I saw two or three after a pretty intense and difficult mushroom comeup. I had 2.5 grams of my finest and most beautiful, plus I'm something of a lightweight and had been doing my restricted "mushroom diet". I was outside with my tripping partner, trying to reground myself in the physical world since I was being propelled into hyperspace too forcefully. Lots of hard geometric shapes and clowns and jokers jumping out at me. Swaying back and forth with my head down, trying to manage, falling into trance. I finally reached the peak and felt ok, started looking around, and could see with new eyes, energy patterns all over everything. I kept asking the mushroom, "Why are you doing this to me?" after everything settled it replied something like "Sorry, it wasn't supposed to be like that, but you ate as much as you did and that gave the fuel to carry you this far. But it's all good now and you're better for it."

I looked towards the forest and saw them standing there, looking at me with benign curiosity, like "ooo, look at him, he can see us..." They had big empathic eyes.
What veil did I break through to see them there?
Surely somebody else must have seen them since I found this picture on google images and decided to make it my profile pic for a while.

Anyone?

Hahaha, lovely response imo.

"what veil" hmmm...

I am reminiscing about my first vaped DMT experience. I smoked like 159mg and burned most of it. All i saw was a purple elf entity very similar to this one. It was 2d even and motionless. But I had seen it in a GIF before. I never found it again.

What kind of mushroom diet are we talking about here? Maybe this can help us discern what veil you have opened to see these elves with

Well this summer while taking mushrooms quite often (at one point every 3-4 days) my desire for "heavy" food was really reduced, I knew what made body and mind feel good and light. I think they suppress appetite in general. I guess I was eating a lot of small meals, usually organic fruits and veggies, grains, lentils & beans, eggs, sunflower butter was deemed acceptable, very little meat. Oh, definitely lots and lots of bananas, they're my favorite

Actually, I was starving myself a little bit, and flushing myself with teas and water. Just felt like the right thing to do. It seemed that as I ate in this restricted way my mushroom trips would let me get deeper and deeper. It's like... my spirit could evaporate more easily if it wasn't tied a body slogged with the stuff of this world. Thing is, I did get kind of weak, it was more difficult for me to put in hard work.

My occupation during all this time was being an organic vegetable farmer if that helps explain

Hm, yeah. I heared eating in this "lighter" fashion makes you feel lighter as well, it is said to help with Obe,Ap and all that stuff. Though, I find ur elf experience in the woods way more interesting. I must say. I just never had this myself. Aye, I have been starving myself as well. A bit too much, loads of bananas yea and some apples. But honestly, I asked for myself mostly because i think my immune system was significantly weakened. Sometimes the room and everything around me would seem dark and hostile , especially on acid and even more so on mescaline. Haven't done shrooms or sclerotia in a long time. It really scared me at first but then after realizing that eating an apple made all the symtoms go away on the very first bite well it doesn't matter. I am now slowly eating some grain and stuff but I still haven't found an applicable source of energy besides (expensive) sweet potatoes which i don't know how to prepare without cooking and losing most of the goodies >

I must say I admire ur mushroom experiences. Sounds sweeeeeeeet. I want to keep talking to you. Do you mind telling me about more of these cool experiences with shrooms or other drugs? Loool.

Ah... Just read ur an organic vegetable farmer.. I am pewtty jelly ^_^
I don't like that I need very high doses to get to certain places with drugs. I think maybe I am wondering a pretty trivial question right now probably because there won't be an answer anytime, atleast not for me. But now I wonder how it was supposed to be as the shroomie told u it wasn't supposed to be like this. I wonder what else it had in store for u. Maybe probably you didn't even need mushrooms in the first place. But I guess we can all agree that pushin the boundaries with shroom make for very wery ineresting experiences which also happen to be quite beautiful

Well when the mushroom said 'it wasn't supposed to be like that'... I think it knew I would be overwhelmed and didn't want that. Like, I can take 2 grams of fruits and get to a comfortable level where we can speak to each other in the trance, the spirit is with me, but I'm not getting distracted by the stuff coming out of hyperspace. It can still give me visions, but it's not overwhelming me to the point where I just can't keep it.

It's like an act of love, eating a plant. Only plants have consciousness, animals just eat their way to consciousness

I think T. McKenna once said something like, "Just as there's an evolutionary gradient among animals reaching its apex in human beings, the same thing happens in the plant world with some having developed more advanced states of consciousness."

