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Has anyone else taken notes while they were high? I started taking notes when smoking around 10 years ago and it's probably the single thing that's most dramat
by aldoushuxley001 8y ago
Has anyone else taken notes while they were high?
I started taking notes when smoking around 10 years ago and it's probably the single thing that's most dramatically increased my intellectual development. The simple act of writing down my ideas helped solidify them and turned them into a foundation for future evolution of the idea. I now have 5500 notes on my computer and 2000 on my phone and you could effectively trace my intellectual history with them.
Just curious if other people have similar success with smoking weed and taking notes?
- JL-Akrasia 8y agoI have a similar usage pattern. I have 200+ essays (1000+ words) on interesting thoughts. Often they are more incomplete than I would like. These aren't necessary notes but more ideas sparked by recent literature I have read. Lets take this offline? - Would be delighted to chat.
- aldoushuxley001 8y agoHey, that's fascinating. Would love to chat more. Maybe send me an email at: aldoushuxley1@protonmail.com Or if you have another idea, let me know
- RichardCA 8y agoYou're in good company. http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/
- aldoushuxley001 8y agowow, thanks for the link! Found this incredible quote from Carl Sagan that describes it perfectly: > "There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we’re down the next day. Some of the hardest work I’ve ever done has been to put such insights down on tape or in writing. The problem is that ten even more interesting ideas or images have to be lost in the effort of recording one. It is easy to understand why someone might think it’s a waste of effort going to all that trouble to set the thought down, a kind of intrusion of the Protestant Ethic. But since I live almost all my life down I’ve made the effort – successfully, I think. Incidentally, I find that reasonably good insights can be remembered the next day, but only if some effort has been made to set them down another way. If I write the insight down or tell it to someone, then I can remember it with no assistance the following morning; but if I merely say to myself that I must make an effort to remember, I never do."
- heurist 8y agoAbsolutely. It's like a mirror that helps keep you on one track. I need to be relaxed/stress-free to be in the mood for that, though.