Cops, Bark Clothing, and Xena

Author's conclusion: Don't try Datura!

Substances: Datura

I was at a friend's house, and I told him about the research I had been doing online about Datura. He read most of the information I had gathered, and he wanted to try it. I told him I had about 12 seedpods at my house. We went and got them. I believe the species is Datura Stratamorium(sp?). We each ate(uncooked, VERY BAD, supposedly most toxic way of ingestion)the contents of one seedpod. The taste of the seeds was unpleasant, but not unbearable. It was about 12:45 am on a friday night(early Sat?) Then we waited. And waited. And waited. About an hour after we took the seeds I noticed my mouth was getting dry, and I looked in the mirror and sure enough, my eyes were dilated. Then I looked at the bathroom door and the grain of the wood was moving, and little tiny puffs of smoke seemed to be coming out of the cracks in the grain. I reached out to touch the wood, and it seemed that the door was about an inch back from where it should be, so it felt like my fingers were about an inch into the door before i actually touched it. I left the room, and it felt like my feet were going into the floor. I did a little more net research and found that the peak happens anywhere from 3 to 4 hours after ingestion. I waited a while longer, and then started walking home. It's about 2 miles across town from my bud's house to my apartment. As I was walking i noticed the moon was moving, and the stars weren't staying in the same places either. I stopped to piss in a park (I stopped several times, it really sucked), and as I was pissing it looked like there were several little creatures moving under the blanket of leaves. too weird.

Here's where things get really blurry in my memory. I wish i had had some paper, or a tape recorder, but i didn't. The things I remember happening in the trip are jumbled in my memory, and don't seem to happen in any order. I will attempt to write it down to the best of my recollection.

I stopped at a conveinience store, and was going to buy something to drink, some smokes, and some candy. I don't think I actually got around to buying anything, but i do remember almost drinking out of a pop before i bought it and I think i may have tried to take a bite out of a doll. The lady in the store told me to leave. When i got outside in the parking lot there were two cops there, and they asked me where I lived. I told them it was not far from the store, and they told me to go home. I don't know if the cops were real or imagined. Also at the conveinience store i saw a woman sitting in a car that i thought i knew from work. (i don't think i acutally did) Her boyfriend came out of the store, and i tried to explain to him that I knew the woman, but he said he didn't believe me and that i better beat it or he would kick my ass. I did. I ended up looking around a parking lot, and i remember I dropped something, I think it was some datura seeds, and something else, but every time i dropped something it either stuck to the ground, or got intermingled into the gravel in the lot. For some reason this didn't strike me as odd. I got back to my apartment to find it spotless(unusual) and that most of the furniture was gone. Also the living room and my bedroom were bigger than normal. my roommate was on the couch. I talked to her, moslty asking her about the missing furniture. She didn't say much besides the fact that she had really nasty cramps and that she had put the furniture in storage.This didn't strike me as odd either. She then went and laid down on my bed (which i thought was odd). I gave her a pillow and covered her up, and went to go sleep on the couch. I found out later that my roommate wasn't even home then, so it must have been a hallucination. When I left the apartment, I don't remember. It was daylight by then, so it must have been between 7 and 9 am on sat morhing. I wandered about on the railroad tracks for a while, because that was the easiest way to get to the warehouses where my furniture was. I remember seeing lots of weird things laying around and in the tracks(everything from cd cases to big bags of cocaine to my hat and apron from work), and i couldn't pick any of it up because either it was stuck to the ground, or if i could get it loose it was rotted really bad. Everything during the trip that was on the ground was either stuck or rotted. I also remember seeing an old woman who called me a wimp because i couldn't pick up the railroad track. Eventually I think I started wandering towards another friend's house. I ended up in someone's backyard. I thought it was my friend's house, but apparently it wasn't. For some reason i thought i should help with the raking in the backyard. I started raking, and i don't know if I had a real rake, or just an imaginary one. Someone with a leaf blower came and asked me who I was and what I was doing there, and someone peeked out a window and said something to the effect of "who is that, they're freaky, make them leave." The man with the leaf blower said I had to leave. I did. As I left I remember thinking "why is everyone so mean today?"

As I continued to wander i saw lots and lots of strange things, and yet none of it seemed unusual at the time. I saw my roommate and another one of my friends, except they appeared to be wearing clothing made out of tree bark and it looked like they were on stilts.
I remember asking my roommate if she was practicing to become a dryad. I also found a kitten that looked injured, and it seemed half buried in the side of a hillside. It was meowing when i first found it. when i tried to move it I found its body was rotted, and i then saw its face was obviously dead looking. This was very disturbing, and it took me a minute to calm myself down. Except I didn't think it was a hallucination, I was telling myself there was nothing I could have done, it was too late, I couldn't have saved it.

Eventually I guess I must have started wandering home, when i saw this weird creature. I seemed human, except its skin was bark-y looking and it was very thin. It could hide behind a signpost, the ones that are metal and square with holes in them. I kind of played hide and seek with it for a bit, until it acutally becase a No Parking sign.

A cop stopped me on my way home and had me get into his car. He asked me if i was sober, and i assured him that I was (hah!) and he let me go.

I made it back to my apartment building, and I talked to one of my neighbors about the bug problem that we have. (there's a local type of bug called "box-elder bugs" that becomes a pest in the fall and likes to get in your house in large numbers) He then told me to come upstairs with him, to another neighbor's apartment. I went up, knocked on the door of the neighbor and told her that the guy had told me to come up. He wasn't there. I suspect that he was a hallucination too. She must have thought I was wacko. She said she had to leave, so I left, and i think i finally went to sleep after that, but I'm not sure.

All throughout this experience I would try to smoke a cigarrette, and upon lighting it it would dissapper, sometimes even before i could get it lit. I would search the ground thinking I had dropped it, and never find it. Looking back on this I think I was actually out of smokes and they were hallucinations. Also any time i talked to someone i stuttered really bad, and I've never stuttered before in my life.

When i was sleeping, or at some other time, i'm not sure, I remember being in some kind of ancient emergency room and talking to Xena (yes the Xena from tv) and telling her the patient she was working on was too far gone to save.

I woke at 7:30 pm on Saturday and was in a BIG hurry to get to work because i had to be there at 8. I was pretty much out of it, but my pupils were still dilated, and if i stared at something too long it would shift and move. As i was walking to work some of the events of the night before came back, but it was all so dream-like. Work was normal, and on walking home I talked myself into believing that what i remembered was a dream because: A. The furniture was still in the apartment, B. My hat and apron were OK (when i found them on the railroad track they rotted when i tried to pick them up)C. there's no way i could have done that in the conveinience store. Everything I remembered was so dreamlike, i couldn't figure out where reality ended and the dream began. When i got home my roommate said I hadn't been home all night, and neither had she, but she had been called the apt all night to see if i had came home. It was quite a shock and an embarrassment to realize that i had been CONSCIOUS through most of it.

My advise to anyone who wants to try Datura is DON'T DO IT. On a scale of 1-10 this was a 10+, way way WAY too much. I've taken fourth plateau DXM dosages and LSD (on seperate occasions) and they were NOTHING compared to what Datura did to me. And I don't mean that in a positive way either. If you absolutely must try it, make sure you have a sober trip sitter to keep you in your house so you don't embarrass yourself. Keep lots of water nearby, and be ready to piss a lot. Again, I'd like to stress DON'T TRY Datura.