Humito's 6th experience with Salvia Divinorum
10 spoons 5x extract from Cosmic Trading.
Bought at de Lachende Paus on the Nieuwe Binnenweg, Rotterdam.

First it needs water and the right amount of water, because too little would not filter the smoke very well and too much you'll get drops of water in your mouth. So it needs some trying out before a good blow can be taken. I decide to take 5 pairs of spoons, so 10 small coke-spoons. I haven't used coke for years, so it has become a salvia-spoon. When I got one of the spoons, I was going to use it for Ibogaine. But now we're talking about Salvia Divinorum, so 10 small spoons without a top on it. Very little, but I was going to try out how effective this pipe would be.

Anneke was sitting next to me and it became clear that it's very important that the sitter knows what to expect. And we also found out that Anneke shouldn't use anything herself. This time the trip would be different than the others I had. Anneke had smoked a small pipe allready to get in the mood. We thought that was no problem, but she regretted it later and we agreed that she, espescially the first times, will be sober when I smoke a larger amount. So I filled the pipe with 10 spoons 5x extract. I made myself comfortable on the couch and took a few deep breaths, blew out the used oxygen out of my lungs and made them completely empty. Then I took a big suck from my pipe, a lighter with two flames to burn it as hot as possible. First I suck slowly to let the salvia burn good and then I increase the power and suck the pipe empty and my lungs full. I don't have problem with that, because every morning I smoke 1 or 3 waterpipes with 0.5 grams of marihuana. And I don't know anybody who can take such big blows as I do. Now with the Salvia my lungs were only half full, so I was able to hold in the smoke for a long time. And that for somebody who has had bronchitis since I was one years old. Slowly I exhale and the almost usual thought comes up: when does it start?

The next moment I am in 6 worlds at the same time, in each world I lead a complete life. Every dimension is startled by the existence of the other dimensions. So in every world I'm just as surprised as in the other. Suddenly six lifes are aware of eachother. In one way or the other, the salvia smoke has connected these six different dimensions. At that moment I open my eyes and a seventh dimension (this reality) is added to the others I am aware of. The're all equally important and now, at this moment, on the same place. I am completely surprised by this overwhelming effect. You can not even call it surprised, but more perplexed. That's a better word for the state I'm in. When I open my eyes all the colours melt together. Something urged me to lift up my leg, but I was not aware of a leg. I saw it rising from a whirling colour-mass and with a shock I realized it was my leg. When I looked at my arm I saw the same thing. A whirling colour-mass of wich an arm was rising. Only when it came loose from the mass I realized it was my arm. I'm looking perplexed at Anneke mumbling things like: HEEHEEEEE, NOOO,OOO, this is not possible!! What I meant was that I found it impossible that such a small amount could give such an effect.

When I looked at my girlfriend again I saw her as through a waterdrop. Just like the first time I was on the other side of the drop and as a drop I was looking at her. It's more like an eneryfield in the shape of a drop. When I looked outside myself, it felt like I was under a drop and my girlfriend above the drop and I was looking through it. The first time I saw her smiling at me, but this time I saw fear. With a shock I realized she was very scared and was trying to hide it. It's just that I was looking through every mask and and I saw and felt her fear. Then I got scared too and thought maybe something went wrong.

Calm down, I heard her say, you smoked salvia. On wich I reacted: so what? She again: calm down, you just smoked a pipe of salvia and you're trippin'. I said: Salvia? what's that?? Again I was startled over the fact that I was living totally different, but equally important lives, in six worlds at the same time. Then I thought maybe I did something wrong, because she was so scared. At the same time I felt a great feeling of love for her. She was so scared for me, that something might be wrong with me, but there was nothing wrong with me. Her concern gave me also a feeling of safety, that she was looking after me. I saw how much she cared for me and how afraid she was that something was wrong. Her concern touched me as a sweet blanket of love and that made me want to be normal again, whatever that might be.

Then some other strange thing occurred, I felt a loss for every dimension that was closed. And one by one they closed until there was one left, this dimension we call normal. Only it didn't feel like the right one. I had the strange feeling I was stuck in the wrong dimension and that Anneke had caused that with her panic. I even was a little irritated, because it felt like she did this to me with her panic. Luckely I was soon to my normal self again and understood that her concern was well ment.

This shows again how important it is to be well prepared. Anneke thought that I really did it this time. She thought I was so confused that I wanted to get up. That was her main concern, that I would get up and walk without knowing where I was going. She knew of the possibility of "sleepwalking", so when I lifted my leg and mumbled crazy things with a glazed, empty look in my eyes, she thought I wanted to get up and might fall over the table or something. Now she is also better prepared and my amazement during the salvia trip is not such a shock to her anymore, so she is able to guide me better during all my future journeys.