The Redditor that Vanished 

Happy holidays everyone 🖤 Edit: I’ve never played TABS and it shows 😔 Edit edit: jiff

The comment "how normal again stop now" is fucking terrifying. I hate thinking about locking myself into a contract where I can't control my own mind and body.

having people on a subreddit called r/drugs tell you to not take a drug should’ve been a slap in the face

I know a guy I went to school with who tried it out freshman year. Didn’t show up to school for almost a month and nearly got dropped for excessive absences. When he finally did come back, he was a lot more quiet, quit all sports teams, and seemed a few seconds slower than everything around him. It’s like he was caught in a permanent daydream.

“The redditor that vanished” Tell that to all the [deleted] accounts

"How much should I take?" "No" "I'll take that as 15"

Me: **abandons nsfw alt account** _The Redditor That Vanished_

I did a report on this drug in HS, it was pretty obscure at the time (decades ago) so I was really excited about it. When I was done doing the report in front of class I looked up and I will never forget the look of fascination and excitement on so many faces and I knew right then that I had done something terrible. It still upsets that I might have led some fellow class mates to find a pretty horrible drug they would have known nothing about.

In my dumb youth I tried datura. The dry mouth is very real and the first thing you notice. This is manageable at first because you have your wits about you and can drink copious amounts of water. The next thing that goes is your vision. Your eyes turn into one big pupil. This means reading your phone is impossible and the ability to call for help a matter of luck. This is when you begin your lucid hallucinations which can be fun but are a 30 or so minutes of of a 12 hour experience. Your body temperature increases rapidly and you can’t sweat so your skin is beet red at this point you begin having your out of bodily experience. You literally feel like you are watching your self from above like GTA and I remember having thoughts like “weird, I guess I’m pat today” it wasn’t spiritual it was terrifying having the lack of self. Then you have your black in black out period where you only remember some of the night but the idea of where, who, what you are let alone that you are on drugs is gone. When your trip is over the events you do remember don’t go away. You believe them as a full blown memory. I was convinced I cheated on my current girlfriend with my ex and my friend confronted his math teacher because he was convinced “he solved the problems they learned in his 1:1 tutoring” that never occurred. As we both came to I could hear him yelling in the living room in my parents basement that he needed water. I some how found the door knob and crawled toward the kictchen. My parents had an open layout for the living room and kitchen with the only distinction being about 1 foot of wall extending out of the 8 foot entrance . When I grabbed us water and tried to bring some to my friend I couldn’t find the end of that one foot extension and or lights or anything of use. I started punching the wall to break through and luckily he found me before I did more damage or hit a wire. About 4 hours later 16 hrs in. We found the light switch. We both had heavy fevers and chalk white mouths from severe dehydration. My vision took over a week to come back to 100% and like I said our visions were 100% true to us for a long time. This is not something anyone should try. You are walking a tight rope of life and death this isn’t a psychedelic and shouldn’t be treated as one it’s a deliriant and even if you don’t of there are so many ways it can kill you. Stay away. All out of love I promise

Plant: "Don't fucking touch me, I'll kill you" Humans: "Ayy let's smoke it!"

Reddit: "This drug will fuck you up for life if not kill you" FlippinFlopp: "So 10 seeds sounds good right?"

You know you're in deep shit when half the nicknames for a drug is referring to satan

Datura experience: Taken it once. Smoked a bunch of the leaf with housemates. Nothing happened and I went to bed. Woke up feeling amazing, great sleep. Went downstairs and everyone looked at me in horror. They showed me videos of me balancing in weird positions on the fence, speaking freaky high pitch in my boxer shorts. Plus other crazy shit. They apparently stopped me from walking into the forest trying to get out of town or something. I remember none of this. Not even a haze.

“How normal again stop now” I don’t think he was enjoying it

In my country Nepal, Datura is offered to lord Shiva on the day of shivratri (Hindu festival). Mind you lord Shiva is know as the lord of destruction. Datura is said to have grown from the chest of lord Shiva after he had consumed poison in an event in the religious texts (puran) so it already has a pretty hardcore reputation in my culture. Worshippers offer datura to lord Shiva on that day. My mom, dad and grandparents have told me stories of people who consumed it and have either died or have never regained sanity after consumption. Don't try it, it's definitely not worth it.

