I Stuck My Head Out of Reality Itself
Salvia divinorum
Citation: Turrican. "I Stuck My Head Out of Reality Itself: An Experience with Salvia divinorum (exp119160)". Erowid.org. Sep 5, 2025. erowid.org/exp/119160
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smoked | Salvia divinorum | ||
| smoked | Salvia divinorum | (extract) |
| BODY WEIGHT: | 80 kg |
So this is a Salvia Trip report, hitting three separate doses of Salvia . Starting with plain leaf (which actually hit quite well), then half a bowl 20x then half a bowl of 40x. The 40x didn’t actually hit that hard surprising. So maybe the 40x wasn’t as potent as it should be. This trip report is a combination of all three. Because all three trips were pretty much the same, just with varying intensity and length.
Come Up
On the come up, my body feels the salvia sensations of being stretched and warped. Its not painful. Its more like a none physical feeling. Kind of like when relaxed after spending a day on fairground rides, or swimming around in the sea, I still feel like I'm moving. Those type of sensations. Though salvia feels nothing like that, and is a lot more intense. I’m just making you understand the word “sensation”. Also feels a bit pins and needles and almost a sharp feeling as thing get going.
Peak
With the sensation of stretching, pulling, melting and the feeling of everything going round and around. I’m now suddenly perceiving the outside. Where I say outside, I mean the outside of everything. The outside of reality itself. This has been the absolute solid theme as every other Salvia trip I have done.
I’m now suddenly perceiving the outside. Where I say outside, I mean the outside of everything. The outside of reality itself. This has been the absolute solid theme as every other Salvia trip I have done.
I didn’t perceive a wheel this time. This time “it” being reality was moving around, leaving a trace of itself behind it. Not dissimilar from the snake game. It’s moving in all directions in a 3 dimensional space. Going up, down, sideways, turning back on itself, twisting, turning. Stretching forwards, it’s coming backwards. Just moving around. Leaving behind all sorts of vibrant colours and shapes. I don’t want to say that this thing moving was like a thing, like a train, like a worm. No, it’s literally everything there is, but I’m seeing it from a third person, from the outside of it. It wasn’t like jumping to another place. It was as though I’ve stuck my head out of a window. But the window being reality itself.
I can’t explain how authentic it feels too. Again feelings of “Oh yes of course it’s just this.” It is a sobering realisation of what is outside of everything. “Just this.” Like a kids moving along the floor. Kind of meaningless, Kind of trivial. Basic. Same as before really.
As on previous trips, I perceived that there are millions of physical realities just like this one, with many copies of us. I could see that many versions of me had popped up and was out too getting a glimpse of the outside of everything as it rolls around. But there was many versions of me that hadn’t. Far more that hadn’t. Maybe I perceived other people too being out. I saw this represented as similar to those pin art trays of pins that you can put your hand on and it leaves the imprint on other side. Just the odd pin sticking up. It’s a whole multiversal thing. Millions of other universes and realities just like this one altogether. and what I was seeing was outside of the lot of it. I perceived myself still being attached to this reality, life, my body, the universe etc.
I got the feeling that, not many people manage to see the outside, or have the ability. But it seems that I can. And this is where Salvia takes me every single time.
Unlike some other trips I actually felt a bit more grounded. As in, I knew I was still here. Still laying on my bed. Knowing I could open my eyes at any moment. But in the spirit of travel, I was consciously allowing myself into the trip as much as possible. There was no fear what so ever. It just felt normal. It’s the same place as before. I know this, I’ve seen it.
Even with the higher doses. It wasn’t blasting me any further. It just made the vision a bit more intense and the experience lasted longer. I was expecting higher doses of Salvia to potentially go further than this. Ego dissolution etc. But today that was not my experience.
Entities
I sensed an all encompassing entity. A “they” sitting outside of everything. But also includes versions of me, and others inside of reality too. The outside ones existed completely separate of here. I didn’t see what they looked like but had a sense of their presence.
