Tales of Draqoyin - The next step - Part 6

Invited by friends to trip on 3g of Natalensis. What an experience...

The next step

It’s late November, and the days are already starting to get cold. It’s been a while since my last trip, and the invitation sounds exciting. We're also going to lemon-tek the trip. A small calculation I use is x2, knowing this isn’t the exact formula to calculate the intensity, but it makes it easier to understand. I’ve heard that lemon-tek increases the intensity, shortens the onset duration by about half, and the overall length of the trip is reduced by about a third. Excited yet a bit nervous, I step into the car.

Natalensis primarily provides an euphoric effect, but I’ve also heard that it gives a glimpse of what death might feel like. This information makes me even more curious about the trip.

While we’re waiting for the first effects to kick in, we play a round of Hitster. After playing one round, my trip partners want to do another. I tell them that my hands are already sweaty and I’m not able to play another round, so I settle on the couch, watching them struggle to play the game. It’s funny to see someone try so hard to focus on the rules while barely managing to carry out the next steps.

I get more comfortable on the couch, and as I let the world happen around me, the couch starts to feel like it’s gently hugging me. Slowly but surely, the large cushions seem to form around me. It feels good, familiar.

My partners also begin to settle on the couch, and we’re having a great time. I get up from the couch, the first phase is over, and I’m back in the world. My bladder starts to press, and I look at my partners. With a grin on my face and words racing through my head, I try to find the right words. After repeatedly saying "I don’t get it anymore," I try with all my effort to get up from the couch. My partners look at me with confusion and many questions; “What are you doing?” “Going to the bathroom,” I say, “but it’s going to take 6 weeks!” I add. Laughing, I finally get off the couch and look at the door leading to the bathroom. In reality, it’s maybe 5 meters from the couch, through the door, half a step, and you can open the bathroom door. But this distance feels like I’m going to be on a journey for months, and I dread it. Still, the pressure in my bladder is too much, so I walk with a slightly tipsy stride to the bathroom.

When I return to the couch, we start messing around again. “This can’t be real!” I hear from my right. Slowly, I sink into the couch and admire the wallpaper behind it. The wallpaper is a repeating floral pattern in gold and green colors. The depth in the flowers is really visible, and wherever I look, the flowers seem to keep popping up over and over again, there’s no stopping it.

For the rest of the trip, I keep getting lost in the wallpaper. It’s truly remarkable to experience what a trip can do to you. A sense of time no longer exists, and all the questions you have—“I don’t get it,” “This can’t be real”—are perfectly okay, and you can let everything come over you. The experiences I’ve had before are nothing compared to what I’ve experienced here. The past times, with my girlfriend, it felt like we just picked up where we left off. This time, though, the setting was different (other people participating), and we tried a different strain.

Compared to B+, Natalensis is really a lot more intense. Of course, this is because the dosage was doubled. But the visual effects are truly an experience. There’s even more chaos around you... And yet, everything is okay.