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SALVIA (21x) - Quite experienced - THE MACHINE WILL HAVE YOUR SOUL!

Chaos23

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I am quite well experienced with all of the major psychedelics. At this point I have done salvia many times, but when this trip happened it was my first major breakthrough on this particular substance.

I had been in the local headshop when the desk clerk asked me if I had tried salvia divinorum before. I replied that I had not, but that I had read about its effects all over Erowid. He told me that they sold it, so I immediately bought a vial of 21X. I was excited, but a little nervous to begin the trip.

I am normally very adamant about set and setting when using psychedelic substances. This trip started off with me being quite nervous, and being deceitful. The girl I was dating at the time was against me using psychedelic drugs, as she was well aware of my past drug history and knew I technically didn't 'need' any more drugs in my life. I threw caution to the wind that day my friends, and what a tragedy it became.

I put an unknown and obviously too large amount of the extract in a standard glass pipe.

Sitting on my bed in a comfortable position, I bring the flame up towards the bowl, hold it to the salvia and inhale a HUGE hit of thick smoke. I held the acrid smoke in my lungs for about 35 seconds.

It was at this point that I began to feel 'something'. It was as if a switch had been flipped, and the walls of reality had begun to shatter around me. I set the bowl down and laid on my back, not knowing what to expect. Within seconds, I was catapulted into a realm of complete insanity and torture.

I was standing at the base of a huge mountain range, full of fire. Everything was burning, and the smell of this I will never forget. A putrid smoke smelling of sulfur enveloped my very existence. As I looked around me, the souls of everyone else in existence came into focus. They surrounded me, numbering in the billions. We were all being drawn into the center of the valley of fire. In this valley lies 'THE MACHINE'. it loomed on the horizon, HUGE, and ALL KNOWING.

The machine ended up being my air conditioner in reality, but at the time it was sent by 'god' to take vengeance on the souls of mankind for using drugs and being generally sinful and devious. I had absolutely no recollection of even doing a drug at that point. I thought this was the end of the world. Here I was, being drawn uncontrollably to this machine.

As I grew closer to this enormous 'machine from god', I began to see people getting sucked into it. It was devouring souls at a massive rate. I could hear the machine destroying the physical body by grinding it up, and destroying the soul with some type of sonic weapon. The sound was of billions of people dying and writhing in agony. It was truly the gateway to hell. A terrifying experience to say the least.

Once the machine had selected me for destruction, I felt my arms and legs being ripped from me, ground up and destroyed. I BECAME the writing mass of pain combined with the pain of all others who had been, or would ever be taken by 'the machine'. My life was over, and I was in some eternal hell. (which I don't even really BELIEVE in)

About this time I had a glimmering hope appear on the horizon of what was left of my broken soul and maimed body. I saw my mirror. IN MY BEDROOM!!!! I suddenly remembered that I had smoked something, although it took a few more seconds to remember what it was. I knew I was back into this reality... I had remembered. My body was OK, and I was alive. I immediately lost my mind, and began crying my eyes out like a 12 year old girl. It was not tears of sadness, but tears of joy for having survived this horrible incident. I immediately wrote down bits and pieces of this traumatic event, as I wanted to remember it forever.

I felt guilty about lying to my girl, so I told her as soon as she got home. She was not overly upset. She couldn't even begin to understand what I had just experienced.

It was all very real to me at the time. Despite the fact that I have abused so many drugs, and done so many high dose experiments with LSD, Mescaline, and Mushrooms, MDMA, Ketamine, etc etc... This was really within my top 5 most mind blowing experiences of my whole life.

The #1 most mind blowing experience of my life was a dangerously high dose IM ketamine experiment. But that my friends is another story...

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Chaos23 said:
The machine ended up being my air conditioner in reality, .

Once I did Salvia and the whole universe was being ripped apart and then it turned into a fright train and I was lying down by its side as it was going by my head it was so LOUD!!!
When I came back an old fan was going and that was the noise I was hearing.

Nice Salvia trip report
 
I have to apologize but I am sitting here laughing at your trip report. Not out of disrespect but because you put a few things quite well and I enjoyed your report. I hear you.
The first time it caught me, I ran out of my house trying to get away from it not understanding. Completely gone. Unlike anything I have ever taken, this is a substance that I have a respect for knowing I will never truly understand it's full potential.
 
^ Same here. No disrespect but I am laughing really hard in understanding of exactly what you are talking about. I remember my first time taking off and not remembering that I had smoked anything. I remember being in some other world with these overwhelming cartoon like psychedelic trees.
Nice report man.
 
I agree, dosage with a powerful extract, needs to be done carefully. A friend of mine, his first time, he used 1/8g of a true 20x extract, and him being a powerful bong hitter (yeah he smokes pot!) he vaporized that salvia so well......he got blasted into another universe, in which he thought he was getting run over by a car! He was leaning to the side and back, was falling out of his chair, with his arms crossed on his chest and hands cramped up. In his trip, he was thinking he was trying to ward off this car, and could see the bottom of it as it ran him over....when he came back, he was lost, confused, and a bit scared, as you can imagine. We calmed him, held him from getting up until he came back to reality.

Needless to say, it ruined him, he wants no part of salvia ever again. Too bad, be careful people, this plant can offer some unique experience unlike ANY other, but you can easily overdo it, although at least it won't permanently harm you.

Make SURE you have a good sitter especially for your first time!!!!
 
i wonder how much longer the salvia will be legal... i was shocked and amazed when I discovered the true power of this substance, and then realized it was totally legal.

You would think the government would get their shit together and either make other psychedelic drugs legal, or ban this one as well.

Now with the research chemicals going down the toilette faster than ever, we have hardly anything enjoyable that is totally legal anymore. (or easily accessible and legal)

Stupid government is stupid.
 
I think you answered your own question as to why it is still legal.
Chaos23 said:
Once the machine had selected me for destruction, I felt my arms and legs being ripped from me, ground up and destroyed. I BECAME the writing mass of pain combined with the pain of all others who had been, or would ever be taken by 'the machine'. My life was over, and I was in some eternal hell.
Some people are into that kind of thing, most are not lol.
;)
 
I found the soul-destroying air conditioner extremely amusing. It made me laugh to read about, and yet I can picture how real and frightening it must have been in the moment.

Triaged the report for ya.:)
 
the 'force' and the 'void' are common with breakthroughs it seems. for me it usually feels like waterfall or whirlpool. once you were in middle of the machine, did you feel any different?
 
colors said:
the 'force' and the 'void' are common with breakthroughs it seems. for me it usually feels like waterfall or whirlpool. once you were in middle of the machine, did you feel any different?

It was shortly after getting my body and soul ripped apart that I realized what was going on and started coming back. The beginning of the machine was pure torture and hell. Physical pain combined with a complete loss of self. I just knew this was the eternal damnation I probably deserved for being such an asshole my whole life.

The machine really had no 'middle'. It was more like you entered it, and then you were in the eternal state of 'hell'... Luckily I came to and it ceased.

I have had some wild, but not bad trips on salvia many times since then. This one was by far the strongest. I don't know if there was more salvinorin A on this particular clump of extract or what... It was certainly not something I would like to repeat. Ever.
 
lol this is pretty funny stuff, i think the crude taste of salvia extract might have triggered the sulfer & firee taster & experience, but who knows.
 
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