The Hitchhiker's Guide To Salvia Divinorum - Terence McKenna

"Very strange... very hard to describe."
Shka.
Xka Pastora.
Hojas / Ojos de la Pastora.
Leaves / Eyes of the Shepherdess.
Herba de María.
Sage of the Seers.
The Diviner's Mint.
Salvia Divinorum.
Sally.

[@thehippie3610]

Did my first salvia trip the other day. It was....incomprehensible. It was pure sensation. No sense of awareness. There was no sense of self. But it was still frightening.

[@TheRealAccoutrements]

My experience with salvia was one of the most eye opening and beneficial experiences I’ve ever had with psychedelics. I was literally carried through all of my lifetimes previous and present and showed my mistakes and showed how to fix those mistakes, then as I was about to be shown something very important the hands carrying me told me I was not yet ready to see and I had to have some more experiences before going back to it. That was the only time I’ve ever done it, I do plan on trying one more time

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Thanks for sharing. Less is more with Salvia, in terms of frequency. High doses, rarely, as McKenna liked to suggest.

[@James-tg5nw]

Hey there. I am thinking of working with Salvia soon. I would like to connect and converse with my Soul Guide. Wondering if we can link up to chat about things?

[@dajmos6969]

yo, how was it?

[@alexwilliams1553]

did you

[@josephgalvez5048]

Ah Salvia, easily the most perplexing substance I ever explored with and I frequented the DMT space. Salvia was always somehow stranger - I’ve spent entire lifetimes as new beings and in strange places but after coming back it’s like the plant would clear itself from my mind. I’d have no compulsion or drive to try it again for a long time, and not out of anything negative. Truly a wondrous plant with many mysteries to offer. Safe travels!

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Yes indeed. Could you share anything more about your journeys? It's a deeply fascinating topic and rare to encounter people who didn't completely blow it straight out of the gates, and never dare to try again.

[@josephgalvez5048]

@@spiritlevelstudios I would be more than happy to share! This might be long. My first real experience with Salvia is my favorite one, even though all of them have been wonderful, if a little intense. My friend and I had heard of Salvia (this was a long time ago, mid-2000’s) and wanted to try it to see what the hype was. I picked up some 5x extracts, a water pipe and we set up in my backyard at night. I was first to go. I took my hit and held it. After maybe 30 seconds, I exhale, look at my friend sitting in front of me and SCHOOOM! he rockets away from me and my backyard becomes an empty void. Out of the darkness, a crowd of people in brilliant rainbow colored clothes appear. They’re cheering and shouting “hooray you’re here! We’re so happy to see you! Come on, we gotta go to the party! There’s a party for you!” They all stretched out their faces into living Mardi Gras masks and they took me to an endless carnival, a cosmic carnival! I spent what felt like ages riding wild roller coasters, playing all kinds of fun boardwalk games and eating amazing food. I had so much fun and I was surrounded by all these wonderful friends who made me feel loved and welcomed and safe. Eventually, the carnival had to close and all my friends gathered around and gave me a massive hug, telling me how much fun they had and that I had to come back soon and play with them again. They faded from existence until I was back in the void, all alone. As quickly as he vanished, my friend suddenly rushed back into view and SLAM! I was back in my backyard, my face in my hands and I was just muttering “oh my god oh my god” over and over again. Once I calmed down, I asked my friend how long I was gone. He said maybe a minute, I just started giggling and rocking with a wild look in my eye. I gushed to him what I just went through and there was no way it was only a minute long, I was gone for MONTHS, at least in my mind I was. My buddy took his hit but he ended up “turning into a washing machine” and was scared he wouldn’t be normal again, so he got a bum deal out of it. We shared many more adventures over the years and I kept detailed trip logs of my time in the Salvia space, I still occasionally feel the call to return. I have lots of other stories and they’re some of my most cherished experiences, still just as vivid now as they were back then.

[@chromakey84]

mmmm indeed

[@jakemcnamee9417]

It's too powerful . It messes with time and space, the lifetimes you talk about are probably real, but in some very different universe.

[@JPII]

1st trip ever was Salvia...intense to say the least...in a park in Granger, IN...Showed me a perspective change...in this case, it was me being a corner of a classroom from when I was a kid...& among other things that I still ponder today...cray cray.!

