Have You Done Salvia? Do Tell.
OK before this turns into a Tosh flame war; have y’all done the salvia? A few of my friends did it around the campfire and it didn’t really look like fun at all. I guess it’s not really reasonable to expect high schoolers to grasp the deeper and shamanistic herbal qualities of an ancient dried plant, but still, my friends were a bit dumbfounded. The best bit was the three or four guys shouting at another guy deep in a salvia trance “dude, dude, dude, what’s it like? What’s happening?”, while they’re sat there, practically drooling on themselves. Not exactly six-pack fun. Oh and by the way, has salvia jumped the shark if it’s on Funny Or Die? Or does that happen when it’s banned in the USA? [via IsBrave]
- A Silent Flute
February 24th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
This Tosh character is quickly becoming my (only?) favorite frat boy in the world. For those of you keeping score, that’s FFBITW. His show is the tits.
February 24th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Salvia is a lot trippier than i though it would be. I felt like i was on a rotating water mill going around in circles and the only time i could see the real world was when i reached the top. I was out of it for probably like 15 minutes and then i just felt stoned for a while. It was fun at the time, but it wasn’t cool enough to make me want to do it more.
February 24th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
I have taken salvia on multiple occassions. However, on one specific occasion I smoked a pipe of 60x salvia, quickly I began tofeel the usual sensations oriented with a salvia trip for me: my teeth started to hurt and I melted into the couch I was sitting in. There was a butterfly sticker on a window and when i looked at it, it began to move. Before i knew it, i was the butterfly flying on a beach. I then heard a womans voice say “fly follow the blue butterfly” and I immediately snapped out of the trip. The whole ordeal lasted about 10 minutes.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Salvia is one of the strangest experiences I’ve ever had. I got off work at midnight and drove to my girlfriend’s house, where she and four friend of hers had been doing it. Three were “there,” and the other two were “somewhere else.” They used language like “going there,” and “Have you been there?” and “he just went there.” I thought they were being dramatic and indulging in stupid drug culture. So then her friend offers me the salvia. He gives me a tincture bottle (droppers) and I take two dropper vials worth, and keep it under my tongue for 10 minutes. It burned like few things I’ve ever experienced. I was crying. Ten minutes later I swallowed it, and then my girlfriend hands me the bong and says, “*Now* you go there.” I accept my fate and finish the bowl in one hit. I was instantly transported somewhere else. The world started going in and down. Inward, and downward, like being sucked by something below you. It was very synesthetic; there was music on in the background, and I suddenly became incapable of distinguishing the music from anything else; I thought my friends’ speaking to me was the music speaking to me; I thought the music speaking to me was the drug itself speaking to me. It was very intense, and very sudden and quick, and it felt like being compressed or squashed. My immediate instinct was to quickly stand up; my friends held me down, and unable to tell that it was them, I thought it was the drug pulling me deeper into its lair. I fought them and stood up and was wobbly, disoriented, and had no idea where I was. I found my way outside to a chair where I began to come back to reality. The upside to the drug is it’s five minutes tops before you’re back and know where you are and what you’ve done. I had numbness and tingling in my extremities for the next hour, but few things will ever top the intensity and bizarreness and surrealism of those few minutes after the hit.
February 25th, 2010 at 1:48 am
tried it and it sucked…definitely not something you can enjoy, which is why it’s still legal IMO. and 50$ a gram? never again.
try this stuff called “serenity now.” it’s the closest you can get to being blazed w/o failing a drug test.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:02 am
I don’t do drugs, but Salvia videos crack me the fuck up!
February 25th, 2010 at 2:48 am
first time i did it i was driving, second time i was watching a baseball game on tv and thought i was left field by the time it was over. and was actually really heartbroken when i realized i wasn’t in left field.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:55 am
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February 25th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Salvia is great but make sure you’re sitting down. Last time it hit me just as I was getting up to leave a crowded room and I felt like my feet were sinking into the ground and that there were zippers all over my skin opening and closing. Then I fell over.
I really fucking hope no one is seriously smoking it while doing ANYTHING requiring serious motor skills.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:39 am
dont know if anyone has seen these, but theres a guy online who attempts to preform various tasks after smoking salvia, here is “gardening on salvia”: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1817320
-hilarious.
search for more, like “driving on salvia”
February 25th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I was just tweeting about this–and some other drugs–the other day. In my undergraduate days when I was living at some of the wilder party houses in Orlando I rolled with some truly incredible people. Most of them had hippyish inclinations, but I wouldn’t call any of them hippies. There were always new drug coming, and we were always testing them out. We were inclined towards the psychedelic end of the spectrum and we got ahold of some salvia in 2001 or 2002. We smoked it out of a bong and had some disturbing, but not too intense experiences. It was mostly just stupifying for a solid 15 minutes.
But then, one of the more inclined homies made his way onto some epic drug culture website, the name of which evades me currently. He discovered that there was a way to cure it using denatured alcohol. So, we set to work and a few days later had what was supposed to be a much stronger version of the plant. And, it was much, much stronger. in our first experiments, with the weaker version, we noticed that it was very difficult to remain upright. I had been sitting down when I smoked it, and almost instantly I slumped back into the couch and couldn’t bring myself to get up. It was as if gravity suddenly got much stronger. Other than that there had been lots of giggling, and nonsensical speech. However, the second time around, with the stronger version was much more intense.
I was sitting on a couch, and smoking it out of a bong. We had determined that the best thing to do was smoke one giant bowl, so that’s what I did. In the moments before I inhaled I tried to focus on remaining upright on the couch, and not falling back. I cashed the bowl and cleared the bong, and then sat focused on not falling back. It couldn’t have been more than 15 seconds before a dozen hands reached out from the couch and pulled me back. My sensory faculties immediately crumbled, and it felt as if I had become unstuck in time. IT was a lot like a “Warp Speed” sequence in Star Trek or Star Wars. Light and sound were rushing too fast to be intelligible, and I was stupified. As I laid on the couch everything was swirling around me with very little significance, I’d imagine it’s similar to the way an infant sees the world before they’ve developed the sensory habits to cancel out all the noise (sound and otherwise) that clouds perception.
As I lay there I knew my friends were talking to me but I couldn’t make any sense of it, nor was I trying to. Then all of a sudden a large tube about 3 feet around shot down from far out in space (i shit you not, this was all incredibly vivid) and straight into my brain. Hundreds of hands then began reaching into my mind pulling out thoughts. I’d say I came back to reality about 5 or 10 minutes after I initially inhaled the smoke. It then took about two weeks for me to shake feeling that I was missing a piece of my brain, and resituate my psyche. I will never do salvia again.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Checking back in, way way awesome comments bros, really mean it, thanks for sharing the cosmicness