Anyone else notice longer residules?

I noticed the other day after smoking salvia a few times that day and night that the next day I was just a little more euphoric and slightly goofier. It was even more pronounced after a few drinks (more so then what the alcohol has done in the past). I realy enjoyed that day after more then the day of.

 

I have heard that salvia has (next to the salvinorin-a) a chemical that is one of the main active chemicals in antidepressants. Of course i am not 100% sure if that's true but i totally remember it from somewhere...

 

Hmm, I have never heard that before... I only experience the euphoria from when it starts to about 30 minutes afterwards. I guess each person has their own salvia expeirence.

 

Maybe it was just that day prior was so relaxed and enjoyable that the removal of stress made for a more euphoric next day. Maybe it was not physical effects of the drug itself but instead mental effect of having a day not doing anything but having a little fun. Sort of like taking a vacation.

 

I've smoked 15x twice. The day after the first time I smoked it I felt a very noticeable euphoric effect. It was like reality was polished. The second day after I had no perceptible changes from my baseline sense of self and reality. I have read many accounts of effects persisting for up to three days once 'threshhold' levels have been reached.

The second time I smoked was a different and scarier story. That was a week ago and I can still access it's effects. The most disturbing shadow of the experience is the extreme 'depersonalization, or dissociative effect. As a practical matter this means that it is simple to percieve reality as somewhat flattened, like a photograph, and that
salvia conciousness, the sense of being dissociated fromthe body, or of seeing things through 'different eyes', that sense, while not fulll blown, is easy for me to get bacjk in a mild form.

Dale Pendell, the ethnobotanist and buddy of Dan Siebert, writes in PharmakoPoeia, his amazing book, that the brain circuitry activated by salvinorum A can remain open for a year. Whatever that means...why not just call it permanent.

I find this disturbing. I feel about 99% better today but there is this lingering 'shadow'..a sense I opened something up. I feel changed subtley. In a way for the better. I feel somehow much more connected to the right-now. It sems a little harder to concentrate and I feel somehow less connected to my own history and previous self-definitions. This is a week from the second hit, and there have ionly been two experiences in a three week period.

The scarey part is that that last 1% of feeling totally relaxed inside myself, being of a 'single waking consciousness' has been subtly changed, like I am now aware all the time on some level of an entirely new set of brain functions that has always been there but completely outside my perceptual range.

Frankly, I think that's it for me with this stuff. I'm too old for those jolts. Eighteen year olds are way mor flexible in every way. The problem with younger people is that the fresher brain, if inclined to 'shizophrenia' or any other brain problems, is more likely then the old head to be warped...so they say.

Salvia has given me some insights at a price I don't want to pay. I was watching a pattern of bird flight today and found myself think how they were part of an all embracing total conciousness, how all living things are part of this consciousness. I mean I have had that thought in my head before as an indifferent speculation, but today I really felt it. I dunno. I havent even discussed the trips themselves.....but it is without doubt the strangest, perhaps most powerful, substance I have ever encountered. The experiences are so strong and strange that calling it a drug, even understanding it's precise neuro-pharmacology, may still leave unanswed questions. It's name is well deserved.

Yes, on several levels, the stuff leaves you with something after the immediate effects wash away.

 

Very interesting