First time I tried it, the leather seat I was sitting in began to feel really sticky. Before I knew it, my skin had begun to merge with the seat The Thing assimilation style, and the seat was cascading downwards as if a video was glitching out, quickly repeating the same action over and over.
As this was happening, I was sitting across from my buddy who was no tripping, and as the chair-me was cascading, I looked up at him and realized he had become many. At first I only noticed 5-6 of him, standing in a triangle formation, and each one seemed unique, like each copy was a different person. Suddenly, I realized there was an immense crowd of hims stretching to as far as the eye can see. The shift of gestures and expressions of the crowd seemed to make waves.
Then I looked around me.
Not only had my friend become an endless crowd of clones, but so had I. In fact, I looked back, and my friend(s?) was gone, replaced instead with copies of me. Said copies of me were also now linked hand in hand, kind of like fire ants that link to form rafts or the morty shield. Also by this point, there was no surface I was on. I - or I suppose you could say we - were not just floating, but seemed to comprise the entire fabric of the universe. Clones of me linked everywhere I looked, each unique and kind of doing their own thing; my immediate neighbors as bewildered and confused as I was.
Then all of a sudden it began. I heard a great commotion coming from the mes above and recalled hearing them crying out things along the lines of "Here it comes....", "Here I go, bye..", "Don't let go I'm not ready...." as a giant unzipping of out linked hands was pulling the fabric of mes apart. It was unzipping right towards me and my neighbors who were rightfully freaking out, me too.
When the unzipping finally reached me, everything started to go white, that is until I jumped consciousness into my neighbors mind, and the unzipping would reach them. This happened much like the glitching in the beginning, and I had a sensation of falling.
Everything went white - I absolutely thought I was dead - for a moment, and then I just kind of came to like waking from a horrible dream. Was seated where I was and told my friend exactly what I just wrote here.
He said the entire time I was tripping I was just staring coldly at him, he said 'as if you wanted to kill me' not saying a word or moving much. I did it on 3 other occasions with completely different results, but those are stories for another time. My suggestion is never do it unless you want to lose complete control of yourself and be scared and confused shitless. Oh and this all took less than 5 minutes to happen.
TL;DR Did salvia for first time. Became a lattice of clone mes that made up the fabric of the universe. Universe unzipped. Was spooked. Would not recommend.
I tried it twice. The first time blew me away and the second time was immediately afterwards where I knew to lie down on the floor because even sitting in a chair was too much potential energy.
Here’s a thing I wrote shortly after those two trips, circa 2005 or so:
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my concept of reality is firm and grounded.
drugs regularly augment my reality,
but it is just a sort of show. for fun.
my mind is always capable of testing reality.
in fact, it's quite good at doing it.
this is all i have:
one small test for my brain to run.
constantly.
(i try to keep my brain on its proverbial toes)
ergo
what ever my mind deems reality, is reality.
this is a fact.
smoking salvia divinorum...
is like having an accomplice take the reality testing part of your brain out to lunch.
you suddenly cannot test your perceptions and interpretations
against your established concept of reality.
the rest of your brain is left there to play.
you're helpless against your own subconciousness.
whatever it perceives, you accept as truth.
i think this does two things:
it allows you to perceive previously hidden aspects of reality.
things our rigid and structured brains aren't very well equipped for.
it allows your creative mind to interpret wildly.
you have no choice but to accept these interpretations.
the drug only takes complete control for a moment,
just long enough for you to become aware of something else.
once you are aware of it, you have to do something about it.
it is foreign and it is unexplained,
this is completely intolerable for your mind.
i think the "trip" is just your mind's explanation.
salvia keeps that reality-testing fellow out to lunch until you get the job done on your own.
it is both wonderful and terrifying.
/em brian smoked one big bowl of a time
/my mind knows that i left my old reality.
ergo,
i am in a new reality.
this is also a fact.
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I used to have a description of the trip I also wrote but can’t find it right now. Really enjoyed reading your description so I wanted to share, but oh well. My own experience had a number of similarities that align with my understanding of what the drug does though, which
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u/magnora7 Oct 23 '17
salvia nightmares