Humito's 7th experience with Salvia Divinorum,
4 small pipes dried leaves.

Since recently I have pure, not made stronger with an extract, Salvia Divinorum leaves. I have smoked small portions from it, usually in a small pipe. Since I stopped smoking tabacco, I always smoke a waterpipe (weed) everyday a couple of times and when I go out, I carry a small pipe with me. I smoked some salvia with it, just small amounts. Only from the 5x extract I have taken larger doses, in a waterpipe.

This time, my girlfriend and I were in the Kralingse Bos (a big park in Rotterdam). We decided to smoke a little salvia. Anneke had just finished a small pipe and was staring into the depth of a path. I really felt good after smoking my pipe and smoked another one. It's just normal leaf, not enhanced with an extract. At least twice I had smoked several pipes in a row, so I thought I wouldn't be surprised this time. But as often with salvia it worked out differently.

Just after I emptied my pipe in one suck, Anneke said: These bugs are driving me crazy, maybe we should go somewhere else. At that moment a bug landed on my leg and while I stand up I chase it away. I only could say: o.k. let's go, and then everything went very fast. I started mumbling, I stumbled a couple of steps backwards and could barely stay up.

Immediatly it occured to me: I'm in flat world, this is the salvia, I have been here before. It was not that the normal world wasn't there anymore, because I did see it. It's just that it was flat, very flat:-). Everything seemed to lay on a sheet of paper, 2 dimensional. Because I had this strong reaction so unexpectatly, I really had to laugh. When I turned my head, the image of what I saw turned very slowly along with it. This was nice so I turned my head a couple of times. When I turned the new image allready appeared before the old image was gone. Now something else caught my attention. When I looked at Anneke, who was still on the bench, I saw a 2-dimensional image, but when I looked the other way I saw another 2-dimensional image that wanted to cross the other one.

So the image in front of me looked something like this -- and the image on my right like this |. So it was like this --|. There were two people coming around the corner, so now I saw two people in the flat world on my right. Now I saw a big problem rising and I mumbled to my girlfriend that this wasn't possible. These people absolutely could not pass by us, I would go crazy! I really couldn't stop laughing and again I said to Anneke that they cannot pass and that, if they would try, I'd completely go crazy:-)).

This startled her a little bit, so she said I must remain my calm against these people, so don't go crazy! I answered that that would be impossible, if they would pass, I'd go crazy. To me it was cristal-clear to me they could not pass. I obviously was enjoying myself, because Anneke didn't understand. I just meant that I wouldn't be able to keep in my laughing. I didn't want to bother these people, I just could not control my laughing.

Because their flat world wanted to cross our flat world, I was convinced that these people couldn't pass. Our world was still standing 90 degrees on the other world, so I thought they couldn't pass eachother. It just wouldn't go --|. It would get stuck as soon as it came in this position -|-. I hardly couldn't grasp this comic situation. Slowly they came closer.

But also the effect of the salvia was diminishing, so at the moment they passed us I was fairly calm. Although behind me happened more than before me. This is also a known effect for me when I have smoked salvia. More and more things start to happen behind me. Not really behind me, but more inside of me. It's there where the eyes can't see. What I mean is that you can only look in a certain angle and beside that, nothing. When I have smoked salvia, I can observe activaty in this area, where you normally can't see. It starts on the edges and it grows inside, or further away from my normal view, what is it?? It's like a birdview or something.

As if I can look around in a 360 degrees angle, but it always stay 2 different dimensions I'm looking at. The normal world in front of me and the magical salvia world behind me, or inside of me, I don't know. I have the feeling that Salvia Divinorum will show me a lot more in the future. Everytime I smoke it, the salvia will show me more and more.

In the meantime the two people had passed without any trouble and I couldn't stop laughing now. Another young woman passed and looked surprised at me. She walked on with a look of disapproval. Slowly the effect was diminishing and it felt like any moment I was losing a shell of strangeness until only the ordinairy world remained. It's not ordinairy yet, because after a psychedelic experience everything has a special glow and everything is still beautiful. The great thing from salvia is that it is a very short rush, but it has a huge impact. Everytime I smoke it, I get more insights in the salvia world.

I know that what I have discovered is still nothing, that my sensetive brains, my vulnarable ego, were protected. Up till now, salvia has obviously protected me against myself or whatever else there may be. Hopefully my relation with salvia will continue like this and hopefully I can help her with my small contributions. As a sort of gardian angel, I'm waking over the body of Salvia Divinorum. Maybe she can guard my fragile and unstable health ( I see my own ignorance as a sort of disease, so I hope she can cure me of this all consuming disease "ignorance").