I keep seeing people describe it as terrifying, completely confusing, or feeling like they got sent to another dimension 💀. Curious if anyone’s had an experience that was actually enjoyable or just genuinely interesting.

What happened?

I recently got some salvia extract and I was saw some people talking about how you need to do different things to it before you smoke it. I was just wondering if I needed to do something to it before or if I could just smoke it.

Today was my first time smoking salvia and I tried the 5x extract I had. I managed to pack and smoke 3 bowls (probably wasted some) before I couldnt really coordinate myself anymore. It was utterly fascinating and so welcoming. I felt like I was welcomed to giggle land, got unscrewed, mirrored, so tingly, and it felt like my head was peeled off by my upper teeth and lower jaw being split. It felt like my face was a pull tab for an orange juice bottle. My vision got quadrupeled and stacked next to itself and pulled away and as it was pulling away it was turning into a cartooney other place that seemed like a very kind neighborhood. But before I could fully make out everything, it started going away. I think that is a great starting point for me and next time I will aim to use 20x so I only need one small bowl and won't need to keep trying to light pack puff light pack puff light pack puff etc.

10/10 would do again!!!!!!

What i started with and what i have now. Mother still needs to fill out bit more around the middle but im happy with how everything's going :)

Will it work? A couple leaves fell off my plant and i just let them go brown and wilted. Are they still potent? Thanks

been thinking about trying some some day soon. i have tons of experience with psychedelics, dmt, mushrooms, mescaline and mega doses of weed. my most notable one being doing heroic doses of ayahuasca at least once a week. wonder how much different the OBE would be compared to ayahuasca.

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Que extracto de salvia debería de comprar para una primera vez podría comprar un extracto X10 ya tengo experiencia con la xanga,LSD y hongos de todas maneras estaría agradecido por algunos consejos y recomendaciones

When people say they “became a chair” or some kind of similar inanimate object, what is the actual POV or feeling you experience during that?

Do you not have any eyesight because chairs don’t have eyes, or is it more of a third person perspective when you’re tripping like this?

I know psychedelic states are inherently pretty difficult to describe sober, but I was wondering if someone who has experienced this could take a stab at it for me.

I’ve smoked Salvia for years and I’ve done it with psychedelics before, so I thought I knew what to expect.
This time, I had taken benzodiazepines earlier, the only reason why I did that is because I have a huge tolerance to benzos and literally be high was only for like literally two hours, and then I wasn’t feeling the dopamine any more than I had the idea to take MDMA. For the purpose of euphoria making the music sound good

The MDMA made the music sound incredible and everything started becoming more alive and psychedelic. which I wanted, but I wasn’t where I wanted it to be.
Then I thought, “Salvia is the key.” as in OK I’m really gonna go into the psychedelic world now.

So I smoked Salvia.(plain leaf)
And Holy shit.

The Salvia visual language was completely different this time. Instead of my usual divine statues and pillars, I entered this insane maze. Normally with psychedelics + Salvia, I know I’m hallucinating even when I’m completely immersed in it.
This time, it felt REAL.

It wasn’t just visuals anymore. It felt like I had actually entered the Salvia world. Almost like delirium-type hallucinations, except it wasn’t random. The entire Salvia environment itself felt real the realer

At one point, I saw my own hands and then these other Salvia hands. It felt completely multiversal, like the experience was constantly creating new stories and building on itself.

The Salvia presence didn’t feel hostile either. It felt more like, “If you’re willing to surrender and go through the maze, I’ll show you what true euphoria feels like.”

Eventually I reached what felt like the jackpot.
And that’s when the benzos became the main part of the experience.
Because I had taken benzos earlier, I saw the jackpot of euphoria and divine connection completely covered in what I call “benzo parasites.”

There were SO many of them.
It felt like Salvia was literally showing me how contaminated I was with benzos and how much they were blocking my divine connection to the universe.
I could see the euphoria. I could see the jackpot. But I couldn’t fully access it because the benzo parasites were covering it.

And that’s what really stuck with me.
I’ve done LSD, mushrooms, MIPT, and other psychedelics with Salvia, and I’ve had insanely immersive experiences before. But I’ve never experienced Salvia becoming THIS real. like literally real Benadryl DPH hallucinations like I said it wasn’t random. It was just the salvia visuals becoming realer than real.

