I suffered severe depression 18 years ago as a teenage, got addicted to cigarettes. Spent my whole life fighting Cigarettes addiction. I was actually diagnosed with cptsd and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

Drugs kick in when they hear you talking shit about them

If smoking weed affects memory loss then what does smoking weed do?

I know of this Italian dude who would eat them often. He would grow to nearly twice his size. Gained an unbelievable ability to jump.

One time I was tripping hard with my 3 roommates in college. We were tripping so hard none of us felt comfortable even speaking. We just laid around in the living room remaining silent. We were a good 5 hours into this trip of silence when all of the sudden I looked over and seen a green troll run across the room. I remained silent, but looked back at my roommates. Suddenly the silence was broken when my one roommate looked at me and said, “I saw the green fucker too”

"I read in literature almost no one had eaten them... so i made an omelet." wtf haha

I've always said that psychedelics generally work like an onion when you use them in a proper way. You work yourself through the layers of the onion and once you have finished up a layer you go a layer deeper, tackling deeper topics and deeper fears. If you overdose, you forcefully rip open deeper layers that you aren't ready for, being totally overwhelmed by what erupts.

Berserkers back in the day trippin sac “Woah did I just kill someone?” Kills enemy “Woah did I just kill someone?”

Every trip story I’ve ever heard involves them only going into the void after saying something like “huh I’m not high yet” somehow that’s the password to trip city

Eats the mushroom: does a push-up, does another, and another, and another. Best muscle building strategy known to man

Psychedelic mushrooms really healed me years back. These are great healing compounds! When used in proper context.

“You eat it and it makes you feel like a giant” You can’t convince me the Super Mario creators weren’t high as shit on Amanita

When you smoke a cig outside with the gas station employee:

He totally seems like an advanced mushroom disguised as a human

This guy is an incredible story teller.

I’ve taken mushrooms a lot and had some crazy trips, but the one that stands out the most isn’t even that crazy to tell, but it changed my life forever. I was 20 and hanging around with the wrong crowd. I was always doing stupid things and occasionally getting into trouble with the law. I was suicidal and confused with life. On a beautiful winters day here in New Zealand, I took a relatively small amount of Psilocybe Subaeruginosa by myself and sat at the top of a massive valley overlooking a river, trees and a couple of distant houses with smoke drifting up through their chimneys. It was the perfect setting. As I began to trip, I became overwhelmed with the silent sound of nature. The cold air in my lungs. I was immersed in the moment to the point I became emotional and extremely grateful for my finite existence. Things began to make sense. I realised for the first time in my life that I wasn’t just this confused thing living in the universe, but that I WAS the universe. I realised that I was just as much a part of the cosmos as the valley I looked over. I belonged there. It’s crazy that I only took the mushrooms to get f**ked up, I wasn’t expecting a revelation. I sat there for hours, watching birds fly below and above me, taking in all the colours, sounds and smells as the sun dropped behind the mountains and the sky changed in cinematic fashion. From that day on I found a new love for life and a deep, unbroken connection to nature. I breathe in differently now when I’m outdoors. I see nature as conscious and something worth protecting. How they can make psilocybin mushrooms illegal I don’t understand. I know many lost people that need to experience what I have. It could save their lives. I’m grateful for people like Paul Stamets and Dr Roland Griffiths. I hope whoever is reading this is doing ok. Peace and love. Edit: I just lost one of my best friends to suicide. He was such a confident person. Always full of life and by far the most charismatic person in any room. His death has sent shockwaves through our group. He never took psychedelics. Not once. In the past few years of his life, we drifted. He was in the UK and I was in NZ. I’m not here to say that psychedelics would have saved him, but I won’t pretend that they wouldn’t have potentially had an impact on his outlook of life. I’m burdened with the notion of “what if”. We have to progress in our society and bring psilocybin into the mainstream. It needs to at least be an option for people. Rest In Peace, Luke. Take care people x

All mushrooms are edible, just some only once.

"Yo this shit weak. Are you sure this is the real stuff?" -Everyone at the exact moment before they forget about their own existence for a few hours

Let's be adults about this. These are no longer 'shrooms. These are no longer party drugs for young people," "Psilocybin mushrooms are nonaddictive, life-changing substance..

