Magic Mondays 2 (Bonus Friday!): Finding and Stacking Microdosing with Mighty Micro
One of the most common questions about getting started on a psilocybin micordosing journey is how much to take, how often, etc. I know I was utterly confused before starting myself (which you can read more about my intro to microdosing HERE). Hell, I even searched the Internet within a month before Mighty Micro reached out to me this spring and any sites I found with psilocybin for microdosing had limited to no information about dosages- so trust me when I say I know how counterintuitive this all can be. Also, know that all of the links below are links to the actual products I’ve been using, complete with what the doses are (in case you’re interested in trying yourself)!
I was told to start at 150mg and see how I felt. For some reason, I thought I would feel no effect. Blame it on being a pothead for over 3 years with a higher tolerance I suppose but I was convinced I would be a tank and that I would feel nothing (which is fine, but I wanted to know at what dose I would start feeling something) and would need to take high doses to be convinced the capsules were working. Boy, was I wrong!
For one thing, your first week of microdosing can feel very novel to your system. It’s like a new toy your brain and nervous system are playing with so it’s highly likely that if nothing else you will feel more euphoria and ease within your brain and body. That definitely happened to me. And despite that you don’t get “high” from microdoses, I DID feel slightly altered. Like I could make decisions, pay attention in conversations, and do tasks but I felt slightly airy. This happened the first day I did a microdose. The colors on the plants felt more vibrant. I was more aware of my thoughts from an observational standpoint versus being “in” my thoughts and feelings.
As I mentioned in my first post I fell asleep not too long after my first ever dose. So being a Curious Carly I took a different dose later that afternoon, the gummy I was given that is 100mg as the founder of Mighty Micro said that in addition to playing with stacking doses, the 100mg is a good potential afternoon pick me up. For the rest of the day I did feel a bit tired (but to be fair, I’m also ALWAYS tired) but incredibly peaceful. I felt more clicked into the tasks that I was doing, didn’t feel like I loitered doing things that were distracting (like I would take breaks but not get stuck and unable to go back to being productive), and just felt at peace. Seriously, all of my notes from the rest of the first day have “peace” written somewhere in almost every bullet point.
The next day I wanted to try out more so I took 300mg (two of the 150mg capsules) upon waking up. It went well! Nothing crazy happened; if anything things weren’t as vibrant as the first day which surprised me since I doubled the dose, so that made me want to chase that. This was the moment I realized maybe I would be up for full on tripping, but we’ll get there when we get there. But I was observant, in pocket, and yes, even a little at peace. Later that day I took another 100mg gummy (mushrooms don’t stay at their peak for too long, hence I was coming back for seconds throughout my first week) and decided to go for a run. I know that sounds insane, but I’ve used cannabis to go for somatic release runs often so running on plant medicine is my norm so I was curious to see how I did on psilocybin. I’m happy to report it went well if uneventful! Mushrooms, especially when microdosing work best in the longterm and don’t necessarily provide “aha” clarity moments within the first few days but I didn’t fully grasp that on day 2.
That night I had a really weird dream that I’m better going to explain in next week’s post because I had a follow up dream two weeks later that points to how my brain has been shifting for the better. But for now, it wasn’t a nightmare nor a stress dream, but it was a little uncomfortable and hit a lot of themes that are close to home for me. Like, I woke up a little unsettled thinking “what was that? Why did I dream that? Whoa.”
Day 3 is when I started to actually feel the effects I was looking for in that I got productive. I did the 150mg capsules again dishes early in the morning and started working on editing while eating breakfast- which was a bit of a mistake because I ignored breakfast as I was so engrossed in what I was doing (which is bad because I’m coming back from being severely underweight for years - whoops).
