Aug
4
2008
Open Sandman: Salvia Divinorum, Lord of Dreams (Part III)
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JUST BEFORE INHALING I pressed the record button on my digital recorder, which I had placed beside me on the grass. It would provide me with an audio record of details from the salvia dreamscape that might otherwise elude my recollection. Of course, unlike my earlier session in the hammock, this would require me to talk throughout the experience. Indeed, aside for a minute or so of silence, I spoke, or rather babbled, the entire time. But unfortunately my words when replayed offered no insight: I had been reduced to an imbecilic state. Aside from an initial statement of “Okay, I see things, I see lights, yellow ones, purp—” the rest of the recording consisted almost entirely, in varying combinations, of Whoahhh, Oh my god, Holy shit, Things are happening, Lots of things are happening, My legs are happening. Keep reading→
Jul
4
2008
Open Sandman: Salvia Divinorum, Lord of Dreams (Part II)
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The Lost Coast Trail
AT HIGHER DOSES, the initial effect of smoked salvia upon the human psyche resembles that of general anaesthesia in that within seconds the subject ‘goes under’ despite resistive efforts to stay alert. With anaesthesia, however, one is ‘knocked out’ and remains more or less unconscious until revival; with salvia, one goes under not into insensate unconsciousness but into a kind of dreamscape, what some consider a spirit world. It is essential to measure out precise quantities: too little salvia and you do not go under (or ‘break through’ as others refer to it); too much and you recall little or nothing. Keep reading→
