Amberthefrog
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Collected Experiences of Sleepy Bliss
Introduction
The following is a summary of experiments relating to the consumption of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) heads.
I am a healthy British male in my late teens with an unexceptional experience of drug use. In fact it is true to say I have only ever ingested two depressants before in my life; (excluding medial anaesthetics) alcohol and glue based solvents. The later of these was used when I was 13 and rather ignorant of the dangers it carried. Overall it is fair to say that I had no experience regarding opiates or opioids, however I had researched the subject to a reasonable level.
Around where I live there are lots and lots of wild poppies. They grow every year, appearing in the spring and persisting until autumn. I had known that they were opium poppies for several years but never really had the desire to investigate, this summer was different. Upon completing my summer exams I decided to reward myself by spending the summer experimenting with these poppies, I knew that this was risky but figured I would be fine. There were (and are) three things I feel one should consider before using opium. (or any related drug) Firstly the dosage, this is crucial as the morphine in the poppies has a relatively low therapeutic index meaning that the difference between blissful euphoria and dangerously depressed breathing is rather slim. This problem is not significant if one is aware of the affect the dose will have on them and roughly where to stop at. I wasn’t aware of this so I planed to increase dosage progressively. I would advise anyone consuming poppies to slowly creep up with their dose and gauge a ‘standard’ amount, in weight, for which to work on. It is important to do this from scratch if you change your supply of poppies as alkaloid contents can fluctuate tremendously. I was a bit lazy and didn’t do this by weight but rather by ‘eyeballing’ the mass of the pods, I realise this is poor practice but I had decided not to go to high in dosage so I figured this wouldn’t be a problem.
The second thing to be aware of is addiction. Opiates are really addictive, both psychologically and physically. If one is prepared and cautious the later can be avoided, on this basis I reasoned that taking dosages once a week over the summer would negate physical addiction and greatly reduce the risk of mental addiction. I worked on the principle that knowing the risk and being careful would allow me to avoid the former. The final point to note is constipation. This may sound like nothing compared to the first two but it is significant, particularly I believe with opium in the way I ingest it as this means the side effect will exist for almost two days. The precaution was therefore to make sure my bowels were empty before indulging
Ingestion
Most people would advise making a tea out of the pods and drinking this, I never bothered with this. From day one I decided just to eat them raw, this probably sounds like I am trying to be machismo or something but it isn’t, I have tried taking things in tea form before and always find it FAR worse than just eating the damn things. Unpleasant liquids tend to invoke my gag reflex whilst unpleasant foodstuffs can be stomached.
Poppies do not taste as bad as people make out but the yare not pleasant; the main problem tends to be with older poppies. At a certain point in their lifespans the pods tend to develop thick cellulose-like strands running from stalk to top. These are practically impossible to chew and swallow let alone digest so it is always best to go for the young ones which lack the strands.
The way to go about eating them is simple, pluck the poppies off the stem, bite the top crown off (where the seeds are dispensed) and the bottom bump where the stem met the pod. Place in the mouth (preferably with something else that tastes strong and reasonable) and chew furiously without thinking. Swallow the unpleasant mash and it is over.
Experience
Firstly I decided to take a single bite from a large poppy to test 1) the taste 2) the texture and 3) idiosyncratic reactions. I did this and found 1) bearable 2) unpleasant 3) after a week, none. Obviously no effects were felt this first time.
For my second trick I ate two medium-sized poppy heads a week later, no effects were felt that weren’t calculably placebo.
A week later i upped the dosage again to four medium size pods, this was done in the evening at about 8pm. No effect was felt until after I went to sleep later (not odd given the close proximity to my last meal), it was in the night that I got my first opium effects. When I am at home and have nothing on the next day, I set my alarm to wake me two hours after I have gone to sleep. This is done because it interrupts my sleep cycle and, after ten minutes of reading I go back to sleep. The purpose of this is to trigger dreams earlier in the night, if I don’t do it I will not have any memorable dreams until about two hours before e I get up.
When I woke up at 1am I was pleased to feel rather groggy and a little nauseous, yet also a nice warm buzz. Upon settling back down I felt this mount a bit and had no trouble getting back to sleep. When I awoke the next day I still had a buzz and mild constipation, this persisted for almost 10 hours and was on the whole pleasant but not exceptional.
