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What Happens When You Take Mushrooms?

As hallucinogens, magic mushrooms can alter your perception of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. They can produce hallucinations or the feelings or sensations of things that aren’t real.

While many people claim they take shrooms for a peaceful high, there are also reports of bad side effects of mushrooms, like anxiety, frightening hallucinations, paranoia, and confusion. The co-occurrence of these side effects is often referred to as a bad trip.

For thousands of years, mushrooms have been used for both spiritual and medical purposes among indigenous people in the US and Europe. They have a long history of being associated with spiritual rituals and self-discovery.

Many people believe that naturally occurring drugs like psilocybin, cannabis, and mescaline are sacred herbs that allow people to attain enhanced spiritual states. Others use shrooms to experience euphoria and a distorted sense of time.

Short-term effects of psilocybin mushrooms:

• Increased heart rate and blood pressure
• Abnormal and rapid breathing
• Euphoria
• Sense of relaxation and well-being
• Confusion
• Disorientation
• Paranoia
• Slurred speech
• Loss of muscle control
• Impaired judgment
• Reduced coordination
• Irrational and violent behavior
• Distorted perception of reality
• Aggression
• Distorted sense of time and space