Newbie question about Salvia experience

[Blimpy73]

Hi I am a newbie, not very experienced. I have taken salvia tincture a few times, but I can't place what I experienced in Daniel Siebert's scale of increasing salvia experiences. I slowly worked my way up to a dropper of tincture (the two previous experiences of less than a dropper had no effect), and I experienced scenes, pictures, with my eyes closed that were so real I wasn't completely sure my eyes were closed. It was as if I was looking at another world, or maybe someplace in this one. One scene was looking at a beach with a jungle behind it, every time I closed my eyes I saw the beach and jungle, crystal clear, in full daylight. A few minutes later a different scene appeared, I am somehow floating down a wall or the face of a building, and the wall has symbols, like hieroglyphics on it. When I open my eyes I am in my room, when I close them I was there, it was as quick and definite as a switch. It was incredible. Has anyone had a similar experience, where with the eyes open all in normal, but close them and you are in another place? If I were to chew leaf instead of the tincture, is there a way to gauge the amount of leaf for a comparable experience? Thanks for any help or advice,

 

[Nathanial.Dread]

Check some of these out:

Erowid Salvia Divinorum Trip Reports:

Salvia divinorum (also Salvia) : Erowid Exp: Main Index

A categorized index of first-person experiences with Salvia divinorum

www.erowid.org

I've read a bunch of these and a few describe experiences similar to what you experienced. It seems to be more common with chewed leaves then it is with smoked ones.

Between 6-12 leaves seems like it should do it for you, if you want to go the quid route.

I've personally never had a salvia experience like you had. I don't remember mind being hugely visual, although I was so overwhelmed with the existential horror of breaking the entire universe that I may just not have been paying attention.