DOSE:

repeated

smoked

Salvia divinorum

(extract - 10x)

BODY WEIGHT:

205 lb

This is an account of my first experience with Salvia Divinorum. I will try to remember details as accurately as I can though this may prove to be pretty difficult. First a little background.

Background: I am a Male, 24 years old, and up until about 6 months ago I had absolutely no experience with any illicit drugs what so ever. My first experience with cannabis happened about 6 months prior to the writing of this. My wife (who had smoked quite a bit in the past before we were dating) showed me the wonders of the magical little plant and I began to enjoy what it offered immensely. I have never had a bad trip while on it and after my first trip I realized how truly brainwashed I had been on the whole 'drug' issue; by the media, DARE type programs and of course the US Government. To say that I was anti-drug before would be an understatement. But after my first experience it was as if something had been instantly added into my mind. I was able to connect the dots and I suddenly realized it was all some crazy brainwashing. What they were telling me was that it was a horrible, terrible, death defying thing that clearly only insane people would even want to try. When in fact none of that was true if they (the drugs) were handled in a respectful and re responsible manner and were not abused. At the time, this completely blew my mind, and I still come back to these thoughts sometimes while I am on it (and even while clean as well). Interesting how such solidly held beliefs can change in an instant.

Fast Forward: My wife and I had become casual weekend smokers of cannabis and we were both very content with our lives and our current state. It was about this time that I began to become very curious about the feelings that came over me and the effects that cannabis had on me. I began to wonder about other drugs and what they might do. Thinking about drugs as being a positive and potentially uplifting experience for the user was very hard to grasp initially. You have to remember that the way it was drilled into my mind was that they were a terrible thing, and why anyone would even consider doing them was a question I could not rationally answer. Fun was the last thing I figured they would ever be.

I have always been a very curious person and this venture proved to be a very similar matter. I began searching around the internet trying to find out what all of the different drugs I had heard about actually do. I spent days readings about the effects (both positive and negative), durations, and personal accounts of these substances and became increasingly interested. It was during this that I read about Salvia D, learning that it was legal was even more surprising to me as well. I spoke with my wife about it and she had heard about it as well but had never tried it. We were both interested in giving it a go.

Setup: We purchased a gram of 10x Salvia D extract from a local smoke shop, it seemed quite expensive (I believe it was around $30) but from what I had read it would only take a hit or two to get the effects so this would be a few trips worth. It smelled like some kind of delicious tea and looked like very finely shredded darkish leaf flakes. I was a bit unsure about how to smoke it as I thought it would fall through the pipe but figured we would worry about that when we decided to use it.

Atmosphere: We waited until that weekend to try the Salvia. I had read many, many experience reports so I felt like I had a very good understanding of what it would do. My wife decided to go first and I sat watch. We were in our living room. A blanket and pillows had been laid out on the floor and all near objects moved out of the way so we would have plenty of room. The lights were dimmed and it was quiet in the house. A pipe was prepared with about 1/10th of a gram of the Salvia 10x extract. (From what I had read, one hit of this should at least start to give the desired effects but we could always reload it if needed.) To say that we were not nervous would be a lie, we were in fact both a little nervous, yet excited to see what this little plant could do.

Experience: At around 9:00PM she took in the first hit and made a sour looking face. She said that it did not taste very good. We waited a minute and she asked how long it was supposed to take. I told her within a minute there should be something, we waited and nothing happened. She took another hit but realized the bowl was already empty. I reloaded it with another 1/10th of a gram. She took 2 hits off of this and reported that she was beginning to feel something, but that it was not very strong and was just a slight buzz. I loaded the bowl again with about this same amount and she took another 2 hits. By this time she was starting to become slightly irritated because it seemed like it was not working. She sat there for a minute and then started to giggle. As she later explained, the left half of the house was wiggling back and forth and spinning in circles but that the right side of the house (the side she was sitting on) was not doing anything and she was irritated that the left part of the house was tripping but she was not. She laughed when she realized what she was saying and enjoyed it for a few minutes. The whole experience lasted maybe 3-4 minutes. She was disappointed that the effects were not stronger and all of the prep had seemed unnecessary, but better safe than sorry.

I went next and loaded about 1/5th a gram into the bowl. Took a long hard hit and held it for as long as I could before I started coughing (about 10-15 seconds I think). Waited a minute and my head began to buzz a little but it was nothing too intense. I decided that maybe the reason it was not very powerful was because we should be using a bong to smoke it. I loaded our smallish bong with about 1/5th a gram of the Salvia into the bowl and took a bit hit. Held it for as long as I could and slowly let it out.

