Being relatively experienced with salvia, taking it on more than 10 different occasions. Plus the opportunity to visit the jungles of Vietnam. Finding a small amount of salvia -marijuana mix in my backpack wasnt all that bad. It was potent 20x that I had purchased a long while back, mixed with pot, and forgotten about.
Although when the chance to visit the jungle came to be, I had no time to actually smoke it and enjoy a beautiful trip in stunning settings. Due to time issues, and personal struggles.. I was in no mental condition to partake in salvia.
Not until today, that is.
The Trip-
In a very simply decorated hotel room, with an announced Asian theme; I commenced my experience. I filled up my Thuoc Lao pipe ( Vietnamese bamboo bong) with the contents of my small packet. .25 of a gram, and .2 of marijuana. I put on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" as a bit of background ambiance to aid my trip. Sat on the bed, and lit up. Cleared the bowl, held it in as long as i could... then exhaled. The effects came on quickly, and the inanimate objects in the room began "announcing" their presence, as the loopy-ness began.
Suddenly, i had forgotten what i had smoked! Trying to remember, i couldn't think of any drugs at all. The only thing that came to mind was something so rare, strange and without a name. A knocking came at the door, followed by female voices.. but it was a hallucination. I had "lost" myself in the intense visuals and "pulling" feeling salvia subjects. Soon though the intensity seemed to stop. I had found myself again..and strangely the salvia visuals where replaced by something more like strong LSD. This has never happened to me before, but it made sense in my mind; my subconscious mind was thanking my physical body and conscious mind. As if my mind was hugging me and thanking me for being "there" through every event since my birth. I began crying.. crying because this gesture my mind had displayed was the "sweetest thing my mind has ever done for me".
Jimmy Page's Guitar solo began, and i stared down at myself. As if i was seeing myself for the first time. So i jumped up and ran to the mirror, and had the completed image. The piercings, tattoos and scars defining this "alien" being, and exclaiming the hardships he had been through. "Enough of myself" I said.. it was time to continue enjoying the LSD-like visuals. So i sat back down on the bed, and stared at the art on the walls (which seemed animated at this point). the figures depicted in the paintings walked around as the surrounding background reverberated, as if it were breathing.
While watching the now animated paintings, visualizations of events during the past year popped into my mind. I began watching the art, and the visualizations simultaneously. These visualizations where important to me, because my relationship with very close people (in my mind) was somewhat tainted. Regardless of who's fault. And they where showing me how these people, and myself were correcting these relationships. How important these people truly are to me.
It was something I needed. There were some very hurtful things that had happened. And this salvia trip seemed to dismiss the reoccurring thoughts that seemed to vex my conscious mind. Unfortunately, i did get "lost" during the first minute or so of the experience; but I managed to regather myself quite quickly. All in all, this has been the most meaningful salvia experience of my life, thus far.
Although when the chance to visit the jungle came to be, I had no time to actually smoke it and enjoy a beautiful trip in stunning settings. Due to time issues, and personal struggles.. I was in no mental condition to partake in salvia.
Not until today, that is.
The Trip-
In a very simply decorated hotel room, with an announced Asian theme; I commenced my experience. I filled up my Thuoc Lao pipe ( Vietnamese bamboo bong) with the contents of my small packet. .25 of a gram, and .2 of marijuana. I put on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" as a bit of background ambiance to aid my trip. Sat on the bed, and lit up. Cleared the bowl, held it in as long as i could... then exhaled. The effects came on quickly, and the inanimate objects in the room began "announcing" their presence, as the loopy-ness began.
Suddenly, i had forgotten what i had smoked! Trying to remember, i couldn't think of any drugs at all. The only thing that came to mind was something so rare, strange and without a name. A knocking came at the door, followed by female voices.. but it was a hallucination. I had "lost" myself in the intense visuals and "pulling" feeling salvia subjects. Soon though the intensity seemed to stop. I had found myself again..and strangely the salvia visuals where replaced by something more like strong LSD. This has never happened to me before, but it made sense in my mind; my subconscious mind was thanking my physical body and conscious mind. As if my mind was hugging me and thanking me for being "there" through every event since my birth. I began crying.. crying because this gesture my mind had displayed was the "sweetest thing my mind has ever done for me".
Jimmy Page's Guitar solo began, and i stared down at myself. As if i was seeing myself for the first time. So i jumped up and ran to the mirror, and had the completed image. The piercings, tattoos and scars defining this "alien" being, and exclaiming the hardships he had been through. "Enough of myself" I said.. it was time to continue enjoying the LSD-like visuals. So i sat back down on the bed, and stared at the art on the walls (which seemed animated at this point). the figures depicted in the paintings walked around as the surrounding background reverberated, as if it were breathing.
While watching the now animated paintings, visualizations of events during the past year popped into my mind. I began watching the art, and the visualizations simultaneously. These visualizations where important to me, because my relationship with very close people (in my mind) was somewhat tainted. Regardless of who's fault. And they where showing me how these people, and myself were correcting these relationships. How important these people truly are to me.
It was something I needed. There were some very hurtful things that had happened. And this salvia trip seemed to dismiss the reoccurring thoughts that seemed to vex my conscious mind. Unfortunately, i did get "lost" during the first minute or so of the experience; but I managed to regather myself quite quickly. All in all, this has been the most meaningful salvia experience of my life, thus far.
