Yesterday it was my friend's birthday, so me and a few other friends all met up at one friend's house to get high. I'd told the two closest friends (birthday boy and the friend whose house we were at) that I wanted to try some salvia, so my friend brought it along with him. To cut a long story short, we tried making a couple of homemade pipes because we couldn't find my bong which I keep at her house, which failed miserably. After that, we found the bong (which has no bowl ) and just made a foil screen thing as a bowl and poked some very fine holes in it with some sewing needle things. I was obviously doing something wrong because considering the amount I smoked (or wasted), I don't even think I got to level one. I'd taken a couple of hits off a joint just to calm myself down as this was my first (actual) drug/psychedelic I'd ever used other than pot, which worked well, but this very very weak salvia experience seemed to increase the bodily effects of the pot like x10. I felt like I was being pulled into the ground when I stood up, almost like I was underwater with a huge anchor tied to me which was pulling me down. As well as that I was laughing quite a lot, but unlike with weed this laughter rather uncontrollable. I didn't experience any visual effects, except for seeing my friend's black hoody (which I thought was mine) as being tinted red, which they said themselves it was, so that was disappointing lol. The most confusing thing was that the holes I'd poked in the bong were tiny so I didn't understand how the salvia was falling through. I thought that if it was burning that much so that it fell through the holes, it must've burnt properly, but all I felt was the effect explained previously. I did hold it in for a good amount of time whenever I took a hit - at least 30 seconds. Do you think I just need to get a proper bowl for my bong? I've seen people using foil for a bowl before, but obviously I had no luck. I felt kinda bad for wasting my friend's salvia lol, he never uses it though. Anyways, by the time he'd taken the salvia off me and said no more, the very mild effects were wearing off and the other two friends were here. I'd told my friend to hold them off for a while because I wanted to trip without a million people watching me, but I guess it's a good thing I didn't trip when I took the last couple of hits, otherwise the other two people entering the room and making noise would've ruined the experience. So, any tips for next time? Get a bowl I'm guessing lol. Oh, and this was x30 btw in case anyone is wondering.
Stop wasting your substance with inferior equiptment. Invest in a good glass bowl or something similar and then when you smoke get it as hot as you can. Hold a lungful for fifteen seconds and then exhale and take another hit. You will have no chance of getting beyond three hits, most likely two will be plenty. I would suggest not using anything stronger than 20x the first time but that's up to you.
Yeah, my first time I didn't want to do anything too strong, but I've heard a few experienced salvia users suggest using slightly stronger extracts on the first time as a lot of people don't get to a very good level which ruins the experience.
You say it was 30x extract but I'm guessing that wasn't standardised, meaning that the distribution of concentration is not uniform across the leaf, ie one part could be 30x and the rest of it 2x, if you see what i mean. Although higher x's can be appealing, usually a lower x that is standardized will be an overall stronger product. Other than that, it has to be the heat that you got it to, needs to be as hot as you can bare when inhaling, so water in the bong will detract from the intensity. It sounds like it was starting to work, anyway. You should have taken another hit and you would've left this world behind.
