>starts by introducing protagonist's powers passed from his Uncle or Dad>the power is entering a hypnagogic state where he gets super precision, strength, etc>a magical plant is involved in the plot, it must be transfered to a city to preserve it -which they do by the end>early in the journey he is traveling with his crew on a ship, they eat whale blubber and drink black coffee>the plant grows heavier over time and one of his companions has to carry it, gets tempted by it like Gollum and the ringMaybe>purple plant, datura kind of rings a bell>vivid description of the leaves It wasn't that good of a book but I still want to reread it. I've been using GPT and BraveAI but I cant find shit. Also tried looking for fictional plants but can't find either
Found the book it's called Dormia by Jake Halpern.