, and they do, to me anyway, exhibit a kind of personality, and do express on an ineffable level some kind of communication.
In the case of this micro dosing experiment, I did get a very strong feeling or "message" that daily tiny doses were not the way mushrooms are supposed to be taken.
Mushrooms give so much, why should we expect them to, basically, take care of our shit on a daily basis? Do we really need microscopic levels of psychotropic compounds coursing round our system everyday? Do we need to develop a reliance on supplements in order to be the person we want to be?
I now believe the answer is no, not really. I think it is possible for this microdosing to become unbalancing and an abuse.
However, I do think single, or thoughtfully spaced-out micro dosing events have a lot of potential, in my case for helping with sleep (and perhaps haemorrhoids!).
The End.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Anyway, I thought I should try it out. A week, maybe two, of microdosing.
It's been less than a week, and I think that I am done with this iteration of the experiment.
My findings;
It was hard for me to find the right dose. Day 1 I started out with a single mushroom taken in the morning, followed by one in the evening. This is way too much.
The mushrooms I have are P. Semilanceata, and I don't know if mine are particularly strong examples of this species, or if I am particularly sensitive, but I definitely feel one mushroom.
These mushrooms are very small, and correspondingly quite difficult to weigh in whole or powdered form as a micro dose, which is why I ended up dealing in fractions of mushroom rather than grams.
If I only felt the positive effects, it might be okay. I did feel extra clarity, richness of vision, improved stamina, concentration, etc.
But, I also felt the "oh dear, what's this" sense of bamboozlement tinged with angst that I feel at the beginning of a mushroom experience. Some kind of ego-defence mechanism wrestling with the mushroom. It seems that this feeling and the more pleasurable feelings are not on the same curve or coefficient in relation to dose. This feeling lasts for about 40 minutes and is distracting, and disproportionate to the minute level of perceptible pleasant feelings from the mushroom.
The dose in the evening was again one mushroom. I had not been sleeping very well, but slept like a log.
Interestingly, a case of haemorrhoids I was suffering from was instantly banished. Possibly a coincidence.
I then continued the experiment with an -approximate- half mushroom taken twice a day.
The lowered dose dose seem to have eliminated the unpleasant feelings, but the noticeable benefit is also less, and after a few days, things started to get a bit weird. Nothing major, just a vague feeling of over extending the capacity of the micro-dose experience, kind of a strung-out feeling, and also some distortion of time, which is really not good.
I am not very much given to woo-woo, but I do hold mushrooms in high esteem, and they do, to me anyway, exhibit a kind of personality, and do express on an ineffable level some kind of communication.
In the case of this micro dosing experiment, I did get a very strong feeling or "message" that daily tiny doses were not the way mushrooms are supposed to be taken.
Mushrooms give so much, why should we expect them to, basically, take care of our shit on a daily basis? Do we really need microscopic levels of psychotropic compounds coursing round our system everyday? Do we need to develop a reliance on supplements in order to be the person we want to be?
I now believe the answer is no, not really. I think it is possible for this microdosing to become unbalancing and an abuse.
However, I do think single, or thoughtfully spaced-out micro dosing events have a lot of potential, in my case for helping with sleep (and perhaps haemorrhoids!).
The End.