I sensed them trivialising the whole me getting out thing. It all makes sense once out. When I go back in, it’s impossible to explain it. I saw visions or memories of myself trying to explain what I was seeing, talking to someone. And then a feeling of being mocked for it, they know that I can’t explain it, which is why they kind of laugh at me for trying. It’s also why they don’t particularly care about me seeing the outside. They don’t care about anyone really knowing or being there. Because whatever you think it is down here, back to normal baseline reality. It isn’t.
I sensed that we are like children to these entities. Although that may be the wrong word. We’re not their children. It is like an intelligent adult trying to talk to a 2 year old. We are the 2 year olds. We just can’t understand the complexities of it.
But what contradictory is when you are there. It’s simple. It’s not hard to understand at all. It’s basic! There’s not really a great deal to understand. That’s reality there, and we’re outside of it. That’s it. It’s not cosmic, its not spiritual, its not etheric. It’s just outside of here! I can understand how some could interpret these entities as God himself who created everything. I don’t have the answers to that, but it did feel like they were of a higher, more intelligent power.
Come Down - Reflections / Thoughts
After the main peak, I reflected on a number of things whilst still perceiving the outside but being a bit more grounded to myself.
First, multiverse jumping: It could be possible to jump to different multiverses. But only to those versions of you that are also trying to jump multiverses, and it would be like a swap over. This was something that came to me, possibly through them.
During the trip I tried to see if I could go anywhere else, and felt and perceived a kind of elasticated tug on this reality. (Perhaps the space time continuum itself) and it stretched and bounced back. I believe that perception was very much a metaphor rather than actual.
The movement of this reality seemed constant at a regular pace. I am wonder if this is the passage of time. It’s actually pretty much the same speed that I see closed eye visuals on psilocybin mushrooms on as well. Its not slow. It’s not fast. Just a regular moving pace.
Open eye visuals on psilocybin mushrooms are in the sense that everything I look at morphs into something else. But with Salvia, its like my third eye kinda flashes something connecting with what I'm looking at. So I see the visual with my mind's eye strong enough to take my attention from my physical eyes and the two kinda merge.
My third eye definitely opens on Salvia that’s for sure. As this is where I “see” and perceive everything from mentioned above. Like you do when you’re dreaming.
So a lot of people say when they do Salvia they end up somewhere entirely or become something else. Even doing the 40x at no point did I feel myself going somewhere else, other than observing what was outside of here. It’s like that’s not possible. With reading their trip reports, I’m getting the idea that they literally jump to another physical reality like this one. People do say it was just as real as here. But I don’t know. For me. I just don’t know how they do it. All my Salvia trips have been the same and even at now stronger doses I cannot understand how other people have completely different experiences on Salvia than I do
I cannot understand how other people have completely different experiences on Salvia than I do
So in a bid to try and jump to an alternate reality I tried having a VR simulation playing on my headset during the Salvia trip. But I found doing this actually held back the Salvia trip to where Salvia would go normally. I’m trying to force it to change my perception of reality here, in a similar way that THC and mushrooms would. But that’s not really what Salvia is for. (It does do that, but it’s not what it’s for.) This was just my impression anyway. I want to just close my eyes, cut out external stimuli and just let it show me the outside of reality. Mushrooms work well with external stimuli. Sound vision etc. But with Salvia, I want to just shut all that off and allow my mind, my consciousness to take me and experience true Salvia. I concluded that Salvia is not the right substance to try and jump to a different physical reality. At least not for me anyway.
There was no time dilation. The peak of the trip was literally minutes and then some meditation time afterwards to still hold on to the salvia feelings
Unfortunately, the trips left me with a mild headache afterwards which was centred around the top of my head and to the left.
| Exp Year: 2025 | ExpID: 119160 |
| Gender: Male | |
| Age at time of experience: 43 | |
| Published: Sep 5, 2025 | Views: Not Supported |
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