Salvia Divinorum Scotland - The Effects

<body stylesrc="../../../technical/backgroundforotherauthors.htm" background="../../../technical/paperwords.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#000080" alink="#800080"> <p align="center"><font color="#008000" size="5">Salvia Divinorum Scotland - Introduction to Salvia's Effects</font> <hr> <blockquote> <p>You sent me a salvia sample before xmas and I am only now getting around to telling you how I got on. Apologies for the delay but things have been so hectic.<br> <br> I tried some of the leaves you sent over the xmas break. It probably wasn't what you would call an ideal setting but since my other half has given up this sort of thing it's the best I'm likely to get - we were sat in the lounge with the tv on but the sound down. It took a couple of pipe fulls but then I was gripped by it. It felt like someone had my head in a vice - not squeezing it so that it gave me pain but it had pressure all round it and it was like my head was held perfectly still. It was very intense - it was actually quite a fleeting experience but pretty powerful. I was a bit wary of doing it again as it was very sudden and all consuming. And it took several pretty harsh lungfulls to get there. I decided a bigger pipe and better lighter was the answer to get me there more efficiently. Anyway, all over xmas I looked out for a new pipe but head shops are pretty rare round these parts so I had no luck (didn't want to buy online just for a pipe - the postage would cost more than the pipe).<br> <br> So the leafs lay in my drawer for a while and I was too busy to get back and give them another try. We went back to scotland for a brief visit a couple of weeks ago and while there went out with an old friend. He said he'd heard salvia was good and had got some 10x extract for himself for xmas and did I want to help him try it - it seemed too much of a coincidence to refuse!<br> <br> The setting was similar to before except the tv sound was on this time but that seemed to make the room calmer and more normal. Anyway, this time I got an effect with the first hit, using a pipe similar to my current one. Same effect - I felt I was instantly gripped by a very powerful force. Quite frightening as it was so powerful and sudden. A DVD was on ('Broadway Danny Rose', a Woody Allen film) and although I tried not to pay any attention to it I ended up genuinely believing that I was <b><i>in</i></b> the film and started to worry about the fate of the protagonist (he's wanted by the mob). There wasn't really much in the way of hallucinations. Anyway, it wore off quite quickly (it wasn't a big hit I had) and after that I wasn't really sure I wanted any more.<br> <br> So that's how I left it. I realise that the situations I took salvia in were not necessarily conducive to good 'head travel' but the days are gone when me & the mrs would spend an evening tripping together. Many thanks for sending me the sample but I don't feel I will be going on many more salvia trips I'm afraid. There are so many horror stories on the net about bad experiences that, even though I've never had a bad experience on any drug, I don't feel it would be fair to put the mrs through it now. Magic mushrooms were perfect as they come on quite slowly and are predictable (to a degree) whereas the salvia was a sudden plunge into the unknown. Part of me says I've never had any problems with such experiences before but another part says is it worth the risk? Judging by your website (and others I'd visited) and my small experience with it so far I'd say it was a pretty serious sort of endeavour, 'not a party drug' as you say. I fear that part of my psyche may rise up and attack me.<br> <br> So there you have it - thanks but no thanks.</p> </blockquote> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="14%"> <p align="left"><a href="index.htm#persistence"><Back</a></td> <td width="18%"> <p align="center"><a href="../index.htm">Salvia Effects</a></p> </td> <td width="18%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../index.htm">Salvia Menu</a></p></td> <td width="18%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../../home.htm">Main Menu</a></td> <td width="18%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../../experience/index.htm">Experience</a></td> <td width="14%"> <p align="right"><a href="../../../contact/index.htm">Contact</a></td> </tr> </table> </body>