I didn’t even know that flower was called Datura. My grandma had them in her front yard and always told us they were poisonous. I can’t believe people were taking this recreationally.

Once, I tried suicide with a plant from the same family of Datura's, I almost died, I drank the tea of just only one flower. I stopped salivating 10 minutes after drinking the liquid, I was having dinner with my mom, so I stopped because the food turned bitter and the saliva would not be there to help me chew the food. 15 minutes after drinking, I felt like I was very drunk by alcohol, I stood up and felt very dizzy and sleepy, so I went to bed. After one hour, I wake up and that's the part I remember nothing until I woke up in hospital with needles in my arm. My brother told me, when I woke up, I tried to walk but could not stand up, my legs were not functioning, and I was talking non sense. He saw I was completely out of my mind, so he called my mom, she knew what I did, she was very suspicious about the tea, and my family grabbed me by my arms and legs to take me to the car and get to the hospital. I kept talking nonsense. While there, I had arrhythmia, my heart bpm was around 200, and it was never above 80bpm while I normally was relaxed. My mom told me I would not talk whenever the doctor asked me anything, I kept my mouth shut, but she said I spoke another languages once in a while (I can talk four different languages and also know a little bit of more three). So it was very difficult to communicate with me because I did not want to speak Portuguese. They gave me diazepam twice in the veins, it eventually worked, and I fell asleep. I woke up trying to get to the bathroom to pee at all cost, they would not let me, so I peed in my pants very suddenly, the urge was too much. When I woke up again, I would see my boyfriend in the place of my mother staring at me, the image would flicker all of sudden, and I did not know if it was him or my mom, so I got very scared. When the effects were vanishing, I would see the light in the ceiling expand and contract, I would still not talk well. Eventually, I regained conscience and my mom told me sadly what happened. I learned a huge lesson, I almost died, there was nothing that could be done to clean the toxin except syrum in the veins... Do not mess with the Solanaceae plant family! It was not even Datura!

This is really sad, but “please thees big dog are fighting na okay” was a really funny description of a weird mammoth fight

20 years later. "Hey guys. I dropped my phone. Sorry about that!"

I like to think that Flip made it through the trip, given he lasted 12 hours and ended up on another subreddit and kind of had a sense at where he was/what he was watching. His Google comment was made thinking he was on Google on the white homepage in a search bar, but the last one seemed like he knew where he was, even if he couldn't comprehend he was seeing two low-res mammoths fighting. He thought they were dogs, but overall seemed to acknowledge them fighting, so I guess he had come down enough to see that? But overall I like to think in 12 hours someone came home and got to help him, and during the trip he probably forgot his password or forgot his throwaway account entirely, or he forgot just the pass and doesn't want to make another alt just to tell everyone he's okay, and not revisit where he made one of the biggest mistakes of his life.

That google comment even though refreshing must've sent chills down so many people's spines..

"I've got these datura seeds, how many should I do?" /r/drugs: "Wrong."

“How normal again stop now” is absolutely terrifying.

Had I not tripped hundreds of times on various "mainstream" psychedelics, I feel like I would definitely not have "survived" that experience. It was so intense I had to quickly put myself in "safemode", favorite blanket most comfy pillow and hurrying to put on The Office (my comfort show", and tried to be as comfortable and calm as possible. I even wrote myself a note saying "you took datura of your own will, everything will be okay". I took 20 seeds ground up in water sat overnight and then sieved out. I had the same euphoric and dysphoric experience at first which then turned into complete dysphoria. It took me about 2 minutes standing in front of the toilet trying to urinate and my skin puffed up really red and puffy throughout the experience. The headspace was NOT psychedelic, very confusing, and not something I'd recommend even for experienced Psychonauts. Especially if you've never been in a situation where you are tripping very hard but your brain can't remember that you even took a substance so you start to separate from your identity (AKA: delirium) leading to potentially really really bad choices you don't even know you're making. STAY AWAY from Datura no matter what you've tried, how potent, or how often you've tripped its not going to feel like any tryptamine, phenethylamine, or any other deliriant like Ketamine for that matter. It's a different beast. Even with proper harm reduction practices just stay away. Please.