Once I was on my bed daydreaming/trancing with the mushroom and I was thinking about my life and connecting thoughts... and I was like "Oh, the mushroom spirit's here but I'm not addressing it. Hey, Mushroom Spirit, got anything for me?" and it sort of roused up and started showing me pictures of 1. Some stuff that looked like quantum dynamics, 3d fields of probability, something like that, it looked like a little 3d graph of water droplets. And 2. a bunch of different kinds of alien life forms, I remember one being very similar to humans (it had a head) and did this "LALALALALALA!" kind of chant. It's just like [image] ... (5 second pause) ... [new image] ...

The mushroom spirit always likes to drop hints to me. Shows me things about the world by directing my attention. Sometimes it gives eloquent replies to questions on my mind. It can show you how to live in beauty.

Not too sure I can recount other specific experiences... it's like telling someone about the time you hung out with so-and-so. A lot gets lost in the time and place. I can say that different plants definitely give me different visions. Acacia confusa gave me lots of Asian ecology themes! Tigers in particular.

I hope you can find a diet that works for you. If it feels good, eat it, right? People have always been experimenting with food.
When you say things seem dark and hostile, does that last the whole time? Is it normally like that, or is it something you think is coming from the drug? I won't lie, I've gotten caught in a bad vibe on mushrooms before, but it is almost always so volatile that my attention drifts away from that and I find the power spot again. Finding a good position on mushrooms is really important I think, somewhere to sit and think, or a place to walk, where you're at your most comfortable and able to confront yourself.

Thanks for the communication Infectedstyle. If you can think of anything else to keep the conversation going I'm up for it

Eloquently put as well I too find asking questions to give quite sophisticated answers in the format of visions. It's personality can be a bit cheeky, I once asked it how I can improve memory formation and I got this jesty "vibe" while I was looking at a sort of neuron that was attempting to grow but not quite making a connection. As if making fun of me for not realizing that I am looking at the answer but just not seeing it.

I also jibe with the mushroom's interest in quantum dynamics. It seems to be something that is deemed important. When you are not asking specific personal questions it is constantly attempting to show quantum dynamics. It was my experience with 12g of not so amazing looking mushrooms where quantum probabilities constantly materialized. Both beautiful and dark potentials came at me in a sort of hyper-reality experiental format. I.E. bad intetioned burglars and murderers showed up in my room. But also lovers where playing hide and seek with me. All this never really happened except in a quantum probability realm it was experienced as truly happening. Strange stuff indeed. I suppose this is the realm where we can find the spirit that speaks to us

The 'hostile' vibe that I speak of is something new. It is somewhat hard to pinpoint when it is present. Everything would look normal as usual when there's a person in a room talking to me. Then as soon as that person leaves everything will take on a gray appearane and I will feel myself become sicker. I noticed last time that eating an apple made all symptoms go away. What spurred me to eat an apple was theorizing about bananas. Like, why does a banana remain yellow when it has an inner core and then as soon as you eat the inner core it will turn black? It will remain yellow even if it is opened. And in my room it will turn black in a matter of minutes. I theorize that the air in my room is so bad that things will roth. And eating an apple kind of "fills my core" to make me more resistant. So the fact that I see things as hostile is actually a process of my body being under attack. So the environment actually is hostile, to me. Somehow with other people this can get channeled and my body won't decay so much. Also, why the hell does a banana turn black in the fridge? Something to do with the temperature and being able to energize/heathe ur inner core so as to keep predators at bay, I think.

Nice. Acacia Confusa, Doesn't that plant have a long history of use in eastern parts of the world? I personally find mushrooms to always have a power-spot eventually. But sometimes it takes a few hours of intense inner work for me to get there. Still, there is always a power-spot and I feel rejuvenated each and every time. So yay for the mushroom!

I find sclerotia to produce less of image-slides and more neon-like video images. I think it must be nice to be a light-head. I do not have much to keep conversation going, but i did enjoy hearing about ur experience. Sounds beautiful and is quite inspiring to me

Seen these guys in the darkness of the forest as well. Had ingested LSD at a hilltop party, and was going for a piss in the dark. Difficult since these guys were everywhere decided to just go and no spirits got peed on

I am so glad that no spirit got hurt in the process!