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Bluelight Crew
Dosing:
* Dose: Smoked several hits of Salvia 15X extract. Subjectively, this made for a "medium" trip
* Setting: M's garage and living room, mid afternoon. For a time, Disney Channel was playing, which may accout for the cynical nature of some of my trip thoughts...
* set: Expected delirium, dissociation, and hallucinations
Timing:
* Onset: 5-10 minutes to peak
* Peak: 5 minutes
* Plateau: 15 minutes
* After-effects trailing off for about an hour
Salient effects:
* Somatosensory: Walking felt automated--I decided to walk somewhere, and my legs just carried me while emitting this funny greenish feeling. If I sat and focused, my perception of myself got uncomfortably confused at times, and I felt like parts of my body were accelerating in random directions, similar to marijuana's somatosensory effects
* Spatial perception: In my mind (this was not a 'hallucination' of the normal kind) I noticed a giant 3 dimensional curve running through the garage, intersecting my body. I was stuck and flattened onto this curve. After the peak ended, the universe slowly returned to its normal spatial profile. I feel that repeating the experience with a larger dose will allow me to enter and navigate a purely mathematical universe
* Thoughts: During the peaks, my mind was in a complete trance-like state, with the perceptual effects of the drug being the only contents of my mind. For the other parts of the trip, I was exceptionally lucid. I felt (and continue to believe) that my perception was "lifted". My thoughts ran through both philosophical/scientific "large" topics and also through autobiographical "issues," with a profoundly stable perception. "Revelations" came continuously, one after another, in this lucid state, and for over an hour afterward my mind was "accelerated" with streaming interesting thoughts. The main theme of my thoughts is detailed in the "investment return" section
* It met my benchmark for a "trip": I felt like I was "home," in that simple, universal backround-space which reminds me of how my mind was before I filled it with behavioral routines and sense data. Reality felt more real, and everything about our normal perception of reality appeared more fake. [edit: P.S.]On Salvia "I feel like I've been where it's trying to take me before but forgotten" (read this in the Big and Dandy Salvia thread and quoted it here because it applies to my trip too)
Other effects:
* Visually, Salvia displayed some fascinating pattern-scenes when my eyes were closed. Open, patterning could also develop if I let it (eg, rivers of color running between the holes in the ceiling). The visuals were mild and dim
* While no euphoria was present, no negative effects except the usual discomfort from the intensity of the experience
Investment return:
* Certain themes were continuously elaborated on during the plateau and after-effects. Some of the themes were:
* Our normal perception is synthesized by our brain, and is influenced by many non-objective factors. There's no real reason to think we are much more than rats following behavioral routines and experiencing packaged sense data
* We go through life ensuring a pleasurable time in the near future. We keep ourselves busy, distracted. We like the thought of "soon, finally i'll be able to just sit back and be happy for a while" but it's always "soon" this will come. A while later, still, "soon" it'll happen. Of course, psychedelic users, hedonists, addicts, etc, have this handy tidbit of information
Remarks:
* A true entheogen, worth trying again for a "high" dose trip in my usual trip setting (room at night) (edit: which I certainly did. link)
* My expectations of a delirium/hallucination inducing foggy dissociative state were completely incorrect. The effects were very similar to marijuana, which also acts as a strong entheogen for me, but with more mental clarity, more mental stimulation, and more 'sharp' or 'geometric' (though not more intense) somatosensory effects than marijuana. To be honest, this is what I've always expected LSD to be like, without the visuals
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* Dose: Smoked several hits of Salvia 15X extract. Subjectively, this made for a "medium" trip
* Setting: M's garage and living room, mid afternoon. For a time, Disney Channel was playing, which may accout for the cynical nature of some of my trip thoughts...
* set: Expected delirium, dissociation, and hallucinations
Timing:
* Onset: 5-10 minutes to peak
* Peak: 5 minutes
* Plateau: 15 minutes
* After-effects trailing off for about an hour
Salient effects:
* Somatosensory: Walking felt automated--I decided to walk somewhere, and my legs just carried me while emitting this funny greenish feeling. If I sat and focused, my perception of myself got uncomfortably confused at times, and I felt like parts of my body were accelerating in random directions, similar to marijuana's somatosensory effects
* Spatial perception: In my mind (this was not a 'hallucination' of the normal kind) I noticed a giant 3 dimensional curve running through the garage, intersecting my body. I was stuck and flattened onto this curve. After the peak ended, the universe slowly returned to its normal spatial profile. I feel that repeating the experience with a larger dose will allow me to enter and navigate a purely mathematical universe
* Thoughts: During the peaks, my mind was in a complete trance-like state, with the perceptual effects of the drug being the only contents of my mind. For the other parts of the trip, I was exceptionally lucid. I felt (and continue to believe) that my perception was "lifted". My thoughts ran through both philosophical/scientific "large" topics and also through autobiographical "issues," with a profoundly stable perception. "Revelations" came continuously, one after another, in this lucid state, and for over an hour afterward my mind was "accelerated" with streaming interesting thoughts. The main theme of my thoughts is detailed in the "investment return" section
* It met my benchmark for a "trip": I felt like I was "home," in that simple, universal backround-space which reminds me of how my mind was before I filled it with behavioral routines and sense data. Reality felt more real, and everything about our normal perception of reality appeared more fake. [edit: P.S.]On Salvia "I feel like I've been where it's trying to take me before but forgotten" (read this in the Big and Dandy Salvia thread and quoted it here because it applies to my trip too)
Other effects:
* Visually, Salvia displayed some fascinating pattern-scenes when my eyes were closed. Open, patterning could also develop if I let it (eg, rivers of color running between the holes in the ceiling). The visuals were mild and dim
* While no euphoria was present, no negative effects except the usual discomfort from the intensity of the experience
Investment return:
* Certain themes were continuously elaborated on during the plateau and after-effects. Some of the themes were:
* Our normal perception is synthesized by our brain, and is influenced by many non-objective factors. There's no real reason to think we are much more than rats following behavioral routines and experiencing packaged sense data
* We go through life ensuring a pleasurable time in the near future. We keep ourselves busy, distracted. We like the thought of "soon, finally i'll be able to just sit back and be happy for a while" but it's always "soon" this will come. A while later, still, "soon" it'll happen. Of course, psychedelic users, hedonists, addicts, etc, have this handy tidbit of information
Remarks:
* A true entheogen, worth trying again for a "high" dose trip in my usual trip setting (room at night) (edit: which I certainly did. link)
* My expectations of a delirium/hallucination inducing foggy dissociative state were completely incorrect. The effects were very similar to marijuana, which also acts as a strong entheogen for me, but with more mental clarity, more mental stimulation, and more 'sharp' or 'geometric' (though not more intense) somatosensory effects than marijuana. To be honest, this is what I've always expected LSD to be like, without the visuals
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