the wife
My husband had been taking care of a massive cactus plant for several years. A constant source of pride, I was completely taken aback when I came home from work one day to discover that he had cut the cactus at the base. He informed me that the cactus was ready to have the mescaline that it contained extracted. And so, sitting on my couch several weeks later, my husband handed me a cup of coffee with 200mg of powdered mescaline along with 150 mg of a powdered mixture of harmoline and harmine which is supposed to enhance the effects of the mescaline inside the cup.
I had been advised by my husband to eat minimally that day. However, by 5pm I had only eaten a sandwich the entire day and was ravenously hungry. I had assumed that we were going to eat some kind of dinner before we embarked on our journey. After being informed by my husband that we were not going to have any sort of dinner whatsoever I decided to stop at the Taco Bell drive thru on my way home to sneak in a little snack. I eagerly consumed a small Pepsi and a nacho supreme on my way home. That small plate of nachos would come back to haunt me later on.
Anticipation and impatience were getting the better of me while I was waiting for the drug to take effect. I had read Huxley’s “The Doors of Perception” in the weeks preceding weeks and following his advice had many different kinds of music to listen to and a Van Gogh art book to enhance the experience. It was a full two hours before I was aware of a definite tightening all of the muscles in my body, especially my stomach. All of the sudden someone unexpectedly knocked on my living room door. This caused an increase in the tightening of the muscles. The visitor was a friend of my husbands who decided to stop because they were just passing by. We told him about taking the mescaline to which he strangely did not have much of a reaction to. We might have been acting more strangely than we were aware of because he left after a quarter of an hour. The nauseous feeling that his sudden knocking had inspired did not leave with him.
The next hour was a constant effort of convincing myself that I was not going to throw up. I also realized in this third hour that if I sat too long, my major muscle groups would tighten increasingly into a clinching feeling and eventually into Charlie horses. I got up and walked around the house which relieved the muscle cramps but exacerbated the nausea. I finally told myself that I was just going to throw up. I went to the bathroom and just looked at the toilet bowl when that nacho supreme shot out of my mouth at about 300 psi. After finishing, I folded my arms over the toilet seat and rested my head on my arms with a mixture of exhaustion and relief when all of the sudden a huge surge of energy shot through my entire body. It felt like a warmness running through my veins and was completely invigorating. I was still sitting on the bathroom floor when I looked up at the floral pattern of the wallpaper on my bathroom wall. I was thinking how beautiful and colorful the wallpaper was when I suddenly threw up a second time. To my complete amazement the vomit was flowery and colorful, exactly like the pattern on the wall. As soon as I was done throwing up this second time, another more intense surge of energy and joy came over me. I blinked my eyes and shook my head a little and looked back into the toilet bowl to see that there indeed were not flowers in there, but only more remnants of Taco Bell.
Leaving the adventure that was the bathroom behind me, I walked into the den where my husband was. He asked me if I wanted to go walking with him to a Coca-Cola machine about half a mile away. I eagerly accepted the offer and we walked at a power walking pace. I told him of my experience in the bathroom along the way which he seemed to enjoy hearing immensely. We walked back to the house after grabbing two Sprites only to discover that we could not sit still. We decided to go walking again and spent the majority of the rest of the night walking.
The instance in the bathroom was my only hallucination. The predominant component of the buzz was the energetic body buzz which was completely unexpected. It was an overall pleasant experience except for being in a generally bad mood for about two days afterward. I do not know that I would do it again but I definitely do not regret taking it.