Thanks for making this thread. I think the trip report is one of the most intrinsically vital literary genres. I just wish more professional writers wrote in it.
It's cool that people are playing with structure (see 77k's dialogue or the scientific method outline of "I Did it For Science," both linked to above).
Regarding datura, diphenhydramine, and friends: I always read the last few paragraphs of deliriant reports to make sure no one dies or gets murdered at the end first. That way I don't feel so bad laughing as I read.
egor: I think your report really underscores salvia's status as a true psychedelic rather than as a deliriant. It's highly sensitive to context and the trips can sometimes maintain coherence despite their complexity. Once when I was a teenager and feeling depressed, I tried smoking some to escape my sadness. I assumed I would travel to some radically altered mindscape where notions of sadness were incomprehensible, and that I'd come back laughing. That's what happened every time before it and every time since, anyways. But it just compounded the depression heinously--no visions or unfamiliar thoughts at all! It was very strange to experience a drug that is usually so reliably bizarre transformed into something so seemingly simple as an emotional amplifier.
I'm not sure this is my favorite, but it's a really fun and fascinating one about a guy who stays up for 10 days on meth trying to achieve "psychic overdrive". It's also among the highest-rated reports in the vault.
The Ritual of the Rising Sun excerpt:
Sex is a great area for exploration-through-drugs after all, but I could see how one might read this as too clinical for some tastes.
