Salvia

[simplestyle3]

20x. It was wild... like nothing I've ever done before. I've been working on trying to describe the whole thing since I tried it the other day. Here's what I've got....

It was like being wrapped around the inside of a tiny velcro tornado. The trip didn't last very long... although had I not noted the time before I started I would've had absolutely no idea how long I'd been under. What I mean is... prior to smoking the Salvia I was slightly perturbed by the 5-15 minute trip times. After smoking it I think 5-15 minutes is all I need and possibly all I can handle. I was out of my mind for 12 minutes... an eternity. Seriously.

My recomendation... take the time to prepare. YOU CANNOT FUNCTION IN A SOBER MANNER WHILE USING SALVIA. Please don't try, that's what's going to make it illegal. Also, I'd do your best to be in a totally quiet (or only natural sounds... wind, water, birds) place where no one will be talking to you.

I took one waterpipe rip of 20x... I'd like to check out some slightly less potent stuff to see if it could be a legal alternative to grass... but I'm thinking probably not. At least the 20 was WAY to serious to do during normal daily activities.

At any rate... tell us about your experience!

simplestyle3 Reviewed by simplestyle3 on 11-15-2005. Salvia 20x. It was wild... like nothing I've ever done before. I've been working on trying to describe the whole thing since I tried it the other day. Here's what I've got.... It was like being wrapped around the inside of a tiny velcro tornado. The trip didn't last very long... although had I not noted the time before I started I would've had absolutely no idea how long I'd been under. What I mean is... prior to smoking the Salvia I was slightly perturbed by the 5-15 minute trip times. After Rating: 5

[Polymirize]

I'm going to share about the first time I smoked salvia.

There were six of us. all friends, all experienced with other drugs but all first-timers to salvia. We decided to enter the other world two at a time, feeling that having sitters would be important and not knowing what the effects would be, but wanting travel companions as well. Having fortified ourselves with sticky green courage, I took that first step. Sitting inside next to a window, I took a monster hit off a bong, completely vaporizing the flakes of 20x salvia lightly packed at the bottom of the bowl. It felt huge, and thicker than the smoke of mj. I handed the bong off to prevent its breakage and began the long, long process of exhaling. It seemed to take forever. In fact, it did take forever, and I realised I was tripping as it did so. A massive cloud of smoke blew out towards the window, hit a breeze, and turned right back on me, the smoke seemed to form a bubble that completely enclosed me, and with that i was gone. My hit had been so large that I had swallowed some smoke, and was feeling my system hiccup it out. Hiccuping is not pleasant while tripping. My entire body was joining the wave produced by the sensation, and in my altered state I wasn't sure if i was throwing up or not. I worried about this, had the standard "what's going wrong, what will the consequences of this action be?" questioning, but intensely. I lived a lifetime in this question before hearing the sound of the bong and realising that my friend was joining me. Total objective time elapsed at this point, apparently only 10 seconds. I remember standing up at one point, which was a bad idea, and I also immediately realised I didn't know how to go about sitting back down. I felt frozen, although with the help of friends eventually made it down into a crosslegged position. I was slowly working things out. It seemed sooo slowly, but that's just because time became infinite. My four sober friends (well, non-tripping) were inquisitive, but I didn't have the words for them. I couldn't understand the context of their language, didn't know if they were being sarcastic or sincere, even though I could recognise them as my friends. They weren't doing me any good, so I turned my attention to my fellow psychonaut. We retreated together to one corner of the room, and began to trip together. We could both feel something like a wall of clear glass between us and the others. It felt like it started at the floor and tilted up and over us, although about 8 feet away. We could almost see it if we looked at it sideways.
I moved to a couch and sat. My body felt very comfortable at this point, so much so that I forgot it was there. I began experiencing everything as an abstract painting, as shapes, with my own head being a small circle in the bottom left hand corner of the frame. How long I spent in this state, I don't really know, but when my trip finally ended about 25 minutes had elapsed... Felt like much longer.

Some things I learned from this and later trips, which may apply for some of you:
-have a sitter, but not one who wants to experience vicariously through you... If you want space, have a sitter who'll understand this.
-being outside is preferable to inside.
-dimmer light seems preferable to bright
-even when you're not still tripping, salvia affects me such that I still feel like I'm heavily stoned for the next 3 hours or so. Although I seemed to be the only one to feel this effect. (any similar experiences?)
-Salvia is NOT to be fucked with or considered a party drug.

[simplestyle3]

Thank you for the excellent report. Anyone else?