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Salvia - First Time - Fear The Goddess

Aryer

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Trip- report
Breakthrough on Salvia Divinorum 10x
This event took place around the start of November, 2007.

I had smoked some hash earlier that evening, and was still under the influence when I smoked Salvia.

Setting: On a field at night, under the stars with three other friends of mine. Let’s call them A, B and C. It was cold outside, so I was wearing a thick sweater and a thick overall for the occasion. This was my first meeting with psychedelic drugs, and what I experienced was not at all like had expected that Salvia would be like.

A journey to Salvia land, a female who was trying to block me out from the real world

“A” had just bought a gram of Salvia Divinorum 10x extract, and both of us had been eager to try this sacred plant, especially since it was our first time tripping on any substance at all. “B” wasn’t going to try Salvia, mainly because he didn’t know enough about it and its effects. I started reading about psychedelic drugs about a year ago, and my interest about the subject just grew more and more. Soon, reading about different drugs was occupying a lot of my time.
“C” didn’t know much about Salvia, nor other psychedelic drugs, but still he wanted to try it, even though he didn’t know much about drugs in general.

To the point:
I filled my water bong, which was made out of a 0.5l plastic bottle, with Salvia 10x. I really don’t know how much, but I know it was a decent amount, maybe four times a regular Salvia 10x dose. I filled the chamber with a thick, grayish smoke, and inhaled until all the smoke and Salvia was gone. I was now holding my breath for as long as I could, but still no effects! I started to wonder if our lighter couldn’t produce enough heat to activate the Salvia. All of a sudden I got this feeling of being distanced from the real world. I was just like something was trying to pull me away from reality, and I thought this feeling was very uncomfortable. It’s like the Salvia shuts down my connection to reality, both vertically and horizontally. Damn, I did not like this at all! It felt like something was about to swallow me and the reality just got torn in to little pieces. I had no contact to the real world, just that the last thing I saw before entering this weird world had burned itself to my sight.

Now the world was just pictures, thousands of pictures. Something similar to the effect you get when you stand between two mirrors. Suddenly all this picture was of “A” and these pictures was building up by this one picture of “A”. It’s hard to explain. I didn’t expect this from Salvia at all, so this was pretty frightening for me at this point. I wanted to get out of this place, but it ended up being a pretty hard task. I knew that I was going to be normal again soon, but when it felt like the trip lasted for hours, I stared to doubt that I would come down. All of a sudden it felt like some force grabbed my brain, and pulled me sideways down to the ground. This was uncomfortable, because I didn’t have a chance to get myself up again. So I ended up lying on the ground probably looking like a moron, trying to fight this sideways gravity. While tripping, the sound was pretty fucked up to. It was just like a CD with a lot of scratches in it. Suddenly I saw “B” walking in to my eyesight from the side of my eyelid and threw something. I remember thinking “What the hell is he doing?! This is so out of context”, and then he disappeared.

On my way back to reality! Wait, what is really the reality?

I was still in Salvia land, and I kept asking myself if I’d ever come down. I knew that I had smoked Salvia. I knew that it wouldn’t last more than a couple of minutes, but when it feels like several hours, it’s hard to think that I would come down in the nearest future. Right after “B” had shown himself, a staircase suddenly appeared. It was a stair down to reality, and with an instant I felt much better. The stairs was spiraling downwards, but when I tried to look down it, there was just darkness. I started to walk down the stairs, which I thought would take a long time, but it only took a few seconds. Once I was done with the stairs I came to a new room.

The room looked somewhat similar to this picture, and these squares was different realities. One of these was my reality, and I had to get there.

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Then I saw “A” waving at me in one of the squares in the upper left corner, and I thought that he was going to help me up there. I was right.
I tried to climb up to him, but there was a force that kept pulling me down, but I finally managed to grab his hand. I was finally in the real world, and my only task now, was to get normal.

Suddenly I could see “B’s” head in the upper left corner of my eyesight, just like a map in a FPS game. There was a sector diagram at his head which showed me how many percentages normal I was. It started at 50%, and I heard a voice saying “You are now 50% normal”. I understood my last task! All I needed to do was to hear normal things, and this made me say to my friends “Tell me something good!” “A” heard this, so he looked at me and said “Teletubbies”. Fuck! I wanted to hear something normal, not something that would made me trip even more. I said “No, something normal, like, tomorrow I’m going at work, or that I’m going to have a mock- exam tomorrow.” When I said this, “A’s” mouth got pink, and now the sector diagram showed me that I was 90% normal. There was only one more word I had to say to become normal, a word like Googoo or Gooshoo, but just thinking about the word was enough. Then I woke up, but there was still a lot of mindfuck, and my vision was also fucked up. This made me think about if I would ever become normal again, or if I would be fucked up for the rest of my life.

