Aspects of the Entheogenic Experience: Visual and Auditory Changes (Pg 1)
I decided to try Salvia just out of curiosity, a couple of my friends had tried it previously and I became interested. The day came, it was just like any other friday, and me and a couple of my friends started to become anxious. That morning I bought a fair amount of Salvia Divinorum, 20x for the three of us at the smoke shop.
The time finally came, it was in the middle of the day, about noon and the sun was shining very bright. I was very comfortable with the environment we were in since it was my backyard. We decided to sit on the soft couch outside in my backyard where all the trees and nature surrounded us. I started to unload everything and get my bong ready. I dipped my fingers into the container and dug out a nice fat bowl of the purple sticky salvia.
I've had my share of experiences with Entheogens, but I started to become a bit nervous before it was my turn, so I let my friend go first. He then firmly put his mouth to the bong and lit the massive bowl. We all watched, the thick white smoke rose up into his mouth and we knew that was a large dose. A bit dazed and confused looking, he then passed it to me and I proceeded to take the next big hit.
After two fairly good hits, I started to get a real sense of what the effects were like. My body felt very heavy, and every time I projected a word or a sound, I could hear it echoing very clearly. My other friend also decided to take a hit. My sister then came over from inside started sharing experiences she had heard from other friends, some funny, some upsetting, some just plain out of this world. I really wanted some visual effects, I wasn't getting much of that, so I decided to take a third hit and see if that made the difference.
And WOW did that make the difference. After the third hit I then became very aware that the previous hits I took suddenly all came together and I shot off into space. I was in the grasp of the Salvia and I couldn't control one thing. I became blind to my reality, everyone I knew and who I was totally vanished. I found myself on a red planet overlooking the whole edge of the horizon with the sun peaking out and the universe was all around. All I could see on the planet were what looked like hundreds of thousands of people with no expressions, no faces, just shapes of humans that were rocking back and forth along the whole side of the planet. I then started rocking back and forth. It was as though my reality was stripped away and I was given a vision. I was moving in the same motion as them, back and forth, back and forth with the motion of these other beings. It was as though I was a part of this force of beings, as though we were all moving in the same motion, at the same speed. All time had disappeared, I had no recollection of myself or Earth. I was dropped into space with what seemed like alien life.
This lasted for some minutes, and then I shot back into reality, well, almost. I started to become more aware of my surroundings and where I was, I saw my friends, and the trees all around. However the trees above turned out to be moving figures, almost human looking, marching like 4 soldiers in a line. Everything was so different to me, the colors, the way my body felt. I started to cool down, the major part of the trip was over, and I started to sink back into reality. I was still of course disoriented for some minutes after, and my mind was trying to figure everything out. We all then discussed what we all went through. Overall this was one incredible afternoon of exploration into the unknown. This was a truly eye opening experience for me.imflyinn - Salvia 20x
this was my first experience with salvia. on the recommendation of my headshop owner i tried a times 6 salvia. this strength was ideal for a first time user who wants to just wants to find out whats the deal. i used a bong (the best way of doing this) and i took one big hit, and the first feeling was very similar to being very drunk, second hit i was very relaxed and i lost focus, then my third hit was hard to hold in i was so relaxed. then i sat back and waited. from my last exhale to things starting to happen was 30 seconds but it seemed like 10 minutes. the first vision was of 4 small cartoon like people and their pet (which was not a animal i recognized). they were all standing on my table looking at me then i closed my eyes just for a moment, and my living room was gone. i was in a field with one big tree, blue sky's, beautiful green grass and the people on my table were my size. one of them came up to me and asked "how do we get across the river?" then i looked behind me and the was a massive river, with the cleanest water i've ever seen, i later figured out was the gap from my table to the sofa in which i was sitting. and when i turned to say i dont know they were gone and i was back in my room. but things were not over yet. i look to my window and there was a wave flowing from my window to the end of my house. its looked like heat haze but moving like a wave/current, i tried to get up and found i was very heavy. i got to the wave and i looked at it for a while, then i put my hand in it and it felt like a current in the sea, pushing my hand back. then i jumped into it and was forced back and for some reason i believed that it was my path of destiny. then i sat down and let the effects finish. salvia was much stronger than i expected and a great thing to do if your into tripping but are put off by long trip times
babbage - salvia
This happened while on summer holydays. I went for vacation to my uncle's house in a big farm with lots of forest and mountains. I woken up early and got ready for the trip. I've token half of a very strong acid blotter (known on my country has Hofmann, with the little man riding the bike). After 20 minutes of the first half kicked in I ingested the second half and I went for a walk in the forest. One hour later, when already feeling strong effects of the blotter taken, I ingested a second blotter, this time full.
So, I was walking in the woods, listening to psytrance, I decided to stop to roll a joint. I realized that I had no tobacco in my hands but huge brown/yellow maggots moving around and itching my hand, I used a bright kaleidoscopic smoking paper and lighted up the psychedelic joint, the brownish color from the inside was being mixed up with the outside gray of the paper. When I started to smoke it, the flora surrounding me started to dance and change colors at the rhythm of the music. I had some pine-trees in front of me; a liquid was flowing through the maze spaces between the pieces of wood in the trunk of the tree. The color changed between light and dark green. After a while, maybe after I smoked all the joint, little drops of a psychedelic liquid (mixed red, green and transparent), were falling dawn from the slim leafs of the pine-trees. I remember to look at my hands because of the feeling I had in my body, and I couldn't just see my skin at "full high definition" quality, I could actually see through the holes of it. Later, after I realized some "interior" facts, my skin was transforming, melting, changing in liquid textures, and I was sweating LSD. (my sweat was colored mixed)After this I continued my walking. I started to notice that every time I taken a step, the effect of Delysid was getting stronger and stronger.I started to play with situation, hitting with my feet in the irregular sand and small stones road at the rhythm of the music. The textures created by the irregular road were transforming in kaleidoscopic forms at the rhythm of my "dance". I continued my walk with a big and uncontrolled smile in my face. When I started to realize that the music was getting very different, as if I could separate any sound, any tone, I started to fill very anxious. Suddenly my visions got even stronger. Everywhere I looked started to really melting. I started to notice that I was losing the perception of 3D space to objects that were pretty close to me. It's a bit difficult to explain, but every time I stopped moving the 3D space was replaced with an infinite alive 2D painting of fractal distortions. This got me really freaked out! I remember to think something like "s***, I really went too far this time..." I decided to take the next turn back to my uncle's property. And this got me even more anxious. After a while walking I realized: "I can't find the turn!" This thought completely twisted my mood and my emotional state as my mood and emotional state towards the hallucinations I was experiencing. I started felling completely lost because I couldn't recognize where I was. I started to see sounds getting out of trees and plants in rainbow like liquid colored specters and I had a very strong taste of forest smell in my mouth.
