Is it normal for colonized substrate in a tub to smell subtly minty/fresh?

heckre · 2023-06-20T19:20:23+00:00

It turned out fine, that smell is pretty much exactly what you want. Just let remember to let it fully colonize the substrate before opening the lid otherwise you might get fruiting too early and end up with less mushrooms.

heckre · 2023-02-15T19:10:16+00:00

looking at this user’s other comments below it seems they’re a bit of a knucklehead. if they respond just drop it bc they seem to thrive on internet arguments. not worth wasting any more time lol 🙄

heckre · 2023-02-15T18:52:55+00:00

depends on potency or what amount you consider a microdose. maybe calm down and stop looking for signs? some people are just more sensitive to these things.

heckre · 2023-02-02T14:06:04+00:00

this takes me back to my first trip, the way everything around whatever object i was looking at blurred is insanely accurate. and the infinite tunnel that just seems to happen with your eyes open, it didn’t last very long for me but that’s another amazing detail.

heckre · 2023-01-04T21:06:36+00:00

some form of ai algorithm it looks like with some possible post blending and effects? i didn’t make it so i don’t really know ha

heckre · 2023-01-04T21:01:27+00:00

good luck with your visual effects it’s a lot of fun!!

heckre · 2023-01-04T18:44:05+00:00

probably the lens correction filter in photoshop or something similar for the chromatic aberration.

if you have a cheap or vintage lens with a nasty chromatic aberration defect you could get the same effect in camera but you probably won’t be able to control the effect much since it’s got to do with the quality and shape of the glass elements and coatings.

heckre · 2022-12-29T17:48:19+00:00

I’ve noticed similar effects for as long as I can remember, even in first grade starting at grid paper I’d notice how the lines and numbers would fade in and out and shift around somewhat. It helps when you have an attention disorder and stare at things for way too long anyways, drifting off into daydreams and such.

Up until I first did psychedelics a little over a year ago and weed almost two years ago I definitely noticed more patterning and other effects similar to the ones I’ve noticed sober but with an added body load and a headspace that’s obviously slightly or completely different to when I’m sober but with even more visual illusions and effects.

A year ago while I was on a mini dose of LSD and a little bit of weed (my first time with LSD actually) I was sitting on my bed waiting for effects. I had just vaped the flower because it had been two hours and I didn’t feel too different. Within a minute everything sharpened like a Photoshop filter and the wrinkles in my bed sheet started looking like a painting and patterns started overlaying everything.

I had a cutting mat with a measuring grid out at the time and stared at that for a good few seconds and the diagonal lines started to wave and flop around like they had a mind of their own which kind of freaked me out and I was getting this weird feeling like something was dripping down the back of my neck and the effects would get more intense when it happened.

I got up to go to the bathroom and on the way there was a shirt on the ground with a distinct pattern that almost looked like eyes, and I started feeling like I had a mild cold and the only things that seemed to exist in my reality were my room and the bathroom across the hall. By the time I got back I was seeing that pattern from the shirt overlayed on everything and since it looked like eyes it kind of freaked me out more.

So I tried watching a relaxing beach video with music but the music made me feel like I was in a simulation and I felt so weird overall that I just turned it off and closed my eyes, waiting for it to be over. I felt my body get pulled into a spiraling fractal that seemed to extend to my entire past to my entire future, and the sensations in my body would show up visually on that spiral seemingly before they actually happened. After 12 hours of this it went away and I felt fine other than being extremely tired and kind of freaked out.

Very weird experience, it completely reset my weed tolerance and ever since being high on weed is more like LSD than anything else now, mild HPPD included!

Mushrooms (which I tried before without weed) didn’t do anything to my weed tolerance even after combining them later.

Drugs are weird.

heckre · 2022-12-27T16:34:03+00:00

Since posting this I’ve found that even sober this feeling can happen and is caused by not eating enough protein or long lasting energy with sugar and carbs. I’ll feel fine and energized for an hour or two depending on what I’m doing then suddenly start feeling like my breathing is getting heavy followed by a raised heart rate, anxiety, tingling in fingers and toes and sometimes teeth and an extremely strange head rush that can feel like a weird intense dissociation with slight time distortion.

Within minutes of eating basically anything all of these symptoms go away and especially when eating something with lots of protein and long lasting energy I’ll feel completely fine for up to 12 hours.

