Product Overview : Psilocybe Cyanescens 

Psilocybe Cyanescens  grows in fields that are rich in rotting wood, wood chips, and sawdust. In the fall and early winter, you’ll most likely see it on the edges of lawns, paths, or heavily mulched rose gardens. It has been seen in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States (from San Francisco to southern Alaska).

The cap is 2 – 4 cm (up to 1.5 inches) wide and is wavy.  It is a chestnut brown while young and becomes more caramel with age while turning to a dark yellowish brown when dying.  It sometimes has a separable gelatinous pellicle.

The spore print is dark purplish brown and the stem is 20 – 80 mm (up to 3 inches) long by 2.5 – 5 mm thick.

Psilocybin: .85%

Psilocin: .36%

Baeocystin: .03%

Total Potency: 1.24%

Potency per 1 gram: 12 mg

Potency

As stated at the beginning of this article, Psilocybe cyanescens is a highly potent species of psilocybin mushroom. It is one of the most potent magic mushrooms, in fact. This is due to its high concentration of psychedelic alkaloids.

To get a sense of its potency, let’s take a look at the concentrations of psilocybin and psilocin in a few different species:

• Blue Angel (Psilocybe azurenscens): 1.78 percent psilocybin and 0.38 percent psilocin
• Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata): 0.98 percent psilocybin and 0.2 percent psilocin
• Wavy Cap (Psilocybe cyanescens): 0.85 percent psilocybin and 0.36 percent psilocin
• Magic Truffles (Psilocybe tampanensis): 0.68 percent psilocybin and 0.32 percent psilocin
• Golden Teacher (Psilocybe cubensis): 0.63 percent psilocybin and 0.60 percent

Because of their potency, flying saucer mushrooms are a popular option for microdosing — since you need a very small dose to achieve the intended effects.

Dosage

Because wavy caps are potent, you will need to take a lower dosage compared to less potent magic mushrooms, assuming you want to get the same intensity of effects.

For example, Erowid lists the following dosages for Psilocybe cubensis, a medium strength psilocybin mushroom:

• Threshold: 0.25 g
• Light: 0.25-1 g
• Common: 1-2.5 g
• Strong: 2.5-5 g
• Heavy: 5+ g

Based on the average psilocybin and psilocin content of wavy caps, it is generally recommended to take two-thirds the normal dose of Psilocybe cubensis.

Other websites have their own Magic Mushroom Dosage Calculators, which can tell you how many grams of a particular species of magic mushroom you should consume based on how intense you want the experience to be.

With this in mind, as well as Erowid’s dosage recommendations for Psilocybe cubensis, the following dosages for wavy cap mushrooms are a good rule of thumb:

• Threshold: 0.15 g
• Light: 0.15-0.65 g
• Common: 0.65-1.5 g
• Strong: 1.5-3.3 g
• Heavy: 3.3+ g

Psilocybe Cyanescens  Effects

When consuming wavy cap mushrooms, you can experience a range of perceptual, emotional, physical, and mystical effects. They also vary depending on your set and setting, and the dosage you take.

Let’s look at the kind of experience you can expect from different dosages:

Low Dose Wavy Caps Effects (0.15-0.65 g)

Perceptual effects

• Colors become slightly brighter
• The edges of objects appear more distinct
• Things look as if they’re in high definition
• The features of objects moving slightly
• Music and external sounds have a different quality to them

Emotional effects

• Positive mood
• Calmness
• Anxiety
• Increased appreciation for music

Physical effects

• A slight feeling of nausea
• Dilated pupils
• Increase heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature
• A light body high

Medium Dose Wavy Caps Effects (0.65-1.5 g)

Perceptual effects

• Colors become noticeably enhanced and vivid
• Objects move, morph, and “breathe”
• You can see geometric patterns overlaid on objects and the environment, as well as behind closed eyelids
• You can see tracers (trails left behind moving objects, similar to those seen in long exposure photography)
• Synesthesia: When different sense perceptions become mixed, so you can see sounds and hear colors, for example
• Sounds become noticeably distorted

Emotional effects

• Euphoria (including when listening to music)
• Empathy
• Anxiety, fear, dread, or panic
• A feeling of contentment or peace of mind
• Gratitude
• Paranoia

Physical effects

• Nausea (this feeling of uneasiness in the stomach usually only lasts at the beginning of the trip)
• Sometimes vomiting
• More dilated pupils
• A further increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature
• Perspiration
• A stronger body high
• Muscle weakness

High Dose Wavy Caps Effects (1.5-3.3 g)

Perceptual effects

• Visions of imagery, scenes, and entities (both with eyes opened or closed)
• Seeing objects and people morph in intense and strange ways
• Strong geometric and fractal hallucinations
• Auditory hallucinations

Emotional effects

• Ecstasy
• Bliss
• Boundless love
• Intense feelings of gratitude
• A strong feeling of euphoria and joy when listening to music
• Intense states of dread or despair
• A feeling of sacredness

Physical effects

• Strong nausea
• A greater chance of vomiting
• An intense body high
• Loss of coordination (this is why it’s important to have a trip sitter when taking a high dose, as they can ensure that you don’t jeopardize your physical safety in any way)

A Strong Dose Of Wavy Caps Can Induce Mystical Effects

If you take a high dose of magic mushrooms, and potentially if you take a medium dose, you can experience mystical effects, which classically include:

• A feeling of unity (also known as oneness)
• Noetic quality. The feeling of gaining insightful knowledge, experienced at an intuitive level. You may have the sense of encountering ultimate reality
• A sense of sacredness or reverence
• Positive mood. Feelings of peace, tranquility, ecstasy, awe, or joy
• Transcendence of time and space. You may have the sense of being “outside time”, being in a realm with no spatial boundaries, or existing in a timeless state
• Ineffability. The feeling that you cannot adequately describe the experience in words

Duration Of Wavy Caps Effects

A wavy cap mushroom trip will generally last between 4-6 hours. This duration is pretty consistent. In clinical trials involving psilocybin, most sessions will last up to six hours. After this time, the participants will no longer experience any psychedelic effects.

But the duration of a psilocybin experience for any individual depends on a few factors:

• Dosage. Taking a low dose of magic mushrooms could result in a trip lasting only a few hours, whereas consuming a high dose could lead to a six-hour experience.
• Method of Consumption. It takes around 30 minutes for shrooms to kick in. But you can quicken this process through lemon tekking — it is believed the citric acid in the lemon juice breaks down the mushroom material, saving your body some time it would otherwise spend breaking it down. The lemon tek method may result in a faster onset and a stronger and shorter journey than eating dried mushrooms as they are.
• Eating psilocybin mushrooms on an empty stomach can lead to a faster onset than consuming them on a full stomach.
• Cannabis may elongate a magic mushroom trip if you smoke it towards the end of the experience. This is because cannabis tends to potentiate the effects of psychedelics. However, not everyone may experience this effect.

Psilocybin mushrooms have neither long-lasting nor short-lasting effects. Here is the duration of other psychedelics, so you can get a better sense of this:

• DMT: 5-30 minutes
• 5-MeO-DMT: 15-45 minutes
• LSD: 8-14 hours
• Mescaline: 8-16 hours
• Ibogaine: 8-24 hours

The duration of a mushroom trip is comparable to that of ayahuasca (also 4-6 hours).

For many users, 4-6 hours of tripping is ideal; it means the experience is easier to fit into a day and less likely to interrupt sleep than, say, mescaline or LSD. But it is also not so quick and short-lived — as DMT and 5-MeO-DMT experiences are — that the journey feels like being blasted out of a canon while you struggle to absorb what’s happening.