I couldn't stop walking because of the freighting idea of loosing perception of 3D space. (and other interiror conflicts) So I kept going in hope of finding that holly turn. But I couldn't. I turned off my Discman and what I started earring after that was incredible! The wind on trees, the plants and trees moving with it, the sound of bees and any other forest like sounds created an incredible and beautiful melody. I stopped walking to listen more carefully to the sounds of forest because the sound of my feet was kind of annoying. I then started to notice that I could actually control my auditive perception. This I can't explain, I just could separate sounds and then get them back together in an astonishing melody. And this got me back to positive mood and emotional state. Suddenly I was completely "lolling" myself out. I kept walking and start to think that I didn't care anymore if I was lost, because actually in first place the objective of this trip was to have a very strong chaotic lysergic experience.
"I have all I asked! This is it!!!" This shifted my mood and emotional state so positively high that I started to recognize were I was and realized that I never left my uncles property! "I have taken the wrong turn and I instead of going out of the property I actually got deep in its woods." I started laughing so much and so loud that my voice was influencing my visions. Plants and flowers with maybe the size from the ground to my knees were growing to my actual size in twisted transformations and colored modifications. I then entered in a more interior experience with astonishing visual and auditive hallucination getting later on in a fantastic delirium like state. (more on that in the appropriate section of reported experiences) Maybe two, three hours later after my fantastic delirium philosophical experience I decided to take the Hofmann concept to a diferent level. I went downhill in direction of my uncle's house to get a bicycle and Peluche (one of my uncle's dog) came to greet me. The dog was a spiked monstrous animal with bright yellow eyes and alive mixing colored body. I went to the kitchen to get another bottle of water into my schoolbag and got the bike from the garage. After riding for a while I started to notice that I was in a computer game. The more I pedaled the stronger the noise of the tires of the bike on the road would seem like the noise of a motorbike engine. I then plunge into this trip and I was actually in a computer game, it only missed the visual stats of the race. After maybe two hours or so I got back home and I still had very strong effects. The bodies of my family members were growing and shrinking, transforming in monstrous creatures. I remember when having diner, the more i ated, the stronger the effect would become. The effects lasted until 11pm that evening.
The next week I went for another but more dark experience at night. Using the full moon as light source, i went through an astonishing "dark fantasy" experience with spirits, demons and all hellish fantasies that my mind could create. Note that this was a highly positive trip and not a bad trip.
My conclusion of this LSD-25 sensory experience is that there are no limits for the experience. I'll go as far as my mind can go and with a good quality and right quantity of this astonishing potent psychoactive substance I'm able to see, ear, taste and smell astonishing legendary with epic proportions hallucinations. Is something that I remember as if it was a few hours ago, and will for the rest of my life.Solus - LSD-25
the most intense visual changes happened the trip before my last trip when i ate 5.5 grams of mushrooms, i was in a room with my friends and my friend's face started to change her mouth and eyes looked really big, everything started to get brighter and brighter, i went outside and i saw plants and i could see waves around the plant it was like i could see the plant being alive it was very beutiful, the ground kept turning many different colors and i was seeing double too it was the most intense tripp i ever had and it was the best because of all the visuals i had
jay - psilocybin
Although I am now nearly 50 years old, and have done a lot of things in my lif, I had never had the opportunity to try LSD until recently. The experience I am trying to describe was the second such incidence.
It was new years eve and a friend of mine had come to visit me. We had decided to drive out into a really remote and beautiful area with a wide fast flowing river surrounded by hills and misty morning etc to try our second experience with LSD. When we got there it was getting on a bit, and we drove in the dark until we found a place away from the few others in the area and then just sat and talked for a while as we admired the amazing sunset. We each stuck a tab under our tongues and waited for things to roll in, and in time the effects gradually came up on us. As most will know the area you do the setting is really important to a nice experience and we had a beauty. Anyway nothing real special happened we just sat there watching the shimering ground and laughing almost continuously as we felt so close to the edge of something (personality melt down?) and it just kept rolling in (we had each taken another 1/2 tab because we felt it was taking too long to come on)..anyway it was the greatest experience of my life. As the evening wore on and became morning, my friend pulled out a pouch of 25 X salvia and I remember just before I took a long hard pull thinking, "please be good to me, and maybe this will be something to help my meditation practise (done irregularly). Well I sucked salvia down and held her there until my head flopped back. Wow I was looking at a Mandala (such as the Tibeten Monks create) however even as I looked at it I could swear that I could see minute changes occurring within the brightly coloured grains that made it up. I was overcome with awe as it was truely beautiful. Then because I was sure it was changing I decided I needed to focus more intently on one small section rather than the whole, and just like that I was zoomed right up one a tiny section as I found that as I looked at it the colours rippled and changed at a microscopic level, but in my periphery nothing seemed to be happening so I looked away at another section and as I moved my eyes whatever area or infatssimal section I gazed at just began to change right before my eyes, and I suddenly thought of the thing with light. Physics teaches us (or it did) that light appears to behave in different ways either as a stream of particles (photons) or as waves and believe it or not the presense of an observer appears to make all the difference. And this suddenly confirmed that with a clarity that made my head spin. It was amazing. Anyway that was one small aspect of my experience. I did salvia many more times that night and all the experiences were beautiful. Next morning when we got up in the fresh light of day we found rocks scattered around that had had stensiled on them in black ink or paint, square shapes rippled line shapes, triangle shapes etc. We thought maybe someone had done some witches ritual right at the spot we had chosen to do out LSD experience and wondered at the great co incidence. However it makes sense as it was just that sort of place --remote, beautiful, but with a great feeling of being safe. Hope everyone can appreciate these great substances we have at out disposal and treat them with the respect and fun they deserve. Sometimes it's all too easy to abuse them or go to far too far. Love to all true experimenters.
