Musician Raffaela Weyman got a boost on her TikTok profile when she shared a story about almost smelling a flower to death. Under her handle !songsbyralph, she shared a series of photos that told a terrifying story about picking a bell-shaped flower with a friend, which they spent all night “deeply inhaling” before heading to a party. That was the beginning of a near disaster.
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You see, not all flowers are our friends. This particular flower is actually commonly grown in gardens, but it’s highly poisonous. The Angel’s Trumpet can mess with your heart, cause paralysis, and cause hallucinations and memory loss. And they’re just hanging around people’s homes!
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The girls arrived at their party, but they were feeling horrible and had to bail:
Weyman writes that she had horrific sleep paralysis that night:
And figured out what happened the next day when they finally got suspicious of the crazy plant:
“We accidentally drugged ourselves like idiots,” she writes.
Do not let this TikTok inspire you to do this on purpose! The comments are full of people alleging that Angel’s Trumpet has messed up the lives of friends and family that they know. Extreme hallucinations are dangerous, especially with a substance that gets so close to just poisoning you to death.
The Daily Dot reports that Vice actually made a documentary about the drug most commonly synthesized from the plant, called scopolamine or “the worst roofie you could ever imagine, times a million.”
“The deal with burundanga is that it pretty much eliminates your free will so you’re awake and you’re articulate,” they wrote. “To anyone else watching you, it seems like you’re perfectly fine, but you’ve completely lost control of your own actions, so you’re at the whim of suggestions, and that’s how people take advantage of you.”
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Weyman told the Daily Dot that she is from Toronto and had never seen the Los Angeles bloom.
“It smelled amazing and looked beautiful, so we did a little photoshoot for fun, we were just goofing around. We truly had no idea that it was a dangerous dangerous species. Although we didn’t ingest it, we both felt drowsy and unstable shortly after and I had my first-ever sleep paralysis experience that night. I did quite a bit of googling the next day and it has been shown that even smelling the flowers for long periods of time can cause hallucinations and drowsiness, they’re that potent!” she said.
Be careful out there. Nature is not done with us just yet.
*First Published: July 7, 2021, 7:35 am
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