Yeah nutmeg is a pretty atypical deleriant. Most people find the effects to be enjoyable, at least to some extent. It's nothing close to Benadryl/Datura and those types of things. Although people who take high doses find it to be terrible.
Dude yeah it is real. the night before last I was wicked high on nutmeg, and then the next day i went to my health food store, and smelt that shit, and tasted some, and it prolonged my already-present high. It was cool.
Wasn't there some like medieval queen who ate 11 nutmegs and tripped out for like a week? I heard that somewhere and ever since I've been tempted to try nutmeg (not 11 though!) but I don't know how safe it is...