High Folks,
I couldn't get the vote feature to function either. What's that about? I also concur with gibran2 and jbark, during the PEAK of the Salvia Divinorum trip, I don't believe I have a valid reference point to qualify any recognizable feelings, like euphoria. Now, after the return cycle, I do feel relieved and quite content to be back in a universe where I can make some semblance and ordinary sense of things. Hallelujah, my subjectivity is back again!
Whether this is my feeling because the Salvia experience is so dissociative and weird... or because I have freshly learned or just remembered a special lesson, in the process, is something I must think on a bit more deeply. Nothing in Salvia World is exactly what it seems. A dream-like, panorama of symbolism can accompany this trip, mixing up my subjectivity and even my feelings are in for to a roller-coaster ride of dissociation, reinterpretation and rediscovery. :shock:
Sometimes find myself being the central focal point of awareness (consciousness?) of an inanimate object or a movement/force within an energy pattern, spiraling like a wheel into an infinity of abstractions and continuum. Other times, I resemble my earthly self, yet, within a bizarre and magical carnival atmosphere (where all the waking life rules have radically changed). There is a reoccurring theme of unification, however, usually in the form of some kind of sameness energy constituency, which is the fundamental building block of existence. Fuzzy and dream-like but crackling with electrical energy, there is always something unusual going on, that's for sure. Quite the buzz!!! Now, these "building blocks" are usually perceived as glowing, circular blobs/dots/points of light energy which: gush, ooze, ripple, flow and even geyser in a liquid-like fashion. Often washing me along within some energy current of sorts. I become the rushing flow of glowing dots (or was I always this current of dots?). The proverbial particle/wave paradox, Lady Salvia-style?
I vote Maybe A Little. Mostly because I cannot decide if what I am feeling after my return cycle, is actually euphoria or something else (?), since I do not speak Salvianese and don't know enough about the territory to qualify any reasonable definition. It does not feel the same as with: LSD, mescaline, P. mushies or DMT. I do feel rejuvenated and perhaps even reborn... but not exactly euphoric (not in the sense that MDMA (ecstasy) yields to my perception of reality). maybe there is a learning curve to this euphoria, like with reverse tolerance?
