One thing I love about weed is that it makes your hearing so keen. You can hear things you previously (while sober) either don't believe you can hear, or forget you can hear: people talking a block away, the cars on the distant road, small sounds in the underbrush. It's nice because I go outside and smoke, and I just melt into nature. I can hear all this subtlty to the world around me, because I can hear so much better. (same with sight, touch, etc...just using sound as an example/metaphor). Unfortunately, in our artificial modern world, there is no nuance. It uses it's loud volume to make you forget that it's nothing but an ugly, simple imitation of nature's complex beauty, to which it can never hope to compare. It's like comparing a great symphony to the random repeated banging on a piano. The first is subtle in beauty and melody, while the other is just loud, obscuring it's horrible sound by shocking the senses with volume... What sucks is that this artificial, loud world drowns out the nuance and you're left with a dreary, oversimplified, ugly "noise" or vibe. It really tires me out, psychologically and spiritually. It doesn't help that I live in the middle of a metropolis...fucking suburbs...
Yeah, hanging out in nature is great when you're high. The crickets are so loud. The worst, really, though, is the fact that when I'm high, I notice the slightest intonation problem or tuning problem on my guitar. Hanging out on my back porch on the woods is awesome. Stars and nature, on a warm night with a nice breeze. Those are the greatest nights to get high. Summer nights that are just warm enough, with a perfect wind and great nature sounds. You know what you could do? You could get some of those nature sounds C.D.s and play it on your C.D. player really loud, while laying in the dark on your bed. It's not quite the same, but if you live in a big city and you can't travel out, it's the best you're going to do.
no the best thing to do is even if u live in the burbs... get high as shit with 3 of ur best friends ever cover your whole heads in shaving cream and go bang on the neighborhood boogiemans window while he is in there and scream as loud as u can!!FUN AS SHIT AT THE TIME! yeah i know that was a dick thing to do. i felt real bad when we learned he had a complication with his nervous system where he rocked and twitched uncontrolably
funny, when I read TrippinBTM's post I was thinking about how alot of times the inner dialogue is enhanced as well. I've found that I can close my eyes when I'm high and build on those until there's a full fledged concert, an orchestra, a band, a thousand guitars, or any number of instruments and combinations that I want. It's actually really cool because I don't think I'd ever be able to reproduce that music in real life. I lack the knowhow, I'd never be able to afford all the instruments and equipment, not to mention the voices, animals, sound effects, etc..., and I'm not sure if some of that music is even earthly possible right now. The whole experience is also accompanied by sometimes extremely complex and vivid inner visuals. I can do this when I'm not high to a degree, but after I've smoked a good bowl I just take off.
That's cool as hell; you have an orchestra in your head, on demand...with visuals to accompany it. I had some of the my most intense visuals ever last night. Weed doesn't usually do that to me, but this time there were some really vivid ones.
At first it used to happen after I'd been out with friends getting high and I'd come home to go to sleep. Some melody would start building itself and then it would fade away. Over time I just ran with it and started adding to it. Then again maybe its just some sort of self induced psychosis lol. Nah, nobodies telling me to kill anybody. Just a bunch of psychadellic visuals with music. btw living out in the country is great. But there's times when I miss the opportunity to just go on those urban walks. The huge buildings, the sound of traffic, lots of people, etc.. anonymity in the masses. Maybe some distant future date when we invent the teleporter we can come to a board like this and just trade for a bit. lol I can see it now. Message: Need to get out of the city. Message: Want to go on urban walk. Bap, bap ZAP. lol