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Same observation. I also smoked weed in my teens and early twenties and I remember it making some of the most banal horse shit ideas seem profound, or like I re
by eloisius 5y ago
Same observation. I also smoked weed in my teens and early twenties and I remember it making some of the most banal horse shit ideas seem profound, or like I really understand how the universe clicked together. I bet hanging out with a bunch of stoners steeping in my own bullshit for another decade would make me a(n even more) pompous ass too.
- alabamacadabra 5y agoThe effect is such that you are activating neurons which are engaged in the learning process. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11064-005-6978-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11064-005-6978-1 Because of this, to the untrained mind (most humans are not given manuals to how their mind works) these firings related to any event cause the event to have the perception of presenting deep information which one can learn from. This state allows one to perceive the banal as sublime, or in simpler terms, dumb shit seems cooler, and you can enjoy dumb things more, as you are turning on a relational learning part of your mind and also engaging in a consumption ritual to do so. Genuinely this article and the reactions are giving me some confusion in regards to how other people perceive the world.
- stevev 5y agoI doubt this even happened lol.
- jwilber 5y ago“I doubt that even happened lol.” Says man who, earlier in the same thread on weed-induced arrogance, writes, “my experience is the opposite.“
- brendanclune 5y agoRealistically it was my teens and early twenties that made banal horse shit ideas profound. There's something to be said for age.