I used Syrian Rue for the first time recently. I ground up and ate 2 teaspoons of seeds, which was way too much I think. In hindsight 1 teaspoon would've been enough, but I guess the whole point was to experiment with dosage, so it didn't hurt to go overboard this once.
The effects were astounding. The visual effects were easiest to understand: My normally acute sight devolved into what I would describe as long-exposure images. At its most intense, I could move my eyes from one direction to another and the image I was seeing wouldn't follow for what seemed like 1 second. The same sort of time-lag/blur was probably occurring with all of my senses as well as my thoughts, but the visual aspect was the easiest to identify. It is easy to forget that sounds and motion are not cross-sections in time, but rather they require information from perceptions that are distended in time. In our normal perceptions this sense of time-distention is filtered from our awareness, but during the Rue experience I found it to be exaggerated to a level that could not be ignored (or maybe the normal filtering was simply absent). All in all it was a perceptually enlightening experience that was nevertheless harrowing.
One of the most perplexing parts of the experience was a change of my sense of taste. Normally I wouldn't drink water from the tap at my place because we have well water and it has a very strong and unpleasant bitter metallic taste (low pH?). However, on this occasion, a friend who didn't know better brought me the tap water and, to my surprise, it tasted sweet; as though the bitter metallic taste were replaced by a light sweet flavor. Perhaps this is because the Rue powder I threw up had depleted my tastebuds of bitter/metallic receptors (not sure if that is even possible), or maybe the drug experience somehow results in my wires being crossed in such a way that bitter/metallic tastes were perceived as being sweet.
Anyways, I thought it was very interesting. The lesson here is "1 teaspoon is enough".
The effects were astounding. The visual effects were easiest to understand: My normally acute sight devolved into what I would describe as long-exposure images. At its most intense, I could move my eyes from one direction to another and the image I was seeing wouldn't follow for what seemed like 1 second. The same sort of time-lag/blur was probably occurring with all of my senses as well as my thoughts, but the visual aspect was the easiest to identify. It is easy to forget that sounds and motion are not cross-sections in time, but rather they require information from perceptions that are distended in time. In our normal perceptions this sense of time-distention is filtered from our awareness, but during the Rue experience I found it to be exaggerated to a level that could not be ignored (or maybe the normal filtering was simply absent). All in all it was a perceptually enlightening experience that was nevertheless harrowing.
One of the most perplexing parts of the experience was a change of my sense of taste. Normally I wouldn't drink water from the tap at my place because we have well water and it has a very strong and unpleasant bitter metallic taste (low pH?). However, on this occasion, a friend who didn't know better brought me the tap water and, to my surprise, it tasted sweet; as though the bitter metallic taste were replaced by a light sweet flavor. Perhaps this is because the Rue powder I threw up had depleted my tastebuds of bitter/metallic receptors (not sure if that is even possible), or maybe the drug experience somehow results in my wires being crossed in such a way that bitter/metallic tastes were perceived as being sweet.
Anyways, I thought it was very interesting. The lesson here is "1 teaspoon is enough".
