Wow its nice to be back (long read kinda).

[newgrower]

i doubt anyone here except members of fairly long ago remember who i am, but i used to post here, probably over a year ago.  A series of unfortunate events dragged me away.

For starters, when i originally came on here, I had registered when i was "underage" because the idea of salvia fascinated me and i didn't want to wait until i was 18 to learn about it.

I had been tending a couple plants in my room, at the time it was mostly just cause i enjoyed watching how fast they grew and watching them branch out and all.  Around the same time, i was helping a friend grow MJ in his basement (both of these were in our parents houses, heh).  Through a lot of immature mistakes, we were found out on that, which lead my keepers to look into what the plants in my room were.  I'm not entirely sure what literature they read, but they promptly made me throw it all out )=  

Those events pretty much burried my interest in deep thought psychoactives for the time being.  To that day, I had used the leaves from my plants 2 times, 1 with nothing but closed eye visuals, and 1 with nothing but a slight feeling that something was different.

So now i'm 18 going on 19, in college studying engineering, with a more level head for responsability and maturity.  I get my work done before i go out and have fun, and I keep it limited to the weekends.  I'm at KU, in Lawrence KS.  If you know anything about it, its kind of a hippie place, so they have a great "herbs" shop here.  They sell pretty much any psycoactive herb thats legal (and a few that aren't so much heh) you could want.  I've currently got their 5x and 10x standardized salvia extracts.

I've used them 4 times now from time to time, all of which gave trips and results that i would not call "negative".  Some were suprising and thrilling, but i have yet to regret using it.  

#1 ... 1 big hit of 5x (bong).  

I got the sensation of sinking into my seat that i was in, with a little bit of a rocking motion.  I got the random laughter effect, and went to bed a few minutes after the main part of the trip was over.  In bed, i had trippy thoughts and dreams all night.  I also see what the term "teacher plant" means now.  Throughout the night, it helped me a lot to sort out an issue that had been on my mind quite a bit lately.  That night my thinking did a 180.  I just had a much more rational and logical perspective on the issue on my mind, and when i woke up, i went and did what it made me think was the better choice, and its been the better choice so far.

#2 ... 2 big hits of 5x (bong).  I sat back and relaxed, closed my eyes, and opened them, only to see the genie from Disney's Aladin about 100' in front of the car we were sitting in (it was parked in a quiet area don't worry lol).  I found this interesting, and kept watching him, and his tail (or whatever you call it) started growing in a wavy pattern up and down across my field of vision.  Next, he multiplied into 50-100 or so genies in a circular pattern up into the air.  Next thing i knew, the car we were in multiplied equal the # of times the genie did and in the same pattern... up into the air, and i went with it!  As i looked down on the multitude of toyota corollas, i noticed the back halves of them were gone, and the passenger door gone, and the inside illuminated beautifully.  I was about halfway up the wheel (seemed like about 60' above the ground), looking down on the yard around the parking lot, and then the yard disappeared.  I felt like i was trying to hold on, like things were moving really fast, but the wheel was hardly even turning.  At the time, it seemed almost normal that i was riding a ferris wheel of cars in the midst of absolute void.  The house was gone, the yard was gone, the other cars in the lot were gone.  Rather awe inspiring.  As i came down from it, i got a little freaked out because it started to seem more and more absurd that i felt like i was in the air in a floating car.  I found myself yelling excitedly as i returned to the only car that was real... the one on the ground.  It had a rocking sensation (like a ferris wheel car when the wheel had stopped)  for a good few minutes.  Again, the uncontrollable laughter.  After this, i went right to bed, and had the same trippy dream and thought state for a good part of the night.  Again, a difficult issue in my life was almost entirely resolved during this thought state.  This trip was pretty intense, and seemed a little heavy when it happened, but i did enjoy it, looking back now.

#3 ... A small hit of 5x (pipe).  

I went easy on this one, as i'd been drinking some and did not want to freak out.  I got some closed eye visuals, and a lot of good laughs, and some pixelation of my vision in the afterglow.  I had a very good nights sleep, with some mild trippy thoughts, but not like the other ones.  

#4 ... 2.5 big hits of 5x (bong w/water)

This was my favorite one so far.  I was a lot more relaxed by now cause i'd done it a few times, so i just took my hits and put the bong aside and stretched out a bit and chilled.  I closed my eyes, and my field of closed eye vision began to get filled up with upside down disposable plastic cups of different colors.  They had purple faces, slightly mocking but pretty harmless seeming.  There must have been a few thousand.  Everything around myself and them was a soft comforting yellow hue.  They formed all sorts of different configurations and patterns, from pyramids to cubes to lines, and then they started dancing and chanting.  I only felt the chanting, couldn't hear it.  Then they brought me on board.  At the time, the way i thought of it was "I'm telling you, theyre mobilizing me as part of some great adventure in movement".  I don't think i became a cup, but i was brought in with them as part of the different formations, dancing (i felt like i was soaring upside down adn side to side and everything) and stomping and chanting).

This trip lasted a good 10 minutes like this, because i had taken the hits slower, with a good 20 seconds in between each one.  Slower absorbtion i guess.  

Once i was grounded enough to get up, i went to my friends room and told him about it, bursting out laughing and rolling on the floor in the process.  He'd been interested in trying salvia for a while, so i stayed by him as a sitter while he did.  He must have been paranoid... he thought there were smurfs coming for us from the chinese resteraunt nearby and that there were bees crawling all over his body.  He laughed non stop about it and made crazy hand motions because of it... To be totally honest he looked exactly like Hunter S Thompson at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, swatting at things in the air that were not there.  I was still glowing while he did this, and had a great time watching him flail around and laugh about the bees and smurfs.  Not sure about him, but i slept like a baby once again... a good 11 hours.


So thats my walk with sally so far, and i've liked it.  Once i use up the rest of my 5x, i'll start using the 10x.  

Sorry this was such a long read.  Hope somebody enjoys it though.

(btw, my name is no longer valid... i'm not growing any salvia plants right now, but i didn't feel like trying to create a new account for the time being)

[TooStonedToType]

Welcome back - I think I know who you are!

[Cassie]

Welcome back and thanks for taking the trouble to write this. I found it very interesting, a clear description of your experiences.

[Jupe]

Welcome back!!!

[senorsalvia]

Great read, and it's wonderful you had so much fun with The Lady...  Seems like you wee meant for each other....  Lawrence eh???   Used to live in Independence Mo and shoot over to Lawrence while playing the lounge lizard....  Ever hear of a band called "Evening Smoke" ??   If'n they are still around, lend um an ear...  Sal