
Salvia is just WEIRD, and sorta unpleasant
#1
Posted 21 November 2006 - 11:55 AM
It has been 5-6 months since I smoked salvia last and I had forgotten a lot of what the experience is like. I know it was something that I never thought was pleasant, but was instead very bizzare and interesting. As soon as I loaded a bowl up and smoked it all, the salvia rush hit me again, and a very familar feeling crept over me once again. The feeling that my consciousness was "flattening out", being sucked from my mouth being oddly morphed into another substance. This time asphalt.
My consciousness was being sucked out my mouth and turned into a psychic asphalt-land, with repeating dancing creatures of some sort on the horizon, somewhat puppetlike and never clear in my vision, just like they are in the very periphery and multiplying infinitely. In the past these creatures have centered around Seasame Street-like characters or muppets. 4-5 past salvia trips have been heavily laden with images from childhood: plastic toys, dolls, playgrounds, etc. Aways with the very odd feeling of my mouth being the center of some sort of generation device for the surrounding material. And the somewhat metallic/odd taste of salvia always leaves me tripping on the taste of old shoe leather, or metal pipes, or asphalt tar this time.
Every time I have this odd feeling of "I totally know what this is, and I have experience this many many times" but I never know from where (other than the 6-8 other salvia trips I have taken in the past, but this deja-vu feeling seems to go back to childhood, perhaps when I was sick or something with a high fever, where I often had strong visions and hallucinations)
Then I become somewhat paranoid (maybe 5 mins in), thinking the neighbors were watching me through the curtained windows. So I get up, still dizzy and somewhat dazed and go outside to see if I can see through the windows. I can't. So I come back in and drink a big glass of water. Getting a dull headache. Ugh, why did I think this was worth pursuing again? I guess I seek the amazing trip journeys of others w/ Salvia, flying though mysical realms, etc. I always seem to be centered in some bizzare and somwhat disturbing universe where my consciousness is somehow sucked from me via my mouth. I suppose I could smoke more, or try 20X or something, but it seems like the effects of larger doses in the past has just been to go deeper into these same bizzare and somewhat unpleasant realms. It is never scary, just odd and I have the feeling of "I wish this would stop or take me somewhere else". It often feels very artificial, "plastic", or mechanical. Never like the "earth salvia goddess" some describe.
Anyone else had similar experiences with smoked salvia extracts?
My best salvia experiment was with a quid of dried, fermented leaves, chewed on the beach by myself at 2am with a clear sky and full moon. I smoked some weed as well, and had a very subtle yet powerful communion with some sort of sea creature conscoiusness. Somewhat like hundreds of ghosts, floating out around the ocean, and watching me in a peaceful and calm way.
I have wanted to try concentrated salvia orally, maybe some of this 10X held like under the tounge for 20-30 mins. Anyone try this before? Can't find much info on this method (instead most just using plain leaves, dried or fresh)
I am really considering never bothering smoking salvia again, since I feel rather sick and crappy after this last experience.
Oh well, live and learn.
-e23
Update: After I wrote that trip report, I started feeling really woozy and nauseous, and took a shower and went to bed, but had a hard time falling asleep since I felt so crappy. Don't know if it was the fact I got up 5-6 mins into the experience, or if this was somehow a "bad" batch of salvia. I know I would prefer not to feel like that again.
Salvia doesn't seem like nearly as useful a substance to me as DMT, but I'd recommend anyone interested in psychedelics to try it at least once or twice just to see what it is like. It is so short acting normally, the risks of problems are low as long as you are in a safe place. A sitter is recommended for neophytes.
#2
Posted 21 November 2006 - 12:13 PM
#3
Posted 21 November 2006 - 12:40 PM
I get the deja vu too. It is strange that it doesnt seem to come from this world though. Maybe while we are in the womb? Maybe another life?
yeah, who knows. to some extent it seems similar to high-fever hallucinations (103F+). I know I have been there before. But I also have had this on DMT, but the DMT experience is much less jarring and rough.
#4
Posted 21 November 2006 - 12:46 PM
#5
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 12:51 PM
#6
Posted 21 November 2006 - 01:04 PM
i still havent been able to get off on sally :cry:
Assume you have tried 10X or 20X or higher? Some people are "salvia hardheads" it seems and get no effects at all.