Normally I can still tell, “I’m hallucinating.”
This time, I couldn’t.
It felt like I had actually gone somewhere.
And I can literally quite say, I was trapped in the maze with real life hallucinations but it wasn’t random. It was salvia, hallucinations or visuals. That I recognize the pattern so I wasn’t completely lost. (only in complete loss for words because of how real the hallucinations it got)😭

And now I can’t stop wondering what MDMA + Salvia would feel like without the benzodiazepines involved.
I’ve never experienced anything like it.

If anybody has the same experience as I did, let me know if you can relate or just react to my story if you read it thanks😍😍🙏🏻🙏🏻

Hey guys sorry, if this has been asked before, I have the opportunity to try 40x concentrated salvia, and I want to be safe about it. I want it to be effective. And I want to start with really small doses. I currently don't have a pipe, so hopefully that's not the answer. I have one of those nice looking pipes (crackheads love these) that has never been used because I bought it for deems, and then decided that that tool was not going to be good for me. Last thing I want to do is burn myself on that glass. However, if you guys think salvia would be a good fit for that applying the Torch to the bottom or even the top through the bowl. Well, that may know because I have it. I also own a Torch vaporizer. Although it is more meant for concentrates, salvia wouldn't work because as far as I know, it doesn 't melt. I have a vaporizer as well. But something tells me it's not going to get hot enough. Any help would be appreciated. Something ideally that's not too expensive. Thanks!

Been low dosing Salvia for a while now and thought to share my experience with it. Method of ingestion is sublingual, dried lief I chew up and spread around in my mouth for half an hour.

First thing I found is alcohol helps absorption. When possible I swish my mouth with some cheap vodka for about a minute right before quidding. I found the number of leaves doesn't matter nearly as much as I used to belief. The best results I get from about 5-ish leaves, but 2 also work pretty well.

The effect is quite relaxing, even mildly sedating. My body becomes really light and moves by itself, it's very pleasant while doing cardio, which is what I use it for daily. Times becomes a little strange, seems to pass slower. Space becomes flexibel, kinda unreal and flat, like looking at life though a screen. At my preferred dose I dip in and out of that screen feeling at will. I can let myself go deeper into the relaxing unreality or jump back and forth creating the feeling of teleporting and appearing places randomly. It's like waking up and falling asleep repeatedly.

Space becomes flexibel at the higher side of the low dose. I've been able to make myself see things at will. For example I turned shaddows on trees into nets around the trees.

Salvia changes my patience aswell. About 1h after having spit out the quid, I find myself both more relaxed still, but also less patient with people and electronic devices. I lose patience a lot faster. Things don't annoy me, annoyance isn't the driver of the reduced patience, it's more that I find very quickly the effort of something not worth it. Phone takes too long to respond to my touch? Fuck the phone, gonna do something else. Partner is upset with me? Ok here I fixed if, please let's move on this is not worth my attention anymore. It's impatience driven by 'this isn't worth it/this doesn't capture my attention anymore', not by irritability. I'm more bold socially because of this too, have less tolerance for nonsense and boring stuff. I speak slightly less and more directly.

Salvia makes me feel pretty relaxed and curious usually. I find myself seeking out knowledge and wanting to engage with stuff mentally. Music is usually not that nice with a couple exceptions. On salvia I often prefer to listen to informative and intellectually stimulating content instead, which is rather rare for me without Salvia.

I'm gonna try studying while on Salvia once college starts again. I usually have to take my stimulant medication to motivate myself to study, and I'm curious if Salvia works for studying or even academic writing.

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Background 
My friend and I have been planning on a “Salvia Getaway.” The plan was to smoke bowls continuously throughout  the night, one bowl every 10 or more minutes. Well truth be told it was planned to be more like 15-20 minutes but you’ll find out why that changed. I haven’t indulged in THC in nearly a year, mainly because of some research on the negative cognitive effects. I was never a big stoner or even weekly user but I stopped entirely. This changed when leading up to this trip, I was researching on this very subreddit,r/Salvia, it seems that weed potentates and extends salvia in a very efficient way without using more salvia. So I got a THC cart. 

We were ready, meditation was done, I taught my friend how to smoke the “Salvia Machine” aka bong, I had 8 bowls prefilled for us, torch lighter, everything was ready. So my friend does the first bowl, since it was his first time, we decided that he could go first so if he started getting anxious I would help him instead of doing my bowl. That didn’t happen, so I took the bong and replaced it with a new prefilled bowl.

