A few weeks ago, I tried mushrooms for the first time with some friends. We each had a chocolate bar containing 5g of magic mushrooms. Everyone in our group had extremely strong experiences except for myself. I had slight visuals for about 15-20 minutes but otherwise just felt more relaxed than normal.

I figured it may have been the setting or something that caused the lack of an experience for me. Yesterday I had another chocolate bar around 9am. Within a half hour, I felt like the experience was starting so I laid down in bed with some music and headphones. I focused on a painting in my bedroom of poppies and again noticed slight visual distortion for about a half hour or so. Otherwise music sounded better but it all felt like I had eaten a mild THC edible.

What is going on with me? Am I metabolizing the mushrooms differently than others? From what I've read, 5g should be a heavy trip and yet I'm not getting much out of it.

Has anyone else experienced this? Next time I'm thinking that I'll try actual dried mushrooms instead of premade chocolate bars. Just wondering if there's anything I could have done differently?