[@Greenkillr]

When he talked about porches I had to comment. The only time I heard a voice in the salvia dimension it said in a woman's voice, "come-on off that porch"

[@NickPDX22]

Everyone is talking about a bad experience. Guess I unknowingly did it the right way. I just put a couple 20x leaf crumbs ontop of some weed (both legal here btw) and ripped it. Body felt a little buz. Put a little more in, got a bigger buz. Decided I liked the feeling. Put a bit more in, hit it hard and laid down. Blew out and I was GONE. I felt out of my body. In a bright white room. It looked like a blanket of leafy feathers was unraveling toward me. It was then that I realized what was going on, I told my self to relax, keep breathing and just focus on the visuals. It seem to last for a minute or so. I could feel my self slowly coming back into my body and recognizing my self again if that makes sense. It was quite beautiful and insanely intense. Not sure when I’ll do it again. Soon I’m sure. I won’t be doing a hero dose (full bowl) any time soon. But this was great. Off that note, having done mushrooms a handful of times. I really didn’t like them. I don’t like the heavy body high. With salvia I feel like you just surpass the body and go right into another realm. I could tell my body was here, I was getting warm and sweaty, yet still disconnected from my body. I went into this with no expectation. I put my earbuds in with some relaxing music. And let the journey begin. If I had any advice for those thinking of using. Start low and slow. Work your way up.

[@austinlittle1638]

Salvia is hands down the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. The reason it stays legal is the experience itself. Most people only do it once.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

She demands respect. With the appropriate set & setting, it can be quite a wonderful experience. It's very important to relax, lay down, stay open and still, and focus on your breathing. Remember, it's not the fault of the substance that your reaction is one of fear, it's the result of inadequate preparation on your part. Peace and strength to you.

[@austinlittle1638]

@@spiritlevelstudios I don't think it's meant to be smoked. Regardless of the fear, it was one of the most useful experiences I've ever had. It eroded my very misguided views on life.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

@@austinlittle1638 yeh chewing is a little more gradual and easier to navigate, similar to pure DMT vs ayahuasca. I'm fine with aya, but the feeling and intensity of pure compound is just too much for me.

[@emcg.9655]

I had several incredible experiences at lowish dose.. taken with mdma somewhat irresponsibly, it was absolutely amazing. She was kind to me. Had a few scary experiences later. Ridiculously powerful stuff.

[@tommyvercetti3348]

Fact...theres nothing like it

[@jackmehoffe9372]

Was doing salvia in 2006/07. Did about between 20-25 hits via a bong as 5x strength extract. That's more than enough. Trust me. And I've never got over it. I wouldn't want to do it again. But it's ego death. On a massive scale.

[@matta2944]

Lol yeah no if ur smoking extract that’s real, lol your not getting more then 2 hits inhaled. Lucky to even get a second hit but you aren’t even supposed to do that.

[@jackmehoffe9372]

@@matta2944 say what you want but I saw the world melt away and my ego with it. Scary shit my friend. And I'm never going back

[@Dupstepsari1]

Them me where you whent

[@jackmehoffe9372]

@@Dupstepsari1 somewhere foreign and unwelcoming

[@38raymondcruz]

I first saw every reality of my then present as a series of stairs and my wife was next to me and i did not want to leave her behind

[@lizzkaayako2270]

I have some experience with shrooms and love them, in both micro and larger doses. They make you feel so good inside and genuinely help you become a better person in all areas of your life. But so many trustworthy, well-prepared psychonauts with plenty of mushroom, LSD, and DMT experiences have told me that salvia was extremely unpleasant and frightening for them, and something they never plan to do again. I don't want to feel like that, so I'm not ever planning to take salvia.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Yes, my first time with Salvia at a proper dose level was unpleasant and frightening. It's extremely powerful and completely different to classic tryptamine based psychedelics. It was no more or less terrifying than pure DMT though. It comes down to set & setting as always, and appropriate dosage. If you don't feel called to work with a medicine, then there's no reason to. When done with great care and respect, Salvia is an absolutely beautiful and astonishing experience. Have a listen to Christopher Solomon on KZbin.

[@cultivatingconnectionsvt]

I've yet to try salvia, but just watched this entire video, and it's one of my favorite Terence McKenna videos! Thanks!

[@stevenhetzel6483]

If you do it do not enter with fear. The experience will be scary, and it may feel inescapable, but it's not. Embrace the unknown and she will treat you well.

[@cultivatingconnectionsvt]

@@stevenhetzel6483 thank you. This is how I intend to use the scared medicine

[@bigmountains5782]

Done it ones and first 14 seconds are so true

[@theobserver9131]

No, no machine elves. This is the realm of goddesses, and you will be judged by them. There is no reason to outlaw this plant. It's not fun. People will not be overdosing on it. It's a difficult spiritual challenge for the average person.

