Fun with funghi

[Vanadium Gryllz]

I like to walk through a nearby forest and take pictures of mushrooms.

Here are some of them.

[Freeky]

Those are pretty!

[Bu🤠ns]

More plz.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Fungi are cool

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Those are gorgeous!

[rong]

Cool.  I've recently learned that I have tons of amanita muscaria that pop up on my property every year.  They have quite an interesting history and I'm very tempted to try them.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Cool.  I've recently learned that I have tons of amanita muscaria that pop up on my property every year.  They have quite an interesting history and I'm very tempted to try them.

If you do, make sure that they are THOROUGHLY dried or cooked, and make sure you have someone on standby in case you go catatonic, mostly just to make sure you don't aspirate on your own vomit or anything. Be prepared to piss yourself. It's not a fun recreational trip like psilocybin, by any means, but some people do find the experience profound. They vary in chemical content significantly from mushroom to mushroom, so IMO your best bet is to collect and dry several, grind them, and then experiment with dosage titration using the combined ground mushrooms.

You need to suppress the first wave of nausea that comes 10-15 minutes after you eat them, but if you have another wave like an hour later, it's OK to barf then.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

They get dinner-plate size here. They're said to be good eating if you boil them twice and discard the water before preparing them to eat.

[rong]

I appreciate you chiming in - you're info jives with the research I've been doing.  Except your comment us the first I've heard about pissing oneself... Vomiting, sure...

Anyhow, I'm reluctant to try them because of the negative side effects... But I'm just so damn intrigued by their history I can't seem to quit picking at it if you follow me.

From what I understand it acts on the same receptors as alcohol so I expect a degree of similarity.

I've been comparing preparation methods and it seems like sun tea provides the best results. But I also think its wise to dry, grind and mix the entire harvest in order to homogenize the sample so to speak.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I appreciate you chiming in - you're info jives with the research I've been doing.  Except your comment us the first I've heard about pissing oneself... Vomiting, sure...

Anyhow, I'm reluctant to try them because of the negative side effects... But I'm just so damn intrigued by their history I can't seem to quit picking at it if you follow me.

From what I understand it acts on the same receptors as alcohol so I expect a degree of similarity.

I've been comparing preparation methods and it seems like sun tea provides the best results. But I also think its wise to dry, grind and mix the entire harvest in order to homogenize the sample so to speak.

While both alcohol and muscarine are GABA agonists, muscarine is predominantly an acetylcholine agonist, and has very very different effects and subjective experience than alcohol.

[rong]

I've seen very little info about muscarine, but gobs about muscimol and ibotenic acid (and Santa Claus)

[Eater of Clowns]

Is that one of the ones where you can pee out the trippy stuff? You could put up an "I'll let you drink my mushroom pee if you make sure I don't choke to death on my own puke" Craigslist ad.

[Eater of Clowns]

Those are pretty pictures, by the way.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've seen very little info about muscarine, but gobs about muscimol and ibotenic acid (and Santa Claus)

Hmmm... google "Amanita muscaria mechanism of action". The type of cholinergic receptors it agonizes are actually named for it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Is that one of the ones where you can pee out the trippy stuff? You could put up an "I'll let you drink my mushroom pee if you make sure I don't choke to death on my own puke" Craigslist ad.

Yes! Humans don't metabolize it so it comes out the other end intact.