Anxiety Before Using Salvia ><

[DividedReality]

So swim has a little anxiety before using Salvia, and even though he has used Salvia and had full blown experiences a number of times, for some reason he still does. It is pretty annoying, but he has found a temporary solution.
Kava seams to help a little, although any kind of intoxicant is hard to get into my bloodstream enough sense I'm 6'4. To put it into perspective 8-10 12 once beers will only make me a little tipsy. Drinking down half a cup of kava root powder makes me feel it a little, just enough to relax me a bit I guess.
The goal of course is to get rid of the anxiety instead of covering it up, has Salvia could exsagerate any fears you have using it, although swim has been lucky to only have a couple of bad trips. Does anyone else have this problem, and what do you do to get over it?

[TMM]

Anyone taking it without even a slight hint of anxiety isn't taking it seriously enough.

As far as I know, that's perfectly normal. It happens to SWIM, and it's understandable, going into such a powerful experience. It's probably better if the anxiety remains, as long as it's not full blown fear.

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haha, great way of putting it

[DividedReality]

Originally Posted by TMM

Anyone taking it without even a slight hint of anxiety isn't taking it seriously enough.

As far as I know, that's perfectly normal. It happens to SWIM, and it's understandable, going into such a powerful experience. It's probably better if the anxiety remains, as long as it's not full blown fear.

Once the effects start kicking in swim is more at ease, but that moment right before he takes the hit is almost like the first step of the experience, the perperation of your mind.
So I guess swim will try assocating the anxiety with respect for the plant, that should ease it a bit :0

[HeavyFlea]

swim gets the slight anxiety too. swim will usually do some meditation or breathing exercises to prepare and said it helps.

[Panthers007]

People who go skydiving also have anxiety before they leap into the sky. They are leaving the seeming safety of a perfectly good, stable aircraft. They have that anxiety every time they jump.

[losd]

SWIM's friend makes a quid and holds in it his mouth until he feels mild effects, then smokes extract for the full experience. Doing it this way helps to ease him into the experience and reduces the anxiety somewhat. But like others have said, some anxiety is natural with such a powerful substance.

[UpAllNiteOCXTC]

swim has smoked salvia once, and that was sufficient. the amount of anxiety is probably based on what happened the last time you smoked it...

swim will make a suggestion but ask that swiy not take this as professional advice...maybe take a benzo prior, something for anti-anxiety...but then again swiy's gotta ask themselves, is it even worth smoking, having all this built up anxiety? Do the benefits outweigh the negatives?

[DividedReality]

Swim would say yes, and he has had AMAZING trips that is hard to belive that they were not real. One such experience made him able to see the room he was in, in a different perspective. As we see things now, everything is uniqie and individual, and our surrondings inanimate. Science has discovered that everything is in fact connected though energy, and that is in fact what swim saw!
Everything was connected through light and energy, and everything was radiating itself. A wave of light an energy rolled over him, and he lost his sense of individuality, and connected with the cosmos. So if that isn't something to be a little anxious about, I don't know what is, but worth it? YOU BET!

Perhaps Salvinorin A attachs itself to Serotonin nerotransmitters and affects the amount of DMT the pineal creates (if Rick Strassman findings end up being true that is), that could explain the similaritys between smoked DMT and Salvia. From what I have read the only thing that defers, is the type of entitys that people meet.

[UpAllNiteOCXTC]

haha thats nuts...pretty sweet.

[Salvinorin A]

Originally Posted by DividedReality

Perhaps Salvinorin A attachs itself to Serotonin nerotransmitters and affects the amount of DMT the pineal creates (if Rick Strassman findings end up being true that is), that could explain the similaritys between smoked DMT and Salvia. From what I have read the only thing that defers, is the type of entitys that people meet.

Ha! now that would be a discovery.

Nah.....swim thinks Salvia is incredible enough on its own (more than DMT....even though swim likes using DMT much much more).

SWIM gets the anxiety every single time....like every time. He just rolls with it though...nothing swiy can do....except...well....put effort into it swim guesses. SWIM agrees....he doesn't take it as seriously as he wishes. The one time he didn't have anxiety was while on DXM....coincidentally he had the most amazing trip of his life.

Sal-A

[Bajeda]

Originally Posted by Salvinorin A

The one time he didn't have anxiety was while on DXM....coincidentally he had the most amazing trip of his life.

Did swiy write about this experience perchance?

[Salvinorin A]

SWIM thinks so...it's either in the Some For All or Mystical Experiences thread....swim will look for it.

EDIT: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36759

[losd]

Originally Posted by Bajeda

Did swiy write about this experience perchance?

If SWIY is still interested, SWIM tried this combination also and had a fascinating but disturbing experience, which she wrote about here:
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...763#post402763