My first experience of Salvia was something foisted onto me by the pretty relentless coverage we face every day in the newspapers, on TV and on the radio. I wouldn’t have heard of Salvia were it not for the continued calls for it to be banned in State X and State Y. Anyway, this constant discouragement made me want to try it all the more.
So I got some, and I started smoking it through a special Salvia pipe that I made using some instructions I found on the Web.
Initially I didn’t notice whether anything had happened; then I realized that everything was eerily quiet and still. The clock ticked so much slower than it should do and I had a very odd sense of time having slowed down considerably.
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone” goes the W H Auden poem. The clocks had pretty much stopped but unfortunately I didn’t have a juicy bone for the dog. The big, ethereal dog that stood before me, barking. Help!
Everything eventually went away and I emerged from my first experience of Salvia shaken but unharmed. Will I try it again? Of course I will!
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