I had partaken in visiting Uncle Dmitry a few times prior to doing SWIM's first extraction but it was always someone else's and sandwiched in a pipe of cannabis, making dosage near impossible to anticipate. On account of the spice being burnt, it amounted to several sub-breakthrough experiences for me, but a few times someone would get a monster hit in the rotation and describe a breakthrough experience. Once acquiring enough personal spice to begin working with, I began different, more precise approaches, finding enhanced leaf to work the best.
The heaviest experience was the first time the leaf was taken for a test run. Being excited, but wary of full blasting off, I loaded a pinch of enhanced mint leaves taken from my garden and managed to get it all in one hit. I almost immediately started to feel the buzzing of onset, released my lungful and felt as if my perception had exploded.
It was mid-afternoon, with beams of sunlight streaming through the patio door all of which began to look like glittery, crystalline beauty pouring into the room. I looked up at the wall and it was covered in geometric patterns of every imaginable color scrolling down, up, across, and diagonally across the wall. While beautiful, I found it a bit over powering to look at so I closed my eyes, realizing I had a great deal of trouble determining whether my eyes were actually open or shut. Whenever I shut my eyes, the room and visuals remained, but from a slightly different view point. I seemed to be looking at the room from higher and further back than where I was actually sitting.
At this point, I began to feel slightly anxious and even a smidgen fearful. I remember thinking to myself "You're going on this journey" then, "But who will guide me?" I opened my eyes again (maybe?), looking towards the floor form across the coffee table. I saw a young native looking woman crouched on her knees on the other side of the table, with one arm rested on the edge of the table. She kept ducking down and then looking back up at me with a gleefully mischievous smile and giggling. I immediately felt more relaxed and a good bit amused by her game. I closed my eyes again, just watching streams of patterns and colors before I felt myself returning to baseline.
I slithered onto the floor and stretched out (feels amazing after a dream. I always feel very strong and limber afterwards) next to my room mates dog. I came up to a sitting position and was just looking at residual patterns moving on the floor when I noticed the carpet seemed to have wood grain type patterns moving across it but they all seemed to converge on a point slightly behind my right foot (was sitting cross legged). I looked to where the patterns gravitated and they all led to a tennis ball. I looked back towards the dog and saw her staring intently at the ball, waiting on me to throw it. I busted out laughing, being pretty sure I just saw intention in action, and returned to baseline.
I have yet to breakthrough, this being the furthest I've gone insofar, but I'm not sweating it, nor rushing it. Just waiting on the day I catch an odd whiff of *that* smell on the breeze and feel the whisper calling.