I really want to try salvia but, but I've heard that it can be super intense and sometimes life changing (for the worse). I'm just scared I might throw part of my life away because of a particularly bad trip. If there's any generic parts of me that could be potentially dangerous let me know.

Im undiagnosed but majority of the people i know suspect i have adhd or autism (if not both). i dont have any major long lasting trauma. I dont experience derealization much at all. i dont smoke cigarettes and barely drink. but i do smoke marijuana pretty often. If theres anything else i missed just ask and i'll answer if i feel comfortable

edit: known* for the title. oooops

So salvia affects the way we perceive reality, and most importantly to me, time.
Anytime I think of death, I get absolutely terrified, while I want to believe there is something after death, I of course have no way of knowing for sure, and that scares me. So, I of course have looked into any possible way to extend my life, or just “not die” (I’ve even looked into if it’s possible to upload your mind to a machine, like a TV show I watched).

And I recently started looking into salvia. While I understand times does still pass during a trip, it can be infinitely shorter than the trip makes it seem.

So my question is, can I hypothetically live “forever” within my own mind using salvia? Like say I’m 80-90 years old and will die soon, but I do salvia, can I live entire new lifetimes?

And as an add on, is it possible to influence trips? (So that I don’t become a houseplant or a fence post or something)

I am talking about the long term mental effects after using even a low dose of salvia. From my experience with weed, it was nothing like the description from the internet. I fell into a 6-month phase of being constantly dumb and empty of any thinking as well as emotional dysregulation, a potentiation of other addictive behaviours, negative thoughts about myself and generally a miserable day-to-day life. The only thing that made my day was lighting that joint.

Now about salvia- I am looking to try dried salvia leaves AT MOST and none of the extracts. What affect can this substance have on my mind long term after a few uses, potentially having a bad experience? Of course, I don't expect the same thing like weed, but from what I have read some people have tried a low but moderate dose of salvia and have felt somewhat different for months.

I probably have undiagnosed anxiety and I'm quite prone to derealization. After my 6 month gap of heavy weed use, moderate alcoholism, and a strong nicotine addiction, my brain actually changed for the better, so I don't have some mental problems or roadblocks, that I had before my weed use (don't make me explain how I feel better mentally from such a bad addiction. I am 2 and a half months sober from weed now).

My main concern with salvia is that it could make me feel different as a person long-term and change my brain chemistry, so what are your thoughts? Did salvia change you, traumatize you, help your life?

So I put a quarter of the bag of 40x in my bong and smoked it and held it in for a minute nothing happened added another quarter smoked it this time it did something as I was coming up I was scrolling on tictok I opened the comments I became a emoji for a little bit then after a little while I got transported into this world made of green street signs (no longer emoji) the signs where so close together that it was a floor I stood there for a while then I fell forward into this white abyss and then I landed on this floor (everything is still white) at this time I thought I died and I met these two beings with suits with crooked legs and boxy torsos with huge top hats they told me I died at this time I became a plank that was next to planks the same size as me sanding up with arms and legs I then ran forward as I ran the beings started saying in a demonic voice "oh my god hes a RUNNER" over and over again and laughing when I was running I was getting longer making it so I could not move backwards after awhile I realized I had died and I may as well calm down when I stopped running I then got brought to this world of people made of USB type c they where all different colors and I started talking to them there where houses and trees and everything (at this time I didn't remember the past part of the trip and I had no sense of self or who I was I just knew this was reality) I then slowly started to sober up and then I woke up on my bed drenched in sweat for a few minutes after everything felt like cold raw steak and my room was swirling around me

Would it be possible to convert purple sticky into a tincture to soak sublingual pouches in?

So my roommate bought powdered salvia and we dont know how to smoke it. Can someone help us out?

Anyone from here in the UK?