ZaphodBBB - LSD + Salvia
When i focused on the patterns it made every image move. It made trees grow. it made my friends face melt. And when i un focused i just saw the patterns and the scenery behind it. It was trippy as fuck!!!
Dillion - lsd
I am almost 15 and pretty small, keep that in mind when i took the mega hit.
It was my 6th time smoking Cannabis, so you could say i didn't have much of a tollerence. Me andy my friends wanted to celebrate the end of the year so we called up a friend to see if he could get us a 20, he did and we got really really dank. This was my first time with dank so i was excited, my friend suggested that we go to her house and hit her Gravity Bong so we proceeded to her house.
I was the second to last one to hit the GB and we packed a really big bowl and my friend pulled a really good hit for me. I was nervouse and cleared a huge one gallon hit (my friends were scared for me when they saw me push down. I held it in for a couple seconds then i couldn't hold it. I stood up slowly and coughed a lot. (while my mom called me...) I sat down and then everything just changed. Everything started flashing like at a rave, my friends started asking me if i was ok and i told them that i need to get home. It was 30 seconds since i hit the GB and it was getting intense. About a minute in real time later it was turning into a cartoon, everything was a cartoon.
Then the next 15 minutes (RT) i don't remember. Then all of a sudden a bird started singing and the faster it sang, the further i went into an alternate universe. It calmed me down from my bugging a little. The bird wanted to play a game with me, it teased me as its beautiful singing slowed down i came close to my body and could move, but then it would speed up and bring into an alternate universe where everything was different. It did this for about an hour more, getting MUCH more intense and i heard this weird throbing sound that was like an iDoser sound in a way.
When i reached my peak, i just blacked out. When i was slowly coming out of my trip i started puking a lot. After my second puke it was all stomach acid and a little water. I puked a total of 7 times said my friends. I went inside my friends house and she sat me down on her couch where i was still tripping and passing out constantly for an hour. Then i got the strength to stand up and remember who i was, what i was, and what just happened. My friends gave me 2 wheat biscuits and walked me home, I was still very high and tired. I went home and passed out and luckily landed on a chair where i slept for 20 hours.
Feelings: I felt a warm feeling go across my face at first then i started my trip. I felt good but very sick directly after breathing out the smoke.
Flashbacks: the day after i felt so burnt that i felt high and in the morning i had some flashbacks to my peak, they still make no sense but i remember being the happiest i've ever been in my life.
Bugging out? I bugged out in the begging and end, but as i said i really enjoyed the peak of my trip.
What was the peak like? The bird became a glowing light and it led me to the edge of the universe which was just a white room. I don't know about this room, but i remember anything could happen if i wanted it happen.
Timing? Time seemed to go by very slowly, I thought i was gone for a week in my trip, i was worried my mom would be scared i was gone.
After the trip: I trip on Wednseday and today is the monday after. I feel like crap but i'm getting better. Thursday, i had a final to take but i was so out of it that i just moved it. My close friend who was there gave me Deadrising, and i just stayed home and played that. I smoked Friday and it gave me some trust in cannabis again. I would like to have a trip, but on something that is just pure psychedelic.
Setting: I was out side in a friends backyard with 6 people, but two didn't smoke and one that didn't smoke left right after i started to trip. It was cloudy and i had a good view of a mountain across the river, it was great to look at and compare what it looked like 5 minutes before.
Body and Mind: My mind felt like a supperior being. For a good 40 minutes (Real Time) i didn't know who i was, what i was, and what was happening to me. I would look at something and see a shoe i would hear the feel the colors and see feelings. Almost like someone who tries LSD.
I feel my trip opened a door to a different dimension that i know is there now, but it just needs to be explored. I might not have enjoyed parts of it while i was tripping, but now i realize that i experienced an amazing thing that i would like to try another time possibly.Morgan - Cannabis
I currently reside in Israel, a country where Salvia Divinorum is legal. I smoked Salvia Divinorum 10x standardized extract in a small wooden pipe (about a pinch and then another pinch since I felt it didn't work - I just didn't wait long enough). After the two 'pinches' that I smoked I felt as if half of my body was being torn away from the other half and that my body felt really weighed down. In addition to this physical 'warping' sensation, I felt the presence of another entity yet could not see this figure, only talked to it in my head as I scuttled around trying to clean up the pipe and orient myself. There were no heavy visualization or color distortions however, my perception did alter a bit to make my surroundings not familiar. After the first few minutes I felt the need to lay down and meditate and for the next thirty minutes I recalled many past memories in vivid detail over the past few years. After this meditation session I must have fallen asleep fo r fifteen or twenty minutes (I checked the time from when I started and when woke up). After this experience I felt calmed and relaxed.
Jew boy - Salvia Divinorum
Im chris 14 now but 13 on my first of many trips.
it was halloween and i was with two freinds and planing on buying an ounce of mushrooms. i threw down 50$.
too ban he only had acid and weed so i got 5 hits i ate two hits the second i got them. not realy knowing what to expect so started to walk to a party then shane stoped me and wanted too look at the patterns on a fence so we sat down hidden from view of the passing by cars. then it hit me the light of a car hit a sigh and reflected like a spotlight on me. then i stood up and the headlights split into different rays of light at the time i beleved those colores made light. then shane grabed my leg and i looked down ot him and he was bleeding out his mouth and eyes. so i freaked and i mean freaked. i took off runing wile trees seemed to try and stop me and fell. shane picked me up and calmed me down. later we made it to the party and i proceden to eat the remaining hits. and i only got better i realy started to enjoy the trip waching pattern move, walls pulse, people melt, then after a long ass trip i went home and stood on my porch stairing at the light thinking my pupils will go back to norml thinking i could pull it off. so i walk in and the door opend for me so i more stumbled in and all the lights where out so i was temporarely blined and i say to myself "im trippn so fuckn hard" and my dad was right next to me. busted so i run up stairs without a word and jumped in the sower played with the water and the mirirs then tryed to go to bed but it wasent happenig. so listend to music
the trip lasted about 11 hours on 5 hits of lsd
im also sober now with 51 days soberc dub - LSD
I smoked one little pipe.
