Misc My list of the 54 effects of salvia

[Lord]

When I was a teenager, I experimented with salvia, both on its own and in combination with other drugs. I found the experiences to be unpleasant but interesting, so over the past few days, I've decided to come up with a list of effects that I've experienced while on salvia. 54 effects to be precise. I was inspired, in some part, by "on being stoned" by Charles T. Tart, which you can find online.



Level 1 - mild

Colour shift toward pink/yellow and colour dulling

Time and passage of events becomes segmented, sometimes in almost equal segments



Level 2 - lighter

I feel the presence of a large, spiritual being which is somewhat god-like

World becomes rubbery and/or plastic-like

A strange, repetitive melody is heard

My body becomes small and lacking in detail and characteristics

I get the feeling that I'm stuck in a looping part of reality

Objects become alive and stare at me

I have the feeling that reality is 'closing,' and that I'll be forced to leave

I see visual distortions that can best be described as seeing awnings on objects and doorways

I suddenly feel heavy, as if something is constantly pulling me downward

I have the impression that my body and/or what I'm looking at is free falling

I feel hot and uncomfortable

I hear repetitive chanting, for example, 'plololololololo...'

I become physically distant from everything and everyone else: there is more spatial separation

Normal sounds seem to be of low quality when I hear them

I see in frames or 'pages being flipped through quickly'

It feels like reality is making fun of me or torturing me slightly

My surroundings become less familiar



Level 3 - stronger

Seemingly sentient beings appear. They are usually simple-looking

I see a god-like, seemingly sentient being

Factory-like environment/machine is visible. It is seemingly used to create reality

Body is 'opened' and layers of the psyche are exposed

Feeling that god or a higher power is playing with my life as if it was unimportant

I lose control of my body and actions. For example, I'll think of moving my arm and it'll move on its own before I can think about stopping it

Everything moves toward one side and I feel the temptation to move with it

I have the impression that something is trying to carry me away from my surroundings and reality

The field in which I see my surroundings and environment is much smaller than my full visual field

I feel completely alone, separated from everything

I get the feeling that I'll be high and insane forever

Whatever I'm looking at seems to be flipping into itself over and over

Objects talk to me and make requests. They seem to have a mind and life of their own

I see my body from above, especially if I'm walking

Everything (including my body, if I'm standing up) stretches and/or compresses, usually one after the other

I feel very heavy, as if I'm being compressed out of reality

I have the impression that what I'm looking at is falling at an exponential rate

I have the impression that my body is falling at an exponential rate

I have tunnel vision

I see objects which are not there, for which there is no real basis

I suddenly get the feeling that I shouldn't have taken salvia and that I made a big mistake just as the trip begins

I feel very confused

I get the feeling that I'm attached to an imaginary wall that others like me are also attached to

I feel like I have just awoken into a new realm after lifelong sleep

I have visions involving large numbers of people who are trapped and in close proximity to each other

I have visions of a strange place that could most accurately be described as a surreal kingdom

I experience hallucinations such as being in the arms of a god-like being, being caressed

I see myself in a circular nest from which I have awoken

I feel like I'm being ejected from reality

I feel like I'm somewhere I'm not



Level 4 - heavy

Body is split into disconnected parts, sometimes sentient on their own

My body and physical presence disappears

There is nearly no separation in time between sobriety and feeling completely gone

I reach a point where I don't know what I took, I don't know who I am, and I don't know where I am

I experience hallucinations, such as being trapped with a large number of people, being carried through paths in a surreal kingdom, being processed in a factory, etc.

 

[CartoonHead]

This sounds fucking terrifying.

Did you have much post trip reflection? In the following days, did you feel there was any merit or truth in the things you saw and felt or were you completely certain it was just getting fucked up on a drug?

 

[CartoonHead]

Also, kudos for describing everything so succinctly. I felt a panicky just from reading it, haha....I don't enjoy psychs these days

 

[drancer]

I don't think anything comes close to salvia as being the most scary and exhilarating psych ever. ESPECIALLY if you start combining it with a bit of weed, a hit of nitrous... *boom*

 

[J3MOd-h3NOW-X3S]

With lsd or shrooms your trip slowly comes on, but with salvia, you're tripping nuts as soon as you exhale! It's hard to describe the trip, so i give the op credit, but it does feel like other dimensions are opened and it definitively bends the laws of space and time. Craziest substance I've ever ingested and to think it was legal just a few years ago.

 

[Foreigner]

I really find the saliva high really mashy and not high caliber. The trip is always incredibly weird and impossible to decipher.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

Also, kudos for describing everything so succinctly. I felt a panicky just from reading it, haha....I don't enjoy psychs these days

Yeah me neither. I used to love them. Shrooms, LSD, salvia, whatever. But now.. the thought of tripping out just makes my skin crawl. I think I'd freak out.

I may try it again one day.. I could sure use an eye opening epiphany. Ha.

 

[ziggo]

This is very good description of the salvia effects. Don't trip on salvia unless you're ready to be trapped in a dimension with evil beings/yourself pushing and pulling and destroying you for a long time. My last salvia trip was so intense it gave me PTSD and I kept having the same salvia trip as a flashback daily for weeks until I started doing heroin to get rid of the flashbacks.

 

[Lord]

Hey CartoonHead. I did reflect on it a bit. I was obsessed with it. But I spent so much time on benzodiazepines and tranquilizers after those salvia trips that I wasn't able to reflect very much on what I had experienced. Even today, it's difficult for me to believe that it was all a hallucination that has no basis in reality. I think it is at the very least something like a metaphor of something which really exists. While I don't entirely regret using salvia, it came with more consequences and problems than benefits. Way more.
It has taught me that there are things in this universe which we can't begin to imagine and that we should be more open to certain possibilities.

Ziggo, that's a great description of how salvia can make you feel. I've definitely had that kind of trip. I think I got a form of PTSD from salvia. I would become so afraid of going insane from it (among other drugs) that I prayed and even cried when I went to bed. I was convinced that the goddess from one of my trips was trying to trap me into her world. But miraculously this has all gone away after two years. I'll still look at something ordinary and think it reminds me of salvia, though.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

After I awoke in the middle of my first and only Salvia trip I had a very lucid trip that I still remember in detail till this very day. Talking about it made my hairs stand right up untill a few years back.

Levels 3 and 4 very much describe it aswell as "but it does feel like other dimensions are opened and it definitively bends the laws of space and time"

Interestingly the fine line between objects and parts of my body dissappeared. My face and rug were glued together and the tables leg (?) wa through my leg. (I had fallen face forward on the ground with an leeg against the table. There was an very eery screeching sound that accompanied the strechting of reality's surroundings. Looking back it was like everything was stretching out and bending into an 2 dimensional world. Very very scary trip, I was in the aftermath of an night on MDMA and had smoked quite some weed. Which probably didn't help either.