Yeah, but it's a weird one. Unlike most other psychedelics it's not an alkaloid and it doesn't interact with your serotonin receptors. Instead it has a high affinity for the k-opioid receptor and disrupts the release of dopamine in certain parts of your brain.
It is as psychedelic as dmt it just isn't pleasurable at all. On breakthrough doses your awareness is altered but you aren't intoxicated like on the classical psychedelics. It is a hard one to explain but you are disassociated in the regular sense, the ego death is real but not in the numinous way of serotonergic drugs. I was once a square wheel on a truck. And I lived a whole life that way. I remember way more of what happens in my salvia breakthroughs than in my dmt ones. I think the dmt ones would be just as unpleasant though if dmt wasn't itself pleasurable.
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TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 52 pts · 35d
Sounds like the salvia may have unmasked/worsened a latent mental ailment......
Remember kids, be cautious around psychedelics if your family has a history of mental illness.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 33 pts · 35d
Are there families without some history of mental illness?
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 35d
I'm doing my part!
chocrates@piefed.world · 12 pts · 35d
Is salvia a psychedelic?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 35d
Yeah, but it's a weird one. Unlike most other psychedelics it's not an alkaloid and it doesn't interact with your serotonin receptors. Instead it has a high affinity for the k-opioid receptor and disrupts the release of dopamine in certain parts of your brain.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 35d
It is as psychedelic as dmt it just isn't pleasurable at all. On breakthrough doses your awareness is altered but you aren't intoxicated like on the classical psychedelics. It is a hard one to explain but you are disassociated in the regular sense, the ego death is real but not in the numinous way of serotonergic drugs. I was once a square wheel on a truck. And I lived a whole life that way. I remember way more of what happens in my salvia breakthroughs than in my dmt ones. I think the dmt ones would be just as unpleasant though if dmt wasn't itself pleasurable.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 35d
It's in a category of its own. It's pretty interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvinorin_A#Pharmaceutical_action
MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 35d
Basically a dissociative right?
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 35d
Incredible. I wonder if this was a fetish post... Probably.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 35d
Fetish/creative writing for sure
Stinkywizzleteats@piefed.social · 4 pts · 35d
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 35d
I read that as "saliva" as in someone licked their ass...
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 35d
If genetic engineering could do one thing for us...
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 35d
I'm sure there is a good reason they should smell bad? Changing that might be definitely one of those things scientists could, but shouldn't change.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 35d
You could get sick from unmasked farts.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 35d
Probably just a result of fermentation. It hasn't been selected against because it's not a problem.
I don't see how genetically engineering humans for farts that smell like baking bread would be a problem for modern humans, do you?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d
I could think of somethings but don't want to. I am pretty sure nature wants us to associate that smell to bad for a reason.
brb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 30d
My farts smell amazing. They should study me.