So I've tried Salvia 10X twice with no amazing effects. This time I decided to have some music on. I've got some loud 5.1 speakers, so I set them up that way no matter where you stood in my room, it would sound like you were centered. I turned off the lights, and put on some Queens of Stone Age - Go With the Flow. At first, with the way the song opened up, it seemed a bit intense, like I was bouncing back and forth. But soon I slipped into it, and it began. It was like I was in the music, with a purpose. A sense of euphoria, yes euphoria, just overwhelmed me. It was like everything was right. I was in some kind of void, and the song, I was the song. I couldn't feel physical self. I was just in a void, like I was everything. The best I can describe it, those trippy Windows Media Player colors while a song plays, if you could feel what it's like to be those colors, I guess that's exactly how I felt. I don't think I've ever enjoyed listening to a song as much as I did then. When the song ended everything just felt so dull. Everything was so quiet, and that actually frightened me a bit. Next up, Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven, I'll see how that goes. I've read all this negative stuff about Salvia and music, but wow... Where did that honestly come from? Did I just get lucky or something?
I always have some music playing when doing sd. The music compliments the effect, enhances the mood and sets the tone for the experience.
Watch pink floyd live in pompeii while you trip on anything. it will blow your mind.......it blew mine!
No! NO! No music! Hahaha! My second one was too intense with music...it was loud techno. Armin van Buren's stuff, to be exact. It's my favorite techno, but! When I was tripping (I hit too much of it to begin with) the music's beat became ALL. It fueled the trip - the visual, the sound, the feeling/touch. It all centered on this dirty bass drum beat with a matted cymbal on it. And it was too intense haha. My friend hated the music too; he yelled for it to be turned off during his. It was funny; the first time I tripped (15 minutes earlier), I saw the cartoon world as the background and felt stretchy and...well I can't explain, of course. But it was quite positive, I suppose. But with the techno on, I became the cartoon world and attatched to it on the 2nd trip. It was like the music gave me that extra alienation with the real world to push me over into the other. My right side was still tripping in it a good 10 minutes after the rest of myself came down. It was scary...I feared for my future sanity during that time like never before. Almost so scary I'd sworn it off...I figure that was an overeaction now, of course. It can fuel trips, that's for sure. As to whether it'll turn good or bad is up to the user's tastes, I guess.
I agree with all here that music can have a big impact on your trip. My very first trip and the most intense one to date (have tried it a couple of times since) was to "Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb. It was so intense I only remember the last 30 seconds of it. When I "came to" I was inside a glass tunnel that seemed to be built entirely by hexagon shaped blocks. Although my room was dimly lit, inside this tunnel the light was bright and golden. I was reclined back in my chair with my legs sticking out in front of me. The tunnel went from the seam on my right leg of my jeans over to the seam on my left leg. A band of light was cascading over the outside of the tunnel. The craziest part was that the trip ended in synch with the end of the song, and in the last few seconds I even knew it was going to end when the song did (which is good, because for a few seconds I remember asking myself, "Is this just going to go on forever?" I don't know exactly how long the song is, but I know it's at least 3 to 4 minutes. It makes me wonder what I missed in the majority of the trip (I took the hit at the beginning of the song). Several of my friends also had very good experiences with music. We found that "Ultraworld Ten", another track by The Orb was particularly effective. The layered beats and samples cycling through each other are somewhat trippy even when you're sober, let alone when on salvia.
I wanna try this now, except with either pink floyd, phish, or defiantly led zeppelins- dazed and confused.
