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Last time I got a vivid experience, i took almost 40 grams of fresh hawaian truffles.

Not advising you should take that much of course. Or even suggesting you take it again. Just saying if you feel like it, you can up the dose a quite a bit, put a blindfold in a cozy bed in a safe and quiet room, and the result may differ.

Also everybody is different. Some people just don't react much to psylocibin and there is nothing one can do :)

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My first time (back when it was still legal in my country) was with 5 gram fresh mexican mushrooms (yes, fresh). Did I notice it! Almost fell asleep in bath (lucky I didn't fill it completely as a precaution), and the colours were beautiful, and music sound very 3D and touched me deeply.

In my experience, 40 grams is an absolutely absurd amount to take of anything (beyond alcohol) to get a mind-altering state. I can achieve a reasonably altered state from just a gram of mushrooms and a mild high on just 500mg.

Again, i'm not recommanding anything. I'm just saying uping the dose a lot is on the table.

As Roger Murtaugh would say, "I'm getting too old for this shit."

In most of the communities I've taken ayahuasca with, the "standard" dose is 1.5oz, which is ~42.5g. In others, it's even higher (or was, but has been reduced as they've refined their cook).

Also, note that was 40g of fresh truffles. That makes a difference.

40 wet is 4 dry

4-5g (dried) is about equivalent to 40g fresh.

Yeah but he didn't mention it was dried.

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