Ohhh so now I get why Mario thinks he’s a giant when he eats the mushroom 🍄. He’s trippin balls 😂😂

He looks like a legendary film maker from the 80s

"Wow, these aren't that potent" famous last words hahaha

I’ve been addicted to heroin for 11 years, but after trying out psilocybin treatment I will be 2 years clean.

Will someone with exceptional artistic skill please animate this mans story with him narrating it and submit it to the Oscars. I gotta see this with my own 3 eyes.

I had a bad trip once. Definitely not going to Detroit again.

fighting naked with swords: berserker repeatedly dropping camera: also berserker

Don't forget to respect the mushrooms, Golden teachers basically, they have some very powerful potential. . It can show you what you need to see within yourself and in the world around you, changed my life for good. In the most positive way possible.

I tripped with a buddy who turned into a Irish man. 😂🤣 No matter how hard he tried he couldn’t lose the accent.

Step 1: I eat mushrooms Step 2: I don't feel anything Step 3: I think I feel something Step 4: I've entered another dimension

There's old mushroom pickers and bold mushroom pickers; but there are no old, bold mushroom pickers.

“The cool thing about convulsing...” -Paul Stamets

His story making me feel like im on mushrooms

Something about hearing stories from other trippers who can verbalize their experiences well.

I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with OCD. Spent my whole life fighting OCD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

When I was in Negril Jamaica, I met an old guy named Ted. He was a well known mushroom connoisseur, who appeared in High Times since the 70s. He had these crazy mushrooms his mother brought to Jamaica 80 years before. So he puts a nice pinch of mushrooms in the blender for each of us involved. Then he puts in some fruit juice, and then a tablespoon of honey for each 1 of us. He tells me that it will hit us faster. Then he turns the blender on for about 10 minutes. He tells me this is the way. Then we drank the stuff, 10 minutes later I had the craziest mushroom trip of my life! I was the funniest I've ever been. I was like a comedian, when normally I'm introverted lol. Hands down one of the best nights of my life. I was sad to hear when he passed. I could only imagine how many people he helped! 💯

“I saw death as a perpetual series of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of a conclusive thought” *woa*

It took me halfway thru to realize “Winnabaygo” wasn’t a native tribe but a bunch of RVs lol

Depression haunted my life from a very young age, and I was put on a bunch of SSRIs as a child in attempt to deal with it. None worked.Psychedelic mushrooms was brought to my attention. It was the first thing that actually had real effects. They should only be used with great care and respect.

He sounds like John Goodman but with bass turned down and treble turned up

I love how joe always lets them talk. You always see podcasts talking over them

"Now the cool thing about convulsing..." I'm dead 😂

“Ain’t nothin’ worse than a smart dumb n****” - Katt Williams

Him trying to unlock his car= Me trying to lose my virginity

im high af watching this..and...this guy has so many side stories to his side stories...

I wanna hear the story of why they aren't friends anymore

My husband, once in the middle of a mushroom 🍄 trip remembered he had a job interview. He climbed out the bedroom window 😳and went to the interview and got the damn job! 🤣

I got anxiety just listening to this story

The last time I tripped on mushrooms was back in 97. It was both amazing and traumatising at the same time. I was camping and we all imbibed around the camp fire. I first noticed something wasn't right when I saw the smoke was not drifting upwards as it usually would but it was flowing as though it were water. As I stared at the sky stars began to blink and pop out of existence until the sky was impossibly dark. Then I noticed that every time the fire crackled I could physically feel it and then all sounds became physical sensations. Colours were so intense as to be uncomfortable to look at so I focused more on the darkness. Even in the dark I could see everything though, and this was on a near moonless night. It became too uncomfortable to sit near the fire any longer as the crackling felt like I was being peppered with small stones so I go up to move back. the air felt so thick as though I was to wade through it like I was wading through water. The ground was soft and yielding and I distinctly remember how much it felt like I was on a "bouncy house". It was difficult to maintain my balance so I lay down on the ground in the grass and as I lay back and relaxed my body I felt the earth reach up and embrace me. I can still feel the warmth and firmness of its "arms" as it wrapped them around me and just held me. It was so intensely peaceful and I felt at that moment that the earth honestly loved me. When I woke up in the morning I could still recall all of this and I decided at that moment I was never going to trip again as I did not want to risk tainting this experience. It was almost as if I had been given a gift and I would spit on it if I tried to get it again.

