First time

I have never felt anything so real in my entire life

by Annie D.

Time: 9:00 pm

Location: Driver's seat in my car parked in a safe location

Company: My three friends

Salvia: 30x

My very first trip on Salvia had me very excited. My friends had all tried it (and hated it) but everything they described about it made it sound incredible and I felt like I just had to try it for myself. They said that when they tried it, they had an out-of-body experience: they saw themselves leave their bodies and hover behind them, saw the world around them melt, and felt very, very alone. This is what I was expecting before I tried Salvia, but this was not at all what I received.

My friend Gabe (who is sort of an expert when it comes to Salvia) rolled me an aluminum foil hitter and lit it with a torch lighter, all the while saying, "Big hit, big hit, big hit, big hit..." I took the hugest hit that I was able to and counted to myself as I held in the smoke. About 20 seconds later, I blew the smoke out of my lungs and right away I could feel nothing changing. I remember saying, "It's not doing anything..." when I felt myself leave completely.

The first thing I saw was the inside of the car completely covered in post-it notes. My friends were gone, but I was so enthralled in what was going on that I didn't even seem to notice. Then, wind started blowing and the post-it notes were flying off and blowing away, but there was an endless supply of post-it notes underneath... It seemed never-ending.

Then I saw myself in a completely white room and I could see nothing around me but white. Just then, on either side of me, open filing cabinets were flying past me at tremendous speed (kind of like in the Matrix when they wanted to see the available weaponry). All of a sudden, they stopped. All of the filing cabinets were open except for one. I reached out and opened it, actually being able to feel the metal on my fingertips. Then, starting at my fingers, my entire body was sucked into the filing cabinet and I was off to somewhere else.

Next, I found myself in a red circus tent, but I couldn't find the way out. I kept pushing through layers of the tent trying to find the way out (I could actually feel the cloth on my fingertips as well). This was when I remembered that my friends weren't there and I began to get scared as I was searching through the tents trying to find them.

All of a sudden, I came back to reality, but I wasn't completely alright yet. I began talking to my friends, but it was so hard to speak and to say what I wanted to say. Then, I look at the steering wheel and it looked like mud that was melting. I reached to grab the steering wheel and the parts that I grabbed with my hands fell in and the wheel collapsed. I looked at my hands and there was mud all over them. I looked away and when I looked back down, it was gone.

This was when I really started returning to reality. The only things that I noticed after that point were that my world was spinning and that everything just seemed to annoy me. My three friends were talking and I was sitting near them, but all I could think about was how annoying each of their voices was and what I would give if they would only stop talking. Within ten minutes, I was completely back to normal.

My Salvia trip lasted seven minutes (with the entire experience lasting about 20) and although I have read that time goes really slowly, time went really fast for me. Though my trip was intense and felt very, very real, it felt like it lasted a minute at most. My friends said that for the first two minutes on Salvia, I was laughing hysterically, but honestly I don't remember laughing at all. My trip started the second I blew out the Salvia smoke.

With Salvia, everything felt so real. Not only did I see things that weren't there and couldn't hear or see my friends at all during my trip, but I was also able to touch things that weren't there and was able to actually feel them. I think the weirdest thing about the Salvia experience is that not one time did I think to myself, "Oh, this is because of the Salvia." It was like I completely forgot that I just smoked it and that everything was really happening.

Though my friends didn't like it, I thought it was the most incredible thing I have ever experienced in my whole life. I don't do drugs besides marijuana and I have never tripped before, but it is absolutely amazing what the mind can make you think. My mind created a whole new reality and I was just thrown into it. Salvia is something that I believe everyone should experience at some point in their life. There really is no way of truly describing it... I have never felt anything so real in my entire life. The most realistic dream I've ever had didn't even come close to my Salvia experience.

My friends said that for the first two minutes I laughed uncontrollably, but they said it wasn't a happy laugh, it was a crazy laugh, but I don't remember this at all. They said my eyes rolled back into my head and glazed over while I was tripping while I kept repeating, "Where the fuck... Where the fuck..." At one point I started to cry, but I don't remember this either. I remember being really scared and distressed when I was searching through the endless circus tents, but I don't remember crying about it.

All in all, it was an amazing experience for me, unlike anything I have ever experienced in my entire life. I did it for the first time about seven hours ago and haven't been able to get it off my mind since. Salvia really does show you what your mind is capable of. When I came back to reality and my friends asked what happened, all I could say was, "I was somewhere else... I wasn't here... And I didn't imagine it... It really happened." And it did really happen, in my mind anyway.

Five stars.