Experiences - SWIJ's first salvia divinorum experience

[JustAnotherNoob]

SWIM's first experience with salvia

One night SWIM decided to go to his friend's(we'll call the friend H) house
to break in a newly acquired stash of weed. While waiting on another friend
to arrive before getting started, SWIM happened to mention reading about
salvia.

H mentioned he had previously purchased something like a gram or two of
5x extract but spoke quite negatively, well more like scoffingly, about his
experience with salvia-namely that he had experienced next to nothing.
SWIM was unperturbed by this, and enthusiastically suggested the two of
them break out the bong & give the stuff a try.

A few minutes later the two had the bong ready, at this point SWIM had
read several articles on salvia but would for the most part still be
considered a total noob. Regardless, he insisted that H(who was taking
the first go) sit on the carpet with him while he took the hit.

SWIM held the butane lighter to the bowl while H took a large drag on the
bong, inhaled, but failed to hold longer than 5 seconds. SWIM insisted
that H needed to hold longer, but H simply couldn't; the salvia smoke
was simply too strong for H to hold in very long. H tried again with pretty
much the same results-a bunch of coughing.

At this point SWIM decided to take a hit, clearing the rest of the bowl
in a moderate-small sized hit, which did absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Somewhat put off by the apparent lack of success thus far, SWIM
nevertheless contended against H's protests that they should load up
another bowl and have a go, this time SWIM would take the green hit.

At this point SWIM and H moved into H's living room, which is white tile,
a fairly decent setting

After loading up a liberal sized bowl, SWIM stuck the blow-torch flame
straight into the bowl and ripped @ the bong like there was no tomorrow.
SWIM held in the gigantic hit, counting 1...2...3... all the way up to
13, then things began to get very fuzzy.

SWIM began to feel the effects instantly, he stared at a poster directly
behind H's head, which appeard to have many of a creature that resembled
a tadpole swimming through water. The picture seemed odd to him, and he
began to lean back as if to lay down on the ground, but then instead
laced his hands behind his head and reclined backwards.

H, his interested piqued by SWIM's odd behavior, asked what SWIM was
feeling. SWIM was beginning to feel quite overwhelmed at this point,
the effects were getting exponentially stronger by the second, and all he
could choke out was "don't say anything man, just don't say anything".

After this SWIM blacked out for approximately 45 seconds-1 minute during
which, according to H, he stood up, walked toward within 2 feet of the
wall, stared at it for about 10 seconds, then moved toward an open
door that lead to a dark room, and proceeded to stare into the darkness
of that doorway for another 10-20 seconds.

This is the point when SWIM can remember what happened, though it is
alittle fuzzy.

H at this point was beginning to wonder what the hell was going on, you
see despite the fact that he had purchased the salvia, he really didn't
know what it did to you.

Back to SWIM. H's prodding questions eventually broke SWIM out of the
trance he had been in. H and SWIM began to have a conversation. SWIM
was responding somewhat normally according to H. Odd thing was, SWIM's
mind was completely somewhere else. SWIM felt that he was observing
the conversation taking place from the vantage of the darkness of the
room he had stared into earlier, which was about 5 feet away from
where he was currently standing.

From the mind's view, SWIM and H were having a conversation that the
mind was a completely independent observer of. The talk was automatic,
like someone was talking for SWIM, and SWIM couldn't keep himself
from talking had he wanted to.

It was as if his mind had woken up to a pair of individuals having a
conversation, it was an extremely odd experience. After about 30
seconds, SWIM's mind, while reeling from it's feeble attempts to understand
what the hell exactly was going on, began to get just a miniscule
bit of understanding, but the mind felt extremely slow, as if every
though had to be reached by wading through concrete.

The mind's first though was "oh my god, I'm such a brilliant individual in
real life, and now I am doomed to an eternity of this "retardation" if you
will.

Mind still fighting for control, SWIM managed to concentrate extremely
hard on the understanding that this feeling WOULD pass eventually,
though his mind was not completely going along with this.

At this point(45sec-1min30sec after breaking the trance) H once again
asked SWIM "what's going on man?". A "3 day's grace" song ended
exactly when his question ended, and it seemed like everything just
stopped for about 10 seconds, like someone hit pause on the tv.

SWIM felt completely overwhelmed at this point, for he, like a noob, had
been totally unprepared for what he was experiencing(though who can
really know that feeling of separation you get without experiencing it?).
SWIM felt it would be a good idea to get somewhere safe, and curl up in
a ball, he was also worried he might accidently break something valuable
that belonged to H.

