"Recovery" from a good first experience?

[Echoes]

Hello community

Some months ago in late november I had one of the best experience in my life. It was the second time that I had experimented with psilocybin.
The first time didn't really make an effect on me (or i wasn't able to perceive it). I took a low dose of truffles and it felt more like a marijuana high with a lot of creativity and body well-being, nothing revealing though.

The second time was amazing, I took a higher dose (3.4 g of cubensis) and I reached the unfathomable lands for the first time. I experienced beautiful closed eyes visuals, contact with brown aliens, and some sort of unknown and indescriptible communication where everything was connected and, strangely, made sense I used like 20 or 30 pages of a notebook for drawings, it was like I was drawing with words and I saw music (the colors changed with the notes of the music). Overall a great experience, that is difficult to reduce to words or explain efficiently but that has changed my life for the better.

So now, I still have a big amount of harvested cubensis and I was planning to trip soon again but it doesn't feel right. I don't know why, maybe it takes some time to "recover" after such a groundbreaking experience...I think I'll follow my intuition and wait some weeks, months, until I feel like it.

Have you ever felt like this?

Ps. Do you know how long time can dried shrooms be conserved in plastic bags with a room temperature of 22 degrees? Will them still have good effect after this summer? I harvested in november and december.

 

[Teonanacapilli]

I have also had this feeling. I think it's your brains natural reaction to something so powerful, necessary to give you sufficient time to analyze and integrate the experience. Follow what you feel.

For storing, I have heard/read that dried mush can last upwards of one year when kept closed in the freezer. You can do the math. :wink:

 

[_Avatar_]

I don't think you have to recover from anything and I also don't think you need a whole lot of time to process what you have experienced. There's no reason why one shouldn't have illuminating, groundbreaking experiences on a monthly, weekly or even a daily basis.

Well, there are reasons why one shouldn't trip every day, but those are mainly practical reasons: tripping too often may interfere with study, work, personal hygiene, housekeeping, time for personal research, general productivity and communication with friends and relatives. If circumstances permit, however, one could trip twice a week or more, as many ayahuascueros are doing.

Done properly, one should have processed, digested and assimilated the trip by the time the drug is wearing out, i.e. during the afterglow. The following morning one should wake up refreshed and rational again.

As for conservation of shrooms: when they are so dry that you can snap them in two (they shouldn't bend) you can put them in an airtight ziplock seal bag, and put that in the freezer.

 

[GregKasarik]

Ultimately, how often you trip is something that is best left to intuition. There is no right, or wrong answer. If you are feeling that you need time to process the previous trip before going onto the next one, then that is fine. I certainly don't believe that you "one should have processed, digested and assimilated the trip by the time the drug is wearing out", as depending on your experience, you may have quite a bit to process and contemplate before being ready for your next experience.

Certainly I have had experiences where I have touched the Divine Mind, had an important insight and have deliberately refrained from tripping for months, because I didn't want a subsequent experience to contaminate what I was trying to learn from the one before it. Similarly, I have had the exact opposite, where I knew I had to leap back in ASAP, because I recognised that I needed the altered state in order to more fully work some ideas through.

Ultimately, you'll do much better if you allow your feelings to tell you when to take the next step. This is doubly important at the outset of your journey, as you build up confidence in your ability to interact with the experience. Part of "set" is precisely this. If you are not feeling ready for a trip, then you may feel as if you are forcing things and this may influence your experience.

Storing in a freezer works for me. I've had good results after having mushrooms that have been frozen for over two years.

 

[_Avatar_]

I certainly don't believe that you "one should have processed, digested and assimilated the trip by the time the drug is wearing out", as depending on your experience, you may have quite a bit to process and contemplate before being ready for your next experience.

I do agree with you there. The way I wrote it sounded a bit too absolute. It's good to take some time after each trip to contemplate and integrate what came up. It's just that generally one doesn't need to recover from anything.

 

[GregKasarik]

I see what you mean and agree in the sense that you have used the word "recover".

Its a bit like reading a good book that contains new and intriguing ideas. Often there is no need to read another while you are still digesting the first.

 

[ophiuchus]

intuition is the key

 

[Echoes]

Thanks for your responses.
It sure varies from person to person.

Certainly I have had experiences where I have touched the Divine Mind, had an important insight and have deliberately refrained from tripping for months, because I didn't want a subsequent experience to contaminate what I was trying to learn from the one before

Exactly.
I feel kind of fulfilled now, I don't want a bad trip on top of it, I'll wait some time...a frequency of 3 or 4 times a year sounds good to me. I've also heard that trips are very different from each other...it will be very interesting next time.

Storing in a freezer works for me. I've had good results after having mushrooms that have been frozen for over two years.

I don't have access to a personal freezer so I have to have them at my dorm...I've put them in the dark, in an airtight baggie inside a plastic box. I hope they endure!

 

[ophiuchus]

the more containers you use, the longer your stuff will last. even if all you have is ziploc, use like three of those guys, it's not the same as tupperware or a jar, but should at least be comparable. i like to use several methods in one for storing my super valuable stuff. i have a napkin insulating my dmt (eliminates moisture[you can use silica packets as well]) encased in aluminum foil (eliminates heat), also sealed in saran wrap, in a little ricola ziploc bag. (it's got aluminum foil lining in the plastic bag, so you eliminate air and light as well) your effforts in storing determines how long it will last imo

needless to say, i've only encountered dmt once, so i made sure that i wouldn't have to look too hard should i want to try it again other stuff i usually just put in a jar. mmm blueberry :weedman:

*the way it was prepared before you got it also plays a big role if you dont recognize if something hasn't been done properly...

 

[fab4598]

So now, I still have a big amount of harvested cubensis and I was planning to trip soon again but it doesn't feel right. I don't know why, maybe it takes some time to "recover" after such a groundbreaking experience...I think I'll follow my intuition and wait some weeks, months, until I feel like it.

Have you ever felt like this?

Kind of. When having a good trip on shrooms, I usually don't feel the envy to get another one during the following 3/4 monthes. Can't tell you why, I'm just ok with what I've got. Still I'm an addictive person...