mutant a dit:
About the salvia, i'm not sure what i don't like. It's partly the sudden onset. For me it's really a KABOOM and i'm not there anymore. I'm glued to whatever im sitting/lying on and im a legocube watching the world as a newborn. Then slowly i try to act normal again and remember that i am in fact a human being, and bit by bit i come back. I think my unconscious just won't let me go but keeps me at the frontiers. Not really something i can control because at the moment i don't even know what/who i am. The things i see are the first ones i can relate to, this results in thinking i am the house, or the bed or whatever.
I usually need to aclimatise to the trip, with almost everything. Salvia is just too short and confusing too get a grip on.
Sometimes I am mad at the community's stereotypes and all. What you describe is a pretty healthy's individual response to salvia space, in big doses. You don't NEEd to like it, you don't NEEd to see things to tell you friends or visions, you CANNOT understand it so easily. Some people stick to low doses with plain leaf or a couple of puffs of x5 . They don;t quite do it for plain 'pleasure' though.... I had an intense experience on x5. If you want to understand the space more , smoke LESS. maybe just plain leaf... And remember - you don't
have to like it!
Well, I have to say I don't like Salvia much - but let me explain it to you, it's not a stereotype.
I smoked 5x a few times, first from a pipe, then also from a bong. I also tried it on a shroom trip two times - these were actually the only really interesting experiences for me, because while tripping on shrooms, less salvia had a greater effect and it somehow correlated with the shroom space. One of these times my room
felt like the train station from the harry potter movies. It was very interesting because it still looked like my room (a little different maybe), but the
feeling that it was this fictional train station was overwhelmingly real. Totally absurd, but really interesting
My only real break-through salvia experience without other drugs was weird (I was floating in a world of geometrical shapes. Geometrical shapes were all there was in this universe (blocks and gears mainly) and there were so many of them I couldn't see anything else. I tried to move them away (and tipped over the bong in that process...). The whole experience was kind of annyoing, or even "boring" (best I can come up with to describe the kind of non-satisfactory feeling I got). It didn't seem to tell me anything.
But well, if it was only that, I'd explore further, BUT (big, big BUT): After I come down from a Salvia trip I always feel hollow, empty, like any joy has been sucked out of me. I literally felt like killing myself after my breakthrough experience - not because the trip had been bad, but because everything felt pointless and empty.
You must know I have had a more or less serious depression a few years ago, and I am glad I got over it. When I take shrooms I feel better, they actually helped me a lot in the year after I stopped taking fluoxetine. A shroom trip makes me stronger, a salvia trip - as interesting as it might be - sucks the life out of me.