Salvia - Does it work for you?

[Iodjini_dk]

Some years ago I tried 5x extract with little to no effect. Then it got illegal in my country so I didnt bother ordering more of it. Maybe my technique was all wrong. Smoked it out of a wooden pipe with a regular lighter. I got a little stoned and a little buzz, but nothing like the stories people tell. Would give it another go if I encounter it though.

 

[MescalitoBandito]

It works, albeit in a very unpleasant way.

 

[Care]

My only experience with salvia was incredibly intense. I hit a full bong bowl out of my friends roor, it was the most potent stuff they had at the local headshop.

All I can remember is a strange tasting smoke as my friend took the bong away from me, and after a few seconds an overwhelming sensation that started in my shoulders and spread throughout my body. It felt like I was losing control of my muscles and simultaneously melting into the chair I was sitting in. I tried to move but it felt like my limbs were super heavy. From what my friends tell me at this point I started drooling.

I dont remember anything past this until I started coming down. I'm told I stood up out of the chair and started staring into a mirror on the other side of the room. I picked up a cup of water and started to try to walk outside, but my hands were very shaky and I couldnt manage to operate the doorknob. I turned around and dropped the cup and started looking at the mirror again.

About two or three minutes after I took the hit I started coming back to reality. My memory is hazy, but I remember looking at the bed in my friends room with a few people sitting on it staring at me. It looked like I was staring at the side of a book and each of them seemed to be pages in a book and they were moving back and forth. I felt as if I was crawling out of something that was trying very hard to suck me back in towards it. My skin felt wet like I had just gotten out of the pool and was uncomfortably itchy.

Once I had control of my limbs I ran out the door and sat on a rock trying to talk myself back into reality. A couple people followed me, lit some cigarettes and trying talking to me. I didn't understand anything they were saying. One of their bodies started to meld with the bush behind it. his arms looked like branches and his body was covered with rustling leaves.

Eventually I came down fully. The next hour was uncomfortable but relatively normal.

This was by far the craziest thing I have ever experienced in my entire life. Way too intense. I'm never going to do salvia ever again.

 

[Trilobite]

Never had any problem getting blasted into the stratosphere by 100mg of 5x, a torch lighter, and a bong. Maybe it helps to pay a little more for the standardized extract? I love S. divinorum, although I'm in the minority among my friends who have tried it; they all freak out and find it to be a terrifying experience.

I always feel like I'm transported "behind the scenes" of the physical world, like my soul departed from my body and personality, returning to the ether... I forget who I am and have been during this lifetime, and just "am". I often sense other souls around me as well, and it is always a very welcoming, ecstatic experience. It's the most bizarre and intense sense of familiarity, of "coming home" if you will, from the first time I tried it. Strange, especially considering I don't even believe in the existence of souls, but the feeling I get from Salvia seems somewhat compatible with the concept of reincarnation.

It's also strange, because it's the ONLY drug I've tried that has any sort of spiritual slant for me at all. Maybe because only with Salvia I am able to experience enough ego loss to let go of myself and open up to that kind of thing. I still feel fairly grounded on mushrooms, LSD, and MDMA, whereas Salvia completely obliterates the concept of reality.

DMT was mentioned... I can't wait to try that, I should have some within a few weeks. Although I suspect I'll enjoy it (I've never met a psychedelic I didn't like), perhaps more than Salvia, I don't think it could ever replace it.

 

[polidelaiko]

Salvia can be super enjoyable, you just got to do it like you would do a k-hole: laying down and being completely still. Moving the body during the high gives you the pins and needles sensation, or feeling like some invisible knifes from another dimension are cutting you in infinite pieces. But if you dont move you just travel, no discomfort.
Also, on high doses of benzos I can smoke salvia like if I was doing N2O, hit after hit after hit.

 

[vegan]

it does not simply "work",
it fik@cnu#g wr&ok$s

 

[mecaib]

Yeah, it works. Straight leaf will do the job, but it becomes too difficult to take the next toke when my reality is fragmenting and small entities are fiddling with my brain...

But they did sing me a nice song once, if only I could remember it...

Is is a lot like "coming home." I entered a room in salvia space once that I actually remembered from some time before, but it was made of coiling ropes, and it was pillowy.

Salvia also seems to make people in general seem like they are growing out of a common substrate, or spirit, if you will. Like we are all one awareness tricked into thinking we are individually aware...

 

[delsymfan]

Nope. Tried several solid hits of 10x. I got nothing but negative vibes. No ego death or crazy shit. Just a lot of dancing fruit telling me not to do it again. Nothing I could do could shake that feeling.

After 3 trials I quit it. It just left me feeling bad.

 

[socalBUD]

As far as using the word "trip" in regards to smoking salvia extract, I believe this to be a little deceptive....Every time I've smoked salvia I've literally forgotten who/what I was. The concept of "me" no longer existed. For every time I smoked salvia I can only remember inhaling...right after that, my whole body starts becoming encrusted/hardened, and I can then only "see". Like one time sitting on the couch I saw the couch and essentially wondered if I was the couch or not. That was really the main theme...Just trying to define "me". But it wasn't very constructive/thought provoking...It was just more or less confusing, as my body completely dematerialized and my mind was kind of only my eyes if that makes any sense. I have never had a useful salvia experience, which is why I see it as pointless and have decided not to do it again.

 

[tribalDJ]

As far as using the word "trip" in regards to smoking salvia extract, I believe this to be a little deceptive....Every time I've smoked salvia I've literally forgotten who/what I was. The concept of "me" no longer existed. For every time I smoked salvia I can only remember inhaling...right after that, my whole body starts becoming encrusted/hardened, and I can then only "see". Like one time sitting on the couch I saw the couch and essentially wondered if I was the couch or not. That was really the main theme...Just trying to define "me". But it wasn't very constructive/thought provoking...It was just more or less confusing, as my body completely dematerialized and my mind was kind of only my eyes if that makes any sense. I have never had a useful salvia experience, which is why I see it as pointless and have decided not to do it again.

Wow I am exactly like that too. WTF am I, am I the couch? I also felt very confused, like I would start to realize who I was or what happened and a second later lose it again, until it gradually comes back. Then start laughing out of control. Not really fun or productive, but it seems to work for some people. Maybe the extracts (20 and 10x) were just way too strong.

 

[sadbot]

I'm the exact same way. I didn't think it was very useful either. Then I had a friend with me and when I started saying stuff like: who am i? what am i? He reminded me I was on salvia and all of a sudden everything made sense and I was able to better utilize the trip. I can't say I got that much out of it though.

Try that approach (the reminding friend) or try a lower dose, because that tends to be less confusing.