I don't really understand why people have such bad trips on salvia.
Background: I'm a stoner, have been for years, and salvia was the first drug I tried other than weed. It was 21x according to my friend, and so I took a hit of it from his bong. He was only high from bong snaps and I was on both. We were sitting on a short stone wall in the woods.
So before I even let out the hit(which I held in for really long) it started to hit me. It kinda felt like the world just froze, like when your computer screen freezes. Then, I was in some kind of wheel spinning around me, or something like that with things spinning around me. I vividly remember the colors red and blue alternating, and I'm pretty sure I saw people from my childhood. I'm sad I don't remember it better, because I feel like my mind was trying to tell me something, like it was giving me the pieces of a puzzle and I had to figure out what it all meant.
Before I knew it, part of my vision came back to reality, with my friend in the middle and the spinning colors and people around him. I distinctly remember asking him what he was doing there, because he did not seem at all like he was part of my experience. I remembered all the sudden that I was tripping, and got a little weirded out. For a little bit I just wanted it to stop, because I was fading in and out of reality, but after a few seconds I just came to terms with it and let it be. My friend said that for the first 5 minutes I was just sitting there, rocking back and forth.
At this point I knew that I was on salvia, but I hadn't figured out yet that the trip wasn't real. I told my friend that I was talking to the universe, and I saw all the modules of nature spinning around me. It was like each law of nature was personified, trying to all tell me something at once. It was like I had the opportunity to learn everything in the universe but little time, so every part of the universe wanted to explain itself to me. As me and my friend started to walk out of the woods, I was still kind of in two different realities, and then he started talking to me about his previous trip, and I realized that everything I had just seen was in my head.
I started to really question reality, when he broke off and I waited to get picked up in front of my old elementary school. For a good minute of waiting I thought I was in kindergarten again, and my parents were coming to pick me up. I walked in circles around a tree for a good five minutes when my ride showed up. Then I had to get ready for a three hour car ride to go visit my cousins.
I don't know if it was the fact that I was really high before I did the salvia and it just transferred over, or if it was the salvia, but for the whole car ride I felt really weird, like I was still trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. I thought a lot about difference between reality and my mind. The one thing I know was different about my first trip than other peoples was that I was not scared at all. I researched it a lot before I did it and I was in a relatively good mood and high as a fucking kite. I also think that it was important that I was outside, with a lot of open space and room(although i didn't move a muscle for a good 10 minutes.
I highly recommend this drug, as long as the proper precautions are taken. I mean that you go into it with a good attitude(being high is helpful), with a good friend watching over you, and in a wide open space so you don't feel trapped or anything, preferably somewhere outdoors. I think its not only interesting to see what your mind can create when it takes over your awareness, but also that you can learn a lot from the experience you have while on this drug. That's why i really hope people do what they can to have a really good first trip, so that they can have the kind of experience I did.