I have a similar experience. I first did shrooms in high school and enjoyed it immensely. But in the few weeks after the trip, I felt great. I was way less nervous talking to people, I felt more confident, and just generally better about myself and life in general.

But if you're interested, be aware: they taste gross and it's pretty common to feel really sick and throw up within the first 30 minutes. But after that, I promise you'll enjoy it, if you are in a good environment of course.

> they taste gross and it's pretty common to feel really sick and throw up within the first 30 minutes

FYI, if you make a tea instead of ingesting them directly, both of these issues can be avoided.

Use a coffee grinder to crush it into a fine powder. Squeeze a lemon into a cup. Put the powder in and stir. Wait 20 minutes, add some orange juice or water and take it down. Activates instantly and you sidestep the nausea from your stomach where it feels like if you move a muscle you'll hurl.

I have not done this but I'd probably recommend not using that coffee grinder for coffee anymore :^)

In general this is excellent advice! Having said this, I wager some of us don't mind drawing a soft wildcard before heading to work :)

Put them in a peanut butter sandwich (with jelly/bananas/etc) and you taste them way less

Interesting. Did the effects last? Are you still using it, or was it "one-and-done" kind of an experience?

The first time lasted three months of relief. I had a bad day that sent me down the spiral, but a psilocybin chocolate bar brought me back. It’s not a panacea but it certainly ..gives me breathing room to let other therapies work.

when start to feel less motivated - don't want to go out - struggling at work- I take ~3 grams - usually lasts about 2 months or so - find this much better than microdosing personally

For anyone who's never tried mushrooms before, 3 grams is a pretty large dose. If it's your first time start with 1 gram or so. After all, you can always take more, but you can't take less.

Really. Here I was thinking a starting dose was 8 grams (from a documentary about magic truffles in Netherlands). Good thing I never had the opportunity to try mushrooms, that'd probably be a pretty wild, unpleasant trip :))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrj1X6TzEXo - terence mckenna - How To Take Psychedelics Pt.1

I know he is an expert on the subject, but he is talking about ridiculously high dosages that most people would not find pleasant in that clip.

I would never tell anyone I care about to take 5 grams dried in their first use.

How do you measure out 3 grams? I would think it would be difficult to control that level of granularity.

Three grams of mushrooms is easily 4 to 10 individual mushrooms. Usually people simply weight the entire mushroom and not the exact psilocybin content. This is not ideal since potency will vary but it's enough to give you a good idea of the dose when comparing to previous sessions. However, there are more and more legal services who can provide already weighted product with the exact psilocybin content on the label.

Probably just means 3g of actual mushroom fungi matter. Just need a food scale.

A kitchen scale works well for masses in this range.

There’s also 0.1 and 0.01 gram scales sold for like $15 on Amazon.