Last saturday I finally had my first magic mushroom experience, which I was curious about for quite some time. I didn't do it earlier because I prefer tripping with friends over tripping alone. Untill then, nobody wanted to join me.

History
I have experience with party drugs and, more relevant, 2cb. 2cb I did for 5 times, which I enjoyed a lot and were much fun.

Setting
I took the shrooms with 2 friends. All 10 grams of Psilocybe Hollandia (strongest legal in Holland ). There were also 8 friends in the house who were sober.

the trip
Everything felt really relaxed. I was chill, the house, the trees, everything felt very chill. It was like seeing the world from an different point of view. Halfway the trip we went outside. There was hard wind and we had to climb a small hill with trees. I had the idea we were discovering a new place of the world where nobody has been before. This was the coolest part of the trip, to experience this just in your backyard. When coming home, our sober friends were watching tv. After this point I couldn't get in the 'good' mood again. This was a pity and I was hoping it would end soon.

comparison with 2cb
2cb is more fun. It's like visiting an funpark . Everything is moving quite harsh on the music and I have to laugh a lot. Mushrooms, on the other hand, felt more relaxed, more natural, much more beautiful. 2cb is cool, but I think the shrooms have much more potention.

conclusion
I really enjoyed it and I (or we) are already looking forward to our next trip. This will probably outside on a nice summer day. Also the large group of sober friends weren't a great success. They weren't annoying or something, but they hold you back to get deeper into your trip. Since they have seen us having a great time, they would probably join us next time

This was a great first experience with this stuff, we learned some lessons about improving the trip and we look forward to our next trip.
(this is the first report I wrote)

Sounds like a nice trip!

2CB - I think - is derived from mescaline, so it's a bit of a different experience to shrooms/acid. Plenty of people seem to prefer mushrooms over lsd/mesc/2Cs, and I think a large part of this is down to the natural side of it, which seems to relax people. Personally, I go with LSD/mescaline, but there are many routes to Nirvana

The main thing to remember with any trip is set and setting. For me, I don't really feel comfortable tripping around sober people, so will generally avoid it at all costs. Never really seen trips as a 'party' activity. I also find that tripping solo allows me to go deeper with more introspection, so I get more mentally out of doing high dose solo in a controlled environment.

That said, your idea of a couple of friends on a sunny day sounds ideal. Try it in the woods or in a field! I'm planning to get a cabin in the woods with my best mates this summer, so we'll have a controllable environment with our own music (which I find makes the trip all the more profound when you have control) mixed with the opportunity to get out in the woods.

Anyhow, keep us updated, and glad you enjoyed the shrooms!

Yeah, 2C-B is a phenethylamine (the prime example of which being Mescaline) whereas psilocybin mushrooms contain tryptamine compounds (the prime examples being psilocybin, psilocin, and dimethyltryptamine). Many, but not all, people find phenethylamines to be a little more fun and easy going whereas they might find tryptamines to be a little more "mind-fucky", spiritual, and "other". 2C-B is known as being the most "candy-ish" of the phens as well (lots of visuals for not a lot of mental activity). The commonly quoted candy tryptamine is 4-HO-MET, a very interesting compound in its own right. If you are at all curious about this, Alexander Shulgin wrote two books, PIHKAL and TIHKAL. The first being about phenethylamines and the second being about tryptamines. They are often recommended by the psychedelic community for people just getting interested in psychedelic experiences.

I'm glad that you had a good experience and I wish you the best of luck in all of your future adventures! And yes, it's definitely a good idea to lose the large group of sober friends for your next experience.

(I included the RC talk because of the mention in the original post, if that talk should be contained to the "other psychoactives" section please let me know and I will edit my post).

Your good man, it's not that strict around here.

In spite of the differences between the substances, I'm glad I got some experience with 2cb before using the shrooms. It really helped me stay calm during visuals etcetera. Behorehand I thought both substances were very much alike, but besides you are tripping on both, the effects were totally different.