Salvia Divinorum.

And it was a trip…

Meanwhile…

Gulp.

Any excuse.

Any excuse 2.

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  1. Daisy Chainsaw

    Salvia Divinorum sounds like something the priest would chant during the 3 hour borefest on Easter Saturday.

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      I prefer a proper fire and brimstone service, you’re all going to hell etc preferably in a Nordie accent with the heating turned off for extra frisson for entertainment value myself, now that’s religion ;)

    2. eamonn

      divinorum – of the gods (pidgen latin)
      so you are probably very close with the priestly chant.

  2. scottser

    last time i did salvia was in the jax on a train in holland. i got freaked out trying to find my way through the train to find my mate cos the seats all looked the same and carriages looked like they went on for miles..
    it’s not a pleasant way to get high.

    1. Micko

      Jesus, at least you could walk. ;-)

      The one and only time I tried it, I went into what felt like a cramped seizure, where I literally thought I was my Grandfather and the floor looked like it was made of Lego and it was moving flowingly up the side of the couch and merging with the walls.

      Not pleasant indeed. Never again.

      1. Ronan

        I know several people who say never again for trips. It’s not for everyone.

        I mean, the whole point of trips is distorted reality. I spent an hour in a pub in Cork once thinking the bar area was the gate to hell and that he black and white chequered tile floor went on to infinity so there was no escape.

        Loved it. Sat there out of my bin drinking pints barely communicating with the friends I’d met up with save for the odd (literally) ‘meow’.

        1. Micko

          :)

          I’ve no issues with trips either. Mushrooms are lovely.

          But yeah, Salvia deffo not for me

  3. Mojonixon

    Excuse 2 is spot on.

    Laughing hysterically while the person beside you thinks they are about to die. Been there.

    At least it is over in 5 minutes with salvia. Unlike some other substances.

    1. scottser

      a low, moderate dose is actually quite a pleasant change of tack. lamping as much as you can into your stupid fat gob as quickly as possible, like everything, is asking for a bad time.

  4. Ronan

    Salvia the most psychedelic?

    Per the poster above, you’d get over the 5 minute rush of salvia. I’d compare it to 3 snorts in 5 minutes of Red’s Room Odouriser.

    Clearly never took back to back squares of Hofmann 25s, or microdots. There’s no off-switch with Acid, kids, you can only ride it out with alcohol.

  5. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    always prefer a nice mellow mushroom journey, it helps that I always have my little shadow friend who comes to take care of me, I call him my mushroom angel

    1. Cú Chulainn

      The sprit shroom.. as someone who also feels the connection to the sprit of the mushroom: a quick question: if you had 20 shrooms and cooked them together and split them between 2 people equally; is that the same as each person taking 10 each? Or, is it the sprit of 20 shrooms divided by half v the sprit of 10 shrooms? Would love to hear your thoughts.

  6. Ian - oG

    Not sure I believe the stories of being transported to different places of very vivid hallucinations?

    The weirdest effect I had was when I thought I could put one foot in the air and if careful, put the other up and float.

    Fell hard but luckily onto carpet, effect wore off and back to normal.

    It’s a mental 5 minutes but I had very few visual effects outside of some blurring/trails and even then they were very mild compared to LSD or similar, more like phosphenes than anything else.

  7. Duncan Wheeler

    I love psychedelics though with many of them it’s important to have a sober minder. A bit of mental preparation (simple chanting and centering excercises do work) and ensuring that the enviroment is safe with no possibility of attracting the wrong attention goes a long way to helping to experience a good trip (oh, and don’t be mentally ill). Salvia is crazy and thankfully short. ( I admit the bloke going out the window made me split my sides) If a person really wants to go all the way ‘out’ there Datura (Jimson weed in the US) is yer man. With a good dose will have a body going on a 2 or 3 day trip. The reality dissolves and for the length of the trip you aren’t inhabiting your world any more. Can be wonderful or terrifying. I once spent 8 hours in a flat in Athens staring in abject terror at, what I didn’t know at the time was, a folded towel. Except it wasn’t a towel it was a disembodied head with slits for eyes and a wide mouth with small teeth. Every time it ‘looked’ at me I knew my soul was doomed. After about 8 hours of abject terror someone came in and picked up the towel, I almost had a heart attack, but the sky didn’t fall & I didn’t end up in mental hell. Lesson learned. Caution. I would advise never taking Datura, full stop. It’s too easy to funk yourself up for a long time/forever.

      1. Duncan Wheeler

        @johnny. My old nickname amongst my friends used to be Drugbin. Class and style are affectations for someone else, started with gluebags when 13. I’ve given up the glue since then. Reading about studies on drugs is not the same as taking them, so I’ll give the studies a miss for now. “Fried” ? Re-Fried nice guy more like it. Peace, love and light.

        1. johnny

          ..yeah cool story bro.

          many people including myself have moved passed overly glamorizing drugs,like i used oh say smoke crack,but just don’t feel the need to ‘share’ our drug logs or measure our d**ks

          there are many,many health benefits to psychedelic medicines which should be highlighted.

  8. Clampers Outside

    By the sounds of it… I’m reminded of the time I put the tip of my finger into a match box to press on a micro-dot.
    Only to have my mate shout “don’t swallow” as I left the room…. But he was too late.

    Not only did I get one,, but a second, third and fourth had stuck to the top of my finger.
    Those things usually took a half hour… but, oh boy… I was talking to the day glow painted statue of Jesus sitting on the mantle piece for nearly four hours re-assuring him he was “perfect the way you are” over and over. Because that’s what was written on the similarly coloured Smithwicks beer mat blue tacked to the back of his head.
    It’s the closest thing to a bad trip I ever had.

    As someone above says… trippin’ can be amazing…. just mind that dosage! :)

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