Name: Anonymous 2007-01-04 18:00
I would like to share a a story that was posted in /b/ a few moments ago:
would like to share a very unlikely and potentially dangerous experience I had once.
I had been perscribed a combination of 5mg amitriptylines and 10mg nortriptylines for anxiety, and had been taking it daily as perscribed for longer than a week when I obtained salvia.
This was to be my first time trying salvia. I had tried other hallucinogenic drugs, but this experience would prove to be incredibly more profound than anything I had ever done before.
I had taken my morning dose of amitriptyline approximately 12 hours prior to administering the 20X salvia extract.
The salvia was smoked on a pipe. A small amount in the pipe was consumed in two lungfulls.
In approximately thirty seconds, I became very warm and sweaty, and could feel a breeze coming down from directly above me. I became very rigid, and all of the open space in the room appeared to have separated into cube like sections, trapping me sitting in my chair not being able to move from one section to the other. This effect of rigidity intensified until what I could only say is that of the third dimention breaking. In an instant, a feeling of incredible vertigo and speed overwhelmed me as my physical being was ripped into it's different planes of existance. I saw objects in a terribly skewed perspective, as if the laws of length, width, and height had abandoned reality. It was so alien that it seemed as if my eyes and my brain couldn't decode what I was seeing to put it in terms I could understand and interact with. I could see objects at impossible angles, as if being able to see their top, bottom and sides all at once. It reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic I had read years before. Movement was impossible, not knowing how to pass through these new dimentions.
As the short trip progressed, the feeling of incredible speed intensified. A great vastness opened up in every direction and I was able to see or sense the horizon of the earth. I somehow managed to turn my head to the left, and saw myself, sitting beside myself, sitting beside myself, sitting beside myself and so on off into infinity, connected as if I was an infinitly stretched accordion leading in a strait line as far as I could see and dissapearing over the horizon. When I moved my hand, the next image of myself moved its hand a fraction of a second later the same way, and then the next one on and on into the distance, as if becoming caught in video feedback or looking at the frames of a film in order one after another. After this occured, the third dimention began to reassemble itself until I found myself back in everyday reality.
I later took a compass and determined that I had been sitting pointed almost directly north. I then realised that I had probably had seen myself moving through time and space via the rotation of the earth. The sense of speed must have been from being able to sense the tremendous rate at which the planet is spinning. I realised that by looking to the west, I had been seeing back in time.
I later learned that both amitriptyline and nortriptyline have actions that work on the kappa-opioid receptor in the brain. A receptor that salvia also acts on. What I can deduce from this is that 'triptylines potentiate the effects of salvia.
I can imagine that administering both of these substances concurrently was probably very dangerous, and I probably won't try this again.
One thing that bugs me to this day is wondering if I would have been able to see forward in time by looking to my right.
would like to share a very unlikely and potentially dangerous experience I had once.
I had been perscribed a combination of 5mg amitriptylines and 10mg nortriptylines for anxiety, and had been taking it daily as perscribed for longer than a week when I obtained salvia.
This was to be my first time trying salvia. I had tried other hallucinogenic drugs, but this experience would prove to be incredibly more profound than anything I had ever done before.
I had taken my morning dose of amitriptyline approximately 12 hours prior to administering the 20X salvia extract.
The salvia was smoked on a pipe. A small amount in the pipe was consumed in two lungfulls.
In approximately thirty seconds, I became very warm and sweaty, and could feel a breeze coming down from directly above me. I became very rigid, and all of the open space in the room appeared to have separated into cube like sections, trapping me sitting in my chair not being able to move from one section to the other. This effect of rigidity intensified until what I could only say is that of the third dimention breaking. In an instant, a feeling of incredible vertigo and speed overwhelmed me as my physical being was ripped into it's different planes of existance. I saw objects in a terribly skewed perspective, as if the laws of length, width, and height had abandoned reality. It was so alien that it seemed as if my eyes and my brain couldn't decode what I was seeing to put it in terms I could understand and interact with. I could see objects at impossible angles, as if being able to see their top, bottom and sides all at once. It reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic I had read years before. Movement was impossible, not knowing how to pass through these new dimentions.
As the short trip progressed, the feeling of incredible speed intensified. A great vastness opened up in every direction and I was able to see or sense the horizon of the earth. I somehow managed to turn my head to the left, and saw myself, sitting beside myself, sitting beside myself, sitting beside myself and so on off into infinity, connected as if I was an infinitly stretched accordion leading in a strait line as far as I could see and dissapearing over the horizon. When I moved my hand, the next image of myself moved its hand a fraction of a second later the same way, and then the next one on and on into the distance, as if becoming caught in video feedback or looking at the frames of a film in order one after another. After this occured, the third dimention began to reassemble itself until I found myself back in everyday reality.
I later took a compass and determined that I had been sitting pointed almost directly north. I then realised that I had probably had seen myself moving through time and space via the rotation of the earth. The sense of speed must have been from being able to sense the tremendous rate at which the planet is spinning. I realised that by looking to the west, I had been seeing back in time.
I later learned that both amitriptyline and nortriptyline have actions that work on the kappa-opioid receptor in the brain. A receptor that salvia also acts on. What I can deduce from this is that 'triptylines potentiate the effects of salvia.
I can imagine that administering both of these substances concurrently was probably very dangerous, and I probably won't try this again.
One thing that bugs me to this day is wondering if I would have been able to see forward in time by looking to my right.