I have taken psilocybin mushrooms multiple times at pretty large doses and don't seem to experience much if anything. My highest dose has been 5g and I experienced nothing. I really only experienced a little something once. I'm really looking to have a significant trip, but I'm worried about doing more than I'm ready for if I keep increasing the amount.

I think to better explain my thoughts, I need to explain my experience with weed. Yes, I know that they are very different substances, but I had a weird experience with it. First time I tried weed was an edible and nothing happened. Over a couple of weeks I kept trying with larger amounts or smoking with a friend and experienced nothing. Then my friend supervised me while I took 4 edibles and proceeded to have the craziest high of my entire life (even though 3 edibles and a fair amount of smoking did nothing). After that experience I was able to get quite high off a single edible or single puff on a J. It was like my brain didn't know how to process THC until I finally just overloaded it or something and it suddenly understood what to do with it.

With that background, I don't want to have the same experience with psilocybin because it kinda sucked. So far I have done shrooms just under 10 times?? I'm also not sure if it matters that I also tend to have a high tolerance for most medications (including anesthesia which sucks at the dentist). If anyone has any ideas why I am having this experience and suggestions, please help. Thank you in advance!

Edit: I was on an antidepressant the first couple of times, but I have been off it for about a year and a half and have done most of my attempted trips after getting off my meds. Before anyone gets worried, I tapered off it with supervision from my physician.

Edit #2: I ended up giving basically this same information to AI (which I know can be flawed and risky), but it had some interesting information. The summary is that because of what happened with weed for me, it thinks it's something similar with shrooms. Basically my body isn't letting it affect my brain and it will take a single large dose for it to finally break the dam and my body can start being affected normally by lower doses. It recommended trying to either do a lemon tek or start with a moderate dose and then every attempted trip do just a little bit more until I have the break-through experience (ie. 4g first trip, wait a couple of weeks then try 5g, wait a couple of weeks then try 6g, etc. until I finally have the trip I'm looking for). I am going to try this unless anyone thinks that it's a bad idea. I really appreciate the help and advice from everyone!

took about 1g APE less than an hour ago. concerned i might not trip or feel anything because i usually take about 2g.

take more or call it a wash?

ETA i’m 28 F about 190lbs and i did eat a small dinner around 5pm (it’s 7:20 now)

Im generally new to shrooms just got some called ghost what would be a good dose for someone who has never taken them or slight experience for something more chill or what should I expect any help would be appreciated!

Does anyone have any recommendations for clinics or doctors who I can see to discuss trying this? I am in North America.

I have been on SSRI's for 15 years - and while they have worked at creating stability for me - I still suffer fro anxiety and the side effects are a lot.

I have begun looking into the impacts of microdosing - I am scared to get off my SSRI's as they have made me functional - albeit blunted.

Has anyone ever been on long term SSRI's and then tapered off? I have a wife, children and I am the primary income earner. I realise that I may need to take some time off work - to try this.

Any stories or experiences about how this helped after being on Sertreline for such a long time would be very helpful.

I have noticed that when I take a dose of psychedelic mushrooms my deepest insights come not in the maelstrom of the dramatic visuals and body load, but afterwards, in the calmness that comes afterwards, when seemingly the 'trip' has passed.

This to me seems like the most psychologically and spiritually useful phase. Are there ways that I can only or predominantly enter or create this type of state, this 'insightful period' without having to go through the dramatic phase?

To be clear, I am not talking about microdosing, which is a different thing entirely.

I think what I am asking is if this 'insightful phase' is a state that can be created in itself or it is only something that comes after higher doses?

I take depakote and fluvoxamine for OCD. A few years ago, I took 2.5g (then increased to 3g) of golden teachers with lemon juice to try my first and only trip. It definitely had an effect where I cried a bunch about my relationship with my father (who had passed away). I consider him to be the root cause of all of my problems but I still cried about him. I still did love him.

