Discussion on how it feels to be high (philosophical, observations)

How exactly do you feel when you get high? Discuss what happens to your psyche, etc. We all know we get hungry and laugh when we are faded, but what exactly changes in your mind that makes the world seem so different?

I smoke every day. On week days I usually just smoke a bowl, and I get in somewhat of a comfort zone. I get very focused. When I am sober, my mind will become distracted by anything; any thought will come up and I have trouble focusing on something like a homework assignment or a movie. When Im high, i can focus directly on something. I smoked a bowl at school on Friday and went back to class and began to study my vocab list; I aced the test next period. I was only looking at my vocab list, and didn't feel the need to be bothered by anything else. My mind becomes more radical, it uses stranger methods to express itself. I think of more grotesque and repressed thoughts when I am high, my superego doesn't kick in and make me feel guilty and restrict me from exploring arears of my mind like it does when I am sober.

Then there is that next level of high. I get even more introverted. I feel like I am in my own world, I seclude myself and have fun doing something mindless such as eating. I will look at my food and eat it, and just think of nothing. I'll catch myself thinking of nothing, too. Again, thoughts and fantasies become vivid, especially scenarios. I can sit down and just think of a story for a long period of time, and it will be as entertaining as actually reading a novel. I become the character. That's all in my mind.

Then, you start to get real faded. Now it isn't all just mind soup. When I start getting real high, I will zone out for maybe 2 minutes. I will be looking at something or thinking of something, then I will look around and come back to reality. Looking around feels like I just stepped out of a more action-packed situation. Coming out of my thought makes me feel like I just turned off a good movie, and then just sit there with the TV off thinking "what the hell was I doing just sitting there?". My thoughts become even more strange as my mind dips freely into my subconcious and preconcious. I will also begin to use my imagination (something I believe most humans fail to use) at this point. I was faded and walking around Target today, and I was imagining there was a small character to the side of me, following along me. The character is maybe 8 inches tall, a stick-figure, and it must jump from shelf to shelf and hang onto price tags and run along shopping carts to stay by my side. I walked around for like 15 minutes imagining that, and was thorouhgly entertained.

After that the world changes. I call this being "gone". I have a very specific definition for being gone. You definitely are no longer on the normal plain of existence; this is more then just being high, you're, well gone. The world looks TOTALLY different to you than it does to a sober person or someone who isnt as high. It's like looking at the world with a new set of eyes. The first thing I notice is everything seems smaller. I was sitting in my backyard, and I looked up and it hit me that the whole yard only seemed like it was half the size than it usually is. Furniture seems tiny, like I am in a picture. I feel like a giant walking around in a different, mini-world. This is when I laugh. A lot of people will laugh from highs under this one, but I need to be GONE to really bust up at nothing. I kind of lose my mind when I am gone; i dont have as strong as an imagination or subconcsious toughts like when I am little below this. When Im gone I just walk around in this new fascinating world, looking at shit. Its fucking cool, but the farther away you travel from Earth (anything beyond this point is just going further) you might freak out or get sick. Once I vomitted from being too high, it was an interested experience.

Thats just the mind affects. I can talk about being high all day. I have way more affects I try to explain, thats just the levels of how your mind and perception change.

How about you guys?

yawn. just kidding. cough

zalami128: I couldn't have explained it better. I haven't been, as you put it, "gone" in a long time, but I think tonight, I'm going to smoke until I reach that point. I love smoking to the point of smoking too much, where things are totally different and you start to get a little paranoid. Sadly, my hookah is broken, so I'll have to smoke joints tonight. I feel as if bongs and hookahs actually get me more high.

yes, i actually enjoyed reading it..

I feel good when im high.

I love the highs I get where I'm just cycling strange concepts through my mind and letting myself zone out while I begin to feel like the geometry and proportions of everything becomes completely skewed for 5 minutes or so.