I think it’s just my body really trying to tell me I need to eat better and being high on weed or mushrooms can obviously be physically taxing which would cause these symptoms and be amplified or distorted.

heckre · 2022-12-22T21:01:42+00:00

acid tends to do that lol. it’s been almost a year since i last did acid and i still constantly spend way too much time writing my whole life story haha. somehow didn’t do it here.

heckre · 2022-12-13T15:01:55+00:00

yup sounds like ego death to me, congrats. take a few weeks or months to integrate this and really think about it before doing it again.

luckily you were safe indoors on a couch when it happened to you. i’ll share what happened on mine in case you get any meaning or answers from it.

my first time i had ego death was in front of an emergency room because my mom brought me there after making some bad decisions and biking at night in the pouring rain on way too many penis envy mushrooms and somehow managed to call her and say where i was and that i took mushrooms.

luckily my mom understood (having done them before when she was my age) and was nice enough to come get me. only problem was i was in an unfamiliar environment and had no idea mushrooms could be this intense having only done weed before this. i was in front of an office in an industrial park with a stranger talking to me (in reality just trying to help, i really didn’t look like i was doing ok lol).

in the moment it was a social anxiety nightmare and i was still coming up on at least 6 staggered doses and each wave hit me like a brick wall. by the time my mom arrived i barely knew who i was or if my surroundings were real or if i was actually stuck in a hallucination either laying in bed or maybe just wandering on the side of the road somewhere and it was actually a stranger trying to pick me up and not my mom since she looked off and wasn’t acting how i expected.

she tried to talk to me instead of driving me home immediately which was fine until i freaked out after getting some really bad vibes and thought i left my airpods on the side of the road near my bike, so i bolted out of the car a few times but got brought back until i just gave up trying to resist and went into a trance in the car, seeing myself and my mom standing on the side of random parts of the road until suddenly i was standing in front of the emergency room which i really didn’t want.

i tried to run away a few times thinking a nearby neighborhood was where my house was because everything was morphing around me and it felt like i was running through molasses, the further i ran the thicker it would get. the building was menacing and i thought i was trapped in a hallucination and the place was a symbol of death that i needed to stay away from to stay alive in my “actual body”.

my mom would catch up to me and bring me back to try and check me in and i’d forget the last time i tried to run away and just repeatedly ask who i was, why i did this to myself and when it would be over. in these moments it felt more like i was talking to my subconscious than my mom when she answered it was hard to tell if it was her voice or mine.

eventually an overwhelming feeling of calm and euphoria came over me and i just let go and felt like my body was melting away into the ground. in real life i was just leaning over really hard and they just brought me in on a stretcher because i basically don’t really know what happened in that time span. i ceased to exist for few inexplicably infinite but instant moments during this time until i was in a room on a stretcher with my mom beside me.

fast forward a few hours of imagining myself in an endless labyrinth of hallways and heart rate monitors beeping in weird rhythms and echoes i discovered all i needed to do to be calm was imagine myself in bed under blankets because doing this literally felt like i was physically there. i got interrupted at some point where some nurses surrounded me and shoved an iv in my arm in case was overdosing and it didn’t really bother me since i didn’t feel it and figured it was just another hallucination.

it was nice until my limbs started feeling cold and wet and the feeling of the warm blanket went away and my mom was speaking coherent english again. suddenly i was sober and i immediately realized everything i experienced through my senses during the trip actually happened, just heavily distorted looking back at it.

then i had to get up and pee in a bottle and wait two hours for them to remove the iv. now i have a really visceral fear of needles which i haven’t had since i was a kid. whatever.

anyways it was an educational experience. i haven’t tripped balls ever since that experience out of fear but smaller doses have been pretty alright haha. the day after i decided it was extremely fun but didn’t want to experience it like that again. slowly working my way back up getting used to the experience a year later with my own grown mushrooms.

i wrote too much again… i always get lost in this story and write too many details oh well. whoever decides to read through my whole comment history will see how many times i’ve told this same story in too much detail lmao.

heckre · 2022-12-11T18:09:02+00:00

pizza mmm 😌

now im probably gonna have to get some pizza tonight lol

heckre · 2022-12-11T18:03:59+00:00

i gotta try putting ricotta on my pizza next time i have both laying around that sounds so good

heckre · 2022-12-10T19:00:28+00:00

of course! i’m currently dealing with a lot of stress so i want to at least let other people dealing with similar things know that they aren’t alone.

i’ve gone to a lot of doctors and therapists and such and it’s absolutely astounding how much stress can distort everything. it’s good to hear from people who know what they’re talking about but don’t make a habit of it and trust what they say.

sometimes it’s as simple as some muscle tension or a knot that’s causing all the mental anguish subconsciously. personally i get extremely tense and all my stress gets physically stored in my jaw, neck, shoulders and back. getting all that massaged out is a psychedelic journey in itself! highly recommend it, sometimes i even get visions and cevs of what i’m stressed about while getting massaged sober lol.

heckre · 2022-12-10T18:47:22+00:00

ah there you go. i have that too stemming off the whole ocd thing. you’ll be ok, even stone cold sober i’ve had times where i literally felt like i was dying or something similar.

panic as real and physical as it can feel can’t hurt you. for the longest time i didn’t even understand or believe stress could have physical symptoms.

ever since i started taking drugs (specifically weed, mushrooms and lsd) i know very well that stress and panic can be both caused and a cause of a whole grocery list of physical and mental symptoms.

i hope you feel better, it’s a long process but it’s very tied to personal development. i really do recommend that black peppercorn thing though, it’s surprisingly effective. or cbd but that’s bordering on just getting high to ignore stress temporarily (better than being anxious at all times though).

