 I have recently tried psilocybin and it completely changed my life. But will I do it again? Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. My name is Greg and I'm a brain hacker creating content that will help you upgrade your brain performance. If it's interesting then subscribe below and join our amazing community. Today I want to share with you my experience with psilocybin or so called magic mushrooms. I want to talk about what happened during my experience but I also want to talk about the long-term benefits I got from taking psilocybin. Now just before we begin keep in mind that I do not recommend taking psilocybin or any kind of other psychedelics and I've taken them in a safe and legal environment. Now just before I share my experience with psilocybin I want to answer the most important question which is why would anyone even consider taking psychedelics? Now the thing is that psychedelics are psychoactive substances that can alter your perception of time and space. They can produce changes in your mood, in well-being and even in cognitive processes. Now most importantly you can find more and more studies supporting the fact that psychedelics can improve certain mental disorders such as depression, they can have with anxiety, they can have with obsessive disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder for example and so on. They're right now studying psychedelics to use for people who have PTSD and the current findings show that psychedelics can be very very effective. Now also recent studies also show that psychedelics may protect you from inflammatory diseases but what's really interesting what I just found is that researchers conclude that psychedelic drugs leave people more socially connected even after the effects of psychedelics wind off. So basically you get some long-term benefits from taking psychedelics but psychedelics can also be very dangerous especially if you take them in an unsafe environment, if you don't take the right dosage or if you have certain mental disorders. In any case if you ever decide to take them you should consult experts and know your neighbor Joe who is growing magic mushrooms in his basement is not an expert but I'm talking about psychotherapists and other experts who have experience with psychedelics and know how to support you from the moment you decide to take them till the end of the process this is very very important. So just before I actually decided to take psychedelics and go on a psychedelic trip I ordered this book called the Psychedelic Explorers Guide to read all about psychedelics and I highly recommend reading it and then I talked to my psychotherapist who agreed to do this session together and that she's gonna help me through the process and then I was ready to do it. By the way guys if you like this video please press the like button below. So before my first psychedelic trip I had about a two-hour session with my psychotherapist and we used those two hours to basically talk about the goals of this psychedelic experience. This is very important because if you just take psychedelics for fun if you take magic mushrooms for LSD or whatever for fun well you may enjoy it or you may not enjoy it it depends on what kind of trip you're gonna have but it's really hard to expect any kind of long-term benefits and for me that was really important to see if psychedelics can really provide some kind of long-term changes so I used those two hours to kind of write down my goals to think of why don't want to take psychedelics in the first place and when I did this I was ready to start the experience so the next day at about 8 in the morning I was ready to take about two grams of magic mushrooms. So the first thing I did is I actually tried a tiny bit piece of magic mushrooms and I really didn't like the taste I was chewing them for a bit too long and it was really disgusting and then I actually decided to prepare a tea a magic mushroom tea which is much better to drink the taste is much better and also people who have some stomach issues and stuff for them it's probably better to drink this tea than just to swallow all the mushrooms at least in my experience that was better. Then I waited for about 30 minutes and nothing was really going on even though I you know I was looking around I was touching my face trying to see if something is going on if I can feel some effects but in about 30 minutes nothing really happened but I knew from the book that in about 30 to 45 minutes the effects should start coming up I should start seeing something feeling something different so in about 45 minutes after I took or I drank the tea I decided to go to the bedroom where I had my sleeping mask prepared my noise cancelling headphones and a really good playlist with some of the best classical music so there because I read that classical music is kind of a deep bass music to listen to when you do or go on a psychedelic trip so then I lay down in my bed I put my headphones on I waited for about maybe 10 15 seconds I'm not really sure and then all of a sudden it hit me like crazy at first I didn't really know what's going on and I didn't like the effect for the first couple of minutes but the longer I waited the more strongly got and the more I started to like it so it's really hard to explain what happened in the next three three and a half hours because I think everyone will have its own individual experience which will be quite different than mine but I can tell you that was it was really really strong it was really adventurous it was really well fast moving lots of memories came up I was flying in between I was doing crazy stunts it was really really strong I felt like I played the main role in my movie and this movie was the craziest movie I can or I could think of it was so insane now there were certain moments kind of dangerous moments within this movie of mine but I never felt anxious that was really interesting I never felt like I'm in danger I never never felt nervous I actually felt more nervous and anxious the day before and in the morning before I actually took the mushrooms than during the end after the experience and that was really really profound now in between the trip I had to go on a toilet I think two times and the first time was nothing special but the second time was really really funny because I had a really hard time peeing into the toilet because I felt like the toilet is kind of moving around yeah it was really crazy but yeah anyway I managed to do it and it was all good and the funniest thing was when I came back to my bedroom put the headphones on so when the music was on I was in this own movie of mine but when I put the headphones down where there was no music all of a sudden I felt completely different like I'm in a different movie so I was like kind of switching between two movies and it was really crazy how also the music can enhance those effects or the perception of those effects that happen during the experience now till the end of the experience after about three hours or something I really didn't want the experience to end because it was so fun so I started switching the music the songs actually and I started searching for my some of my favorite soundtracks from Hans Zimmer and so on and I hope they will kind of extend the period and they actually did so I think all in all I was in my bedroom for about three and a half hours and man that was that was really something that was amazing now after three and a half hours I turned off the music and the day continued pretty normally I didn't feel weird anymore I didn't feel high anymore and the day was pretty much normal of course I had those glimpses of memory or glimpses of events from before which were very strong so there were moments when I went back into where I was before and it was really magical I think that's the best word to describe it it was magical but overall I felt good I had no side effects no nothing so that was all fine now today after my psychotherapy I had about a two hour session with my psychotherapist where we mainly talked about my experience about the memories that came up and there were many many memories honestly I needed about 10 to 15 hours of psychotherapy to go through all the memories and to explain everything that happened and I honestly felt like that with this one psychedelic trip I had like tens or even hundreds of hours of psychotherapy it just speeded up the process very very much and I didn't expect it to happen but it was really profound by the way guys do you want to know how well does your brain perform go through our free brain assessment link in the description below and get your brain performance score so how about the long-term benefits how they feel today and would I do another trip again well first of all since the experience and since the psychotherapist I've never felt better I'm super productive I'm super focused I'm in a good mood most of the time I'm not really stressed I'm not really anxious I'm not depressed at all and I'm feeling really really good I also wasn't sick not even once since this experience and it's been a couple of months and that's really interesting to to see now the psychedelic experience on its own it helped me kind of unlock my mind for a short period but I think that the psychotherapist that happened after the experience helped me keep my mind unlocked so I think you kind of need to do both things at the same time if you really want to get those long-term benefits that I just described so there's no doubt this was a really mind-altering experience but what's next should I do this again should I try LSD should do micro dosing again well first of all at this moment I don't need another psychedelic experience I'm feeling really good I'm present I'm motivated I'm happy and that's really important now in the future I might try a higher dosage from two grams maybe I might try three grams of psilocybin I might even try LSD well seen but I also tried micro dosing in the past weeks actually and that's what I want to share in my next video so if you're interested then subscribe below and you will be informed when the next video is published but overall yes I would do this whole trip with psychedelics once again it was really mind-altering an amazing experience that yeah left me with many long-term positive benefits that I'm super happy about and yeah it was magical all right guys thank you for watching if you had a question that has it contact me follow your inception and guys I hope to see you soon again stay well