My first breakthrough...

Well, I believe that I promised you all a story and I always try to keep my promises. My old roommate (SageSinger) and myself, after having lived together for a while, discovered that we were both budding psychonauts. We tried many substances (all legal) with varying degrees of success. We had both heard interesting stories about Salvia and decided we wanted to try it. We found information, trip reports and videos on-line. Most of the videos are schlock, but there are a few good ones out there. The trip reports were very enlightening.

We found a reputable vendor and decided to place an order. We of course were both chomping at the bit waiting for the order, it seemed to take forever to come, but really was only a few days. We had ordered an ounce of plain leaf and when we got it we were very pleasantly surprised by the size of it. The bag was huge!

I believe we did our first careful experiments that very night. I believe I went first, I packed our little pipe (just a plain ordinary pipe) and took a few good hits off of it. The only reaction I achieved was a very annoying body high. That's all I ever got from plain leaf with that pipe. SageSinger however got very interesting stuff. He would see things like fireflies, the corners in the room would be come rounded, all sorts of stuff.

We decided what was needed (both because pretty much all the literature that we read called for it, and because it was really harsh) was a water pipe. So, on ,y next payday I went out and acquired an inexpensive, but serviceable water pipe. I brought said pipe home and showed it to SageSinger and he was terribly excited to try it later that evening. As often happens, however, Life intruded. SageSinger's at the time Girlfriend (now wife) came over and he became excited about other things. So after dinner, they sequestered themselves in his room, and I will allow the gentle reader to speculate on what may have happened behind closed doors.

With SageSinger's mind (and body) elsewhere, I was left with almost a full ounce of Salvia and a brand new, untested water pipe and no sitter. I wasn't too worried however about not having a sitter, as nothing spectacular ever happened to me with Salvia. I figured, maybe, if I was "lucky", I might get a few fireflies or some rounding. So I went into my room, closed the door and sat on my bed. I packed the bowl full of Salvia, fired it up and inhaled. Held the smoke in for 15 or 20 seconds, released it and repeated. The second hit killed the bowl, so I put the pipe and the lighter down and then blew out the smoke.

That is when everything went strange. Suddenly I was sitting on my bed. I was floating up around the corner of my room, watching myself sit on the bed. I was also riding a color wave, somewhere else. All these things were happening at the same time. Every once in a while, for a few moments I would be just the me sitting on my bed. At those times I had a mission (Sometimes Salvia gives you a mission, this seems to be an early usage phenomena, not really prevalent when you have been seeing The Lady for quite some time). The Mission was to take the pipe into SageSinger's room and give it to him (this could have been awkward). However I was completely incapable of completing this mission. Every time I would try to stand, I would make it a few inches off the bed then fall back into a sitting position and laugh raucously. Then I would be back in 3 again.

This went on for a while (in all actuality probably only 3 or 4 minutes) but I finally reintegrated into 1 person and could stand again. I had to walk around our living room for a while in clockwise circles. Counterclockwise was an uncomfortable way to walk. I was pretty freaked out and honestly a bit afraid. I felt like I would never be "normal" again. But as is the way with Salvia, it wasn't too long before I was back to baseline.

Well, that is the story of my first real breakthrough experience. I hope you enjoyed it and it spurs you on to find a good sitter... ;)