The Effects

What do magic mushrooms do?

Magic mushrooms can give you a good trip, making you feel confident, relaxed and in good spirits – or they can give you a really scary bad trip. You won’t know what will happen until you take them. The more you take, the longer your trip could last. If you feel that you’re having (or going to have) a bad trip, let your friends know and get their Help. Go to a nice quiet spot where you feel safe and can relax.

They can also have other effects:

• Magic mushrooms can disTort colours, sounds and objects. They can make you feel as if your senses are mixed up so that, for example, you think you can hear colours and you can see sounds. Some people can feel more emotionally sensitive or more creative or feel enlightened.

• They can also speed up and slow down your sense of time and movement

• They can make it feel like you're dreaming when you're awake.

• Sometimes, magic mushrooms can make you feel disoriented, tired or sick and can give you stomach pains or diarrhoea.