A couple of questions about salvia

[Okami]

I've never had a salvia breakthrough and I want to experience one so I have a few quetions. Firstly everytime I've been stoned, weed potentiates typical psychedellics in my experience, is this the case with salvia? Should I be completely sober when smoking it or is a bit of weed a good thing? I find that psychedelics most of the time aren't very interesting unless I'm stoned.

Secondly I've heard its good idea to smoke it out of a bong rather than a pipe because the flame of a torch lighter makes the smoke too hot and the bong cools it down. Isn't that a bit retarded though, surely the whole point of using a blue flame is to make the salvinorin evaporate because it doesn't at low temperatures, if you're then cooling down the smoke doesn't it then condense in the water?

Lastly how long do you have to wait between trips? Or can you just keep taking hits one after the other without any tolerance?

Also any tips anyone has?

 

[freehugs]

Salvia is unlike any other psychedelic, except for maybe DMT.
Being sober or not isn't going to make much of a difference when you breakthrough, but for your first time you should be.
They say to smoke it out of a bong because you get a much larger volume of smoke. Yeah it might cool the smoke a little bit, but all the vaporization of the salvinorin occurs when you apply the flame to it, not when you're peculating the smoke.

In my experience you can smoke it again like 20 minutes later. Have fun taking hit after hit of it though lol

 

[RhythmSpring]

1. Be sober. Salvia does not play well (or at all) with others.

2. Like the above poster said, Salvia is unlike any other psychedelic.

3. Salvia works both with a torch lighter and a regular lighter, in my experience. A bong is better because more smoke, less lung hurt. The salvia isn't going to condense or go away.

4. Salvia has no tolerance. Some might say it has reverse tolerance, i.e., the more you do, the less you need to feel its effects. I don't know if that's true, but I've not experienced any tolerance with it whatsoever. You could, theoretically, keep taking hit after hit, but something tells me you won't want to do that.

5. Tips:

My Salvia routine:

-I am the only awake person in the house.
-Make my bed, neat and flat
-1 Lamp is on, giving off a dim, warm light (it is nighttime)
-Clear away physical distractions, cover evocative images (such as magazines or book covers), neaten piles, make sure nothing is precarious or availably sharp in the room.
-Heat the room with a space heater and turn it off just prior to the experience. I tend to get chilled on Salvia, and if I am extra warm when I hit it, the sensual experience is more pleasant. Ideally, it would be moist heat. I think that the ideal experience would be chewing Salvia naked in a pitch dark sauna with a couple friends in silence. One day.
-Pause, breathe deeply, realize that mental preparation is futile.
-Take one deep hit, hold it for 25 seconds.
-Take off glasses, lie down on back, no pillow
-Nothing happens, except that your awareness changes.

 

[drfist]

I've personally found that salvia works quite weirdly, but in a nice way, with nitrous. take as big a hit of sally as you can, have a balloon ready, then as soon as you've cleared your salvia bowl, put balloon in mouth and breath in calmly. last time I did it like that I sat at a table with Gods, utterly comfortable, completely at ease, chitchatting as equals with Gods.
although I was also a windowpane for a while once (hard to explain but thats what it felt like) looking at the normal world drifting by, using the same method.

But, for a first time (second and third too imo) go in sober. until you know what it feels like. I didn't experiment with any combo's until the sixth or seventh time I did it.

 

[Okami]

-I am the only awake person in the house.

I've heard multiple people say they've dropped pipes when taking salvia by themselves and I've seen a guy who hit a bong none stop for at least a minute (i do mean this quite literally) and a half and didn't stop until we yanked it off him. After the trip he was thankful because he said it hit him instantly and he didn't realise he was still inhaling. So I'm going to have a trip sitter.

Is music good on salvia?

 

[Crashing]

Music doesn't exist on salvia.

 

[drfist]

all outside noises and sounds will just be a distraction. silence is your friend here.

 

[mahoosive bendah]

the wrong music can ruin it
go for beatless ambient, if at all.
i use a small bing but with no water, alcoohol will extend it IME... a sitter that isnt going to mess with you or distract you might be a good idea, some people move about a bit while salvia'd.
the only time i broke through i came to on my feet, i'd moved phone chargers and toher random objects and turned off my stereo.
it could have been worse, i couldve left the house or broken something but its worth waiting till you have a safe time and place

 

[RhythmSpring]

Usually silence is best. Or, repetitive trance music. Nothing too complex.

 

[Clocktower]

I find that psychedelics most of the time aren't very interesting unless I'm stoned.

Which psychedelics are you taking?

 

[samnslumberland]

I'd recommend being sober before smoking salvia so there is no risk of interference with your trip. I've tried taking a trip via bong and via pipe, and the pipe did nothing for me except for give me the giggles. The first time I broke through I was playing Coldplay to help myself relax and laid down and closed my eyes. Being comfortable is key. It was also the second hit that I had taken that night, I did it about an hour prior to my break through and wasn't impressed. So, I'd recommend hitting it a couple of times.

 

[szuko000]

The outside world doesn't exist on salvia. Psychedelics shouldn't be boring on their own but salvia won't be boring if you do it right. When done right you get to live out a different life from birth to death, perhaps as having merged with your couch or as a spek of paint on the wall. It will last for an eternity but be over in about 5 minutes.

You will drop the pipe and you might scream. Last thing you want is sober people, maybe parents, coming on and seeing you dilusional and unresponsive.

Put on rap, nothing like some guy shouting about how much better and more violent he is then you while your in salvia land. Lol just kidding silence is your friend.

Be prepared to be terrified if you expect a normal experience and spend hours trying to understand what the fuck just happened.