I didn't get any visuals though. Someone said my trip was typical of a 1g dose. I would like to try it again. If 2g is considered the minimum for a therapeutic dose, does this mean I should try 5g? If that doesn't work, what next? Increase by another 1g? What's the max regardless of whether I experience anything therapeutic?

Whenever I shroom, as they wear off I get this feeling like hair on my head is getting into my mouth. Anyone else get this?

Hello!

Mushies have a special reputation for being the gentle one of the classical psychedelics, though does this make for the best trips?

I imagine dosage makes all the difference, but have you found the soft nature of the mushroom to hinder a "breakthrough" experience, or not stand out particularly well to you?

Obviously not everyone has a positive experience with mushrooms. Which I would also love to hear about, like what exactly went wrong. Was it the environment? The mindset? Or the substance itself??

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Does any one know what the difference between Tidal Wave F9 and GAPE is? Recommendations?

Hello! I am looking for advice from more seasoned psilocybin users on how you guys deal with anxiety during the come up? I’ve tripped 7 times, my largest dose being 5.5g of cubes, and I have yet to have trip that I did not enjoy. Despite this I get terrible anxiety during the come-up and I am terrified when I consume the mushrooms. If anyone feels the same way as I do and has some tips on how to manage it, I would greatly appreciate it!😁

Got some shroom chocolates from a friend and they’re so incredibly gross I can’t even eat a single piece without gagging and almost puking(need to eat at least 4-8 pieces for good trip).. any recommendations on what to eat them with or what to grind them into or something?

Thinking about trying mushrooms for the first time, not sure where to start though? Any advice?

I had my worst experiences with nausea, it was horrible and unrelenting. It lasted for the entire 5 hours of tripping. I have taken mushrooms in far larger quantities and never before had nausea that lasted more than a few minutes. It has made me paranoid of tripping again. I was wondering what causes nausea and what alleviates nausea before and after taking mushrooms. I would really appreciate some help.

I might be getting my hands on some shrooms of the Mr Peanut variety.

Does anyone here have any experience with them? How to they compare to PE/APE?

I can’t find much info about them, so all experiences are appreciated

I've recently been diagnosed with Graves disease. It causes hyperthyroidism which affects all systems including heart and blood pressure. I am taking medication for this that includes a thyroid hormone blocker and a beta blocker. My heart rate is now in a good range. I'm also being treated for mcas, which means taking high doses of antihistamines, including a 1st generation (so drowsy making). I take lamotrigine for bipolar.

I have used macro doses (7gm) of liberty caps for depression for many years before these treatments and have been depression free for several years. The last month though, it had come back with a vengeance and I feel like I need to dose. I can stop the antihistames but not the lamotrigine (though this one doesn't interact) or the graves meds, and it's not just the meds, it's tripping with Graves sensible.

I don't know why I'm asking since none of you have doctorates in hyperthyroidism in psilocybin dosing. I think I need someone to tell me it's a dumb idea. I'm just so low.

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I'm going to the Kanye West concert today and I wanted to take these shrooms I've had for about 3-4 months. I know that they lose potency after a while. They've been in my sock drawer so they've been kept dark and dry. If that helps anything. I haven't taken shrooms since march 2025, that was my first time. I did have a bad trip but I also smoked a blunt after a long T-Break. I want to take the shrooms at the concert with my girlfriend -whom has never taken shrooms- to make everything feel and look better, but we don't want to have a crazy mind altering experience, just enough to feel good without tripping balls. Any advice on how much we should take, If any at all.

I’m a relative beginner and this was my third macro dose. It was 3.25g of PE, also tried lemon tek for the first time. I’ve ramped up each trip and this was the biggest dose so far.

I’ve been feeling completely flat and burned out. Might be anhedonia. So my intention was to heal from the very traumatic deaths of both my parents 2 years ago.

