Here we are sharing our first experience of Bhang. What is Bhang ? - To those who dont know, it's a preparation from the leaves and flowers (buds) of the female cannabis plant, smoked or consumed as a beverage in the Indian subcontinent. It's generally consumed on some festival occasions. I'm with my friend Puneet writing our experience of drinking Bhang.
So it is Holi festival in India and we were all playing with colors. Me and Puneet were roaming around in city, playing colors and enjoying bike ride. Suddenly we came across a stall where people were making Bhang. We had one glass of Bhang and after that we again started roaming. We were not feeling anything weird from Bhang indeed we were very happy. After 15 mins we again encountered a Bhang stall and thought of having one more glass. So we had one more glass of Bhang and again we are on our bike. Now we wanted to find a tubewell in farms in take a bath from all the colors of Holi. Tubewell is a motor driven water supply in the farms (as shown below)
To find tubewell we actually went to the outskirts of our city. We parked our bike on road and went by foot in farms to find a tubewell. There wasn't any tubewell running but we found a pool of water nearby. We started enjoying in that pool and then suddenly we heard someone shouting from behind. It is his farm and we were bathing in his farm. We ran away from their and reach back to our bike. Up till now we were in a happy going mood. We were laughing out loud even on very stupid things. We were all geared up with the hit of Bhang. With the failure that we were unable to find any tubewell we started riding back to our city. I was feeling light breeze entering my nostril and feathering my face and we both were feeling very light.
We were very happy about the kind of experience we were having but we didn't know sooner than late we were going to be in a turmoil. At once we started feeling that our windpipe is squeezing and that we are badly dehydrated. We are on outskirts of the city with no shop or dhaba nearby. We still have to manage for 5 kms before we get to drink water. With each moment we were sinking inside and we were unable to take breath. But we managed to keep ourselves up and we finally found a shop. We had lots of water and chips. Next big catch was that we were having just 50 bucks in our pocket and city is still 10 kms away. Now it is : at the shop where we were having water and chips I started getting into a hallucinatory state. My mind was dropping and I was feeling that I'm in dream world. Its like Amnesia, I started forgetting everything about me and my life. I was unable to ride bike now but still I kept myself awake. Puneet was fine at that time and we managed to reach the outer of our city.
But before we enter into the city we had to pass railway crossing which was closed that time. Now it was deadly unable for me to ride the bike. I gave my bike to Puneet and started running towards the city by passing railway crossing. Puneet who was fine up till now also got a hit. As the crossing was opened he started feeling that the bus which was coming from the other side is going to run over him. He too became very fearful and was unable to ride bike. He parked the bike then and there itself and started running towards me. I was shivering already and seeing him without my bike made me shiver even worse. I asked him : "where is my bike", he said : "save your life and reach home fast; its getting horrible. Your bike is parked safe near Railway crossing and key is with me". Now we were at same state of mind, we were both feeling hallucination and dropping of our mind continuously. I was very afraid of not going home in this state. I was feeling as if I'm going to die soon or going to get a attack or paralysis.
But I still have to manage myself and so do Puneet. So we asked a juice maker standing nearby to advice what to do now ? He said to have lemon juice or else have a peg of alcohol. But we were having just 50 bucks in our pocket so alcohol is out of our reach. So we decided to have a lemon juice instead. We found a vegetable market and we bought 4 lemons. We had it cut and put 2 lemons each in our mouth at once. But we were still in same situation. At this point we were loosing our consciousness and were unable to stand any further. Keeping eyes open felt like we were in a dream or a movie running. And it was actually very beautiful at one end but on the other we were loosing our consciousness; which we don't want to in the place where nobody knew us. We are now very nervous and we want somebody to drop us to our house. Suddenly we saw a police van standing nearby. We reached out to police and asked for their help. We said that we are 2 glass down with Bhang and it is like we are going to do die in sometime. People were watching the two guys looking all messy of colors, on knees begging police for help. People were laughing at us and we both felt like we were going to die in sometime. Puneet was in such a turmoil that he even offered his mobile and 40 bucks and keys of my Bike, in return of their help. Even then police refused to help us but they offered to call Ambulance to drop us to our home. But we didn't want to reach home on Ambulance; I thought it would make a great scene.
So here we are in great trouble, no body is helping us. Next we thought of taking help from our good friends. We started calling our best people but out of blue no one was picking up the call. Now we were even more assured that we are going to die, since even people close to us are not replying. So a thought came across my mind that what will happen even if we die ? Let it be, enjoy it, have a peaceful death. I started sharing my mind with Puneet and we are now roaming freely beside a river bank. We assumed that yes world is a dream, it's a maya, and now we going to enter a new world of reality. Suddenly we started feeling sooo light, mind was so very empty and there were no hopes/dreams left in our soul. We were in a such a Nirvana.We thought that's why Lord Shiva used to have Bhang because it gives one a feeling of utter reality, of no desire state, of being one at center. We were enjoying so by ourselves, its like we can go in a state of samadhi.
But then suddenly my phone rang and our dreams got shattered. It was a call from my home. They were calling me for lunch in less than 15 mins. So we are back to our situation of nervousness. Puneet gave a call to his friends and asked them to pick us up and drop us at our homes. Till then we thought of washing our face and drinking some water because of utter dehydration. So we were going to the hand pump nearby holding each others hands. We were holding hands as if we are here just to help each other and nobody else can help us.Seeing two guys holding each other hands so tightly people passing nearby were commenting "Gaysss" :) ... We were unable to make up what they are saying but looking at each other hands, were were like : "Bloody Hell". We at once took away our hands and the band of gayship was broken :) ...
