edit: I cleaned up, and expanded on the following scribbles as an official trip report
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So I took some of those mushrooms that I found. They are probably Panaeolus cyanescens or something in that genus - not Psilocybe. Tiny little guys, and they tasted so different from cubensis etc that I didn't eat them all in one go, I got a little worried that I had mis-identified them. Horrible taste. Not very many - maybe 8, about the size of an enoki mushroom.
Went for a surf and by the time I got to the water I could feel that typical coming-up-on-mushrooms wobble and slight malaise - suddenly thought I was so thirsty and like I had to poop, which was inconvenient given that I was going into the ocean. Luckily, as these feelings usually are on the comeup, they vanished once I ignored them and got distracted with the activity of surfing.
I was in the water right at dawn, and the water was glassy and so beautiful, with the sun coming up on the horizon on a clear day. I got a little hypnotized just watching the water for a bit before I snapped out of it and got into the objective of actually catching waves. It ended up being one of my best surf sessions ever. The waves were small, but so clean and glassy and peeling so nicely as the tide was dropping and exposing the swell to shallower reef. I felt that I had enhanced harmony with the waves, and better ability to foresee how the waves would break and get myself into the correct spot on the wave. For anyone who has surfed before, you know it can be a game of inches getting into the right part of the wave for that perfect takeoff. It reminded me of how you hear about hunters in the jungle taking small doses of psychedelics to enhance their ability to read the forest and see the animals. My surfing felt more free and light and open and unconstrained than normal, I felt light on my feet and more skilled at riding in harmony with the wave and with my whole body. This probably all sounds a bit cliche but I reckon you guys will know what I'm talking about.
The water was glassy and the conditions were perfect, and almost empty of other surfers. All this might be the real reason that I had a great session. I can't discount the possibility that the mushrooms I had were mis-identified and that the whole thing wasn't placebo. I wasn't overtly tripping. This was probably something like an equivalent 0.3-0.5g dose of dried cubensis, so on the light-threshold end of the spectrum, if not placebo entirely. It's a bit hard to gauge, because being so engaged in surfing, which is already an altered state of mind (something like playing music, or being absorbed in a story, or sex), there isn't a reference point for baseline, except to compare other surf sessions. Anyways, this was the most fun I've had in a while, the most flow, the most in-tune I've probably ever experienced in surfing. I couldn't stop and ended up surfing for 3.5h, which is a good 1.5h longer than I normally try to stay out for. So if this was placebo, I'll take it!
Hmm this has ended up being a bit of a TR, maybe I'll clean it up and repost in the mushrooms thread, or I think there's a sports+psychedelics thread somewhere.