Feeling pleased I decided to try 6 pods the following weekend, I made the choice to eat earlier, ingest the poppies earlier and go to bed later. In total this meant I would be awake two more hours with the poppies in my system. I ingested my poppies and sat down and relaxed for the evening, this time there was a little nausea after eating them but I was not bad. After 2 hours or so I developed the same warm buzz witnessed before, it didn’t seem to grow before I went to bed. Going to sleep was where things got interesting. I found that with just this small buzz I could close my eyes and drift quite freely into instant dreams, what was more these were lucid. This was amazing as I could return from this state when I liked and didn’t feel like I had been to sleep at all. I had experienced my first nodding. The final thing I noted was whilst nodding time was VERY slow, in a similar way to when I find myself in bed in the morning, half-asleep for several hours. This effect was brilliant and I loved it far more than the trivial euphoria I was experiencing.
The following weekend I tried my luck with 8 pods, this time I found the euphoria was much more noticeable and I got my first opiate itches. These were amazing and I would almost compare them to how good it feels to stretch on MDMA. Almost. I spent ages nodding blissfully again and awoke the next morning with the experience still in me, I attended school without any difficulty communicating or concentrating. My motor function didn’t really seem to be impaired much and I was more talkative than normal. The only give away was that my pupils were absolute pinpricks.
In none of these experiences had I had any side effects afterwards except lingering constipation, on the 8-pod experience I noted three further things. Foremost pissing was rather tricky, although far easy than on MDMA. Secondly I found my mouth dried easily, similar to how it does with pot. Finally I could get an erection easily; in fact I would say it even acted as an aphrodisiac. Having said that however, ejaculating was a bit harder, although once again a lot easier than on MDMA (which strangely enough I have no real problem getting an erection on).
My testing was then interrupted for two weeks as I went on holiday, up return I once again ingested 8 pods with similar results to the above. My next test was to try ten, for a chance I decided to take this dose in the daytime. To get the most out of it I awoke myself at 6am, dosed and then returned to sleep with my alarm set for 8:15am. When I was awakened I found myself in one of the most blissful states I have ever visited, far far more so than the previous tests. I would say the feeling had increased exponentially almost. This was bloody amazing and the tactile body sensation produced by writhing around I my bedding were something else. The other two types of strong, drug induced bodily euphoria I have experienced are from MDMA and mushrooms. I would say out of the three MDMA wins on the bodily front, it just makes you feel a touch above anything else. Opium would get my vote as second, narrowly beating mushrooms, which can give you an amazing body high but can also give you the opposite. As for mental effects I found them lacking, MDMA and mushrooms clearly had this beat in terms of mental euphoria. Out of interest I find MDMA mind highs very limited and…forced, the classic loved up feeling seems so unnatural, you are put in that frame of mind with out choice or reason. Such states are attainable on psychedelics (and in fact states that far far exceed this) but you will move in and out of these depending on the environment around and in you. psychedelics are kind of like life to the power of 5, the good becomes godly and the bad becomes hellish.
Back on the topic at hand I enjoyed this happy state all day, mostly just in bed reading and writhing in a great deal of happy contentment.
The decision was made not to go any higher, I could not use the next two weekends as I had other stuff to do which brings me to today, Thursday 30/08/07. Last night I decided I would have a final experience, this choice was made because the pods are running out, not from usage but because the yare drying up.
I decided to take the last pods I could find, there were about 13 or so but most of them were small, so I made out the dosage to be 9 medium pods. Incidentally I had used a similar system for gauging the previous dosages after experiences two, that is I didn’t actually take 8 pods I took an amount I guessed to be that. This sounds hideously inaccurate but it worked well enough and was helped by the fact that the sizes did not alternate that much.
So this morning, at 6pm I ingested my last poppies, went back to sleep and woke up just over two hours later in a nice state. I dreamed and wandered with my mind for two more hours, slowing down time to a nod-induced trickle. It’s this process of nodding which I like most about the experience, the euphoria is nice but like with MDMA limited and…meaningless. If I want true euphoria, just euphoria I would partake in one of two things, the first being life and the second psychedelics. I am still rather blissful now and am soon to eat, my pupils are still very small and pissing is not easy, it will all end in the next few hours, which will probably herald my last opiate use for a year. When the poppies come again I will defiantly return to that controlled, lucid, wonderful nod. Until that time, it’s shroom season so I doubt I will long for poppies
Happy dreams,
The Frog.