#7
Posted 21 November 2006 - 01:23 PM
#8
Posted 21 November 2006 - 01:23 PM
i too recognized salvia land instantly, knew i had been there before.
I know what you mean, deja vu indeed. Ive even "felt" like ive experienced salvia "land" and even shrooms when i was just a child and ive always known it to be there, invisible but present all my life till now. It is definetly weird and bizzare but very interesting like mentioned above.
#9
Posted 21 November 2006 - 01:36 PM
how interesting that you mention childhood play stuff- my first experience involved what I realized were Tinker Toys, from my own childhood, come to life.
The physical affects were huge, my body felt like it was being squashed from above, and pulled apart. I was paralyzed in mid step. The very fabric of reality was being turned inside out by these giant Tinker Toy arms that seemed to have originally sprouted from my head. The television was in fact reporting how the universe was being turned inside out (aural hallucination)
and then WHAM, back to reality with a "wOw".
Never took as much as I did that very first time because while it was interesting, it was not a particularly pleasant experience. A little creepy and a little scary.
#10
Posted 21 November 2006 - 01:41 PM
when i smoke salvia, after i take the hit i can sort of feel something going through my body, kinda like as if it were in my blood.
then once it gets to my head i can feel it go into the right side and out the left which gives me a pulling sensation to my left, makes me feel like i want to get up and walk in circles.
salvia is REALLY weird. its hard to discribe because its so strange.
i want to try it again now though...
#11
Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:29 PM
BRAIN FART: Hmmm you might be able to wrap it in a paper towel or cheeze cloth and go that way!
Anyhow I have tried the quid method with no real big results, so I just smoke it now.
I don't really know what made you feel sickly after your last trip. It isn't something that sally does that I know of. It is possible that extraction method of your supplier is leaving something behind that shouldn't be there, or that some type of pesticide was used on the plants. Maybe it was some kind of spiritual sickness? (that usually happens during a trip tho)
I do my own extractions with acetone makeing damn sure that the stuff has completely evaporated b4 consuming. Some use Alcohal I never have.
When I smoke it I always...
1 Have really nice calm trance playing (no lyrics or voices) kind of like a meditation type music.
2 Lay down and be comfortable.
3 Meditate before hand (loose troubles or stress or fears) leave that shit outside! You can go back and worry about it later, it will still be there for you.
4 Make sure no body is around (I don't really need a sitter unless I am going to try to break through to a much higher level and then maybe I will have a sitter)
5 Pray to the goddess (pray to the sally goddess) or what ever diety or gods you believe in. Ask for a pleasant meaningful experience. Pray to spirit guids to assist me in the journey.
Ebadebade abade thatz all folks
Don't give up on sally entheogen23 she has sooo much to offer!
#12
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:42 PM
heya e23 :)
yes, i have tried 20x with no effects, smoked it a number of ways, no dice :/
i will make my own one day and get effects, i hope...
the % is something like 2% ( i think its even less) of the total population
that is 'immune' to the effects of S. divinorum--
what's weird is, im extremely sensitive to every drug i have ever tried
EXCEPT Sally d..:eusa_thin
i can not waste any more money buying commercial extract that is doing nothing..
i need cuts when spring comes, then im on my merry way (too cold to ship now) heh
nice reporting '23 :) take care
#13
Posted 21 November 2006 - 03:03 PM
#14
Posted 21 November 2006 - 03:08 PM
The merging with objects is a very very bizzare experience to have. The second time i ever did 20x i was at a friends and i merged with his wall. During this i started trying to pull myself up to look over the wall into the room i was physically in at the time.
I came outta the trip and sat up to find a coat hanger in my hand, which my FRIENDS* had handed me when i was tripping. Which was very amazing as that was my wall i was peering over!
All in the all, salvia is the weirdest and strongest substance i've come across. It does have same very negative physical effects on me; including the most horrendous full body sweat(DRENCHED).
* Proper friends do not hand coat hangers to people while under the influence of salvia. I had one friend who had a very scary experience - which resulted in him throwing himself against walls in quite a small room and cutting his body in several places.
#15
Posted 21 November 2006 - 03:23 PM
Salvia is a very powerful substance. For anyone looking for a breakthrough experience I highly reccomend a small water pipe.
