Exactly!
That's what it does for me... smoothes it out and turns it into a more flowing, less alien experience with a slower onset and longer afterglow (though still with the hallmark Salvia strangeness).
It means that I have to consume less, almost half as much to get similar strength effects. Being that I'm damn sensitive to the plain leaf and a bit of a softhead, 25mg of plain leaf with a pre-dose pipe of harmala/rue extract ten minutes before can get me a level 2 experience.
Last night I had another try of this combo with great results. My first pipe of plain leaf was pretty subtle. Ten minutes later I loaded up the same amount (25mg) and upon release of the bridge of smoke, had a beautiful experience.
The effects crept in slowly. On my next long in-breath a strange perception made itself present, my in-breath became expressed as a cold, refreshing moving stream of gravity/energy that then connected to my right ear and became part of the music travelling up through my headphones (I had some mellow indian inspired music going through my in ear headphones at low volume) which then travelled up to the slight feeling of pressure from my eye/sleep mask above my right eyebrow and travelled to the left along my brow area.
This had the feeling of the salvia gravity but expressed in a different manner than before, like my sense perceptions got mixed up in a weird synesthetic experience - my cool breath became sound in my ear which then became the feeling of the eye mask around my eyes, all expressed in a strange continual perception of energy and gravity. A vision accompanied this of a tunnel of trees with a road going through it that flowed in the same direction as the synesthetic energy perception I was experiencing. This vision felt really familiar, like I had seen it on previous Salvia excursions though I don't remember having seen it... maybe it was the strange, comical feeling to it that made it familiar?
This experience had a nice euphoric component to it as well and the feeling of the gravity, vision and energy flowed in a real smooth way compared to the juddering, frame stacking fractalisation I get with plain leaf alone. The afterglow was pronounced and beautiful and I finished the session off twenty minutes later with some AVS mind machine work that had a nice enhanced effect on the come down.
The other handful of reports online tell of a similar smoothing out of the harsher aspects of the Salvia experience. Less uncomfortable and the Salvia weirdness made much easier to incorporate/integrate. I'll be interested to see how the harmala's effect the experience once I increase the dosage of plain leaf.
Anyway, sorry for the lengthy post and trip report but I thought it may be a good addition to the conversation at hand and help provide a slower frame work to get to know the Lady better with
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