So I drank the tea last night. The tea turned out really thick, like sludge. I did eveything the same as normal, and it usually doesn't turn out so thick. Kept trying to filter it but nothing helped. It was like a cactus milkshake.
It tasted bitter and was extremely salty. The saltiest I ever tasted. Basically, it was so salty that it was unpalatable. I took a couple of drinks and couldn't stomach anymore. Ended up discarding the rest and smoking a bowl of cannabis to settle my stomach.
I didnt expect to feel anything from the cactus, since I had only consumed a small amount of the tea. But surprisingly I did feel some effects. I was wired with energy. Kept pacing around. Couldnt sit still. Couldnt sleep. And I saw some visuals. Mostly it was patterns of stars. Sometimes they looked like five-pointed stars. Sometimes they looked like dots of light. With both closed and open eyes I saw them in front of my visual field. At times they were stationary and at other times they were flying past me. At one point I layed down on the sofa with my eyes closed and I could see through the roof into the night sky. I saw a sky full of constellations that were unrecognizable to me. At the peak of the trip the stars looked like tiny spinning galaxies. I looked at my arm and it looked robotic, filled with wires. And the tiny galaxies were traveling up and down the wires. I just intuitively understood that the galaxies were packets of information traveling back and forth. Honestly I was shocked by these visuals, as I had only taken 2 swigs of the tea.
The trip lasted much shorter than usual, about 6 hours of really feeling it. I was able to fall alseep around sunrise and sleep for a couple of hours. I woke up with a pounding headache, which I never get from cactus. This was a very unusual tea indeed.
The tea was made up mostly of the pachanoi. It was much fatter than the bridgesii. By volume the tea probably consisted of 3 parts pachanoi to 1 part bridgesii. So mostly what I was tasting and experiencing was from the pachanoi.
Ultimately, unfortunately, this experiment was so muddied up that I'm not really sure what it says about the Altman's pachanoi. But I'll give it my best shot. There's definitely mescaline in it. But there's other chemicals there too, causing that terrible saltiness and the headache. And thats about all that I can say. I wish there was more. This clone deserves further study. Its the second most common pachanoi in the U.S.A. More should be done to understand it. But I don't think that I'll be the one to do that research. At least not anytime soon. That saltiness was overpowering. Maybe it was caused by environmental factors. Maybe some other cause can explain it. But I dont want to taste that extreme saltiness again. I would encourage anyone who considers using this clone to try tar or an extraction. That extreme saltiness is not something that you want to taste.
Even though the trip was short, nevertheless I found it to be impactful. I spent most of it with a laser focus upon the people who matter most to me in my life. I had an overwhelming feeling that some of my priorities need to change. I need to spend more time with my family. They need more of my focus. Other things that have felt very important need to be dropped to lower priorities. Part of that is my time spent online. Part of that is my obsession with cactus. Everything must settle back into a healthier order of priority. This I saw with great clatity, and I must honor it.
The headache has gone away now. My energy level is still definitely elevated. My mind feels very sharp and focused. I am thankful for last night's experience, as strange as it was.
