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You definitely don't seem like a robot, but your initial comment was similarly surprising to me. From personal experience, I would say that it's entirely possib
by ewzimm 12y ago
You definitely don't seem like a robot, but your initial comment was similarly surprising to me. From personal experience, I would say that it's entirely possible to act normally under the influence of opiates while being completely affected by them. I think it's more a flaw in the way we judge people. At high doses of opiates, a person will be incapacitated, but at low doses, I still had my motor skills but felt like an entirely different person, like half my brain was blocked. I compensated, of course, but I was painfully aware that I was compensating, and I was often acting out of memory of how I would have responded rather than naturally reacting to things. For me, it was more like destruction of feelings and higher thinking while maintaining basic memories and reactions to things. I could be completely logical while emotionless and lacking any larger perspective or analysis. Maybe that kind of attitude is just considered normal now.
I think weed makes people think more abstractly but opiates destroy feeling and complex thoughts.
- MichaelGG 12y agoOpiates surely affect judgment by adding a positive spin. Similar to how one's judgment is affected when things are going well (say, a fantastic start to a relationship). But I was referring to analytical thinking, not more subjective feeling. I can and have written a search engine/database while on opiates. I doubt I could implement cat on pot.
- ewzimm 12y agoI believe you, but I think we are talking about two different kinds of impairment. I'm sure there are also effects of tolerance to be able to program on opiates, and different people will react differently. The positive spin is something I never experienced. I got the opposite negative perspective on everything. So will agree that it is probably easier for most people to think analytically on low doses of opiates rather than cannabinoids, but I think there are other aspects of mental blocks that manifest strongly on opiates, at least for myself.