Psilocybin mushrooms/Summary

Main article: Psilocybin mushrooms

Psychoactive class: Psychedelics

Chemical class: Substituted tryptamines

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  0.25	-	0.5	-	1	-	2.5	-	5	g
  		Light				Strong

Harm potential

• • Not habit-forming with a low abuse potential
  • Extremely low toxicity

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached almost immediately after ingestion
  • Decreases to half after 3 days
  • Returns to baseline after 7 days
  • Cross-tolerance with all psychedelics

Physical effects

• • Muscle contractions
• • Sedation
• • Brain zaps
  • Frequent urination
  • Increased salivation
  • Nausea
  • Runny nose
  • Seizure
  • Watery eyes

Visual effects

• • Acuity enhancement
  • Colour enhancement
  • Pattern recognition enhancement
• • After images
  • Auditory distortion
  • Colour shifting
  • Colour tinting
  • Depth perception distortions
  • Diffraction
  • Drifting
  • Environmental orbism
  • Perspective distortion
  • Scenery slicing
  • Symmetrical texture repetition
  • Time distortion
  • Tracers
  • Visual haze
• • Geometry: Eventually leads to level 8B geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes
  • Transformations

Cognitive effects

• • Autonomous voice communication
  • Cognitive euphoria
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Enhancement and suppression cycles
  • Simultaneous emotions
  • Thought loop
  • Time distortion
• • Analysis enhancement
  • Creativity enhancement
  • Emotion enhancement
  • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Immersion enhancement
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Memory enhancement
  • Novelty enhancement
  • Suggestibility enhancement
  • Thought connectivity
  • Thought organization
• • Addiction suppression
  • Confusion
  • Language suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Personal bias suppression
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory enhancement
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Dosage independent intensity
  • Machinescapes
  • Scenarios and plots
  • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index