The effects of magic mushrooms and truffles
We are going to explain what the effects of magic mushrooms and truffles are and what you can expect from them.
The identical effects of magic mushrooms and truffles
The effects of magic mushrooms and truffles are almost identical because they both contain the substances psilocybin and psilocin. Not everyone agrees with that statement and that is somewhat understandable. Because the effects of the average mushroom are much more intense than the average truffle.
This is because the average mushroom contains much more psilocybin and psilocin than the average magic truffle.
The effects that mushrooms & truffles give can variate a lot and can depend on several factors, together they decide how a person will experience it.
The dosage of the desired drug and way of usage.
The user (Personal health: Weight, mental & physical health)
The setting (Your location, surroundings and people you might use it with)
Positive Effects
- Stronger feelings and senses
- Laugh kicks
- Intensified colors
- Music sounds and feels different
- Objects change shape
- Elevating your thoughts.
- Relaxing and energised high
- Visual hallucinations
Negative Effects
- Agitation
- Nausea
- Headache
- Thirst, dry mouth
- Warm or cold feelings
- Stomach complaints
A more in-depth explanation of certain effects of magic mushroom & truffles
A hallucination is an altered version of the world you would experience when you are in a normal state. In a hallucinating state can a person see things that aren’t there.
Real hallucinations rarely happen while using Magic Truffles or Magic Mushrooms. During a trip, there are often only changes or disruptions in your perception of objects that actually exist in that place.
Here are a couple effects that you most likely will experience:
- Colors will be more intensely experienced
- In surfaces like fluids, carpets or grass lawns you could see kaleidoscopic geometric structures that sometimes could even be experienced as 3 dimensional.
- A trail like form that pursues an moving object. Your view of the object keeps existing for a couple more seconds than normally.
- Rainbow like colored aura’s around objects.
Changes in dimension: your view on objects that might become bigger (macropsia) or smaller (micropsia). - While seeing other people their faces it might look like a cartoon or sometimes people could look younger or older.
- Intensified perception of other senses like sound (especially with music), taste, smell and touches.
So what does this mean?
Effects a user can experience ultimately depend on the strain, dosage, setting, and the user. The dosage stands for usage and which kind of magic mushroom or magic truffle you’re ingesting. The user is about the person who’s ingesting the substance, mentally and physically. Have you slept well? Are you feeling good? (It’s important that if you have any mental health issues, consult your doctor before ingesting any magic truffles or magic mushrooms). The setting is about your location and surroundings of usage but also the people that you might use with. Depending on the dosage, set and setting effects can variate a lot. Some People become very energetic, and others become really calm and relaxed.
Most commonly known these effects kick in with waves.
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Change in time perception
Commonly the time goes by really slow, seconds look like minutes and minutes look like hours. Or the time could go by really fast without you noticing. Keep this in mind if you’re planning to use magic mushrooms or magic truffles.
Change in mood
Psilocin has a very strong effect on your mood and could lead to different outcomes. Euphoria is commonly reported by users, but also fear and confusion could come up while tripping. It intensifies your current mood, if you’re feeling bad then the trip intensifies those thoughts and feelings. however, if you’re feeling good you’ll be most likely extremely relaxed, happy, and energetic.
Physical effects
Big pupils (mydriasis) will occur, mild increases in heart rate or blood pressure could as well occur. Furthermore, you could get into trouble with your balance. But also nausea or vomiting could happen after eating magic mushrooms or magic truffles also a dry mouth might occur
as stated in the “negative effects” section of this text.
Thought processes
While tripping thought processes are more associative and unusual cross connections will be made. It could lead to surprising insights but almost also psychotic thoughts. It could happen that some thoughts keep coming back and circling around. If these thoughts are unpleasant it could turn into a negative trip experience (a bad trip).
With higher dosages, many times changes in the “self” perception will occur. The borders between being yourself and your surroundings will become less clear or even fall away entirely (ego dissolution).
Someone could melt with other persons, animals, or objects. The result will be that you create a feeling that is connected with those things (unity, (really) connected to). “Everything in the world is connected to each other.” Sometimes on a spiritual or religious level.
Some users also experience telepathic situations. These feelings could make a deep impact on the users but also might generate fear/anxiety.
The effects of magic mushrooms and truffles on the human brain
Psilocybin and psilocin are the most known active substances in magic mushrooms and magic truffles. Within the human body, the substance psilocybin is being converted to psilocin. Psilocin is a substance that is similar to the human neurotransmitter serotonin. Because psilocin having an impact on the serotonin receptors, this will make the human brain work in a different way.
The brain activity from our “Default Mode Network” is drastically reduced while being under the influence of psilocin. This is the part of the brain that controls the choices that are made within the brain. Without the “Default Mode Network” functioning properly certain brain parts that maintain eyesight, emotions, or hearing that otherwise are divided will be freer to communicate with each other. This “free” communication between the brain parts while tripping makes you see things from another perspective.
How long do the effects of magic mushrooms & truffles persist
After usage of magic mushrooms or magic truffles, it could take up from 15 minutes to 1 hour before the drug starts to kick in. Although this differentiates from your dosage and the time between you last ate something and usage. About 1 hour after the first effects you’ll reach the top peak of your trip. This persists between 2 and 3 hours, after that the effect will reduce in waves. Most trips persist between 4 and 8 hours.
Dosage of magic mushrooms and truffles
With psychedelics like magic mushrooms or magic truffles, the effect of it is very strong depending on the set and setting. Many different species of magic mushrooms or magic truffles contain different concentrations of effective substances like psilocybin and psilocin. Dosages could differentiate between each drug of the same species. Sometimes magic mushrooms or magic truffles would be crushed to powder and then be weighted, these active substances would be better divided in that case.
