Tried amanita muscaria tincture

I harvest amanitas here(see pics thread the other day) def prefer to psylocibe these days. A lot more relaxing and dreamy than hallucinatory imho but I don't use much

Yea they get a lot darker here then the ones I got the other day. I dry the caps only, no extraction and sometimes tea. I'm def in for the mild rides these days

A touch of cray?

Just a touch 

ive picked them and processed them both in the oven and by sun drying. all of my experiences with it in varying doses were slightly psychedelic/dissacosiative, but mostly sedative, with very clear GABA activity and effects similar to alcohol or benzos. i guess at some point i could try harvesting a larger amount, break them into pieces and blend them so i can take increasingly large doses and maybe get something more psychedelic, but for me, the mushrooms at doses i thought were reasonable based on the collective of online experience reports did not produce any worthwhile psychedelic effects that couldnt be exceeded by simply smoking lots of cannabis.

but there are certainly people out there who feel differently. many truly strange people claim to have insane psychedelic effects from this mushroom, or attribute great historical significance to it. like "soma shaman" hawk, who posted a video to youtube of him eating what he claims to be a death cap mushroom, amanita phalloides, and surviving via his magical amanita shaman abilities that he gained via daily ingestion of large amounts of amanita muscaria, or james arthur, the christian mystic who claimed the only true way to experience amanita was to eat/make tea from the mushrooms, and then ingest cups of your own urine every hour until you achieve some kind of mystical death/rebirth experience, and of course john marco allegro, the biblical scholar who developed the theory that christianity was based on a fertility cult that practiced the ritual ingestion of amanita mushrooms, and that christ was a mythical figure inspired by mushroom experiences.

personally im unconvinced.

That's been my experience also and why I prefer it

TBH if its going to mostly just be a sedative experience, id prefer to just use opiates. i know opiates are the big demonized drug these days that will turn you into a dick sucking crack whore if you simply look at a single pill, but ive been growing a small crop of poppies and drying the material for tea every year without issue for quite a long time.

Do you measure the amount, or do you just eyeball what you're going to nibble / make into tea?

i measured my doses in grams. i dont remember what i took, at the time i was very into the online ethnobotanical world and knew what average doses to try via discussion on forums like edot, lyceaum, mycotopia etc. you could probably glean similar info with less effort from the amanita muscaria vault on erowid.

if youre ever wondering if you should eyeball a drug or not, the answer is probably no.

bro, are you seriously going to give up without trying the james arthur method where you drink cups of your own piss all night??? for shame