I was talking to a friend who has tried saliva and he said its not worth it. He said you have to smoke a lot at once and it only lasts lik 10 or 15 minutes. He said it felt pretty good put it wasnt worth it. So can someone tell me if he just had some bad stuff or is it really not worth it.
If you are just interested in a trip, stick with LSD or shrooms. If you are a spiritual person interested in having a vivid, spiritual, meditative trip to better your life and expand your mind, then salvia is a must. =) and he probably wasn't smoking it right or wasn't using an extract. Using 5x or 10x extract, all you need is one decent hit from a bong filled with cold water or ice water. One gram of 5x extract can easily last for 5 uses. It does only last for 10 or 15 minutes, but it is a MIND-BLOWING trip. Some people have lost consiousness, some people move around and/or run and injure themselves. Many have scary and horrifying trips. Those who don't use it to trip but rather to enlighten tend to have trips that are unfathomably wonderful. All-in-all, salvia has to be used by people with the right frame of mind. It CAN be used to make a drink which can make the trip last up to 8 hours, but this is ONLY for SUPER experienced psychonauts, and if you have a bad trip, it's usually guaranteed not to be just a "bad trip," but more of a gut-wrenchingly the-world-is-ending-and-I'm-going-to-die trip. =P At least, that's how I felt on my first trip. I'm very glad it was only for 15 minutes or so. Either way, I haven't had a bad trip since then, and my second trip was EXCELLENT; I haven't ever felt half that good in my life as during that trip. Powerful trips can make the user forget they have a body, lose the ability to interact with actual reality, and they become completely absorbed in their own trips. Some users say they've lived the lives of other people, some claim to have found God, some claim to have BEEN God (in a Oneness sense). I personally was touched by Gaia (the deity I believe in), and I think that salvia is excellent. Others report merging with furniture, or looking at our reality from outside it. Either way ... a LOT of research should be done before you decide to try it.
Depends on what you are smoking. The extract will make you trip hardcore off a hit or two. But you should read up on it, the trips are pretty crazy. Just about everyone suggests you only try it with someone sober who can keep an eye on you at first.
Most I got from smoking regular leaves was feeling like i was sinking into the wall i was leaning against and another time thinking the ceiling was going to fall in on me... Mostly it just really relxes me and mellows me out. I'm going to try the extract some one of these days which should yeild more interesting results.
Last night I had 3 consecutive hits of what I believe was the 5X extract and held them in as long as possible. The only effects I experienced were euphoria for about 5 minutes and an overall weird feeling. Is it possible that I have a high tolerance or could it have been because I wasnt in the right setting?
It's possible, and probable, that the extract you were smoking was weak. If it's standardized 5x, there's no way that you aren't leaving this world with 3 big hits.
Even if it's unstandardized, though, the difference usually isn't that big between standardized and non-standardized. About 1 out of every 10 people who smoke salvia are hardheads; this means that for whatever reason, salvinorin-A does not easily affect them, and some find it impossible to even get any effects from salvia, even when using 10x extract. You may be one of them. I suggest getting some 10x extract, and trying that (try not to overdo it though; you should be able to tell your limit).
