Experiences - Swim's 1. Salvia experience, 5x

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Swim ordered some Salvia 5x extract some months ago and one day he deceided it was time to see what it was like. He had been reading as much about it as he could find online so he felt the only way he could learn more now was to acctually do the Salvia.
Unfortunately swim can't think of anyone fit to be his sitter, so he had to spend quite a lot of time to figure out how to minimize those risks. Here swim wants to make it clear that he does not recommend a sitter-less approach in general, but he felt he would be safe because of his set and setting arrangements.


So after midnite, when the house came to rest he went into his cleared bedroom and locked the door, put the key in a clever place(no not that place), loaded his pipe with around 1/10th of a gram, placed the pipe and lighter on a tray in his bed(swim placed a damp towel on the tray) switched of the light and lay down in bed breathing himself down for some minutes.
Swim had prepared to do 3 hits within two minutes like he read online(but forgot that this probably was meant when swimmers used plain leaf), so he visualized how to use the pipe, and more important putting in back down in the darkness.


Then he felt ready and after starting the sound recording on his cell phone, he sat himself half way up and lit the pipe. The smoke was a lot easier on the loungs than pot and after he inhaled as much as possible he lay back down in bed.
He did not expect much from this first hit and was more worried he might have to reload the pipe before there was any effects. After about a minute he was starting to look forward to a fresh breath of air, and exhaled. As his brain was executing the thought «now do the second hit» swim was having a completely different reality moving in on him. He can best describe it as a tsunami of colors that rushed in over the roof, then down the walls, it was so quick one second he was «normal», the next he was in a huge hall where the walls and ceiling were constantly changing colors and to some degree shape.
Swim had no awareness about having a body, having done Salvia or any other thoughts he was just completly «gone» in these colors, it was reality. While he was under it felt as real as reality feels when sober.


After a while he began to remember what he was doing and for a moment he felt slightly annoyed because his state had kept him from doing that second hit. It felt like being high was keeping him from getting high even if he was so high at this point he was totally unable to comprehend how to operate the pipe and lighter. However it felt really important to him that he do another hit asap, but since reality wasn't exactly written in stone at that point he struggled IMMENSELY with this simple task. One second he was on his way to light the pipe, then the next moment he phazed out trying to figure out what he held in his hands. Eventually he managed to surface long enough to do that second hit. Swims childproof lighter did not help either.
When swim listende to his recording afterwards he found out that it took 34 seconds from he exhaled the 1. hit till he started fumbling with his pipe(to swim it seemed like much longer). Then he used almost two minutes to light the second hit.


The second hit would take him somewhat further away from earth, now he was caught inbetween fractal gears. At first it looked like he was gonna get mauled in a painfull way, but he soon found out it felt more like getting a super gentle massage. So there was a fysical sensation now. Thats all he can remember. He attemted a third hit, but the pipe needed reloading, and by the time he remembered how to do that , he was so much back, he felt more like having one of the snacks from his fridge.
He spent some time in his bed while reality came back and when he felt ok to get out of bed the whole thing had lasted less than 10 minutes. He played the recording afterwards and he had been quiet the whole time. It could only tell him when he lit his pipe and exhaled. It was interresting to learn that he had spent so much time struggeling with the second hit, because it felt different while he was doing it.
Swim was very happy about this experience and will go back, but he is thinking more about chewing leaves or doing a tincture, so there is at least some transition between this and that.

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	Nice trip report, thanks.
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