[@psvitaoled197]

I’m 32 tried salvia in the early 00s when everyone else didn’t know anything. We tried to get shrooms but ended up with very strong salvia like 80 plus x. Anyways It still haunts me today and I still watch these videos or watch peoples experiences. I remember a wheel that was infinite and beyond human comprehension. left my body and was a part of this spiral and it was life changing. I felt like I was swimming in the firmament. I came back and didn’t know my own name or that I was even a human on planet earth for at least a minute or so.

[@RekzaFS]

Look up salvia wheel of time, many people experience what you experienced

[@sixseven404]

Yea lots of people see the wheel, they say it's an angel but idk about that

[@Theyreout]

Om has a song where he says Ezekiel saw the wheel.

[@ThekidManson]

Almost the exact experience for me. I actually thought I had fallen through the roof and landed on the floor. The top of my head (soft spot) was sore and I think my spirit exited my body through it. I didn’t know who or where I was or who my brother and friends were for several minutes after. The other strange thing I remember was that no matter which way I turned my body I felt a constant pull on my left side,almost like a vacuum.

[@RajohnnyWalker]

Great video! Thanks you for sharing !

[@user-fv7lk4hd6e]

Real legend of all time

[@triple_gem_shining]

Ty 4 this

[@theobserver9131]

I remember the feeling of my skin becoming an animal of its own. I could feel it crawling and flexing. I also remember finding myself in a garden of the goddesses. I was essentially a disgusting bug. A roach crawling around, and the goddesses regarded me as such. Not much of an ego booster. Probably only habit-forming for a masochist.

[@theobserver9131]

It was an extremely fascinating experience, though not exactly enjoyable.

[@theobserver9131]

I don't know if they were really goddesses, or just normal human women who seemed like goddesses from the perspective of a roach.

[@theobserver9131]

I had the distinct feeling that I was violating a sacred space.

[@sagecarter2368]

He would be so disappointed in the commercialized extracts and KZbin frenzy

[@mrbanyuwangistorytime633]

What’s bad about the extracts, the extracts can be used to reach pre-breakthrough levels, very therapeutic, I’m not sure if Terrence would be upset about the idea of availability at a lower price, but maybe you know him better than I do and knew him as someone who did not like people to have access to therapeutic enthegeons.

[@stevenhetzel6483]

He would find the good in it, Terrence was just that way.

[@darekwch89]

@@mrbanyuwangistorytime633 has anybody experiance with microdosing Salvia? Any tips, guides?

[@mrbanyuwangistorytime633]

@@darekwch89 you just need to load a small amount of plain leaf on a water pipe with a good screen, burn it directly with one of the blue flame torch lighters and hold it in for the appropriate 20 seconds. If you do small enough doses you can redose a few times and stretch it until you lock up and can’t move or think

[@Vairocana23Revived]

@@darekwch89 to microdose plain leaves your gonna need a milligram scale luckily they can be gotten for about $20 on Amazon. In terms of the actual dosage to microdose you want less that 0.05 grams of leaves so anywhere from 0.001 grams to 0.04 grams or plain Salvia leaves either smoked or even better vaped. The frame of reference being used is one ounce (28.3495 g) of plain Salvia contains approximately 112,000 μg (micrograms) of Salvinorum A. You want to take less than 0.05 g of Sally which is about 197 micrograms of Salvinorum A that's still close to minimum threshold dose. Sally effects at the Vivid level of Daniel Seibert's Salvia scale can kick in as low as 200 micrograms so doing 0.04 grams or less of plain leaf should be a microdose.

[@Orangedome]

It's very real and horrifing... experience. It's comes over you and sucks you into yourself. It's not like shrooms. It's a real place

[@zacharekski9385]

The infamous fourth wall break

[@Dupstepsari1]

Can you talk about this place. ,its intresting that many people think its a real place, me too

[@timothyclark3342]

And now I spend my life trying to get back there

[@timothyclark3342]

Thumbs circling...😶

[@dmtdreamz7706]

On a certain level, we have The Hitchhikers Guide To Salvia Divinorum in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Salvia hits the Kappa opioid receptors and nothing else, making it very unique, unlike LSD which hits a wider variety including serotonin. Natural states are excellent, but they can take many years of hard work and dedication to achieve, and even then are not something to cling to, but simply passing phenomena, same as everything else within the realm of mind and senses.

