How often is too often? Let's talk.

[gonzebo]

I have two questions that I would like people who read this to answer.

1) On average, how often do you do mushrooms? And maybe throw in the average dosage too.

2) Is there REALLY a problem with doing mushrooms 2-3 times a month?

 

[Guest]

I do them like 3 times a year I think.

It trully depends on the person that does it I guess, how we he/she can handle the trip and be ready for a new one.

I think that "too often" is when you take a trip on an impulsion instead of planning it for a while and with a careful preparation.

 

[magickmumu]

Once a month is okay for me.
But my last mushroom trip was so wild, that i take a break from mushrooms for a little while.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

1) On average, how often do you do mushrooms? And maybe throw in the average dosage too.

Two and a half grams dried, in the company of someone else, about 4 times a year. 5 grams dried, alone, about 1 to 2 times a year. I'm still in my experimental phase though: trying out psychedelics I haven't tried yet, and I also received some gifts last year (LSD, mescalin). In that sense I try to do one substance or another once a month.

2) Is there REALLY a problem with doing mushrooms 2-3 times a month?

No, but you might become a bit weirded out after a while. If I didn't have a job, had no children, and didn't have other responsibilities, I'd probably do psychedelics every week.

 

[aryaman]

I don't have job, responsability or children and still I do them not so often

I think 3 times per month is too much, I usually need a 2 week period to avoid tolerance.
I usually do shrooms without an exact timing, when I feel it's time. Can be twice in a month, but also 4 month bitween 2 trips. Usually I don't have to stop myself, I just don't want to take shrooms again too early, I feel I need time to understand, and integrate experience.

Also, as caduceus, I prefere to explore other substance, without taking always shrooms.

There a topic, "When to do psychedelics"
HERE, maybe you can find some interesting stuff

 

[Shamanita]

1) 3 to 4 times a year, and i've always took just 1 smartshop-dose
(so 35 g wet cubensis, or 15 g wet hawaians)

2) Depends from person to person..
Me, i (ab)used lsd a year ago... I took it like every week, sometimes even 2 times a week. I've had a few very small mental problems because of it, but these all wear off when you just break this habbit for a few months.

 

[Brugmansia]

Once a month. Usually 3 grams, and 5 if I feel it't the time for a re-start. Which is probably twice a year.

I also noticed that tripping every week is different if it's done with a wide variation change in substances. If the same substance is repeately done, there comes this grey sight over me. But this wasn't really the case with every week another trip, although I often felt distanted from giving my opinion to people during debates. But observed the world closely since it always has my interest.

Last year I had done lots of shrooms and DMT and relatively nothing else. It loses it's bliss at the peak, and goes over in racing thoughts which in the end results in thinking, thinking and thinking of what I already knew. Which wasn't always as rewarding as it should be. It was demanding a lot from me during the week after.

I'm pretty sure if I now take acid or San Pedro, I'll get this feeling 'WTF, how more far Am I going' with intense feelings of wonder. DMT and shrooms ain't giving me this anymore at this point. They have their turn a bit too much.

But I want to go back to steady once a month or every two months, and give every psychoactive balanced attention. Would be cool if I could manage it to do every substance only once or twice a year. Then every trip is most likely filled with wise insights as well as heavenly euphoria.

 

[gonzebo]

My first trip was December 26, 2008. From then until now (March 2009), I have done shrooms 7 times (but only tripped hard five times), as well as trying LSD once, although the tabs turned out to be weak.

My main problem with frequency of taking shrooms (I have yet to REALLY try any hallucinogenics other than salvia) is that I don't have a problem with sometimes tripping shrooms with only a week or two in between. The 'problem' is brought into question because my girlfriend, as well as some friends, have a problem with me using mushrooms on that frequency only because it is called a 'drug'. They haven't researched or informed themselves to the extent that I have on psilocybin, and it kills me that, for example, shrooms bothers them more than how often I smoke weed, as I am dead sure that smoking weed is worse for my physical and mental health.

It's always these people's ideas on drugs that often get into my head even though I know that it's perfectly safe to do so.

 

[Forkbender]

Abuse is personal. I don't think there is a universal 'too often'. Some shamen in the Amazon might drink ayahuasca every other night and not abuse it, while some kid dropping acid in Vegas might very well be abusing it, even if it is only once.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

They haven't researched or informed themselves to the extent that I have on psilocybin, and it kills me that, for example, shrooms bothers them more than how often I smoke weed, as I am dead sure that smoking weed is worse for my physical and mental health.

It's not that bad, unless you're very young. It happens quite often, by the way, that as you become interested in psychedelics, friends remain uninterested. This may give rise to feelings of separation and loneliness, until you find new friends with similar interests.

 

[Brugmansia]

You can live in two worlds, as long as you don't put one into another and vice versa.

 

[gonzebo]

You can live in two worlds, as long as you don't put one into another and vice versa.

I very much like how you put this. I guess the issue isn't so much my friends as my girlfriend, and you can see how that could be hard to keep from all of my worlds, if I can put it that way.

 

[phatass]

i've only done shrooms 5 times alltogether... last time was just under 2 grams of liberty caps , and was nowhere near enough, when i do trip, i like it to be strong... first time was 3g of mexicans and was plenty...

 

[Ganesha]

A few times a year on 5-15 grams of dried cubes.

I've played around with lower doses, but they just don't do the trick for me.

 

[Caduceus Mercurius]

I guess the issue isn't so much my friends as my girlfriend, and you can see how that could be hard to keep from all of my worlds, if I can put it that way.

I was in such a situation in 2005 and after a while I ended the relationship. Everyone is free to do what he or she wants to do, but I believe that in an intimate relationship there should be a more or less similar pattern of drug use, otherwise there will just be friction. And that goes both ways: I don't feel attracted to women who regularly drink alcohol for example.

 

[aryaman]

Totally agree with the alcohol thing, I also don't like it at all.

About two worlds, I also agree. Very little of my friends know about my psychonaut interest... even if I've got just few friends.
In the first period I was like... wanted to share my experiences, and couldn't understand how many people can't be interested in this, but well... now I accepted my -almost- loneliness in this world.

Don't force relationship... if you're not talking about drugs, or relating with others for that, don't introduce the argoument. That's what I think

 

[Psychoid]

I take shrooms when I feel ready for it, have some, and have a good set&setting. So I did take it once a week for a few weeks in a row about a year and a half ago, and now its been 6 months since my last trip.
I would recommend not taking it more often than once every two weeks though, to avoid tolerance and let you brain recuperate

 

[Jelleb]

when they were still available in maastricht:

1) once a month, after my body/brain recovered from my last trip.
mostly the average dose 1 box contains, but when we had planned something nice we could double that dose..

2) dunno, I believe it fucks up your brain. Friends of me done it too much, they all went loco. They'll have to wait a couple of months before they are 'normal' again..

 

[Jamapricotica]

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[GOD]

Did that person explain exactly why ? If not ask them to ....... and think about it . ( I`m not sugesting you are , i`m just saying theres no harm in thinking about it ) .