DOSE:	30-40 g	oral	Nutmeg	(powder / crystals)
	3 Tbsp	oral	Nutmeg	(ground / crushed)

BODY WEIGHT:

170 lb

Lately, I've been doing a lot of nutmegging. I’ve been a pothead since Freshman year, but when I moved, I couldn’t find a good dealer. The only two guys I know that sell pot where I moved to are total dicks and try to sell it at a ridiculous price. I’m not paying $20 for a gram of some shag. So, I moved onto nutmeg. It’s cheap, gets the job done, and gives me the effects I’m looking for so I don’t go broke.

Just to recite a couple of pros:
1. I enjoy the length of the trip. Drugs that wear off quickly tend to leave me slightly angry afterwards that it ended so quickly. The main part of the trip lasts 'til around 12 hours after comsumption, depending on the amount I take.
2. It's relatively cheap. I can buy decent powder for around $8.
3. I can still think coherently while on the drug, making it easier to be high on it during social situations.
4. It's not as 'stupid' as other drugs, in the sense that I don't think too many stupid thoughts while on the drug.
5. Music euphoria. Music is GREAT on this drug, and being a musician, I find this part enjoyable. Also, since I'm still thinking with slight clarity, I have no problem writing things down as I play.

And now for the cons:
1. The after-effects are very meh. I'll be out of it for a good day or so after the trip ends. I finally got a hangover from it when I accidentally took around 40 grams. After-effects tend to be just headaches, and a general unwillingness to get out of bed, including the fore-mentioned haze.
2. It's pretty easy to lose my buzz. However, it can all come roaring back with a little dub/trance/Led.
3. It can be nauseating if I don't get it down fast enough. After a while, I get used to the nausea, or at least, it doesn't seem to be there anymore.
4. It's not well documented. It doesn't seem strong enough to have any permanent brain damaging abilities.

Okay, so now that that's out of the way, I’d like to say that trips on this drug vary a lot . One trip I’ll have a ridiculously euphoric trip where everything looks beautiful, the next I’ll be hallucinating and seeing things jump around in my vision. I'll go ahead and recount my strongest experience, just to give a taste. Oh yes, and even though this has nothing to do with this experience, carnivals are AWESOME. Even the kiddy rides are awesome, though I’m sure I looked stupid riding them…

Anyways, starting with a week ago...

12:00 PM - I go to buy some nutmeg before heading out to my music class at a different school. No problems here. I'd been planning this trip for about 2 days now, so my mind was ready. This drug is relatively strong, so I at least want to prepare a little bit. This will be my 9th or 10th time doing nutmeg.

2:45 PM – Arrive home after my music class and with my poor measuring skills, measure out a generous 3 tablespoons and placed it in a plastic baggy. This is equal to about 30-40 grams.

3:15 PM – Finish downing the bag with some water. It’s better to get it over with quickly, it gives me less nausea, and, well, it’s better to get anything bad over quickly.

3:25 PM – Almost immediately following my finishing the bag, I hear a knock at my door. I stash the nutmeg in my underwear drawer (classic), and stuff the spoon and bag into my pocket. I open the door and it’s my girlfriend, who I will now be referring to as M. She says she brought a couple of friends over. I heave a sigh and say fine, and she goes to let them in. I pretty much hate all of her friends.

3:30 PM – Her friends K and J, my least favorite of her friends, come barging into my room. I calm myself down, and go ahead and get back to my usual business. K keeps touching my guitar and pissing me off, while his girlfriend (J) annoys the hell out of me about her day. I let K start playing my old shitty guitar so he’ll stop touching my good one.

4:00 PM – M talks me into going down to the basement. The effects have already started because I took it on an empty stomach. However, the effects are so mild right now that it’s not hard to concentrate.

5:00 PM – K and J finally leave. M stays with me and apologizes. Then comes the next part. She starts getting depressed for no reason. This is a really bad start to a trip. I’m already pissed, now I’ve got a girl who’s depressed for no reason to worry about. Needless to say, this brings my mood down even lower. I’m getting more and more high every minute now, but I’m forced to drive her home, because I’m trying to hide the fact that I’m on nutmeg. She hates the stuff, but then again, she’s also into getting drunk, so it doesn’t surprise me. Drinking is pretty meh in my book. Only gotten smashed once, and I didn’t really find it that much fun. I’ll stick to the hallucinogens.

5:30 PM – Trip starts getting pretty heavy. I laugh at things that aren’t that funny and swing my head around a bit. M tells a joke, and I can’t help but hit my head against her pillow while I laugh. Somehow, this didn’t tip her off that I was high. This is the biggest dose I’ve taken besides my first time, and I can definitely notice the difference. My thoughts are cloudy, and there’s less euphoria involved with sight. Usually, when I see something like a particularly well-placed tree, or an old-looking building, it seems profound and beautiful. Not so much this time. It’s probably just because it’s only been 2 hours since consumption, though. I’ve never had the effects kick in this fast, must be because the nutmeg’s fresh.