Stamets is my favorite guest by far.

This would be dope for cranking out reps at the gym

“maybe these aren’t that potent” the activation phrase

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

My friends and I ate pantherena mushrooms and he had an “altered states “ moment where he turned in to a manimal and was growling . We happened to be on the top of a mountain at the time . He was furiously lunging in every direction. And me and another friend were trying to keep him off the cliff side of the mountain, when suddenly our manimal friend punched my other friend in the face and the lurched of into the underbrush , crashing through almost impassable brush . We gave chase and we completely lost him. By now it was getting dark so we headed down the mountain . We called the RCMP and the cop was so pissed off he made us walk back up the mountain with him and then after hours of bushwhacking we found our friend . Asleep under a tree and he refused to walk ,, so my friend and I carried him down in pitch blackness with the cop behind us pointing the flashlight in the direction down the mountain. Best mushroom trip ever.

Have you ever shot an elk in a sensory deprivation tank

I'm 51. I tripped BALLS back in the day. I had some of the best times of my life tripping acid and shrooms with my friends. I have ZERO desire to ever do it again. But ZERO regrets. Good times. Now I'm a father of five and a working professional.....God those were good times but I'm living my best moment right now

Psilocybin,LSD,and psychedelics generally are absolutely life changing substances that have so much potential to help people with mental health issues

Thought loops are the worst part of a bad trip, feels like you're in a perpetual hell

So you're telling me Super Mario is based on a true story?

This is one of those clips where you're like, "yeah, I'm watching that entire interview."

It's comforting knowing others have experienced convulsions/blackouts/repetitive motion syndrome along with me. I thought I was one of the only ones who ever just had a bad trip on mushrooms where just completely took over my body. The way he is explaining this is so on point, it almost gives me chills. Psychedelics are a powerful thing and I truly believe that they let us experience some kind of alternative realm or just something we cannot comprehend. Though I haven't used any psychedelics in years, I find them so extremely fascinating.

He was caught in the loop 😂 I was tripping one time and ended up on the Christian Channel and heard the word “Amen” I’m souther Christian and for some reason I burst out laughing at something stupid and said “aww man” and I legit kept laughing and finished laughing and repeated “aww man” and started laughing again

"Wow Dave, I dropped my camera!... WOW Dave, I dropped my camera!..." That was hilarious!

I felt like I was tripping when he was talking about the camera lol

I suffered the borderline disorder for over 23 years. With so much anxiety Not until I came across psilocybin mushrooms treatmentPsilocybin treatment actually saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms 0:07

The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself.

"the cool thing about convulsing...."

I feel like if you did enough shrooms this guy would appear and guide you through your trip like Virgil in the Divine Comedy.

“ I had a good friend , were not friends anymore “

Me and the girl were camping out in the sand dunes a couple years back. Tripping hard. We spent ages...and I mean ages working out how we could get to the top of this huge sand mountain to have a bbq on top. In the end we gave up as it was just such effort. The next morning we opened the tent to have a look at this "mountain ", and no kidding it was about 15 ft tall. 😄

“I saw death as a perpetual series of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of a conclusive thought”

When I ate shrooms I went for a walk and I swear I literally looked at people like they were robots. Like they were put there to live this never ending cycle till they die, work, eat, sleep and repeat. I felt like my spirit was trying to leave my body, I was starting to see the world for what it really is lmao

"Hold my beer,I think I dropped my camera" repeat 100x times 😂🍄

Rogan always goes silent when there's someone really knowledgeable talking about mushrooms. That was a really down to earth conversation 👍

Legend has it that Dave still roams the woods by the Lake looking for his cabin...