Held in the breath for a minute,
like some Cousteau diver.
Breathed out, and inhaled again.
In this sunny street ,traffic rolled on,
there were trolleys and buses all around.
I was just passing a mother with her baby carriage,
when I saw something red in my right sight.
It grew,and I became afraid.
:Am I hallucinating! What is this!
The red became bigger and bigger.
-Aw, I am hallucinating,help me!
But,as the red thing became stronger,
I suddenly realised that it was my kitchen table
I was looking on, with its red blanket.
The whole trip lasted about two minutes, but
during that time I WAS COMPLETLEY 360 DEGREES,
IN ANOTHER WORLD.
A friendly world,that was.gsunam - salvia
This was my first Salvia Experience. I used a 5X in a regular glass pipe. Wanting to simply familarize myself, I took a rather small puff...to test the salvanorin waters. I focused in on the swirling sequence on the media player window, and it was kind of mesmerizing, like I fell into an Emak-Bakia-Man-Ray or -Duchamp-trance. I looked outside and noticed a thin ethereal layer to everything. It was then that I knew this was good stuff, I just had to smoke more. I reloaded the bowl but put twice as much of the 5X extract on. I took two huge hits. Within 2 to 3 seconds I felt an overwhelming spiraling effect, as if there were an invisible meat-fan spinning very quickly within me (shweeyoo shweeyoo shweeyoo shweeyoo) and like this "fan" was pushing me forward in a centripetal fashion, or as one account of a Salvia trip reported, "..the spinning, pressing sensation came on very quickly and as strong as ever..I felt pushed and had the sensation of all space/time condensing and collapsing very quickly." I started gesturing with my hands the feeling I felt-rolling my hands forward in a circular motion. I also felt a direct connection to the ayahuasca experience-an ancient, fuzzy-and-furry-like realm. I could feel the presence of cats and tarantulas. The meat-fan also felt like big furry spider legs whirling about (I haven't quite figured this one out yet).
It felt as if this force were trying to pull me forward and backward at the same time, making it slightly difficult to walk. I ran upstairs, shut the blinds, and lay down on my bed and closed my eyes. It was raining at the time, and the noise from the rain hitting the roof and flowing through the gutters became distorted, as all hallucinogens I have tried create these auditory distortions and undulations. I envisioned little ice crystals falling down and leaking into the attic and accumulating-in fact, I began to become fearful that these ice crystals were going to leak into my bedroom, which was an attic-turned-bedroom. With my eyes still closed, I could see a vast vault filling up with these small quartz crystals, mostly clear, but some had colors (orange, pink, red). The spiraling only lasted for about 2 to 3 minutes, before the crystalline visuals appeared. I lay there for about 5 minutes before I decided to head back downstairs. The intensity of the visual hallucination, which I only saw with my eyes closed, lasted no more than 10 minutes. I felt a residual euphoria with a new and interesting feeling I had not felt before with hallucinogens: a sort of refined, dainty grace, like I was an agile and shy deer-hyper-vigilant and cautious. I had the urge to want to speak with a refined, Victorian slant. After my experience, as always, I research "trip-stories" to find a similarity in experience to determine a commonality in images, archetypes, spirits, symbols-to find some Jungian alchemy that would lead me on a trail of cosmic breadcrumbs to unravel the mystery of the universe and my own personal mysteries and purpose. I read about La Pastora and how this woman spirit is shy like a dear. Perhaps I assimilated or took on this very spirit.
The second round of Salvia was that night, or morning rather, when I decided to go to bed at around 4:00 am. I got in bed with my pipe and lighter to the side, in readiness to take a much bigger hit. I used the 20X extract this time, with a little pot but at the bottom and sprinkled with a little of the 5X leaf extract. I was a little nervous, but I was ready for an interesting experience to report about. I took two huge hits and lay down, putting the covers over me. Immediately, the rotation and swirling was so imminent and unpleasant. It was so apparent and real, it prompted me to research this very aspect of the Salvia journey. This is what I found:
"Another persistent theme in Salvia trips is that of rotation. Several explorers have reported a feeling that is similar to the lateral rotation which excessive alcohol consumption brings about, yet not as nauseating. At times this rotation has been so powerful as to form an "edge" somewhere inside the body. I have at times even felt this edge scraping along the roof of my mouth."
I thought to myself for a second what a damned fool I was for doing this and how I wanted out (this seemed to happen every time I did Ayahuasca with the Daime group-but just in the beginning). I grabbed for the salvia in my bag on top of the bureau and threw it to the floor in disgust. This rotation was so intense, it felt like my center of gravity was being sucked toward the floor, off the bed, and even felt a pressure trying to move me downstairs. At one point, I felt I needed to hang onto the edge of my bed so I was not pushed toward the bottom of the stairs. For some reason, I felt I may have to wake up my roommate, John, to tell him-this feeling dissipated after a minute and I began to feel much better-I sort of shook off the rotation and closed my eyes and turned off the lamp on my bureau. Side note: when I tried the Salvia the next day with my roommate, I got the same sensation, but it was not as pronounced. I could feel this force from above shoving and replacing my muscles with sheathes of giant, hairy, sinewy crystalline spider trunks-I was definitely in a different realm.
With my eyes now closed, my head just barely poking out of my covers, and the undulating bodily sensations gone, I came to a much more pleasant realm. I could hear sounds of a forest at night-or the sounds I would hear as a kid in the south on a summer night-locusts or cicadas, crickets, other bugs, etc. It was rather loud and pleasant, like I was laid back in a sleeping bag on this magical forest floor, awaiting for the elusive and shy La Pastora...Santa Maria. This was about a 10 minute experience, although when I came back to bed later, I closed my eyes and could see some interesting images, which also is suggestive of the Salvia's potential as a good dreaming medicine. I could still fill the refined daintiness I described earlier-like I could wax through with ease a civilized conversation with another English gentleman, or even gallop through a forest unscathed by whatever predation was not in my favor.Sophic_Magellan - Salvia Divinorum
My first experience getting high with cannabis happened when a friend and I smoked a mixture of cannabis and datura. While we were smoking, I was practicing a performance piece I was working on, and within just a few minutes of ingesting the entheogens, I felt an immense change in the way I was talking. Each line of the poem was getting more and more intense and effective as I read it, and the words I heard in my head were accompanied with intense memories and sensations--slowed in order to express each particle of memory and idea completely.
