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Thanks for all the welcoming responses.

Jim, I haven't really done salvia in a while, which seems strange now that I think about it because there's been a bag of it 2 feet a way from my computer. One thing that's always stuck with me regarding the salvia experience is the physical intensity. In the times when I've smoked enough salvia to have a breakthrough, I almost immediately burst with sweat. My whole body feels an intense rush like (as a friend of mine put it) I'm doing a back flip into another reality. It's probably the feeling an insect gets just before is smashes into your car windshield. The things I've experienced on breakthrough salvia trips never seem that abstract either. Normally they seem like alternate realities that otherwise aren't that much different from this one.

DMT, on the other hand, has been more abstract; an all around more sensually flamboyant and logically outrageous experience. I guess one way of looking at it is that, with salvia, no matter how crazy things appear, I seem to instinctively know exactly what's going on with complete analytical clarity. It's like I'm experiencing realities that I somehow know by heart but have just forgotten about. There's no confusion. I feel like a marionette that's just going through the motions, where even my sense of understanding is being controlled and directed with certainty. With DMT, the experience is much less certain, much more confusing. I don't always know what I'm looking at. Sometimes I develop an interpretation of what's going on, but I can't be sure. In the end I was just experiencing things, which is very different from knowing things. The knowing comes later, if I'm lucky.

As far as having somebody there to sit with me, I prefer not to. I find it best to limit the potential for distractions. Plus my goal is to leave my body, so having a person sitting with my body doesn't really help me much, but a comfortable setting is still a must. I like a quiet room with an armchair that I can sink into, though any cushioned chair seems to work fine. I prefer sitting to lying down. I don't know why that is really.

You gave me an idea oden: I should totally make some sort of hyperspace jumpsuit to wear while blasting off, just to really get into the ritualistic nature of the experience.

<blockquote data-quote="hixidom" data-source="post: 3494939" data-attributes="member: 12065">Thanks for all the welcoming responses.Jim, I haven&#039;t really done salvia in a while, which seems strange now that I think about it because there&#039;s been a bag of it 2 feet a way from my computer.&nbsp; One thing that&#039;s always stuck with me regarding the salvia experience is the physical intensity.&nbsp; In the times when I&#039;ve smoked enough salvia to have a breakthrough, I almost immediately burst with sweat.&nbsp; My whole body feels an intense rush like (as a friend of mine put it) I&#039;m doing a back flip into another reality.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably the feeling an insect gets just before is smashes into your car windshield.&nbsp; The things I&#039;ve experienced on breakthrough salvia trips never seem that abstract either.&nbsp; Normally they seem like alternate realities that otherwise aren&#039;t that much different from this one.DMT, on the other hand, has been more abstract; an all around more sensually flamboyant and logically outrageous experience.&nbsp; I guess one way of looking at it is that, with salvia, no matter how crazy things appear, I seem to instinctively know exactly what&#039;s going on with complete analytical clarity.&nbsp; It&#039;s like I&#039;m experiencing realities that I somehow know by heart but have just forgotten about.&nbsp; There&#039;s no confusion.&nbsp; I feel like a marionette that&#039;s just going through the motions, where even my sense of understanding is being controlled and directed with certainty.&nbsp; With DMT, the experience is much less certain, much more confusing.&nbsp; I don&#039;t always know what I&#039;m looking at.&nbsp; Sometimes I develop an interpretation of what&#039;s going on, but I can&#039;t be sure.&nbsp; In the end I was just experiencing things, which is very different from knowing things.&nbsp; The knowing comes later, if I&#039;m lucky.As far as having somebody there to sit with me, I prefer not to.&nbsp; I find it best to limit the potential for distractions.&nbsp; Plus my goal is to leave my body, so having a person sitting with my body doesn&#039;t really help me much, but a comfortable setting is still a must.&nbsp; I like a quiet room with an armchair that I can sink into, though any cushioned chair seems to work fine.&nbsp; I prefer sitting to lying down.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why that is really.You gave me an idea oden:&nbsp; I should totally make some sort of hyperspace jumpsuit to wear while blasting off, just to really get into the ritualistic nature of the experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hixidom, post: 3494939, member: 12065"] Thanks for all the welcoming responses. Jim, I haven't really done salvia in a while, which seems strange now that I think about it because there's been a bag of it 2 feet a way from my computer. One thing that's always stuck with me regarding the salvia experience is the physical intensity. In the times when I've smoked enough salvia to have a breakthrough, I almost immediately burst with sweat. My whole body feels an intense rush like (as a friend of mine put it) I'm doing a back flip into another reality. It's probably the feeling an insect gets just before is smashes into your car windshield. The things I've experienced on breakthrough salvia trips never seem that abstract either. Normally they seem like alternate realities that otherwise aren't that much different from this one. DMT, on the other hand, has been more abstract; an all around more sensually flamboyant and logically outrageous experience. I guess one way of looking at it is that, with salvia, no matter how crazy things appear, I seem to instinctively know exactly what's going on with complete analytical clarity. It's like I'm experiencing realities that I somehow know by heart but have just forgotten about. There's no confusion. I feel like a marionette that's just going through the motions, where even my sense of understanding is being controlled and directed with certainty. With DMT, the experience is much less certain, much more confusing. I don't always know what I'm looking at. Sometimes I develop an interpretation of what's going on, but I can't be sure. In the end I was just experiencing things, which is very different from knowing things. The knowing comes later, if I'm lucky. As far as having somebody there to sit with me, I prefer not to. I find it best to limit the potential for distractions. Plus my goal is to leave my body, so having a person sitting with my body doesn't really help me much, but a comfortable setting is still a must. I like a quiet room with an armchair that I can sink into, though any cushioned chair seems to work fine. I prefer sitting to lying down. I don't know why that is really. You gave me an idea oden: I should totally make some sort of hyperspace jumpsuit to wear while blasting off, just to really get into the ritualistic nature of the experience. [/QUOTE]