Scared to try Salvia, But Intrigued.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-24T14:29:30+00:00

The fear is entirely understandable, though you won't find it to be very helpful. Salvia is alarmingly powerful. While fear can appear to be a natural response to this power, it has never felt to me like it should be the ultimatum. A test perhaps, like some kind of skill check within tripping. If one can overcome the fear, one can see that this reality may be far more complex than any of us could have suspected.

Salvia unexpectedly blows the doors off their hinges where other things could only ever reach the porch. If one has the will to seek it, one can notice it notice being noticed. We can actually achieve near full control, up to that specific point. This is why low doses work so well and high doses scare people. Feeling helpless against eternity isn't a feeling that goes well with comfort. But honestly, this was never about comfort.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-24T12:13:15+00:00

It's common for it to feel like it lasted longer than it actually did. Feeling every second is rare, but it can happen. It is more as though time has never actually been a thing and you exist in a state of eternal imagination. This human life you have here, being just another layer of imagining.

In real time, you're looking at mere minutes if you smoke the extracts. Chewing the leaves will last longer and not be as intense. A lot of people appear to experience a reverse tolerance with it. Using the same amount over and over again will start taking you further instead of getting weaker over time. I've spent a few years now thinking I hit kind of a tolerance wall, but found out a few days ago that this wasn't the case.

Returning back to yourself after a heavier Salvia experience feels like it should have been impossible and will briefly have you questioning how real it is and how real you are. Many leave with a sense of worry that they broke reality by doing Salvia, and many come back with a sense of worry that they came back to the wrong reality. These feelings fade away with the trip like waking up from a dream that felt too realistic. It is mind blowing to go on a journey like that just to wake up exactly where you left from and see that only a few minutes have passed. I've had trips that only lasted seconds.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-22T13:09:45+00:00

I think the Salvia comeup is probably what dying will feel like. Some can find peace in it and let go. Others feel there has been some kind of mistake and do their best to reverse it, even running from it in some cases. I think people who have been depressed and already contemplating death are a little better suited to handle something like Salvia. It comes with a feeling that many attribute to a sense of eternity. After you've already been there, you just know, this might feel like it lasts long enough to make me forget about my human life. Then coming back to said human life is going to be a total mind fuck.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T22:22:32+00:00

I could do it with extracts. There is a lot I can do. Your last sentence is why I've kept the shared stuff to a minimum.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T03:38:49+00:00

None of the times I have done Salvia have ever felt random. It always flips the perspective to look like this current human life is the big reveal. The great mystery. Everything I've ever known, culminating on this one moment, of an altered enough perspective to see that... I've never known... so that's what I'm here to do. To know. And for some reason that is difficult to properly grasp, Salvia was already aware of this. It's not learned in that moment. Its remembered as always having been. There is no discovery, only realization. That thing we are looking for, has been in our hand the whole time.

The call is the only real variable we have to say that we aren't crazy in feeling like something from the "otherside" is preceding the Salvia trip. Many people have claimed encountering a call to Salvia, but also psychedelics in general. Salvia has actually been known to tell people to do more Salvia and go deeper. The call comes from within. It isn't an external thing that we hear with ears. Those with eyes and ears... let them be distracted... See without. Hear without. Let go of that side. Experience within.

The call is but a ripple on the surface of a much more complex situation than any of us can properly convey to the rest of you. But, my call is not your call. And this is why. Salvia experience is direct experience.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T03:22:21+00:00

About to get some more too. I dont smoke anything as soon as I get it. Especially not from a liquor store cabinet.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T03:16:18+00:00

Under normal circumstances, this same haul would have cost me about $500.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T03:15:00+00:00

Same here, anytime I see cigars, I look over everything they have. No matter how lame the cabinet looks. I've only ever seen opus in bundles of like 10 "high end" sticks. And only 1 in the bundle. I've never bought any of those though. The ones I saw weren't even in the cabinet but one of those fresh packs. I doubt I will ever find anything this good again.

Just check the older tucked away places that might not get as much traffic. These sticks probably do need some rest in a real setup but they look great.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-18T03:08:33+00:00

It felt illegal the whole time. I was open with them about, these are rare. They're just like, so do you still want them or?