[Erowid Note: Driving while intoxicated, tripping, or extremely sleep deprived is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!]
6:00 PM – M falls asleep and I leave. I manage to drive back home, and I notice that my buzz seems to be fading a bit. Maybe the other stuff was in my head?

7:00 PM – Turn on some dubstep in my new bad-ass $80 headphones. The sound quality is amazing compared to my earbuds. The music really takes me in. The trip starts coming back to me while I listen. It had never really left, it’s just that it had been being blocked by something. Probably my bad mood. As I listen to the dub, I turn out my lights and close my eyes, just to take it in and HOLY SHIT. I started having closed-eye hallucinations. Really, it was more or less controllable, but these hallucinations were NOT enjoyable. I saw a strange face coming towards me constantly. It’d move back, and then coming rushing back for me. I open my eyes and try to calm myself down a little bit. I’m pretty experienced with hallucinations, but I wasn’t expecting it, so it threw me off a bit. I’ve done DXM a few times at Second-Third Plateau doses, and I also got some weed mixed up with peyote from a dealer (or at least, we assumed it was Peyote. The hallucinations were strong and lasted a really long time, and resembled what we read about Peyote.)

I sat down and just stared blankly. I had trouble focusing my eyes and I started hallucinating again, but only slightly, since my eyes were opened. I only saw one major thing and that was a rat’s head was visible for a few seconds. Wasn’t very scary though, just kind of like, I was imagining things and I could see them vividly in real life. I wasn’t doing it purposefully, they were pretty random, but they weren’t all that startling. However, it was a real downer the way my trip was headed. I attempted to put it back on the right track with some good hippie music. The music made me happy and calmed me down, and the hallucinations slowed to a halt. My head started feeling less heavy, and slowly I became happier with the music. The trip is highly linked to music, as usual.

8:00 PM – I get tired of sitting. Nutmeg trips are also highly linked to motion, I’ve found. Walking around is much more enjoyable than just sitting or laying down. So, I get up, switch headphones to my new earbuds, and head out on my quest to find something beautiful. However, since it’s dark outside, things take on a different perspective. As I look at the houses in my neighborhood, they seem totally different. They have an almost regal look to them, but not one of beauty. More of an eerie look. I make it out to the end of my street, and my vision is hazy and wavy. I’m not exactly happy, I can’t seem to get the type of euphoria I normally get, probably due to the earlier experiences I’d had. I turn on my new Led Zeppelin CD and walk to the beat as I’m walking down the main road.

I reach my girlfriend’s neighborhood and start walking around randomly. I was still intent on finding beauty, even though things looked really cool even now. I got a weird euphoria just from looking at the looming trees and darkened buildings, almost one one of fear, yet it’s intriguing. It’s really hard to explain, but it’s one of my favorite features of nutmeg. I walk into about 4 dead ends, but I just keep turning around and walking in a different direction. Music sounds awesome, it really adds to the experience.

Also, another thing. There’s lots of peripheral problems. I see things a lot in my peripheral, and they make me jump. Also, things that aren’t moving, look like they are because I'm walking towards them. It’s probably got something to do with how slow

Around 10:00 PM - Finally, I decide it’s time to turn around and head back to my house. Even though I’m not very good with directions, I manage to find my way out of the maze. I notice something new has kicked in that I’ve never gotten before on nutmeg, and that’s that lights have a slight strobing effect. It’s not constant, but it happens quite a lot. I’m stumbling a bit now, I think I might’ve over-exerted myself somehow. This drug pretty much takes away all sense of exhaustion, so I’m kind of worried. I don’t sit down, though, and continue my trek home.

11:00 PM – At home now. Turn on some trance, jack in my fancy new headphones, and just lie back on my bed. It calms me down a bit. I had been pretty tense during that walk because of the weird eerie look of everything. Nothing of note besides a few closed eye hallucinations, trip still hasn’t shown signs of fading. I’m TIRED, though. Really tired. I must’ve actually exhausted myself somehow.

12:00 AM – Turn off my music and turn on the TV. I’m watching Family Guy (I normally hate that show), but I’m laughing REALLY hard. This is the first time that I’ve had this effect on nutmeg. Usually, I only get it when I do pot.

1:00 AM – I can’t keep my eyes open and I just let the sleep take me.

11:00 AM – I wake up and have my first nutmeg hangover. My head hurts, I have a weird panging pain in my head, and I feel like I can’t get out of bed. I barely drank any water during the trip because I was outside for a lot of it, so that could be lending to this. Thankfully, I have nothing to do today, but I can’t fall back to sleep, for fear of my sleep paralysis kicking in.

I have very few after-effects, and the hangover lasts until around 2:00 PM. All in all, a different trip than usual. It’s probably because of the earlier problems (just goes to show that you should never be around people you hate before doing drugs), the dose, and the time of day I took it at. When there’s still light outside, it’s definitely a happier experience.

Exp Year: 2010	ExpID: 87300
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 16
Published: Dec 10, 2019	Views: 1,523
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