SWIM said, "I need to lie down".

H said, "well then lie on the damn ground man". H didn't understand that
by "lie down", SWIM meant lie down somewhere safe, and out of the way.

SWIM's mind wrestled to come up with the correct way to communicate to
H exactly what it was he needed. Bear in mind that SWIM still feels
extremely detached from himself, as if he is on auto-pilot, and maintaining
a single though process was very difficult.

This is about 3-3.5 minutes into the trip. SWIM is struggling to find a way
to convey to H his desire for a shelter, and at the same time his mind is
battling to regain control over his cognitive abilities.

H expresses his confusion as to what exactly it is SWIM desires. Focusing
all his energy into one thought(must get to the bed), SWIM puts both his
hands on H's shoulders(H has by this time stood up next to SWIM), stares
H in the eyes, and says "can you take me somewhere dark, somewhere
safe? I need to rest for a while". SWIM knows that he is going to be fine,
but he doesn't want to worry H too much.

H realizes what it is SWIM wants, and takes him to a bed, where SWIM
lays down, and covers up his face, though he said several times "don't
worry H, I'm not freaking out or anything, I'll be fine, I'm just alittle
overwhelmed at the moment, this will pass", which greatly reassured H.

Within 2 minutes, SWIM felt much better, though he felt a tiny but of
disassociativeness as well as mind slugishness for the next 20 minutes
or so. A couple of bowls of MJ made SWIM feel much better that night.


H was amazed by the whole process, and tried without success to get
something to happen, but couldn't stomache the smoke. SWIM recently
received an order of 10x extract, and is looking forward to repaying
H with it.


A couple of notes

-When SWIM first came out his trance, it was as if he was waking up from
a deep nap-he didn't know what was going on, where he was, anything
like that. The feeling was accompanied by a very quick feeling of severe
paranoia. The thought that SWIM had been drugged, and that "someone
had done this to him" crossed his mind briefly.

-SWIM continually clapped/threaded his hands together in his effort to
exercise controle/assume the first person with his physical body. Any
other swiys experience that?



PS-may add alittle more onto this///change some parts later one, i've
been writing this for over an hour and SWIM is getting pretty tired of
telling me the story while I type it out, I'm not a fast typer .


Later, apolagies for the long read, tried to keep it interesting.

Reputation Comments on this post:

good salvia trip report

[Alfa]

Good write up. I'd have given you a good rating if not for this:

From the rules:

• Use descriptive Topic Subject. This will help others find what they want to read. Topics with bad Topic subjects maybe deleted! - there's nothing more annoying than looking at all those stupid "A stupid question" subject lines. I mean, I'm damn lazy, but how hard is it to type "A stupid question about (insert something here)"? As a rule of thumb, most thread titles should include the full name of the drug discussed.

A rule many tend to forget will cause a mass of warnings soon...

[JustAnotherNoob]

Originally Posted by Alfa

• Use descriptive Topic Subject. This will help others find what they want to read. Topics with bad Topic subjects maybe deleted! - there's nothing more annoying than looking at all those stupid "A stupid question" subject lines. I mean, I'm damn lazy, but how hard is it to type "A stupid question about (insert something here)"? As a rule of thumb, most thread titles should include the full name of the drug discussed.

Understood. Meaning salvia divinorum should have been in the subject
title, correct?

[Alfa]

That would have been better.

[Montgolfier]

Are you having a bad day Alpha?? )

I don't reeally see how putting 'SWIJ's first salvia DIVINORUM experience' could have helped in streamlining the board very much. After all, the difference in numbers of people searching for 'SWIJ's first salvia experience' as apposed to 'SWIJ's first salvia DIVINORUM experience' would be very negligible in my opinion.

I'm not trying to be an arse, it's just that I found this 'first experience report' of Salvia very informative, and didn't think it required pulling apart simply because the title was structurally incorrect.

I would rather praise the guy for bothering to 'SWIM' his way through the entire report, thus protecting the board (lets be honest here, it doesn't protect the individual) - not an easy task throughout a long account such as this.

Reputation Comments on this post:

thanks for the logical rebuttal :)

[Strebor]

In Swim's experience of salvia divinorum they also had the paranoid feeling they were going to break something and the feeling of being a presence in the room rather than actually being there. Swim also had a paranoid feeling they were making too much noise as it was approx. 2am and did not want to wake up swim's family members.