Salvia 40x Weak trip? (Also DXM+Codiene)

[ChipTrippyFox]

Hi, first time poster, long time lurker.

I just did some salvia yesterday and I have to say im kinda upset with the results..

Timing:
T -1:30hrs 250mg DXM taken, syrup form
T -0:30hrs 210mg codiene taken CWE Method from AC&C tabs (active charchol on 2nd filteration to attempt to remove some caffeine)
T -00:0hrs started dosing the salvia D
I'll start by saying Im not new to the salvia D experience, but it has been 7 years (aprox) since i last did it.

Setting: In my room, dark with music on.

smoked in a home made water bong, very small pinch (ive had very intense trips with just 10x so i was expecting to be blown away by this)

Very little effect the first attempt but i did notice the music was bugging me so i turned it off.

I continued to try, increasing the size of the pinch each time, again with little effects..
The only minor effects i can record is on the final attempt where i had stuffed as much as i could into the tiny bowl, took it all in 1 hit then while holding it in, putting the miniscule amount left in and taking that too.

The trip was "fun" (saying weird things to my gf who was trip sitting, seeing doubles of everying EXCEPT my dog, seeing my cat with sunglasses on who also telepathicly said to me "cool story bro" [lol]
I also had very minor CEVs of a dutch windmill and various other geometric visuals.

I was hoping for a "breakthrough" or at least a very powerful effect.
This was very much not a breakthrough, nor has it been anywhere near as powerful as my experiences with 10x.. What possibly may be going on?

 

[wayab]

i can think of these possibilities:
1)saliva is like this one time you trip very hard from little next time from more not so much
2) sometimes extracts are not as strong as advertised
3) the codein could have dulled the saliva
4) you may have forgotten your salvia smoking skills during the years(it the most difficult to smoke right thing i have tried) or your ligter might not have been as hot as the ones you have used before

or it could be something else entierly who knows.
i hope your next try is better but to be honest it sounded that you had a great time even without breaking through, maybe the salvia decided that it wont destroy your good time by blasting you trough hell idk :D

 

[ChipTrippyFox]

Lol well I'm not sure if I had lost any skill to it. I held the flame on it for the whole hit, held it in as long as possible (30+ seconds) and also the small size of the bowl should have increased the airspeed going through the embers, further increasing the heat.
When I smoked it before I had not put any sort of thought or mindset or anything into it.. just loaded up the bowl and go. (Though I had known about the continuous flame part)

I want to guess that this was just a weak extract.. 40x from what I understand is supposed to be really really strong even for veterans.

I suppose next time around I can try it without the codeine, but I have heared from many reports that dxm is very harmonic with salv. I've never tried salvia while on any other drug but marijuana (which I don't do any more cause my gf hates the stuff.. )

I will also try to get a different brand of salvia.

I'm kinda thinking that (so I've heared) i may have reset my reverse tolerance (where it gets stronger with each attempt) since it's been so long since my last sally d trip. Almost the same thing g seemed to happen with my very very first attempt. But I had only taken a very small amount of 10x so I wasn't expecting much, just a small taste of the stronger trip I was planning later in the week.
And I did have fun ^^ but I was expecting to be blasted. Preferably not through hell, but I kinda wanted more. I wanted to see salvia land !