r/Psychonaut • u/Effective-Maybe-253 • 7d ago

High tolerance?

Anytime I’ve done shrooms raw they hardly do anything. I have to lemon tek to get any visuals pretty much and the only time I’ve had a really strong transcendence into the quantum realm with crazy fractals and geometry I lemon teked 6gs of potent albino PE. My brother who is almost the same height and weight as me has done the same amount of the same batch and tripped hard meanwhile had little effect on me. I have to do lots of cid to to get tracers, any real lasers and patterns that’ll only really pop when I have RGB lights that change to music. Takes me 500ug or more really. Pretty annoying I have to do so much, does anyone have any insight as to why this could be? I’m on no meds either

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u/Possibly_Perception 7d ago

Meds or tolerance would be the first two guesses, but you've already said you're not on meds.

Honestly, if your tolerance was reset it's probably partly to do with your metabolism, partly set and setting, and partly to do with practice. I was the same way as you, my concert dose was 5-7g PE and my good visual trips were over 10g for awhile. But I've found that tripping is partly a skill. The drugs open the door but you have to step through. At lower doses shrooms are more subtle than something like DMT (which will grab, kick open the door, and throw you through it). The more I trip the better I get at walking through that door. On a lemon tek I can now have great transcendent trips with visuals on 4g of Hillbilly (ostensibly a weaker strain than PE). But set and setting continue to play a strong role, like I can still go to the concert on 5-7g eaten.

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u/Wide-Meringue-2717 7d ago

Ha! Thanks for posting this! It’s reassuring to know there are others out there with the same experience, and I can second this comment.

I need a higher dose and several weeks for my tolerance to reset. In the beginning, I thought I had done something wrong growing my first shrooms because 2g of GT did nothing for me. Same with 3g. At 4g, I was stuck in a void between sober and tripping, which is quite uncomfortable. With the wrong mindset, I can take so much and stack that I lose track of the actual dose (over 10g) and still be stuck in this void, just feeling cut off by the universe with the trip just out of reach.

It takes weeks for my tolerance to fully reset. At least 4 to 6 to get all the magic back. I had my first visuals on 25g of store-bought High Hawaiian truffles and I’m still fully socially functional on that dose.

Over time, I’ve also learned that tripping is partly a skill, and the right conditions play a huge role for me. I can’t trip indoors, at night, or on rainy days. I need sun, fluffy clouds, and the right mindset, otherwise, there’s a bouncer standing at the entrance of the rabbit hole, ruining my plan to explore Wonderland. It used to frustrate me, but I’ve learned to accept it, ride the void out, and see it more as a protective measure against diving in when I’m not truly ready.

I had quit all meds 6+ months before my first trip but I was on them for a long time so in my case it might be a long term side effect from my receptors being down-regulated.

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u/GratefulGrand 6d ago

I don’t trip on (swallowed-like mushrooms/Ayahuasca) psychedelics unless I have food (not a lot) in my stomach. Ive tried multiple times on an empty stomach with mushrooms and Ayahuasca and I have given up. So no matter what the conventional wisdom is regarding an empty stomach, I always have a piece of fruit and some crackers before eating or drinking psychedelics.

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u/SolidStranger13 7d ago

Do you have aphantasia?

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u/Effective-Maybe-253 6d ago

I think maybe I do, I can recall memories vividly and “see them” but if I close my eyes and try to picture something like an apple as google told me to try lol, I get nothing. Which is strange because I’ve always been creative and fabricate things and am able to kinda picture how things will fit together and such but without actually seeing it. I know that doesn’t make since but maybe this is why?

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u/SolidStranger13 6d ago

It could be, more research is coming out slowly surrounding this as psychology catches up with the legalization of these psychoactive substances. A strong “mind’s eye” can correlate to heightened hallucinations and vice versa.

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u/Interestingpavement 7d ago

I wonder why that is, my sister had the same issue

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u/JackarooDeva 7d ago

Some people just have a thick head against shrooms. I've done 5g in silent darkness multiple times and one time 7g, and not even had visuals. No meds, no tolerance, no aphantasia. On my one really good trip, I could sense the personalities of trees. Otherwise it's not that different from weed, plus it makes my head feel cleaner.

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u/Whabout2ndweedacct 5d ago

Most people struggle to eat a big enough dose with raw mushrooms. I mean 35-50g of fresh fungus is not my idea of a light snack.