[@dmtdreamz7706]

@@spiritlevelstudios Thank you so much for all your love and all your encouragement. We love you. Thank you.

[@skrt_cobain95]

Flow is everything

[@rodneydaub3812]

I had a bag of leaf, long ago before the ban in the US.. I sat and smoked large amounts and never getting any effect. I don't know how many days I smoked, but on the 3rd day or so I got very tired so I lay down. I had a very vivid dream of a female entity that existed in a circle , around the middle of my body. She was African I encountered the same entity when I was a child, don't remember the circumstances other than the possibility that I had been given some DXM because I was sick

[@redhood2171]

Is the entity humanlike? Sounds a spirit of witch or something like that. Idk but this type of shit is why I’m scared of doing psychedelics

[@rodneydaub3812]

@@redhood2171 Yes, human like ..

[@adamdoyle8434]

@@rodneydaub3812 i think it was a devil

[@rodneydaub3812]

@@adamdoyle8434 what I saw? Or what you saw? My experience was that it was benevolent

[@longlivejah4608]

This has been number 1 on my list since I was 16 back in 2012! I still have yet to try it at 25 but I hope and pray I get to someday! Wish it was so hard to find and wish people actually wanted to help others to get it

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Yeh there's not a huge demand for it, but it's about being in the right place at the right time. Plant medicine conferences, forums, discord etc.

[@longlivejah4608]

@@spiritlevelstudios you got an email? Or telegram?

[@parasitelights3158]

@@longlivejah4608 Do you still search for help?

[@longlivejah4608]

@@parasitelights3158 I have 100 grams of salvia now :)

[@longlivejah4608]

@@parasitelights3158 but i would like to hear what you know :)

[@stealthninja1352]

smoke it every day still sane (allegedly)

[@hannahowen1801]

Salvia was the first psychedelic I tried, back when I was a teenager. Back in the day when it was legal in the UK. Me and my friend managed to get our hands on some in Camden market, even though we were minors. We researched the fuck out of this substance before smoking it. Our only prior drug experience was weed, alcohol and MDMA. I feel like trying salvia at such a young age was a major catalyst for my friend and I going on such deep spiritual journeys, despite that fact that it shook us both to the core of our being. I felt the sensation of being pulled through a wormhole. My whole existence was spaghettified as if I was on the event horizon of a black hole. I had all-encompassing visuals of a purple and orange portal/warping tunnel (can't even describe it). It was like I could feel my soul being sucked from existence. I actually ended up trying in on 3 seperate occasions. Each time got more terrifying.

[@jakemcnamee9417]

Salvia made a past version of myself see a future version. I only realized later

[@MaxMustermann-ym7pj]

I had never a bad Experience with Salvia. It was my first Psycedelic Drug. I Smoking the normal Salvia with the 20x Extract. It was a Strange Experience, but never a bad Experience or a horribale Experience. I think its the best is, not go over the 20% extract. Had i smoked the 80% extract perhaps it was too much and so i become a scared Journey,too. I dont know. With normaly Salvia leafs i had good Trips,too. To Start the first Experience i think the leafs are the best to have a good Trip. There i become a laugh flash,too😂

[@triple_gem_shining]

😍

[@AvrDeathMetalFan]

My dads first and only time when was he was 16 or 17, they went down to a headshop and got 10x extract. My dad got eaten by the room unfortunately for 10 minutes straight. He said it felt timeless though. His friend had it worse though he told me. Never told me what his friend saw but probably somethin bad.

[@Hypersaturated]

Anyone know the exact source for the first video? :) I can find the talk on Asktmk, but I can’t find the actual footage??

[@spiritlevelstudios]

It's a really obscure one the orange background talk. Very random and annoying music in it, I think it was done in the UK. Can't find my project files right now for it but will keep it in mind and let you know if it turns up. Nothing much is in it that he doesnt discuss elsewhere.

[@Hypersaturated]

@@spiritlevelstudios Wowie, thank you for a response!! Thank you for putting this together and for helping bring material from the archives into the forefront of the culture. Grateful for you!

[@spiritlevelstudios]

@@Hypersaturated welcome bro. Please also check out my new podcast - Friends In High Places. Will be premiering episode 2 on friday, just recorded it yesterday and i'm loving it so far. Really great communities coming together. Are you on discord?