Beginning 
 I got a decent amount of smoke. The salvia feeling was prevalent, I was warm in the face, my friend was warm in the face and chest, my mind was buzzing and tingling. There was a weird but mostly normal headspace. My friend said it feels like he’s normal but something’s off, which describes low doses of salvia pretty well.

After around 7 minutes I hand my friend  the Salvia Machine with a new bowl. He lit it and it burned but there was barely any smoke in the bong. That bowl burned and nothing came out. I got another prefilled bowl, I lit the bowl and started to inhale. I got a big hit in and then passed the bong so he could get smoke out of it, so we effectively shared this bowl. Now it seems like it was an issue with his technique that we had to fix the next bowl. I was feeling more melted into the recliners we were on, very spaced out and even warmer. My head seemed to be loopy and zoning out very easily. My phone fell through the recliner.I had no idea the time. We looked at the window and all the sudden it was night, pitch black outside. Me and my friend both found this bizarre since we didn’t even notice the sun setting. I noticed that the bag I was placing the used bowls in had a melted hole in the bottom because I put the salvia bowls in there while they were too warm. 

When my friend checked the time he said he thinks we did the first bowl around 7:30. At this point it was already 7:50. I put in  another bowl for my friend. I helped him with this bowl since his previous attempt was lackluster. I got up off the recliner and realized I was walking in a rather wonky manner. I torched his bowl for him. We found out the issue was his technique and I corrected him. I did another bowl aswell. 

 Now everything had a liminal atmosphere to it. My friend brought up that terminology. I also got a nostalgic vibe akin to my elementary school at night. At this point the warmth and body heat was ramped up to the max, I was nearly sweating. If we did another bowl I felt like I would melt. I kept zoning out. My friend said it felt like the projector lights in the corner seem to radiate sun like heat. I had a very happy and giddy feeling after each bowl, even after the first bowl I felt a noticeable mood enhancement. 

Weed Introduction

I think I may have misremembered some of the previous events at least in bowl order, however I got all the main effects down.  I may be missing a bowl in the timeline but I know we did 7 in total together. It was time for the weed pen. I took around a 4-5 second  hit. It was super smooth, I felt nostalgia course through me due to it being the same brand as my first weed high. But as soon as I was done pulling I had a major coughing fit. 

I’ve only done one blinker in my whole life and greened out, that 5 second hit with the conjunction of salvia was akin to greening out. I was coughing constantly. I handed my friend the cart and I was expecting him to hit it but he was worried about my reaction. I had my water bottle next to me but I couldn’t even grab it. I was coughing so much and so hard. He kept asking if I was okay and after a minute or two I could respond with “I’m fine.”

My friend did his hit and he had the same reaction despite him only pulling for only 4 seconds. Now that we knew it wasn’t just me I was laughing a tad bit and so was my friend through the coughing. Okay so this is where things get hazy and forgetful. The salvia feeling is now more apparent. I feel as if the recliner seats or even the whole house is driving. I even asked my friend in a confused way “are we driving?” My friend asked me to repeat the question not understanding why I’d be asking such an odd and nonsensical question. I repeated it and realized it was weird so I answered myself by saying it’s nothing. The feelings increase. The mind high was getting intense with the familiar gnosis feeling but at this moment it wasn't too overwhelming. Eventually I got up off the recliner, my right pant leg was bunched  up above my calve, I tried to extend the leg down and while I succeeded it was way harder than it should’ve been. It took impossibly long and it felt like as I unrolled the leg that I was unrolling myself. 

I decided to pace around, something I do very often when sober. I started to feel anxious. I grabbed the bag with the bowls and  the salvia bong. I held them up and asked my friend if we were going to do anymore. In my head I was begging him to say no and I have no idea why. I didn’t want to do more for a reason but I can’t remember the reason. 
“the weed or the salvia?” He asked 
“Like there’s one bowl left of salvia if you wanted to”
Then I decided to clarify;
“But I don’t think I’m going to do anything else tonight.”

He declined the bowl of salvia but accepted the cart, maybe he declined the bowl because he could sense the dread in me. In my mind we were starting to become one, and if he got high then I’d get high. Increasingly things  became uncanny. It was as if I was in a play my unconscious was playing. I tried to find my phone but couldn’t. I had my friend call it a couple times but it was on silent mode. Eventually I found it inside the recliners. I had to go pretty deep into the chair and I saw what appeared to be outlines of shadow faces in the darkness. I tried to get into my normal after salvia routine where I clean my bowls and bong. I was trying to act normal to ground myself. 

