Engaging the Dream Part 9 of 14 In addition to your external surroundings, ceremony, intention and dream work can also act as supportive tools to properly heal the traumas triggered and released by psychedelic use. Study the practices and beliefs of the indigenous cultures that engaged in dream work to traverse altered states of consciousness and achieve individual and collective healing.

Magic Mushrooms are some of the safest recreational drugs around. Out of a survey of more than 12,000 people who did mushrooms in 2016, just 0.2 percent said they needed emergency medical care—a rate that was five to six times lower than LSD, cocaine, MDMA, and alcohol, and three times lower than weed. There are always exceptions to the rule though. In recent years, certain species of mushrooms found across the world have been reported to cause a strange and terrifying side-effect known as “wood-lovers paralysis” or WLP for short. This is a short-term period of muscle weakness, stiffness and in extreme situations total temporary body paralysis lasting from half a second to a few minutes, loss of motor function symptoms can lasts several days after dosing. The theories I share in this video in regards to Baeocycstin being the cause is my own theory, I only ever experience these symptoms with fungi that have higher concentrations of Baeocystin than those without, some believe the alkaloid Aeruginascin is the source but this is also regularly present in all varieties of Psilocybin containing fungi and I have never ever experienced it with any variety of Cubensis, no matter how many or how often i take them. The issue seems most widespread in Australia, here are some reports from several users from the states of New South Wales and Victoria who've experienced this anomalous condition. All of them, understandably, wished to remain annonymous. “I peed my bed while I was completely paralysed,” recalls one user. “My legs were buckling under me—it was honestly like The Wolf of Wall Street when he is trying to drive that car,” says another. I experienced this twice A third user, who was alone on a bushwalk when the effects kicked in, recalls that “at first I was sort of laughing thinking it was a bit funny—but it advanced really quickly, within a couple of minutes, and I struggled to stay on my feet. I was struggling to hold a phone and even hold my head up at times”. In that case, the person called their wife and was promptly taken to hospital. Each of these trip reports, while strikingly similar, paints a picture that doesn’t quite line up with more typical accounts of the psychedelic experience. So what exactly is going on here? In this video I record as much of my experience and recovery as possible and share it un-edited, at times i can't even move my eyeballs or breathe, fascinating experience. Wood-lovers paralysis (WLP) is so-called because it appears to be caused exclusively by mushrooms that grow on wood. The effect has been most commonly linked with three species of the fungus: Psilocybe Azurescens, Psilocybe Cyanescens, and Psilocybe Subaeruginosa. These species are amongst the most powerful mushrooms in the world due to their high psilocybin content. P. Azurescens and P. Cyanescens are found mainly on the West Coast of the United States and Northern Europe, while P. Subaeruginosa is generally found in Southern Australia and New Zealand. They are difficult to cultivate indoors, so are usually foraged outside, and are so closely related that it’s unclear whether they are in fact distinct species at all. Typically, WLP is a partial to full-body muscular paralysis that seems to come on a few hours into a mushroom trip. Users report feeling weakness in their facial muscles first, but it can also start in the extremities, my video starts about an hour after the facial paralysis started. For some it stays relatively minor, but others have found it can spread across their whole body, leaving them unable to do anything but lie on the floor, totally unable to move, for up to several hours with symptoms occuring randomly over the next few days. While there have been limited reports of breathing difficulty, this doesn’t seem common. Users have also reported residual muscular weakness the following day, which generally clears up with no long-term effects. Have you experienced WLP before? Tell me all about it in the comments below, I am very interested in hearing how others dealth with this.