We went outside and I remember thinking "this is the sunniest day I've ever seen." My vision went completely white bright and I was temporarily blinded by the beauty of light. Coming down I remember the dreamy-passive feeling that accompanies these two plants, and my vision returned to a comfortable state of blur. Later, when I performed the poem in front of an audience, I noticed that the rhythm had significantly slowed and that my presentation felt more complete and satisfying having been altered permanently from the entheogens we partook in.Peace Tree - datura and cannabis
a friend & i ate dried mushrooms encased in chocolate. i'd guess there were 2-3 grams in each chocolate.
we sat on my deep-set front porch, looking out onto a quiet residential street in an old in-town neighborhood. we drank beer and chit-chatted. within 20 minutes, for me, i felt the familiar effervescent sensation in the back of my knees. shadows cast by a large candle started coalescing and it seemed as though crowds of shadowy people and strange animals were bustling just out of my field of vision. with eyes closed, brilliantly neon aztec-style patterns- pinwheels, fractals, complex geometric shapes- spun and whirled. i was brimming with a profound gladness. i found myseld smiling broadly at the peacefulness of the street.laughing, i mentioned what was happening. he was grinning ear-to-ear, watching shadows cast by the flickering candle.
trees in my front yard waved and bent gracefully to the ground. out of the corner of my eye, a tree seemed to skate & glide down the street.
after a while, we moved inside, where i had set up my stereo with a long mp3 playlist of psychedelic favorites. we smoked a few bowls, which instantly amplified both the intensity of colors and the pleasant glow i felt deep in my bones (interestingly, this inner warmth was overlayed by shivers and a sense that my skin was very cold- this sensation persisted most of the night). setting the playlist to shuffle, we sat down, closed our eyes, and listened to jefferson airplane, the dead, ween, hendrix, phish, and whatever else came on. for about 45 minutes, we just smiled and nodded our heads rhthmically.
i've tripped many dozens of times, and, aside from the universal joy & cosmic consciousness that come from taking massive doses, the effects of psychedelics on music listening are my favorite. the synasthesia of seeing sounds is fascinating & endlessly entertaining. listening to masters of psychedelic musicianship is an excellent way to both augment a trip and keep it positive.
once the initial peak washed through us, we stood and began dancing and singing along with old favorites, stomping, clapping, generally having a helluva good time. we kept up this ecstatic activity for a few hours, re-peaking several times with the aid of marijuana.
all told, it was an incredibly fun evening. my friend & i agreed it was one of the most joyous, intense, yet mellow trips we'd taken in a long while. it was a great bonding experience, and it reminded me why i love psychedelics, especialy shrooms, so much!bemushroomed - psilocybin mushrooms
me and my friends bought some salvia divinorum 10x weell iwas 14 at the time but well iwas so antisispated to try salvia itook a 3 foot milked rip of it held it in before iknew it iwas on the sickest most unexplained trip of my life we were sitting in a four door sedan and well ifelt like iwas digging under the bottom of the car reaching the top of the universe ifelt like iwas on a train iwas looking around screaming feeling like iwas in a cheesy chinese hooka den it was very erie ihave no other way than explaining cheesy chinese experience lol but it got crazier iwas laughing smokeing marijuanna with my friends told me iwas chill 4 20mins then iwas buligerently screaming ithought iwas dead my friend hit it after me he thought he was a broom and every strand on the broom was a person exactly like him but did not look like him being swept on the floor he ran home with car running at midnight oh BTW i peed my self lol so did my friend well this a story from me and my homies in montclair california (909) krystal cole every one thinks you look good thanx for giveing salvia divinorum a good name lates
shroomntoke420 - salvia divinorum
I heard a bunch of things about Sally D over the years. I went through the sixties and had my fair share of experiences and feel that I am better for the understandings I made during that period of my life. Many years past being just as straight and narrow as one could be, until I decided to just go ahead and try this legal herb. I took one big hit from a paper towel roll shotgun of 30X that I had purchased on line. I barely made it to my room where I decided this would be a good time to lay down and roll with was coming on. I quickly escalated into a place where geometric forms ruled my vision. I had the feeling that I was being shown where I was located in the pattern of my reality. I pictured the earth with its atmosphere and where I stood as a life form on the planet that was a microcosm of the much larger earth life process. I perceived a diminishing universe not only for my reality of our solar system and universe, but how I as a human ingested what was around me right down to the aveolar process of converting gasses. My respiration's seemed shallow. I felt as though I was heavier that I really am and was sinking farther into the mattress than I actually was doing. If I opened my eyes and then closed them, the pattern created by the last thing I saw would duplicate and take on a nice tidy moving geometric state. This all went on for about five minutes. I must say, that if I had not had the experiences of the past to utilize, I could see how frightening this could get very fast. It was not without anxiety. I have tried it three times now and the results are always the same. I get audio word salad that I actually write down while hearing it so I can look at it later and see if I can bring back why it all made sense at the time. Oddly enough, I almost can. Not for the faint of heart. Definitely not recreational, in my opinion...
apogee - Salvia D
well my 1st trip hit me from the blind side!!! i was with a pal sitting on my bed with my back to the wall when i took my 1st hit of salvia. i held the smoke in for long, blew it out, i felt my heart pounding then before i knew it , it felt as if i was going through the wall through to next door, i honestly thought this was happening, it felt like an eternity. all i was thinking was tht i'd be stuck like this forever!!! then i felt as if i were on a conveyor belt goin out in to mid-air outside the front of my house. then i started to panic and my pal held my arm i looked up at him then he looked as if he was made out of bricks, then he crumbled up into a pile of bricks,that when i started to come back round, but had a few short flash backs. i'll remember that trip for the rest of my life, it felt like i was in the twilight zone!!!!!! after that trip i have the upmost respect for salvia!! she's amazing, it makes you wonder about the reality of the world/life that we are living in and the capability of our minds, body and soul.
kaspa19 - salvia 20x
I was sitting on a hard wooden floor, as I took two bong hits of salvia extract. Shortly after the second bong hit the room started to break apart into small purpleish black fragments and then shattered. I found myself standing in a field with tall grass. I saw a bunch of tents in the distance and walked torwards them. There were a bunch of people with boothes set up selling diferent things. I walked to a boothe that had a couple of small plastic houses set up. the people convinced me to crawl into one of the houses.
