Level 1:

• a bit cannabis-like
• small buzz
• light bodyfeeling
• fresh mind (very awaken)
• no optics
• minimal personality-shift

Level 2:

• a bit fresher colors (glowing more)
• the surroundings maybe twirl/flow away a bit
• turning your head around is quite interesting, because everything starts looking virtual and not "real" (i mean solid)
• like a strong cannabistrip, but also different
• altered thoughts (sometimes strange or funny)
• mind may cycle around strange ideas
• maybe you feel a bit like in an other time for instance you may feel like in holiday or like in childhood
• so your personality shifts a bit (often funny and interesting)
• you are often awaken and fresh in mind
• you maybe feel a little bit movement in the world around you, like you are moving while sitting.
• you get the feeling, that there is something behind the known reality

Level 3:

• this level is partly like tryptamine-hallucinogens (Psilocybin,LSD)
• colors are much more glowing (they were intesified)
• everything looks energetic
• things and walls can get curved, the twirling effect really starts to work.
• the difference to tryptamine-hallucinogens is the more static nature of the hallucinations. Everything looks more like melting glowing colorized wax and doesnt have that exploding and fractalized nature of tryptamines. But not all people seem to have optics/hallucinations.
• another difference is the fact, that feelings are more stable on salvia and not so rapidly changing like on tryptamines
• the base feeling is often very nice. You feel yourself very alive.
• matter seems a more like an energyfield which is not solid, more a virtual projection in your mind.
• your mind is very awaken
• maybe your thinking is a bit distorted at the beginning
• slight feelings of the presence of other persons/beings/voices
• the feeling of beeing at another place or time becomes stronger
• when closing your eyes you can dive deep in your mind and closed eye hallucinations are common (waving energystreams)
• distorted feeling of directions (where is up,down,left,front..), the sense for all these direction is connected with the position of your head.
• when walking you walk like drunken to much because coordination is difficult
• slightly beginning of strange geometries
• the world around you seems more and more like a virtual adventure
• the feeling of movement increase - you feel often how undefinable forces (bit like gravity) push you in a direction. That feels like a wind is blowing through your body and sucks/blows it away.
  Rotating or twisting movements are also possible.
• you get a good hint for the existence of parallel realities

Level 4:

