DOSE:

1 hit

smoked

Salvia divinorum

(extract - 10x)

BODY WEIGHT:

140 lb

Although I am a fairly regular marijuana smoker (twice a week to once a day, depending on whether or not I have any/how much I have), and an occasional alcohol drinker, I am still very inexperienced with other drugs. I also tend to have a very low tolerance with drugs, I am drunk with two shots and high with one joint. Another note would have to be that I take Paxil CR, 37.5 mg every day. It is a prescribed drug that I take for depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. This may or may not have affected my experience. Also, I would like to state that I have never experienced a trip from Salvia. I have smoked her (I associate female with this herb) in a joint with cannabis, in a bong, in an apple-bowl, and in a joint by herself, but have never tripped.

Needless to say, that did not make my first experience unenjoyable.

At the time, I had no smoking device, so I made a makeshift bowl from an apple. I smoked a few pinches of Salvia, less than 1/20 of a gram, but more than 1/40. I have smoked the same amount countless times since, but still have almost 3/4 of the original gram left. I felt a mild buzz at first, but none of the 'down the rabbit hole' experiences I had read. Still, I was expectant, so I lay down on my bed in my darkened room, and waited for the experience.

I did not experience anything for another minute or so later, when I became fed up with the light and turned it off. I returned to bed, expecting to sleep if no effects came. Soon after turning off my light, I turned it back on. In the darkness, I had experienced a deep fear, not unlike a child's fear of the monsters that lie waiting in the dark. Even though I am, ordinarily, mildly afraid of the dark, I have never experienced such expectant fear as this.

Strangely enough, turning on the lights made me ecstatic. I felt warm, happy, and free. After a few seconds, though, I began to feel a bit too warm. From that point on, a fan had to be pointed at me at almost all times, because I was burning up.

The first thing I wanted to do was look at everything. I stared, agape, at all of my posters, my books, as if I had never seen anything like them before. When my eyes focused on my poster of a Monet (my favorite Impressionist, it's Woman with a Parasol), my jaw dropped even more. I absolutely HAD to see more of this, I felt like I was gazing into the man's genius. Fortunately, I have a big book full of Monet paintings, and I opened it up. These were even more fabulous, more heart-wrenching, and I could feel the emotions that Monet must have felt while painting them. One painting, of the sea, was such a detailed photograph you could see the brush strokes. As I ran my fingers along them, I could FEEL my fingers painting the strokes, and slowly melting into the painting itself.

It was at this point that I decided to read a book. As I stood up, I saw a feather on the ground. I had never seen this feather before, and found it grotesquely fascinating. Since I had experienced no visual hallucinations before, I figured that this feather actually existed. I did, however, spend almost a full minute staring at it, as if daring it to disappear. When I was done with this, I fetched my book and returned to my room. The feather was gone, but I barely realized, let alone cared about, it.

A quarter of the way through my book, I paused to make a phone call to my friend. This is not strange, as I am prone to drunk dialing. I started off by telling him how much I value his friendship, how much I love him, but my heart was filled with so much love that I could not stop telling him how important he is to my life. I realized about two minutes into the message that I had to stop talking, so I forced myself to hang up and continue with my book.

Even though other people have reported salvia's 'high' only lasting about 5-10 minutes, mine stretched for almost 45. I smoked some more of the salvia, but it was futile to try and bring myself back up, since she is not that kind of drug. Instead, I satisfied myself with finishing the book and a good night's sleep.

I do not deny that my experience is a very unique one, but I also found it to be extremely positive, despite its not quite living up to my psychedelic expectations.

Exp Year: 2006	ExpID: 54744
Gender: Not Specified
Age at time of experience: Not Given
Published: Mar 25, 2009	Views: 4,257
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