Amanita Muscaria — the Fly Agaric \ stacker news ~Photography

231 sats \ 4 comments \ @bitcoingraffiti 28 Sep Photography

Using observation.org I was able to pinpoint these beauties down and pick them. It is commonly thought that these are toxic, but this is not really the case if you take care. Again, this is the mycophobic culture at play. The Amanita muscaria has two main entheogenics (hallucinogenics): ibotenic acid and muscimol. The former is toxic at high concentrations. This acid though can be caroxylated into muscimol through drying and brewing a tea out of it. If you simply apply these methods then a poisoning can be prevented.

I mainly have experience with psilocybin which is the more popular entheogen, and one with which you can trip visually. The Amanita muscaria is not at all the same. I only have minor experience with it and have not had any significant effects. Though those I had imported from Ukraine. These ones are from my locale. I ate a few raw pieces, but nothing really happened.

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ninjagrandma65 28 Sep

I've also picked these and dried and used them. But the actual high from them sounds miserable (sort of like I've no desire to try the high of nutmeg), while using a very small amount as a sleep aid is amazing. They work similar to Ambian on a neurological level, I think is what I read, but without all the side effects. My experience is you'll get a very nice feeling right before falling asleep, then have vivid and intense dreams that are quite great, then wake up feeling physically very refreshed. Muscles and mind both feel great.

The actual hallucinations sound like they can have you walking off balconies as you lose touch of reality and feel a little too strong, OR you get stuck in a loop where you repeat your words and actions over and over and over and over again as time slows down... that's a description of how it went once for stamets, by stamets, if I remember right. So. I personally have no desire to use them for trips. More a sleep and health aid from time to time, and the amount to help sleep is very very tiny.

These are NOT psychedelics.

Also, boiling them a few times removes the active chemicals into the water, and if you throw that water out and repeat twice or something like that, you end up with a completely normal edible mushroom with zero effects other than food.

If you get really into hunting them, you'll find older ones bleach out, and I imagine thinking it's an older bleached one is how people end up mistaking deadly amanitas for these. So... stick to the red ones, even if you're pretty sure it's just an older muscaria. Don't risk it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti OP 28 Sep

Thanks. Yeh, I've noticed I get really sleepy when I drink the tea. Solid sleep afterwards.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 28 Sep

Isnt this the berserker mushroom?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingraffiti OP 28 Sep

This is the shroom shrouded in misinformation.