OK I am new to the forum. I just want to share my experiences with salvia. (this is a long post but hang with me) A little background first. I have been away from hard drugs for 5 or 6 years. I occupy my mind mostly with alcohol and a few other drugs that should be legal (ok maybe I haven’t really been away). I have tried most every way escape from reality but have always been fond of the psychedelics. I have an excessive personality (which I will discuss later) and loved to ‘test the bounds of reality’ and myself. I have been reading about this salvia and finally ordered some. 10x and got a free bag of regular leaves. I was not expecting much from this to tell you the truth. I hit the regular leaves first and just toked once, holding it in for a short time. Not much, if anything, happened. I hit it again. This time I took 3 consecutive hits and held them for awhile. It wasn’t psychedelic but it was a nice peaceful, relaxed feeling. The next night I decided to try the 10x and that is where my story begins!!!!! I never use sitters because they tend to change my mood and I prefer to be alone when I trip. One thing about psychedelics is that you cannot go into them scared or worried or anxious. You have to have the will to leave this reality without fear. If you are a pussy and worry about the effects, most times you will have a bad trip. Just know you won’t die, you won’t OD, you won’t go psychotic (most of the time) but you will be saying goodbye to your world for awhile (which lets face it is worth it). You will leave the experience with a different perception of what reality is and where you are in the world. LSD gave me many, many long trips to a different place and I never had a bad trip because I never went under when I was not in the right frame of mind. Remember that if you choose to try salvia. Be optimistic, it will be great and safe. Anyway, being the lover of excess that I am and my doubt as to the strength of salvia, I pack the bowl with 10x. I stood in front of the stove with the exhaust fan (I am 31 and still feel the need to not produce strange odors, marijuana really does make you paranoid). Everything I read about salvia was one hit should do it and if you are still capable to take a second that will take you away for sure. So I set my mind to take three long, deep hits. Again I have always been a buzz whore. I know for sure I took 2 long deep hits but if I took a third it was not when I was in this reality. Ok here goes my trip. With lsd, even though it is intense and crazy, I always kept a sense (albeit small) of self with me. I have taken 3 and 4 hits at a time of lsd and really left this world for a long time but I never experienced the complete withdraw from time and space like those 2 hits of salvia produced. I was in a spiral cone shaped room made completely of pink soft cotton. A strong yet calm and soothing woman’s voice talked to me telling me to climb out of here. I began climbing up this spiral pink room that was also a ramp of some sort. It was like I was rolled up into some gay mans blunt and I had to get out. The voice was very calm and soft and yet all encompassing. Behind her voice was music like the music in a suspenseful movie. I had a sense of urgency to get out and climb and climb. I finally reached the point of the room at the top which the voice told me had taken me 2 days and that I should go upstairs to check on my family. (The voice assured me they had slept the whole time which didn’t seem odd to me at the time). I was back in the kitchen and I ran upstairs only to enter the bedroom and be back in the kitchen. I repeated this cycle 10 or more times always reaching the bedroom upstairs only to be back in the kitchen. The floors began to tilt violently to the right as if something was pushing one side up and I reached out my right hand to stabilized myself and felt the book self on the kitchen wall. BOOM! I was back in reality. I had turned around after taking that last hit and I took about one step forward and then this trip hit me. I still had my bowl in one hand and the butane lighter in the other. It took me a second to realize what had just happened. At first I was worried because I was sure I had been gone for at least 2 days but checking the clock and date I was only gone (in the head) for about 4 or 5 minutes. The after effects lasted about 10 or 15 minutes but I think it was mostly the shock of tripping that hard when I wasn’t expecting much to happen. Unlike LSD I had no perception that this was a trip when it was happening. LSD was always like cool the walls are melting. Salvia was a REAL trip. I was there and had always been there. I could feel the pink soft fabric rubbing against my arms as I climbed out of it and heard the feminine voice in my head. I could feel my hand brushing against the walls and my feet on the stairs as I made my never-ending trips upstairs to the bedroom. And it all happened in about 4 minutes. (The trip had a great deal of experiences and sensations that elude my ability to explain. These are the sensations that make psychedelics great. If you haven’t experienced it you won’t understand. This is also what makes this hard to write about. I don’t have the words powerful enough to put you where I was. You must experience it on your own!!!) I love this salvia! Since then I have had great trips and experiences. I strongly recommend it to those of you that can handle it. I keep trying for that 3rd deep hit that will send me deeper but I don’t think I’ve gotten it yet. I read that the statement for salvia is “hit it, hold it and say goodbye”. Man is that true. I have never had a drug that hits me that fast and hard before. It is fantastic! I am not sure if this post will interest anyone or not but I felt like I should share it. Let me know if it is helpful or interesting and I’ll tell you about my other experiences with salvia. Right now I have my bowl packed and this might be my 3 hit night. Hit it, hold it and I say GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!
Im really happy to hear that you are enjoying your experiences You are right when you say that it is impossible to describe a psychedelic trip, the only way to understand is to experience. And i completely understand what you mean when you say that salvia is a REAL trip, it removes you so much from this world that you don't even remember it ever existed. Im getting ready to do my second salvia session tonight and i thank you for this positive experience story, i am really looking forward to tonight's voyage happy tripping!!
iljlh, you've actually explained it to me better than all the videos that I watched of younger people than you trying to explain it shortly after they come down. I'm pretty sure that everyone doesn't feel they are in a gay mans pink cotton cigar but somehow I was able to relate to where you were coming from being an older drug user myself. I started with mushrooms when I was 14 and tripped 14 days straight until I had a bad trip and then it was years before I did any lsd but then I got into that stuff for a few years. I'm 46 and I've seen cheap highs (not my bag) but this one is getting so much attention I thought I might check into it. Normaly in the scheme of things, when a substance comes on hard and wears off fast it is suspect to be very dangerous and a real brain cell killer. When I was 9 I almost got backed over by a car sniffing gas. I sniffed gas until I could see patterns in the grass. And so over the years with the lsd I noticed that the cheaper lsd had strictnine in it and I would have hours of patterns zippin around until I came down. The clean stuff however would come down clean. I heard one guy say that when he closed his eyes he saw patterns and that is what worries me about this stuff. In that is the case it is probably killing lots of brain cells in an important part of your brain. However I feel I am going to have to experiment like you suggest for myself at least once then I will know for sure and I will report back here with my experience.
ya salvia is such a strong trip. you have to make sure you put down your pipe straight after because otherwise you forget wat you have to do and you get confused. one time i took alot and i was spinning around in blackness and white line going accross it... it was resembling life but then i came to somethng that may have been real life. i fell back into the blackness and found this life thing again... i had a strong feeling i needed to do something which was put down my pipe. then i started coming down realised i was standing in my room and the thing i thought was life was my tv!!!!~!(was still holding my pipe after!) so weird but cool.......
I'm glad to hear you been away from hard drugs I applaud you. Since salvia is a non-alkaloid that means it is not classified as a drug so your in good hands, despite what our sick-lamented politicians think. My brother was addicited to heroin for 10 years and was in prison for 1.5 years, when he got out he was looking to fix up again with lady heroin, but I intervened. I supplied him with salvia that my company makes. He has not used heroin for the year he has been out. I know that salvianorin-a is better at treating addicts better that methadone, in fact I will keep giving my brother free peorduct for the rest of our lives if it will keep him off heroin. That's the damn truth. Welcome to the knowing brother, there are many great journeys left for you.