As I crawled into the house, I was sucked into a vortex. At one point I was stareing into my parents living room and the next I was being swirled around in yellow fractels. Then it felt like I became a 2-d puzzle fragment being processed in a factory. I was then put in a file and placed on a shelf. I kept asking "Is this it?" and i saw a deformed image of my friend saying "yup that's it". Then everything I was seeing started to get folded up like a movie set and got driven away in a truck. Next my head was sticking out of a large purple triangle and so was my friend's and his girlfriend's. The triangle is what the file I was stuck in turned into. Slowly things died down and became normal.
Jack Tripper - Salvia Divinorium extract
This is a composite of a few attempts at this bizzarre "entheogen": upon exhale i suddenly felt a wave of warmth rush over me and envelope me a stony feeling remained and brown carpeting under me started waving and moving like a flowing river, push forward another couple of hits, uncomfortable didnt like felt that all of reality is a 2dimensional screen that was at the point of shredding and revealing itself, beyond- what is beyond! a funny head space thing seems to make the whole matter very confusing and all thoughts are tough to hang on in this head space. Similar to waking up and recalling a dream and then having it poof evaporate!
Whitefeather - salvia x 20
(Quick Note before I begin...)"No matter what anyone tells you about a particular drug and its safety, Always and I mean always do your reasearch and get all of the facts, "The good, bad and the ugly" of anything you choose to introduce to your body. Know what you are getting into and what the outcomes may possibly be! Alot of drugs may seem fun and safe and you may know a user or users who have never had a problem in the past, That does not mean that you will not have a bad reaction, hurt yourself or someone else, or that you will not freak out or have complications. Drug use is serious matter no matter how innocent or fun it may seem. There are NO "Safe drugs").
As for me,I am a 38 year old male living in the U.S.. I am a regular marijuana user and over the past 23 years I have used many forms of Psychedelics for fun, learning and to find my spiritual connection to the universe. I have taken acid(lsd-25)over 200 times. I have used Shrooms even more and mescaline a couple of times. I have had some truly beautiful and enlightening experiences and I have had some really scary and truly bad experiences in that time. I have yet to try DMT, bufotine or Salvia and judging from reports, I really dont want to try them. I truly enjoy the basics (Acid, Shrooms, and Mescaline). So, Being fairly confident in my experiences and my ability to maintain, and, after reading many reports and doing a lot of research, I decided that it was time to give Ayahuasca a try. My wife has never used any type of enthogens before and wanted to go for her first trip. We agreed that we would try Ayahuasca since I have never tried it and it was her first experience with a psychedelic. And This is how it went for us.
Ok, So here it is. My first experience with Ayahuasca.
We will start with preperation: First, We used a coffee grinder and basically powderized 6 grams of syrian rue seeds and 18 grams of mimosa hostilis and set them to the side. We mixed 4 cups of distilled water with 500mg of crushed vitamin c and a 1/2 cup of real lemon juice and split this into 2 small pots. We placed the 2 pots on the stove and brought them to a boil and then reduced the heat until it was just a bit more than a simmer. When we felt the temperature of the water mix was right we added the M. Hostilis to one pot and the seeds to the other. We let them simmer for about 45 minutes each, adding a little water as needed to keep it from boiling away. At this time we removed the Rue seed tea, drained it thru a metal coffee filter "The kind you buy at wal-mart" and set it aside. We then drained the M. Hostilis thru the metal coffee filter. We squished the mush with a spoon until no liquids came out. We then used a bit more water and re-simmered the M.Hostilis for another 15 mins. At that point we re-filtered it thru the filter again into the previous liquid and squished it again. At this point we put the Rue tea and the M. Hostilis tea together in a clean pot and simmered it down until it was reduced down to 600ml in our big pyrex measuring cup. We ran it thru the filter again. We let it cool..... We seperated the tea equally into two glasses. 300ml each.
While we were preparing the tea, we used our free time to clean up the house and get rid of any clutter and messes that we felt may cause any type of harm, distraction or adverse mental effects during the night. We also prepaired our lighting using our colored lava lamps, candles & colored lights. We then prepaired a soundtrack so to speak using windows media player. We included music from pure moods, some Led Zepplin, Some Pink Floyd and a few other various artist's. We brought out the blankets and pillows, and made everything very comfortable for ourselves. The atmosphere was set.
At 9:30 pm we begain to drink the tea. Using the metal coffee filter was a good idea because there was very little grit in the bottom of the glasses. It was bitter and very chalky in taste and texture. It took me about 15 min's to get it all down. My wife on the other hand got halfway thru the drink and could not hold it down. She ran to the bathroom and began to vomit. She stated that while she didnt like to throw up, It really was not that bad. She returned to the living room and finished her tea. I kept mine down fairly well for about 45 minutes before vomiting, which was'nt that bad!,lol. And then, we waited........
Here is how it went down. Stating from the time we started to drink the tea.
9:30- we begin to drink the tea.
9:45- I finish mine, My wife is halfway thru hers we both feel queezy in our tummies. She begins to vomit for about 3 minutes.
10:00- she finished her tea. We are both feeling very queezy in our tummies. I want to vomit but I can control the urge and suppress the feeling. My wife did not have to vomit anymore.
10:20- I cannot hold it any more and I begin to vomit. It lasts for about 3-5 minutes and after I feel fine.
10:30- We both begin to feel like we have had some kind of weird alcohol and were slightly buzzed as if we had maybe 2 or 3 drinks. Walking was fun and the general feeling was kind of a goofy distant feeling.
