The Source: My First Salvia Trip

Here is a documentation of my first salvia experience, i will probably submit it to erowid...I definatly went too high for my first experience, but its all explained here.

The Source
Salvia Divinorum 10x Extract (57mg of Salvinorin A to 1g plant matter)
dose: 1/6th of a gram
July 1st 2005
Level 5/6...to high


To start this trip report off I would like to give a little background about myself and the
circumstances leading up to the trip.
I am an 18 year old high school graduate (just graduated this summer), I am a pretty laid
back person I dont usually call myself a hippy but that is certainly the way of life i try
to live. On this particular day i woke up in a very good mood, my friend (we'll call him V)
had a free house for the weekend so we decided that we would be able to finally try Salvia
Divinorum (i had been waiting for about 9 months for an appropriate time to try it). I
purchased the 1 gram of Salvia Divinorum 10x extract from a local headshop, about a month
earlier. I would like to state that I had done all my research on Salvia Divinorum prior to
this experience and I did indeed have a huge amount of respect for it. I wanted to reach
either a level 3 or 4 on the salvia scale. We prepared a 'trip room' in V's living room [A
comfortable environment is key]. I had read that the best method to use Salvia is to smoke
out of a water cooled bong with a torch lighter, we did just that. My other friend then
arrived (we'll call him B), and we started to discuss how we were going to this [what
dosage, order of use, ect...]. We decided to use 1/6th of a gram, and smoke one at a time
so there were always 2 sober sitters to watch the intoxicated person (I can not stress more the
importance of this, ALWAYS USE A SITTER)

I will now explain what happened in my trip, I would like to stress that a Salvia experience
cannot accurately be described with words, as it is a completely surreal and almost
indescribable experience. I will use the word 'reality' to describe the normal recognizable
atmosphere; I only refer to 'I' or 'myself' as a consciousness not anything with any sort
of human or familiar being. Enjoy.

We decided I would indulge first. I sat down, got comfortable and meditated for a minute or
so. I was feeling slightly nervous (just the feeling of not knowing what to expect). I
raised the bong to my mouth and had V light the bowl. I took a monstrous hit and held it in
for about 25 seconds, and then exhaled. As soon as I exhaled I felt a strange gravity take
hold of me, I fell backwards and saw trails of myself as I did, this represented the
dissociation from my body. I must have been in a level 6 state for the first 'minute' (I
had no perception of time), because I do not remember at all what happened, all of a sudden
I was hurled into a new world (dimension?), the blankets on the floor had become geometric
patterns of V and B's faces, and they were engulfing me, laughing at me, there was a
landscape all with the same geometric patterns of V and B's faces. There were two 'roller'
type things at the end of the horizon. The rollers (which also bore my friends faces, were
drawing the landscape into a 'source'. I felt as though I was being pulled towards the
source, and this was extremely frightening, i told them i didn't want to go and I tried to
run, but i was being pulled towards the source and there was nothing i could do about it,
until I finally managed ran up some sort of 'hill' where i could not be drawn into the
source, at this point there was still a slight feeling of gravity pulling me towards the
source but I could resist it. I began to feel tingly and really hot as i was thrust back
into my body, I felt physically and mentally exhausted, but i was back in reality with a
minor body high. The Salvia Divinorum afterglow is really something else, even after being
scared shitless I felt a tremendous sense of well being, and happiness.

I do not classify this trip as either good or bad. It was what it was. There are many
lessons to be learned here.
Be smart with your dosage (we went way to high for our first time)
ALWAYS use a sober sitter
Be relaxed, comfortable, and keep an open mind

You cannot prepare yourself for the intensity of a Salvia experience, but I believe that
your last thought has a lot to do with setting the mood for the trip, just relax and ride it
out. The first time is always the hardest, so don’t be discouraged if your first results
are not what you hoped for.

Since the trip I have been contemplating what would happen if I had indeed ventured into 'the source'. Death? Birth?; in the future I plan to venture into Salvia Space once again to find out.

 

The salvia afterglow really is wonderful. Such inner peace...

It seems like you took every precaution with your trip, and I commend you for that. It's important to be careful with things like this. A lot of people are gung-ho and jump right in without thinking, and it's disappointing when they freak out and wonder why. The fact that you planned everything carefully, didn't rush it, and had a sitter your first time shows maturity. Salvia is an extremely powerful hallucinogenic drug, and you approached it with the right attitude.

The rabbit hole goes very, very deep with salvia. Every time you think you've gone the limit, you go farther and farther into the unknown. High dose experiences can propel you into a completely alien dimension. And getting stuck inside nearby objects can also be amusing, plain weird, or terrifying. You'll know what I mean when one day your face becomes stuck in the wall of a house you've never been to before, or you suddenly merge with a piece of furniture

I wish you luck with your future voyages!

 

thanks! i know what you mean about merging with objects, my friend (V) became a boat...I look forward to my future journeys

 

you used 10 times my preferred amount.
the torch and water bong reduced it's strength by half (lucky)
still 5 times what I tend to enjoy in my small pipe with regular lighter.

been that far quite a few times by accident.
always delighted to return and a bit sheepish about the
fear and loss of dignity during level 5-6, and the great afterglows

 

yes i will definatly cut that dosage in half for next time