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Time to get some shrooms. I could really do with isolated psilocybin capsules though, the taste is terrible.

Grind them into powder, mix them to melted semi-sweet chocolate at low heat, pour into ice cube trays and let it harden.

Look up lemontek. Drastically shortens the experience, makes it much more consistent and the lemon juice overwhelms the flavor of the mushrooms.

Man, trying to look up "lemon tek shrooms" was worse than navigating the worst food recipe websites.

Alllll that text just to say "grind/soak the shrooms in lemon juice first and it will hit harder and last shorter".

It's so unnecessary though. You can just eat them as they are, no need to fuss around with grinding and soaking.

Eh, for me eating them alone can make the experience last upwards of 8-12 hours.

Meanwhile using the lemon tek the experience is consistently around 4 hours in length.

For me, this is the ideal trip length. I'm very rarely looking to spend my entire day tripping.

I wonder if the taste is mainly responsible for people throwing up? Done capsules and never had a problem that particular symptom.

I think it's person to person, I've never had any stomach issues at all.

No I dont think so. Mushroom outer layer is chitin-glucan complex which is really hard for our digestive system to process.

Lemon-trek is supposed to help by 1. griding it to a powder, and 2. Putting it in a lemon solution to help do some of that breaking down process

I’ve heard this a lot, but I think a good part of the nausea is caused by the same compounds as the psychedelia. LSD seems to cause just as much nausea, and it’s a tiny droplet of liquid absorbed through the mucous membranes.

I haven't experienced stomach issues from LSD, though I haven't always experienced them on shrooms either, so I don't know

I get motion sick when I hallucinate. I think LSD is the only one that never made my tummy rumble

As someone who gets motion sick very easily you have put me off mushrooms. Hours of motion sickness while high sounds atrocious.

Look at this optical illusion and then look at a wall. That's pretty much what it looks like when people say walls are breathing. Add in tracers and closed eye visuals and it can get to be too much.

https://youtu.be/0GulnkYQcKY

I feel like even normal mushrooms can make you queasy if you eat too many, they are undercooked, or you're already feeling a little ill.

If you grow them yourself they taste pretty fine. Unsure if not using manure improved the taste though.

I find it's not the taste but the texture when they get stuck in my teeth.

I am surprised no one ever mentions psilacetin. You should get it. It is essentially a pill form of psilocybin. It is psilocybin without the shroom matter.

Where do you get it? In any case, if you put it in a capsule and swallow it, you're not going to be tasting it.

In my case the problem is not really the taste, but shroom matter is difficult to digest, and it is the cause of the nausea, and nausea completely kills the trip for me. I have not tried ginger + honey with ground shroom though.

I am not sure where to get psilacetin from, not anymore at least. It was readily available 2 years ago (was cheap as hell, too), but I don't know about today.

Have you tried them powdered? Even just chewing then throughly should help

I have not tried them powdered yet, I have no idea if I will do that anytime soon. Ginger + honey + powdered might work.

You can buy gelatin capsules on amazon and powder it yourself.

4-aco-dmt is what you want

Exactly, pure chemicals are the way to go.

There's no way for the average person to know it only contains 4-aco-dmt though.

I did 4-aco-dmt multiple times in high school.

Luckily, I just tripped and was grateful to be alive on the other side.

At least half, if not 15 out of 20 of my friends went completely into psychosis and a good majority of those people had persistent negative symptoms for weeks after.

Agreed. I have bought it legally from a reputable vendor in a country where it was legal at the time (and possibly still is), so I wasn't worried, but ideally some independent authority would do the testing on each batch and post it for everyone to check.

That would be ideal.

I also considered making my own. But then I thought that rolling your own chemistry could prove to be more fatal than rolling your own cryptography.

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