Had my first salvia trip Wed. night. I figured with all the press it's been getting lately, it probably won't be legal much longer where I live, so try it now. Despite a good bit of experience with LSD and shrooms (many years ago), and despite reading up on it, I was completely unprepared for the Salvia experience. I think it caught me so off-guard that I got less out of it than I might have. Anyway, I have some questions about my first trip that I'd like to get answered before I try it again. First of all, I think it might help if I give some details. I got a half gram of Salvia Zone Yellow. The cashier told me that I should break it into 5 portions (1/10th gram each). So I split it into 5ths and then took one of those for my hit. I packed the bowl, which used about 1/2 of my portion, took the hit and started packing the second half. Before I could even get the bowl packed, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I fell back into the bed and before my head even hit the bed, I was gone from this world. My eyes were apparently open, but I wasn't seeing, hearing, or otherwise experiencing anything from "reality". So, my first question has to do with this. From what I can tell, this seems like a really intense trip for a half hit of yellow (and boy am I happy I didn't get that second hit in!). Is that an unusually intense trip for yellow? Anyway, for however long I was out of touch, I'm not really sure, but then I started my return to reality. I apparently had rolled off the bed and my wife was helping me get back up into bed. At this point, I was vaguely aware of her presence, but I still wasn't "consciously" hearing or seeing things from the real world. During the entire time, everything I saw and heard was from a very vivid and real-feeling hallucination. The memories of it are still so strong, it's as if I had really been in this other bizarre reality. It wasn't until I started to see and hear the real world that I began to have even a clue about what was going on. So, for this period where I was in the "alternate reality," for lack of a better description, I had no idea that I was on salvia. I had no idea it was all an hallucination. Is it always that way? If I keep doing it, am I going to be completely unaware of the fact that I'm on a drug? My wife was going to do it after me (she's never tripped), but after seeing me go through it, she was hesitant. Now her interest is renewed, so I want to kind of collect some more information. I had a scary exit from the fake reality. In the alternate reality, I merged into a wall and then found myself between two rubbery membranes, I guess you could say. One leading out to the alternate reality I had come from and one leading to real reality. When I had fallen off the bed and my wife was helping me back in, I was feeling like she was pulling me through this membrane back into reality and as the membrane stretched and fitted the form of my body (much like hot plastic), I because claustrophobic and felt like I couldn't breath for a few seconds and for moment, was pretty sure I'd suffocate in this new reality I was entering. But then I caught my breath and I was fine. I want to avoid something like that in the future if I can. Does good mood music have much effect? I had no music playing and I'm starting to think that might have helped a bit. Anyway, I'd appreciate any advice. Our current plan is for my wife to go next, but with a slightly smaller hit than I took (and I'll likely go with a slightly smaller hit next time myself). Thanks for any advice.
Take less and you will not go so far away. Sounds like you got some good stuff. I've never gone that far. I've always been able to sit or lie down and take everything from the real world in.
I posted to you in the other thread regarding your wife's trip, but I guess there's more to say here Just to make sure, you know to hold in the hit for as LONG as possible, right? You should almost literally ghost it, as you found out it comes fast so you won't even remember blowing it out if you hold long enough. I know you got a nice trip out of what you got, but if you could've held in longer (paired with better preparation this time around, naturally) you'd be able to break through even further. Yeah, it's pretty much always like that. The only thing is when you're in that alternate world, you begin to feel more welcomed and accustomed to whatever the hell is going on, almost as if you're learning the salvia's ways. Still though, you technically still have no idea that you're "on salvia". I kind of addressed these types of things in that other thread, the forces that you seem to have no control over and the lack of breath is simply you reacting to the salvia, literally. You were probably moving all over the place while breathing heavily, and your perception was just so altered that your trip led you to believe what it did. It's almost impossible to prevent for a first timer, you almost just have to let whatever happens happen and take it into account going into the next time you trip. That exact thing could happen again (unlikely but possible), but it could be the most amazing thing you've ever experienced because of your perception of it this time around. I know it presents a bit of a challenge, thinking back at just how far off you really were from reality, but it's attainable. Directly addressed in that other thread too.
