My salutations.

I'm a man in early thirties. I live in Eastern Europe and my primary occupation is web-dev, I had been a co-owner of a small web-design and internet marketing company for a year now.

During my whole life I stayed away from drugs, because 'drugs are bad, mkay'. I don't smoke, but occasional drink or two is fine. I always regarded psychedelic substances as something as evil as heroin or meth and thought they only gave you euphoria and hallucinations. In other words I was one of the common folks who had little knowledge of ongoing research in this field, although medicine is a passion of mine and i often browse pubmed or medscape for interesting stuff.

Around a couple of years ago, when I was an employee of a somewhat big multinational company I started to realize that I lacked something, I wasn't feeling complete and this feeling intensified by remarks of my gf, who gave me her honest opinion. I felt myself trapped in my thought patterns and couldn't get out of them. In fact its surprising that I even felt trapped, because most people are trapped, yet they are perfectly happy about that.

A couple of years earlier than that (around 4 years ago). One of my closest friends told me about his fun shroom experiences in Netherlands. If someone else told me about that, I wouldn't have given those stories a second thought, but this friend of mine is a really smart and trustworthy guy so I started my little shroom research online. After finding that psilocybin wasn't an addictive substance and even could have some positive effects on my agitated and depressed self, I decided to give it a try having them at least for recreational purposes. I got a spore print and, surprisingly, I could grow a contam-free batch of shrooms at my first attempt.

I will skip all the trip reports, I'll just say I started to get messages, which only intensified with each trip. After two years of tripping on a one-two month basis I finally started to incorporate those messages and I'm becoming who I really am. I'm finally getting my mind back despite all the hardships I went and still going through during these two years.

Why the interest towards DMT? I guess it was Terence McKenna's bad influence and the fact that I have a high natural shroom tolerance (6 grams dry give me lvl 3 trip at the most, while people next to me are loosing their crap badly (~4lvl), just having 3,5 grams of the same batch, grown by myself). In most of the times my trips are shallow, I seem to just surf on the surface of subconscious, vaguely seeing whats below the surface. Yet even those rare messages that got through had a considerable impact on me. I do hope to have whats called a breakthrough with DMT at some point.

Just a few weeks ago I started to grow my ethnobotanical garden. Now I have several Acacia Simplex seedlings and San Pedro babies sunbathing under 80W full-spectrum led grow lamp in my office.

I'm patient and here on this forum I want to learn how to care for my seedlings and extract them in a safe way when the time comes (in around 2 years I guess).

I'm here to learn, research, catch the attitude and eventually spread the culture of using psychedelics.

Hey,

Welcome, happy to see you here. I can relate to your experience, I come from a similar background.

Anyway, about shroom dosage you should know that the activity of cube strains can easily vary by a factor of two to three (some people on the net question this, but I've personally seen and eaten cubes of vastly varying potency) - so maybe it's just your shrooms that are a bit weaker.

Also, what do you mean by the bad influence of Terrence McKenna?

Hey PsyDuckmonkey, thank you for a warm welcome.

As for shroom dosages, I had tried several strains like Thai, huatla, golden teacher and z-strain. Indeed the potency varies a lot, Z strain is the most potent so far, and I'm using multispore inoculation, yet I have pretty consistent results in terms of potency.

As I said, I share my stuff among friends and they reported 'too much' with just 3g. In one case me and my gf had shrooms from the same batch. I had around 6g and she had less than 5. She got a full blown lvl 5 bad trip and I was at low lvl 3, sober enough for trying to calm her.

I'm armor brained so to say. I was experimenting with MAOIs like methylene blue and it seemed to have some effect with the dose of 1mg/kg. Better results were achieved with just a grapefruit consumed in 30 mins before a shroom tea. Grapefruit trips are noticeably more visual at least for me. Human physiology is a complicated thing and I haven't figured out what is my problem, i could have high MAO or higher cytochrome... I wonder if I'll also need increased doses of DMT.

My post couldnt transfer my irony when I mentioned McKenna cause again 'the drugs are bad, mkay'. Of course he was a great thinker with a great talent of speech.

Hi

Don't worry about dosage anyway. I personally have very low tolerances on everything, but one of my best friends and co-travellers has similar tolerances to you. What he does is just drop 10-15 grams of shrooms for a single trip, as that is his dose for a 5/5, and doesn't worry about it.

If you have a high tolerance on psilocybin, you probably have a high tolerance on DMT too anyway, so you'll have to get used to that anyway. Keeping long rest and integration periods between trips will help prevent further tolerance buildup.

Yes your joke about McKenna didn't quite carry over. Anyway there actually are people in the psychedelic community who see him as a somewhat problematic character - I don't really want to go into it here, but some googling will give you info.

Hello

When I was still a green shroomer, I tended to overdo. I took shrooms once in two-three weeks. But as Paul Stamets said, shrooms have self-limiting mechanisms and tolerance is not the only one of them.

Well. 10-15g is something I wanna try. There was this interesting fellow Kilindi lyi who consumed heroic doses (20-30g) and remained sane enough to tell the story in human words. It's pretty funny to listen to as well.

I never realized that McKenna could be regarded as problematic in psychedelic community of all communities. Anyway, going to look deeper into it, thank you for tipping me off.

Any other good advices for a noob?

Cheers.

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