1) I have had many benders involving various amounts and different combo's of MDMA, Acid, Meth, 4-MAR, weed, mushies and a number of other substances (as I sure many of you have

) all of which have left my body feeling decidedly worse for wear. However, there has only ever been 2 occations when I have truely felt like I had really over done it, both involving datura.
My first Datura trip has left everything else I have ever had for dead. I ate a whole Datura lily and had a small amount of speed and was in about 2 hours absolutly tripping balls. It is difficult to understand just how real the visions from datura are until you have had experienced it. Needless to say I was scared out of my mind. I have recalled this trip in more detail on several occations in various threads so I wont go into it in great depth again, but suffice to say that my whole reality and everything I was certain about came unstuck. I thought I was going to die and I ended up on various fluid drips in Emergency (thank the lord for good friends).
2)I really wanted to know what it was like. I was in high school looking for cheap thrills and I had heard that it was the ultimate trip. Combined this with stupidity and the fact that datura is free and grows just about everywhere, and well the results speak for themselves.
3) Strangely enough not really. I felt stupid for putting myself in a position where I relied on others so much but I didnt really regret having done it.
That said, the comedown was hellish. I was in hospital for about 2 days and there was no medication the doctors could give me to help me through the weird (and frightening) looping in and out of reality that I was experiencing (apparently the active substances in datura react with just about every know form of medication) and even after I got out I was usure about everything I was seeing for several weeks after.
4)It was when I first understood the fragility of life, because I really did think I was going to die. I have never been so scared and so absolutly uncertain about everything than right then.
What I find interesting is that I have been closer to death on many occations (I can recall several times when I have driven with people who were totally smashed and one notable occation when I slipped and almost fell while pilling and wandering around like an idiot at the south head cliffs in sydney) but none of these had an effect on me like the datura trip.
5)No. Never ever as long as I live. Since the first trip I have ingested datura on one other occation (I was told that what I was consuming was a mushroom tea.... and what really fucking funny prank it was) and that was probably not as interesting, just more frightening and stressful. I would never advise anyone to take datura, and if I could not talk a prospective tripper out of it then I would at least tell them to have several very understanding friends around for the full 30 hour duration as minders.

.... I must say I dont support people who say these threads are pointless. I tend to see them as pretty interesting and quite an enjoyable and informative read. Virtually every single person posting on this site has done things they regret or at least admit was stupid at some stage (whether it be with drugs or any other thing in life). I believe that these sorts of accounts can help less experienced members of this board choose what is safe and what is not. I am fully aware that these types of thread can devolve into mindless dick sizing, but I think we do need to give people this sort of information, for there is no greater teacher than personal experience.