I've taken quite a lot of mushrooms, enough that I've started feeling quite sick before I've finished eating through the powder and the words on my monitor were starting to fuzz around.
I had hoped that eating so much might blast me out into the other realm. While it was fun, it's almost as if there's something of a limit on just how visual it can get as you take more - some kind of saturation point seems to be reached.
The most intense trip I've had so far has been salvia extract. It's so short but if you forget about worrying and go for it, it's the only thing where I've entirely disconnected from my body (which lay quite safely on my bed waiting for my return).
Initially letting go of reality that much, no matter how convinced you are you can do it, is hard when it comes on so quickly. Going from lying on your bed to thinking you're about to exit into hyperspace through a wall is a big step.
Despite being so intense and my first trip, I actually felt very comfortable once I did let go and thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen as I seemed to float back down over myself from an extra dimension. I was very proud of myself as I realized how calm and strange it'd been on the way back and really wanted it to last at least a few extra minutes - it was maybe two or three minutes long.
On inhaling, I held it down and waited. I don't remember exhaling. I remember feeling tingling on my skin, almost a pressure. My gaze on the room seemed to take on a glossy photo quality that didn't move. I saw things that looked like criss crossed mushrooms or plungers dancing over me and corresponding to the tingling. The ceiling above me seemed to rip as though it were attached to the surface of a rotating cylinder running the length of the wall. Behind it was some black exit. The walls seemed to take on a 2D quality and I imagined the room like you'd see it in a CAD or modelling program, with empty space all around it. I felt a pressure pushing on my side, pushing me into the wall. At first I didn't want to go, thinking I'd die if I went through the wall - literally, through the wall as opposed to the metaphor.
Somehow, I exited, I think through the black opening in the ceiling - I think I either climbed out or flowed somehow through it. I found myself in a huge empty, dimly lit warehouse type space lying on top of millions of dancing orange cylinders about the size and shape of skittles - they were dancing to the music I had on, which was now playing out of speakers in the warehouse with an exceptionally thick and glossy reverb depth to it. The skittles were piled up high at one end of the warehouse and dancing towards a door at the bottom of the pile. I didn't wish to be dragged along too quickly, but was being pulled by the skittles who seemed really excited about something and overly party orientated for my initial wish not to flow so far out I didn't come back <------ this is exactly the opposite of what tripping is about, but it's hard to entirely overcome once it reaches that level.
I exited this room into a dark, warm space surrounding it. I seemed to be viewing it from far above and at a slight angle. Glossy, thick music was surrounding me and nothing else. I could see, or was aware of, my original room with this strange new one next to it where my neighbors house usually was. Neither had any roof, any of the normal rooms surrounding them (or anything for that matter, just empty black space) and the walls looked like paper. Somehow, I was aware of existing simultaneously both here, in the warehouse and in the original room, and possibly somewhere else - I was presently formless.
As the effect began to wear off, I felt my seat at this god like ubiquitous position melt, telling me it was time to go back, and I slowly drifted back down, through the none existent roof of my bedroom and back into my body, where I 'woke up' thinking, fuck me... :wink:
You won't get effects like that in groups or stressing out. You need to let your mind wander as much as it possibly can and sit back glassy eyed trying not to interpret or worry.
Tripping with salvia in groups I usually just get visual distortions and sensations on my skin. Same is true for lots of things, where engaging your mind in discussion detracts from it's ability to wander and experience. I'm not religious, but once or twice when I tripped with Salvia I felt an overwhelming sense of something intelligent and controlling being close to me in the room. I found that quite disturbing and had trouble sleeping next to it for a while, but quickly got round it.
You can buy some insanely strong extracts. Hitting some of that at the peak of a mushroom or acid trip I can easily imagine catapulting you out of reality like not a lot else can ever hope for. But that's certainly something you'll want a good background and mentality to be playing around with. DMT would no doubt achieve something similar.
