Creativity

Has anyone ever been high alone and sat down and tried to meditate and just concentrate all your thoughts into creativity and your art? How'd you go about this and what was your experience and results?

 

i have not...but i would love to try it...but i think i'd be too stoned to actually concentrate you know....but its a good idea..since i did get in to a pretty good artcollege here. ..(interview is still left though) ...i ll probably try it when i get some assignments.

someone try it!!

 

i always meditate when i'm high, but not for creativity reasons...I get really creative when im stoned while listening to music just thinking to myself...

 

Yeah man. Do you sit outside and think or inside in the dark tyring to escape?

 

outside man, always outside.
I'm a nature freak though...

 

Yea me too, like Bill Hicks. How have your meditation experiences been?

 

i've had some amazing experiences with meditation.
One of the most spirtual I've had, I wrote an experience report about.
if your up for a longer read, its posted here:
http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116821

 

I dont know if this counts but i'm better at video games and drawing when i'm stoned.

 

Marijuana is musician's tobacco

 

i smoked and tried to put my exhaust manifold back onto my car...

even with all my concentration i somehow managed to fuck it up royally because i was ripped, so i had to save it for another day lol

 

i cant realy think of new idea for writing storys but ill read my some of my storys and i notice i analyz them better when im high and like if the plot is good it seems better and i know its a good story,i notice the same thing when i watch movies when its a good moive in all into it more then normal but when its a bad movie i can like analyz the acting and pick out where there flaws are and stuff

 

I am way the fuck too ignorant to sit there and do something thoughtful. If I smoke a joint while standing up/walking, the most creative I get is to think of a great way to break something. When I smoke sitting down, I just turn on the music/tv/xbox and veg out completely.

 

I've never tried doing anything creative while smoking. I always seem to just sit and think to myself. I think I'll write something tomorrow night when I get a halfie.

 

Every time I smoke, I feel enlightened. I have all kinds of crazy thoughts about the universe and about people, so I keep a notebook. Some of it's just dumb, but most of it is really interesting. I've written great songs while high.

 

I don't find that I do much creative stuff when I'm really high. If you want to be creative, don't "get blown" just smoke a bit to get a nice, light high. It'll enhance and alter your thinking patterns but won't put you in a trance.

 

get your tool, and use it. creativity isnt about structure, structure is part of the production of creativity, the portrayal. creativity itself is ideas, ideas come from nothing but active thinkning. get your instrument out and just play. get your pen and just write, whatever you think of. pen to draw. yo ucant do it if you sit and think about it, caus stoned thoughts are about flow, you never sit and think 'ok what can i think about that object?'.. a thought just pops into your head and you go with it, steering it in the direction youre interested in. its teh same with creativity, you just gotta start and youll be able ot steer it in the direction you want

 

i am 16 and when i was 12 i was diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficate hyperactive disorder) mine was a rare case though beacuase i was prescribed heavy heavy doses of ritalin. after my 14th birthday i decided that my ritalin was no longer working so i switched to concerta for about a year and a half and then stopped. this was when my grades started slipping and i dropped out of highschool. on spring break i decided to say fuck it and give in to peer pressure and smoke my first joint on mar lanta road in atlanta georgia, this turned out to be the smartest thing i have ever done, not only did this new substance replace the need for my ritalin and my concerta but my most recent grades included all a's and one b smoking practically everyday. i wouldnt call this spiritually enlightened or artistically enlightened (though i see a great improvment in my guitar playing skills when i am blazed) but rather an interesting cure for my mild and very common mental dissability if you would even call it that. i prefer strong concentration disorder..

 

usualy i'm always creatingthings without drugs.. like i'l be sitting at the dinner table and make something out of the potatos everytime and its never the same.. or i'l sit in science or something and just make something kinda questionable.. but it will mean something signifigant one day ( well thats what i think ) haha people think i'm "perma fried" haha but i dono.. haha i function fine.. i just see the world different but when i do smoke up or ingest or however.... it kinda just magnifies my creativity levels..

 

Ever since I've started smoking my creativity has dropped and now I dont even draw anymore and it makes me sad =(

Another reason I dont draw is that my sketchbook is gone and I'm too broke to get a new one and I can't bring myself to draw in anything BUT my sketchbook...

 

I meditated so hard I had an anurism...seriously. But man was it intense.