Breathing hats,
by Dr. George.
Hand-picked, oven-dried Amanita muscaria variation formosa...
I had been smoking Amanita muscaria (var. formosa) for a while, preferring
smoking them to eating them because of the smaller amount needed to get
high, the shorter wait, and the less time invested in the trip (not to
mention the awful taste of the mushrooms.) But, I had some time, and I
decided I wanted to hallucinate, so I capsulize 4 - 5 mushroom caps and
swallowed the pills.. I spent the time waiting for those two dissolve and
absorb by smoking some other amanitas I had. Nothing happened for about 2
hours, then I was sitting on my couch watching my hat sitting at the other
end, and it appeared to be breathing and growing, but it stayed the same
shape and size.. the couch behind it also appeared to grow and move
(although the movements were more of the two ends of the couch reaching
towards me and bending the middle.) My ceiling, which is painted in a
circular pattern, looked like a sattelite picture of a hurricane, the
swirling clouds. I closed my eyes and I got some closed eye stuff
too... not actually seeing things, but the blackness seemed very textured
and it did things like swirled, jumped around, and expanded. Then suddenly
I woke up.. the phone was ringing, and it was about 2 hours later. Oops,
I'd fallen asleep. ;) No real buzz.. I don't really find Amanitas very
euphoric, (or at all) but it was still fun.