Tell us more about your shroom experience!

Okay. mk hope this is cool.

I basically had four main types of effects. I'll just kinda go through them, though there was significant overlap. Also, note this was a pretty heavy dose, especially for a first time, and physically it felt like shit. I don't think I've ever felt worse in my life.

1. Hallucinations:

Colors and lights were more intense. I'm glad I was inside and not dealing with the actually Sun. Patterns would shift and move too. I sawa recliner and a lamp shrink until they looked like they belonged in a doll-house. After going to the bathroom, I got distracted by watching my face morph into other people's in the mirror. That was really weird. I'll touch on mirrors again later. Also, movement at the edges of my vision.

2. Time Confusion:

I lost my instinctual concept of time. I had no clue how long a minute was. Every moment felt like it had lasted forever and would last forever. Compounded with this was an assumption that everyone else was on shrooms too, even if I knew they weren't. Unlike with some substances, confusing things just got even more confusing.

If you think about how drunk people can have a hard time sort of finding themselves in space, and then think about that with time, that's what if was like. Like being drunk in time. With the college rush and the way my life was going, knowing "Now is perfectly long enough" was a huge help, and one of the few things from the trip I can say I've tried to apply to my life now.

3. Dissociation:

I was apart from my body. With my trip journal, I was composing, but my body, as a separate entity, was writing it down. Then the mirrors again. They say if you actually saw your clone on the street, you wouldn't them. Well, I saw him in the mirror and didn't. I actually waited for him to move first. I saw myself as everyone else sees me (I think, maybe I wasn't seeing that exactly, given other effects). It was very humbling and a little disconcerting. I mean, I literally did not associate strongly enough with the body I saw to recognize it instantly in the mirror. Mirrors are some scary shit.

4. Empathy:

There's always been some people whose actions I couldn't comprehend. But I went through so many emotions in such a short time during the trip that I ended up recognizing actions and tendacies that I see in others. If there is one big lesson I got from it, anything bordering on religious, it was this. I've never been naturally very empathetic until the trip. It's pretty amazing.