Why does smoking SALVIA give the worst trip ever?

Better yet...
Did I experiance a bad trip because there was people in the room that wasn't doing it, the tv was on loud, and the room was really lit up?

First time I smoked salvia, a large clear curtain fell all over the room, like I saw it falling on the walls and windows... then it fell on me and it was heavy as hell, then I snapped out of it...

The second time, I saw a zipper from a black jacket and I was being zipped into nothing... then snapped out of it...

You probably smoked too strong an extract hence the ultimate bad trip. Most people are not ready for what's called the "ego-death" where you get dysphoria - the sense that you and your body are not important. People talk about melting away, being zipped up, folded up, intense gravity etc - you must learn to let yourself go and see where it takes you. Most people interpret this feeling as actual death and become frightened and thus have a bad trip. Most people smoke salvia without reading or researching its effects, they think its just pot. It's an entheogen, a sacred plant that should be treated wit respect. Also, trips last 15-20 mins typically, the guy who said 6 hours must have been smoking alot of pot for that to have felt that way.

I personally love salvia - it teaches me things about life and answers questions, but i would not reccommend it as most people are not ready to go down the rabbit hole. It's a choice that you must make. It's just a shme that most people smoke 40x extract or higher, freak out and never try it again.

This plant is not addictive and doesnt chemically alter your brain in a dangerous way - it just opens your mind, and some people arent ready for that.

Because it is bad for your brain.
It makes you see things that aren't there, and that isn't normal.
They say its an "organic" drug, but I dont see how that wouldn't have some really nasty side effects.

I have taken Salvia Divinorum 13 times over the course of 2 years. I have taken it 13 times with 13 different people: as their guide I would take it first to show them the effects and how to deal with them.

It has varying effects from uncontrollable laughter to uncontrollable crying, both for no apparent reason to the user. It can have very intense sensations and perceptions while it can also have very mild sensations and perceptions, depending upon the potency and robustness of the plant it was taken from, and whether it is an extract.

I have seen people wander around without awareness of reality. In these times if I were not there to guide the user it would of ended in injury. This is why Salvia Divinorum is not a party drug, because most people simply do not know how to use it properly, effectively, or safely.

I personally have hallucinated sensations, strange perceptions such as my skin flaking away in streams of bright tan sand;
I've hallucinated that my physical body was made up of thousands of tiny people and that the person that is in control of coordinating my mind was kidnapped and taken over by a different person;
I've hallucinated actual objects linked to our reality that could not possibly of been there: for instance I saw a white truck drive up the hill where my friend and I were using and back down again, except after I came off the experience I realized this was impossible because there was a stack of logs blocking the path where the truck drove up. If Salvia Divinorum was truly a dangerous drug I would not of been able to realize that.

you should talk to someone with a psy degree dude.

The thing is with salvia...
especially the way i took it, the psycological effects are way too much to deal with... Talk about being like a skitzo, hearing things and seeing things you wouldnt normally
but it was more then just seeing the things, you could feel everything even in your body...

iit just wasnt cool


first of all like always i was in a different demension
but as it progressed
it only got worse
and my body felt like it was melting...
not like hot but just like everything was just dripping off my body

and it felt way too real

no joke, and when i walked home from meekland, i felt like it was just like my bones moving
and my body was just wishing around them

my friends wanted to play some zombie video game
and at that time i was like fuck that im out of here, because i was already tripping and that only made it worse

it was like forever...
it felt like it never went away

i went home, layed down, went to work

luckly by the time i was at work
i was back to normal

but its like this
other people that have done it, cant even explain like how i just did

(not something that i would ever want to do again in my life
plus also i did it at the wrong time, there was music, the tv was on, people were playing video games, and the computer was on as well, and everything

i just did not go well

right now i dont feel good... as like the joy has been sucked out of my life, and i cant feel happy... it makes me wonder why that one kid who did it a couple months before commit suicide...

my friend wants me to smoke some with him in a few days. but i dont like real rushed highs, i just like to be chill ya know man? and plus i have never done anything that makes you see shit.

Im afraid of psycing myself out and having a bad trip. is thre a way to prevent that?

The last time i took it, my hands were ice mountain, and were cold so that i felt cold on them. I looked away from my hands and all my friends were looking at me, including the driver of the car we were in, yet we were still weaving aggressively between rows and rows of cones.

it is because salvia divinorum active chemical salvinorin A is a kappa opiod receptor agonist and substances that effect this part of the brain in this way(being an agonist and not an antagonist)tend to induce a state of dysporia(not always and not for everyone as everyones body chemistry is different)as opposed to the marked euphoria that lsd and other pyschedelics tend to induce if you want more info on it wikipedia it

mine lasted for 6 hours considering that i did it in 3 intervals, 1 and a half hits each time... but as it progressed it only got worse <_<
i smoked weed as well...
i am not pleased though with what i went through for those last 3 hours

Salvia gave me a good trip but thats just me. it lasts for a pathetic amount of time though

Umm try having some guy lace your weed at a party with salvia after you've already been drinking and have NO ONE else know what the hell happened to you when you are "unconscious" (i wasn't really unconscious but i appeared to be. i could hear everything but i was falling into that dark 'salvia' hole or whatever.) i wanted to tell my friends i was okay but i couldnt move or open my eyes. and i was vomitting all kinds... they thought i had alcohol poisoning (off 4 shots and 1 hit of "marijuana") after the guy who gave me the hit just mysteriously took off. I COULD HAVE DIED!!! This stuff should be OUTLAWED. Seriously, it could have been used as a date rape drug... i didnt know what was going on cuz i didnt even know who i was, or what i was, or even what life was! thank god i had a guy friend who watched over me and turned me on my side while i was throwing up for what I thought was hours but i guess it was only 15 minutes. they ended up calling an ambulance because they didnt know what was wrong with me... This stuff is serious... especially when combined with alcohol... and Im taking 7 prescription medications for psychiatric disorders and I find it horrifying that someone would think its funny to lace the weed with this stuff.

