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Ethnobotanicals Comparison between the two strong smokable psychedelics DMT and Salvia Divinorum

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Below I lay out a comparison between vaped DMT from a cart on a battery and Salvinorin-A that I extracted from SalviaDivinorum leaf recrystallized onto fragments of cigarette paper in a small pipe using a regular lighter.

ignition:
DMT cart - I am using a small battery with a button that I have to squeeze, I had a battery that worked just by air pressure but I gave it away. It was a bit low powered and therefore was less reliable in its operation.
getting the dmt into my lungs is the easiest thing to achieve this way.
Salvinorin A - I put a precut piece of cigarette paper that contains ~350 ug of salvinorin into a tiny chillum and ignite it using a tiny lighter from my small leather pouch (which looks so shamanic! and feels like ASMR)


inhalation:
DMT cart - I inhale steadily for 5 - 8 seconds usually but have occasionally gone much more but found the effects too physically discombobulating if I inhale for more than 13 seconds. Then I hold as long as I can, often letting a little air out when it feels too long, but if smoke emerges I hold even longer.
Salvinorin A - I inhale for about 1-2 seconds at which point the whole paper piece had combusted fully and the drug is in my lungs - so little smoke is involved that it hardly has any flavor and if I exhale too early no smoke is visible, I try to hold for at least 20 to 30 seconds.

initial effects up to 90 seconds:
DMT cart - If I havenot used the DMT vape for a couple of days the visual effects begin with astonishing detail usually from a kind of pareidolia and extending beyond that fractal enhancement.
If I have used DMT in the last day or so the first 90 seconds is just a bit warm, and loose feeling, not like weed, but still somewhat joyful feeling.
Salvinorin A - this drug always produces strong effects but the first 90 seconds just feel a bit warm and hardly feel like anything is going to happen at all.

between 90 seconds and 5 minutes:
DMT cart - Whether I have used DMT recently or not, the high is euphoric, but if I have not been using it much recently the visuals are truly astonishing, they build upon the gaze, which is to say if I pause to observe any part of the view, that part ramifies and becomes more complex like a tree or an opening tunnel or flying through space compounding upon itself, or characters moving around and emerging from flat surfaces. During this period there is usually euphoria, and often also a feeling of warm pressure around the heart or other parts of the body. If I inhaled too much, during this time I will feel fucked, such that no movement is comforting, my heart is racing, and breathing is confused. For some people this may be taken as ego loss or breakthrough.
Salvinorin A - In this timed window of the experience, sensory and mental content layering becomes very intense. Visuals usually seem to begin either with fractal plant like forms emerging and branching through layered dimensions, or like dents in spacetime, somewhat reminicent of the compound eyes of insects. It is neither euphoric or disphoric to me, but strong physical distortions, from weight or gravity to sweating, tingling, tearing, stretching, or burning skin sensations - which can be negatively interpreted if not expected. If the piece of Salvinorin A paper was too big (I cut them by eye - they are not exactly the same dose every time), in this window of time I will be struggling dysphorically and might actually move around as a reflex to something, hardly aware of moving at all, until the change in the physical context breaks through the intensity of hallucination.

between 5 minutes and 1/2 hour:
DMT cart - The inebriation slowly fades after ~5 minutes, during which time if visuals have been strong, it is still sometimes possible to latch onto a visual artifact and observe it ramify into something amazing. This feels empowering and very free. It is also very natural, rich and oneiric.
If I inhaled too much, after the extreme effects it is again possible to enjoy ramifying visuals or sensations - which are less confusing and more mind manifesting in this later time window.
Salvinorin A - In this timed window of the experience, I can act fairly normally but I still feel the dents in the time space continuum and may see and feel the world in a particulate aggregate way.
If I am aware of my movement, I can relax into the strobing or trailing nature of the sensations.

