For months now I've wanted to try Salvia Divinorum, it being a legal herb in my state that can be made into a tea, chewed, or smoked. After finally becoming financially stable after Christmas I decided to buy myself a batch! The order came in so fast; under 3-4 days. I told myself I would try it the first night I got it... and so I did...

My parents were awake for sometime and I had to wait for them to go to bed. Meanwhile I prepared my room to be safe and comfortable while I tripped. Finally they had gone to bed... Seeing as how the tea method does not introduce the Salvinorin A to the body properly and the chewing method trip lasting hours, I decided I would have to resort to smoking it. So, I went down stairs to create a Gravity Bong I learned how to make off YouTube. My mother came out of her room a few times to check to make sure the house was in proper order, cats fed, etc. Meanwhile I'd have to hide the milk jug I had with the cut off bottom! Finally, she went off to meditate and sleep. I got everything together and made... even made a bowl out of the metal cap to one of my vials of paint. I set up the Gravity Bong in the downstairs bathroom to test it safely and rather than waste any Salvia, I used common cooking Sage. It worked! I was proud of myself to have made such a tool.

I took everything upstairs to my room, placed the Gravity Bong in my closet, and took some time calming myself in order to begin my trip without causing a bad one... With the Gravity Bong in the closet, I would be able to close the closet doors before I exhale in order to keep myself from knocking over the bucket of water. Finally the time had come, I was ready. I practiced inhaling air a few times, reminding myself not to cough, and hold the smoke in for 15-20 seconds. I placed 1 Salvia leaf with a few pinches of 10X Extract... burned and collected smoke: inhaled! Held... ... ... Let go, and... nothing! Nothing had happened... I tried burning the rest that was in the bowl and smoking that... Nothing. After looking around and waiting for something to happen, I decided I needed more extract to experience anything. I got my stash back out, loaded up 2 leaves and about 1/4 to 1/3 a gram of 10X extract... calmed myself... and began. First hit did not pull in enough smoke... then the second hit: perfect. I felt irritation in my lungs, realizing I had taken a nice big hit. I counted to 15 and exhaled... before I could begin Meditating I immediately fell backwards onto my back.

I started to decide it wasnt worth it and felt gravity pulling down on me... I felt euphoric and blissful, but then I began to feel a stinging buzz around the contour of my body. My legs were separated and I could feel this stinging in my crotch. Afraid that I might think of a buzz saw cutting me in half from the sensation, I closed my legs and scooted over so that if I did hallucinate one, it would go right past me. My vision of the closet doors began to stretch upward and downward. Notice: In this next part I did not see any of this, but knew what it felt like. I could see it in my Imagination or Mind's Eye. My body was then being stretched out into a railroad track rail in a beautiful field of smiling flowers. My lamp had become the sun and it too was smiling... I started saying, "Holy shit... holy shit... shit..." I looked at the door and realized I had to be quiet or risk waking my parents. "Forgot... be quiet or... hear me." I laid my head back down and felt that pleasing rush of being melded. I looked at my wolf calendar and realized that this was not what I wanted. "No... this... not what... I wanted... Want... Spiritual.... This... Not Spiritual..." I then began to lift my head and shoulders off the floor, but fell back down and felt the pleasing rush again. I attempted again to get up and succeeded... breaking myself out of my trip. What felt like 3-5 minutes, had only lasted 30 to 45 seconds...

I looked around the room and began to come to. I did not have good balance but made my way to my computer to try to IM someone and talk about my experience. No one was on. I then went to the kitchen and got cookies and milk, came back to my computer, then ate and just calmed down after what I tripped. I had a few salvia burps that smelled and tasted, awful... When I was done my small snack, I decided it was time for bed and went back to my room. As I was passing my wolf calendar, the picture of the wolf's nose twitched. I then turn and stare at the nose... "Shit... I'm still trippin." I go and lay down on my bed with the light still on and just stare at the wolf calendar. The picture begins to separate into kaleidoscopic designs and I realize this and say, "Shit, I need to go to bed." I then got up, turned off my light, and tried to sleep... Although I couldn't sleep. All night I ruminated about smoking salvia in many different ways, with many different outcomes. Tripping, not tripping, getting caught, feeling nothing, etc. Until finally my mother walked in in the morning and woke me up since I forgot to turn up the sound on my cell to hear the first alarm. I got up... walked around my house... made sure I was in reality... and off to school I went...