Petrus, I'm not absolutely new to Salvia. As I wrote, I have a really high tolerance to this substance - which implies that I've measured it. I started with a lot of theoretical preparations like FAQs, how and why it works etc... - reading Erowid Experience Vault was also my hobby (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/mf_popcorn.gif) Then I started with dried leaves. I used a torch lighter and a self-made bong and tried small amounts first. Then, I upped the amounts to the maximum that I could smoke in 3 minutes - you know it's no use smoking it any longer for it's metabolized too quickly. The most I could get was some light buzz like after a small puff of marijuana smoke. Oh, maybe I reached the threshold of almost-tripping once. So I knew I couldn't get really high on leaves. 20x extract was no good, too. I experimented with small - and gradually bigger - doses and got high only with as much half a gram of 20x. I got really pissed off, really, for I knew it was going to be expensive to get really strong results and I gave up Salvia for half a year or so. I bought this 60x just recently - and talked to some furniture, as mentioned (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/haha.gif) But still it wasn't all that I expected. Hardly any visuals, memory loss, 'everything is a dream'... OK, nice, strong, but not enough. And that persistent feeling of being carried away, pulled somewhere... Do you people have it, too, and don't you find it annoying?
That's all for "smoke real leaves" advice. Without extracts I could smoke tobacco or oregano or whatever - with roughly the same results (IMG:
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Now, I don't know if I'm really so casual about smoking. Probably more than I used to be. I tried to treat Salvia as something sacred and I, basically, got rejected. So I went "fvck it, I'll just smoke all that's left" and got SOME results. I always lie down after I take the third hit. I don't have a sitter because a.) they're hard to get, really, who wants to take care of a weeping or panicking fvcked up 20-year-old guy on a Friday evening? (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) b.) when I tried once and behaved strange with another person present, I thought "heh, it must look so funny for him" and I started laughing uncontrollably, which ruined the spiritual side of the experience.
I never got completely egoless, though. If I were completely immersed in some alternative worlds, I wouldn't care or notice other people. Or would I?