I've also picked these and dried and used them. But the actual high from them sounds miserable (sort of like I've no desire to try the high of nutmeg), while using a very small amount as a sleep aid is amazing. They work similar to Ambian on a neurological level, I think is what I read, but without all the side effects. My experience is you'll get a very nice feeling right before falling asleep, then have vivid and intense dreams that are quite great, then wake up feeling physically very refreshed. Muscles and mind both feel great.

The actual hallucinations sound like they can have you walking off balconies as you lose touch of reality and feel a little too strong, OR you get stuck in a loop where you repeat your words and actions over and over and over and over again as time slows down... that's a description of how it went once for stamets, by stamets, if I remember right. So. I personally have no desire to use them for trips. More a sleep and health aid from time to time, and the amount to help sleep is very very tiny.

These are NOT psychedelics.

Also, boiling them a few times removes the active chemicals into the water, and if you throw that water out and repeat twice or something like that, you end up with a completely normal edible mushroom with zero effects other than food.

If you get really into hunting them, you'll find older ones bleach out, and I imagine thinking it's an older bleached one is how people end up mistaking deadly amanitas for these. So... stick to the red ones, even if you're pretty sure it's just an older muscaria. Don't risk it.