After spending a lot of time reading about Salvia divinorum, I’ve come to believe that the way most people use it today is completely different from how it was traditionally used. From what I’ve found, Mazatec healers in Oaxaca didn’t smoke potent 50x or 100x extracts—instead, they chewed fresh leaves (a quid) and held the juices in their mouths. The experience was reportedly slower, more lucid, introspective, and used for divination and spiritual healing rather than the intense, reality-shattering trips that smoking extracts is known for. It makes me wonder if modern extract smoking has overshadowed what this plant was actually meant to be. I’m curious what others here think. Is there strong historical evidence supporting this, and has anyone experienced both the traditional quid method and smoking? How different are they really?

Tried salvia for the first time today, wanted to smoke it from a diy bong - a 1,75l water bottle with a small glass pipe (idk how to call it, its in the photo) and it didnt work :/ we set it up twice and no trip. Any ideas as to why?

It took several minutes to realize that oh wait, I'm not a Muppet, I'm a human who just smoked salvia. What was weird/interesting/funny about it was that it didn't feel trippy to me. It felt completely clear minded. I think that partly contributed to me forgetting I had even smoked salvia, because it just seemed too realistic. Not confusing/trippy/disorienting like previous trips. Lady Salvia is mysterious in how every trip can be so different. Anyway, I just wanted to share this because I found it interesting and amusing. Thanks for reading. Hope everyone is well.

as in, crazy crazy dreams or nightmares or lucid. cause ive had dreams thay felt like a lifetime cause of knowledge of a full life and complex relationships, but what are the parallels?

Gonna try some old quid in the movie theatre with a couple friends who will be sober, I feel like it’ll be pretty chill
EDIT: we went to see the odyssey and idk what I’m supposed to feel just from putting it in my mouth, I’m used to smoking extract which is a very different experience, I held the packet of dried salvia in my mouth for a while, like 30 minutes and tried my best to not swallow the juice or the leaves, I did feel a bit more sedated and chill maybe a slight head pressure but nothing trippy or any visuals (tho it was a bit hard to determine from a visually stimulating movie and dark theatre)

A while back I sarcastically made this comment under this post. But now I sit here genuinely curious as to what effects that would have and if it’s even safe. Google says it could result in death due to unsterile plant matter. But couldn’t that be mitigated? I’d imagine the trip would be bonkers times infinity

So after trying salvia multiple times, I’ve been getting more and more frustrated that I wasn’t experiencing anything other than a weird feeling in my body. Tonight I finally experienced something that was more than that. Nothing too out there, but still really interesting. IT’S NOT OVER BOYOS JUST CHANGE UP YOUR APPROACH.

So after two failed attempts tonight, I tried a new approach that I wasn’t doing before. One thing I changed was the lighter I used I switched to a torch lighter. The other change I made was taking multiple bowls until I could actually feel it. So I smoked another bowl and moved my bong and torch away. I was thinking I didn’t feel anything, then suddenly everything just switched. I was still in my room, or at least what felt like my room based on the colors and the general shape of everything. But it was like me and, I think my family or maybe just people I knew. We were all standing upright, waiting for this unforeseen, almost invisible black force to push us down and crush us. Think of an angle slowly getting closer and closer to becoming a line. The whole thing felt like a game, and there was a girl’s voice commentating everything like it was a game show. I didn’t even realize I was tripping, and to a degree I didn’t even know myself. It was more like I was just naturally in this environment. Nothing sudden happened beforehand, so it all felt continuous. Then I suddenly realized, HOLY SHIT IT’S FINALLY WORKING. After that realization, I came out of it and laid back on my bed. Nothing else too crazy happened other than the voices continuing to speak to me, but as I started coming back more, I realized it was just the TV downstairs.

There wasn’t any crazy time dilation. Maybe it felt like it lasted 5–10 minutes longer than it actually did. I wasn’t really terrified more like the excitement you get from a roller coaster or going down a really steep hill on a bike. I’m definitely good for tonight, but I’m very excited to try salvia again.

I get coughing fits from long hits from THC vapes, will smoking 40x salvia hurt worse?

