Salvia Trip - Commonalities?! :s

[RhythmSpring]

I think that what salvia does is completely annihilate the memory for only a minute instant. And what we take for the "effects" of the salvia is the memory coming back.

I think this is a gross oversimplification, if not outright wrong. Cannabis screws a lot more with memory than Salvia. Salvia... it's more than memory. It's a deceptively complex experience. It can seem simple, but it really is quite multifaceted. This statement just seems like uneducated conjecture.

Though I agree that everyone experiences the same effects from it, it's just that our experiences are colored by the lives we already live.

 

[lysergication]

Cannabis may screw with memory in your everyday life and while you're on it but salvia allows us to be "non-existent" for an instant. In that sense it is more a non-effect actually. They don't play on the same plane at all. Life/everyday reality is "the effect". The salvia experience is indeed as complex as life itself because by annihilating for an instant the process of construction of reality it allows us to experience it while it is reassembling (the salvia experience). Usually we take this process as granted because we're unable to stand back enough to experience it.

I use the term memory maybe because I lack a better one. Salvia suspends the function/program that's needed to make life a continuous and logical thing. You need it to identify yourself with your body. You need it to know you're in this particular room. You need it to feel causalities between things happening. We speak about short or long term memory with cannabis, I don't remember but here I'm talking about what's at the core of existence itself. I don't say that salvia is doing something bad to your memory like it's said that cannabis can.

 

[RhythmSpring]

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