It was a Friday that started off like any other Friday, big plans for the night to come. My roommate Josh and I took a trip over to our friend’s house for a visit that soon turned into an intense discussion about different types of drugs and their effects on you. DMT, acid, Mescaline, anything you could think of. This continued until someone brought up the idea of Salvia. I personally had never done this before, unlike everyone in the room. My mind filled with amazing stories of my friends experiences with Salvia and I soon felt the urge to try this apparently legal drug. Before I knew it Josh and I were walking to the convenience store to purchase some Salvia. When we arrived back at our residence I was very anxious to try smoking it. We had purchased 4 packages of 20x extract, 8mg in each package so we had plenty to smoke. Being inexperienced with this drug, I felt the need to smoke way more than I should have for the first time. I smoked one and a half to two packages in one bowl, one hit. I inhaled it all, clearing the bowl, then I placed the bowl on the table and sat on my bed. This is when things became weird, this is when I was taken from my body and thrown into a world I could never even thought of imagining. As I began to exhale the entire room began to shake a quiver. If you’ve ever seen the movie Butterfly Effect, when he reads the book and he gets thrown into a different time, you know what I mean. My last recollection was saying, “This is fucking sweet”. I will first explain what I went through in my mind, and then Josh will explain what he saw my body do while my mind was in another world. I was in a world like no other, colours move vivid than you could ever imagine. The deepest greens, the strongest blues overwhelmed my mind. The feeling was almost dream like, except the most real dream you could ever have. It was almost like an extremely pastel world, almost cartooney. In my mind this was life, this was the world, and there was nothing else. I lost complete recollection of the real world as well as my body. I felt five again, like a child playing in the sun. I was on a grassy knoll running with my roommate having the time of my life, not a worry in the world. This happy experience lasted a very short amount of time until we arrived at a house with a man standing at the door, looking extremely sinister. We began to run to the side of the house to try and get away, but we could not escape. This is where things got REALLY messed up. The house suddenly turned into a tall column of rotating sections all spinning at different speeds. Not only that, stuck to this rotation sections by the feet were many children, stuck with no hope of escape. Before I could react to what I saw, me and my roommate were pulled into this column and became attached by the feet spinning around. At this point in my experience I was more terrified than I have ever been in my entire life. No conscious person could think of a situation, place or time that could even compare to how absolutely horrifying this was. Keep in mind that through all this I had no recollection of my body or the conscious world. I could see my roommates face across from me, spinning in the column; horizontal to the worlds I was in gravity. I was trying extremely hard to reach him, with no avail. I was stuck in this spot and there was no escape. In my mind I had come to the conclusion that I was going to die. My mind accepted the fact that I was going to die. Now I know what they mean by do not have any dangerous objects around you because if I had found anything to release me from this torture of being trapped here forever, I would have used it on myself. This is when I began to come out of my unconscious state and began to tell myself that this is not real. I didn’t get released from it right away; it was almost like I was being thrown in and out of these two worlds, the conscious and the unconscious. At this point my mind and my body were more worked up than it has ever been before. In complete frustration with what was going on and wanting out of this horrible place I was in I began screaming fuck, over and over as loud as I could. I needed to hear my voice; I needed to know I was still alive. This helped a lot and before I knew it, I was back in the real world, sitting on the other side of the room sweating and my heart racing fasted than ever before. I was still terrified; I had just gone through the most hyper-real life and death situation I had ever been in. Out of complete shock and horror of what just happened, my body continued to shake for about 15 - 20 minutes until I had completely convinced myself that it was not real and I did not just almost die. As I was completely unaware of anything I was doing or saying in the real world, I’ll have my roommate explain that aspect of the experience. I had the pleasure, and misfortune of watching Jeremy through this 3-minute trip he took to hell and back. It started off rather pleasant for him. Our beds are on opposite sides of the room, about 6 feet apart. Jeremy took a large hit from our bong, sat down on my bed (I was on his) and exhaled. Immediately after exhaling a look came over his face that I would expect to see on a child with Down syndrome at the sight of his great big birthday cake. He began to drool, stood up, and laughed a very stupid but joyous laugh. This lasted 10 seconds at most, and then everything went wrong. A look of pure horror came over his face instantaneously, and he sat down on the bed. He looked around in shock and disbelief for a moment, before returning to his feet and wandering in circles on the spot. Scared that he would knock something over, I asked him to sit down and guided him to the bed. He made no effort to sit down nicely on it, and he crawled across the bed like a frightened cat DIRECTLY into the wall, head first. It didn’t faze him in the slightest, and he rose to his knees on the bed, again looking every which way and hating every piece of what he saw. From his knees he completely let go of himself, and fell flat on the floor in front of me, knocking over my arranged hit of the salvia but taking no notice. He got up, and pulled the same head-to-wall move on his own bed. After this he leaned against the wall for a moment, his face completely naked of colour. Pure white, and pure terror was all I could see in his usually happy and tanned face. He reached for me, and looked like he needed help, but he grabbed my arm in such a way that I felt he would bash my head off the wall, so I stepped away. He stared intently at me for a while with that same look, and then slowly but surely began to settle down. He was still long gone, but no longer freaking out. A few more moments passed and he started to look just slightly surer of things. About 30 seconds went by and he started ranting about how terrible it was, but he was still not in his right mind. He sat down and leaned forward as if he thought he was spinning, and continued to say the word “Fuck!” as loudly as he could. From this I gathered that he was incredibly angry about something, but I had no idea what. He became more and more calm from this point on, but couldn’t explain what happened or listen to me telling him what he had done for about 15 minutes. He was very upset about what had happened after that, and just how real it was. Needless to say he had a very intense trip, unrivalled by anything I’ve seen before.