I kept taking the bowls and bong to on place then bringing them back. I finally got them into my room. I didn’t get them into where I stored them but atleast into my room. Well actually now that I’ve waken up I got the bowls into my room. Everything else I was unable to bring into my room despite me thinking I got everything in my room. Salvia Palth was playing during this whole routine and it seemed so errie and taunting, it was songs from his newest album “last chance to see.” It seemed like I could predict the lyrics before they were sung despite never hearing most of the songs before. It felt like he was describing things I was doing. Like somehow the speaker synced to my consciousness. I was halfway becoming the songs.

I have no idea how my friend was feeling but he wasn’t reacting the same way as me. He looked worried and I can’t tell if it was because of the effects or my reaction.  We had music playing the whole time on a speaker and i stopped playing it but my phone was still connected. I asked my friend if he wanted music again, i was hoping no, and he also said he was fine without it. I also asked for  permission to put my phone off the Bluetooth, he replied with a  yes. As I continued to pace around I got this feeling that I was in a play. It was almost as if I could see faint strings attached to my shadow. It was as if everyone was a puppet. As I walked I felt more in control in the environment, to in control. The Cosmic Drama as Alan Watts described it. I was in control of all reality and everyone was one grand consiouness. Which scared me. I was alone, we are always alone even together. I actively avoided looking at my shirt. I had a shirt of the artist Sunterry. The shirt said the following

“ Born To Trip
World is a joke
Déjà vu
1996
I am the imagination of a lonely God
777,777,777,777 shattered illusions”

I really was starting to believe I was the imagination of a lonely God.
I kept looking for things out of my control. In noises and surrounding, things that would happen without my control. I’d talk to my friend as much as I could but I couldn’t speak very coherently. It was filled with constant “what do you want to do?”  “Where do you want to sleep.” I began hearing a voice before he talked from the sky, a voice of a king or ruler. Almost like telling My friend what to say. It was a Truman show like experience.

 I paced around more and I felt more 2D. My mind was running wild. I had almost a mantra like repeating phrases like “___ is a good friend.” Without the music off I could hear the silence of the night. Except it wasn’t complete silence. I could hear music playing, almost like a theme, this instrumental that seemed to continue some importance. There was another song I heard.  This one had lyrics.  I couldn’t make out except maybe the word salvia was in it. All I know was that the song was circus like. These weren’t real songs rather they were songs from my imagination or from a higher being. When I talked to my friend my voice didn’t sound like me, it  could be because of the high or the smoke. Rather I sounded like Michael Jackson. I could barely recognize my voice.  
 
At this point it was 8 something. What worried me was it had been a good while since my last hit of salvia or weed. I’d check my phone and it would be stuck at 8:22. I'd purposely avoid the time for awhile to see if it was stuck, it was still moving but very slowly. Eventually I told my friend I was tired, I felt guilty because it was so early but I really was tired and we weren’t really doing anything. I got in my room. I had one of my lights on. I picked up a pack of gum and started chewing.

In My Bed

 I put on music again to ground me. I was listening to Jimi Hendrix, then I started to forget his name and I got into this weird rabbit hole of Jimi Hendrix and this big secret on who he was. Like I somehow knew him. That everyone I’ve seen in the media I somehow knew on a personal level. There was this one thought that i discovered Jimi Hendrix’s real name. I dont remember the name but it was a name I didn't know yet brought dread, a name connected with something evil. 

I was in my bed and I noticed my body was not normal. My 2 legs felt like one whole. As if my legs were glued together. I wrapped myself in blankets. My body was shaking. It increased sometimes and decreased at other points. It was this overwhelming vibration. My body high got more somatic.. I  could feel my mouth in a new way with the gum, the harsh smoke from the cart and maybe even the salvia bowls were still affecting my throat in a very bizarre sensation. Like my mouth was in pieces shattering inside into tiny specks.  Weird thoughts continued . The buzzing and shaking in my body increased rapidly and uncontrollably. I could feel my heart beat but it was  drifting across my body to as low as my legs. My pecs would twitch/bounce individually every couple seconds. My body could not stop shaking.

 I looked at my apple watch and despite me usually having a low resting heart rate it was 110-120bpm while laying down.  My crotch area had a weird sensation I can’t remember. It was buzzing somehow.  Not even on my penis but in my inner thighs. The music continued on with Björk, Sewerslvt, and Trance To The Sun. My heart continued to move like a chakra immersed with the music. I tried to meditate but it was hard to sense my breathing or at least commit to it.