This trip lasted somewhere around 4- 6 minutes, and I was pretty frightened right after what I just had been through. I didn’t want anybody else to experience the uncomfortable feelings I felt when I was in Salvia land, but I kept quiet while “A” filled the water bong. I can’t remember exhaling.


"We're indestructible, we're indestructible!"

The day after the intense trip, me and “A” decided to experiment a little bit more with this plant. Now I wasn’t under the influence of something else and the setting was changed. This time I wanted to do it in my room. This time the dose was considerably smaller, something I’m happy for.

I put on some music, Caribbean Blue made by Enya, to be more precise. I started inhaling. I kept it in my lunges for as long as I could, and then I exhaled. At this moment, “B” came walking through the door, because we had planned to smoke some hash at my place.

After I exhaled, I got the same feeling of that Salvia land was going to swallow me. Things around me transformed in to grass, my computer and closet became a pavilion, and Salvia land was singing along with the song I was playing. Now I will refer to Salvia land as She, because She told me that She was a female. She was singing "We're indestructible, we're indestructible!", while trying to swallow me. The only thing that still was normal was the persons in my room. “A” said that he wanted to trip as much as I did, because he didn’t experience Salvia so intense like I did. I managed to shake “She” away, and to keep it away I actually was pulling my hair. This was working! During this trip, I understood what made my previous trip so unpleasant. It was the feeling of being swallowed and disconnected so fast from reality.

All in all I got two pretty interesting experiences, even though they were unpleasant. I think that my problem is that I just didn’t let myself go. All the time I was fighting against it.

Thanks for reading this, my fellow Bluelighters! If you have any questions, I’ll try to answer them as good as I can!

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This is a great report, and definite props for including that picture. Trying to describe a lot of the visual changes is one of the hardest parts of most experiences, and especially with salvia. Plus it made me jump when I saw it because I know exactly what you were describing.

All in all I got two pretty interesting experiences, even though they were unpleasant. I think that my problem is that I just didn’t let myself go. All the time I was fighting against it.

My first couple of experiences were like that too; trying to not fight it was really hard for me. I definitely freaked out on my first time, but it the most amazing learning experience because of it.
 
Thank you, I really appreciate it! =) It's sad that all the other things which happened during the trip is really too hard to explain. I don't know if I'm going to try Salvia again, but if I do, I will have more experience with other psychedelics. But I would probably ask myself why I would put me through this again the next time I'm going to smoke Salvia.

But let me ask you, nikol, how do you experience Salvia now? And what did you learn? I'm curious, because I didn't learn much, besides from the fact that I'm just going to start to let myself go.
 
Great report. Thanks for writing it all out. Can you find a bigger version of that picture? I think that is pretty good picture for describing a part of the visuals. I found that more the more I used it the more familiar I became with it which allowed me to relax and enjoy it. I honestly don't really learn from salvia. I like it because I think it is just a beautiful experience.
 
I actually have trip reports up from both of my salvia trips, if you check around this TR forum you should find them.
I haven't smoked anymore since those went up due to a busy schedule, but something tells me that the time is drawing nearer when I'm going to again.
After my initial experience with it (which was a very mind-blowing, terrifying experience in which I did freak out), I was left with the most remarkable feeling of pure appreciation for the simple fact that I was living. There was no high associated with the drug- it was a pure, endogenous, adrenaline/endorphin rush that made me realize that the true potential in this substance was 100% up to the user in a way that no other psychedelic is. I don't know, I guess it's just because I try to do good things and I try to make sure that my drug use is never a problem, never in excess, and that I am totally ok with whatever my sub/unconcious self is trying to tell. Because of that I know that no matter how hard it may seem at first, how scary or fearful the experience may be, it can only teach me as long as I am willing to be accepting of the lesson. The desire to help better myself keeps all of those doubts at bay.
However, just like with any lesson, eventually it's time to take the final test and bask in what you have acheived thus far. I'm trying to get to that place, so that maybe one day salvia will be just a beautiful experience (like Damien said) and I will not have anymore of the fear.
 
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Uploaded bigger version of pic

Damien8787 said:
Can you find a bigger version of that picture? I think that is pretty good picture for describing a part of the visuals.

This is the original version of the image, just for you! =) (and all the others frequenting this forum)

To nikol: I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for your trip- reports

I think you're right about that the experience is up to the user. The next time I try Salvia, I'm going to turn off the lights, no music and the only person around is the sitter.

Thanks for posting, everyone!
 
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i've tried crawling out of those crazy spiraling 2d universes to my friends before. they just laughed at me : (. I'm sure they woulda helped if they knew I was being sucked into a different universe.

but yes. most my experiences are like yours. i'm going to try again (and again) until I learn to let go and just dive into those different dimensions. hopefully i'll get something useful, or at least enjoyable, from that.
 
It's so worth it to keep trying! As long as you believe that there is something to be learned from it... there usually is.
 
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