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Bemushroomed on the New YearFirst time tripping since 6 years prior Substances: Marijuana, Psilocybe cubensis So, here I am. 27 years old and haven't taken any hallucinogenics since I was all about acid in 1992, but I had never shroomed before. A few months ago I bought a 1/4 oz. (7 grams?) of mushrooms from a freind. He took what he did not sell me right away and assured me that they were great, but I was waiting for the right time. That time happened to be new years eve 1998. Me and my wife "K" (26)and my freind "T" (25) split the stash. T and I chewed ours up, while K swallowed them whole. They tasted like rotten sunflowerseeds at first, and just got worse. I was washing them down with tonic water and that killed the taste verry well, K and T drank cokes. We dosed at 10:30 pm new years eve and I was the first to start to feel strange... I felt like I had just slammed 3 or 4 beers and was kinda giddy (10:50). T was next to start to zoom about 10 minutes after me. K was pissed 'cause we were getting off and she did not feel anything...yet. Knowing that I was going to trip the shrooms fantastic verry soon I broke out the lava lamp and warmed it up in a boiling water bath to accellerate the melting of the goo. Before the goo even melted I started to trip prety hard(11:30). We were listening to "lounge jazz" and my entertainment system was jamming and dancing to beat the band! There ware southwest looking paterns coming out of the cherrywood trim and it kept changing colors and shapes. It was then that i realized that my stereo was like a pet... Some pets are really happy 'cause their owners treat them really well, and others are mean 'cause their owners treat them poorly. Anyways, my stereo (pet) was just grooving and jamming to the beat!! It was having as much fun as I was. T bought the now well heated lava lamp (a pink and black one :) in to the living room and fired it up. It was amazing! there were thousands of tiny mushroom caps growing out of the goo and flting to the top...which is where I was headed. About this time (11:45) K started to trip her ass off. She stared at that fuckin' lava lamp for 20 minutes without blinking. We decided to make some ginseng tea to amp ourselves up for the ride (works great by the way, you should try it!). While we waited for the water to boil we watched some HBO comedy special (Robert Rodriguez?) and giggled ourselves sore. Somewhere in the mean time we realized that It was the new year and we all toasted eachother with our tea and went back to tripping balls. I had a little of an upset stomach (apperaently not uncommon) so I went to the bathroom just in case I had to puke. It turned out that I had to shit (prety hard to tell what your body wants to do when yer fucked up :). As I sat there on the pot I noticed that the shower curtin (which is decorated with greed fern leaves) was alive and growing! And the rug (a deep purple color) was like some huge oval shaped fungus or bacterial culture. It was writhing and feeding on the moisture from the shower I had taken earlier in the evening. I then realized that everything in the whole room was animated and it occured to me that the toilet and sink were also living beings...parasites, living off of my waste! I am not sure how long I was in the bathroom, but T came and knocked on the door yelling at me 'cause he had to piss. Total insanity. K crashed out at about 2:00 am so T and I went to the park with this huge toy glider made from styrofoam. It never occurred to us how strange it must have looked to passing cars in the middle of the fuckin' night two wierdos freezing their asses off playing with some stupid toy glider! It was awesome...that big blue glider in the light of the street lamps made the coolest tracers. When I looked down to pick it up for another flight, I noticed that the grass (all brown and dead 'cause this is Denver after all, and it is in fact the middle of fuckin' winter!) I noticed that the grass looked exactly like some super ugly LasVegas casino carpet. Except it was really plush and spongy. After a while T and I got really cold so we walked home (trying to stay "on the carpet"). We got back in the house and the TV was still on (oops! wasting electricity again:) and "Nigtht of the Living Dead" was on (th remake from 1989). What a fuckin' trip! We were glad we did not run into any people at the park 'cause that is exactly how they would have looked to us. At this point were were coming down prety easy, so we decided to fire up the huka and smoke some herb. the rest of the night (morning?) we just chilled out watching TV and talking about our trip. I was not expecting to have that much fun! I have taken LSD about 25 times or so, and I always felt somewhat out of control. Not so with my little fungal freinds. The whole time I felt as though I could, if need be, act completely normal in a social setting. I was always in complete controll of my mind, but it was just a littled skewed from a normal reality.
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