I really need to do that more often.

great read. i love the "auto-pilot" mode, so i can get shit done without even thinking about it... my body jsut does it.

for me, getting high now is not as enjoyable as it was wheni was say 16 - 18 years old. Now it seems when i smoke (even just a fews hits) i feel like im in a dream or another world... by body starts to clench up, my stomach tightenes and i feel very anxious and short of breath. Im hoping maybe its due to the fact that i just recently started smoking again after many many years. But i do remember this is the reason why i quit in the first place. When i used to smoke years ago, it felt so awesome and me and one of my friends would go through a bag everynight on the weekend. At some point smoking started to make me feel anxious and very uncomfortable, like i was going to lose control and i wanted to just jump out of my skin and go hide somewhere. Maybe somthing changed with me psychologically and smoking enahances these feelings. Anyhow, i will continue to smoke little at a time to see if anything changes. Could shitty MJ cause people to have anxious highs? Because where i live there is no such thing as premium weed... its all just regular generic crap i guess. There are no exotic names or blends, its just weed. Are there known strains that are less likely to cause anxiety? Im pretty new here to the boards, been trolling for a while but just recently registered. Thanks for listening.

somebody follows freud i see :D

for me, things are just smooth as can be
i am sitting outside typing this on the deck of my pool drinking sweet tea and trees are swaying in the breeze...yet the sway seems a little more fluid to me because of the blunt i just smoked (the new white owl watermelon blunts are a must buy\).

anyways that is how i feel mentally. but to be honest, my highs are always different.. sometimes i am really up there, sometimes i just feel slightly light headed and relaxed.

things are interpreted differently for me when i'm high... watching tv, playing video games, doing anything electronically is a different feeling, a lot more distorted and fun (depending on your reaction to the feeling i guess)... but at the same time, going out with friends, being around family, going to work, every day things... those usually seem a lot different too.

i personally hate being around my parents and people that could potentially "catch me"... it's just not a good way to be high. that's why i don't do it in school... that and my school only has about 200 kids in my senior class and the teachers know everyone's name and basic biography.

but i am lost on a tangent now. probably because im feeling a little too stoned to collect my thoughts on this subject, because i think about this often... most of the time when i'm high.

happy fkn memorial day and fare well

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Originally Posted by L3G10N

for me, getting high now is not as enjoyable as it was wheni was say 16 - 18 years old. Now it seems when i smoke (even just a fews hits) i feel like im in a dream or another world... by body starts to clench up, my stomach tightenes and i feel very anxious and short of breath. Im hoping maybe its due to the fact that i just recently started smoking again after many many years. But i do remember this is the reason why i quit in the first place. When i used to smoke years ago, it felt so awesome and me and one of my friends would go through a bag everynight on the weekend. At some point smoking started to make me feel anxious and very uncomfortable, like i was going to lose control and i wanted to just jump out of my skin and go hide somewhere. Maybe somthing changed with me psychologically and smoking enahances these feelings. Anyhow, i will continue to smoke little at a time to see if anything changes. Could shitty MJ cause people to have anxious highs? Because where i live there is no such thing as premium weed... its all just regular generic crap i guess. There are no exotic names or blends, its just weed. Are there known strains that are less likely to cause anxiety? Im pretty new here to the boards, been trolling for a while but just recently registered. Thanks for listening.

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the edit timer beat me damn

take a picture of it for us i wouldnt be surprised if someone else recognized it and could tell you what it was.

excellent read
never really thought bout it like that
but i will now hmmmmm

This is kind of cool that it came up.....I'm on a break for a drug test on wednesday/thursday (havent decided yet) so I envy those enjoying a good MoMo day smoke.

My experience differs a lot on the setting. I have a friend of mine who consistantly gets great shit. Hes a cool kid but we have very little in common other than dissidence and weed. He likes to watch CNBC and sports what not....I'm more compelled to watch some Bob Ross or adult swim shit. (do it yourself shows are THE SHIT when you're blazing). Anyways the point is....the weed that I get is some of the dirtiest nasty you've ever gotten....But I end up way 'higher' at my house just chilling on a bongload of the nasty than i ever get smoking the goods at his house.