11:00- still feeling kind of slightly buzzed but no real intoxication to speak of... We smoked a bowl of some premo reffer.
11:15- I begin to notice a slight fog in the air and the traces of white fog lines appearing beside the T.V.. I didnt think much of it at this time. Still feeling slightly buzzed when I close my eyes I can make out faint whitish lines and patterns appearing and a slight texturization in my minds eye. It is not very strong and I almost have to make myself see this. I cannot explain how it looks, But its cool, just not amazing or outstanding.
11:30- still the same thing, No major development's to report.
11:45- same thing, begining to wonder if this was a flop.
11:55- eating some chese pizza now "see notes at the end", Not so sure that anything is going to happen.
12:05- Ok, now We are both starting to feel very intoxicated, not trippy but kind of like being drunk. A bit of sillyness and profound lack of balance and coordination. Diarrhea sets in for both of us. My wife reports that she is starting to have heavy closed eye visuals. I do not......Yet!
12:30- Diarrhea becomes constant but not unbearable, Just kind of a nuesance. The closed eye visuals are becoming very prominent in my wifes and my head space. They begin as a simple pattern and begin to evolve into a complex textured pattern The pieces are getting smaller and smaller and multiplying into a larger design. Like a kalidescope. I begin to make attempts at interacting with it, Which actually come very easily to my suprise.
12:45- Diarrhea still an ongoing neusance. The visuals have become extrodinary and complex. They have crossed the boundries of 2 dimensional and have become a 3-d realm of twisting turning designs and patterns unlike the natural patterns and colors of shrooms and unlike the neon lines and geometric shapes of acid. My general feeling is that of well being and content. I open my eyes to find that the world has changed into a twisting kalidescope and it is beautiful. I continue to attempt interaction with it. My wife did'nt reach full open eye visuals but did see tracers and colors with a bit of visual trickery here and there.
1:00- Ok, I have given up on interacting, It has become to intrusive for that. The patterns and pin strpping and designs are taking control and will not allow me to do anything other than swim in there ocean and observe. Which I do happily!
1:20- My wife has began to come down and she is losing the visual aspect of the trip. I am in the bathroom again. I am looking at the bath mat and it has become high def with radiating waves like you see on a hot road. I have to focus due to the visuals controlling my open eyed sight but manage to find it thru the forrest of designs and it is amazing. the walls have dramatically changed and the wood grain on the door is running down like a river. I cannot keep my eyes open to watch as it is a bit much to take in at this time. The closed eye visuals are going crazy! I love it. Me and my wife lay down in the bed and enjoy the show.
1:45- I am laying in bed next to my wife. She has already come down and returned to baseline and eventually drifts off to sleep. I dont know how, but she did! I am still enjoying the show. I am trying to make out some type of intelligence here. I do notice that, embedded in these designs are like hints of questions and images of me and my life and who I am. I am a bear for some reason. This must be how ancient indians and tribesman found there animal spirits. I try to interact with this and sought to find out the meanings of these images and questions. Still fighting thru visuals and getting tired. I am suprised at the fact that I could be tired while tripping.
2:15- This was the last time I noticed the time. The time on the clock looked like this (22::1155). I had to look at it for about 3 minutes to decipher it.
At this point, I must have fallen asleep. I awoke at 7:30 this morning an felt a slight headache "not bad" and a bit drowsy. I do not remember dreaming and didnt know that I had even fallen asleep. I have a feeling of good will, Peace and harmony and no hangover. Similar to the day after Shrooms. All in all it was a good experience. I am quite sure that I only began to touch on the real experience though. I do not belive that I reached the full potential of this mixture. It was "however" quiet a psychedelic experience. Along the strength of a single dose of good acid. The visuals were overwhelming at times but not at all bad. Walking and coordination became an experience in itself. At about the 3 hour mark, walking was almost like being drunk. The onset was very slow compared to other users reports. My wife started with C.E.V's before me. She tripped for about an hour. Mine was a bit more wide open and lasted about 3 1/2 hours I would say. The overall feeling was comfortable but at times the visuals were a bit crazy. "Not bad though". I did get some glimpses of my life and became a little analitical about myself for a short time, But, I did not have any interactions with spirits or ancestors and did not experience any form of other intelligence. Maybe I was not ready to go there at this time. I will definatly try this again in the future. I will be very careful about my mixture. I also want to point out that while for me this was a Mild to medium psychedelic experience, What I encountered, "to some" may be an overwhelming, disorienting or even frightening experience. You may want to be prepaired for anything. At one point around midnight we both felt as if nothing was going to happen. I remember being hungry and we ate a cheese pizza from pizza hut(which, by the way, is safe to eat while using Ayahuasca). Only cheese pizza, No toppings. Be careful of this! Read the food warnings well!...Anyway, We ate the cheese pizza and I think that is what set the trip off for us. it was not long after that the intensity cranked up. My wife did vomit halfway thru her tea and consumed the rest afterwards. That may have made the difference between hers and my experiences. Overall it was good and I have a new respect for this tea. I would like to express my concern for those of you out there who would try to use this as a party drug or a good time......DONT!!!!!! It is not something to play with! if you wanna play with acid or shrooms,'Which I dont recommend" Thats your choice but belive me when I say, Ayahuasca is no joke!!! Have fun everyone and be safe. Thanks for reading, Hope you get something from this.
Spirtual One - Ayahuasca (Syrian Rue & M.Hostilis)
I have always smoked a lot of cannabis, so in a way I think is was more to do with the emotional space I was in rather than the entheogen, because I have never really experienced this on cannabis before only on stronger enthogens. But smoking did seem to increase this experience whilst I was going through it.
I had been through an intense period of grief that took me to one of the darkest spaces ever, as I went into this space which lasted about two weeks, I felt like it was the darkest moment of my soul and that I would be reborn when I came through the other side.
I have a suspicion that also I may have stimulated the endogenous production of DMT, because everything went really trippy for about a month.
