Hey all; just had my first experience with Salvia 10x extract yesterday, thought I'd join the community to share my experience(s) and whatnot. I had smoked salvia before, but just the leaves, and with a regular lighter, so I guess at the time I didn't realize I wasn't really doing it right, got a bit of a trip, but after hearing some buddies talking about how they thought salvia was by far the strongest psycadelic they had ever tried (and we'd done shrooms together, LSD, 2c-e, etc.) i knew I must not have experienced salvia fully when I did. So I went down to my local headshop here and bought myself a new bubbler (a Grav Labs hammer), a butane lighter, and some Salvia 10X Extract. A bit of a long story, but if you care to hear about my experience, I'll try to explain all of what I remember: I packed a bit of it into a bowl (didn't really measure it out, I was too busy admiring how deep the bowl was in my new bubbler). Wanted to start out slow and work my way up to a full experience, but I had no idea how strong salvia was, and had no scale to measure any out anyway. Got my butane lighter, lit the bowl, inhaled as long as I could (cleared almost all of what I put in the bowl) and held it in as long as I could (tried for 30 seconds, but after about 15-20 seconds I had to exhale I couldn't hold it any longer). I read that it would hit me before I even exhaled, I was a bit worried that I was still sober enough to set down the bowl/lighter and lay down as I wondered if it was going to work or not. Laid down on my bed, and looked up at my ceiling fan spinning around, and became more and more aware of each spin of the fan as it slowed down and the shadows cast from the fan began to meld together, and I knew it was working. I didn't really get the 'giggly' feeling people have spoke of, and I didn't feel the gravity effects that almost everybody has told me they got, but I immediately felt like I was no longer controlling my body directly, but rather way off in some other dimension, watching my life as if I were playing myself in a videogame. I was on Skype with my buddy at the time, (I took the headset off when I smoked it) and I somehow remembered this, and I wandered over to my computer and tried to talk to him (according to him, not much of what I said made any sense). I felt like while I was talking to him, he was a link keeping me tethered to this 'reality' and while I spoke to him, I was the border between 'reality' and some other reality that occured to me as like 'heaven'. Everything became like a hand-drawn cartoon (colorless, poorly drawn, and constantly shifting) and I was this squiggly line between reality and this heaven, everything in reality appeared normal, everything in the heaven appeared white and cloudy, and I was this poorly drawn squiggly line, and I kept hearing a woman's voice talking in the distance in the heaven side, so I kept telling my friend I had to go (and/or that I was going on vacation, i remember having a strong sense of excitement the way a young child does when they are going on vacation); and then I wandered back over to my bed and laid down again and immediately became unaware of "reality" as I felt I was wandering around this other dimension trying to find the woman (I might have been wandering around my apartment, I don't know) but after a few minutes I came back to "reality" and started to became more aware of everything and aware that I was high, and the trip started to go bad. I smoked at about 9:45am, and by about 9:48am I started to get scared that I would never be sober again, time seemed to be moving extraordinarily slow, and I thought the high was way too much. I got back on skype and told my buddy that it was too much and I really really wanted to be sober again. I started pacing my apartment trying to think of ways to sober up, I kept feeling as if I was standing out in the ocean with waves constantly pushing me toward the right. I tried splashing water on my face, etc. and staring at the clock telling myself over and over again that it would be over by 10:00, but I believed that I would never be sober again, and wondering what I would do if I was stuck this way forever. I considered flushing the rest of my salvia down the toilet because I never wanted to be that high again, and eventually I decided to just lay down on my bed, and try to go to sleep so I could "wake up sober/sane again". I laid down and every minute felt like a year but eventually I started to became more and more sober, the extreme anxiety went away, after about 20 minutes (10:05) i was sober enough that I was able to call my friend back on skype (apparently I had told him I was way too high and needed to lay down and ended the call) and we played a game online together (I played poorly as I was still barely back in this 'reality' and was often unable to make coherent thoughts/sentences). For the next 45 minutes or so I had a very slow comedown which felt like just a really intense cannabis high, very enjoyable. I think the one thing that made my trip turn bad, was it was a bit too much for my first trip, I had never been that high before, so I couldn't convince myself I'd ever be sane/sober again. I plan to experience it again sometime soon, and hopefully go a bit deeper and explore more without having the worry of never being sober again. Also, I didn't have a sitter, I think if I just had somebody there to tell me everything would be okay and it wasn't going to last forever, that would've helped. Before I try 40x or smoke any large amount, I will definitely have a sitter. I think I reached level 5 on the S-A-L-V-I-A scale, because I felt like I was somewhere up above/outside my body, but only very barely, and very briefly.
I warned my friends that haven't tried Salvia yet to make sure they were absolutely sure they were ready before trying it, and that no other high can prepare you for Salvia high. I feel like I could've gone a lot deeper, and still what I experienced was far more intense than anything else I've ever experienced. Read over my post and it doesn't even begin to explain how I felt the whole time. Also, I felt really cold at the beginning (after smoking, before peaking) and during the first bit of coming down from the peak, yet I was also sweating at the same time. I tried to pull a blanket around me but I realized how much I was sweating :\ Anybody else get that?
Salvia is a really strong trip, next trip I wouldn't make plans to attempt to talk to anyone on the net. Sitters can be helpful if you are scared you may walk into something but usually on strong Salvia breakthroughs, you will not even recognize your sitter or occasionally I've heard some people say that the sitter sort of detracts from the trip. It's definitely one of the strangest psychedelic trips out there. I occasionally sweat on Salvia while feeling cold as well.
I didn't intend to talk to him, I thought I would forget all about him, he wanted me to stay on the call, but I didn't want to have the headset on my head (in case it freaked me out when I started tripping); Next trip I'm going to try to focus more on an inward journey with no distractions, explore my soul.
