I feel like Salvia doesn’t get talked about enough in this subreddit, so the purpose of this post is to open discussion, and share my hellish nightmare that was a solo Salvia breakthrough.

Preface: I’m a little obsessed with this trip due to the fact that it possibly planted a false memory in my brain. It felt exactly like a nightmare I had when I was six. It was also my first breakthrough and it felt like I had been there 20 times before, thinking, “Oh shit, I fucked up, why did I do Salvia again?”

11:05 I start playin GD’s “Morning Dew (Live in London ‘72)” and I smoke ~0.1g of 30x Salvia. I cleared the bong of the first hit, noticed the bowl was still cherried, go in for a second.

Halfway through that second hit, reality as I knew it ceased to exist. It was like a severe concussion, everything went instantly black. Then I was thrown into existing in the Salvia universe.

I immediately feel my consciousness and physical form extend infinitely in every direction. I am the center of the gears of time and the universe. The entities that made up the gears were like glass books, opened to the middle, stacked on top of each other. As they would rotate around me, I could hear the clinking of the glass, (which I accredit to my bong being on the floor, I was kicking it) and they’re singing a song as they go by, like an nursery rhyme that just kept repeating over and over (probably the Dead on my speaker.)

Also worth noting, I felt like I was standing knee deep in water, due to my bong spilling and my feet being in the water.

As I moved around, it felt like I was transcending time and dimensions, in a very mechanical and precise way, as if I could see and feel every dimension I passed through. When I’d stop moving, it would feel like the gears were continuing through time, and I was getting left behind, trapped in the very fabric of a memory, a specific moment in time.

Another weird part of the trip was me being the cornerstone of the gears and caught in that nursery rhyme thought loop. This is the part of the trip that’s the hardest to describe by far, being that I can’t remember the loop at all, and it was pivotal to me coming out of the trip. I think it had something to do with me actually understanding what they were singing to me, and when I could fully grasp that phrase I snapped back.

Up until writing this, I thought this Salvia experience lasted around 5 minutes being that the song was still on when I came back. Nope. The first message on my phone after the trip was at 11:20 to my friend B, simply saying, “Fuck Salvia.”

Sorry for the long text, I’ve just been meaning to get this down and shared in here for a while now.