for an hour or more afterwards:
DMT cart - I may or may not feel envigorated by DMT after the main effects have faded. I do feel like I have had a sweet treat however, and may be a bit cheery from that. The physical afterglow is present but not very strong. I find this is a good experience for before bed time, if I just go for one to 4 inhallations, but if I use more, I am too stimulated to go to bed. Any time is fine if I will not be required to perform anything responsibly.
Salvinorin A - the afterglow is usually invigorating, and to a lesser extent I still feel the dents in the time space continuum and If I am aware of my movement, I can relax into the strobing or trailing nature of the sensations. I find it is a good start to my day, but any time is fine if I will not be required to perform anything responsibly.

frequency of usage:
DMT cart - when I get a new cart I like to take several inhalations in an evening for a few days running. It is very more-ish, after a few days, however, it seems to lose its kick but still has a strong appeal. I have to hide it from myself to keep it special, and that is not easy.
Salvinorin A - I practically never take a second inhalation during one of my salvia sessions, but often I will do it several days in a row, it never seems to lose its kick.

Summary:
Salvinorin A is more inspirational than DMT- however both are very strong potentially transcendent mind manifesting drugs with rapid onset when smoked and both are capable of putting the user into a brief and unsettling amnesiac state if taken in too large an amount.
 
Below I lay out a comparison between vaped DMT from a cart on a battery and Salvinorin-A that I extracted from SalviaDivinorum leaf recrystallized onto fragments of cigarette paper in a small pipe using a regular lighter.

ignition:
DMT cart - I am using a small battery with a button that I have to squeeze, I had a battery that worked just by air pressure but I gave it away. It was a bit low powered and therefore was less reliable in its operation.
getting the dmt into my lungs is the easiest thing to achieve this way.
Salvinorin A - I put a precut piece of cigarette paper that contains ~350 ug of salvinorin into a tiny chillum and ignite it using a tiny lighter from my small leather pouch (which looks so shamanic! and feels like ASMR)


inhalation:
DMT cart - I inhale steadily for 5 - 8 seconds usually but have occasionally gone much more but found the effects too physically discombobulating if I inhale for more than 13 seconds. Then I hold as long as I can, often letting a little air out when it feels too long, but if smoke emerges I hold even longer.
Salvinorin A - I inhale for about 1-2 seconds at which point the whole paper piece had combusted fully and the drug is in my lungs - so little smoke is involved that it hardly has any flavor and if I exhale too early no smoke is visible, I try to hold for at least 20 to 30 seconds.

initial effects up to 90 seconds:
DMT cart - If I havenot used the DMT vape for a couple of days the visual effects begin with astonishing detail usually from a kind of pareidolia and extending beyond that fractal enhancement.
If I have used DMT in the last day or so the first 90 seconds is just a bit warm, and loose feeling, not like weed, but still somewhat joyful feeling.
Salvinorin A - this drug always produces strong effects but the first 90 seconds just feel a bit warm and hardly feel like anything is going to happen at all.

between 90 seconds and 5 minutes:
DMT cart - Whether I have used DMT recently or not, the high is euphoric, but if I have not been using it much recently the visuals are truly astonishing, they build upon the gaze, which is to say if I pause to observe any part of the view, that part ramifies and becomes more complex like a tree or an opening tunnel or flying through space compounding upon itself, or characters moving around and emerging from flat surfaces. During this period there is usually euphoria, and often also a feeling of warm pressure around the heart or other parts of the body. If I inhaled too much, during this time I will feel fucked, such that no movement is comforting, my heart is racing, and breathing is confused. For some people this may be taken as ego loss or breakthrough.
Salvinorin A - In this timed window of the experience, sensory and mental content layering becomes very intense. Visuals usually seem to begin either with fractal plant like forms emerging and branching through layered dimensions, or like dents in spacetime, somewhat reminicent of the compound eyes of insects. It is neither euphoric or disphoric to me, but strong physical distortions, from weight or gravity to sweating, tingling, tearing, stretching, or burning skin sensations - which can be negatively interpreted if not expected. If the piece of Salvinorin A paper was too big (I cut them by eye - they are not exactly the same dose every time), in this window of time I will be struggling dysphorically and might actually move around as a reflex to something, hardly aware of moving at all, until the change in the physical context breaks through the intensity of hallucination.

