Reading

Ever try to read a book high, can you do it, and do you retain as much?
I been studying lately high, and i do ok on tests and such.

 

i cant really focus on the book..
i dont like novles or anything cuz even when im not high they cant keep my atention
i like informational books. like anything from the science section of the library

 

are you kidding me? doing things high isn't any harder than normally, i can read a book stoned off my ass if it interests me. its just that the average person on here probably doesnt read sober, let alone when they're high.

 

i love reading...never did it stoned, though. maybe i should try it.

 

That may be the case for you, but I know plenty of people that have NO attention span when theyre blazed, and its rather hard to read a book if you can't keep your eyes on the book.

 

well are they new to smoking or do they only do it on occasion? most of the people i know can hold their shit together when they're high. not everyone, but most. course, most of them don't like reading anyway, except a few.

personally i love it, and i'd prefer to read when im just a little buzzed personally....not stoned as fuck but not completely sober either. i just find it to be more interesting a lot of the time.

 

Enjoyed the book a lot when iI was wasted - the next day could not remember much of what it was about - but maybe just me

 

no way man - i cant even read a fucking menu to order when i got the munchies. too blurry, cant see it.

i do read normally, but i just dont have the patience or motivation to do it when im stoned

and man, studying wud just be a total buzzkill for me! there are better ways to spend time when yer flyin' high who studies anymore nowadays anyways? luck is the way to go.

 

but if you smoke anyways and you have to study anyways, you might as well get a little buzz going first. personally i can't do math well when i'm stoned or when i'm sober, it doesnt make a difference how bad i am at it, but at least being stoned makes things a bit more interesting to me sometimes.

 

I really love to read physics books when im high. that shit fuckin blows my mind, and i usually understand it a lot better. But i often find myself reading the same sentence for a couple minutes, cause i keep stopping and thinking about other things

 

i kind of agree with Colours... LOVE reading when i'm stoned, fiction is good but some really interesting non-fiction is usually my favorite, yeah, especially meta-physics books or things about spirituality, nature, philosophy, psychology. Most of my high school career was spent smoking everyday and i still did great in school...personally being buzzed usually helped with my studies, gave me more points of view that i maybe wouldn't normally have had. Also helped me get through extremely boring subjects/books by making things more vibrant. I can easily understand how it's not for everyone, but personally i've alwasys done well smoking and doing intellectual tasks.

 

I said I can't focus on it. Now, I've only tried reading a couple times high, but I know I usually can't keep focused on what someone called "informational" stuff. Maybe it was the specific book, the author's writing style, but it seemed disjointed, like lots of run on sentences and stuff. I couldn't keep it all connected. Sometimes it seems science-type books use sentences that are too long and complex. I read all the time, I'm such a book nerd, and generally can understand any book, but sometimes I wonder if the author is just trying to look smart.

I've never tried reading a novel though, that might be fun.

You know, come to think of it, there have been times I've really gotten into a website while I was high, and it's just amazing. Especially science stuff, or spiritual stuff...basically the same stuff Earthfluff mentioned. But one time, even though it was a sort of counter-cultureish site, I swear there were corporate messages in there. Like if you read diagonally, there were things saying to have faith in the government, and to buy coca cola and stuff. But the author was of course definitely not a corporate supporter, as far as the actual content of the essay went. It was freaky though, and I think I remember checking the next day to see if the messages were there, and they were.

 

hah thats pretty weird. do you rememebr teh site?

 

I'll look around for it, but I doubt I'll find it. I can't even remember what it was about.

 

alluminum is like bad to make into bowls, theres that correlation between alzheimers and alluminum build up in the brain(Im not sure al causes it, but there is definetly a correlation.) And considering 2 of my relatives have died from alzheimers, I would rather not take any chances.

 

this would be nice if it had something to do with this thread...

 

lol, i was blazed, i read a post in some other thread, and accidently posted in a totaly different thread.

 

I used to get stoned and read this amazing and very long series of books (Earth's Children, by Jean M. Auel), and just read the descriptions of the crazy and beautiful landscapes the main character was traveling through. I don't remember much, but having images of glaciers, mountains, forests, prehistoric animals, and other aweosme stuff in my head during a good high was awesome. I'm about to re-read the second book now; it's fun times.

 

i've read some of those books. i haven't finished the series though, those books are so long! Like, long as in they drag on and on sometimes.

 

i used to read fiction heaps

id be late to school every morning caus i was staying up reading till like 3 am every night

nowadays, i hate reading fiction. its a waste of time imo. people say 'it gives you words and you use your imagination for form teh story'. but i think thats a load of crock. i want to know what the AUTHOR percieves in teh story.

i read lots and lots of science or anything REAL really, on the internet, when stoned. or read science magazine or something like that.

but i think the common notion that reading is intellectual and makes you smarter or something is totally bunk. reading fiction will make you better at using words, simply because you are reading them all the time. reading non fiction on teh other hand will teach you things about teh world.

a quote from teh movie 'sideways', when the main character tells his friends brother in law hes writing a fiction novel

"so many things in this world to learn. why read something some guy just.. made up?"


if i hear music, i hear what the musician plays. if i see a painting, i may have to interpret it.. but i still see what he painted.

then you come to writing. an author describes something and leaves US to create the scene. sorry but id rather just write my own story. or even better, create knowlege and write a non fiction book.

I think, since being a stoner, i cant read non fiction while stoned, i just cant make sense of it because none of its concrete, yet i expect words to tell me something. So i will read a sentance.. and then read the next one and realise that i had to actually develop teh previous sentance myself before i could procede, instead of just reading the information.

then i stopped reading fiction, and started reading heaps more non fiction stuff. then my whole perspective on it changed and now, when im sober even, i dont care much for non fiction.

caus non fiction affects me. but fiction TELLS me what to imagine. i just hate that. dont tell me what to imagine! lol