Wow, I'm surprised you broke through the first time. Many I know do it wrong and don't recieve those results. Thanks for the interesting stories, I hope you have an other breakthrough with outstanding results.
i was pretty amazed too...lol to say the least. i have come to realize that i have a strong reaction to drugs and they affect me very intensly. everytime me and my friends do shrooms i always seem to be the highest and see the craziest stuff. we just got our hands on some acid, i've never tried it but im guessing with my reactions it will be quite the ride...
in basic form and function my first time sally trip was very similar to yours except instead of banging my head it turns out i left deep horrible scratched in my bf's face and neck and back (as he tried to stop me from moving crazily about) and came to with cuts and bruises on my knees and hands and also i had knocked over a table and broken things. i had no idea i existed anywhere but within the new reality the drug brought on, could not hear friends or rememebr a drug or a me, sorta. in real life i am told i was screaming in weird incoherent sounds and also screaming 'help me', i cannot remember doing any of ths and cannot belive i hurt myself and my friend- also i am told i had a terrified open eyed look but do not remember seeing anything in reality from the moment i held the hit similarities include the colors, dream-like woorld, the tall column-like things repeating, no escape, being horrfied. i have found this similar between also many other online posters and my bf had similar too but he could somewhat speak thruout his trip and was able to be reminded that he was on a drug while i was no longer human. like the opposite of e, which can make you feel all is wonderful on it, this makes me feel thankful to be human again , to be off it, and so glad to be in our real(i think real) reality. i wont be going back there again! (ps i had plenty of lsd and shroom exp but nothing ever could compare to this loss of reality, even if it was for only 5 minutes.
i know its said that people might not break through the first time without a high/potent enough dose, but no one should trying extracts so high especially if there new to it. i know some people who can blast off with a 5x or plain leaf... its better to work up from a low dose so u can feel and become familiar with her. she ripped u up, i've yet to have a bad trip like this, i don't think i want to either.
are you sure on the amount? you said you took two bags each containing 8mgs of 20x extract and took it in one hit!!!? pretty crazy man, ive heard some people say especially after reading through the first timer questions thread that its baby steps to break into salvia, but interesting read man, glad you had a good trip. EDIT: ow, wait you didnt have a good trip, that sounds like something out of nightmare on elm street lol, i must of gotten your story mixed with another read, i hope my first time isnt like that would probably scare me from salvia for life lol.
i had taken only one hit of the purple colored packaged stuff but i think that is the strength recomended for "veterans". i had a one small hit of the level b4 that (red?) and only felt like i was in a gel like world for a few moments, dont think i had held that hit long enough. one of the things i find interesting is how many people experience similar feelings/ visions/ bad trips to what we did. anyway i'm sure the strong strength without being prepared and also being somewhat in an odd mood helped me have the bad experience. too bad becuase i may have liked it if i tried it slow and gradual. one friend i took it with only laughed hard and kept hitting it repeatedly and had some crazy times but never went anywhere terrifying and always knew he was human and in the room with us.
well, i dont think u want to go anywhere terrifying but if thats what u likes... it can be beautiful and crazy strange, ur friend was only laughing... thats what low doses are like... shes not gonna take him in a day. these low dose smoking sessions take weeks/months, you'll slowly get to know this space well and you'll also get more and more sensitive to her because of the reverse tolerance. when ur ready then u maybe take like a 5x... but newbies starting at 20x/40x/60x thats just insane! haha.
its a divinatory psychedelic. an entheogen, used by shamans in ceremonial ways... it shouldn't be looked upon as just a means of a way to get fucked up... every plant has something to say... it isnt a recreational drug. just like shrooms, they have a special purpose but the mainstream sucked them in as a means of just getting high. ive also heard this plant has helped people with depression when smoked in low dose sessions.