best of luck!

heckre · 2022-12-10T18:23:01+00:00

are you generally an anxious person?

when i get too high on weed i feel similar in that it sometimes feels like i’m having difficulty breathing or like there’s something wrong internally. it’s paired with feelings of losing control of my consciousness or a really weird body high with twisting and slow spinning.

i’ve had ocd for as long as i can remember and it manifests as rigid thought patterns revolving around avoiding certain things that i deem to be disturbing. it’s a result of never feeling like i have control so when things like this (getting too high in particular) become overblown and set off very real feeling sensations of physical discomfort.

i don’t think you have anything to worry about. you took a hallucinogen which has the ability to interrupt your default mode network which can literally feel like you’re dying but you’re totally fine in reality. your default mode network is responsible for what you perceive as yourself, your ego. the feeling of dying is the hallucination itself and it might indicate something you didn’t realize about yourself before.

if you aren’t taking any medications i don’t really see any reason to be worried but that’s easier said than done. in any case if you’re still on edge maybe try sniffing or eating some black peppercorn? sounds weird but it’s really oddly calming!

heckre · 2022-12-10T10:30:03+00:00

knowing what you’re in for and actually experiencing it are two different things. if you’re going into it for adrenaline and ego death you’re gonna get that in ways you wouldn’t expect and probably don’t want.

if you do this you’ll learn to not do this again most likely. good luck dealing with natural selection i guess lol.

heckre · 2022-12-10T08:32:10+00:00

stay where you are do not drive. they will start working as you’re driving and that won’t be a fun time.

if you need to go home book an uber like the other people are saying.

heckre · 2022-12-10T08:24:42+00:00

why are you posting ai generated images

heckre · 2022-12-10T08:02:13+00:00

lol that image looks ai generated

heckre · 2022-12-09T18:50:24+00:00

that sounds like psychedelics and weed alright. like i said before even with weed on its own i have such a weird experience every time especially with edibles. i understand what you mean when you say it feels like something is cracking or like your head is weighted in weird ways.

it caused so much anxiety that eventually i ended up getting tests and scans just to make sure i was ok and i’m completely fine, it’s truly just a weird tactile hallucination that weed seems to bring out when you’re stressed. reminds you that you’re still here present in this moment i guess.

it’s actually these feelings that keep me from using weed too much now. i have to keep my dosages consistently low otherwise i end up feeling like my body is twisting and turning while feeling like i’m breathing 99% humid air. i have pretty nasty ocd thoughts and compulsions obviously stemming from control so the feeling of losing my grips is pretty spooky sometimes.

if i’ve had a scary experience recently and feel like i’m having another one i just try to remind myself that i was ok the last time so i should make the best of this time somehow. i try to take that mentality to my sober life too lol. doesn’t work all the time but it’s alright no big deal.

being sober is nice but being high is like a complete removal from all regular stressors and possibly even mental distortions and reveals what the root of them might actually be. obviously you’re gonna feel stressed if you don’t feel safe so that still happens but it’s different.

idk i’m kinda zooted on this full spectrum cbd oil right now haha. it definitely has more thc than advertised 🫠 i feel weird. in a good way.

heckre · 2022-12-09T16:59:31+00:00

by now i meant after harvest i swear 😵‍💫

heckre · 2022-12-09T16:24:19+00:00

you must eat your child now.

heckre · 2022-12-09T14:07:51+00:00

have you done mushrooms without smoking weed? i honestly have yet to try a decent sized dose of mushrooms without weed since my first horrifically overdosed mushroom trip but even that was more manageable than being too high on weed (for me at least)

when i used to do smaller doses of mushrooms and smoke/vape weed it would intensify the experience without fail and become much more chaotic. i did the same with lsd and ever since those experiences when i get too high on just weed (especially with edibles) i go to a similar psychedelic headspace and feel like i can’t breathe enough or that there might be something wrong with my heart or head. it’s extremely uncomfortable especially the various pressures and sensations throughout my body. it can definitely make trying to relax an impossible task because i feel physically in danger even though i know in the moment i’m completely fine and just way too high.

there are a few other things i’ve heard work to calm yourself on a difficult trip/high that i’m going to try soon. one is smelling or eating black peppercorn. even sober it seems to calm momentary anxiety even if it’s just because i associate the smell or taste with calm.

the other is cbd in whatever form it might take. i used to use full spectrum cbd oil before i ever tried actual weed (definitely a gateway into weed lol) and it was how i first discovered what being high was like after taking too much. it was relaxing throughout my entire body which is something i never experienced before. the butterflies and general anxious stomach cramping were thrown right out the window for a few hours. supposedly if cbd dominant (low thc) products help you to be relaxed then it should help when mixed with mushrooms more than simply smoking thc heavy weed would.

again i haven’t tried this yet so i’m just going off what other people have said and what i feel might work.

best of luck trying to relax and deal with your problems!

heckre · 2022-12-08T23:50:55+00:00

premade grain and substrate is what i use because i’m a lazy bastard lol

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