How many bowls of regular leaf would you have to smoke to feel anything?

I wanted to start out slowly and work my way up, so I bought a whole ounce of regular leaf. Yesterday, I chewed a quid of 4 good sized leaves for half an hour, nothing happened. So I decided to start smoking some bowls. I ended up smoking probably 6 or 7 bowls, and didn't really feel anything. The way it looks, I would probably have to smoke like 10 bowls just to feel the slightest effect, so therefore, am I correct in deciding that I should buy some 10x (or maybe 5x), take a hit and see what happens?

The problem is, now I have the rest of this ounce, and I'm probably going to have to throw it away (it only cost about $15, including shipping). My throat is still slightly sore from yesterday.

Oh, and as for the technique of smoking, I was doing it mostly right. Sometimes I didn't hold it in for 20 seconds, because my mouth was welling up with saliva (not salvia!) and then I had the urge to swallow it. It was also difficult to keep the flame over the leaf for a long time, because the pipe started to get really hot.

 

One or two if you wanna feel something. IMO you need to get 10x or higher to get a true salvia experience.

 

i also just bought a whole oz of salvia online. i only filled up one good bowl pack and just hit it a couple times till i started trippin'. this trip was way more intense than most my trips from extract.

so idk, i would get a piece that hits better, like a bong or something. and i would use a butane lighter, maybe you have high salvia tolerance.

 

are you sure you were tokin it right?
holding it in your lungs for as long as you can?

you sound like you were holding the smoke in your mouth

 

Wow...I must be doing it wrong.

That's definately possible..Now that you mention it. I'll work on this..

 

one time I just had regular foliage and smoked at least a quarter of an ounce with no effects, little did I know, its about how much salvorian-A you get a one time/hit, this is why the effects are so short lived, you could smoke an oz and it may not do anything

 

I could get closed eye visuals (level L on the salvia scale) with 3 or so bowls from a homemade water bong, and then stay there with another bowl every 10 minutes or so. I had some very meaningful experiences in that state.

 

Well, I just had my first true experience with salvia. It was pretty interesting to say the least! Basically, I was just sitting here about half an hour ago watching random videos on youtube, such as old McDonald's commercials and other random stuff. And I looked over and I saw the salvia sitting there. So I thought what the heck, I'll give it another try.

So I smoked probably about 5 or 6 small to medium sized bowls. At this point, I was watching an old cartoon called "The Get Along Gang" (which I had never seen before). At about 3:20 into the video, I noticed that one of the characters was wearing a shirt with a yellow "M" on it. I said out loud "That stands for McDonalds." I also saw on a structure in the background, something that looked like the golden arches. Again I said "that stands for McDonalds too!" I realized there were a lot of subliminal messages in the show advertising McDonalds.

At about 4:20 (as a matter of fact!) one of the characters started talking about some sort of creature, and for some reason I got it in my head that they were actually talking about ME! Someone mentioned drinking hot chocolate, and I had a glass of lemonade. So I yelled "It's not hot chocalate, it's lemonade!"

It was at this point that I realized I was high.

It came as a complete shock, because I didn't really expect anything to even happen. And all of a sudden, it hit me hard. I was having this overwhelming feeling of my body becoming sort of numb, like it was dissipating and becoming a part of everything else. Just as I was becoming aware of how high I was, the cartoon started to affect the way I was thinking.

At about 5:00, things really started to get more intense. Some adult characters entered, and they started talking about "taking care of the creature." This really freaked me out, because again, I somehow "thought" they were talking about me. At this point, I closed the internet browser and got up and went to the bathroom and looked at my face in the mirror. I also looked at the clock and told myself it was going to be over soon. And it sure was; by the time I got back in front of the computer the main part of the "high" was pretty much over, it only lasted like 3-5 minutes.

I'd like to try this again tomorrow, but like they always say, it's not something that I'm really in a hurry to experience again. And that was a pretty low level experience too. There were some similarities to pot, but it was a lot different. I noticed a lot of obsurdity in the cartoon I was watching. I was also able to pay very close attention to what I was looking at and thinking about (the cartoon). My interpretation of what I was seeing was definately affected very strongly. So that was that...I'm pretty much back to normal now, about a half an hour later, though I do feel slightly "out of it."

If you'd like to watch that cartoon, I'll post the link. It might be interesting to skip to 3 minutes in and watch about 2 and half minutes of the video, and try to see how I was interpreting it, especially at about minute 5 when they were talking about "taking care of the creature." I was getting those really paranoid, irrational thoughts that I sometimes get with pot, (which is at least one of the similarities!) but even more intense. I didn't even finish watching the video...I think I'm going to smoke some more tomorrow and try to watch the thing in its entirety, just because...To 'face my fears' maybe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTfaMa96X04