People recounting their trips with the currently legal herb Salvia Divinorum. Here’s an excerpt from one of many:
I placed a single layer about the size of a 10 penny nail-head into the bowl. Let me emphasize that this was a very small about of 15x leaf, but about 2 to 3 times as much as the tiny amount I smoked the first try. I collected my senses, applied the lighter to the leaf and took a good hit and put the pipe down. This time there was considerable more smoke produced. Like before, I held it deeply in my lungs and counted to 30 while lying back on my bed.
Suddenly, about the time I exhaled, I felt a warm wave quickly sweep through my body, staring at my feet and flowing upward. It happened so fast it startled me and I tried to sit up. The only sound I could hear was a sound like the roar of a jet engine, only much lower in volume. As I tried to get up, it felt as though my body was being sucked into something, or that the part of the bed I was sitting on was melting away and me with it. It was definitely a physical feeling of being pulled downward to the right and into something. I opened my eyes and saw deep blackness in front of me.
In my peripheral vision I saw a herringbone type pattern with, as best I can remember, alternating white, dark green, or possibly black colors. I felt confusion and a growing sense of alarm. I knew I was about to go somewhere and I had the distinct feeling that I absolutely was unprepared and did not want to go. Somehow I vaguely remembered that my wife was out there, so I called her name. From far away came some sound. I called her again, starting to feel panicked. I heard her reply, “I’m here.” I asked her to turn on the light.
What I saw when the lights came on, really scared me (that’s a classic understatement.)…
The effect on the brain from this drug from psycho-pharmalogical standpoint is utterly amazing considering the kind of havoc it wreaks on perception. It’s extremely lucky that the peaks last only a short period of time. Reading users’ responses also illustrates certain archetypal themes that seem to occur during their trips: complete and utter disassociation between mind and body, feelings of being in the presence of other entities who are not necessarily benign in nature, and the sense that they’ve somehow gone too far or disturbed some kind of natural balance by making the trip to the other side. Abso-fucking-lutely fascinating, riveting and frightening reading. Read the recommended posts. Another worthy inner link from mefi.