Before I was born my mother and father purchased an old farmhouse in a rural area. My dad was clearing the overgrown acreage, using a bush hog (basically a HUGE ass lawnmower) and, unbeknownst to him, much of this overgrowth contained Jimson Weed (related to datura). It’s an invasive species here. Just from (basically) mowing it and coming into contact with it he was messed up for two to three days. He’s a “mans man” so he didn’t seek medical attention, just rode out the trip (having previous experience with psychedelics). Can’t imagine what this poor soul went through with that kinda dosage. Pop said he knew something was up when he looked at himself in the mirror and saw how dilated his pupils were. He said he felt super dehydrated no matter how much water he consumed. “It wasn’t a pleasant experience for either of us” mom says.

If you talk to them long enough, every Redditor will eventually vanish

datura: i'm poisonous so animals won't eat me humans: lmao, let's smoke some of this! it'll be an amazing drug drip!

To anyone who wants to try a deleriant like detura I would strongly suggest writing "DETURA" on your arm in sharpie, so if an EMT or doctor has to treat you they know what you're on and how to treat your condition as there are reversal agents for the chemicals in detura.

real story: when i was in high school (back in 90's) i remember a student from an other class took Datura and ended up in hospital for a week with severe panic attacks , poisoning and disorientation. The doctors gave him a stomach wash and even after that he was not ok. Fortunately he came back at school after 2 weeks. From that day when i hear the name Datura i am absolutely horrified

Without the evidence of a death actually having happened, my guess is he doesn't remember the password after the terrible trip. Maybe doesn't even remember making the account.

They should show this type of videos in schools instead of the anti-drug ads they usually show. This shit scared me more than any single anti-drug campaign they ever did at my school.

Your content is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for the hard work and research that you put into these videos. I truly hope that FlippnFlop is okay. This one really unsettled me.

Every so often, I come to this video. The way he types about the mammoth video is chilling. I have schizophrenia, and when in an episode, I often type and think like that. Scary stuff, man. Keep up the good work

"The redditor that vanished" They probably used ExpressVPN

"How much should I take?" NONE!! "Got it, so I'll make a tea out of it and smoke it's leaves, thanks guys"

it's stuff like this that makes for excellent anti-drug campaigns. I'm pro-gentle parenting, but I think there's a big problem of anti-drug campaigns watering down the truth and shining a spotlight on the most unimportant details. I don't think once in my years of dare or anti drug assemblies have I ever heard anyone talk about bad trips and the trauma it can cause. but it's the terrifying shit like this that people need to see, this is the horrible reality of what taking powerful drugs can be like, and sometimes we DO need to scare our kids. I think stories like this should be included in anti drug campaigns, bc even though it's incredibly upsetting, it effectively communicates what a bad trip can be like. it's scary but it's real, and I think that's the important truth. also, I'm not totally against drug use, but I am pro-educating on proper drug use, and I think specific drugs like Datura shouldn't be taken and that people shouldn't even entertain the idea of trying it.

Experienced, level-headed people: Absolutely zero. Don’t do it. Flippinflopp: 15-16?! OK!

The most realistic outcome: he recovered from a bad trip and never used the account again. I hope this was also the true outcome, because it means he didn't die.

I don't think the fact that a throwaway account was used is a red flag, considering he was using said account to discuss a drug that in all nature, no one should use. I wouldn't want that baggage on my real account that could be associated with personal things, and possibly personal friends.

After watching this again after a bad trip, this is even more terrifying. Just imagining him helplessly trying to find signs of reality to get back to normal. It's fucked.

