Thread: My Silene Capensis Experience

I'm experimenting with Silene Capensis(African Dream Root) and would like to record my experience for SCIENCE. I was disappointed by the lack of abundant information and experiences when I was researching, so I figured I would add something.

Day 1: It arrives in the mail. It is in powdered form... oops. Should have paid more attention when buying it. The powdered form oxidizes quickly. Oh well, hopefully it's still potent.

It's about mid day when I take it(on an empty stomach), as that's when it arrived in the mail and I'm not going to wait that long. I fill 1/4 of a teaspoon, which measured on my scale(fairly accurate to the milligram) weighs around 247mg. I drop it in half a cup of water. I stir it to see if any froth would form. Not even a single bubble and I used soft water. I read some where that if it doesn't froth, that means the ancestors don't approve of you using it or it's not the right time. I'm Demi-Fiend though. I don't give a shit. I grab angels and demons by the balls, why would I care?

So I take a sip, taste is about what I would expect a root to taste like. It has a mild bittersweet flavor. I down the rest of it and feel nauseous about 5 minutes later, which quickly passes and I'm left with a strange stimulation reminiscent of caffeine for an hour or two. Some people speculate it is an MAOI, so naturally that day I ate foods high in tyramine almost exclusively. No effect whatsoever. Nah, it's not an MAOI. I very much doubt it. If it is it's very, VERY weak.

It definitely has an effect on my dreams the first night. Although I often have vivid dreams, I had been having muddier ones recently.

They were quite vivid indeed, and a lot of people I knew but hadn't thought of in a while appeared. The first few dreams were mostly meeting people I already know, then the rest were filled with crime, death, chasing people, running from the cops, and creepy stares. I remember being in this cafeteria/buffet like place and throwing various foods at one of the servers because they said something that pissed me off, then the police showed up(take note: throwing food in the dream world is a serious crime) and I took some one hostage. When a cop got close I exchanged the hostage for a gun. I made him show me that it was loaded. That sneaky bastard thought he was clever disarming it(with some gun mechanism that doesn't actually exist) but as soon as he handed it to me I re-armed it and began shooting everyone in the face(infinite ammo) while running along the walls Matrix-style laughing maniacally . I don't remember much after that. I'm not a violent person while awake and I've never really been in trouble with the law, so I'm not quite sure where the dream came from.



I wake up and take another 1/4 teaspoon and write this.