Smoked salvia and I'm still questioning reality 16 days later.
I lived 25 days after smoking Salvia... then woke up 27 minutes later. I'm still questioning reality 16 days later.
I've read a lot of Salvia trip reports over the years, and they honestly scared me. Even so, I'd wanted to try it for a long time.
Before smoking it, I was so afraid of losing touch with reality that I wrote a note to myself in a notebook—a kind of proof that this reality existed before the trip.
There were three of us sitting quietly in my apartment. We packed the bong, I took the hit, and everything went black.
The last thing I remember before blacking out was seeing myself from the opposite corner of the room. It was like I was standing there, watching my own body slumped over in the chair.
Then...
Something snapped.
I woke up in a bed, but not in the apartment where we'd smoked. I was in another room. My friend, who was sleeping in the next room, asked why I was sweating so much.
I told him I'd had the craziest dream—that years ago, when we were younger, we'd smoked Salvia together.
The strange part?
In that reality I was 22 years old, and what I remembered as the Salvia session had supposedly happened 6 years earlier. I had a government job as a taxation officer. I went to work every day. I handled paperwork and office tasks that I have absolutely no knowledge of in real life. Somehow, in that reality, I knew exactly what I was doing.
At first I questioned everything.
Was that Salvia trip the dream?
Or was I still trapped inside it?
For the next 25 days, I lived a completely normal life.
I went to work.
I talked to friends.
I drove to my hometown twice—each trip around 4–5 hours.
Nothing ever glitched.
Nothing felt dreamlike.
It felt as real as the life I'm living right now.
I even tried multiple reality checks because I couldn't shake the feeling that I might still be inside the trip. Those checks convinced me that my world was real.
One thing still bothered me, though.
I remembered writing a notebook before taking Salvia.
I searched everywhere for it.
It simply didn't exist.
After those 25 days, my friends and I decided to smoke Salvia again. Ironically, the reason we decided to do it was because I'd told them about the dream where we'd supposedly smoked it years before.
I took the hit.
The exact same thing happened.
I blacked out.
I watched myself from the corner of the room.
Then...
Something snapped again.
I woke up back in my original apartment.
Only 27 minutes had passed since the first hit.
I was drenched in sweat.
For several minutes I genuinely had no idea which reality was real.
The 25 days felt just as authentic as this moment.
It's now been 16 days since that happened.
Most of the panic is gone, but I still occasionally question reality. I'm leaning toward believing that this is the real world.
I'm simply describing exactly what I experienced.
If anyone else has experienced long, coherent alternate lives on Salvia—or had lingering derealization afterward—I'd really like to hear your story.
Because this experience changed the way I think about consciousness, memory, and reality more than anything I've ever experienced.
And btw before someone points this out English isn't my first language so i used Ai to refine the mistakes.