• here starts the real voyaging
• effects become stronger/choose another direction as tryptamines
• the sucking/pushing feeling is now really strong. People often report, that their consciousness is sucked backwards out of their head and reality move away in front. Its a bit like you get a psychedelic asskick (psykick :), that transports you to a higher dimension. Higher, because you can often see our 3D-world from the "outside". Movement is really common on this level - you are flying through salviaspace or salviaspace is flying in front of your consciousness. This all happens very fast and is thats why also a bit confusing and hard to remember.
• everything looks very bizarre, sometimes alien
• you have the feeling of being somewhere and somewhen else, but that other reality is as real (or sometimes more real) than your normal reality
• sometimes its like awaking from a dream. And that dream is your normal life. Normal life is like an illusion.
• you joined the typical salvia-space like returning everytime to the same point. I think thats due to the fact, that you can remember on salvia earlier salviatrips very good, so that they are more present in your mind, just as if they happend right now.
• strange or not, the salviaspace is often very familiar, so you feel like being at your "real home"
• you may get the feeling, that this is your real world and the normal reality is more like watching TV with your minds eye.
• on this level the thinking process is distorted very much. With smoking your thoughts get very strange. You may get in loops or may feel that your thoughts (i mean "speaking in mind with words") swim in honey. sometimes they stop for a small time. After that you will "reseted" in the world, so this process is like dying (stop of thinking) and being reborn. During this sometimes terrifying experience a small part of myself can look at this process. Its like the essence of yourself ("soul") didnt change.
• during this alteration of your thinking process you may have the strong feeling of entities around or in your head. Often around 1-4. They are like different persons speaking to you (I never "understood" anything). It is as if you are different persons in all kind of ages and sex. A good term for this effect is "sensed presence".
• sometimes you may also feel the pressence of an female energy, that is like the godess of salvia showing you her space and view of the world and saving you from danger.
• your bodyfeeling will also be changed strongly. This starts at the feets working up to your head. You can use this feeling nice as a scale of the strength of the trip. It only occurs when you dont move. Within seconds you have the feeling, that your body melts with the reality. This is connected to the twirling of your sourroundings. You can also have the feeling as if your bodyparts become stones for a short time. Sometimes your body melts with your surroundings and "swimms away" it twirls and dance in strange objects. I find this very pleasant. It is like becoming liquid. If you got enough salvinorin this feeling rise up to your head and you feel totally detatched from your body. Astral projections are common where you can fly around as a point.
• your surroundings look now very strange. Very strong colors. Flat surfaces become very 3-dimensional (i.e. ever seen a 4 inch deep (flat) cd-display). Maybe you have a videochaos-effect, where everything looks repeated.
• you may switch to different realities and different personalities. Experiencing these parallel realities is very common.
• in that level I often didnt hear the playing music as like being really somewhere else.
• it is a good idea to have a tripsitter around you, that prevent you doing "silly" things (walking around, destroy something). The sitter has a bit different role as with LSD or psilocybin, because its mostly not nescessary to bring someone out of bad feelings on salvia. But with salvia the sitter should bring someone back to "normal reality". Ofcourse only when nescessary, and thats the case, when the experience was to heavy. You can get so far out, that you cant believe, that the "real world" is really real ;-). It seems more like a big joke played on you, and that the so called "reality" is only one small part of "being". Its like living your whole life in a holodeck and now have seen the reality-generating grid behind. If you have some experience you normaly dont need a sitter, because you are more familiar with the effects and you know for sure you come back. Ofcourse also experienced trippers can be shaken to the soul by salvia. Keep in mind, that the tripsitter is in the eyes of the tripper very strange and like from another world/reality. So getting contact can be a bit difficult.
• in level 4 and 5 it can be happen, that you forget, that you smoked some salvia, or even that you did a kind of psychedelic.
• when you close your eyes it can happen that you see different scenes. Its like looking through the eyes of a different person.
• with open eyes your room will look totally different. It changes its form. It expands and collapse. You will experience a very strange geometrie. Things are side by side, who arent that in the real world. Everything is broken, twisted, strangely arranged. You will find things building forms together (i.e. built up a perfect circle). Your Body-/Realityfeeling (this is merged together) is also influeced by these strange geometries, so you are also folded and twisted and maybe parted in 2 pieces.
• level 4 and 5 are very strange, but I found it the best, to do nothing than sitting/lying still and try to accumulate as much as possible out of the experience.

Level 5:

• on this level the whole concept of reality goes down the drain.
• effects from level 4 will be intesified.
• you may experience things only heard from quantumphysics and theories from Einstein.
• objects you see in your room are not interpreted in the usual way. Maybe you see your computer-tower as a skyscraper. In that way everything is interpreted by the brain differently. You think you are at a totally different place. But you act in the normal way but only to a different reality. So in the eyes of the obserser the tripper did silly things. Thats why people walk around or grab things and so on.
• the experiences on this level can be quite frightening. The pressence of entities can be heavy (but they are normally friendly).
• it is possible to get out of the "reality creation process". Maybe you see what we call reality like a film that is placed in your mind. You can have the feeling that reality is only an illusion like in the film "Matrix". This can be so frightening, because it seems (or is ;-) so real. Thats why some users dont trust the reality for a while.
• maybe you become an object, get sliced, are scanned by "aliens", exist multiple, switching through realities like zapping TV. On this level is nearly everything possible.
• salviatraveller often describe a kind of break of the normal timeline. Something like a timeline doesnt seem to really exist - its more an illusion of our all-day-conciousness. Under Salvias influence the spirit can travel through all realities and also through all times. Time seems more like a normale direction in which you can move, but it is not beyond our influence like in normal states.
• sometimes you feel controled by alien powers.
• the normal world often seems like a kind of big joke played on you, everything is nothing more than an imagination.
• I find, that Salvia didnt expand your feelings like mushrooms or other tryptamines. But due to such weird experiences fear can rise up. One problem is, that you may have forgotten, that you took salvia. And you are are maybe a different personality not really knowing how to deal with a psychedelic experience. But I think with some excercise you can deal better and better with the experience (well nevertheless there will be earthshaking ones).
• sometimes you think, that you really did it this time. You think you crosed the border with no ticket back. But dont fear about that, you will come back to the (poor ;-) normal reality.
• it is common, that you forget a lot from level 5, because its very hard to bring the experienced things together with the things you believed and knowed to date. It is also sometimes hard to find out, in what you should believe and what not after the trip, because the experince touchs you so directly.

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