Not long term, but the two times I've done shrooms it just made me feel like I got hella drunk. No hallucinations, no groovy feelings, no sense of wonder... Just dizzy, nausea, and a general sense of numbness exactly the same as if I drank a whole 5th of Jack.
Odd. I have been catapulted in to several distant galaxies since this post and lived to tell the tale. Still, it affects different people in different ways. Having a fresh supply of "specialty" strains has provided its own unique benefits, for sure.
I know it couldn't have just been the stuff I had, since others took the same stuff and they describe having the kind of experience that led me to want to try them in the first place.
Weed has, so far, been the only narcotic I've taken that seems to affect me the same way as most people. But I'm not willing to try meth or crack until I am about to die. 🤷🏻♂️
No negative long term effects, but the experiences will stick with me forever and probably helped shape some of my personal philosophies and thoughts on stuff like conciousness and spirituality.
I am just over the "spiritual awakening" boundary myself. Over the last several months since this post, I have gone through some major shifts and it has absolutely been an amazing journey.
While I never will be religious, going through several instances of absolute ego dissolution has absolutely awakened something that I can only describe as spiritual. Once I saw for myself how fragile our perception of reality could be, it changed something. I dunno quite what, but it did.
While I still eat a couple of grams here and there, I don't really see the need to do more than that anymore. It's weird how that works.
My anxiety and depression are just shadows of what they once were. My weight has stabilized and my body is actually healing from what was years of alcoholism. (I actually quit drinking about a year ago but my health only recently stabilized once I was able to get my mind back on what amounts to a new plane of existence.)
Quitting drinking probably saved my life but shrooms are helping me rebuild my life. Well, shrooms pointed me in a really healthy direction, anyway.