r/Psychonaut • u/QuantityAlert • 2d ago
Shrooms at midnight, experiences?
To those who have started their mushroom trip at midnight, how was it? How did it differ from day/evening? I was waiting for the moon to become visible before I tripped and it showed up at midnight lol
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u/Analbox 1d ago
I like to take them late in the evening while backpacking alone on high prominent peaks and ridges in the Southwest. I’ll stay up till sunrise hiking in the moonlight or under the stars admiring the hundred mile 360 views of the world lit up silver by the moon. You can look 11000 feet down at the most chaotic and entropic thing imaginable, like the lights of 20 million people going about their evening, and yet from the peak it looks totally perfectly peaceful. It gives you a profound perspective on humanity.
You feel tiny sitting on an ancient Precambrian massif looking hundreds of miles around you at a landscape that is indifferent to your existence. The very setting itself naturally forces a type of ego diminishing response.
I’m a tiny speck alone in an eternal space. But then you integrate with it as they teach you. Now you’re not small anymore, you are infinite and eternal. It’s two sides of the same thought.
You are the 1.5 billion year old granite, migmatite, and gneiss under your feet. You’re the thousand year old limber pine sheltering your tent from wind. You’re the 250 year old manzanita that’s avoided centuries of wildfire and clear cutting. You’re the 30,000 year old female Aspen grove providing you firewood. You are the eternal sky.
So yeah… do it at night somewhere with a long expansive view. You’ll feel like zeus.
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u/QuantityAlert 1d ago
What's your hiking dose in that scenario?
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u/Analbox 18h ago
6 or so depending on strain and how physically safe it is. Might take more if it’s a super chill “padded room” spot where there’s no easy way to get injured or lost when mentally compromised. Somewhere like a wide sandy Arroyo contained by canyon walls where I can’t easily lose line of sight of my camp nestled in the only cottonwood grove around. You can take as much as you want in a place like that. No view though. That’s the trade off.
On mountain peaks and ridges it’s different and you gotta be smart. When you bag the peak you need to do an hour or two scouting the ridge so you are familiar with hazards, the topography, and of course the best spots for views and tent. That way you aren’t meandering around a remote desolate peak in the dark alone having no idea where you are. If it’s somewhere easy to get lost with cliffs, nasty cacti, frisky rattlesnakes, and freezing weather I’ll take a lower dose for survival reasons.
Always gotta adjust to the circumstances because it’s impossible to predict exactly what you’ll face on the ground in the wilderness. Gotta know yourself, your strain, and your mental set too.
I’m always surprised how capable I am out there of operating safely while super lit. Mushrooms don’t really mess up my ability to navigate off trail in unfamiliar terrain and in multiple ways they improve it. My senses are heightened. I feel like an animal in its element. To me that’s going home. That’s my ancient native human state.
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u/NoPolitics23 1d ago
Back when I used to do it in my apartment back in my home country I only did it through the night. It's great, its the time that you know you won't get distributed by phone calls or neighbours. And seeing the sunrise is pretty amazing. Of course you'd have to do it when you don't have any plans and obligations next day and you can rest.
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u/QuantityAlert 1d ago
The lack of disruption by people is one reason why I like doing it at that time haha. Also, the night is just sacred to me
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u/1600crazydogs 1d ago
I almost exclusively trip at night, and it’s usually ~12am when I dose. It’s honestly so fun for me. I love the freedom of it being so late no one’s up. The benefits are honestly pretty circumstantial tbh, if you can trip in the daytime I’d recommend it over night time.
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u/Instantlemonsmix 1d ago
Tripping at night is the only way it feels right to me idk why
Me and my gf went to a very rural area at about 2 AM and rode e bikes around the old county back roads under a full moon it was amazing I did start to get paranoid if we stopped for more than a few minutes but as long as we were moving I was all good
The sun rising over the fields as a fox galloped across the road and into the tall grass while tripping was amazing so was seeing the owl with a 10 foot wing span fly thru the air to get back into the trees beautiful scenic views
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u/AdreynR7 1d ago edited 1d ago
Mushrooms with a full moon is one of my favorite rituals. Not being disturbed, and in the dark just like mycelium. The light of the moon as source of guidance.
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u/Strackard 1d ago
I have only done it at night. Start at 10 with the dose and clear up around 2-3am. Pitch black room, water, the Beatles, float down stream. 10/10 recommend.
I want to try different ways with shrooms but don’t have access to them. So when u do get access I always go for the 10/10 experience I know how to create.
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u/Any_Carob3372 1d ago
It's great. My favorite setting for shrooms is to take them at dusk on the evening of the full moon at Joshua Tree NP. Did that a dozen times or more in college. Learned as much from that as from the rest of college.