[@chrisbahll5593]

The constant laughing of the audience is worse than that of two and a half men

[@mrbanyuwangistorytime633]

Honestly

[@cypresswolfe]

They are laughing at moments jokes aren’t even being told. I keep thinking, “What is so funny? I don’t get it.” They’re kind of ruining the talk.

[@joser0618]

Everyone is most likely high.

[@hyperboreanarchives7299]

Right? It's like they think they're at a comedy club and geared to laugh at the slightest thing.

[@aha6500]

Well it's him, making them like that, with his clownish demeanor.

[@theobserver9131]

I'll have to try the "mouth tea" method. I smoked it with a hot flame from a torch lighter.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

You can also just use a normal lighter.

[@theobserver9131]

@@spiritlevelstudios I didn't know that. Back when I did it in the early 2000s, they were saying you needed the high temp.

[@ACallForUprising]

Terence can’t be serious when he says LSD it takes 200mcg because I’ve had 100mcg trips that melted my mind.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

It depends on quality, body weight, set & setting. There are many variables, and a dose that melts your mind one day may do very little the next. It's the cosmic giggle, or something like that.

[@ACallForUprising]

@@spiritlevelstudios It’s true that sometimes doses are not always dose equally, I buy my stuff from a lab in Amsterdam and they sent me 25 100ug 1P-LSD and I had tried LSD from other vendors before that blew my mind made me feel I was being abducted by aliens and shit but the websites stopped selling in 2019. So I found this new vendors and I’m like alright let’s try their stuff and tbh it did but I got a lot of visuals like shrooms like visuals geometry and shit but nothing crazy happened a few hours passed then I went to sleep.

[@ACallForUprising]

@@spiritlevelstudios Bro I swear on my mother bro and never do that , the same set of tabs , I took one the next week and keep in mind that it shouldn’t have effected me as good because I had done it in such a short span of time. Bro that shit was so fire I was seeing visions of the red devil and this black lady in lingerie was dancing on bed for me around her were spikes and eyes it was like a chamber. Then I saw a vampire bro , and I’m a big vampire dairies and twilight fan but this was on another level of realism it was just this person with on a white and black canvas laying on their back with blood streaming down their fangs. Then I saw myself as a kitten inside a frame . This time there wasn’t much geometry everything was mental images and strong ones bro it lasted at least 12 hours maybe more I had to take 2 Xanax at night to sleep because I was high asf impossible to calm down.

[@ACallForUprising]

@@spiritlevelstudios I rarely like taking 200ug at time , I’ve done it before and it’s strong but I think 100ug well-dosed is the perfect starting dose. Depends where you buy your stuff the quality of your LSD , I remember my first time buying LSD from this shady guy that lived in. Another area of my city I had to take the trolley to see him and he was chill we smoked some wax out of a bong with his gf and just chatted on his porch then he gave me two sour patch gummies and said to take them to have effects and I was so scared anticipating the trip bro but when I took them the trip never came on. It was scary because of how nervous I was , like what’s gonna happen to me what if I don’t like it . You get those thoughts bro. But yeah usually I buy my stuff from labs in Canada or Europe. They sell fire as products LSD isn’t even my main go to drug. I’m more of shroom person. I like the slow journey and time distortion, music enchantment. So I buy this chemical called 4- AcO DMT it was discover by Albert Hoffman and it’s an analog of psilocybin that converts into psilocin inside the body so you’re having a replica of magic mushroooms. Lowest dose is 15mg and you can go up to 30-40. I’ve gone up to more and it’s crazy bro. It’s fun. I like it more than LSD

[@spiritlevelstudios]

@@ACallForUprising Yep shrooms over acid any day. Sounds like you are going deep into the research chems and so you are on your own in those waters man. Any reference dosage to LSD 25 or pure psilocybin goes out the window. Being abducted on acid is not a fun way to spend an evening in my experience. Did you feel yourself being torn out of your body or was is more of a mind trip? Was that at a low or a high dose, and was it real acid or an analog?

[@yesok5367]

Is it a guaranteed uncomfortable experience? Or can that feeling be suppressed depending on your mindset, and setting.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

It's highly likely for the first time at high doses, because it hits really hard and very different. With proper attention to set and setting, it's possible to remain calm and stay fairly comfortable, despite the nature of the experience. It's very tactile, so physically there are strange sensations in generous amounts.

[@newusernamehere4772]

If you want to suppress anything don't trip, period.

[@dandelion3391]

22:55

[@sebastianhernandez9631]

I'm really high right now. I don't understand with in some clips there sounds of people laughing. Weird shit.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

He's talking to an audience man.

