Very informative thread
I always get the ramp-up anxiety, a couple of times I've worried about someone coming to the door from us making too much noise (live in an apartment) from the tv or talking/laughing, but I usually distract myself by looking back to the tv and away from the door, or watching clouds float by the moon outside ahaha.
PCF: if you think you can take more worry-free, you can take more. If you aren't ready mentally to venture down the road, nobody will change that but yourself. Mushrooms are a very mental trip, best to do it with a clear mind. Yoda said, "You must unlearn what you have learned." You can only do when you are ready.