First Off,I'm sorry for such a novel but this is the whole story of what happened to me 24 hrs ago.
I found this site while searching for people who shared their experiences with salvia. The first time I tried it was last summer at a friend's place. We did Witch Doctor and I took about three good hits. At first I was happy and cool, just very giggly, then my best friend that I was with freaked out really bad-which got me to freak out. We wound up driving home at 3 am seeing bridges across the freeway and running over bodies and animals that weren't there. I was pretty scared. Some time has passed since though and since my boyfriend does it occasionally I agreed to do it with him since I wanted to get a "legal" high. I took a couple hits off the bowl and barely felt anything, trees were a lil fuzzy, and that was about it. Night before last, me, my best friend, boyfriend and one of his friends went camping beside the river. We were all drinking, we smoked Maya (no idea how much strength it was but apparently it was supposed to be pretty potent) and for me and him it was gonna be like a one-time deal. We were all just chilling, I took prob 5 or 6 hits out of a bowl and was drinking a beer. I went from normal to everything just immediately slipped away---their voices started echoing across the water and everything I said sounded muffled like I was behind glass. I couldn't see straight, I couldn't think straight, and I was losing my balance fast. My boyfriend helped me sit down and that was when I started shaking uncontrollably. My heartrate felt like it was so high that I was going to die, I went from feeling icy cold to burning up and I could feel blood pumping through my veins. I was freaked out but I was still alert enough to know that I was having a bad trip. So I grabbed my boyfriends arm and whispered that I was having a bad trip. I had already started hallucinating...I felt like I had night vision,and the trees look like pictures-I was ok with that..just a lil freaked and confused. Things got progressively worse though. Slowly I saw this black fog roll towards the riverbank and that was when I saw "them" a black hooded figure kept circling me slowly...staying at a distance, or just standing a little ways off--watching me. I wish that was the worst part except that was when my reality started switching. My boyfriend was explaining to me that he was sorry he should have watched how many hits I took, and that his plan was just for us to have a good time that night. And this is where I smack myself in the head for not having the foresight NOT to smoke this stuff. I have a mild case of PTSD from when I was raped a couple of years ago--PTSD manifested itself in the form of flashbacks, panic attacks,and short term memory loss. Add to the fact that I used to be in a very abusive relationship and you can already tell where this is going. Suddenly in my effed up state of mind, my perfectly sweet boyfriend became my abusive boyfriend and my rapist. I accused him of setting me up and tried to get away from him. Thankfully I have a smart man and he didn't let me run off by myself. He put his arms around me and helped me calm down a little. Then my reality switched again...we had to go up the actual campsite which was at the top of a rather bank. Suddenly in my mind, my boyfriend wasn't sober enough to make it so I was trying to "protect" him and get him up the hill to safety. Reality switched on me once more and suddenly these hooded figures had encircled us and were getting closer-it was like I could feel death and evil upon me. I wound up clutching my boyfriend and sobbing in his chest from pure terror. It took me forever to come back to real life. My boyfriend and friends who were all really concerned about me timed how long my trip lasted and after 3 hrs I was still feeling the effects of it. There were moments when they said I was talking to myself and saying things that I don't even remember saying. 24 hrs later and I'm still feeling weird. I've heard strange things like I'll hear someone say my name when no one is, or I see things out of the corner of my eye that aren't there. It's really disturbing and I dont know if it's the drug or if it's supernatural or if I'm just batshit crazy. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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