Third Time's a Charm
This sounds ridiculous, I know. I just did a hit of salvia. Two times before, I did it in a dark room lying down. This time, I'm fully alert and awake, eyes open sitting crosslegged on the basement floor on two carpets. Remember that hideous concoction in grade school which was jello and some random celery bits suspended in it? That's suddenly what the world seemed like, and my consciousness was a point on the end of a stick poking up in it as through a gooey popsicle. As I turned slightly left and right, the rubber goo of space around me and everything in it was pliable and stretchy. I felt if I had turned quick or far enough, I could have spun right out of it like a spoon twisting out of warm, malleable caramel. To where?--I haven't figured out yet. There was also a rapid pattering or vibrating sensation that I can only explain as "sped up" like a frequency similar to the "whir" I felt when having surgery and just before blacking out under anasthesia. Since I wasn't in the dark and had full view of what was around me, I didn't feel fear but rather a "whoohoo, this is interesting!" sort of sensation. The effects calmed a bit, and I felt it was over. I carefully stood up, which seemed to require a complicated and gymnastic set of body unfolding manoeuvers and cautiously attempted to walk across the room. I was still slightly in "gooey space" and I had a similar experience as someone else mentioned in a trip report in which there was actually *no space behind me.* As I moved, physical space seemed rounded at the edges like a bowling ball, and for all I know, the floor rolled off behind my heels as I passed it. If you've ever put on strong prescription glasses that aren't made for you and seen the floor curve down away from you at the edges, that's what it was like. I got the feeling the short distance to the floor could have been a million miles if I imagined it to be. It was *precisely* like Alice in Wonderland--"Goodbye feet!" I can now say I have experienced shutting up like a telescope. A previous experience had the room fold up around me, so this is all consistent. I haven't had what I'd consider a breakthrough, but these brief looking-glass trips are quite fun. This lasted maybe moderately for two to five minutes, with a relaxing 30 minute afterglow including slight feelings of wrong perspective or minor warping that are no more disturbing than spinning till you're dizzy then lying on the floor to enjoy the trippiness. Perhaps I'm weird, but when nobody's looking, I often enjoy spinning in an office chair and relaxing my eyes to watch the world rush by in circles. Okay, I'm weird...and I know now that I'm really a popsicle stick.
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