I bet this dude has never missed a grateful dead concert

AT FIRST..... I thought the thumbnail was a picture of Joe and Si FROM DUCK DYNASTY!!! HAHA ..... ain't no way though.

"I saw death as a perpetual series of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of an inclusive thought." I had to rewind so many times to process what he said. Glad I did

The weird thing about acid for me was the first time i tripped with my two close friends, we had no trip sitter to tether us to reality. there were a handful of people there but they all were either drunk or high. my friends and i kept trying to arrange plans for experiences and things we could do to amplify the effects of our trip, but after a while we started to realize we could never actually follow through with our plans, it was an odd thought loop that prevented me from even using the bathroom because i was so engulfed in the acid i could not remember my original plans causing me to say the same thing every five minutes like "dude lets go right FUCKING now outside" and we would all get hyped up to go outside but something would ALWAYS divert our attention at the last moment, which ended with me repeating the same phrase every 5 minutes, but still getting just as excited about the idea of going outside as the first time i suggested the idea. We never went outside that day. we kept forgetting

"I saw death as a perpetual sequence of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of a conclusive thought"

Took 2.5 (g) for tha first time in months. My close friend who i was with took around 4. Quickly realized we were around tha wrong ppl in tha wrong setting. Im graduating dis yr so decided to trip at my elementary school. Everything came to me in supersonic waves like Paul describes. Tha trees i used to look at walkin home frm school changed color n transformed in endless growth. The school was a psychological barrier that felt hard to escape. Me n friend walked across tha street away frm tha crowd (out of tha prison) which ensued tha first ego death. At my peak i felt like a rich greedy cartoon character with a large white smile n souless eyes. Blinded. Tha trip ended up stressful n fast. Threw up n cried together. But now i hav a brother n an experience to share.

Who are the winter bagel people?

Had mushrooms once and was tripping so vividly that the colours outside were too much so I went into my room and turned all the lights off. I was having the most insane auditory hallucinations, like clockwork I’d hear dogs barking and conversations all around me but no one was there, had full conversations on my phone with my dad and couple of friends, even watched KZfaq clips where all my friends were actors in movie trailers. This went on for hours and then when I finally started to come down I realised my phone wasn’t even on. 😂😂😂

I remember taking mushrooms one time and figuring out "the secrets of life." Needless to say I forgot what it was the next day, it's somewhere here in my subconscious tho.

Psilocybin are just an amazing discovery. It's quite fascinating how effective they are.

I am so glad Stamets is back, interest in mushroom medicine is thriving!

In the early 00's, my brother and I did some Hawaiian mushrooms and one of the most memorable highlights was us trying to make a glass of water for over an hour. We had the glass, we had the tap running, but neither of us could fill the cup.

Plot twist, Dave never really existed 🤯🍄

My friend had convulsions ones when he was triping on shrooms, and because of this the doctors did testing and found out he had a brain tumor. Hes doing well now.

“Did I just drop my camera? I just dropped my camera. Did I just drop my camera?”

Got anxiety just listening to that story. Sounds like a gnarly trip.

this is the first time I have ever heard an experience that mirrored my own bad trip. Never heard of the repetitive thing nor had anyone else mention it when I'd tell the story. Luckily for me, all of the most repetitive things were in my head, all it caused me to do physically was wander up and down a basement staircase, from my bedroom up to a thirty person party. I must have climbed and descended those stairs over a hundred times, each time for the same reason, and never reached the end of my quest before giving up and coming back down. Repeat. Fortunately I welcomed the idea I may have been dead. I recall disappointment coming out of it because I assumed had I really died I'd have recalled all the incredible things I had understood finally. I think to be the biker you have to have some inherently self destructive tendencies already. It was the acceptance of death that made me not want to do it again, a little too comfy with the idea can happen too. now its two and a half decades later I look forward to retirement and picking up psychedelics again.

