although the dealer i buy shrooms from says he regularly eats an entire quarter himself 
I don't know how someone can be normal doing shit like that regularly. the people I know who are like that with acid/fungus/dmt are all fucking weird as hell and I can't really hang out with them if it's just me and no other normal people.
it's an unnerving kind of weird, like the way you'd feel hanging out with a schizophrenic or brainwashed person where they have this kind of wise and experienced air about them but you know all that wisdom and experience is nearly 100% crazy bullshit.