A little autodidact book-learning and some technical curiosity are both hallmarks of an individual. Also, I have enough experience with you in the past in the SoI, to recognize an individual when I see one.

Welcome to the Theatre, Steel.


I'd also like to add to my opinion on the discussion:

@Discussion:
I've seen alot of strange things. I'm not going to insult my powers of observation by trying to seperate which of them were "real" or "unreal." So it will be safer for me to say the single strangest thing that has happened to me.


I took about twenty-five grams of fresh ground nutmeg weighed by a kitchen scale. At first, I was treated to a nice whimsical heady vertigo that wasn't unpleasant. Just enough to know that things were different and something wasn't right. Something wasn't right. A little more time and I was sure of it.

Something was dead wrong. I was alone at home. Did I smell smoke. Was there someone in the house. I found I was unable to sit down. And when I forced myself into a chair, I found my eyes darting around the room and drawing my knees up infront of my chest.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT NOISE!?

I broke out into a sweat and my knees could feel my heart hammering against my ribcage like it was trying to get out. My mind began to tear over current stressful subjects.

It wasn't long before I realized something had happened in the calculation of dosage. I searched through the cabinets and found a touchstone. A bottle that said it was so many grams. I poured the contents into the scale and found to my horror that the scale was off an impossible "ten" grams!

I called the EMS immediately. They got me and kept me for a full four hours. They monitered my heart rate, which was (laying in bed) 168 at it's low point. I had taken 35 grams! Which I credit as unusually asinine of me as I'm usually more careful.

For the next three days, I was in and out of consciousness. I made it home to my bed. I remember waking up in my living room chair and not being able to feel anything. I couldn't tell the difference between the lightest touch or the hardest bite (which I tested). I saw dark gray things at night walk up to me out of shadows and babble something I couldn't hear. This happened several times. I called my mom and my friends later to find out if they had dropped by to see how I was, but they did not. On the third day I woke up, like one wakes up after a long sleep. All my senses were in working order. But I must admit that my body had a tingling sensation.

I then read up on body chemistry to divine what exactly had just happened to me. But that stands as the weirdest. I can't even lay out all that was truly strange about it in words or be troubled to describe all the sensations and hallucinations. But I died. For 8 seconds. All of it en mass, stands as the strangest experience.