Salvia divinorum Stats & Data
Subjective Effects
Physical
- Gravity alterations: This is consistently the most obvious and noticeable subjective physical experience during the onset of a moderate to high dosage salvia trip. It creates the sensation of an extremely powerful, irresistible and extradimensional force pulling the body and head in a specific direction, usually to the left or right.
- Changes in felt bodily form: This effect often accompanies the onset of powerful salvinorin A gravity and can be described as non-painful sensations of being stretched horizontally or vertically into infinity, splitting into two halves and a variety of other sudden changes.
- Spontaneous tactile sensations: For some unlucky people this is sometimes accompanied by the sensation of intense, sharp and cold pins and needles all over a person's skin, which can quickly become very uncomfortable. Most people however will never experience this feeling.
Cognitive
The general head space of salvia is described by many as one of extreme cognitive suppression and strong feelings of confusion. This substance is best described as a drug that does not create profound personal insights, just profound and interesting experiences.
- Extreme laughter: The average first time salvia user generally experiences a mixture of extreme gigglyness and confusion.
- Ego suppression, loss and death: This substance is particularly intense in its cognitive effects due to the near instant transition from sobriety into ego death which can occur very suddenly at moderate to high dosages.
- Thought deceleration
- Information processing suppression
- Language suppression
- Anxiety: General paranoia, anxiety and panic are very common for the unprepared.
- Unity and interconnectedness
- Amnesia
Sensory
When a user keeps their eyes open throughout the duration of a moderate to strong trip, a number of open eye distortions are usually present. These are significantly more simplistic than distortions found with other classes of hallucinogens.
- Depth perception distortions: This effect is usually characterized by a total loss of depth perception and a complete flattening of the visual field into a 2-dimensional image. It can also make objects seem further away or closer in distance than they actually are.
- Size distortions: This effect can be described as specific objects within the external environment or the surroundings as a whole changing in physical size and becoming impossibly huge or small in size.
Salvia produces a full range of high level hallucinatory states in a fashion that is just as consistent as that of classical psychedelics.
- External hallucinations: In comparison to psychedelics, the transformations found within salvinorin A are significantly more solid, believable and realistic in appearance. They are commonly manifested as objects within the external environment coming alive or changing in some way and can only occur when the eyes are kept open.
- Internal hallucinations: (Autonomous entities; settings, sceneries, and landscapes; alterations in perspective and scenarios and plots)
- Machinescapes: At high dosages with darkness or closed eyes, once the user has become disconnected from their body, vast and complex landscapes comprised of ever-changing and interlocking mechanical parts manifest. These are comprised from an infinite variety of potential materials and parts which often comprise impossible arrays of cogs, gears, pulleys, conveyor belts, levers, panels, hydraulics and incomprehensible moving parts. There is an extremely prominent sense that you have become the perceivable machinescape.
- Distortions
- Hallucinations
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Effect Profile
Curated + 2,575 ReportsStrong visuals and auditory effects with moderate headspace, low body load
Duration Timeline
BluelightEmpirical Duration
Erowid ReportsCommunity Effects
TripSitDemographics
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Reports Over Time
Effect Analysis
Erowid + BluelightEffects aggregated from 2,253 experience reports (2,203 Erowid + 372 Bluelight)
Effect Sentiment Distribution
Confidence Distribution
Positive Effects 42
Adverse Effects 62
Dose-Response Correlation
How effect frequency changes across dose levels
View data table
| Effect | Threshold (n=382) |
|---|---|
| Anxiety | 53.7% |
| Visual Distortions | 50.8% |
| Confusion | 41.9% |
| Color Enhancement | 31.7% |
| Music Enhancement | 28.8% |
| Tactile Enhancement | 27.7% |
| Closed-Eye Visuals | 25.7% |
| Empathy | 24.3% |
| Dissociation | 22.8% |
| Auditory Effects | 22.8% |
| Euphoria | 22.5% |
| Focus Enhancement | 19.6% |
| Stimulation | 18.8% |
| Introspection | 18.6% |
| Memory Suppression | 17.5% |
Subjective Effect Ontology
Experience ReportsStructured effect tags extracted from 2,569 Erowid & Bluelight experience reports using a controlled vocabulary of 220+ canonical effects across 15 domains.
Auditory
Cognitive
Emotional
Motor
Selfhood
Somatic
Tactile
Temporal
Visual
Dose–Effect Mapping
Experience ReportsHow reported effects shift across dose tiers, based on 2203 experience reports.
Limited tier coverage — most reports fall within the Threshold range. Effects at other dose levels may not be represented.
| Effect | Threshold (n=382) | |
|---|---|---|
| anxiety | ||
| visual distortions | ||
| confusion | ||
| color enhancement | ||
| music enhancement | ||
| tactile enhancement | ||
| closed-eye visuals | ||
| empathy | ||
| dissociation | ||
| auditory effects | ||
| euphoria | ||
| focus enhancement | ||
| stimulation | ||
| introspection | ||
| memory suppression | ||
| open-eye visuals | ||
| time distortion | ||
| sweating | ||
| body high | ||
| motor impairment |
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Dosage Distribution
Dose distribution from experience reports
Real-World Dose Distribution
62K DosesFrom 2294 individual dose entries
Sublingual (n=39)
Smoked (n=501)
Oral (n=7)
Common Combinations
Most co-occurring substances in experience reports
Form / Preparation
Most common forms and preparations reported
Body-Weight Dosing
Dose relative to body weight from reports with weight data
Smoked
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Sublingual
Redose Patterns
Redosing behavior across 2032 reports