DOSE:	1/2 hit	smoked	Cannabis	(flowers)
	1/2 hit	smoked	Salvia divinorum	(extract - 10x)
	1 hit	smoked	Salvia divinorum	(extract - 10x)
	1 hit	smoked	Salvia divinorum	(extract - 10x)

BODY WEIGHT:

200 lb

Never in a million years will I have another Monday as intense as today. I'd like to preface that I went into this trip without any real knowledge of salvia. I had listened to trip reports before sleep and the classic famous videos like gardening on salvia. However I was totally unaware of it's archetypes and common themes.

I'm a mushroom cultivator. One day while browsing my usual web for supplies, I saw that they were selling Salvia Divinorum extracts, enthralled by the stories I had heard, I purchased 1 gram of 10x extract. 2 weeks later I got my package and received my baggie full of dry black ground leaves. My initial idea was to wait to have a physical trip sitter and this is what I now would recommend to anyone looking to do it, however I got impatient and decided I'd try it right away.

I called my sitter and asked if he was ok with sitting me and helping me out if things went south. I then loaded up the first tester hit into my bong, I mixed it with some weed to see if it would make the purported dysphoria any better, but the salvia would totally overpower the weed. I measured around 0.05 grams of the ground mix and ripped it partially and slowly on the bong. The dose was not overwhelming yet but instantly I realized the power this substance had. Half of my body felt like it was being pulled into some vortex or current, as if reality wanted to start spinning and my body was being tugged over and over again. Salvia is very body heavy. The whole right side of me felt like the blood was being vacuumed out of me in pulses, pulling my skin with it.

I was so shocked at how absolutely real this felt, I started telling my friend that this is insane and unlike any psychedelic I've ever done. I've tried mushrooms, 4 Aco dmt, Lsd and mescaline. The only similar experience I've had was once with 5 tabs of lsd, where I also felt as if I was sent to a void and even then, the salvia void was so much more vivid and real. Once I bore witness to it's power I realized I'd have to lay down on the ground. I layed a thick blanket down on the floor and I was going to hit it until I got the experience I needed.

I am a proponent of larger doses of psychedelics in which ego dissolution is irresistible. But I never would have known how deep the rabbit hole could go until after these 5 minutes on a Monday evening. I eyeballed up a hit of around 0.030 to 0.050 mg and hit it with a torch lighter, held it in for around 20 seconds, but the effects were rather underwhelming. After this everything becomes hard to interpret but I have somewhat understood while reflecting on this trip for a while. I think I was higher than I thought from the previous hit and I loaded up a gigantic bowl of salvia, it may have been a .1 or .1.5 G of it. I understand this is ridiculous and I had looked at what dosages had what effects. I lit the bowl with a full flame and held the flame on the extract to make sure it reached 240 degrees Celsius. I held the smoke in and counted in my head, 1,2,3. With every number I counted, I was sucked deeper and deeper into a stupor. I felt the pull again and as soon as I realized the pull, I was teleported into a dark empty void, some sort of cage or backroom. I couldn't stop the feeling of spinning, for a moment my ego had completely dissolved and I could see myself and my trip sit through a small crack in the void, but as I tried to come back to my room, everything started to spin at an unimaginable speed.

I felt left behind as if I was behind a supermarket shelf, unable to come back to my reality. As I tried to break through the small crack I could see my reality in it would spin and spin and I saw it turn into a massive and mighty wheel. There was this feeling that something alive was mocking me and showing me how weak I was compared to it. Showing me that it would decide if I would be able to leave. However I breathed deep and surrendered to the wheel, I realized my mistake and accepted I would never be coming back. There was simply no way for me to react so fast that I would squeeze myself through the tiny crack I saw in my reality. I was stuck in a spinning cell, however once I did this, the wheel communicated that there was no reason to be scared.

This wheel was distinct from the whatever was mocking me, it felt so much like the biblically accurate angels you see depicted as wheels with eyes. The wheel could be described as truly omnidirectional, with each eye holding a reality, however I could only see into my partial reality gradually with every spin.

I was surrounded by darkness, but not emptiness. I feel as if I had so much information in front of me there was no way to process it and turn it into reality, thus creating a void, only hosting this gigantic wheel, which weirdly wasn't separate from the emptiness, the wheel was everything. The longer I spent not fearing, the slower the wheel spun, until I could see my reality through a widening crack, I heard my friend saying on my computer: “You're coming back, we're coming back, you got this, you are doing good, come back brother”

I told him back “Really, really.” Truly I was telling that to myself, I couldn't fathom that I was back in my reality, I just remembered that salvia caused entire fake lives and for a moment I couldn't tell if I was really back or it was still playing with me. But as my friend kept guiding me back I realized I was truly back. The first words I would say after all the insane mumbling and speaking in an indecipherable language would be: “Never in my life am I going to smoke salvia again, I have to say sorry to it and never disrespect it again”

After coming back I was left with so many questions I had to delve deep into researching the archetypes and common themes in salvia, which fascinated me because I had no knowledge of these phenomena previous to the experience. I'm struggling to decipher the meaning of this trip, though it feels very profound.

Exp Year: 2024	ExpID: 118597
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 24
Published: Feb 28, 2025	Views: 15
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