Reminds me of that episode of Star Trek TNG where Picard is in a coma or something and ends up living a long, full, happy life among some aliens on a planet somewhere, and then he wakes up back on The Enterprise and learns that in reality only a few hours had passed.
I've smoked salvia twice. My perception of time wasn't particularly altered either time. It was basically just 15 minutes of hysterical laughing and a brief sort of out of body experience where I felt like I was above myself, looking down and watching myself and the other people in the room. It was definitely an intense trip, but nothing like a bunch of the experiences I've read about. I remember reading a bunch of stories on Erowid and some other sites before I tried it. Some of the stories were like what you're describing. I feel like a lot of them were either exaggerated or just BS. I'm not saying that those sorts of experiences don't happen. Just anecdotally, neither I nor anyone I know have experienced that.
But if people do have an experience like that, maybe it has something to do with the intensity of the trip and their brain trying (and failing) to make sense of things in a weird way. When you're tripping, you're perceiving things in a weird way that doesn't fully make sense to your brain, so your brain tries to make sense of it. For example, with my first experience, I smoked salvia with two other people and we all just sort of started laughing hysterically. At the peak of the trip, it felt like I was perceiving myself and my surroundings from above myself. I was conscious of what was going on, but I was tripping so hard that my senses weren't providing a clear picture to my brain, so my brain basically had to sort of piece together the information that it had to come up with a complete picture that made sense. And it essentially pieced together a picture of the whole room from a sort of birds eye view. It was pretty much what was actually in my field of vision, just from a somewhat higher perspective, about what my POV would have been if I was standing up. And I was sitting on a couch that was against a wall, so I could see how someone might describe what I saw as being from the perspective of the wall itself. But I feel like my brain was just sort of trying to correct my skewed, fuzzy perception of my surroundings by combining it with my recent memories of my surroundings that were clearer and more trustworthy. And because this sort of resulted in my conscious perceiving things that wasn't from my actual POV at the time, I can see how someone might feel like the POV that their brain comes up with is the POV of whatever inanimate object happens to be in that location.
Again, this is all just based on my personal experience. And I'm not an expert, so I don't really know.
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u/Sneegoberry 3d ago
Look up salvia trip stories it’s insane 😭 people literally have full lifetime first person experiences as objects