Yes I heard about those when I was a barefoot hippy Balgay.Hill To be truthful though, I only went barefoot for a couple of hours because it hurt my feet.
Around 25 or so of them should give you an interesting experience.
Do you need that many?! I did a little Google and (like cannabis was) they're being tested now with a hope to them being used for serious medication, treatment for depression I think. Something I don't know anything about at all and was only alerted to them when I was stood talking to one of the locals, he pointed out a bunch of yoofs wandering around in a field clearly looking for something. Yoofs in trainers and grey tracky bottoms etc are not what you generally see in a field all the way out here so they stood out like a sore thumb, he said that's what they were looking for. I later found those ^ in our fields, not many though. Haha, i'll have to look into farming them for the pharmaceutical industry
It just so happens there's new man in my life and his name is Alan Rockefeller. I've know about him for a little while but have recently become more intimate via YouTube. He's old enough to be my son, nay my grandson probably but what the heck does age matter, it's what you make of life that counts.
Learn a little about him below but if you YouTube his name it will bring up lots of short videos that he's done about fungi. He's truly a mine of interesting information and so laid back about his knowledge.
Balgay.Hill and Mike, you might find this interesting too.
Around 25 or so of them should give you an interesting experience.
Do you need that many?! I did a little Google and (like cannabis was) they're being tested now with a hope to them being used for serious medication, treatment for depression I think. Something I don't know anything about at all and was only alerted to them when I was stood talking to one of the locals, he pointed out a bunch of yoofs wandering around in a field clearly looking for something. Yoofs in trainers and grey tracky bottoms etc are not what you generally see in a field all the way out here so they stood out like a sore thumb, he said that's what they were looking for. I later found those ^ in our fields, not many though. Haha, i'll have to look into farming them for the pharmaceutical industry
You would start off with 25. Squashed into a little ball and swallowed with a drink. This would be great for a few weeks, then the effect wasn't as powerful, so you upped it to 50. After a few weeks you would need to up it to 75 to get the same 'trip'. I don't know if it was a case of building up a tolerance, or the 'shrooms lost their potency as the days grew shorter. Fly Agarics can be very poisonous in the South, but eaten for tripping farther North, so i wonder if something like that was happening.
We did this as teenagers and early 20's, then became sensible 'adults' and got on with life. There was another blip though. One of my friends rented a cottage in the Highlands for the weekend to celebrate his 40th birthday. This was many decades ago. A crop of 'shrooms was gathered, along with a few bottles of nice single malt. A hilarious weekend ensued, and many pillars of the community made a total arse of themselves. Great memories.
It just so happens there's new man in my life and his name is Alan Rockefeller. I've know about him for a little while but have recently become more intimate via YouTube. He's old enough to be my son, nay my grandson probably but what the heck does age matter, it's what you make of life that counts.
Learn a little about him below but if you YouTube his name it will bring up lots of short videos that he's done about fungi. He's truly a mine of interesting information and so laid back about his knowledge.
Balgay.Hill and Mike, you might find this interesting too.
There's a reliable source of 'shrooms on a common near where I used to live, and at this time of year we would see folk gathering them. I knew several folk who used them during their teens and twenties with no ill effects. However it seems some folk have less tolerance than others ... I knew a couple who had 'bad trips' and one chap who had really awful flashback effects for some years afterwards ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No, slime moulds are not fungi. They are members of the Kingdom Protozoa. They used to be included among the fungi because people found their dry fruiting structures in the woods when they were out collecting fungi.
In fact, the most characteristic structure of a slime mould is a plasmodium -- a giant amoeba with thousands of nuclei in a single mass of protoplasm. This plasmodium moves around slowly in decaying organic matter or the soil, eating - swallowing up or ingesting -- bacteria and other tiny particles of organic matter.
No true fungus 'eats' in this way. All fungi have to absorb their food.
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Something I don't know anything about at all and was only alerted to them when I was stood talking to one of the locals, he pointed out a bunch of yoofs wandering around in a field clearly looking for something. Yoofs in trainers and grey tracky bottoms etc are not what you generally see in a field all the way out here so they stood out like a sore thumb, he said that's what they were looking for. I later found those ^ in our fields, not many though.
Haha, i'll have to look into farming them for the pharmaceutical industry
He's old enough to be my son, nay my grandson probably but what the heck does age matter, it's what you make of life that counts.
Learn a little about him below but if you YouTube his name it will bring up lots of short videos that he's done about fungi. He's truly a mine of interesting information and so laid back about his knowledge.
Balgay.Hill and Mike, you might find this interesting too.
https://psychedelicreview.com/person/alan-rockefeller/
I don't know if it was a case of building up a tolerance, or the 'shrooms lost their potency as the days grew shorter. Fly Agarics can be very poisonous in the South, but eaten for tripping farther North, so i wonder if something like that was happening.
We did this as teenagers and early 20's, then became sensible 'adults' and got on with life. There was another blip though.
One of my friends rented a cottage in the Highlands for the weekend to celebrate his 40th birthday. This was many decades ago. A crop of 'shrooms was gathered, along with a few bottles of nice single malt. A hilarious weekend ensued, and many pillars of the community made a total arse of themselves. Great memories.
Your post made me laugh @Balgay.Hill! But even as a young hippy I never tried 'shrooms.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Here's some slime mould I found the other day, commonly called dog vomit for obvious reasons.
https://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/discover/plants-fungi/slime-moulds/
Are Slime Moulds Really Fungi?
Are Slime Moulds really Fungi?
No, slime moulds are not fungi. They are members of the Kingdom Protozoa. They used to be included among the fungi because people found their dry fruiting structures in the woods when they were out collecting fungi.
In fact, the most characteristic structure of a slime mould is a plasmodium -- a giant amoeba with thousands of nuclei in a single mass of protoplasm. This plasmodium moves around slowly in decaying organic matter or the soil, eating - swallowing up or ingesting -- bacteria and other tiny particles of organic matter.
No true fungus 'eats' in this way. All fungi have to absorb their food.