As much as I enjoy time distortion when I am tripping this became a painful reality. For most of this month, whilst I was recovering, time went painfully painfully slow. Minutes were like hours, days were like weeks almost. It was seriously trippy and all I could do most of the time was sit and wait for each day to pass. Eventually this changed and my time perception(which has never been great after I took LSD when I was a teenager), went back to normal for me.Kerenza - Cannabis
After overcoming the reverse tolerance of Canibus, when one is able to get incredibly high, I smoked several consecutive bowls with some friends. After going back to the party we all joked around and laughed and had a wonderful euphoric time. Then I started to get fatigued, but not sleepy. So, I decided to head into my room. I brought my laptop over to by bed so I could play some music and put my headphones in (the kind that make you feel like you're really at the concert). When I turned off the lights, got into my bed and turned the electric blanket on I closed my eyes and listened to several songs. Then I could feel myself getting higher and higher. This was about 20 mins into the trip. Then, I started getting nervous that I was getting too high, but I told myself to just keep going with it. All of a sudden I saw a brilliantly colored circle. It kept changing colors and they were brighter than any other colors I have ever seen. Then they started to move past my head and made me feel as if I were in a room of endless space with walls of colored light. I kept traveling faster and my peripheral vision grew. I could see all around me an I was completely in another world. It felt like I had found my niche in the universe and I knew that I had found something amazing. After I came down from this trip I kept trying to shut my eyes and achieve the same place. However, I wasn't able to do so. I could picture all the colors but my peripheral vision was worse so I didn't feel like I could see all around me, only through a tunnel that was slowly disappearing. It was strange seeing so vividly with my eyes closed.
New Tripper - Cannabis
I made some C. Roseus tea with some crushed dried leaves and boiling water.
To be honest I quite liked the taste, not too sweet, not too bitter.
15 minutes after finishing the cup I felt very relaxed and like I was almost floating. Closing my eyes I could just make out plants. Many would come and disappear. Cannabis, petunias, salvia, periwinkles, vines and many others flickered in my head.
Later in the evening I made some more tea but this time of L. Leonurus.
I went to sleep and had vivid dreams of myself in a garden full of entheogenic plants. Whenever I would pick a leaf from any of the plants it would turn into a battery. I interpreted this as the entheogens holding power, energy and life.
Beautiful experience.Robbie - Catharanthus roseus, Leonotis Leonurus
Mitragynine is known to have antagonistic properties at the 5ht2 receptor. For this reason I suspected it might be a useful tool to help comedown at the end of a long lsd trip. Not only would it reduce after trip muscle pain but also help quiet the mind to bring sleep sooner.
I have several times used it to good effect this way. Other that a very slight immediate increase in visuals trip would soon subside after smoking the mitragynine as early as T=6hr.
In March of last year a friend of mine came to visit and we dosed together. One drop each of what was reputed to be Pharmaceutical grade Sandoz LSD smuggled in from Europe. (Yay Reedies lol). Anyway, about 4hrs in we split 100mg of rather pure mdma crystals. at about 8hrs I was really feeling ready to sleep. So I decide it was time to kill the trip as I had in the past with some purified kratom alkaloid (97% mytragynine alkaloid extract). Upon smoking 20-30mg in one hit I felt a distinct boost to the trip. I decided that was enough and went to bed.
The most intense closed eye visuals of my life set in! *Vivid* dream like moving scenes of color and activity. Places and people I new and creatures and kingdoms I did not all in the most brilliant swirling colors.
At the same time I was filled with and intense psychotic and overwhelming paranoia! I was deeply and thoroughly convinced my dear friend of several years was a federal agent sent to bust me and that any moment as I lay there the feds would come storming through my bedroom door to apprehend me.
Well eventually after about 2.5hrs of this I finally crashed and woke the next day in good spirits, paranoia and extra mostly gone.
I recently became aware that I am not the only one to notice the effect of this combo (Increased Visuals. LSD, Amphetamines (Adderall) & Kratom. by BBB), and considering the result I was expecting compared to what I got I figured this knowledge might benefit others. ;)
Be safe and enjoy life.Therapeutic CDXX - LSD, MDMA, 97% Mitragynine alkaloids
Surprised to learn that Delosperma cooperi, the innocent flowering-succulents in my garden, contain DMT I became interested in whether I could trip off of them. Having only tried Salvia splendens previously, DMT would be a big step. I ground up about 50 grams of the leaves and collected the juice. I let the ground material dry over a period of days, and then added the juice to the dried mush and also let that dry so I wouldn't lose any potency.
After about a week of contemplating whether I should actually try it, I decided I would give it ago. I prepared my water-pipe and packed a fairly large bowl full of the stuff.
I torched the material and took a huge hit. The smoke was nothing short of agonising, like hooks ripping the inside of my lungs. I'm not sure if this was due to the DMT in the cooperi or the composition of the plant matter. After recovering I tried again, taking one huge hit and forcing myself to hold it in, despite the agony. After the pain dissipated I took a few other reasonable sized hits and laid on my bed staring at the light on my ceiling. 5 minutes and nothing seemed to be happening. I closed my eyes and to my surprise saw a large purple-green, spherical blob. It began pulsing, vibrating, changing colours and melting, forming different shapes and patterns.
Astonished, I opened my eyes to see if I could hallucinate with my eyes open. The psychedelic liquid vision was still there and seemed to attach itself to surfaces and move around them. At one point it was melting and pouring over the sides of my shelf. All the while, having the feeling as if I was floating above the ground and lifted by some force in my chest. This was just the beginning.
I repacked my bowl and took 2 more huge hits. I stared at the ceiling and the colours I was already ceiling became entangled, chopped at and thrown around the room by the fan. This was the turning point in the trip. Suddenly, the colours disappeared and the fan transformed into a floral spinning tunnel. I was drawn into and propelled through this mystical cavity and thrown around, like I was on a roller coaster. This lasted for about half an hour and afterwards my vision was impaired by distracting, geometric, colourful shapes.
All in all, I must've smoked about 1/3 to 1/2 of what I had. The journey, whilst terrifying was meaningful and I feel like I've learned a lot about the potential to bend and play with the illusion we know as reality. I will definitely try more of this in the future but not in such quantities. I recommend it to anyone, just be prepared for one hell of a ride!Robbie - DMT
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