Another point I think is cool. Because I've been smoking so much, I start to doubt my high. I'll get done with like the second bowl and sit there for a minute trying to pick out something that would prove my highness. One of the only things i've been able to consistently pick out was inner dialouge. Try to notice it next time and make the distinction between 'high mind' and 'straight mind' (i've copyrighted that). I noticed that instead of just 'thinking' about something, its like its being narrated to me by my mind. (oh god....i'm insane) and it seems that I always end up humming or singing or tapping out a beat....some sort of improv music seems to come out when I'm high.

I know it seems 'stonerish' to say but....I find that a lot of 'complicated' problems can be really laid flat and examined under the influence.

For me its like someone else is thinking and Im just listening to it. But as soon as I hit and exhale, I always relize, "so this is what being stoned is" LoL I know it sounds dumb but I forget the magnituted of how I feel while high. I lose touch with reality real bad too, like my whole world turns upside down LoL and I start to question what Ive known my whole life. O and major deja-vu and of my childhood, of like houses, neighbourhoods, buildings, cept one problem, its usually in places Ive NEVER been before.

I'll read that when I'm high.

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the edit timer beat me damn

take a picture of it for us i wouldnt be surprised if someone else recognized it and could tell you what it was.

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If you mean post a pic of the stuff i smoke, then here it is. Not much to look at i know. It comes in a typical sandwitch bag and is all broken apart... seeds and stems and pretty dry. This is considered good stuff around here. :(
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Thats what you call good shit????? man that must suck

^^^^Yeah really

To tell you the truth I forgot how it feels when I'm high, I smoke like soo much daily that it's just a regular feeling..I dont feel anything different, there is no feeling actually lol but I can state the things that changes when I'm high. Some times I hallucinate, today I was lookin at a black chair in school and I thought I saw an ant crawl on it but it wasnt. I looked at the lights reflection from the chair and it was extra bright so I get hallucinations (very, very, very minor) and lights are brighter than they usually are when I'm sober, and I just feel different..more socially open..I used to could tell you how my brain and body felt when I was high but it doesnt feel different, it's just relaxed lol.

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Originally Posted by L3G10N

If you mean post a pic of the stuff i smoke, then here it is. Not much to look at i know. It comes in a typical sandwitch bag and is all broken apart... seeds and stems and pretty dry. This is considered good stuff around here. :(
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Dude unless you break that shit up your self I wouldnt buy that. Never buy anything but buds..in that giant bed of shread there could be pieces of sage or anything in there, people will put shit in bags like that made for suckers like you and probably have alot of shit in there just to make it look like a fatter sack...I'm willing to bet that there is more than just weed in that shit :p.

I'm sure you can find some one to sell you bud and not shread lol.

wow...i thought i was the only one who described being so high as being "gone" when im friggin high and my friends ask how i am...i just say "im gone.." and they understand exactly what im talking about. and i notice that your daydreams or your imagination becomes so much more vivid...so much clearer than when ur sober. i love it. and ive been the highest you can fuckig get on brownies...my first time i didnt even smoke..i had 2 brownies...i was blown out of my mind...i was crying i was scared shitless...i thought it would never go away, i didnt know where i was it was the worst experience of life....but i kept doing it...the second time i did brownies again...it was just as bad but i was alot calmer and looser...cuz i knew what was going on now...

and last weekend me and couple of friends had some hydro, it was only a bowl...for 4 people. we were so fucked up...i started speaking french and i barely know french. i took it in high school 3 years ago...but i was like talking extensively in french...it was soo awesome...french rules...

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and last weekend me and couple of friends had some hydro, it was only a bowl...for 4 people. we were so fucked up...i started speaking french and i barely know french. i took it in high school 3 years ago...but i was like talking extensively in french...it was soo awesome...french rules...

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lol what the fuck if i were one of the 4 people and i saw somebody jus start speakin french out of no where id drop kick him / her in the face.

For me, being high makes me see things differently. I find normal everyday things to be very pretty. I find some sights to be beautiful when Im high, some of them are normal to. Its weird. Also, watching a movie blazed is a totally different experience then watching it sober. Everybody knows this. When I rent a movie from Blockbusters and I think Im going to like it, I wont watch it until I can get some weed and get toked! Being high is a lifestyle and a good one.