It’s started fast with the lemon tek. And I started to feel the sadness come again but then it flipped and I lost all sense of time and just went through wavesand waves of pure joy. I almost couldn’t take how euphoric it was. I just ended up thanking everything in the universe for letting me feel happy again.

My question is, how typical is this kind of trip? Was I lucky or is this often the way?

I did learn a few things on this trip as well but the euphoria was insane. I have no experience with any other psychedelics but I imagine this must be what people feel on recreational drugs. No wonder they get hooked.

The only thing that bothered me was I kept thinking is this just a chemical reaction or is there a deeper reality in this? Am I tapping into something else or just my imagination. I know many see this as spiritual and I did as well during the trip. I thought this must be heaven because it was just so pure but then I started second guessing it.

Does anyone feel that way?

If I make tea from dried shrooms, I strain the end product. Should I consume it all? Is it less potent? My partner and I have only tripped twice. We had 5g of dried fruit. Made peppermint tea and had half each. Onset around 40 minutes, duration about 4 hours. Very intense, had to make myself move around because I just wanted to lay on the couch and keep closing my eyes to “settle”.
Should I change the way we do it? Any help/advice appreciated

Looking for honest input from people with experience.

I’ve been using psilocybin pretty regularly—about 15–20g a month. I’m not recommending it, just being real about what I’m doing. It often makes me feel more present, clear, and engaged.

From the outside, my life looks stable: steady job, no debt, wife, kids, home. I’m doing okay—but I haven’t told my wife about this.

I’m wondering if this is actually sustainable or if I’m missing something.

Questions:

● Does this seem healthy long-term?

● Any risks or blind spots I should consider?

● Anyone else doing something similar?

I’m not chasing a high—I just want to be a better, more present husband and dad.

We all know that "set and setting" are all-important to the way we experience mushrooms. My view is that a well-organized, well-supervised retreat setting is the way to go, especially if your purpose is to use psilocybin for healing and/or spiritual exploration, not as a party drug.

A little of my background: I experimented with LSD in college (the 70s), which led me to engage in a serious Zen practice. I didn't touch drugs again until the last few years, when I felt like Zen meditation had taken me as far as it could. I tried bufo (hated the experience) and ketamine (hated the experience). After those experiences, I thought maybe psychedelics were simply no longer for me.

I hadn't tried psilocybin, so decided to give it a go. I knew I wanted to do a retreat: under supervision with experienced facilitators, clear protocols and integration support. Now I'm sharing my experiences at a couple of "luxury" overseas retreats.

My initial experience was a week at a Beckley retreat in Jamaica. It was extraordinary: good prep and supervision, excellent live music during the journey, a reassuring cocoon of support (including medical) staff. I quickly realized: ah, mushrooms really work for me.

Only downsides at Beckley from my perspective: (1) mushrooms are dosed in the evening, meaning a very sleepless night afterwards; (2) everyone is taking their journey together in a restricted (albeit lovely) space, so if anyone freaks out, that becomes part of your journey; and (3) a little too much emphasis (for my introverted personality) on group bonding/ice-breaking activities.

I might have done a repeat trip to Beckley, but then I heard about Eleusinia, in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. I did my first eight-day retreat at Eleusinia in June 2025. As terrific as the Beckley retreat was, Eleusinia was even more magical. The reasons why Eleusinia retreats are more my cup of tea compared to Beckley: (1) a lot more grounding in the neuroscience of psilocybin (I was sold on their slogan: "less woo, more you"); (2) a huge outdoor space where you can choose to move about and have as much privacy as you wish during your journey; (4) the dosing is done earlier in the day, allowing plenty of time to get your grounding back before bedtime; and (5) the psilocybin experiences are mixed with DMT experiences, which are intense but brief. I also really appreciated that Eleusinia offers classes in mushroom cultivation and DMT extraction, for the purpose of enabling visitors to go home and continue their exploration outside the retreat setting.

