Some weeks later I got a small bottle with an alcoholic
extract of salvia. It had a strange green colour and tasted
bitter. It was a bit stronger, but still not strong enough.
This time I definitly had an altered perception of my body
but that gets clearer in the next story. ;)
Now some weeks ago I got a larger quantity of that green
extract and this time I'm determined to find out what it
relly does. A month ago I had another trip. As I knew that
salvia doesn't tolerate any interference I did it at night
in the dark when nobody was at home, so I was sure there
wouldn't be any sounds distracting me. The point is that
salvia pulls you to another dimension (I'll try to explain
that later) but at least at the dose level I ingested it was
not strong enough to hold me there.
So I ingested about two teaspoons of the extract, knowing
that it would take about fifteen minutes to capture me. It's
really strange. Even if the dose is rather low I get the
impression that something takes hold of me, sort of
hypnotizing. Sometimes I opened my eyes or I moved
involuntarily to scratch some itching part of my body than
everything was way normal. But when I stopped that and let
myself be mesmerized things got weird. My mind, the observer
within or whatever you call it was rather unaffected, the
things he observed changed, though. I don't really know what
I felt. A friend had told me that he once *was* a tree under
the influence of salvia, so I would have expected something
like that. But all I can say is that I was something,
perhaps the music. I think I was the music, I mean, my body
was the music. For instance I felt that a particular sound
grew out of my forehead! A typical element of the salvia
experience seems to be spirals and recursions. During one
song I was a kind of tube, which wound into a spiral and
became a more and more complex object in more and more
dimensions. I was completely stuck in this thing and thought
I'd never be able to escape. Then the song stopped and I was
free.
My most recent salvia trip took place five days ago. Same
setting, this time I listened to Pink Floyds Ummagumma
studio album. I didn't really know the stuff but it's a
friend's favorite for his shroom trips. This time I took
about three teaspoons. I donned the headphones, lay down and
kept my eyes open, trying to find out if this would stop the
salvia. I felt that it was stronger than the last time, so
strong that I actually forgot to close my eyes. When I did,
In a strange way I was able to feel my body even in that
dimension. Sometimes I felt something unpleasant, don't know
how to explain it, and when I thought about it I came to the
conclusion that this strange something must be a
representation of my left leg lying in an uncofortable way.
That's it - for now. I've got some more of this stuff, but I
don't want to waste it. I'm still not sure wether music is
essential for the experience or wether it just distracts
from what really goes on. Following this thought it might be
interesting to find out what salvia does in a floatation tank.
Has anyone of you combined salvia with rue or the like?
Another idea I got was to take the salvia at the end of a
shroom trip.
I hope you can give me some hints!
xxxxxxx
I think it started about one and a half year ago. Salvia was
completely unknown, at least in Germany. A friend of mine
had grown some plants. He gave me 2 times 13 leaves which I
chewed and kept in my mouth for about fifteen minutes. I lay
down in a dark room and listened to some aboriginal music.
The music formed pictures in my imagination. Between songs
these pictures stopped. When I opened my eyes or moved my
body the trip just stopped.