Humito's 1st Salvia Divinorum experience
1/64 gram, 1/32 gram and 1/16 gram extract from Cosmic Trading.
Bought at Pluto on the Nieuwe Binnenweg, Rotterdam.

It was the 3rd of June 2000 when I had my first experience with Salvia Divinorum. What I had read about it interested me a lot, because it seems that it had a similar effect as DMT. Since I have been looking for that for like 20 years, you can understand my enthousiasm.

A few weeks before I recieved an e-mail from Erix, who asked me if he could place a story I wrote on his website. Ofcourse I gave my permission, because I think information should be spread as much as possible. That's how I got to know Erix and I immediatly (proud as I am when a story of mine gets published on another website than my own) went to his website, wich is a beautiful site about salvia, ipomoea and lots more. Also very informative, also about the possible dangers from certain substances. Take alcohol, despite the dangers of this drug, many peole enjoy it.

Also psychedelics (even a deep meditative trance) have their dangers, so be careful and prepared. Don't go out driving or something stupid like that. I had heard that salvia can have a very strong effect, so be careful. Read first about what it does and learn about the positive things it can bring you, but it also can have "dark" side wich can scare the hell out of you. For more Salvia divinorum info you can check out: Erix

After a few e-mails to eachother, Erix and I got to know eachother and we decided we should meet. Because I don't have a car and I'm living a little bit like a hermit with my girl, I am stuck in Rotterdam, so he came to us. One day after my first salvia experience he came by. It was a very nice day and I learned more about salvia. We should have smoked some salvia then, but my girl and I weren't comfortable enough with the salvia yet to use it with 2 people we just met. Later we thought we could have, because they were great people (he and his girl) and I think that Lady Salvia likes us. The effect of the salvia is very strong, but at the same time very mild.

Fairly good informed I started my first attempt. It's not like it should be, because my girl is out. It's recommended to not do it alone. All alone in the house I tried a very cautious dose. As you can also read in my 2C-T-2 experience, I always try a very low and safe dose. On my table is a half gram of 5* extract. I make a long line of the pulverised leaves. Than I make two little piles and divide them again for 3 times. Now I have piles of 1/32 grams and one of them goes into the pipe. The recommended dose on the package is 0.1 till 0.25 grams. When I start smoking, the first thing I think is: "good, the smoke is not sharp". Slowly the smoke slides in my throat and after I exhaled I feel a small tingling rising in my body. Then I wait for the effect to come, but all I feel is this tingling, a sort of wave going through my body. I decide to smoke another pile of 1/32 grams, but I still don't feel much. I carefully try to get up from the couch and start walking to my balcony. Here I feel a very light sensation going through me, but then everything is back to normal again. Probably I used to little and was the feeling even an placebo effect. But I had some more and I wanted to try it again. So this time I tried 1/16 gram and again I didn't feel that much, but when I got up it felt very strange and unstable. Also this time I smoked a second 1/16th, but this had not much of an effect either.

So I had smoked four pipes now and I was lightly stoned, but was that the salvia or the waterpipe marihuana I smoked earlier that day?? It was hard to say and even now I still don't know.:-) O.K., Then I'll smoke 1/8 gram. I started sucking on my waterpipe and the smoke slided deep in my lungs. As a warm blanket it came over my body. As I closed my eyes, I thought: "this feels good". At that moment something grabbed my body and dragged me away. Shit! What is this! I am dragged into a whirlpool! It feels as if my body is gone and I a panic came over me. At the moment I was wondering what on earth was going on, I saw a flat world before me and when I opened my eyes it seems that I was coming back to this world, but everything was still very flat and vague. It felt like a wirlpool in wich I slowly desolved. What was very strange was the fact that a part of me knew what was going on and another part was thinking: "what kind of stupidity did I do this time"? I realized that I was no longer there and was desolved in the picture I saw. I did see the room I was in, but I was not in it, I was the room, the couch and everything at the same time. It also seemed that I remembered an important part of my life, a forgotten part. It felt good this way, even if things would never change it still was O.K. being the couch, the room. Just being seemed to have an extra meaning. Then the life as everything started to fade and I became my body again and my body disconnected with everything again. It really was a shock being back to normal and I wondered if I didn't prefere to be back in that other, so much richer, part of my life.

Everything became more normal and when I looked at the clock there were only 5 minutes passed. So this all took place in a very short time. It felt strange, scary, but above all, very good. With scary I mean like in a bad dream. Usually you are not afraid to go to sleep the next night when you had a scary dream before. So it wasn't that scary that I wouldn't do it again. Even more, it gave me a very special feeling and days later I still feel an extra energy. It is as if something came into my life wich was missing all that time. Something essential wich you don't miss until you've seen it. Afterwards you don't understand why you haven't seen it before and that this part of life was never missed before:-))).