between 5 minutes and 1/2 hour:
DMT cart - The inebriation slowly fades after ~5 minutes, during which time if visuals have been strong, it is still sometimes possible to latch onto a visual artifact and observe it ramify into something amazing. This feels empowering and very free. It is also very natural, rich and oneiric.
If I inhaled too much, after the extreme effects it is again possible to enjoy ramifying visuals or sensations - which are less confusing and more mind manifesting in this later time window.
Salvinorin A - In this timed window of the experience, I can act fairly normally but I still feel the dents in the time space continuum and may see and feel the world in a particulate aggregate way.
If I am aware of my movement, I can relax into the strobing or trailing nature of the sensations.

for an hour or more afterwards:
DMT cart - I may or may not feel envigorated by DMT after the main effects have faded. I do feel like I have had a sweet treat however, and may be a bit cheery from that. The physical afterglow is present but not very strong. I find this is a good experience for before bed time, if I just go for one to 4 inhallations, but if I use more, I am too stimulated to go to bed. Any time is fine if I will not be required to perform anything responsibly.
Salvinorin A - the afterglow is usually invigorating, and to a lesser extent I still feel the dents in the time space continuum and If I am aware of my movement, I can relax into the strobing or trailing nature of the sensations. I find it is a good start to my day, but any time is fine if I will not be required to perform anything responsibly.

frequency of usage:
DMT cart - when I get a new cart I like to take several inhalations in an evening for a few days running. It is very more-ish, after a few days, however, it seems to lose its kick but still has a strong appeal. I have to hide it from myself to keep it special, and that is not easy.
Salvinorin A - I practically never take a second inhalation during one of my salvia sessions, but often I will do it several days in a row, it never seems to lose its kick.

Summary:
Salvinorin A is more inspirational than DMT- however both are very strong potentially transcendent mind manifesting drugs with rapid onset when smoked and both are capable of putting the user into a brief and unsettling amnesiac state if taken in too large an amount.
Have you ever tried them together??
 
Pupnik, where no man has gone before.

Let me read that a few times.
 
@Esperighanto the paper was some kind of natural wheat colored product that I have not seen for a while, though I have not looked for it.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6525644 explains how I made the papers in detail.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29239267#29239267 this is another paper I wrote with a friend @Sphere, but it conflates the final steps of extraction by not using the word naptha in the right place.

after 4 days of DMT use in the evenings and some in the day, I tried my usual 25 mics oi acid, and I got very little effects from the acid so DMT tolerance means Acid tolerance
so the next week is just salvinorin-a and whisky in the evening.
 
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@Esperighanto the paper was some kind of natural wheat colored product that I have not seen for a while, though I have not looked for it.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6525644 explains how I made the papers in detail.
https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/29239267#29239267 this is another paper I wrote with a friend @Sphere, but it conflates the final steps of extraction by not using the word naptha in the right place.

after 4 days of DMT use in the evenings and some in the day, I tried my usual 25 mics oi acid, and I got very little effects from the acid so DMT tolerance means Acid tolerance
so the next week is just salvinorin-a and whisky in the evening.
Thank you a ton for the information! I've had good luck in the past with specific brands of rolling papers for making salvinorin blotter, but it's always a pain to lay as I'd need at least 25-50 doses of pure salvinorin to infuse a sheet of it, and perfing or cutting it would be challenging. I wonder if salvinorin would work in the form of lozenges or typical 140lb construction paper blotter, maybe it has to be complexed with something like HPBCD (how they used to potentiate NBXX absorption back in the day), I'm not really sure but once I have the funds to acquire a ton of salvia to extract, I'll definitely give it a shot.

It's funny that DMT made a tolerance for you, I often find it sensitizes me to psychedelics subjectively, it used to cause "That wasn't a microdose‽?" more often than I enjoyed, so I could never microdose when I was using DMT. Was the 25ug of LSD from a liquid, pill, gel, or paper carrier? If paper or pill, I'd be suspicious it may have been a dead spot, but if it was liquid or gel, I have no clue.

Edit: I looked back at old dose logs, dabbing a half gram of DMT in a rig didn't make a noticeable difference on a 750ug dose the next day, but it might've just been something small enough for me not to notice, given how much LSD experiences vary.
 