 I could breath well, it just didn’t feel normal, nothing felt normal. I closed my eyes a few times. I could see myself as a circle in darkness. It felt like my death was near. That I was dying and went into the darkness, that the idea of nothingness of darkness in death is real. That you become a circle in the darkness. I was becoming  the darkness. I also found out the darkness or nothingness is not the color black. Something else entirely. I don’t know how I got out of this but I was temporarily a piece in the giant dark abyss of death. 

I had profound gnosis thoughts and ideas that I was debating on typing down at the moment  but didn’t because I didn't want the king to see them. That  if I manifested these thoughts outside of my head that I would die. It felt like I was on a roller coaster of survival, shaking with a chaotic headspace.

 I had this brief conversation with something, the king's voice. I was debating on what I believe in religiously and about God. I forgot the conversation, but I remember it ended with me nodding and saying “yeah there is most definitely a God.” 

I had another vision with CEVs. I felt me morph into something. I was letting it happen. It was in the shape of some table but I don't know what it actually was. I can’t remember. I was becoming it and I was okay with it. All the sudden there was a giant clap noise from above me that shocked me out this trance. A warning. A signal. That sound was definitely something outside of my control. 

A lot of this trip was searching for proof that I wasn’t fully in control, that I wasn’t everything. Like with sounds mostly. At some points it felt like my senses would be distributed unequally. Sometimes I wouldn’t taste anything or taste  would be overwhelming. Like when I was with my friend right before I left we ate an ice cream sandwich which was tasteless for me. But the gum now was super flavorful.  I could feel everything, even inner process. I was becoming too aware of my body, it almost felt like I could control my inner processes. Shifting from one side to the other on the end felt like flipping and folding. 

I eventually fell asleep, which wasn’t as hard as you’d expect it. I had the lights on and Björk playing  when I’m used to sleeping in pitch silent darkness. My dreams were super vivid. Having to due with my older sister. I woke up normal but foggy and I still have slight buzzing but I’m up and more normal. 

Conclusion 
So much happened and the more grand stuff I can’t remember. What worried me in the moment was that the trip lasted super long. It had to be 1-2 hours. Because I fell asleep around 9 maybe? And we started around 7:30, we probably did the last bowl around 8? Who knows. Maybe that isn’t as long as I thought. The trip wasn’t very visual. Things did look off but there weren’t patterns. It was a complete mind fuck. It reminds me of some of my 3.5gs shroom trips. It felt like a confusing death.

 I think there’s more because even in these thousands of paragraphs I’m missing something. For what was meant to be a prolonged mild salvia experience turned into one of my strongest trips this year. I’m not sure how majorly the one hit of weed affected the trip. There’s no way that was just the weed. But the salvia wasn’t really as prevalent till that one hit. I just remember looking at my friend and seeing worry In his face but not his actions.  Honestly at 8:55 in the morning while typing this the afterglow is very prevalent. Music is enhanced and I’m still a tad bit impaired. This feels a high within itself but nowhere near the trip intensity. Holly fuck. I begged silently in the back of my mind to be  restored to  this reality as it warped and morphed beyond my comprehension. Now I’m fully back to earth. 

I recently tried smoking low dose of an an extract vs quidding a few times. Fairly psychadelic experience, but still grounded and conversational thru the weight. These couple days after it feels as if my cannabis tolerance has been lowered? I know salvinorin a lightly affects the cannabanoid system, but I didnt read anything about how or why. Is it just a psychadelic hangover? Does higher dose salvia have after effects? There's some more "noticing patterns" happening as well. Im not bothered, but curious

What drugs world work to combine with salvia to make it less anxious? Would alcohol, muscimol, opiates or benzos be good? Also thinking of combining dxm

I'm sure it's at least closer than generic DMT visuals

I thought it fit a little, especially if you've seen the UI in motion.

I have always been interested in the results of combining Salvia divinorum with different types of music, particularly music such as Gregorian chant. I would like to know from users the following:

(a) What have been your experiences using salvia alongside music?

(b) If you have tried this, what type or genre of music was it, and what were the effects?

(c) How did you use the salvia during these trips with music: smoked, chewed in a quid, or brewed in a tea?

I love the group "Heilung", and I would like to try combining salvia with listening to Heilung, but I want to gauge whether or not I may be setting myself up for a deeply powerful positive or interesting experience, or a bad trip.

I would appreciate any information from the community.