So Saturday evening (around 3pm) I smoked a bowl pack of 15X salvia (the brand was called Purple Sticky Salvia and it came in a purple tin). I was recommended by a friend, and being a newbie w/ psychedelic drugs. I can't even begin to explain my experience although I would say that the closest thing that comes to describe it is the description that Wikipedia gives on the "level 5 psychedelic experience." (I must also tell you all that I was pretty stoned before I went into this ridiculous experience, once again underestimating the power of salvia. I had also done a mild dose of DXM the night before around 12 midnight. 8 Triple C's. I don't usually do these many drugs except a lot of weed, I just had an atypical weekend).
Wikipedia's Description of the "Level 5 Psychedelic Experience" - Total loss of visual connection with reality. The senses cease to function in the normal way. Total loss of ego. Feelings of merging with space, other objects or the universe. Feelings of reaching to the beginning or the end of space and time. The loss of reality becomes so extreme that it defies explanation. Dream or movie like states, people have been reported seeing themselves in entirely different settings than their original setting. Earlier levels are relatively easy to describe in terms of measurable changes in perception and thought patterns. The only thing still reported to be working at a recognizable level, is the mind's voice of thought. Much is unknown about what a person actually experiences during this period, because most people actually come back explaining the experience as "unexplainable" or "uncommunicable". This effect can be produced in high doses of LSD and extremely high doses of psilocybin or with extremely high doses of the strongest extracts of salvia divinorum. "
It was an absolutely terrifying experience, and I entered a new world. I had 2 sitters with me who told me that I had immediately lunged onto the floor spinning and kicking and mildly convulsing. I'm almost 100 percent sure that I did this to keep myself from dying in the "salvia world". I came back to reality a little later and I felt like complete shit - utterly alone and terrified. A few hours later I felt ok and I was so happy to be back in reality - I felt like I had a new chance at life and I was very grateful. The trip had taking it's toll on me and I went to sleep very early that night.
The next morning I woke up and felt great and was very infatuated with what I had seen/been through. I couldn't stop thinking about it, trying so hard to explain it to myself, and while doing about a bong hit every hour, I researched all I could on the subject and listened to the same album that I listened to during my salvia trip (Pink Floyd's The Wall) over and over.
By about 2pm on I started smoking even more pot and I decided to lay down w/ my laptop and take it easy and read up on Wikipedia. All of a sudden I was tripping again, nothing like the salvia trip but more than an out of body experience where I had no control. My pupils were all fucked up and I was so terrified that I thought I might have had a heart attack - I was thinking that maybe I was even poisoned.
So ever since this moment (i'm writing this on Tuesday morning) I've been feeling very weird and I'm scared that this out of nowhere panic attack/trip is on borderline again. I feel disassociated and my thoughts are racing and very O.C.D. (I'm a very O.C.D person). I fell sort of like my mind and body are disconnected. It's like I can't feel myself move sometimes, or I feel like I'm starting to slip out of body again. I decided Sunday night to stop the weed, stop anything except tons of water, a few glasses of orange juice, and regular food. I've kept this up as well, and I've felt about half as better than I did before.
Bottom line is I'm writing for all of you experienced users and I want to ask if it is a normal post-trip experience to kind of flashback into a more mild but very scary disabling mini-trip the day after. I'm never going to do Salvia again, I probably did too much, and I'll be happy to feel normal again once this is over.
How long do you think it'll take and I just want to thank anyone who takes the time to read this and try to help me out with advice. Once again, I've never done any major amount of psychedelics and I guess maybe this could just be a transitionary period after such an intense trip.
Wikipedia's Description of the "Level 5 Psychedelic Experience" - Total loss of visual connection with reality. The senses cease to function in the normal way. Total loss of ego. Feelings of merging with space, other objects or the universe. Feelings of reaching to the beginning or the end of space and time. The loss of reality becomes so extreme that it defies explanation. Dream or movie like states, people have been reported seeing themselves in entirely different settings than their original setting. Earlier levels are relatively easy to describe in terms of measurable changes in perception and thought patterns. The only thing still reported to be working at a recognizable level, is the mind's voice of thought. Much is unknown about what a person actually experiences during this period, because most people actually come back explaining the experience as "unexplainable" or "uncommunicable". This effect can be produced in high doses of LSD and extremely high doses of psilocybin or with extremely high doses of the strongest extracts of salvia divinorum. "
It was an absolutely terrifying experience, and I entered a new world. I had 2 sitters with me who told me that I had immediately lunged onto the floor spinning and kicking and mildly convulsing. I'm almost 100 percent sure that I did this to keep myself from dying in the "salvia world". I came back to reality a little later and I felt like complete shit - utterly alone and terrified. A few hours later I felt ok and I was so happy to be back in reality - I felt like I had a new chance at life and I was very grateful. The trip had taking it's toll on me and I went to sleep very early that night.
The next morning I woke up and felt great and was very infatuated with what I had seen/been through. I couldn't stop thinking about it, trying so hard to explain it to myself, and while doing about a bong hit every hour, I researched all I could on the subject and listened to the same album that I listened to during my salvia trip (Pink Floyd's The Wall) over and over.
By about 2pm on I started smoking even more pot and I decided to lay down w/ my laptop and take it easy and read up on Wikipedia. All of a sudden I was tripping again, nothing like the salvia trip but more than an out of body experience where I had no control. My pupils were all fucked up and I was so terrified that I thought I might have had a heart attack - I was thinking that maybe I was even poisoned.
So ever since this moment (i'm writing this on Tuesday morning) I've been feeling very weird and I'm scared that this out of nowhere panic attack/trip is on borderline again. I feel disassociated and my thoughts are racing and very O.C.D. (I'm a very O.C.D person). I fell sort of like my mind and body are disconnected. It's like I can't feel myself move sometimes, or I feel like I'm starting to slip out of body again. I decided Sunday night to stop the weed, stop anything except tons of water, a few glasses of orange juice, and regular food. I've kept this up as well, and I've felt about half as better than I did before.
Bottom line is I'm writing for all of you experienced users and I want to ask if it is a normal post-trip experience to kind of flashback into a more mild but very scary disabling mini-trip the day after. I'm never going to do Salvia again, I probably did too much, and I'll be happy to feel normal again once this is over.
How long do you think it'll take and I just want to thank anyone who takes the time to read this and try to help me out with advice. Once again, I've never done any major amount of psychedelics and I guess maybe this could just be a transitionary period after such an intense trip.
