New user's microdosing experience
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:08 pm
I'm starting this thread as a new user of Amanita to share my microdosing experiences. I have used Amanita muscaria once before about 4 weeks ago with what, at the time, I thought was little effect, but then experienced some HUGE emotional shifts over the next 2-3 weeks that were otherwise totally out of the blue. So since then I've been watching as many Amanita Dreamer videos as I can and am MUCH better informed (I now realize I was really lucky that my first experience didn't make me very sick!).
I received a shipment of Siberian Amanita yesterday from MN Nice Botanicals (15g each of caps and powder). I measured the powder and it's nearly exactly 8 teaspoons (of dry power) by volume. I used this to calculate the equivalent of teaspoons of tea for "standard dosing" (ie. 1 cup of tea from 15g of caps). I used the amount of powder that would be equivalent to 1/2 tsp of "standard" tea (knowing that your mileage may vary & that natural substances are not "standardized"). So this is calibrating, sort of, this particular batch of Amanita powder and finding out what my microdose level is, both at once. I realize this will be an iterative process!
So I put the measured dose (about 1/3 of 1/4 tsp of powder--or approximately (I had to eyeball) 1/12 of a teaspoon powder is about equivalent to 1/2 tsp of "standard" tea) in about a tablespoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice for 20 minutes (so approximately 30% decarb). I then added some water (for palatablility) and drank it around 3 in the afternoon. I experienced mild nausea and very subtle calm and emotional warmth spread throughout my body.
Then just before bed, to my surprise, I was strongly guided to smoke as well. So I smoked a small cap in a water pipe I have. This was a very small amount and I experienced basically no effects--maybe a slight warming sensation throughout my body (but indistinguishable from temperature regulation swings that are fairly typical/routine for me).
What I want to share is the HUGE emotional effects I experienced this morning. After what amounts to 2 microdoses the first afternoon of use (3 microdoses total in my life) I woke this morning with a romantic song playing in my head that I've been torturing myself with for weeks lately. This song has been knotting up my gut--all kinds of angsty feelings that I have been tormenting myself with. "If the world was ending you'd come over right?" My unrequited obsession says she doesn't feel that way about me. Woe is me!!! kind of stuff. This morning, though, same song in my head--absolutely NO knot in my gut!!!!! Amazing. This is huge for me. It's kind of like, "if the world was ending--who cares? I don't expect that to happen, and so what if I have 'no one' who'd want to die in my arms" etc. Just angst totally gone and I'm laughing at myself (in a warm, calm good way) that I ever spent so much time tormenting myself over this.
Just a few microdoses that had little effect on me and I'm already feeling HUGE relief! What a beautiful and amazing Wisdom Teacher and Plant Spirit Ally. I am so grateful that They have tapped me on the shoulder and are willing to work with me. And deep gratitude as well to Amanita Dreamer for helping us learn how to work with Them safely and respectfully.
Blessings Amanita Dreamer and Amanita Mushroom!!!
I received a shipment of Siberian Amanita yesterday from MN Nice Botanicals (15g each of caps and powder). I measured the powder and it's nearly exactly 8 teaspoons (of dry power) by volume. I used this to calculate the equivalent of teaspoons of tea for "standard dosing" (ie. 1 cup of tea from 15g of caps). I used the amount of powder that would be equivalent to 1/2 tsp of "standard" tea (knowing that your mileage may vary & that natural substances are not "standardized"). So this is calibrating, sort of, this particular batch of Amanita powder and finding out what my microdose level is, both at once. I realize this will be an iterative process!
So I put the measured dose (about 1/3 of 1/4 tsp of powder--or approximately (I had to eyeball) 1/12 of a teaspoon powder is about equivalent to 1/2 tsp of "standard" tea) in about a tablespoon of fresh squeezed lemon juice for 20 minutes (so approximately 30% decarb). I then added some water (for palatablility) and drank it around 3 in the afternoon. I experienced mild nausea and very subtle calm and emotional warmth spread throughout my body.
Then just before bed, to my surprise, I was strongly guided to smoke as well. So I smoked a small cap in a water pipe I have. This was a very small amount and I experienced basically no effects--maybe a slight warming sensation throughout my body (but indistinguishable from temperature regulation swings that are fairly typical/routine for me).
What I want to share is the HUGE emotional effects I experienced this morning. After what amounts to 2 microdoses the first afternoon of use (3 microdoses total in my life) I woke this morning with a romantic song playing in my head that I've been torturing myself with for weeks lately. This song has been knotting up my gut--all kinds of angsty feelings that I have been tormenting myself with. "If the world was ending you'd come over right?" My unrequited obsession says she doesn't feel that way about me. Woe is me!!! kind of stuff. This morning, though, same song in my head--absolutely NO knot in my gut!!!!! Amazing. This is huge for me. It's kind of like, "if the world was ending--who cares? I don't expect that to happen, and so what if I have 'no one' who'd want to die in my arms" etc. Just angst totally gone and I'm laughing at myself (in a warm, calm good way) that I ever spent so much time tormenting myself over this.
Just a few microdoses that had little effect on me and I'm already feeling HUGE relief! What a beautiful and amazing Wisdom Teacher and Plant Spirit Ally. I am so grateful that They have tapped me on the shoulder and are willing to work with me. And deep gratitude as well to Amanita Dreamer for helping us learn how to work with Them safely and respectfully.
Blessings Amanita Dreamer and Amanita Mushroom!!!