What does salvia teach us?

salvia has tought me that if i truly want to experience what it has to offer then i need to be ready to completely let go of this reality, for good. that is just something i am not ready for yet, and unil i am, i won't smoke salvia again.

but what happened to my thread that i made on this subject like a week before this thread lol?

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=363155&f=124

 

what we already know.

 

Sounds like you didn't quite break through the salvia barrier. The other drugs in your system probably had something to do with that. I took a huge hit of salvia when i was drunk the other day and it was very similar to what you described. I took a similar sized hit of the same batch of salvia the day before and. . . holy shit. . . fuckin weird.

This trip is a lot different from other psychedelics. I don't know how to explain it really but like pretty much all other drugs feel like. . .well. . . drugs. they seem to all operate on mostly similar brain mechanisms. Each drug is unique but there seems to be a common ground shared by all of them in terms of the feeling and the experience. Not Salvia though, Salvia is just totally different.

Is it just me or does the salvia trip make absolutely no fucking sense? I never really get visual hallucinations on salvia (well, sorta. . . again, hard as hell to explain) - its more like everything in my field of view stays exactly as it would look if I was sober, but my interpretation of what I'm seeing is radically different. unfortunately I usually interpret everything as nonsense. It kinda bums me out when I read and hear about other peoples' trips on salvia where they ahd visual hallucinations of people or creatures, colors, etc. Stuff that at least makes enough sense to be possible to describe with words.

The best way I can describe my salvia hallucinations is its like somebody melted my visual cortex and that part of the brain that keeps a "map" of physical space around you then started swirling them around. So its like all the pieces of my perception are morphing in a fluid manner. This causes various interesting things to happen - like last time I smoked there was a pond in front of me, but when I started tripping I thought it was suspended above my head. It was like all of reality that was behind me was cut out, and the ends of the reality in front of me wrapped around to fill in the space.

You'll know you've hit the trip level when you don't know who or what you are or what anything is and forget that you took a drug (and can't comprehend what it means to take a drug for that matter)

With that in mind, and trying to keep some semblance of staying on topic here, I think salvia teaches you that you are nothing. You aint shit and neither is anything else.