I tried mushrooms last night, and despite all the great advice in this thread regarding tea, I decided to eat them instead.
About an hour after eating the mushrooms, they started to affect me; my sense of touch was incredibly sensitive, and my mouth felt much larger than it really was. After eating some food, I stared at a Pokemon card depicting Dragonair for a while. After what seemed to be hours, I stared at a picture of a tye-dye t-shirt on the box of a tye-dye set.
In addition to words moving around, I saw them in three dimensions, as well as colors. Sound was tangible, and I suppose I should mention that colors seemed to be capable of speech.
After staring at things, I watched the Addams Family, and proceeded to explain that the children interacting with Uncle Fester symbolised the loss of innocence as one transcends youth, and the adults in the film were all sadomasochistic.
Everything seemed to relate to Poe's literary world, and the concept of ultimate nonbeing implying ultimate fear. This theme seemed to emerge with the character Cousin It in the Addams Family, the black screen of my friend's MP3 player, and several other things. I explained this on paper, and on the other side, for whatever reason, I wrote the word "FUCK."
but try not to put yourself into a place where you're thinking "oh, i'm in an altered state, i have to go do x and y because it seemed like a good idea when i was sober."
That was amazing advice, though I do regret not building a deck of Pokemon cards prior to me taking the mushrooms. Anyway, the trip didn’t really have any negative aspects, other than the fact that I was freezing cold for a lot of it.
I suppose it would be a good idea to have a book of Escher drawings handy next time? |