Has anyone ever tried looking up if there were any articles or records of datura related deaths right around that time? I know it doesn’t say where OP is from and there could be a high frequency of deaths but it could come up with something if they didn’t survive :(

You don't call someone who's used Datura an ex-user but a survivor lol

Everyone: Don't take it Literally everyone: Don't take it FlippinFlopp: I'll take 10

This is the longest Anti drug commercial I've ever seen

Hi there, I've drank datura along a friend's girlfriend, while he was watching us to make sure nothing bad happens to us. I don't remember how strong was the dose, I know it wasn't that much. I assure y'all, it's not a good trip, it's something that I would never do again and that I will always try to discourage some to try it. It's a scary, powerful trip, I actually don't remember that much, but I do remember being walking in fear around a scary place, something that later my friend said it was impossible since we mostly have been seating in the sofa kinda like a zombie. I imagine a more powerful dose wouldn't actually do damage to a person, but his/her actions under the influence for sure could be dangerous. Don't try it, it's not worth it. If you want to trip, stick to mushrooms or lsd.

Redditor: *Taking dangerous drug despite being told not to* Me taking advil for pain and headaches: I'm something of a risk taker myself.

he probably took some, transformed his personality overnight, became a chad and stopped being a redditor.

It means a lot to have someone I can look up to who is just like me. It reminds me I am not alone. It encourages me to be more vocal about who I am and what I stand for. I will never apologise for how I pronounce GIF. Thank you, Nexpo. You have no idea how much you have affected my life for the better.

Decided to do a small research on Datura and found out that the fatal dose is the exact number the OP took(15 seeds) so um there’s a high chance that they might be dead which is kinda sad.

"Yo this I found this bottle with Bleach written on it should I drink it?" "Yo dont do it OP" "Just a sec I'm drinking it rn" -Every Reddit Post

My mom has datura plants as a garden plant. She always warned me since we got them that they were extremely poisonous. No animal will go anywhere near it. Deer eat everything but that. Birds refuse to even land on it. Beautiful plant and lets out a very nice smell at night, but dear God, do NOT ingest it. Datura is not something to mess with.

*Please upvote so people can see!* Terrence McKenna was a man highly experienced in psychoactive substances from psilocybin mushrooms to LSD to ayahuasca to DMT to everything in between. He has audio recordings here on RU-vid about his experiences of datura (and some of his friend's experiences as well) and even him, as well-educated, open-minded, and experienced as he was, eventually put it away because he realized that consuming this plant *is delerious,* it doesn't have much (if any) potential to be positive and constructive in any way! I highly recommend listening to his accounts if you want to learn more about what datura is like, and from an experienced psychonaut, no less!

I just found this channel and have already binged several videos. The way these are put together is simply amazing. Well done 👏🏻

I’m disappointed that Nexpo doesn’t know what Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is.

That sounds like one hell of a defense mechanism of a plant. Imagine all the animals that have tried to eat it

I feel like this is obviously a troll, the google comment solidifies it

HI! I made the mistake of ingesting datura as a teenager, and though it was only one time (don't really know anyone who has ever intentionally taken datura more than once), I can tell you right now: this post is fake. One of the immediate side effects of datura is your pupils dilating to the brink. Legit, no color whatsoever is left in your eye. This makes viewing any sort of backlit device like a computer screen, phone screen, television screen, even digital clock almost impossible. The fact this guy got on reddit to type two separate posts is absolutely unbelievable. The google post, and the "big dog" comment are absolutely contrived. On top of massive pupil dilation, you also get an effect known as "eye jitters" which happens when you t5ry to focus your eye on any one thing in particular. The second you look at any texts, images etc, your eyes will begin to almost vibrate back and forth. Posting is, for lack of a better word, impossible. This story is interesting, but definitely a work of fiction.

The moral of the story: If the most experienced drug users are advising you to not take a drug, DON’T USE THE DRUG

I'm more concerned with FlipNFlop that last posted 8 years ago in the r/no fap. Poor guy got one week in and completely disappeared.

i have a feeling that the 15-20 seeds dose would be a normal dose without them having smokes the leaves... i hope they didn't do too much and i hope they're ok now. i wonder if during/after their trip they had some sort of revelation that was so intense and personal they didn't want to share anything that alluded to it so they just abandoned the thread and scrapped the reddit account.

Out of all the videos Ive recently binged, this one gave me chills the most!

When it's a reddit story, the question of "is this even legitimate?" should always be lingering.