Introduction
The following is a summary of experiments relating to the consumption of opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) heads.
I am a healthy British male in my late teens with an unexceptional experience of drug use. In fact it is true to say I have only ever ingested two depressants before in my life; (excluding medial anaesthetics) alcohol and glue based solvents. The later of these was used when I was 13 and rather ignorant of the dangers it carried. Overall it is fair to say that I had no experience regarding opiates or opioids, however I had researched the subject to a reasonable level.
Around where I live there are lots and lots of wild poppies. They grow every year, appearing in the spring and persisting until autumn. I had known that they were opium poppies for several years but never really had the desire to investigate, this summer was different. Upon completing my summer exams I decided to reward myself by spending the summer experimenting with these poppies, I knew that this was risky but figured I would be fine. There were (and are) three things I feel one should consider before using opium. (or any related drug) Firstly the dosage, this is crucial as the morphine in the poppies has a relatively low therapeutic index meaning that the difference between blissful euphoria and dangerously depressed breathing is rather slim. This problem is not significant if one is aware of the affect the dose will have on them and roughly where to stop at. I wasn’t aware of this so I planed to increase dosage progressively. I would advise anyone consuming poppies to slowly creep up with their dose and gauge a ‘standard’ amount, in weight, for which to work on. It is important to do this from scratch if you change your supply of poppies as alkaloid contents can fluctuate tremendously. I was a bit lazy and didn’t do this by weight but rather by ‘eyeballing’ the mass of the pods, I realise this is poor practice but I had decided not to go to high in dosage so I figured this wouldn’t be a problem.
The second thing to be aware of is addiction. Opiates are really addictive, both psychologically and physically. If one is prepared and cautious the later can be avoided, on this basis I reasoned that taking dosages once a week over the summer would negate physical addiction and greatly reduce the risk of mental addiction. I worked on the principle that knowing the risk and being careful would allow me to avoid the former. The final point to note is constipation. This may sound like nothing compared to the first two but it is significant, particularly I believe with opium in the way I ingest it as this means the side effect will exist for almost two days. The precaution was therefore to make sure my bowels were empty before indulging
Ingestion
Most people would advise making a tea out of the pods and drinking this, I never bothered with this. From day one I decided just to eat them raw, this probably sounds like I am trying to be machismo or something but it isn’t, I have tried taking things in tea form before and always find it FAR worse than just eating the damn things. Unpleasant liquids tend to invoke my gag reflex whilst unpleasant foodstuffs can be stomached.
Poppies do not taste as bad as people make out but the yare not pleasant; the main problem tends to be with older poppies. At a certain point in their lifespans the pods tend to develop thick cellulose-like strands running from stalk to top. These are practically impossible to chew and swallow let alone digest so it is always best to go for the young ones which lack the strands.
The way to go about eating them is simple, pluck the poppies off the stem, bite the top crown off (where the seeds are dispensed) and the bottom bump where the stem met the pod. Place in the mouth (preferably with something else that tastes strong and reasonable) and chew furiously without thinking. Swallow the unpleasant mash and it is over.
Experience
Firstly I decided to take a single bite from a large poppy to test 1) the taste 2) the texture and 3) idiosyncratic reactions. I did this and found 1) bearable 2) unpleasant 3) after a week, none. Obviously no effects were felt this first time.
For my second trick I ate two medium-sized poppy heads a week later, no effects were felt that weren’t calculably placebo.
A week later i upped the dosage again to four medium size pods, this was done in the evening at about 8pm. No effect was felt until after I went to sleep later (not odd given the close proximity to my last meal), it was in the night that I got my first opium effects. When I am at home and have nothing on the next day, I set my alarm to wake me two hours after I have gone to sleep. This is done because it interrupts my sleep cycle and, after ten minutes of reading I go back to sleep. The purpose of this is to trigger dreams earlier in the night, if I don’t do it I will not have any memorable dreams until about two hours before e I get up.
When I woke up at 1am I was pleased to feel rather groggy and a little nauseous, yet also a nice warm buzz. Upon settling back down I felt this mount a bit and had no trouble getting back to sleep. When I awoke the next day I still had a buzz and mild constipation, this persisted for almost 10 hours and was on the whole pleasant but not exceptional.