(This next part is difficult to describe but I will do my best) It felt like a warm wave of comfort came over me and I could feel the room breathe. It kinda felt like I was falling. When I closed my eyes I could see the room but it was in like a strange wire form type of layout. No real walls or floors existed, rather a wire form outline of the room I was just laying in. A weird white plastic type of liquid film, was beginning to cover the whole room. It started at the ceiling and began to work its way down slowly covering the whole room in this white plastic goo. It felt very warm as it slowly made its way down the walls. A very strange noise came with the goo. The best way to describe it was a low note, that continued to get lower and lower on the scale as it dropped closer and closer to the floor. I was able to control the speed to a point. I could speed it up slightly or slow it down slightly but overall could not completely stop it. I could feel a presence where my body was, but I felt like I was actually over to the right about 2-3 feet during this whole experience.

As the white warm goo finally made its way to me on the floor I found myself as a child laying on the floor of my parents living room. It felt strangely of deja vu, though I am absolutely positive I have never smoked it before. (Interestingly, 2 days after the experience, my wife reported having felt like she had done it before as well). It is important to note that all of the things I was seeing were closed eye visuals. If I opened my eyes I instantly returned to our living room. I did somewhat feel like I left my body, but it was never far away as I opened my eyes a few times during the experience and was always aware of where I was and who I was. I had no disconnect from my ego as some have reported.

It was beginning to wear off so I decided to try to go further. Loaded the bowl up with a little more of the mysterious substance and took a hit. Held the hit and I could feel the seconds creep by, it was like my brain was going in slow motion. The slower I let out the hit, the deeper I went into the strange unknown place. I laid back down on the living room floor and felt like I was falling again. It was in no way scary or unnerving, it felt wonderful in fact. So warm and comforting. I envisioned I was in a swimming pool lying on the bottom looking up and I kept falling, going deeper and deeper. There were waves going up and down. I raised my hands to imitate the motion of the waves but they faded fast. I was coming back out of the trip again. It felt like it only lasted seconds this time. I asked my wife if she wanted to have another go. She said she did not and thought the whole thing was rather stupid. (Upon later reflection she would change her mind). I was quite happy to hear this as I was having a great time. I loaded more into the bowl and took another long hit and was washed back into the floating freeness of the strange drug. I was spinning, in a carnival of some kind. I could jump from one spinning apparatus to another simply by launching myself towards the thing I wanted to explore next. This continued 2 more times as I would go back under, trip for a minute, and then come back out and add more to the bowl. I was down to the last little bit of the gram left and I remember thinking that it was probably a good thing it was almost gone as I could have spent all night going in and out of the strange place. I can't express how freeing and warm it was. As I drew in the last bit of leaf that was in the bowl I leaned back and lied down again to just relax. Back to the familiar place I went. As it wore off I explained some of what I had seen and also what I had not seen. At this time it was around 10:30PM and we had been experimenting for approximately an hour and a half. She was very tired and went to bed as I began to get ready to take a shower.

I remember distinctly taking my clothes off and getting a whiff of how I smelled. It was very nasty, maybe even greasy? It was unlike any other smell I had ever smelled. As I got into the shower, I was still feeling some of the effects as I was coming down. The feeling of the water running on my head was very nice. After the shower I attempted sleep but was so wide awake thinking about what I had just experienced it was nearly impossible for me to sleep. I laid there just thinking and listening to music until around 2AM. I was very glad to be here. Content as I could be, glad to have my wife at my side. The trip was great, but returning to reality was all the more real, intense, and I welcomed it.

This drug obviously had very different effects on my wife and I as far as sleeping is concerned. She fell right to sleep after only a short while and it took me quite a long time to fall asleep. Interestingly though, this is the same reaction we have with cannabis as well. It relaxes her and she is able to sleep easily while I will be unable to sleep for quite a while because my mind is racing and sleep seems like such a waste of the potential thoughts that could emerge.

Reflection: I am writing this 3 days after the experience and still think about the weird sensations that I felt that night. While I don’t think that it 'changed' me as some people have reported, it definitely made me think about certain things that I had not thought about before. I was, and still am, a little perplexed by some of the reports that I have read where people only take a single hit and seem to get more intense reactions than either of us did with an entire gram. I never really had any open eye visuals and did not think that I lost control of my body nor did I forget who I was. I am not sure if we were doing something wrong or if it just isn't as effective on us for some reason. Despite these setbacks I thoroughly enjoyed my journey and both my wife and I look forward to venturing back to the strange uncharted land of Salvia D sometime in the near future. I think that next time we will try a more potent extract to see if we can go farther. I feel like this is a very strange substance that we still have much to learn about.

Exp Year: 2012	ExpID: 94484
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 24
Published: Oct 16, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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