The phrase alone, “how normal again stop now” really gives me the chills

I'm rather sceptical. It's a different drug but on acid I struggled to use a keyboard, and that's under fairly weak effects. From what I've read and experienced, in general someone wouldn't have the thought process of "I need to go to Google, type in a question, submit, and read the answers" it would more likely be "I need to type my question into the magic glowing box at the top, that's where I've always done it, uhh, why is nothing happening?". The idea that he would be able to operate reddit's fiddly comment form is also dubious.

Psychedelics are no joke. I last did acid over a year ago and the bad trips I'd occasionally have really fucked up my mental health. Even with medication, I've turned to hard drugs to cope and my mental health as been pretty frail and fucked up even worse than it was before. I definitely appreciate my new perspective of the world, but I wouldn't wish the mental and emotion consequences on my worst enemy

Sounds like the person would have experienced full-blown psychosis. If you’ve never experienced psychosis, trust me when I say you should be thankful. It can be absolutely terrifying. You can end up having what are called “tactile hallucinations”, where you can see, hear, and even feel things that are not there but your mind has convinced your senses that it is. It is the scariest thing I’ve ever had to endure and it’s something I never want to experience again.

Can we not entertain the thought that he just logged out of a throwaway and he got so high he forgot his password or something like that because tbh that sounds most likely the easiest solution

thank you for the video, they’re so interesting.

There used to be Datura growing behind my grandma's house. She yelled at me one time and slapped my hand when I tried to pick one of the flowers.

My grandmother had these growing by the steps of her front porch, she had no idea what they were. She had salvia growing by the mint in her front yard flower bed. She was such a beautiful, innocent woman who loved gardening and literally planted anything and everything she found. I miss my granny.

man i felt so sad about what he said of the mammoth gif, imagine being in a horrible psychotic state and then seeing that thing :(

It always so nice to watch Nexpo’s videos with some pizza rolls, never could pass up a moment like this 💙

This is crazy, just a few days ago I was going through reddit on the drugcirclejerk sub and this guy posted a Datura tea concoction, thought it was a joke at first til i went through his post history. It started out okay and then got darker, he constantly said he wanted to end himself and then started doing datura and antihistamines recreationally.

The r/drugs community is extremely friendly, caring, intelligent, and experienced. While I don't condone the use of drugs if you do plan on it, and you ask them for advice, LISTEN TO THEM! They know what they're talking about, and they have your best interests at heart.

Nexpo: -That the worst had happened. [ambient sound] Reddit Comment: hes ded

Datura aka Jimsonweed was being sold around my high school in the 90s which is dumb af because it grows everywhere in the New Mexican desert. Regardless, most of us knew better than to take that crap. Anyhow, I had two friends that took some at a rave after consuming Molly. Neither of them were ever the same again. Both were permanently lost. I still see one of them wandering the streets and that was over 30 years ago. May have been coincidental but I know that the dose of whatever they took caused the permanent change in both of em.

When i was a kid i used to see this plant Datura all around in the neighbourhood....never knew it can be used for the deadliest of drugs...

my friend was in a state of psychosis for months. she’s totally scarred for life and will probably never be the same

My take away from this video is that nexpo is a heretic that says jif.

I'm so glad I found this channel

It seems like a hoax for all intents and purposes, but the one thing that gives me doubt, is that "how normal again stop now" thing. It's common in bad trips for people to feel like they will never come down from the high, so this is the kind of thing somebody suffering a really bad trip would say.

every "[deleted]" Redditor coughs in unison.

Some years ago in the late summer, we noticed that one of our geese was acting very peculiar. He seemed completely out of it and was stumbling around like a drunk and bumping into stuff. Fearing some horrible neurological condition, my husband took him to the emergency vet while I checked out the geese's enclosure to see if I could find any clues as to the origin of his condition. And I did. During the monsoon season, datura grows all over our property. We keep the geese's enclosure free of it, but hadn't noticed one plant just outside the fence in a far corner. A couple of its leaves were sticking through the fence, and they had beak marks all over them. Dude was high as a kite. It was about four days before he was normal enough to eat and function on his own again. Since then, we inspect the fence a lot more carefully, as we would rather not have to tube-feed a hallucinating goose ever again.