We then reached out to hand pump and started washing ourselves. I just lied beneath the pump and people were again laughing at us. Suddenly a car stopped near to us. Three of Puneet's friend came out of the car and started laughing at us. We were like : "Please drop us to our home, we are going to die in sometime". They said nothing is going to happen, it's just normal in Bhang and that you'll be fine after a sleep. So they dried us with a hanky and dropped us at our homes. We slept for 24 hours and then we were back in so called Dream World :D
So it is Holi festival in India and we were all playing with colors. Me and Puneet were roaming around in city, playing colors and enjoying bike ride. Suddenly we came across a stall where people were making Bhang. We had one glass of Bhang and after that we again started roaming. We were not feeling anything weird from Bhang indeed we were very happy. After 15 mins we again encountered a Bhang stall and thought of having one more glass. So we had one more glass of Bhang and again we are on our bike. Now we wanted to find a tubewell in farms in take a bath from all the colors of Holi. Tubewell is a motor driven water supply in the farms (as shown below)
We were very happy about the kind of experience we were having but we didn't know sooner than late we were going to be in a turmoil. At once we started feeling that our windpipe is squeezing and that we are badly dehydrated. We are on outskirts of the city with no shop or dhaba nearby. We still have to manage for 5 kms before we get to drink water. With each moment we were sinking inside and we were unable to take breath. But we managed to keep ourselves up and we finally found a shop. We had lots of water and chips. Next big catch was that we were having just 50 bucks in our pocket and city is still 10 kms away. Now it is : at the shop where we were having water and chips I started getting into a hallucinatory state. My mind was dropping and I was feeling that I'm in dream world. Its like Amnesia, I started forgetting everything about me and my life. I was unable to ride bike now but still I kept myself awake. Puneet was fine at that time and we managed to reach the outer of our city.
But before we enter into the city we had to pass railway crossing which was closed that time. Now it was deadly unable for me to ride the bike. I gave my bike to Puneet and started running towards the city by passing railway crossing. Puneet who was fine up till now also got a hit. As the crossing was opened he started feeling that the bus which was coming from the other side is going to run over him. He too became very fearful and was unable to ride bike. He parked the bike then and there itself and started running towards me. I was shivering already and seeing him without my bike made me shiver even worse. I asked him : "where is my bike", he said : "save your life and reach home fast; its getting horrible. Your bike is parked safe near Railway crossing and key is with me". Now we were at same state of mind, we were both feeling hallucination and dropping of our mind continuously. I was very afraid of not going home in this state. I was feeling as if I'm going to die soon or going to get a attack or paralysis.
But I still have to manage myself and so do Puneet. So we asked a juice maker standing nearby to advice what to do now ? He said to have lemon juice or else have a peg of alcohol. But we were having just 50 bucks in our pocket so alcohol is out of our reach. So we decided to have a lemon juice instead. We found a vegetable market and we bought 4 lemons. We had it cut and put 2 lemons each in our mouth at once. But we were still in same situation. At this point we were loosing our consciousness and were unable to stand any further. Keeping eyes open felt like we were in a dream or a movie running. And it was actually very beautiful at one end but on the other we were loosing our consciousness; which we don't want to in the place where nobody knew us. We are now very nervous and we want somebody to drop us to our house. Suddenly we saw a police van standing nearby. We reached out to police and asked for their help. We said that we are 2 glass down with Bhang and it is like we are going to do die in sometime. People were watching the two guys looking all messy of colors, on knees begging police for help. People were laughing at us and we both felt like we were going to die in sometime. Puneet was in such a turmoil that he even offered his mobile and 40 bucks and keys of my Bike, in return of their help. Even then police refused to help us but they offered to call Ambulance to drop us to our home. But we didn't want to reach home on Ambulance; I thought it would make a great scene.
So here we are in great trouble, no body is helping us. Next we thought of taking help from our good friends. We started calling our best people but out of blue no one was picking up the call. Now we were even more assured that we are going to die, since even people close to us are not replying. So a thought came across my mind that what will happen even if we die ? Let it be, enjoy it, have a peaceful death. I started sharing my mind with Puneet and we are now roaming freely beside a river bank. We assumed that yes world is a dream, it's a maya, and now we going to enter a new world of reality. Suddenly we started feeling sooo light, mind was so very empty and there were no hopes/dreams left in our soul. We were in a such a Nirvana.We thought that's why Lord Shiva used to have Bhang because it gives one a feeling of utter reality, of no desire state, of being one at center. We were enjoying so by ourselves, its like we can go in a state of samadhi.
But then suddenly my phone rang and our dreams got shattered. It was a call from my home. They were calling me for lunch in less than 15 mins. So we are back to our situation of nervousness. Puneet gave a call to his friends and asked them to pick us up and drop us at our homes. Till then we thought of washing our face and drinking some water because of utter dehydration. So we were going to the hand pump nearby holding each others hands. We were holding hands as if we are here just to help each other and nobody else can help us.Seeing two guys holding each other hands so tightly people passing nearby were commenting "Gaysss" :) ... We were unable to make up what they are saying but looking at each other hands, were were like : "Bloody Hell". We at once took away our hands and the band of gayship was broken :) ...
We then reached out to hand pump and started washing ourselves. I just lied beneath the pump and people were again laughing at us. Suddenly a car stopped near to us. Three of Puneet's friend came out of the car and started laughing at us. We were like : "Please drop us to our home, we are going to die in sometime". They said nothing is going to happen, it's just normal in Bhang and that you'll be fine after a sleep. So they dried us with a hanky and dropped us at our homes. We slept for 24 hours and then we were back in so called Dream World :D
