The Recreational Drug Thread (single, members, show, quote, memories)

[debaserr]

i dont feel the need to seperate myself from society to trip. i like roaming around with friends(sunglasses a must!). like chilling out in a field with music pumping or tossing a ball.

[Freebase Dali]

LOL @ ur avatar.

It won.

[likuidcoka]

lol@ shroomage..

[adidasss]

Ok so the other thread was closed so I'm gonna post something here. Dunno if it's gonna sound silly, but sometimes I like to think of pot as the truth drug. Aside from making you feel all fuzzy and giggling and making music sound 10 times better (seriously, if you haven't heard Grizzly bear stoned you should get on it, it's eargazmic) it also makes you (or at least me) feel vulnerable. It's sort of like all your natural defenses are down and you become much more attuned to your inner truths (or shit). Sometimes that's good but can also lead to some bad trips if you get stuck on all the fears and anxieties. I realize a lot of things about life when I'm high which wouldn't have occurred to me when I'm sober (but still ring true when I sober up).

Last night I realized that one of my worst fears is being a cliché, in the sense of getting lost in the corporate lifestyle with no life outside the office, worrying about the bills and having office friends, worrying about having made it by the time I'm 35 and then having a midlife crises and shit. I think I'm sort of in the advantage of not being a heterosexual so I don't think I'll ever become a married cliché, working to support someone else and becoming bored of my partner by the time I'm in my 30's. Sorry if this offends some of you, but tis the truth I suppose, the hetero lifestyle has always been a bit of a nightmare. Mostly because the "stability" and safety of it seems like stagnation, which in turn equals death. :|

So just to be curteous even though I just wanted to have this in writing (sometimes I think I should write some of that stream of consciousness down but that would be a drag. Maybe I'll get a tape recorder or something), anyone have similar thoughts they'd like to share...?

[likuidcoka]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Ok so the other thread was closed so I'm gonna post something here. Dunno if it's gonna sound silly, but sometimes I like to think of pot as the truth drug. Aside from making you feel all fuzzy and giggling and making music sound 10 times better (seriously, if you haven't heard Grizzly bear stoned you should get on it, it's eargazmic) it also makes you (or at least me) feel vulnerable. It's sort of like all your natural defenses are down and you become much more attuned to your inner truths (or shit). Sometimes that's good but can also lead to some bad trips if you get stuck on all the fears and anxieties. I realize a lot of things about life when I'm high which wouldn't have occurred to me when I'm sober (but still ring true when I sober up).

Last night I realized that one of my worst fears is being a cliché, in the sense of getting lost in the corporate lifestyle with no life outside the office, worrying about the bills and having office friends, worrying about having made it by the time I'm 35 and then having a midlife crises and shit. I think I'm sort of in the advantage of not being a heterosexual so I don't think I'll ever become a married cliché, working to support someone else and becoming bored of my partner by the time I'm in my 30's. Sorry if this offends some of you, but tis the truth I suppose, the hetero lifestyle has always been a bit of a nightmare. Mostly because the "stability" and safety of it seems like stagnation, which in turn equals death. :|

So just to be curteous even though I just wanted to have this in writing (sometimes I think I should write some of that stream of consciousness down but that would be a drag. Maybe I'll get a tape recorder or something), anyone have similar thoughts they'd like to share...?

do your thing man ITs all good, i dont know what cliche' is but I Dont give a Fu$k what anyone say or do, i just chill out smoke a bowl, enjoy my trip, with music,homies..and the rest is history, tomorrow is another day..I dont gotta be no superstar ,no supermodel, no NOthing to anyone..If anything, you gotta be true to yourself, and weed definitely makes you ponder bout $hit you wouldn't even imagine of while sober, been there done that!

I think you should write it down, or record it..That would be BAd Ass!

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by adidasss

Ok so the other thread was closed so I'm gonna post something here. Dunno if it's gonna sound silly, but sometimes I like to think of pot as the truth drug. Aside from making you feel all fuzzy and giggling and making music sound 10 times better (seriously, if you haven't heard Grizzly bear stoned you should get on it, it's eargazmic) it also makes you (or at least me) feel vulnerable. It's sort of like all your natural defenses are down and you become much more attuned to your inner truths (or shit). Sometimes that's good but can also lead to some bad trips if you get stuck on all the fears and anxieties. I realize a lot of things about life when I'm high which wouldn't have occurred to me when I'm sober (but still ring true when I sober up).

^^^
That is exactly, word for word, what I experience on pot.

I notice that if you have something to distract yourself with, you don't find yourself being self-critical as much.

[Dr_Rez]

Good post adidasss. I agree with you completely. On top of that musicians biggest fear also seems to be labeled as an average person. I belivieve as we all get older and grow that we realize being relatively normal or cliche is perfectly alright and not that bad.

Btw, never try Ecstasy or ethanol. They will really squeeze the truth out of you

[adidasss]

Nah, I'm too big of a pussy to do any proper drugs. I'm not even sound enough to be a proper stoner, I only smoke every few weeks or so. I find the emotional (and sometimes physical) strain to be a bit too much to smoke more frequently. It's sort of too easy to get stuck on the bad trips even though it is quite possible to direct your trips, if you put some effort into it. Music seems to be the easiest way out.

Sometimes my whole perception of an artist changes when I listen to them high. For example, I liked Grizzly bear well enough before I heard them stoned, but hearing them high was almost a transcedental experience. I swear I felt like if heaven had any music, it would be this, it was really otherworldly, angelic.

I had a similar experience with Animal Collective's Merriwhether and for the first time realized how perfectly, insanely well produced it was, a million different sounds put together with such nerdy, perfectionist attention to detail.

Last night I was listening to the Klaxons and sort of started thinking how they purposefully made an album mixing almost cacophonous sounds with short intervals of harmonious music just to fuck with your mind and prove how easy it is to ingratiate people and sell them something which on the whole really shouldn't appeal to such a wide audience.

[PinkCigarette]

I smoked weed twice to get to my happy place.


Otherwise, I'm one of those boring people who likes to create fun without drug use.

[billyjerome]

Adidasss, check out these links. I think you will find them very interesting. Let me know if you would like more information on anything.

Astral projection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Monroe Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
YouTube - MonroeInstitute's Channel
Astral Projections, OBE, Lucid Dreaming Books | gateway voyage | isoHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine
Astral Projection | gateway voyage | isoHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine
The Monroe Institute: Hemi-Sync Take Home Excercises (SUPER RARE) Torrent - btjunkie