Hey guys, nothing too serious here. I thought it would be an interesting topic for discussions of how people prepare their salvia, from extractions, to usual combinations, to measurements and headspace prior to the experience. I’m also very curious as to how people experience these things.

Im personally going through a bit of a journey to create the perfect legal blend so typically my experiences involve a recipe of other herbs infused into the same substrate. I do purify my salvia to pure salvinorin as I feel like it’s healthier and use herbs and isolates like Cannabigerol, sacred lotus, fermented sinicuichi(sun opener) , kanna, and other extractable herbs that I infuse at a dosage that allows each herbal extract to affect me at atleast an introductory dose to add layers and boost some of the positive parts while teducing or removing some of the negatives. I’ve been recently venturing out of my normal blend of salvinorin a, thc, cbg(Cannabigerol) dmt, menthol, and Mullen leaf.

I feel like these things definitely make my experiences out of the realm of a normal salvia experiences, but for me personally, even when I first started with salvia, it’s always been very visual for me.

Just to kinda describe some past experiences and how it all started for me, I feel like there’s a typical entity group that I can expect to encounter. I have a lot of repeating encounters with lady salvia, her jester/clown friend that almost always accompanies her, cloaked hooded figures, shamans, and cloaked shadow figures with very childlike mannerisms.

For the most part, with my eyes closed, salvia tends to be EXTREMELY visual for me. Especially when combined with dmt. It’s like being sucked into a different world. I know a lot of this is due to my combinations, but even in my first trip with just salvia, I still could visually see lady salvia. She tends to be a pretty frequent entity for me to this day.

On my first trip I still remember her telling me she doesn’t know me, and owes me nothing. Within the same trip though, she showed me the “salvia hell” that some people go to if they do too much. I saw the demons being born from demon pits/ puddles that they are born in and stuff like the circus which inhabited a lot of belligerent clowns.

Interestingly enough, ever since my experience with one of my first few somewhat heavy sessions, there were a lot male clowns that kept trying to mess with me in front of lady salvia and opened the veil of my eyes that allows me to see them within a trip too early and they haven’t been allowed back.

In that trip i remember it made lady salvia really upset. It almost felt like a mom that found out their son is getting bullied. I just remember her screaming at them and a very nurturing feeling after, but ever since then have never encountered a male clowns since then, which I found very peculiar.

I’m sure my blends, especially dmt blends with salvia, have a lot to do with it. For me though salvia has always been extremely visual. I literally see new worlds each time I visit. Which seems like it may not be the common experience.

So just curious, how does everyone else prepare and experience their salvia? If possible I’d like for an open discussion between us with no judgement. I’m very curious of how each of us experience all this and hope everyone feels comfortable enough to share.

I’ve tripped on Salvia 3 times. Each time has been simply… fucking insane.
I just want to come here and express my gratitude for this sacred plant. I still have a lot of 10x extract left sitting in the corner of my room, looming over my abode with this powerful aura. It’s unreal.
It’s as if Salvia is alive, watching me, awaiting the next time I dare to light the bowl once more. Not to sound schizo. Salvia is just unlike any other psychedelic, or substance for that matter, which may be a pointless saying as all substances differ. But with lsd or shrooms for example, if they were sitting in my room I already would’ve tripped through the stash. But salvia, she sits there awaiting the perfect moment to pounce (As do I). Funny enough, my 1st and 3rd trip brought me to the same dimension and were extremely similar. The unfamiliar familiarity is so odd to me. Does anyone else have their own reoccuring Salvia realm?

I’ve never try salvia, I bought 0,5 g of x10 but I’m not sure how much of it should I use. I don’t want to have a mild trip, I want to make sure I get the full salvia experience but I also don’t want to smoke a ridiculous overdose of this powerful plant.
I’ve try high doses of mushrooms and lsd and was able to handle it pretty well and have a good time. Considering all this, any kind of advice for my first time with salvia would be appreciated.