i did salvia for the first time a few days ago and it was pretty fuckin awesome not gonna lie. i mean, my friend and i bought a gram.. we smoked it 4 times and still have some left so its pretty potent. at first i tend to be hesitant to take it because a part of me is afraid to. but if you take a small hit and start to ease yourself into the effects, wait a minute and then take another, youll ease into your trip and become accustomed to the melty tingly heavy feeling it gives your body. at least thats what works for me. the first time i did it i was sitting on a bumpy air mattress and my feet felt like they were melting into a line of bumps. then i felt like i was really really big or flying or something.. i had like a very high view of a farm because apparently to me the bumps on my air mattress looked like famrland from high above while i was tripping. then i was back. the second time i was outside with one of my friends and he was wearing a blue shirt.. the shirt turned into water and a tree branch turned into a fence. the grass in my yard turned into a hilly background and his head seemed to be just floating there but i wasnt afraid. the third time i did it was a little creepy.. but still i wasnt afraid. i was with three of my friends in a dark room with only the light from the hallway coming through. i was sitting near a corner on the ground. i started to feel the melting feeling and trip. i saw a person to my left that wasnt really there. it was like a silhouette of a person, actually. i saw more silhouetted figures in the background and they were holding something small and brown in their hands as if they were cupping water but idk what it was. then my friend spoke to me and i told him to be quiet because i was "talking to them over there" apparently i was pointing to an empty corner and i was making no noise at all to indicate that i had been having a conversation with this figure. i dont remember what the person was saying to me on my trip but i do know i was conversing with someone who wasnt there and that kinda creeped me out after. then i did it again later on that night and i felt like i became part of the couch that i was sitting on and i saw moving bumps of patterns and colors because of the blanket and my purse and other shit on the couch with me. it really isnt scary its just weird.. everything seems so real but you have to have the sense to remember its not and that youre only tripping and you will be back to reality in a few minutes. i look at it as an adventure. it really truely does feel like youre going to another dimension or world. the fourth time i did it the left hand side of my body and world seemed fucked up and the right was totally normal and i had the sense to register that. it was reallty weird it was like i was in two places at one time almost. the only thing that bothers me is that i dont know how something can fuck you up like that and have no serious side effects.. ive been researching online but i cant find anything and that doesnt seem right to me.

really u have to be in the greatest mood, the better the mood u are in the better the trip, ive smoked salvia for the first time yesterday, it was fucking amazing my first time because i was in a good mood, i did it again that day and was in a bad mood and had a bad trip, i no now if i ever do it again i have to be in a good mood, take a hit of weed to get the mood rolling:P

"Well I now know its because you have to use it maturely! Its not a recreational drug, but a tool, one to! be used to evaluate an altered sense of reality."

... What the fuck, it impares the function of your brain, how is that a tool. All this stuff about it giving you increased insight is utter bullshit, it's like saying that hitting your knees with a hammer will help you run a marathon.

Most people find the effects of salvia horrible. and then only ever do it once. i have done 40x salvia 5 times and 60x salvia twice. both have the same effects, just less used in the 60x. It opens up a part of the brain that is never used whilst aware in this reality. you have to let yourself go with it, although this is extremely difficult as when it hits you, its almost shocking and the urge to fight it becomes over powering. another reason i always do enough to take me regardless if i want to go or not. another thing people must realise is that once it hits you, you completely forget that you have just smoked salvia. the room turns into something that no words can describe, you become the room, the room becomes you. only when you start to come back to this reality that you remember you just smoked salvia. then you can reflect on where you went. you will find that you will think about it for days after the first time. i always feel completely refreshed for at least the day after.

I hate seeing youtube vids of people playing with this stuff like its a toy. these actions will get it banned and made illegal. I have my stock that will last years. as i only do once or twice a year, that is enough for me persoanlly.

please treat this stuff with the respect it deserves. it will give you an insight into a world that only exists on another dimension.

peace to all

i smoked it for the first time yesterday.... an wow!! lol wat an experience idk wat happened soon as i took the first hit its like i wasnt in my body any more everything went blury an i couldnt see anything i kept seein faint faces on my friend comin in an out of my face...... then i guess i fell on the ground staring at the couch screaming whos that lol.......... he said i was shakin an drooling lol..... nothing serious tho.... it freaked me out at first... but i wanna smoke it again...... that shit is nothing like shrooms way worse

I smoked salvia with one close friend and their three other friends. Worst experience of my life. I first smoked out of a bowl then took a hit from the bong, it took about 5 minutes and my body started to become numb and warm. Me and this close friend laughed for a good 15 minutes then I started feeling really weird. One of the other friends started doing pig screams, then his voice was circling my head. I put my head in my lap and starting tripping hard. My friends told me I looked possed. The whole time I was tripping I kept thinking I died an that id feel like this forever. In the middle of tripping I picked my head up from my lap and felt like I was falling forever and that if I screamed no one could hear me. Voices around me were rewinding and repeating themselves while my friends faces were colydascoped. It was rediculous but after it was over I felt so relieved.

Because it's a cheap ass worthless LEGAL TAXABLE drug.

Well I now know its because you have to use it maturely! Its not a recreational drug, but a tool, one to! be used to evaluate an altered sense of reality.