I’m surprised you haven’t heard yet from other psychonauts here. I endorse your approach. The lemon juice should quicken things. Also try to consume on a somewhat empty stomach for quicker effect. It can take anywhere from 30 min to 1 hr 30 min to feel anything.
I like your progressive scaling approach. Doing it that way, I wouldn’t expect a massive trip, good or bad. You should still have a fair amount of control over your thoughts. But you almost certainly should feel effects once you get into the 1.5-2.0 g area. Although I can’t say how the spacing between your doses will effect your experience, other than expecting that it will be a milder 1.5-2.0 g experience than had you taken it all at one go.
Keep us posted when you do it, if you are able. I would be interested in your ongoing report.
You can make the mushrooms into tea and it has the same effects but less upset stomach. Makes a big difference in the ease of enjoying the experience
I also recommend having something to eat ready, you don’t want to get hungry partway through the trip. I like to have fruit juice like lemonade or orange juice to get a boost when I need it
@rick I had read that the effect comes on quicker when mixed with citrus or made into a tea. The 2 hour spacing is probably to much.
@henryyyyyyyyyy Good call. I am thinking to have something light to eat, and will have some fruit ready for snacks.
I am a bit nervous, but not so much about a bad trip, more that I have one shot at it. I probably could get some more, so that’s unnecessary pressure too.
My only other psychedelic experience was probably 15 years ago.
I’ll be interested to hear how it goes for you, I think on 0.5 it would be very difficult have any kind of bad trip/negative experience. What makes you say that you only have 1 chance at this?
I ended up trying some shrooms a few times. I’ve been busy so I’ll write about it later on. It was just dried mushrooms that I measured on a scale and chewed with water. My approach was also progressive, but it was over the course of weeks. I started with .1g for a couple days, then went up to .5g. It was around .7g that I actually started to really trip. This may vary between different people.
The max dose I tried was 2.2g and the only times I experienced a more sensuous state was actually when I micro-dosed with about .2g worth. The other times were all ASC (and nothing interesting I’d say on hind-sight). The experience also varied with where I was. I’d say being in nature, maybe priming yourself with some readings on actualist topics, and setting the intention beforehand may help. But once it happens I’d just experience whatever happens without resisting. To an extent, experiences will pretty much be unpredictable from person-to-person. Hope you get a PCE!
Since you and @Andrew mentioned a progressive approach to psilcybin, it’s worth noting that tachyphylaxis will occur pretty quickly. Microdosing over the course of a week will increase your tolerance to the drug rapidly, and you’ll need more shrooms to get the desired effect, else you’ll feel it less.
It’s not permanent, however, and your tolerance should be back to normal in about 5-7 days. An alternative approach may be to take a small amount one week to gauge the effects, and wait a week to up the dose. This scientific study chose to wait 4-weeks between each dose:
I’ll echo what @henryyyyyyyyyy said about making the tea. You can boil it in water for 10 minutes and then mix it with other teas like peppermint to help with the flavor. A french press is useful. But perhaps the easiest way to ingest it would be in a small smoothie.
Nausea and sweating will be likely but shouldn’t be alarming. I have a weak stomach so you may not notice anything, more so if you keep the dose low.
I’d love to know an estimated amount that Richard took. My guess would be on the higher side. He notes on the site that he’s done it 5-times in total and I would guess he tried taking it a few more times after the first one that triggered a PCE.