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@Esperighanto blotter with salvinorin is not going to be satisfactory. even with 100 times the dosage for smoking, it will come on very very very slowly, only a tiny bit of salvinorin will be absorbed through the guts, and you will miss the effects entirely that you could otherwise get 100 days in a row from one overstuffed blotter.
The reason this happens is that salvinorin is a waxy solid, so it does not dissolve in body fluids, not even the fats.
when smoked, droplets of melted salvinorin go into the smokestream (not vapor, salvia vapor is so hot that it will sear your flesh to well done steak meat), the lungs have a huge surface area and accept the salvinorin droplets and transfer them to the blood rapidly.
Even if you could encapsulate salvinorin droplets at body temp in some other fluid emulsion (it has been achieved - Daniel Siebert sold an elixir like this, but he seems to have been erased from the internet) the effects would come on very slowly and more than 30 times the material will be used for each session.

as for DMT and the tolerance - I usually go for 20 to 25 ug pieces of paper lsd blotter lately - I have stopped making a distilled water solution.
when I say DMT tolerance has set in, the visuals are STRONGLY diminished to basically nothing, but the euphoria is still the same. DMT tolerance also strongly affects sensory enhancement of LSD in my opinion.
 
when I say DMT tolerance has set in, the visuals are STRONGLY diminished to basically nothing, but the euphoria is still the same. DMT tolerance also strongly affects sensory enhancement of LSD in my opinion.
I wonder why I've never experienced this despite trying to numerous times. Maybe I'm just particularly sensitive to it, idk.
Even if you could encapsulate salvinorin droplets at body temp in some other fluid emulsion (it has been achieved - Daniel Siebert sold an elixir like this, but he seems to have been erased from the internet) the effects would come on very slowly and more than 30 times the material will be used for each session.
Siebert's writings were heavily cataloged by a close friend of mine, I'll see if he has any info on this. A salvia tincture I had once, I spilled, wiped up with a little shred of a paper towel, and then held it under my tongue until it all melted. That was perhaps one of the most intense salvia experiences of my life, and the tincture was not from Siebert and company, but from a now defunct salvia cultivator and salvia extracts producer back in the day. It helped that I was coming down off a tenstrip of some heady acid though, probably.
 
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Forgive my slight transgression of the rules here, but I bought my salvia products from Daniel Siebert's store. (This was like 25 years ago when it was all completely legal.) I'm a bit sad to hear he's been "erased". I'm reluctant to call salvia a psychedelic, but it was the first "drug" I really sought out and acquired on my own to try out. Before that, I'd had a couple puffs of cannabis from people who shared it with me, and I'd had an accidental "spiritual" OBE from N2O at the dentist. I had always wanted to try his elixir, but it just seemed too expensive.

Curiously, I got along quite well with salvia and had pretty comfortable (even if philosophically unnerving) trips. Only later did I try my first serotonergic psychedelics which was ayahuasca+DMT. That shit absolutely crushed me. It shook me to my core, yet I kept going back. And soon I tried other serotonergics. Mushrooms scared the crap out of me too. They still do. But as serotonergics became more available to me, I completely lost interest in salvia. What can I say?

Oh, does anyone remember D.M. Turner? He did combine smoked DMT and salvinorin A. See here: https://erowid.org/library/books_online/salvinorin/Jindx.shtml.
 
@iom
yes DMTurner (like me) loved to do it in the bathtub, but I am not seeking something akin to death (he passed in the tub I think) I seek mind manifestation and reflection and this requires life.

@Esperighanto
last night I took 7 times my usual amount of DMT by inhaling a series of longer inhalations on my DMT cart while still in "tolerance" from 7 days running, and this amount did cause medium (not too exciting) visuals, but I am wasting product by chasing that dragon.
 
I'm currently on the largest amount of any N-benzylated phenethylamine I've ever been on, I've easily hit a series of hotspots on 9 agar tabs of 25I-NBOMe/NBOH. Whatever the dosage is, it's in excess of 2-3mg, and the tolerance should, in theory, be massive. Tomorrow I'm going to reestablish my baseline with DPT (I'm out of DMT) and hopefully it can be a useful data point in some way.
 
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