Later in the day, I decided to REALLY play around with stacking. I wanted to see vibrant colors again and wanted to start to edge into what more psilocybin would do for me at higher doses. So once my responsibilities for the day was over, I not only took another 150mg capsule, not only a 100mg gummy, but also I took a full honey stick of 300mg pushing me up to 550mg total. I went for a run and had a blast (like more fun than I have running on weed, which is one of my favorite things to do ever) and felt really good the rest of the night.
My takeaway is that the lower doses don’t get you high, but slightly altered and/or you can feel stuff shifting. Once you’re in the several 100s of mg, you’re definitely not sober. You’re still pretty in pocket all things considered, but you’re not normal either. I actually really like taking the higher microdose levels for euphoria but I haven’t done it much because I am on a microdose journey and want to stick with this for weeks without running out of supplies. But if you want to go higher than 100-300mg, I personally find that to be very fun.
The next day I went for the 1000mg (or 1 gram) and honestly, it was good but a little anticlimactic. I think I was expecting to low key trip. Besides seeing some some or fog in the bathroom that 100% did not exist, the colors of the room I was in changing as if I was changing a filter on Instagram every time I opened them for a few moments, and having much stronger imagery when I rested my eyes and day dreamed…nothing else happened. That’s normal for that level, but at this point I’m learning as I go because despite doing some research I am prone to getting things mixed up (especially about numbers, which is relevant because of dosing) and sometimes I just have to learn from experience. That said, I ended up cleaning a very pollen caked patio table that I wanted to do art therapy on while enjoying nature but couldn’t until the table was clean. Old me would have said, “good enough” at some of the pollen being scraped off or at least a corner to work on being good to go. But me on psilocybin was obsessed with getting it spotless and boy did I get it spotless! So much so that it got too hot to work outside (hence I went inside and saw cool images when I closed my eyes and then would open my eyes to a slightly new color scheme in the room).
Also, I’m doing terrible art therapy on the Internet now so please check it out!
That wore off after a few hours, so committed to making the day weird or at least altered I opted to keep going but at a lower dose just to keep the euphoria alive. I took two of the 100mg gummies and had a grand old time doing art collages from magazines (which will also be in my new series above, Weird Martha Stewart, which is an alt-non-curated-lifestyle persona that often focuses on mental health with a dry sense of humor) and boy did I finish at least two videos worth of material! Plus I had a grand old time listening to both newest albums from Sparks and Pulp - cannot recommend the album’s Mad and More respectively enough! (Seriously, these bands have been around for decades and I was blown away by how good they still are versus being an echo of what made them great, as that sometimes can happen.) In short, I have a very lovely afternoon.
After this day, I took 3 days off from mircrodosing (as I was initially doing the 4 days on and 3 days off routine) and slept nearly the entire weekend. Psilocybin is cool and fun but also exhausting as it’s using a lot of mental and emotional energy rewiring things. On Monday we’ll go into the next 2 weeks of microdosing, why I shifted to every other day (spoiler: it has to do with being so tiring), and more about the nervous system and how it reacts to psilocybin- especially if you have CPTSD. But for now, while I wouldn’t do another week like this again I’m glad I pushed it a lot the first week to find limits and new experiences because I wanted to know this medicine well once I agreed to start doing it. I’ve learned that less is usually more (not that I wouldn’t do a higher microdose day again at some point if the conditions were right) and especially as someone with CPTSD taking too much in short amount of times can be taxing for my nervous system. But again, we will tackle this next week.
Before I end this, I have to give a special shout out to the honey sticks. You can break them in half to have 150mg which I have done a few times since or do the full 300mg. I’m not even a honey fan so I melted them in Kava tea and didn’t even notice the taste, so that was a great perk. But also, and perhaps more importantly, I found that they were more gentle on my system. As much as I maintain microdosing is fine and won’t get you high, there is an altitude shift of some sort. I will talk more about this next week (as well as when I discovered doing this first thing in the AM was probably too intense for me), but I found the honey in tea method to be a much more gentle way to microdose and it’s a surprise favorite for me.
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Have a great weekend,
Blair