does weed enhance your creativity??

[twistedlogic]

currently i'm studying photography and i like to smoke weed when i take photographs.i think it helps me to open my mind,but it's not like i can't take pictures without smoking.the funny thing is that my "stoned" photographs have a completely different style than my ''normal photographs"
what do u think?? :confused:

[Roadking]

Maybe weed just makes you more aware of certain things...not sure if that's the same as enhancing or not...

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From Hunter Thompson's biography by E. Jean Carroll

3:00pm - get out of bed
3:05 - Chivas Regal scotch with the morning papers Dunhill cigarette 3:45 - cocaine 3:50 - Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 - first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 - cocaine 4:16 - orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 - cocaine 4:54 - cocaine 5:05 - cocaine 5:11 - coffee, Dunhill 5:30 - more ice in the Chivas 5:45 - cocaine 6:00 - grass to take the edge off 7:05 - Woody Creek Tavern for lunch: Heineken, two margaritas, two cheeseburgers, two orders of fries, a plate of tomatoes, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of onion rings, carrot, cake, ice cream, bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine. For the ride home, a snow cone (a glasse of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas) 9:00 - cocaine 10:00 - drops acid 11:00 - Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, 11:30 - cocaine Midnight - ready to write 12:05 - 6:00am - Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin 6:00am - Hot tub: Champagne, Dove Bars, fettucine Alfredo 8:00 - Halcion 8:20 - sleep

[twistedlogic]

yeah i think it's the same thing

[HeLTeR.SKeLTeR]

it sure does, a little while ago a was writing a report on this story (and I was stoned) and the way the ideas floated in my head was great and I wrote an awesome report (I'd post it but its in spanish)


i had all the ideas in my head before I started writing and before I got stoned, but defenetly getting stoned "enhanced" those ideas in an awesome way


i'm glad we have weed, its such a way to escape everything... :)

[Ganj]

i'm not a very creative person. when i'm high...i'm still not a very creative person.

[NextGen]

i'm not a very creative person. when i'm high...i'm still not a very creative person. what does that mean? anyone


are you a rock?

[SensiRide]

Does weed enhance your creativity?

Why, yes, check out this photo of 3 sheets I had a play around with earlier :D

http://boards.cannabis.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36279

[Bman719]

what does that mean? anyone


are you a rock?
I don't know if that means he's a rock... but maybe he smokes rocks???? :confused:

[PoBoy Blazze]

Yes, I only do beatz or write when I'm blowed

[king kong bong]

yea it does.

[Euphoric]

Cannabis induces your brain's frequncies to the alpha state. This is perfect for creativity. (http://www.brainmachines.com/frequencies.html)

alpha 8-12 Hertz Relaxed: The most widely known and publicized is the Alpha wave. Most people equate this wave with ESP, meditation, and all sorts of strange ideas. The truth is the alpha waves account for only half the story. Alpha ranges between 7-12 hertz and is prominent during relaxation mostly with eyes closed, day dreaming, and upon deep self-introspection. The 1960's made this activity famous when it was found out that cannabis or marijuana, which grew naturally, induced this state in people. Scientist have found out that it was the chemical THC that caused this euphoric feeling by being a substitute for the brain's natural pleasure chemicals which are called endorphins.

Out of all the different types of brain waves there is a very interesting range called the Alpha-Theta border. I've already mentioned that the Alpha was half the story, well the Theta wave is the other half of a state of mind that brings about creativity, intelligence, and a host of other abilities the brain is capable of doing when properly stimulated.

Many cultures discovered this and the methods to achieve this state naturally and artificially. Many of the worlds religions were founded on reaching this state and devised strict disciplines to do so. The Alpha-Theta range occurs during reverie, hypnogogic imagery, meditation, and by self-hypnosis. The drugs that achieve this state are controlled use of cannabis and hallucinogens.

[twistedlogic]

here are some pics i took while being stoned

[missyleah]

So whats the best type for creativity, especially musical?

[NightProwler]

indica strains.

[Harvesthetic]

LMAO i studied photography for two years and had the exact same shit :D
you're a pretty good photographer though, first pic is very very nice.
Seems that MJ really does the trick for u :)
Indeed smoke some indica strains.. Watch your photography get better :)

[Harvesthetic]

Ow yea and Euphoric: Great info!

[KottonMouthSara]

currently i'm studying photography and i like to smoke weed when i take photographs.i think it helps me to open my mind,but it's not like i can't take pictures without smoking.the funny thing is that my "stoned" photographs have a completely different style than my ''normal photographs"
what do u think?? :confused:

Oh definately! As I mentioned to Harvesthetic before, im so crap at doing work when im not stoned. I come up with really uncreative answers as oppose to when im stoned and im like 'Oh my god how the fuck did i come up with that amazing line?!'

Its true, weed enhances your creative side...most great composers in previous centuries were pot heads...now, no one can say that they were an uncreative bunch can they?

I say keep toking while taking your pics, i'm sure it has a better effect on the quality!!! :pimp:

[Harvesthetic]

There's a lot of proof that the great works of art of human history involved drug (ab) use for at least eighty percent. (Found cannabis seeds in Shakespeare's pipe)
I guess cannabis lifts you out of a wider view, and makes you zoom in on what you are doing specifically. It may indeed 'enhance' performance.
Plz check out the Pharmacratic Inquisition if you have the time. It's three hours of presentation that 'll blow your mind.

http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com/nontesters/pharmacratic/

(!! really)

[Harvesthetic]

Adam and Eve with serpent-entwined Psilocybe mushroom (caduceus).
Italy [Abbey of Montecassino]; circa 1072 - British Library

[Microsoft Certified]

yes it does a little..,..

[Whos Carl]

I have to question everything I say to make sure im not so stoned im just mumbling. I think it does make you creative because I made a huge essay about legalising it and I was so stoned I forgot to save it lol.

[dustoned]

yes sir. this is why i smoke indica. i fucking love to write as i come down. when everything is very reflective and sluggish, so awareness heightens.

[missyleah]

Will have to try some indica. Will have to ask about tho, the supply around here's shit.

[MudFu]

Wow I love that first pic. Very good.

Being stoned I find do not make you more creative but more open. You have the ideas in your mind all the time but you hold it in for many different reasons. When you are stoned you lose the fear or what reason you have and become more open. I hate to sing in front of others but when I'm stoned I can. I lose my fear. I also can draw certin things that when I'm not stoned, I wouldn't normaly think of.

Good job SensiRide. Lol nice pic.

[dopefiend]

i like to make music while im stoned, especially on a keyboard, it comes out all funky and shit but it is fun while your doing it :stoned:

[Its a Plant]

I always blaze before my art classes at school, and I get super creative and can't stop drawing. I don't always smoke before I work on my art, but it helps in some cases.

[beachguy in thongs]

WEed doES EnhaNCE YOur creatIVITY, THe probleM STems fRom enHANcements.