When he says “I have a story.....omg”, you can see the darkness from the trip in eyes 👀

“Destroying Angel” is also the name I gave to my ex-girlfriend

"I saw death as a perpetual series of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of a conclusive thought" - I FELT THAT. I started using psychedelics at 14, then taking them for spiritual purposes and neurological growth when I turned 18. This quote from Paul Stamets sums up a deep thoughtful psychedelic experience that makes you get down to understanding the very nature of your existence and then coming back to the same point, other feelings "Ceterius Paribus". This made me realise that life and death truly are cyclical, the final destination is just the starting point of a journey and vice versa, the journey is what really matters. Psychedelics changed my life. for the best.

10:17 -“I went to coma-like state” - “So you recommended it?” Lol

One time I thought a branch was growing out my head

Listening to his trip is giving me anxiety

Rule one of drug use: make sure it's illegal. Rule two of drug use: make sure the source uses or at least has used the drug.

Ok this is my story, it was scary but also an incredible experience. I've been microdosing a couple of weeks now and it helps me with my mood, i take about 3g in the morning 3g after lunch, and 3g beffore sleep. So far so good. But i did a huge misstake one day, i thought, "maybe i should test its potential, try it out for real one time." I took about 15 big caps, one cap weight about 2-3 grams so it was maybe 35-45 gram. I mixed it in my blender with milk, it tasted discusting so not to recomend!... 50 min after intake i started to feel warm, a little swetty, nothing that was overwhelming, i felt calm, cosy. Me and my wife went to bed, but that day i sleept in another room. (i move around in the bed time to time).... I fell asleep and woke up around 00:30 i walked to the bathroom to take a piss. Then suddenly, SWISH, i woke up, again! and i walked to the bathroom, SWOSH, i was back in the bed and went to the bathroom, this started over and over again maybe 20-30 times, suddenly my wife appeared in the sceene and asked: "what are you doing" SWOSH... it started over and over again with some input from the "me" where i actually were but wasnt aware of then. It feelt like i was in 3 places doing stuff in the same time. The most clear pictures and where i though i were the most was in the repetive loop i desperate attempt to break out from, but i couldnt. I suddenly sat on the toilet this was the "second me"... this is where it goes bad, in that "me" i had to shit! At the same time i knew this wasnt real but it was so hard to tell that to myself to the other person who was stuck in that loop.... SWOSH the loop started over again, and i started from the bed again, met my wife, and this time my father in law camed in the door. The loop started over and over again!... SWOSH..... i now sat on the toilet again, started to empty myself, and i heard voices, NO NO NO NO.... SWOSH the loop started again. i meet my wife, father in law, and this time ambulance staff went in the door, SWOSH, back in the loop... while i were in my loop i though of a movie, "Time Traveler", i though i was in some experiement. I Tryed to remember things my wife said in the loop. I asked the staff their name to tell them next time the loop started over. I Suddenly saw my father in law asked him where are the ambulance staff? He said, theres no ambulance staff here, i also asked if i craped myself yet, no, not what i know he said. SWOSH, the loop started over. Now it started to fade, i saw the ambulance staff, my wife in the kitchen, father in law there in the hall. I realised i started to wake up. but the Loop started over again and they lost me, but in the end off the loops i knew what i saw, i knew this wasnt real, it started to clear in the head. Suddenly i stod in the shower, my wife helped me to shower my foot from my crap xD.... i was awake FINALY! But at the same time i could se in front of me, it was totaly clear HD quality of the loop i had experienced, i could see the loop of the scenario but now it only appeared in my head crystal clear in front of my eyes, it was amazing. I followed the staff to the ambulance and while i sat in the Ambulance it almost griped me again, but i focused to not go back in that damn loop again the staff saw me struggling, and i said "no prob i got it and i was back. But i saw everything it was some kind of photographic memory. I knew this would go away, that i never would be able to see this again if i dont take this high dosage, which i never ever will again xD This is a warning to others, with that said, i think amanita muscaria (Muscimol) is a fantastic medicin if it used right, like microdosing. Maybe it is possible to learn to drive this kind of experience with doses like this. This was as i said an awsome experience and scary to, it opened up another understanding of the human mind, brain and what potential it have built in. I could NEVER belive that i was going to experience this kind of stuff. Wow this was alot typing. I hope it was readable my english is little rusty. Thomas Schreiber

"Mate, you're foaming from the mouth!" Lol so are you Those were the days.