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Visiting Other Dimensions
Salvia
by Anonymous
DOSE : smoked Salvia
I've now used Salvia twice. Both times I've had a sensation of external pressure against my body, coming
from a discernable direction. Both times also I've had some experience of what could be thought of as
visuals, but are really much more like visually-interpreted perception in other dimensions. The second time, I
had a mini-vision of rushing past several windows in a structure like a greenhouse, accompanied by a
REALLY strong sense that I was near something forgotten, yet familiar, and intensely powerful. I struggled,
perhaps too hard, to grasp what it was, but it has as yet eluded me.
This is the strangest of substances! I also had the terrific experience of synaestesia with music, something
I've never experienced on another compound. After I smoked my first couple of bowls this last time, I closed
my eyes and let the music work on me (this was some beat-oriented ambient groove by William Orbit). I was
presented with gently waving bands and waves which swayed with the beat, and vegetable visions where
leaves and stems appeared and built upon each other in time with the development of the music.
Grass grew from the backs of my hands, at least it felt like that. Both times I've felt the feeling-tone of my
tactile sphere change from whatever normal is to something that tasted-felt sort of orange and green. I get a
slight disorientation, some loss of balance and coordination, and the feeling that my body is extended into
these wierd dimensions that I can *see* in my mind's eye but which are not part of our normal milieu.
That night, as I lay down to sleep, I was startled and fascinated by brilliant flashes of light and a sense of
rushing, rushing behind my eyelids. It didn't keep me from sleeping, or evoke any profound dreams, but it
sure was interesting. Several times there was the feeling of perceiving a sort of shimmering barrier or screen
between myself and the imaginal realm that I had briefly visited, and this was hours after the actual
experience.
It's most interesting with Salvia that I have fairly strong perceptual experiences that are not visual, and that
do not indeed seem to relate well to ANY of my normal senses. A person who also partook with us during this
last smoking said he felt that Salvia wanted him (and this is my paraphrasing) to turn from the realityperceptual-tunnel
through which he normally looked and see these OTHER things within the Salvia realm.
Exp Year: ID: 2141
Added: Jun 26, 2000
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