[@mackychloe]

You must of been baked.

[@sebastianhernandez9631]

@@mackychloe I was baked as shit bro

[@user-fl8lw7mb8y]

😂😂😂😂 hahaha are u f...min serious ? Omg he's talking to an audience man !! What da hell was u baked on bro ?? Omg lmfao

[@ottohumpmachine8958]

6:57 that just doesn’t sound right…

[@johnsiedlewicz5669]

Legal? “Once upon a time”

[@Ascensionly_]

Legal here in California

[@newusernamehere4772]

Legal in NY state, go figure lol

[@famulu3794]

What's with the laugh track?

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Most of Terence's talks are recorded in front of a live audience. It's not a track, just people who were there and laughing.

[@Ninjahsh]

Right it's not stand up comedy.

[@obdeisibcirrus993]

Terence can be a funny dude. They seem to be all friends and enjoying the talk. It’d be much more boring if they sat there quietly like a college lecture

[@stevenhetzel6483]

Half of them are probably shrooming.

[@OneSliceNation]

What is so funny?

[@mackychloe]

it's the way he tells the story that's comical

[@clich126]

Good question

[@timothyclark3342]

59:17 Drug repression distorts civilized values and political discourse

[@fantasyskeep]

I've had salvia twice. Below are my reports. My ego dissolves almost immediately. Not like any other. Trip One: Took 2 hits, held the second hit until I couldn't. Onset was under 10 seconds. I was already feeling the effects when I began taking the second hit. The entire experience below is only the peak and lasted about 2.5 minutes. All effects had ended after 10 minutes, aside from feeling a bit foggy. However, time within the trance dilated and felt like half an hour. My body felt like electricity. I was at my desk and lifted my head to the void of black. It felt as though I was moving forward rapidly, yet I was being pulled backwards. As if being sucked into a black hole. The room around me, it's furniture and all its colors trailed backwards, as if reality was being stretched and sucked into the abyss. I stood, clambered to my bed, and laid down. Any imagery was distant, vague, and obscured by the veil of a black silhouette. I couldn't see anything. But I could feel the familiar feeling of sitting on a wooden park bench. One with the cast iron railings in floral patterns. I did not see anyone or hear anyone speaking, but I could feel the presence of a woman sitting on the bench with me, to my right. She was neither benevolent nor malicious, and her motives were unclear. As the effects began to fade, I could make out the shape of a giant Ferris wheel at the end of a pier, obscured by shadows except for some of its glowing colored lights. Lights I did not know the color of because everything was felt inside and none of which was seen. Trip Two: This time, I made it to my bed much easier than before. On my way to the bed from my chair, I was whisked away to the void again. This time, the experience was much more visual, but the visions were fleeting. Unmistakable for what they were but not vivid or sharp. I was a petal on a sunflower by an enormous white washed wooden fence. I was picked from my core by a giant. (Genderless this time, still no form) Then, I was dropped and floated down to the dusty ground. I could feel the warm sunshine on my yellow petal skin limbs. This time, from the moment it kicked in, it felt like my skin was electricity. Everything was tingling, and laying down was very uncomfortable. Kind of like laying on a burlap sack would feel. But standing/sitting was comfortable. It felt like if someone handed me a light bulb, it would have flickered with the sparks shooting from every square inch of my body. Last subjective effect I had was I broke out in a sweat, but this I think was from how uncomfortable my bed felt while I was made of energy, and the room being hot.

[@spiritlevelstudios]

Thanks for sharing. I understand the visuals being there, you can tell, just can't exactly see them. Also sometimes laying down, feels as if someone is pushing me in the back. Salvia gravity is remarkable. Chewing leaves rather than smoking yields a 45 mins start to finish journey. More gentle yet still extremely powerful.

[@theobserver9131]

What the hell is up with the laugh track? It's either in injudiciously applied laugh track, or his whole audience is tripping.

[@crono3339]

Alot of this crowd is experienced with psychedelic. It's the sort of laugh where you understand the absurdity and seriousness of the stories it's telling. For instance if someone told me they ate ten grams of mushrooms without prior experience I would probably immediately start laughing. Not because it's funny but because I understand what can happen if you do something that crazy.

[@clich126]

Comedy club. What the heck is so funny?

[@lwwells]

Often, when you form a sympathetic bond with a speaker, laughter is a reaction that shows agreement or excitement with what is being discussed. You’ll see this a lot when meditation experts speak to audiences as well; e.g. Echart Tolle.