I was sitting at my friend Dan's bar in his basement with my other friend Matt. I took a huge ass bong hit and before I could put the hitter piece in I was tripping. Matt took the bong from me, which I don't remember (I don't even remember clearing the bong) but I did. I was seeing all sorts of shapes flying around and I thought I was being pulled by this force that I could see, but I cant explain. I thought that I got up from from the bar, but I was sitting. My friends said I was staring at the wall the whole time, but I thought I was in some factory and people were giving me a tour. It seems very much like a dream. I saw my friends a couple times and I knew they looked familiar, but I didn't know who they were. When my trip started to come down, It seemed like I walked from wherever I was, through the wall and I saw myself sitting at the bar. I proceeded to walk over to myself and I sat down. This is when I realized what happened. I didn't remember smoking any salvia, or anything else for that matter. I started to freak out. I was a second away from screaming, but I calmed myself down. I had no idea what was happening, or what was real and what wasn't. It was a cool experience and I will try salvia again.
whered you get your stuff man? i did 20x a few times and i never got that messed up, i did feel that undescribable energy pulling me in though, if i had better stuff i would definitly try it again.
It was only 5x that my friend got from a headshop near my way. You've got to be careful with that shit.
i guess i just got my stuff from a bad source, ill have to look around. lots of online places are scetchy, and thats where i got it from. i smoked 3 bowls of this stuff at one point and i didnt experience anything near what you did, very dissapointing . oh well, ill have to keep looking for a good trip. anyone know a good online place to get this stuff?
Were you using the right techniques? If you try to smoke it like you would smoke cannabis, you'll only get about 1/10th of the potential effects out of it. When you smoke it, use a torch/butane lighter for best effects. Hold the flame over the bowl FOR THE ENTIRE HIT. You basically have to cash the bowl in a single hit. And by cash, I mean, you burn it from green to black, then continue to burn it from black to white, and then you CONTINUE to burn it even after that, until it is undisputed that you can get any more out of it. The reason for this is salvinorin-A (the active ingredient) has a very high vaporization temperature; you have to really burn the hell out of it, or else it won't vaporize, it'll just smoulder on the leaf and be useless. In the past, I've compared smoking Salvia to fighting WWII, think that you're a flamethrower trooper, and you have the enemy cornered. You have to be RELENTLESS and get every last one of them until they're burnt to a crisp, or else they'll get you too. Also ... it is very important to hold the hit in for a full 30 seconds! Salvinorin-A doesn't vaporize well, and it also doesn't absorb into the lungs that great. Most of the Salvinorin-A starts to be absorbed at about 20 seconds, so if you're only holding it in for 5 or 10 (like a cannabis smoker would), then you won't be getting much at all. This is why smoking Salvia doesn't give most people those effects. If you use the right technique, you should be able to get the effects that the LizardKingMike got, using approximately half of a standard bong bowl of 5x extract (some people it takes more, some it may even take less). Just use ice cold water to reduce the smoke temperature in your bong, and if you have a torch lighter, that is a HUGE help. It's going to be a mighty big hit, but you can do it. A few people find it necessary to take two hits, because they can't hold the entire hit in. If this is the case, burn it for as long as you can, hold it in, and as soon as you exhale, burn the rest of the same bowl. It's not quite as effective (some salvinorin-A will still smoulder) but it will still give you better effects than one hit will. And I guess it's also worth mentioning that about 1 out of every 10 people is a "Salvia hard-head," where it takes a significantly higher amount of Salvia in order to get the desired effects. I've seen a couple of hard-heads go through almost a full gram of Salvia 6x, smoking it the right way (I was there with them), and still not get strong effects, when immediately afterward, I had only a quarter of a gram of 6x, and I was completely blown away. Don't assume that you're a hard-head though, until you've tried using the right technique to smoke it. That's why Salvia won't work well in a joint or blunt; they're just a waste of material.
thanks man, good advice, i probably was smoking it wrong. ill have to take your advice next time i have some and see what happens. BTW anyone know a legit website to get this stuff from?
