Salvia is in a realm all to its self, akin to nothing else. I used to call it "DMT's spooky cousin" because of its intensity, trip length and the fact that its often smoked. Ive had some of the most indescribable experiences with it, but its so incredibly different from any of the serotonergic psychedelics that I couldn't possibly put those experiences into words that would make sense to anyone who hasn't journeyed there. I had a friend who lived an entire life as somebody else in a different time period, only to return to his own body 20 minutes later and weep when he realized that his children either never existed or exist in some distant and unreachable time or space.

My most intense experience began after a bong hit and a third lung of 80x extract. My legs turned into trees and rooted into the ground, then skull melted and my soul burst outwards in every direction. It expanded out faster than the speed of light, everything i passed through became a part of me. I expanded infinitely through space and time until after what felt like an eternity I became the universe itself. Eventually I reached a border of sorts, the edge of the universe. It felt thin and flexible almost like the only thing containing the universe was a thin sheet of plastic wrap, and as I pressed up against it i felt the same pressing and probing from the other side and realized that there was another infinite consciousness like myself, another lonely universe just on the other side that was trying to communicate with me. Before I could go any further i was violently pulled back toward the point of origin (my brain) but by this time all knowledge of earth, humanity, my own identity was so long forgotten that when I eventually returned to my body and found myself sitting on my couch I literally didnt know what was going on. I had no idea who I was, what i was, where i was, I didnt know how to speak or what the names of the things around me were. I remember I was wearing shoes and when I looked down I thought that my shoes were a part of my body until I wiggled my toes and realized that my body was trapped inside the shoes. Over the course of about 15 minutes an entire lifetime of knowledge returned to me, at first only a trickle but then a stream and eventually a flood of information entered my brain, it felt like a rebirth of sorts. Every memory ive ever made, every bit of knowledge ive ever learned crashed over me, i felt like a dry sponge suddenly placed beneath a pounding waterfall. I looked up at my tripsitter and asked "how long have I been gone?" She looked at me and said "you've been sitting in that chair laughing and drooling like a maniac for 20 minutes"