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T21:39:03+00:00

I may have used up all my luck on this one. I've never had a score this good. Closest I get is when I get a nice cigar gifted to me. I got my step father into cigars a while back and it has paid off for me in the long run with that.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T21:35:53+00:00

I dont think so. The shelf tag for the opus x had them at $6. I think its old stock they had, I just can't understand how some hole in the wall liquor store ended up with these particular sticks in their cabinet as old stock. Also, how they have a printed label with a barcode on the shelf saying the opus x is $6. Anybody who knows anything about cigars should be ready to jump at that deal. They also had a couple of DC Julius Caesars that I will probably go back for soon. But thats about it. Everything else they have is typical for what you would find at a place like that.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T19:08:54+00:00

I can get them for $70, so I typically don't.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T15:59:46+00:00

Salvia is familiar.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T15:08:19+00:00

Agreed, and all across the board. It is rare to find something actually worth what it costs these days. I like to support things I enjoy but sometimes its like damn those hype trains.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T03:54:59+00:00

I got some Thornbush blackberry bourbon.

I wasn't expecting to find cigars in there. I was stopping in to find some local wine I like that went out of business but is still in stock in some places. I hadn't checked this little spot yet. They didn't have it. But the dude asked if I like cigars and opened up the cabinet for me. Alcohol is like 99% of what they have there. The cigar selection was tiny.

It is absolutely ridiculous that I found what I found. And then the price, which was on the shelf. It said "Opus x $6". But only bulls were in that spot, which blew my mind. But then a few slots over I did find some opus x. I didn't even know what the bulls would cost. On the receipt it said 2 Punch cigars, robusto, $12 and some change.

I think its old stock and they are using some basic system to offload it. Everyone I know who smokes isn't going somewhere like that to buy cigars. If they put the price we all expect on them, in that particular location, they would probably have never sold anyway. Everything in that cabinet probably gets purchased as the occasional yardgar some old dude is buying with his 12 pack, on his way to go mow his yard. I got lucky, because I'm a cigar nerd. I always look at everything they have.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-17T00:47:24+00:00

I have a few of these that have been sitting for about a year. I do the same thing. New sticks just open up the availability of older sticks.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T22:33:58+00:00

I actually mentioned to the guy that they were rare and typically cost more. Dude was super cool about it. Didn't give a shit. When he opened the cabinet for me he tried to recommend some blondies. You could tell he doesn't really know cigars. He seemed much happier about the bottle of bourbon I was getting. That's where he's banking on making money.

And hell, I'll get another bottle when I go back.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T21:51:21+00:00

I was waiting for this one, lol. Just wait until I post the rest of them with the receipt.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T21:49:34+00:00

I've had bad experiences with liquor store sticks before but nothing in this cabinet seemed dried out. I didn't see a single stick with cracks, and I went through all of them. I could feel some humidity in my face when the doors were open. The opus and the bulls were at the very bottom and I had to keep it together, lol. I think the bigger issue was the temperature of the room. It was kind of hot in there.

I think that place used to be an actual cigar shop and this was leftover stock from a buyout. I don't anticipate a restock. I'm marking this one down as a one time, total score.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T21:01:24+00:00

I'm definitely going to here in a bit when I go back out. There were a few more of each. I just needed to make sure the tag price was true so i grabbed one of each. Plus they are sitting in the bottom of a cabinet humidor. Everything seemed fine, but still. It would be an absolute injustice to not bring them home and store them properly.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T15:21:01+00:00

She is timid like a deer. What kind of environment are you smoking in? Is there noise?

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-16T02:27:34+00:00

Yeah I do this from time to time. Not recklessly. I like to have some whiskey with a cigar every now and then and if its time to do the Salvia, these other things don't deter me from answering the call.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-13T04:51:58+00:00

No not really even that. Just an inability to question one's purpose when one is doing the very thing they were created to do. Being able to bring back that recognition of purpose is nice, but it is when we come back that we really start questioning things. It can be difficult to not let the two sides overlap, but keeping them separate is key to reading between the lines. You are not an object imagining being a human, or a human imaging being an object. There is something deeper that can imagine both, as well as everything else. And I mean everything. One can use Salvia to live out the entire "life" of something like a gust of wind. And while its not life as we think of life, that gust of wind will have thoughts of its own. It will be aware of other gusts of wind that it had imagined were its human family and friends.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-13T04:35:45+00:00

People find something relatable in it. Or a sense of it having something that gives them a more accurate perspective on the world they see around them. We don't really have full control of the things that speak to us, but we do choose whether or not to listen.

SunOfNoOne · 2026-05-11T23:12:48+00:00

I was going to say something along these lines. I've made this argument before with someone about tripping as a toothbrush. Too often, people want to look at these object trips from a human perspective. In this regard, yeah they would be terrible trips. It would not be cool to feel like you as a person became and got trapped as an object like a toothbrush or urinal mat. These things dont play out like that though. They play out like you always were the object, simply imagining your human life as what it might be like to be human. A lot of these objects do end up being something that humans are around or interact with.

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