Just tried Salvia for the first time.

I went out into the bush to do this, by my fireplace I keep for journeys, in the day while the sun was good.

When I sat down and examined the bag of leaves I took on the role of referring to the salvia as "her" and began to crush the leaves with my hands and put them into a pile on a rock. I really wanted to be close to it and experience it with respect. I had enough to pack 3 bowls. I packed my bowl all the way, totally full. Then I proceeded to smoke it like a champ, like my bong hitting iron lung cloud man days. I was cross legged, and very relaxed and taking large yogic breaths between each big hit of smoke. This and a few other variables must have done it because it came on as soon as the 1st bowl was done. It wasn't like going downhill on a rollercoaster like DMT. I was just "there". Wup wup wup wup wup wup wup. Time was completely staggered. And it had a rythm. And to this rythm I was being touched, my whole body but especially my lower half, it felt like what those navajo hand-shaker healers do, quivering hands across my whole body, to this rythm. Each breath became an eternity. Time was very very slow. My consiousness seemed intact... everything seemed so still I wondered what it would look like if someone walked across my field of vision? Would they be slow? Or fast? The ground below me was gone. I was floating. I felt fractures of reality around my position, pulses or waves that surrounded me as if I was a figure in an old hindu painting, sitting on a lotus experiencing nirvana. I'm not sure it was nirvana ; ) but it was an empty bliss. I laid back and suddenly she was gone. It wasn't abrupt like DMT. It was there, and then it wasn't. I'd like to explore this space more..