DOSE:

1 hit

smoked

Salvia divinorum

(extract)

BODY WEIGHT:

170 lb

I was in a weird mood and I wanted to do something interesting and slightly mind-bending, so I started asking friends for some recommendations. My good friend who usually procures my substances for me suggested that we hit up the headshop in town, where Salvia was readily available for not a lot of cash.
Acid being the only other hallucinogen I've tried (and still, by far, my favorite), I did a little reading about the best way to consume my new purchase and away we went.

During the set-up phase, I was nervous, as my friends kept offering helpful advice that only served to make me more nervous about what this experience would hold. Finally one of my more rational friends stepped in and said “Look. Just remember that it'll end soon if it gets scary and you'll be fine”.

My friends who were with me at the time acted as trip-sitters and I am glad I had them there to keep me grounded. Salvia, at least the strength that I took, produced an incredible, nearly immediate high that lasted for almost 45 minutes. One of my friends held the water bong for me and also the lighter, as they didn't think I would be able to handle it once I inhaled, and this theory turned out to be correct.

Almost immediately, I fell backwards laughing and was suddenly transported to a giant-sized version of the living room I grew up in. I was also in pain-- I felt as though a constantly rotating series of needles was being pulled through my skin. As the laughter wore off, I began trying to explore movement in this strange realm and I discovered I could only move in what I thought was slow motion. In reality, my friends had to physically restrain me from falling off of the couch and hurting myself, so I am glad I had them there.

I do not know if my tongue went into the back of my throat, but one of the physical sensations I experienced is difficult to explain, but it was also scary-- I felt like I was being doubled over and over-- when your computer monitor craps out and you are able to drag whatever is on your screen around and create “copies” as the picture freezes is the best was I can describe it-- but this sensation started with my hands and then up the side of my body to my face, at which time it felt like there was a finger being shoved down my throat and I began gagging and drooling and I had difficulty breathing. I struggled to focus on breathing, and eventually, the sensation went away, but I am grateful that I had someone there, just in case something would have happened.

Immediately after the novelty of trying to move wore off, I “realized” that I hadn't actually taken any Salvia-- that time had merely stopped and the world as I knew it had been replaced by sentient robots who looked and acted like my friends. I then began a desperate attempt to leave myself a message warning my future self that the world wasn't real-- but the world kept starting over-- I believe most of this paranoid fear stems from the fact that I forced myself to open my eyes way before my mind was ready to process anything visually-- I wanted to experience altered sight, but instead I believe I forced an unwanted hallucination into my psyche by attempting to understand the world around me. I tried to get behind the sofa to protect myself, but I was unable to move and instead settled for burrowing in the couch and giving extremely dirty looks to the robots who were waiting to kill me.

During this time, the unpleasant physical sensation remained, and I again “realized” that this pain was because the fourth dimension of the world was running underneath my skin. I began complaining that being in the forth dimension hurt and that it was under my skin and I wanted it out-- one of my quick thinking friends grabbed my hands before my acrylic nails could do any damage to my skin.

I then took a nap-- only about five or ten minutes, but I woke up in a panic thinking that I had been there for hours. I discovered that lightly brushing my hands over my skin seemed to dull the physical sensations enough to focus on something else.

Each time I tried to focus on a new sensation, it seemed that that sensation would disappear and give way to the same irrational fear that everyone was out to get me.

We had been warned by the lady at the headshop that this was the most potent stuff that they had in stock, and that the effects might last longer than normal.

Eventually I began evaluating if I was okay to drive, but was again paralyzed by the fear that the people in the cars would know that I was on drugs and try and kill me. While time seemed to run really slowly, the terror of the “robot people” ended in two to three minutes, but the fear that the world I was in was not entirely real lasted for another half an hour-- we went to get ice cream after I felt that I could walk, and even after I thought my head was clear, I found myself evaluating whether or not I was truly where I thought I was at the time.

I have about .8gm of Salvia left and I want to explore this substance more, but I am apprehensive as to what to expect. I found this to be a more intense high than the acid I had taken, but the negative effects make me want to lean more towards the pleasant, trippy LSD far more than Salvia.

Exp Year: 2011	ExpID: 91192
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: 23
Published: Mar 5, 2026	Views: Not Supported
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