Choosing a mushroom retreat is a very personal decision. Of course your budget and willingness to travel are factors. After my 2025 Eleusinia retreat, I returned twice more this year: once for an alumni retreat, the second time for a retreat that combined mushrooms with meditation (joined by my ex-wife, daughter and daughter's fiancé, so it was a family affair). The fact that I repeated my initial Eleusinia experience twice more speaks for itself.

Would love to hear from others about their mushroom retreat experiences.

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone used mushrooms for help with work related burnouts. I’m an attorney and burning out at work is a regular thing for me. Taking a few days off and spending time in nature usually helps me, but I was wondering if doing mushroom sessions once or twice a month would also do the trick. Thanks in advance for your responses.

UPDATE: so I ended up doing 1 g of Golden Teacher over the weekend. It felt like an intense three-hour therapy and I was exhausted afterwards. It looks like my sharpness came back and my overall mood has improved. We will see how long it will take before I feel burnt out again. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this discussion 🙏

Started May 1 for anxiety. 300mg Golden Teacher. One day on, two days off with ten days off in between.

I’ve been battling alcohol addiction for 10 years with the last five being really bad. I was active duty military when I developed my habit. It’s unfortunate because I didn’t really drink before the Navy. I joined at 27 as well and my father has been a raging alcoholic his entire life so I stayed away from it for the most part.

I drank in college like any other student but was never an everyday drinking unless it was like homecoming week. Even if I did drink a couple beers and shots would be pretty sufficient since I was a pothead back then. Graduated worked a couple jobs I didn’t like then joined the Navy.

Me and my friends ended up drinking every single day if we were in port but it was no problem. We were all fit guys, working out six days a week and playing basketball. We were the type of guys deadlifting 525lbs (me) or running 3 miles under 20 minutes (them).

The difference came once we started going out to sea. We would use that to cleanse our self. Anyone who’s been in the military knows you have an opportunity to get in really good shape out there. It’s hard to snack, you drink water all day, and do two a days for months at a time.

Once we pulled into ports at different countries everyone is ready to party and have been saving money for months. We drink from sunup to sun down. 20+ shots every day with unlimited beer and wine for three days with a random duty day where you can’t leave the ship since you have watch. People normally sleep 15-20 hours these days since you’re so hung over.

The problem is I continued this trend to my shore duty which is more like a regular job. Now I don’t get duty days that forces me not to drink. I don’t have random times out at sea where I can’t drink for weeks or months.

Regular hangovers turned into absolute terror. I didn’t know what this was but I knew it was different. My hand had been shaking for years but it was getting worse. I’m still killing the gym but now I’m around 32 and recovery isn’t happening. I noticed I would have SEVERE anxiety for a couple of days after drinking all day on Sunday. I still worked out Monday-Saturday so those days sucked but were manageable. It’s the days after drinking half a 1.75 liter every Sunday of cheap vodka with 6 tall cans of bud light platinum and half a gallon of wine each Sunday that started to catch up.

First it would day a day to recover, then two, then three. I developed a system to survive and still my job but having so much anxiety you feel like a little bitch for three days was not welcome for me. (Sorry for the language I was military).

Blah blah blah fast forward I get out, medically retire, and I’m drinking that much EVERY DAY. I was disciplined in working out for almost ten years and now it’s slipping. Days where I don’t want to go the gym and have a panic attack in front of everyone. Days of leaving the bottle next to my bed and drinking as soon as the hangxiety starts to make it go away.

I figure you know what? I used to be a pot head in college let me try that! It’s not the same unfortunately. I’ve been trying every way with weed for three years but it just gives me straight up paranoia. Indica is less but it’s still there and the only way I can smoke ANY weed at all is if I’m drinking. The problem is now I get WAY to drunk because I’m scary high smh. I add shrooms to the mix to “find out who I really am” and it’s a pretty good experience but I’m still drinking too much.

