Alright, so I decided that on this "journey" I am going to try something pretty awesome.
I study cultures and history (with some focus on Biochemistry through time), and I have noticed something. You have probably all heard of "Salvia", Salvia actually just means "Sage". Salvia Divinorum is the special kind of sage that you think of automatically when I say "Salvia". Native American's INVENTED this plant by mixing Mint plants (probably American Wild Mint) with Sage Species (Probably White Sage, or Common Sage). NONE of these plants are psychoactive until genetically combined in the Salvia plant, and these natives had NO knowledge of genetic operations as far as we know.
Then there is "Inebriating Mint" which is a Turkish species of Mint, that people use as a Sedative.
Catnip is related to mint.
And even Peppermint is said to have it's own Psychoactive properties to an extent.
Anyone else seeing a pattern here? I have decided that if Ancient man could figure out how to make Diviner's sage (which I want to try to dreaming) who are we to be in the year 2014 and not even trying to make anything new like that?
So I have a plan, and PLEASE steal my idea and let me know what you come up with.
I am going to get some different mint seeds:
Peppermint, Forest Mint, Pennyroyal, Catnip, Australian Mint, Slender Mint, American Wild Mint, Apple Mint, Corsican Mint, Bowles and Inebriating Mint if I can find seeds.
Then I will get different sage seeds:
White Sage, Pineapple Sage, Greek Sage, Chia, Wooly Sage, Baby Sage, Red Sage, Common Sage, Clary, Scarlette Sage and Salvia eventually.
Then I will start mixing pollen all over the place, just to see what happens. Inventing ALL KINDS of new cross breeds, some will have entirely new properties of their own and won't resemble their parents at all (Like Salvia). And hopefully, I can make something that is good for dreaming.
Then, I have plans for even MORE seeds to mix in, but I don't want to give those away yet.