What are the physical effects of magic mushrooms?

Answer 1

In the case of mushrooms "overdose" is completely relative to the person; what may be just right for one person can be way too much for another depending on experience, personal brain chemistry, and disposition. The lethal dose is far more than any one person is going to eat or could even possibly consume in a sitting. In the sense of taking a dose greater than desired, the effects are going to vary between people and dosages. Someone who is simply having an overly intense experience may become highly detached from reality, paranoid, scared, and act highly illogically if they don't feel they can handle the experience, but it depends on the persons mental composure in general, current mindset, and environment. At higher doses a person may involuntarily externalize an internal monologue, get stuck in thought loops, lose normal conscious thought (subconscious remains) or even consciousness all together, for example. These things aren't good or bad in nature themselves, but can be profoundly powerful effects that can come as quite a surprise (anything is possible, these are just things i have experienced) if never encountered before. For many people that have experienced it, an overdose of mushrooms is actually incredibly positive if they can learn to cope with it, "go with the flow", and provided they can actually remember it. The first time anyone takes a large dose it's going to feel like an "overdose" at some point because you have never seen anything even on the same scale of intensity before. The substance itself has a very high effective dose to lethal dose ratio(~1:1000) especially when compared to alcohol, nicotine, or even Tylenol, which can all easily cause organ damage and death at relatively low levels compared to the effective doses used.

Answer 2

* muscle spasms * feeling like you are pissing in your pants when you are not * numbness * tingling * dilated pupils * nausea * not being able to stand up (at high doses) * loss of coordination Eating magic mushrooms is like a voluntary food poisoning, there is a lot going on in the stomach as the mushrooms are being digested and the chemicals released into the brain. That is why in the beginning of a trip you might feel like you need to vomit... it is simply your body's defense doing it's job. Try keeping the mushrooms in for as long as you can if you want to feel the full effects of your dose, though vomiting may also be a sign that you just took too much this time.

Answer 3

for first time, it may be hard to get over the way it makes you feel. Intense! as far as i know, i don't think there are any physically harmful effects from taking shrooms. all you have to do is avoid eating amanita muscaria, because those can destroy your liver and stuff.

Answer 4

Magic mushrooms are a psychedelic hallucinogen, and thus they can produce profound changes in perception (typically vision, but also touch and hearing), feelings of euphoria, feelings of fear and panic, emotional instability, and similar effects. As indicated by the list above, the mushroom experience can vary widely.

Answer 5

Not practically... it would take more quantity of mushrooms than a full 3 course meal. And even still it would probably cause suffocation after vomiting - therefore not the primary/direct cause.

Answer 6

Although an 'overdose' of magic mushrooms is generally not regarded as life threatening, the experience can be exceedingly distressing for the affected individual. Symptoms of an 'overdose' include moderate to severe anxiety and panic, racing and incoherent thoughts, vast distortions of perception, and possibly related physical symptoms such as perspiration and rapid heartbeat.

Some of the 'overdose' effects are sought by users, and the line between an acceptable dose and overdose is nebulous. An overdose is usually regarded as a dose which produces effects which are overwhelming and more intense than desired. Thus, a dose which is an overdose for one person may be an acceptable dose for another.

As previously stated, the overdose is virtually never directly lethal (unless, for example, one has a severe heart problem or similar illness); the danger of the overdose lies in accidents, unpredictable behavior, emotional distress, and potentially subsequent mental health issues, which can be similar to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Answer 7

None, magic mushrooms (psilocybin) are not physically addictive (there are no physical withdrawal symptoms). They can be psychologically addictive, however, the potential for psychological addiction is very low.

Answer 8

Magic Mushrooms are considered a hallucinogenic, meaning the drug will normally cause you so see things or effects that are not really there. The other common effects are feeling that your senses are mixed up, like hearing colors and seeing sounds, the feeling of time speeding up or slowing down, feeling like you are in a dream and sometimes they can cause you to feel sick.