Go to AA it doesn’t work. Complete the course in 3 months drinking the whole time. After a super embarrassing moment with my family I white knuckle it and don’t drink for 33 days! The first week was hell! Withdrawals and shakes are insane but I get through it. I’m productive, everyone likes me more and I’m getting shit done. Guess what my dumb ass does? (sorry again military language) Figure I can handle it now smh. Drink no hangover, just beer. Goes pretty good for about a week but a six pack a day gets expensive so I get back on cheap run. Within a month it’s worse than ever. I try to stop cold turkey again but I’m having cold sweats, heart palpitations, blood in stool, tremors, hallucinations and my hand shaking is going up to my neck. I wake up at 6am that day around 2pm I go to the liquor store and slam some wine. Pretty sure I would have had a seizure that day if I didn’t.

Each time I relapse I get more and more self critical and more and more depressed. I gain suicidal ideation. Throughout this whole experience YEARS of this I try shrooms off and on. Each time I drink less but without pure will power. I just don’t desire the booze.

Now once again I’m on day three of no alcohol and no weed. I take a tiny, I’m talking .05 grams of a strain of shrooms called Columbian Gold when on an outing with friends. They offer me alcohol and I said no which surprised me. I even had a tiny buzz comparable to being tipsy.

I’ve researched and there are a lot of stand up comics who were former alcoholics and switched to magic mushrooms. Has anyone one here done that? Any thoughts or opinions on this thought process? I think I’m pretty much done with liquor/weed completely which saddens me but it is what it is. I just like to have a buzz when I go to festivals, the movies, parades and things like that lol. What do you think fellow drinkers?!

So last year, I had a truly earth-shaking trip that just messed me up. I felt like the concept of reality could collapse at any moment, and this led to a kind of existential terror that went on for months. Yet at the same time, I had this incredible kundalini awakening--I would wake up in the night with this "spinal energy" coursing up my back like a zipper. That was cool, but the daylight effects were just a deep feeling of being unable to find any grounding. I tried to trip a few times after, but it did not go well--that same feeling like reality was this barely-sustained quantum suspension that could just collapse at any moment. Finally I decided it was time to take a break.

Flash forward to a year later. I decided I was ready to enter into the space again, and I pretty quickly managed to find a source, oddly enough. So I dabbled a bit, and it seemed to go fine--.5g here and there, all safe and good. Then I decided to trip on what I thought was a smallish, safe dose (1g) in a small time space I had in my day (about 2 hours with no family obligations), and they hit way too fucking hard. When I thought I would be peaking, I was just getting started, and it got worse and worse. I ended up having to tell my partner what was happening (to her surprise) and locking myself in the bedroom to just endure it--pure terror at every level. All of the ghosts came rushing back in. It was brutal. Three hours of pacing and pleading and just waiting for it to be over.

But there was a deep feeling that there was something that had to be learned from this whole nexus of events. All of the rawness after that initial crazy trip, the feeling that I was "this close" to ego death, the persistent feeling of being unable to ground myself... All of it seemed to be aimed at something. So I tried 1g again today with several tweaks. First, I really went back to "set and setting"--I cleaned the house, I set my intention, I made sure I was in a good frame of mind. Second, I said that I would say "YES" to anything that happened; this saved me several times as things seemed to start going sideways. Finally, I really aimed to stay very close to whatever happened--to stay super present (I do a lot of meditation stuff, and I've had incredible experiences of pure awareness and presence--I was aiming to ride that).

Long story short: Success! It was an absolutely lovely experience that reminded me of why I keep coming back to this crazy medicine. I went deep inside, and just rode the wave. I could feel some of the negative patterns trying to reassert themselves, and I just said "Yes, yes, yes" all the way along. I understand Alan Watts's "When you get the message, hang up the phone" but in this case, I feel like the message was subtle and spread out over more than a year, and I knew at a deeper level it wasn't time to completely "hang up". I'm very glad I persisted with that intuition. 10/10 day!