I've done mushrooms mostly as a developmental thing I I have had some actual growth...truffles.. well those were plain old fun..
but it had been some time and for some reason my girlfriend and I mushrooms again (it was about 3 grams and had been a while. Not a good choice in retrospect) then after just chilling a bit watched High School Musical.
I'm not an expert on these things and whatever one it was there was a "big show" at a country club and some gay guy -who may or may not have promised the team a gang bang - who got the football team to be in this thing or something...
Anyway as people started to sing prismatic lights and little twinkles started to shoot out of the television.
We both saw them.
It was so horrible though and my words fail me.
I WILL NOT do that again.
(mushrooms? probably. but a smaller dose and different setting. )

I can’t even begin to understand why people seem to keep doing stuff like this. I have been drunk once in my life, and I detested the sensation. I have been stoned once in my life, and I detested that even more. I can’t even stand that sort of unreal sensation you sometimes get when you have a bad cold. My brain is the entirety of me. If it doesn’t work, I don’t work. I don’t want to be broken. I don’t even want to play at being broken.

This kind of stuff is completely outside my understanding, except as an example of existential masochism.

Anyway, my 2p worth.

You should try cocaine.

Well, yeah. Cocaine doesn’t count.

Neat.

It's as simple as the fact that these are pleasurable effects to some people, and I have to assume you seek out pleasurable things too. Either you experience the effects differently than some, or you experience them the same way but to not enjoy it. I like being a certain amount drunk or high sometimes, depending on what I'm doing, but I don't ever like being very drunk or very stoned.

Meth was delicious. The meth hangover is why I've never done meth twice.

What is a meth hangover like? Not planning to experience it for myself.

You're not feeling broken at the time. Well, some do if they're on a bad trip. In general you're just feeling something different. Many enjoy the change of perspective that comes from contemplating the effect and the experience during and after.

I realise it's not for everyone though. If you feel like you have to be in control at all times you don't want to mess around with psychedelics.

those are the EXACT people who need to eat large doses of psychedelic.

I was stoned for Avatar and I remember 20-some minutes in thinking "man I'm glad I'm stoned, because this is a really stupid movie."

The trailer for this movie was horrifying enough stone cold sober, I don't need to see cats unzipping their catsuits.