#11 B. Schuldes - 2 "bong hits" Salvia leaf with
350-450 mcg. LSD
The Entheogen Review contains a report of a Salvia-LSD
trip which has
some parallels to my own experience with this combination. This journey
was induced by smoking a small amount of dried Salvia divinorum leaf,
which typically would yield only minimal effects when not potentiated
by
LSD.
"Upon reading that a large initial intake is critical to the level
of the
experience, I smoked Salvia divinorum in a bong. One inhalation led
to
minimal effects when used alone. Desirous of the full spectrum, I tried
smoking it while in the midst of my usual 35~450 mcg. of LSD. I inhaled
deeply and then again. Sometime after the second inhalation I completely
lost awareness of anything. After several seconds (or minutes, I really
don't know) awareness returned, though only remotely. There was pain
in my lungs and I began deep breathing. I started to panic and thought
I'd
burned my lungs somehow. While still desperately puffing in and out,
my
perception imploded. Our vision resolves images from each eye into
one
image: in this case, my perception became impossibly
skewed: my
consciousness was imploding! Totally confused, I felt that I was being
electrocuted and I began spinning and moving around to tree myself
from
the "current." My face felt like it was also imploding and at one point
it
seemed like I could see its other side; my eyes were now facing each
other! I was convinced that death was imminent. My girlfriend assured me
that I appeared normal, which comforted me greatly. At this point I had
no memory of having smoked the Salvia -- it took ten minutes before I remembered.
I satin total confusion, still convinced that death was certain. Slowly,
the familiar LSD awareness returned, though for a long time my central
vision bulged as in Escher's "Balcony" and I felt that my mind had malfunctioned
terribly. In retrospect, the phenomenon was much like a profound and relentless
dizziness. I've smoked just Salvia twice since this experience and found
that I need inhale only a minimal quantity (two small puffs) to stimulate
a mild, short-acting recurrence of the phenomenon."
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