This is a true story of my experience after drinking a tea made from the Datura plant aka Angel trumpet.
Years ago back in 1989-90 when I was a teenager, my friends and i went to a mates house to have a party because his parents were away and not coming back for 2 days. We all were bumming around until I suggested that we should do a hallucigine that I just heard about and it was from a plant that is called Datura. I said all we do is pick some flowers, boil them and make a tea then drink it. My friends agreed and half of us went to go and collect them. I went obviously because I knew what to pick. After the harvest of about 10-12 flowers we went back and boiled these f××ers and made tea. I drank 3 mugs and only a handful drank either half or 1 mug, the rest chickened out. In truth I had no idea what I was getting into or what I will experience, but I was about to find out soon enough after downing the 3rd mug.
Sitting in the lounge room at our friends, I all of a sudden felt very strange and I was looking around at my mates and seen that they had no eyes but big black holes where the eyes were suppose to be, also I seen my friend Brian shaking his hands one on each side of his head really fast and I laughed and said what and why are you doing that and to stop it because it was freaking me out.
Brian had no idea what I was on about, but then our friends home phone rang and it was his parents saying that they are coming home within a hour because they had to cut their trip short for some reason.
We all scampered out of his house and everyone decided to go into little groups to hang out more but the others chose to just go home, I chose the latter and my friend Brian decided he will crash the night and go to school the next day with me.
On the way walking back to my place I seen 4 to 5 rabbits jumping in and out the foot path, when I seen this I tried running up to catch them and Brian said "what the hell are you doing" and I told him "cant you see them, they're cute bunnies I want to catch" ,then nothing was there.
We end up at my parents and we decided just go to bed. I had twin beds one on each side of the room, Brian took the left bed and I lay on the floor between the beds for whatever reason. As I was laying there I was staring at the pot plant in front of the window and it became Brian and he was smoking a cigarette. I said don't smoke inside, got up and stood next to him and said give me a drag. Then it was the pot plant again, I shook my head and just stared at the plant. I was buzzing and felt thirsty and went into the kitchen to get a glass of water, as I was filling up the glass in the corner of my eye I thought my dad was there standing and looking at me, I told him to buzz off and turned around with no one there.
I said fuck I am really fucked and I went into the lounge room and rested on the sofa, after a few minutes I opened my eyes and I was at Brian's cousin house in her lounge with his cousin Debby sitting in her recliner. I thought how did I get here after looking at Debby for a few seconds, then I seen that on her coffee table were a tin of biscuits/cookies.
I asked her if I was allowed to grab some and she just looked in amazement at the tin then at me and nodded her head yes, I got up reached for them but my hand went through the tin, I said "oh my god look my hand is going through the tin" Deb just looked at me with a "wow" smile, then i was back in my lounge room standing near a cabinet.
I couldn't deal with this tripping and said I need sleep, went back on the sofa. Within seconds of laying back down I saw a massive black spider I ever seen crawling up my arm (I'm arachnaphobic) and next to my sofa was a armchair that another friend Sue suddenly appeared sitting there.
I asked if she can get that spider off of me, but she just looked at me like she did not understand what I said. I went up to her to ask if she was ok and I placed my hand on her shoulder and my hand went through her shoulder. I fully buzzed out saying my god look at my hand Sue" and she looked shocked at her shoulder then at me.
While I was waving my hand through her shoulder tripping out I was hearing something like a plastic rustling sound then she disappeared and I was touching a plastic bag full of clothes that my mum put on the armchair for my brother to pick up in the morning.
This was the last thing i hallucinated before finally falling to sleep. Next morning something was odd with me, at first I thought that my eyes needed time to adjust from waking, because everything I looked at was out of focus. I jumped in the shower and looked into the bathroom mirror and my eyes were a light blue colour which was strange because they are aqua coloured.
After shower and being dressed for school I tried to read the timetable for class to see what I had, but I couldn't read it every word was blurry. I couldn't read any word any size and this went on for 3 days in a row. I skipped school for those days and was very worried that I was blind.
Only after the 3 days everything came back to normal and that's when I found out how lucky I was. In drinking that brew I could of ended up tripping forever or blind forever or both. I was a young idiot but very very lucky.
Any one reading this please please do not take Datura/Angel trumpet. Yes I did bloody trip out and hallucinated like WTF.ITS A DANGEROUS DRUG It made me feel like I wanted to vomit when I woke up and I couldn't drink the tea that the brew was made from for years after.
Thanks for reading this Pete
P.S Our other friend that drank half a mug saw a massive bubble bee in his room and spoke to it saying "Man you're big" and he had blurry vision only for a day
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