An exploration into the depths of Psilocybin

by LeftoverNinja
psilocybin

Context

Name:
LeftoverNinja
Trip Date:
9/7/2023
Age:
20
Setting:
Apartment & Park
Gender:
Male
Height:
5"10
Weight:
150lbs
Medications:
Guanfacine 3mg, Buspar 30mg x2, Quiviviq 25mg, Folic Acid, Multi Vitamin

Substances

Name Dosage Route of Administration
Psilocybin Mushroom ~2.4g Oral, lemon tekked

Introduction

I have been wanting to do mushrooms for my mental health for quite some time now, I felt very overdo to do the mushrooms and was excited to start. I was nervous but felt ready.

My friend, (who I will call X), planned to sit with me for the beginning and leave later on to let me solo trip.

Onset

Onset
10:20pm:

Downing the shot of mushrooms was revolting, but better than chewing. Spilled some and had to clean it up and ingest what I could recover.

10:40-11:20pm:

I started to feel a buzz and a glow, light visuals began to appear. This was odd as normally it takes me many hours for it to kick in and that is what I had been expecting. But alas, the trip was starting.

11:20-11:50pm:

The shrooms kicked in fast and by the end of this timestamp I was peaked. My friend and I went out to the park, playing music, and just chatted about life.

Peak

Peak
11:50pm-2:30am:

The trip was interesting. As has previously happened in other trips, I had many suppressed memories and buried trauma that began to surface and as per usual I put it away. I listened to my friend X who kept chatting on and letting me just listen, I listened to the music as everything glowed and glimmered and shimmered around me. Everything was waving slightly and swirling with the most beautiful colors imaginable.

As I listened to my friend talk, we talked about varies issues I was struggling with while not going too deep. I had asked before hand to have a fun light trip and that it’s okay to keep moving on. We did this, and it felt in the background the mushrooms began solving my issues and telling me what I need to work on. I realized what I needed to do and what my current apparent issues are.

later note:

my friend grounding me massively impacted me and made it much easier not to stress and just enjoy the trip. I am very appreciative of them

Offset

Offset
2:30am-3:45am:

I eventually finished with X and headed back home. Everything had a rainbow glow to it, the text on my phone shined as a prism, everything was light colored, almost pastel in a way. I journaled the different things that were brought into my mind during the trip. Unlike acid, shrooms did not bring me the usual light anxiety of different things I needed to solve right there. Usually during acid I can push the aside and have a fun time, but with these shrooms, I didn’t need to. The shrooms understood and let me enjoy and relax.

3:45am-4:30am:

I was having difficulty sleeping and took multiple sleeping meds. I had decided that going to sleep was more important than being left in my own head and ruining any afterglow. I felt good, with a nice afterglow with pretty colors. I felt it was unfortunate that I didn’t feel a massive anti depressant effect that I normally feel from shrooms (and as of multiple days later this still is the case). But, it was still good for it to help me discover what I needed to deal with and as always, the shrooms were as loving as ever.

Conclusion / Aftermath

I’m glad I tripped and I feel it help me discover something inside myself that I haven’t accepted before. I have always felt some sort of queerness deep down, and the shrooms made me realize that it was just my trauma in the past that was blocking it. I have decided to push forward and continue to explore my sexuality thanks to this trip.