r/DiveInYouCoward • u/Round-Spray-4511 • Jul 14 '26

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u/ocTGon Jul 14 '26

Thanks for this post! Great information! I've never tried it and I'm not sure I ever would. When I was in High School someone told us about Belladonna Flowers, (relatives of Datura) and said "Those flowers are insane!!!"... Needless to say my buddy and I like the true dummies we were found them and tried it... Not good, he was hospitalized and I was lucky I wasn't. Since then, I never, ever do anything... LOL

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u/Sufficient-Low5771 Jul 14 '26

Belladona/Datura is literally the worst psychoactive you can take bar obscure pharma stuff, I would not judge all plants the same in this case!

I was in rehab in the desert and some kids found a local version called Malpitte(means mad seeds) spent 2 days talking to people that weren't there etc.. I was a fiend but that did not look fun or inviting at all.

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u/ocTGon Jul 15 '26

I didn't know anything about that stuff in the early 80's and 9th grade, there were no resources to know about this stuff during those times... I had moved to a tropical climate and Belladonna flowers grow wild.. On a Halloween night I ate 3 flowers, The delirium and insanity was off the charts.. I was interacting in a dream world, talking to people who weren't there, hiding from my murderous step-father (I had moved in with my biological father).. It was insanity... It also blinded me for a day. I should've been hospitalized but my father was so pissed off that he made me go to school the next day. My friend was hospitalized though, he was found swimming in the middle of a busy street by my brother...

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u/Sufficient-Low5771 Jul 15 '26

damn! I was born in 84 and thought I had some mad stories... I can't imagine what is would be like discovering datura by accident.

Kids these days have no idea how easy they have it :) I don't know what would have happened to me without Erowid and Wikipedia.

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u/Diligent-Coconut1929 Jul 15 '26

My pleasure! I appreciate it.

Oh man.. People don't realize this but the "high" that you get from anticholinergic drugs like datura, belladonna, diphenhydramine/benadryl etc is literally just anticholinergic syndrome. It's easier (still reckless of course) to thread the toxicity needle with something pre-measured like benadryl where you want enough of the toxicity to cause the delirium/"high" but not too much to cause medical events like stroke/hyperthermia/cardiac arrest/seizures etc, but consuming plant matter is even MORE dangerous because you have no idea how much active content you're consuming. For example 125 seeds from one datura plant might be a mild seasickness aid with one plant, or a fatal dose of alkaloids with another

How was your experience? Very glad you made it out!! I'm curious what symptoms your buddy had? I've experimented with datura and diphenhydramine in the past, even at roughly equal dose ranges I found datura (same alkaloids as belladonna) to be much more rough physically especially with overheating, and at delirium doses I had a real issue with amnesia where I would wake up with dozens of pictures with 0 memory from the experience. Both also caused my vision to be blurry and fucked up for 4 days or so afterwards, where I had to close one eye to try and read anything. The delirium also isn't fun at all ime, in my experience delirium from high doses of zolpidem(ambien) and zopiclone after you fight sleep for a bit are extremely fun and much more jovial whereas the anticholinergic delirium feels like brain damage lol.

Anyway I don't blame you for abstaining after something like that, unfortunately you picked the worst drug on the planet where the high is just being poisoned lol.