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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
My dad had a book of poems called Monstrosities which had a poem in it called Fungus Fingers with illustrations of clusters of mushrooms looking like hands flying through the air,
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I'm imagining one squirrel holding the pipe, another operating the lighter and a third one inhaling the vapour. Getting antsy when the other two say it's their turn for a hit.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
OK, are you actually serious about this?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
OK, good idea. (Not that I did that when I tried them, lol.)
A disclaimer first: they may well do nothing, and if they don't do nothing, they may do things you don't like. They're not classically psychedelic at all. In fact I think the active compounds in them are classed as dissociative, but don't think you know what you're getting just because you've done ketamine or salvia either, because it isn't like either of those. I tried it a bunch of times when I lived in London with mushrooms either picked in the city or nearby (Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest), and they did nothing at all. Then I tried it with mushrooms picked in Holland while I lived there for a while, and tripped balls, if you can call it 'tripping'. It was really more like a cross between a dissociative and a deliriant. It certainly wasn't 'recreational', more like a sort of weird trance. At any rate, I wasn't sick and didn't have an especially heavy body load.
OTOH, there are accounts of people having completely enchanted experiences, mystical voyages to magical realms, all of that. It seems to be extremely variable.
Yeah right - I've read a few erowids on it and it seems to be like you say, not trippy in the way you might think with liberties, more like sleep/dream inducing and stuff. sounds kinda like something i'd be up for trying... and apparently pretty hard to kill yourself if you keep dosage low and don't eat raw, make sure you dry etc. just not done a complex thing like this before
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Here's the science part.
The mushrooms contain two psychoactive compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol. The former isn't that strongly psychoactive, other than inducing sedation and a generic delirium. It's also pretty toxic, and is used in clinical trials as a "potent brain-lesioning agent". Which isn't really what you want. Fortunately, you can turn it into muscimol, which is both much more psychoactive and much less toxic, by drying the mushrooms out. You can do this easily by cutting up the caps, spreading them out on a wire oven shelf, and heating them in an oven on its lowest setting with the door slightly open.
The stems have very little of these chemicals in them and should be discarded. Apparently the gills are mainly dead weight, too. So what you want is the cap flesh. Dry them out until they're properly crispy, but be sure not to cook them as such.
The mushrooms contain two psychoactive compounds: ibotenic acid and muscimol. The former isn't that strongly psychoactive, other than inducing sedation and a generic delirium. It's also pretty toxic, and is used in clinical trials as a "potent brain-lesioning agent". Which isn't really what you want. Fortunately, you can turn it into muscimol, which is both much more psychoactive and much less toxic, by drying the mushrooms out. You can do this easily by cutting up the caps, spreading them out on a wire oven shelf, and heating them in an oven on its lowest setting with the door slightly open.
The stems have very little of these chemicals in them and should be discarded. Apparently the gills are mainly dead weight, too. So what you want is the cap flesh. Dry them out until they're properly crispy, but be sure not to cook them as such.
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Be prepared for it to take longer than that, I would say. Cutting them up into small bits will help. You want them as crispy as possible, so that they snap rather than bend.
The time I tripped hard off them, I think I ate 14 g. I would not recommend starting with this much! Your mushrooms might be as potent as the ones I picked in Holland or even stronger - of course, they could be complete duds, too. No way to tell beforehand.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Well like I said, discard the stems. Then slice the caps radially, into wedges. It's not vitally important but naturally they'll dry out faster with the increased surface area caused by the slicing.