An encounter with musicmol-weirdness

A succesful fly agaric experiment

Substances: Amanita muscaria

8:00 p.m. - I drank the tea along with the mushroom pieces in it ... it tasted like chicken mushroom broth .. MMM MMM GOOD!

8:20 p.m. - Feel something - a little queasy and sluggish ... decide to take a shower.

8:30 p.m. - Get out of the shower ... smells and sounds are amplified and true (but not distorted). I have a cold, and can now smell even better than I can when I am not stuffy!

8:45 p.m. - Nice buzz, mild, weird. Very positive ... GO GO GO. ENERGY! Body buzz is like ghb or alcohol, mind buzz is a little like cannabis, with no paranoia. I'm floating.

8:50 p.m. - I'm really coming on! Hard buzz, light head. I'm very hyper. Starting to get a little delirious. Part of my mind is lit up, but there's part of me that's still completely sober. It's hard to describe. It's as if my mind is an apartment complex and there is a rockin party going on on one or two floors, but on the rest of the floors, it's life as usual.

9:00 p.m. - This is really going strong. I feel like my identity is starting to dissolve, but there are no real visuals or hallucinations. 10 minutes seems like 30 minutes. I feel like I spun around in a circle for a whole minute, took some valium (never have tried valium) and did some meth (never tried, and will never try), but I wasn't sick from the dizziness. Any effects from my cold (stuffiness, sore throat, cough) are GONE! I am REALLY hyper. Everything seems effortless. I feel like I could clean the whole house in 5 minutes.

10:00 p.m. - I am twitching a lot, especially in my hands. The twitching is EXACTLY the same kind of twitch you get from too much ghb or 14bd right before you are about to pass out from it. If I pick something up it's hard to hold on to it, because my hands will twitch open and I will drop it. Typing is difficult. The physical hand twitching is taking on a rhythm, and is corresponding to what I can only describe as "thought twitches" This is like a meteor shower of twitches, and is starting to get really annoying. I put on the super Mario brother's theme song and start hopping over furniture and chairs. (Mario is a muscaria eater too!) I am still way hyper.

10:10 p.m. - I am not hungry, but decide to cook a tuna steak and eat it. I don't know why. I guess I just figure I should eat some dinner.

10:40 p.m. - still energized, but the tired component is starting to take over more. This experience is not at all euphoric, and is not at all dysphoric. It just "is" The twitching is fading, but is still annoying. I am starting to get bored with this. Time is still standing still. There are also some definite similarities to both dxm and especially salvia divinorum. I put on some music. Dancing is fun. I don't know, but either I am dancing better than I have ever danced before, or I completely suck. No one is here, so I guess I will never know.

11:30 p.m. - Getting tired. Effects still somewhat present. Time for bed.

Morning - I slept well, and feel completely normal.

In conclusion - muscimol is a weird and completely different drug from all the classic entheogens. I don't know if I'd call it hallucinogenic or entheogenic. It was very interesting though. Lots of ENERGY, with some sedation. Definite ego loss, but in a way completely sober. Fun, but boring and annoying. I would say there is definitely no potential for this to be habit forming, and I can see how any more than I just had could make someone very miserable, sick, and uncomfortable. (I didn't get sick) Blood pressure and heart rate were up slightly, but is probably due to the fact that i was hopping around and dancing and cooking and typing all night.

10 g was used this time, because last time 5 g was used with no effects at all. It's hard to describe why this experience with 10 g was so strong, when 5 grams from the previous lot produced no effects. THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A RESEARCH MUSHROOM. Even though this mushroom has been in use for a long time, modern research and reports are still sketchy and contradicting.

Here are some possibilities for the variation between the bunk 5 g experiment and the dank 10 g experiment.

* Variation from mushroom to mushroom in muscimol content (this could be eliminated by taking a large lot of mushrooms, and powdering them in a coffee grinder so that the resulting bulk powder is homogeneous with respect to muscimol content. - this is recommended for future experimentation)

* Variation in personal day to day neurochemistry and day to day sensitivity to muscimol. (not likely in my opinion)

* Steep dose/response to the mushroom. (not likely in my opinion)

* Mushrooms were cooked slightly longer in the 10g experiment than they were in the 5g experiment, hence possibly converting less active ibotenic acid in the mushroom to the much more potent muscimol. (doubtful, but possible - the mushrooms were heat dried to begin with)

I would recommend anyone who wants to work with this mushroom to procure a decent amount, dry them, powder them up good, and then start off with 4 g, then 8 g, then 12 g, and so on. Make a tea (tastes great!) with the powder as I did, and wait at least a week between experiments. Don't do any other drugs at the same time. Also, a sitter is highly advisable for this one!

(author takes no responsibility for anyone else's actions but his own)