#16
Posted 21 November 2006 - 03:42 PM
i also get thins very intensly with almost every intoxicant besides alcohol. the feeling that time is somehow 'backwards' thats not the proper word for it but just the feeling that its deffinatly not consecutivly linear. and the 'child hood fever' connection is huge for me too. strange.
i think smoking is just not the proper way to meet Sally. it is reall a Western bastardization of an ethenogen that has been used and respected for ages with oral-only use.
i find plain leaf quids quite unplesant tasting, so much so that it detracts from the experience as im concentrating on not vomiting. it is also quite a low level experience, perfect for meditation but not exactly mind blowing.
to overcome both these, i prefer an oral extraction. the same teks are used but the mix is disolved into everclear or other high proof alcohol. this is then held in the mouth like a quid. diluting with honey or water if it burns. hold it in the back of your throat for best effects. gargling it will put it in the perfect position. very quick onset, but not nearly the kick in the ass of takiing bong rips of it. best of both worlds IMO, tame enough to actualy get something from the experience but deep enough to be able to 'breakthrough'. just spit out or swollow when youve had enough, much less risk of 'overdose' this way too.
#17
Posted 21 November 2006 - 04:09 PM
But that was some years ago... don't think I'd ever do it again, just too weird with the gravity and sweats. Used to put a huge box fan on the floor, pointing right at me - that would alleviate some of the sweatiness, but not enough for me.
:)
soliver
#18
Posted 21 November 2006 - 05:09 PM
Trying to take concentrated Sally orally would just be a mess IMHO because you really can't make a quid with it......
BRAIN FART: Hmmm you might be able to wrap it in a paper towel or cheeze cloth and go that way!
I was thinking inside a tea bag, sorta like those chewing tobacco packets. Cheese cloth may work as well. I'll try it sometime and report back!
I don't really know what made you feel sickly after your last trip. It isn't something that sally does that I know of. It is possible that extraction method of your supplier is leaving something behind that shouldn't be there, or that some type of pesticide was used on the plants. Maybe it was some kind of spiritual sickness? (that usually happens during a trip tho)
Always had good results from this vendor before, but wondered about some sort of residues. Never been sick like that before. This is what the vendor says about the extract:
We infuse pure salvinorin extracted and washed with pure grain alcohol onto carefully crushed organic, pesticide free Hawaiian leaves, providing a consistent quantity of exactly 35mg of salvinorin per gram for 10 times strength. No harmful chemicals are used anywhere in the process.
So maybe it was just the psychic/spiritual sickness. Or maybe low-level physical sickness, I did have a cold last week. I was relaxed, ina good mood overall, and sitting confortably on a bed in my basement. Usual place where I blast off. I may try music next time (yes, I am already going back on my word to never try it again). I still even feel a bit weird today, dizzy. I may write the vendor to make sure they haven't had other reports of this.
Don't give up on sally entheogen23 she has sooo much to offer!
Thanks Raven, I actually want to try it again when I am ready. It seems like I always have the same weird/disturbing trips on it, but also that it has more to offer that I am not seeing yet. I'll let you all know when/if I do!
-e23
#19
Posted 21 November 2006 - 05:39 PM
Hope you are feeling better soon too.
#20
Posted 21 November 2006 - 08:24 PM
It does have same very negative physical effects on me; including the most horrendous full body sweat(DRENCHED).
Salvia makes me sweat like crazy too. I could be in a cool environment, but after smoking Salvia I find myself pulling my shirt off and sweating.
I sweat a little sometimes on high doses of mushrooms as well.
I've tried Salvia normal dried leaf many times. There's always a sense of my consciousness splitting into multiple entities (not in a schizophrenic kind of way). Every thought that enters my mind seems to come from a different place. Once I had the intention of smoking a bowl of Salvia in total darkness in a closet in hopes of having a vision, and once I reached that level I couldn't remember what it was I had intended to do.
I think the highest extract I've smoked was 10x, but I'm not sure. I have had some LSD like visuals on Salvia, but not as intense. Everytime I smoke Salvia I get a wave feeling throughout my body. I was watching a movie at the time and I could see the tv fine, but everything around that focus point was swirling, like I was on one side of the tunnel and the tv was on the other. I could focus on the tunnel and as the part I was focusing on reached me I could feel it pass through me and my body swirled with it. That was the most intense Salvia experience I've had. I've never completely lost reality or ended up in other "place". I'm still hoping for that one day.