I did it when I was a teenager. I remember walking home with my friends talking to each other behind me even though I was alone. Next thing I remember was waking up at the front door of my mum's house the next morning. I'd put a set of pruning shears on the car roof and thrown my phone and some other miscellaneous objects off the balcony. I told her I was spiked. I think I got off easy and can see how such a drug can be dangerous not only to the user but to those around them.

Just gonna tell you, your content is now my pre-sleep wind-down. You are a very good thing to fall asleep to. thank you.

This works incredible as like an anti-drug thing for a school, show this to a bunch of kids and they’ll be scared crapless

We call these "Campanas del diablo" meaning: "Devil's bells"

The only channel I’ll sit thru commercials for, super cereal lov u Nexpo

My ex told me about his experience with datura. He said the big outside dustbin was talking to him and dissing his mom. He had a whole screaming match with the dustbin for a while because of that. What a strange plant

If he created the reddit account simply for asking about that drug, one could assume that he merely moved on with his life and never accessed his reddit account again. Maybe he forgot his password, maybe he even forgot he created a reddit account in the first place. Who knows...

I live on san luis potosi, mexico . Here we call that flower "floripondio" and has killed a bunch of curious teens. Some friends drink some tea and it was the ugliest trip i have ever seen. In this city we have peyote too. The chamans or people who knows from ancient teachings says: peyote is pure light, floripondio, pure dark Dont do it That flower kills

the elephant gif actually scared the shit out of me

The woolly mammoths battling is from a game called Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (TABS) in which the battles are absolutely wild and involve no realism whatsoever. Physics as we know it simply does not exist in that game, making the experience all the more fun.

That plant grows wild in my backyard every Spring I tear it out of the ground bc its illegal and I don't want my dog to get accidentally poisoned by it. I tear it out by the root but still every Spring it regrows they are wild and natural in my home state and in 2011, 2 teenagers died from smoking it and thats how I first found out about it and ever since than I destroy it every year in my yard.

“How many seeds should Flipnflop take” Sounds like a math problem ha

I absolutely love your intro it’s endearing to your channel

First time I found out about this stuff, I had a neighbour over and mid conversation he noticed a tree in my garden, the one with the pink trumpets and was like "you need to get rid of that tree". He told me about this time he visited Cape Town (we're from South Africa btw) and was given this tea made from the leaves of the same type tree in my garden. I cant remember if he was tricked into it or if the effects of it were misrepresented but he said he'd have never taken it had he known what a fcked up time he was in for. He said he was talking to people that werent there, smoking cigarettes that werent there among other hallucinations and apparently went on to experience this delerium for 6 months. He said that the experience gave him PTSD and changed him for life. I did think he was maybe lying. I mean 6 months?? I'd never heard of anything so powerful thats allowed to just grow in peoples yards. But then about a year later I came across this very thread through another thread on Reddit and reading others experiences, I realised he was not bullshitting. And now I've decided to watch this video. Interesting side note, I noticed specifically lighting and smoking a cigarette thats not there and even feeling the feel of a cigarette as if it were real is actually a very common thing people seem to experience.

My friend did these back in like 2008. He did A LOT, he was hallucinating for days and was the most messed up I've ever seen someone. He was in a complete state of psychosis with massive anxiety disorder and agoraphobia for a long time. I haven't spoken to him in a couple years, but last time I spoke to him he was still hiding in his apartment, suffering from seizures and completely disconnected from reality.

Even if this person wasn't serious about taking it, there are still plenty that do. I'll never understand why people insist on messing with Datura. It's nothing like classic psychedelics. It's a deliriant. Unlike the classic recreational psychedelics, you won't be able to tell where reality ends and the hallucinations begin. Not to mention the alkaloids all but guarantees the experience will be dysphoric as hell. Atropine, scopolamine, and hyocine are also anticholinergics. And like it said, the dose for a trip is also enough to put someone into anticholinergic syndrome. The window of safety is incredibly narrow and anticholinergic syndrome is no joke. It's pretty scary to witness. And, as someone who is Rx'd levsin for IBS symptoms, even therapeutic doses give me enough of an idea to know how nasty they can be.

I’ve experimented with a lot of drugs in my early twenties and enjoy discussing almost all of my experiences, but, datura is one I don’t like to talk about and have tried to force it from my memory.