Salvia Trip Report

by Royboy

Here's a letter I wrote to my brother--after trying Salvia twice:--one hit, in a dry pipe, each time---used a butane lighter.

Was alone in my room both times.--Both times I closed my eyes and turned out the lights, with a shade drawn over the only window. First time, I had mellow classical music playing on the radio.--Second time, I had the room in silence. I had no fear trying it each time--just an inquisitive expectation of something new, and probably good. Figured,(correctly), that one single hit would not take me into level five, (total visionary dream world).

Hey---got the Salvia the other day! I bought an ounce of leaf from wellstrongsalvia but I'm not sure (yet) that I'm recommending this stuff as I've heard its pretty crazy - in a league of its own (he,hee,heee!)

O.K.--first let me say that this is THE STRONGEST DRUG IN THE WORLD! (and I should know!)

From everything I've read, people vary greatly in their sensitivity to it--and the individual batches (of leaves) vary greatly in potency.----This is supposedly why you see all these 5x, 10x, and 15x concentrates for sale on the websites---because some people can't get any effect from just smoking the leaves---and the smoke is very hot (though not all that harsh or bad tasting)---and this makes it hard to take a lot, unless you use a waterpipe.

But I (obviously) got a very strong batch--and I am VERY sensitive to it.--The reason why I ersonally might want to make some concentrate, is because, by the time I exhale the first hit, I barely have the wherewithal to set the pipe down!---and just one hit will not quite shoot you all the way through.

If I REALLY tried, I might be able to get two hits down--but that would be it!

I have (so far) taken two hits---(at two seperate times) and reached the boundary of the "totally GONE" each time, without completely breaking through--and I don't know if I have the guts to go farther!

Each time, I took one small leaf and packed it into the pipe. This ends up being exactly one complete lungfull, by the time it's all burned, but you can't draw it all in real fast, because the smoke is so hot, but eventually you get it all down--and then you find yourself able to hold your breath for, what seems like, a VERY long time (obviously the effects are already happening)---so finally you exhale, set the pipe down, lean back,(having bolted my bedroom door, to keep from escaping while dreamwalking), and turn the light out, and close your eyes.

On your next breath you feel the nexus of your consciousness (your personal perspective on the totallity of all existance, which is generally located somewhere in the proximity of your percieved body) fall away---or expand out, so that as your lungs expand, they seem to reach out and contain the whole universe, (you aren't just musing about this---it's actually happening to you)---and, at first, it's not really an unpleasant thing.

You feel (or sense) the lightyears of space behind you, whereas, just a moment before, you had been leaning back on a pillow.---Now the pillow is gone. Your room is gone. The house is gone. The Earth is gone. It seems like your conscious ego is now the entire universe.

It's like you have just hit the "maximize" button at the top of your computer screen---and instead of being a little window, your reference has now gone "FULL SCREEN"!!!

Still not so bad---(kinda cool, and peacefull feeling, actually), but then these multi-colored geometrical patterns come up--(remember: you are not "seeing" them---you ARE them--and they ARE the entire universe---more than that--they are the very structure of all reality (or so it seems to you!)

And this weblike mosaic of patterns fill the screen and then start twisting into a mobius strip of churning fabric untill you see your screen sworling into a vast network of spiraling tunnels--and you start to go down the tunnel in front of you (I'm sure this is sorta like what you see when you die)---but you start to feel afraid of not being able to come back---so you draw back a little---and then yousee hat if you do THAT--all the tunnels of the fabric of all reality will knot up horribly and wreck the friggin' universe for EVERYBODY--and the responsibility is really just too hard to take!

One of the trip descriptions, on the net, describes a guy feeling exactly this same thing--and he had to go on a convoluted journey for eons of time just to save the universe for everybody!

But then I (for some reason) started humming part of a Moody Blues tune (the second time--the first time I hummed along to some classical music I had on the radio)--and this makes the energy flow out from your heart--and new tunnels form (from your heart) and flow out into the universe---so you realize everything isn't really so dire--and you sit up and turn on the light---and the twisted tubes turn out to NOT be everyone else's reality---and the whole thing is COMPLETELY over---no mental haze, or drugged feeling, or hangover whatsoever---just a kind of mellow eaceful feeling---mixed in with the very recent (lingering) feeling of distress (bordering on terror---not so much for yourself---but for almost snarling up the fucking universe!) Both "trips" were almost identical.

I thought of a way to explain it like this: Say a REALLY proficient witch had turned you into a cat. REALLY REALLY turned you into a cat.Now it sounds really amusing to read all these descriptions of visions and patterns(in those stories on the net)--just like it sounds kinda amusing to read about someone being turned into a cat---but BAM---you really ARE a fucking goddamned cat---and your consciousness is totally clear and unfuzzied--and you are standing there, in the parking lot, on your four fuzzy paws--trying to deal with the absolute undeniable FACT of being a cat! Just how do you really go about dealing with something like that---when, a moment before, (and as far back as you can remember), you were always a human?

This is just an illustration---but it gives you an idea of what it's like.

On acid you SEE these patterns superimposed over everything you are viewing---with this stuff you are experiencing it!

I'm pretty sure, in both cases, you are seeing the synapses (or pixles, if you will) of the neural pathways in your brain, that supply your illusion of reality to your "screen"---but you don't think of that when this salvia trip is happening---you are really flowing down the bloodstream of the entire cosmic universe.

I'm sure that if you just break through HARD--you go off into the part of the brain that triggers, and creates, dream worlds---or maybe you go into some actual real astral plane--or faeryland---or netherwrealm---but I don't know if I'm ready--or WANT to!

I have a feeling an ounce of this stuff is going to last a VERY long time!