gustavofring
Well-known member
I recently have had "positive" experiences with weed.
After many years of being trapped inside my little headbox and being completely stagnant in life, recently I've taken up smoking weed. Not a lot, but enough to have a little in my system during the week. I never really truly fully "understood" what "mind-altering" drugs really meant, but now I do. When high, and the days afterwards, my perspective of the world somewhat changes and I find that the world "slows down" enough for me to make sense of it, to truly connect to people, to lose my inhibitedness and learned behavior. It's like I lose my "concept thinking" and enter a deeper , more intuitive understanding of the world. It also vastly improves my imagination and creativity, something also really important when talking and connecting to people. I get more in touch with emotions as well. My brain makes connections and scenario's it normally wouldn't, in a positive way.
In other words, when taking it, I kind of start to feel how normal people probably feel most of the time. It's eye-opening.
However I also realize that I cannot possibly sustain this and it could develop into an addiction easily. My plan is to ultimately drop it and move to different means of slowing down the mind, like fanatic exercise/fitness.
I've also realized that most people are probably high on life in some form. Why do most people go drink in the weekends? Why do people engage in sports, and dangerous things? It's all a form of stress-relief and self-medication. Something the socially anxious and depressed rarely ever get because they're too trapped inside their own heads. Sometimes to break through the numbness we have to step outside a bit. Maybe meditation is also a way to achieve it, but I find it's very difficult for me to shut down the inner chatter.
Anyway I hope this topic isn't controversial, or as an advertizement for weed/drugs/alcohol. It isn't. I just want to get debate going on self-medication.
After many years of being trapped inside my little headbox and being completely stagnant in life, recently I've taken up smoking weed. Not a lot, but enough to have a little in my system during the week. I never really truly fully "understood" what "mind-altering" drugs really meant, but now I do. When high, and the days afterwards, my perspective of the world somewhat changes and I find that the world "slows down" enough for me to make sense of it, to truly connect to people, to lose my inhibitedness and learned behavior. It's like I lose my "concept thinking" and enter a deeper , more intuitive understanding of the world. It also vastly improves my imagination and creativity, something also really important when talking and connecting to people. I get more in touch with emotions as well. My brain makes connections and scenario's it normally wouldn't, in a positive way.
In other words, when taking it, I kind of start to feel how normal people probably feel most of the time. It's eye-opening.
However I also realize that I cannot possibly sustain this and it could develop into an addiction easily. My plan is to ultimately drop it and move to different means of slowing down the mind, like fanatic exercise/fitness.
I've also realized that most people are probably high on life in some form. Why do most people go drink in the weekends? Why do people engage in sports, and dangerous things? It's all a form of stress-relief and self-medication. Something the socially anxious and depressed rarely ever get because they're too trapped inside their own heads. Sometimes to break through the numbness we have to step outside a bit. Maybe meditation is also a way to achieve it, but I find it's very difficult for me to shut down the inner chatter.
Anyway I hope this topic isn't controversial, or as an advertizement for weed/drugs/alcohol. It isn't. I just want to get debate going on self-medication.
Last edited:
erfect: