Recovering addict here. Drugs make you feel very, VERY good, and that’s why they’re so hard to quit.
I quit taking street drugs because a street drug convinced me not to take them anymore.
Took a bunch of acid and it just kept telling me to stop taking so much drugs, every time and it wouldn’t be once, it was just randomly start telling me why I need to quit drugs, it was weird and only acid, mushies just made me love everything, acid had my back. I’m sober because LSD cared enough to convince me.
I think that LSD takes away your ability to ignore things. That applies to things around you, hence the feeling of enhanced perception – your brain no longer filters out all the things cracks in the sidewalk that you normally ignore. This is independent from the hallucinations, of course.
But it also applies to all those thoughts you’ve been ignoring. Hence the life-changing insights people report having; in your case I think you were subconsciously aware that you should quit drugs but didn’t want to confront that thought. LSD made you confront it.
(By the way, that’s also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you’re repressing.)
(By the way, that’s also why I think people with unresolved trauma should be very careful around LSD. Being forced to deal with your repressed shit all at once can go very badly depending on what you’re repressing.)
Ooooh yeah it can, I had to ban my housemate from acid because he had a reeeeeaaal fuckin bad trip, some core memories unlocked that night.
One time I had a bad shroom trip and I was like “Please just let me go back to normal…I’ll do anything…I’ll work hard and study…”
The weirdest fucking thing is that my roommate was saying the exact same thing out loud. He was basically narrating my internal monologue. And we didn’t even take the same amount. Very fucking weird indeed
Yep. My closest male friend besides my brother quit everything besides weed (alcohol included!) and he was addicted to crack and all sorts of substances. He might be the strongest man I know.
i just can’t give up the ganja. actually i have no choice but to give it up now because i’m poor as fuck, and also, i just got over a manic episode, so my dad watches my money like a hawk to make sure i don’t go on any wild spending sprees. that also means no cash withdrawals (my dad isn’t stupid, he knew i was only taking cash out of the ATM to buy drugs)
cash back on grocery transactions
If weed is your only/wildest vice after trying a lot of shit out I think you should be proud of yourself. 👍
my two vices are weed and alcohol, i used to be way more addicted to alcohol, now it’s the other way around. pretty good deal if you ask me, alcohol withdrawal is WAY worse than cannabis withdrawal. I actually don’t feel bad when going off the ganja, it gets easier to focus, I think much more clearly, and it’s a lot easier to stay productive.
“It’s called cocaine. It turns ago your bad feelings into good feelings. It’s a nightmare.”
On a very special episode of Star Trek…
Whoa, am I tripping or is anybody else in direct communication with every Reverend Mother that came before me?
Sounds like you are in fact tripping.
Rarely do I see someone become radically more knowledgeable or even prophetic because they took drugs, they usually just become loser alcoholics and junkies with no morals, lol.
Idk making libertarians develop empathy seems pretty radical.
Though I guess there’s also Musk as junkie with no morals
LSD is a whole different game. And you can’t get addicted, impossible. Trip today? Yeah, you’re not tripping again for another couple of days, no matter how much you take.
The thing with LSD is, that (depending on your dose) you usually also dont want to trip that regularly since its in fact quite exhausting. And tolerance builds up in like no time, so tripping very regular is a gigantic waste of money.
@cows_are_underrated tripping 2 times a year is enough IMO (at least for me)
I dunno… highly depends on the drug. I go to some a music fest in the summer and almost all the people there are the nicest and most caring hippies you’ll meet. Booze is banned, so it’s a different vibe than most music fests, but I think it works out so well.
I feel like in today’s world being caring and nice is close to prophetic because we don’t see enough of it. It really does hit different seeing a ton of strangers look out for each other.
Funny as I went from years of drug abuse and working dead end jobs with undiagnosed ADHD to turning my life around and becoming a software engineer and then kicking the drugs.
A whole range of people take drugs and most of them do it as they’re blocking other stuff out so I don’t really think you should discount people. Met plenty of fucking sober idiots in my life. If anything in more knowledgable as I’ve got streets smarts as well as book smarts. 🤷
Guess I’m saying don’t be so judgmental.
Carl Sagan
The drugs must flow.
President of Sand Planet has big human arms?! My first instinct is that that sucks, but my second instinct is that it rules.
I never made it to God Emperor, but I’ve heard it gets pretty bonkers
Rereading it right now. Fucking bizarre. At this point I just want to see what happens in the last book or two.
That pic on the right? Yeah, that’s Leto II, Paul’s son turned into, mostly, a worm, with a face and tiny hands. Also, he’s going to live about 3,500 years and turn into a mega sandworm, after forcing peace on the galaxy. I assume it gets weirder.
it’s been a few decades since i last read it but iirc the arms are small degenerate arms that can’t really do much except maybe operate a lasgun but by that point he didn’t really need to do much as he has a private army of fish speakers and his own desert compound within the terrafrormed arrakis
Reading it now and you’re exactly on point.
I’m not going to try to say it didn’t kind of go off the rails at some point, but I still loved every minute reading that series.
President Lego 2 most definitely rules.
The
cokeheadsleeper must awaken!
