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Very awesome experience indeed. Just shows you how powerful our brains are at filtering incoming data to provide you with experience we all have. Salvia especi

by nikivi 7y ago

Very awesome experience indeed. Just shows you how powerful our brains are at filtering incoming data to provide you with experience we all have. Salvia especially to me proved how absolutely weird and odd can an experience be like. The brief moment of thinking you are dead only to be instantly put in an experience where you forget you were even a human. An experience where you don't think about the future or past but just feel what you feel right now. Salvia is weird also because it doesn't change what you see but what you feel too. Psychedelics are fascinating. All my experiences though come down to a powerful realization that all that I experience is all that life is. It's very God like feeling.

jasonjackson 7y ago
I like Salvia the most (not for the faint hearted) partly because of how unusual/odd experience it is it doesn't imprint me a bunch of spiritual beliefs afterwards. I feel like I learn more about the mechanism of perception from it; albeit in an uncomfortable way.
jelliclesfarm 7y ago
Do you mean Salvia Divinorum?
- nikivi 7y ago
  Yes. I dropped some notes on it here. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/drugs/psychedelics/salvia https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/drugs/psychedelics/salvia
fallingfrog 7y ago
I didn’t like salvia; to me it just felt like the gain of all my neurons had been cranked up to the point where they started to feedback. It felt like my brain was no longer a device for thinking but was now just producing variegated patterns and noises and other garbage output. I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again.. and when it wore off I felt more annoyed than anything else. Are all psychedelics more or less like that?
- walleeee 7y ago
  > I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again.. Psilocybin and LSD can certainly produce that feeling. For that matter, cannabis at high doses can as well. It's possible to train oneself not to "chase" linear trains of thought so compulsively, though. Some would argue that's critical to a good psychedelic experience: letting go of typical patterns of cognition and allowing the mind to go where the trip takes it. On sufficiently large doses of many psychedelics, I have the impression that the mind becomes less a goal-oriented, narrowly focused "thinking machine" and more a child-like, free-associative, broadly perceptive sense organ. Fighting that tends to be unpleasant, imo.
- jes5199 7y ago
  no. Salvia is considered to uniquely unpleasant. Other psychedelics (usually) bring various good feelings along- the sensations of insight or of love or unity or any of a bunch others
  - pmoriarty 7y ago
    There are lots and lots of positive salvia trip reports out there. Some people love it, some don't. Others don't get much effect from it at all. From my reading it does tend to be relatively impersonal however, compared to some other psychedelics.

by nikivi 7y ago

jasonjackson 7y ago

I like Salvia the most (not for the faint hearted) partly because of how unusual/odd experience it is it doesn't imprint me a bunch of spiritual beliefs afterwards. I feel like I learn more about the mechanism of perception from it; albeit in an uncomfortable way.

jelliclesfarm 7y ago

Do you mean Salvia Divinorum?

nikivi 7y ago
Yes. I dropped some notes on it here. https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/drugs/psychedelics/salvia https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/drugs/psychedelics/salvia

fallingfrog 7y ago

I didn’t like salvia; to me it just felt like the gain of all my neurons had been cranked up to the point where they started to feedback. It felt like my brain was no longer a device for thinking but was now just producing variegated patterns and noises and other garbage output. I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again.. and when it wore off I felt more annoyed than anything else. Are all psychedelics more or less like that?

walleeee 7y ago
> I also felt as if I was constantly trying to recover a lost train of thought, like I was thinking, hold on.. wait.. what was I doing again.. Psilocybin and LSD can certainly produce that feeling. For that matter, cannabis at high doses can as well. It's possible to train oneself not to "chase" linear trains of thought so compulsively, though. Some would argue that's critical to a good psychedelic experience: letting go of typical patterns of cognition and allowing the mind to go where the trip takes it. On sufficiently large doses of many psychedelics, I have the impression that the mind becomes less a goal-oriented, narrowly focused "thinking machine" and more a child-like, free-associative, broadly perceptive sense organ. Fighting that tends to be unpleasant, imo.
jes5199 7y ago
no. Salvia is considered to uniquely unpleasant. Other psychedelics (usually) bring various good feelings along- the sensations of insight or of love or unity or any of a bunch others
- pmoriarty 7y ago
  There are lots and lots of positive salvia trip reports out there. Some people love it, some don't. Others don't get much effect from it at all. From my reading it does tend to be relatively impersonal however, compared to some other psychedelics.