DOSE:		smoked	Cannabis
	1 hit	smoked	Salvia divinorum	(extract)
	joints/cigs	smoked	Tobacco - Cigarettes

BODY WEIGHT:

170 lb

I acquired some Salvia Divinorum extract at a smoke shop in Portland, Oregon, USA. It was x80 extract, I had previous experience with psychedelics like Mushrooms and LSD a couple times, Cebil seeds as well, in addition while I was in highschool I was experimenting with a variety of other drugs as well, like prescription and over the counter.

I smoked 3 times within about a weeks time, twice one day alone, then once with friends about a week after, ending with too strong of an experience and ended up giving the extract to my friends. I am writing this report as the trips have stuck with me, and salvia was unlike any other drug I had or have tried. I used about 100mg of extract/plant matter each time.

Trip 1:
I arrive at my grandparents house with the salvia extract. I am eager to try this drug, but also cautious as the experiences I had read about seemed more intense than other drugs. I sit on a picnic table on the cement patio, and load the bong. As I inhale I remember to hold as long as possible. It tastes and smells awful, a smell that has stuck with me. I hold the smoke for 30 seconds, then exhale. I don't notice anything at all, I think to myself something like "well, this is bunk?" and immediately I start to feel strange and super super high. Like my head is a balloon full of helium. Dark rectangles start to appear to the right of my vision, shooting from left to right top to bottom, eventually completely encompassing my vision. I can almost feel the shape of the visual distortion I am seeing, I can feel the hard edges of the darkness. Eventually everything goes black from the rectangles. I think I'm blind for a second, then realize I have closed my eyes and open them again.

I start to feel this burning/ dry sensation all over my body, like my skin isn't my own and has some sort of strange spiritual fire like energy coursing through it. I want to take off my cloths and let my body breath and I remember reading about that happening in others experiences so I fight the urge to rip everything off and run to the grass to ground myself. When I touch the grass I start howling like a dog, I am out of control, I try to move my arm, its moving itself partially, like I only have half control of it. Its like I can move one direction but it (the salvia) controls the other 2 axis. My legs are taking me all over the yard. I try to point a direction to them but they don't listen. Suddenly I become my deceased dog from childhood, his name was Spencer. Not physically but mentally. I run around the yard barking like I'm him, trying to get my body back under control, then eventually I gain more control and go hug a tree till I come down from the salvia.

2. About an hour later I go up to the forest by my grandparents house and smoke another bowl out of a pipe. I feel different, I don't remember much, the spot I smoked at is significant in my memory still even now but other than that I don't remember much happening aside from creative thought.

3. About a week later. I go to visit my friends/ weed dealers house. I bring the salvia because I know they are into psychedelics. We smoke some weed (small amount), there are friends A and B. A is B's girlfriend. Anyways, B is the first to hit the salvia. We sit in a circle in their room and B takes a huge hit. He exhales after holding and then passes the bong to A. B is in a giant trance, he is just sitting and staring, A hits the salvia, then about 5 minutes after B hitting the salvia A passes bong and I hit the salvia. I load a big hit. It might have been closer to 200mg. Immediately I start to feel it. I start to panic, I smoked too much, I have to go smoke a cigarette to calm down and regain some control. I go to smoke, A and B join me.

I hit the cigarette, it was a Camel Turkish Royal, half way through the cigarette I feel like I'm gonna pass out and hand the cigarette to A or B. I go to the grass outside to have something soft to fall on, then my body starts to freeze and plank while I'm standing. I go completely rigid, my body completely planks, and I leave reality. All the sudden I am a mailbox. A literal mailbox, metal head, wooden body, conscious, I feel it all. It all feels so real, like I am a mailbox, for real. I can see myself from many angles all at once, with no eyes (!?). I get mail shoved into my metal head by a mailman (presumably). It feels awful, the mail feels like papercuts without the pain, harsh against the metal, so high pitched and cut so thinly, the red plastic flag on my metal head goes up, I feel inside my wooden rectangle body, I feel so conscious as the mailbox, impossible is possible.

Suddenly I am ripped away from that conscious experience. All the sudden I am thrown into a forest, there are inhabitants there and they start shooting arrows at me. I feel the arrows piercing my skin, not painful, but very mentally uncomfortable. I feel the arrows themselves, in my body, as well as my body with the arrows in them. I think they didn't know what I was and were frightened. Then I wake up, lying on the grass, A is shouting at me asking if I'm ok, I open my eyes and A is a ferris wheel but the carts aren't carts, the carts on the ferris wheel are her head, and they keep circling around and around. I say I'm ok and lay there. Eventually I come back, and everything seems to be normal.

We go back inside, B starts playing some music and puts a cool music visualizer on the TV, I watch, until it starts to feel like the light in the tv is pulling me in. I realize I am still tripping, and the trip feels like the tv wants to bring me into a digital world forever and take me out of this reality, and it feels like the tv is physically sucking me into it with the light. I imagine what a digital life would be like, would I be able to contact the people I know from inside? Would the trip ever end? I eventually realize I am too high to watch this stuff and just look at the fabric on furniture. Eventually I come down, and as I'm leaving I give the salvia to A and B cause the experience I had was too much and I was still feeling light effects after about 30 minutes.

I never fully came back from that last experience, I still constantly feel like I could still be in a dream or tripping on it and not realize it, have bad derealization, the experiences I had were powerful, enlightening, and frightening. I take an antipsychotic now, have for 8 years, it's terrible, wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, and I feel these experiences may have made my mental health much worse. I highly recommend to be cautious and respectful of this drug, as to not suffer permanent mental consequences. For my age at the time, I should have been much more cautious. I do believe it can be safely used and highly beneficial to the expansion of our understanding of consciousness.

Exp Year: 2013	ExpID: 116744
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 17
Published: Aug 28, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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