Feeling pleased I decided to try 6 pods the following weekend, I made the choice to eat earlier, ingest the poppies earlier and go to bed later. In total this meant I would be awake two more hours with the poppies in my system. I ingested my poppies and sat down and relaxed for the evening, this time there was a little nausea after eating them but I was not bad. After 2 hours or so I developed the same warm buzz witnessed before, it didn’t seem to grow before I went to bed. Going to sleep was where things got interesting. I found that with just this small buzz I could close my eyes and drift quite freely into instant dreams, what was more these were lucid. This was amazing as I could return from this state when I liked and didn’t feel like I had been to sleep at all. I had experienced my first nodding. The final thing I noted was whilst nodding time was VERY slow, in a similar way to when I find myself in bed in the morning, half-asleep for several hours. This effect was brilliant and I loved it far more than the trivial euphoria I was experiencing.
The following weekend I tried my luck with 8 pods, this time I found the euphoria was much more noticeable and I got my first opiate itches. These were amazing and I would almost compare them to how good it feels to stretch on MDMA. Almost. I spent ages nodding blissfully again and awoke the next morning with the experience still in me, I attended school without any difficulty communicating or concentrating. My motor function didn’t really seem to be impaired much and I was more talkative than normal. The only give away was that my pupils were absolute pinpricks.
In none of these experiences had I had any side effects afterwards except lingering constipation, on the 8-pod experience I noted three further things. Foremost pissing was rather tricky, although far easy than on MDMA. Secondly I found my mouth dried easily, similar to how it does with pot. Finally I could get an erection easily; in fact I would say it even acted as an aphrodisiac. Having said that however, ejaculating was a bit harder, although once again a lot easier than on MDMA (which strangely enough I have no real problem getting an erection on).
My testing was then interrupted for two weeks as I went on holiday, up return I once again ingested 8 pods with similar results to the above. My next test was to try ten, for a chance I decided to take this dose in the daytime. To get the most out of it I awoke myself at 6am, dosed and then returned to sleep with my alarm set for 8:15am. When I was awakened I found myself in one of the most blissful states I have ever visited, far far more so than the previous tests. I would say the feeling had increased exponentially almost. This was bloody amazing and the tactile body sensation produced by writhing around I my bedding were something else. The other two types of strong, drug induced bodily euphoria I have experienced are from MDMA and mushrooms. I would say out of the three MDMA wins on the bodily front, it just makes you feel a touch above anything else. Opium would get my vote as second, narrowly beating mushrooms, which can give you an amazing body high but can also give you the opposite. As for mental effects I found them lacking, MDMA and mushrooms clearly had this beat in terms of mental euphoria. Out of interest I find MDMA mind highs very limited and…forced, the classic loved up feeling seems so unnatural, you are put in that frame of mind with out choice or reason. Such states are attainable on psychedelics (and in fact states that far far exceed this) but you will move in and out of these depending on the environment around and in you. psychedelics are kind of like life to the power of 5, the good becomes godly and the bad becomes hellish.
Back on the topic at hand I enjoyed this happy state all day, mostly just in bed reading and writhing in a great deal of happy contentment.
The decision was made not to go any higher, I could not use the next two weekends as I had other stuff to do which brings me to today, Thursday 30/08/07. Last night I decided I would have a final experience, this choice was made because the pods are running out, not from usage but because the yare drying up.
I decided to take the last pods I could find, there were about 13 or so but most of them were small, so I made out the dosage to be 9 medium pods. Incidentally I had used a similar system for gauging the previous dosages after experiences two, that is I didn’t actually take 8 pods I took an amount I guessed to be that. This sounds hideously inaccurate but it worked well enough and was helped by the fact that the sizes did not alternate that much.
So this morning, at 6pm I ingested my last poppies, went back to sleep and woke up just over two hours later in a nice state. I dreamed and wandered with my mind for two more hours, slowing down time to a nod-induced trickle. It’s this process of nodding which I like most about the experience, the euphoria is nice but like with MDMA limited and…meaningless. If I want true euphoria, just euphoria I would partake in one of two things, the first being life and the second psychedelics. I am still rather blissful now and am soon to eat, my pupils are still very small and pissing is not easy, it will all end in the next few hours, which will probably herald my last opiate use for a year. When the poppies come again I will defiantly return to that controlled, lucid, wonderful nod. Until that time, it’s shroom season so I doubt I will long for poppies
Happy dreams,
The Frog.
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