• betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      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.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      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