I did everything as right as I could: OM chanting music with the headphones, darkly light room (red light actually), tea pot of peppermint tea on the side, dragon's blood incence burning in front of me. I chewed through 4grms of the dried stuff soaked in water the night before, for 30 minutes, occasionally tipping back my head to allow the juices to slither down to my throat glands, and all I got was jaw ache.

Didn't feel a thing.

Feel deceived actually, with a voice in the back of my mind saying that I should have smoked it, but I wanted to do it the spiritual way, at least the closest way I could short of chewing fresh leaves.

Apparently, this plant is not meant to be smoked or dried.

So I've got 5grms left so Il'' finish that off tomorrow and see what happens.

Glad to be here on DMT Nexus!

Indeed smoking dried plain or enhanced is a useful technique with SD. Once familiarized with the effects using an enhanced extract(be careful), the subtler planes(of salvia space) delivered with quid or smoked plain leaf are more obvious. With a bit of practice and focus in a quiet setting these gentler realms are much more "workable" v the Salvia Droid(hat tip), body/mind/space/time reality grinder! www.zensages.com/

Peace

Ime, salvia requires many attempts and long term exploration for intimate development. Indeed, smoking/vaporizing and/or quidding are great methods but the diterpenes in salvia render the experiences subjectively moar powerful through each experiment. Salvia has a unique and potent reverse-tolerance effect.. enabling deeper utilization of this profound plant teacher through each session.

Safe travels!

So what you're saying is that I should not expect to experience anything wonderful too soon?

Just be patient.

Try smoking it. Quidding dry and rehydrated leaves doesnt seem to work for many.

Also if you smoke it. Use a bong. Smoke it HOT (keep flame on it) and keep the smoke in for as long as you can.

Quidding works best with fresh leaves. Dried leaves for smoking.

I smoked some 40X extract just the night before and just like with the 20X extract there were no visuals,but the mental effects were really weird,it's as if my thoughts were 'echoing' into infinity.I kept looking looking back and forth between the monitor and the sofa,I felt there was some kind of presence near the sofa I just kept saying 'ah' and 'uhm' to the presence until I broke out of the loop few minutes later,thinking wtf just happened

For me this felt really simillar like how right before waking up I was following some kind of plot that I completely forgot once I fully awake and to sober me it seems compeletely nonsensical.Anyone can relate to this Salvia experience

I can relate...

Some of the weirdest S. divinorum experiences I've had entailed no "visuals" (as we usually relate to that term around here), but really, really weird feelings, "presences", thought-loops, etc.

Like Cognitive Heart said just a few short posts before this one, "Just be patient".