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Crashed the Game We Call Life
Salvia divinorum (10x extract)
Citation:   tobewedornot. "Crashed the Game We Call Life: An Experience with Salvia divinorum (10x extract) (exp118772)". Erowid.org. Apr 15, 2025. erowid.org/exp/118772

 
DOSE:
  hits smoked Salvia divinorum (extract - 10x)
BODY WEIGHT: 75 kg
Did a 10x Salvia hit, with a trusted trip sitter. I don’t think it hit quite as heavily as the last one. As I found myself, perhaps as a result of my last experience and having a trip sitter, a little more grounded, or anchored to our reality, our universe. During the trip as I will describe below I was able to re-assure my trip sitter with a thumbs up and say “I’m fine.” I was able to experience this trip, but generally felt more comfortable with it, rather than panicking or worrying I wasn’t going to come back. This has come out of doing more affirmation works with myself and due to my previous experience.

The hit took longer to come on, it was more gradual. But when it did, it was absolutely like just falling out of this reality. A feeling like, “Oops I crashed it!” I crashed out. Like a video game crashing and returning to the operating system. Literally de-railing life. A feeling of, life, this reality, where we are now is something that is running, and taking this hit interrupts it and I fall through it.

It started with a real sharp feeling of a circle spinning and wrapping around me in an anti clockwise direction. Almost like I am the spindle of the circle and then a giant sheet of wrapping paper going round and round pulling me out of this reality. There was a kind of buzzing sound with it too that also went around with the feeling too. Then as it went round, it was replacing this reality with there. Like a transition between two scenes. But a circular pie chart style wipe around from the centre with me being the centre of it. The feeling of this was once again very nostalgic, déjà vu, like I had experienced it before on previous Salvia trips “Ah yes this again!”

Then it was like I was in this room and its all part of a cylindrical machine. I was seeing this circle, almost like a conveyor, a wheel. In full 3 dimensions and I was on a level with it. I wasn’t looking above it. This circle wasn’t entirely a circle, it had longer sides that headed away from me. Almost like it was a kids toy even. It was nothing particularly complex.

It felt like this machine I was observing and feeling was moving around. A smooth cylindrical motion at a moderate speed, not fast, not slow that I could feel going around me anticlockwise in front of me round the side of my left, round the back of me, to the right and then away from me and back around. On the floor were heaps of really thin vertical tiles, each were a reality just like the one we live in. There was thousands of them.

I can only compare it to slides on an old slide projector going around with slides sticking up. But the slides that were sticking up were just more realities like ours. And they were moving up and down in a wave form around this wheel or conveyor in an anti-clockwise motion. (Think Mexican wave) It was obvious I had come from one of them. As they were going around I could still feel this wave feeling washing over me and going around me.

The room itself seemed small, and again very basic. But with lots of colours like I was seeing colours like the end of loony tunes with the coloured circles. It had that type of theme to it from the very beginning of the trip. But one thing for sure, It was not some mystical place with higher spiritual powers or anything like that. It just felt like a basic place. It was quite uncomfortable. I felt powerless, and hopeless there, like I was nothing, and this thing (entity or machine) was what had control.
It was not some mystical place with higher spiritual powers or anything like that. It just felt like a basic place. It was quite uncomfortable. I felt powerless, and hopeless there, like I was nothing, and this thing (entity or machine) was what had control.
It was not a nice place. I would not say evil. But again its extremely familiar, like I instantly knew it. Incredible strong feeling of déjà vu, absolute recognition of this place. Again thoughts of “Oh yeah I’m back here again”. One observation is that it felt like that was the real place, and the universe we live in isn’t real. My thought was “Oh its so easy to explain this” yet after the trip, its really not.

There was also this feeling of being stuck under a carpet. Like I’ve popped out into the room but I’m not fully in the room as I’m still being held down by a carpet which was covering over me. There was a feeling of an entity. But I did not see an individual. Just a feeling of it being there I was thinking or saying “Yeah I know! OK! I am going back in!” As in, back into our reality. This seemed to be in response to a feeling of “What are you doing back here?”.

What seemed like just a couple of minutes and the Salvia was wearing off and I became more focused on our normal reality coming back and over powering that. There was a brief moment where I felt part of both at the same time before there faded away.

After effects, no ill effects at all. Just a lot to think about. Some of the raw feelings in my mind and how it felt to be there just cannot be put into words. I want to use words like primordial. Definitely heavy nostalgia. Extremely familiar. A feeling of “I can’t believe I forgot about this!”

Exp Year: 2025ExpID: 118772
Gender: Male 
Age at time of experience: 43
Published: Apr 15, 2025Views: 15
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