Magic truffles are being sold in smartshops, commonly known species are Atlantis, Hollandia, or Valhalla. Magic mushrooms or magic truffles could either be wet or dry consumed. Because the strength in magic mushrooms or truffles species differentiates so much, the Hawaiian magic mushroom is much stronger than the Mexican cubensis.
The Mexican species is the most common one to use, but also in that species, you have different “sub” species. Because of this, it’s hard to determine which dosage you should use and expecting the effects to occur. Commonly light to hard dosages varieties between 1 and 5 grams dried magic mushrooms.
If you decide to eat magic mushrooms for the first time don’t take more than 1 gram (dried) from a Mexican species. If the experience is really positive then you could take the next time a bigger dosage. But especially with magic mushrooms, you want to dosage rather low than high for the first time.
Addiction chance magic mushrooms and truffles
Physically you can’t depend on magic mushrooms nor magic truffles.
Even if you use magic mushrooms or truffles in a small period of time it won’t have a big effect as it should. Also, mental dependence almost doesn’t occur (this might ONLY be in very special situations.).
Can you combine magic mushrooms or truffles with other drugs?
(We discourage combining magic mushrooms and or magic truffles with other drugs)
Usage of cannabis could enhance the effect of magic mushrooms or magic truffles thoroughly. Even if you’re soberly getting relaxed from a joint (weed cigarette). From some users we heard reports about taking some inhalations of weed that it intensifies the effect way stronger.
Combining magic mushrooms or magic truffles with alcohol gives a bigger chance on a bad trip. Sometimes the paralyzed effect from alcohol could not be mentioned that quick, where you most likely would drink more than you actually wanted to. This could enhance nausea even more. The use of smart products is believed to be fine, but we still don’t advise it.
What you need to know before you decide to trip
Drug use without risks does not exist. Even with these types of drugs. However magic mushrooms or magic truffles are considered to have a small risk IF you keep yourself to certain guidelines and precautions.
- Take the time to care for your safety and quiet / trusted surroundings to get a safe and happy trip, absolutely with a higher dosage this is a must.
- Make sure there’s a trip sitter around, someone you trust. We recommend someone that has experience with these kinds of drugs.
- Only take magic mushrooms or magic truffles when you’re feeling good.
- If you are becoming anxious, stay easy the bad feeling will fade away.
- Don’t struggle with whatever comes up in your mind, relax. Mostly it helps think about something nice or to change music (if you’re listening to any).
- To eat or drink something might help you feel better
- Listen to the signals of your body and mind
- Buy your truffles from a good smartshop, ask advice from the shop employee!
- Don’t combine magic mushrooms or truffles with any other drugs or medication
- Don’t partake in activity on the road while controlling a vehicle. Even after several hours, you’ll still be slow and unconcentrated.
- Be sure that you don’t have an important appointment or have any other important activity to do the next day, you will be very tired after a trip.
Potential risks of magic mushrooms and truffles
Do keep in mind that the active substances in magic mushrooms or magic truffles are not damaging to the human body. But there are risks while using magic mushrooms or magic truffles.
- The trip might be way heavier than you expected it would be
- Bad trip (fear, anxiety, restlessness, or irritating emotions)
- Psychic complaints after usage
- HPPD (Hallucinogen
- Persisting Perception Disorder)
- Psychiatric diseases could worsen or persist longer
- Wounding yourself or others in dangerous or not convenient situations.
Bad trip
A bad trip is one of the fewer fun effects of magic mushrooms and truffles. A bad trip is most likely the result of taking a too high dosage or unwanted set, setting. Thoughts or feelings could be less controllable. If these are negative thoughts or feelings then you could enter a spiral of negative feelings/thoughts which could persist the whole trip long.
- You have unpleasant feelings
- You’re feeling sad or anxious about it
- The sad or anxious feeling calls for more unpleasant thoughts/feelings.
By changing something in the set or setting you could steer the negative spiral to something more positive. In the set you could for example accept that you don’t feel that nice at the moment. It’s okay if you don’t get the effect that you imagined you would have. Imagine something pretty to think about.
A bad trip can in most cases still be steered up the right way. Besides that, you could also influence the setting: like changing the room you’re in, changing music, or making a small walk in the neighborhood. This could lead you away from the negative spiral you’re finding yourself in. A trip sitter could help you with this, sometimes it could feel like you’re forever on a bad trip. This feeling could be very real but you can’t trust it because a bad trip will always fly over when the substances start to break down.
Keep in mind that usage of magic mushrooms or magic truffles could have an influence on psychiatric diseases like depression, PTSD, or any other psychotic complaints. Usage of psychedelics could interrupt the health process or even intensify these complaints
What can you do if someone has a bad trip?
The best thing you can do if you got a bad trip as the effects of magic mushrooms and truffles is staying in conversation with the person that’s having a bad trip. Ensure to place the person in a quiet location. You could impact a bad trip with good things. Search for diversion, change music or watch something else that is more positive. This could make you feel way better.
Don’t let sick or anxious people alone, an arm on the shoulder or holding someone’s hand could help a lot. Also don’t deny that people feel bad, instead tell them it will be alright and soon be over. Do contact a general practitioner or a doctor if extreme restlessness persists longer than several hours or the person becoming aggressive and might even trying to partake in dangerous events/situations. Search for help if you don’t trust the physical circumstance or if you can’t handle the situation. Tell or ask which species and dosage they used of a magic mushroom or magic truffle and if they combined any other drug with it.
The information we provide is partly based on personal experience, verified with facts.