Salvia caused me to live out an entire lifetime as a fleshy stripe in a world inhabited by fleshy stripes. When I came down I had to run to the bathroom and look in the mirror saying "i took drugs, this feeling will pass" over and over. The human form looked so alien to me the rest of the day.
I'd say it took over a week to fully believe I wasn't still tripping and was wondering if the next time i went to bed would be when I woke up in the real reality.
Derealization is not a pleasant feeling in my opinion.
I once smoked salvia and thought I was in a sprawling, endless library because I was looking at a bookshelf lmao
Pretty wild that there was a time in the UK where really strong salvia was legal but weed wasn't (now both are illegal because our drug laws are wack)
Another time I dropped quite a lot of acid and went to a park, thought I was seeing a fractaling :angel-biblical: style being of pure radiant light and then my friend told me it was some gammon shaking off his beach towel, that was pretty intense.
did 8 tabs of LSD, looked out the window, and for some reason had this overwhelming feeling that I was inside cryptocurrency because all the clouds had turned into hexagons.
My friend who also took 8 with me forgot how to talk and tripped so hard he was essentially blind, so he just walked around the house reciting names of English football players and bumping into stuff.
At one point Rihanna came on the speakers and by then I’d forgotten who I was and who everyone else was too. “Stay” started playing and I thought I was being visited by an angel.
EDIT: that said, I had an excellent time and was at no point worried. My friend on the other hand has sworn to never do acid again.
One time I had a really bad trip so I turned on the radio but it was pretty late at night when my local alt station does their metal program. I gritted my teeth through what seemed like an eternity of grinding, angular noise, and was rewarded with Porcelain by Moby to soothe my nerves.
I never thought I'd be so pleased to hear Moby.
that song slaps on acid lol I listened to it last time I tripped at the aquarium
I once ate a tray of 24 assorted muffins: blueberry, lemon poppy-seed, cranberry apple, banana nut, even bran. Large muffins too, like you'd buy at the bakery, not grocery store mini-muffins. I ate the first five or six out of hunger, and the next dozen I can only attribute to gluttony, but the last half dozen were devoured by determination alone. A part of me wanted to stop— I was full, the muffins had become repulsive, and there was a disconcerting pressure in my chest. The other, stronger part of me knew that if I gave up on that muffin platter I would admit limitation. A limited man can rationalize his every weakness, turn away from every challenge, live his life within the narrow confines of comfort; that's not how I live my life. But I digress. It took six days for my bowels to move, and when they did I shat a monolithic muffin block so wide it could not be flushed, so dense it would not dissolve with repeated flushing, and so heavy it took two hands to lift. The measure of anxiety, pain, pride and love is indescribable, so don't tell me I don't understand childbirth.
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Once I had a beer and it made me a bit dizzy and I couldn't walk straight lol
Took salvia concentrate back when it first started getting around. I was in a world of geometry. A creature, who I felt was a young woman of her species, needed help finding a wheel for her bicycle. The wheels were triangles, not round. I found a wheel and put it on then tried riding off on her bike. In reality I tried mounting an invisible bicycle and fell off the bed to the amusement of my trip-sitter.
Took it another time in a hot, 1970s, very small camper we used to hang out in as teens. I was leaning up against the wall. I started laughing uncontrollably. I was sweating profusely. But I could feel the entire outside world on the other side of the wall. It's almost like I could see outside, without actually seeing it. I could feel the trees and the open space and the whole world behind me. It was a very "oneness" feeling that I've never had a again.
Salvia was so intense that I lost the will to do it again. I didn't have bad experiences, just didn't want to keep doing it.
I did LSD a few times, in small doses. Never got to the point of intense hallucinations. I saw objects breathing but that was the extent of it. LSD was so exhausting. You get done being high like an hour into it and then you realize you have about 8-10 more hours to go. I can't imagine tripping real hard on it for that long. I would go (literally) crazy.
The only time I took salvia I was in a bedroom by myself watching TV and then the only thing I could see was Steve Carrell as a small tour group filed out of a door at the bottom of the TV screen, while I silently panicked and tried to figure out how to escape.
LSD is soooo tiring. Like, it was fun, but it made me clench a lot of my muscles so once I stopped hallucinating I was physically exhausted and sore, and the main effect was that the passage of time seemed super wrong
Uh… I have rocketed into a realm of pure light and beauty. The FLOWERS, they were really adamant about the complexity AND utter simplicity of their purpose. I’ve smelled and touched and saw plants that aren’t real (lol, in normal world and as a hallucination) and a intertwining of lilac trees and the cosmos. The flowers, dude. The Universe is bundled into the beauty and complexity of plants that exist (for humans) as a ornament of nature. Fractals. The Golden Ratio. Fibonacci numbers. Everything was flowing, everything was perfect. 1.618
To borrow some imagery:
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan
DMT, Comrades. It’s a hoot.
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I took LSD and a friend offered me some chewing gum. As I chewed this gum, my tongue split into 3 separate entities, each with a mind of its own, and began fighting for the piece of gum.
Fuck I just remembered I have an eight of mushrooms stashed from about a year ago.
i've huffed ether a few times and I have this moment of acute intense deja vu like a singularity of time. IRL it was probably my brain dying.
I looked at a lit cigarette and it became a fire at the center of the universe. It was too hot so I closed my eyes and suddenly I was elsewhere.
There was a beautiful woman. Her hair was the trees and her face was the ocean. She told me I was an amusing creature. Then I opened my eyes and ate a passion fruit. It was the best fruit I ever had.
a bug taught you a dance
https://i.imgur.com/4mjmwPc.gif
it screamed at me and then taught me a dance
Sounds like something a bug would do tbh