DOSE:

1 hit

smoked

Salvia divinorum

(extract)

BODY WEIGHT:

180 lb

At this point in my life I was a mildly experienced psychedelic user, having done LSD once and mushrooms a bunch. I only had profound experiences on mushrooms so far. I was also a heavy marijuana user at the time. We had tried using Salvia a couple times prior to this night, but with mild effects. We wanted to take it to the next level.

My friend, Jim and I were in my bedroom at my apt. We were both in a pretty good mood and decided tonight was the night to try Salvia again. We had decided a bong load, or about 500mg of 25x would probably do the trick. I decided to go first.

Just to set the stage a little, my room was very small, with a bed, TV, chair, dresser and desk. There were about four posters hanging on the walls. I was sitting in the chair next to my computer desk.

T(8:00p) I picked up the loaded bong and took a huge hit from it, trying to get as much as possible. I held it in until I couldn't anymore. As soon as I exhaled, the effects began to take hold. I still had the bong in my hand and I remember looking at it and thinking it was very strange to be holding it. I glanced over at the desk and it looked far away and warped. I very uncomfortably set the bong down on the desk. It felt weird to do so.

T(8:01p) I'd say about one minute after the bong rip was when things really started to get weird. There was this Jimi Hendrix poster on the wall across from me, about 8 or so feet away. I looked at it, and it was like I was suddenly inside the poster, or super close up to it. His hair was gushing and writhing around, the colors were intense and everything was really disorienting. It felt like Jimi was some sort of Deity that was watching me or that had gripped a hold of me.

T(8:03p) I was having a really hard time remembering anything at this point. Like what life was, who I was, what anything physical was at all. It felt like I was just born and knew nothing of this world, which to me was just swirling colors that were very overwhelming.

It came to me that I must be on drugs, even though I couldn't even grasp what a human being was at this point. I repeated over and over, 'What did I take' out loud for probably a couple of minutes straight. If my friend responded, I was totally unaware of him saying anything or even being right next to me.

T(8:10p) The first thing I came up with in my head was: I am on a lot of Acid. That seemed to explain what was going on at the time. I still didn't know who I was, or what a human was when I had that thought. That led me to the next thought, which was: my Dad has done acid. That triggered the memory of my Dad and who he was. I had remembered what the concept of a person was again.

T(8:15p) I was slowly remembering things about life. They were coming back one piece at a time. It was like relearning everything I had already known. It took about another 15 min of confusion for me to come back to a somewhat normal mind space.

T(8:30p) After watching my trip, Jim had decided against taking a bong rip of it that night as well. I was able to talk to him about what happened for a while. I'd say the remaining salvia effects still lingered for another half hour.

After it was all over I remember feeling like my entire life had been kicked in the face. It was so sudden, so intense. It felt like I had total ego death for a few min, and everything was utterly confusing. This experience was not euphoric in any way. In hindsight it was very interesting to feel like I was being reborn with no knowledge of anything, but I would NEVER wish to repeat this trip. I have had many psychedelic experiences since this happened, but I have never tried Salvia again.

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 112142
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 19
Published: Aug 8, 2018	Views: 644
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