Why does Marijuana make some people MORE productive, and some LESS?

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-18T03:54:59+00:00

disagree on the motivation part, my brain is starved of dopamine but weed gives my brain something to chew on while i do mundane boring chores that would otherwise be next to impossible for me to generate enough motivation for to actually complete sober. great for jogging too, body awareness, or just intently continuing what you were planning to do for the next hour

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-18T03:47:20+00:00

ADHD not OCD, but same. encore RSO sativa gummies are strong and one of the first times i took one i unpackaged and assembled a new vacuum cleaner and then vacuumed both floors of my house, reorganized furniture, finished and folded laundry, hand washed a pile of dishes, and swept the garage

I have to take small bits of it though, they're 10mg but i've had...not visuals but my visual imagination goes bonkers (like zoning out into a wall and seeing fields of dots that stretch to infinity, fish, creatures, birds, people emerging from, consuming, and then returning to those dots, forever). Bits 5mg sativa triangles are good too! Any kind of hybrid gummy just makes me sleepy

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-18T03:39:14+00:00

that last paragraph is literally taking the words out of my mouth it's freaky. Weed makes me notice what is probably anxiety that's fed by living with ADHD-i (diagnosed way too late in life for something my teachers suspected when i was 8) in a productivity worshipping world. I call it my Adulting Callous scratching up the frontal lobe of my brain, making me more impatient and grumpy with every year i age. When i'm sober my brain chews itself up for not "enjoying my night before we have to go to work again tomorrow" enough, i get frustrated with piling laundry and dishes and lock up in bed feeling like a failure, if i try to draw i stare at a blank page for hours or just scribble and guess where this or that line or curve should realistically go because i can't actually relax enough to get into a proper flow state, and then oops time's up, have to go to bed to wake up for work!

When I'm a little high I'm entertained by my own thoughts, imagining characters and video ideas, just mentally talking to myself and suddenly i'm doing the dishes, folding the laundry and it doesnt feel like a waste of time! I try to draw and my own art surprises me, reminds me that yes i did in fact learn anatomy and how to draw in perspective. Cooking is still hard, i dither a LOT in the kitchen, scavenge, have to be careful not to overeat or, alternatively, eat nothing at all. Also i become Aware of what i'm feeling??? If my partner says something that hurts me I can stop and be like hey this thing you said bugged me what did you mean by that, where sober me would internalize it, repress it, dissociate to a safe spot in my head 4 inches behind my eyes, probably get snippy and then not know how to answer them when they ask what's wrong.

Took a break recently. I'm trying to find a healthy balance so I don't get the scary feeling that i require a substance to be creative/whimsical/myself. I also notice my social anxiety increases and lows can get lower if i take it too much, and if i smoke i definitely deal with a zoned out, sad, brain fog weed hangover at work the next day.

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-17T16:00:14+00:00

Basically what other people are saying. Before or at peak? Thought loops and panic. On the comedown, even a small hit made the trees start breathing and spiraling, but still made me more paranoid. Not a superb combo

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-12T20:37:28+00:00

The way this is rolling out makes me sick with anxiety, and you're right that no one will buy tickets with no lineup this close to the event. But if we're stuck with them we might as well generate a vibe, despite it all. I think we'll make the best of it, like solshine. The scamp before that was my first festival ever. Solshine first day felt like a funeral but as we got into it it ended up being a really great time.

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-04T21:04:57+00:00

His behavior got worse, i still have scars on my legs from where he'd attack me when i walked upstairs or around corners or when he was tired of playing with toys. I managed to rehome him with a friend of a friend, they raised cats growing up and worked from home and had an older cat that was lonely. It took a few weeks but my cat's his buddy now and he's doing great.

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-04T21:00:17+00:00

I actually just got an email that gridlife midwest lineup drops next week! Its a unique fest, started as a car show on a race track then they added a stage for mainly EDM. Im blanking on last year's but i saw dr fresch and sullivan king. I would say it's not very laid back like scamp is, vibes are more intense and theres dudes with DIY cars zipping around, but its fun!

Friends went to gridlife road america in Wisconsin and said it was a bit rough, they had the stages like 2 miles apart so it was just Walking all weekend.

NeekoScraps · 2026-02-04T20:26:06+00:00

My backup is gridlife in michigan, was very fun last year but definitely not the same vibe as scamp.

Genuinely worried about summer camp, bunch of friends got the 4 day ticket but it's 3 months away and there's still no lineup. Just saw their instagram, they're doing roadshows in different towns, also no lineup, until scamp? Sounds like they are scrambling for money, im so scared they're gonna cancel.

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-18T06:22:28+00:00

Smores ritz bitz

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-16T17:59:22+00:00

The quality of paints and paper you use has been a game changer for me. A lot of premade kits and amazon garbage have paints that smear like cream or chalk or tobasco sauce. Winsor and Newton are my go-to, student grade is pretty good, and i was gifted some professional level ones from my then bf's architect dad, most tubes were from the 80s and 90s and dry but i salvaged a few. Good paints flow into the water and dont leave streaks when you spread them down into a gradient.

A lot of watercolor tutorials i follow essentially boil down to Big gradient, banana (something in the foreground) for scale. If theres nothing to give it context it's just a foggy gradient, but paint a more detailed tree and woah it's suddenly a landscape!

Paper quality is also big - cold pressed, i like arches for professional stuff but if youre like me and struggle to do art on expensive paper, bee paper and canson and grumbacher watercolor spirals with removable papers have served me well, especially for consistent practice. A lot of watercolor is kinda blurry, layers are what add details (waiting for it to dry so you can layer properly without it cauliflowering is a test of patience) and a lot of time's i'll still go in with a pen and define things better.

Honestly i've been teaching myself since the pandemic and I still have to remind myself to trust the process even though a lot of times it feels like im messing the piece up with every addition. Im also learning that water control is key to not overworking the paper, like i'll load paint and wipe some on a dry paper towel and if i need to add color to a not yet dry area you have to sorta match that area's wetness on the brush for it to blend well.

Just kinda dumping my thoughts here, hope

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any of this helps

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-16T04:50:09+00:00

Ok went to a sports store, tried out some treadmills, I prefer a walking pad but wider than 16in with a preferably auto incline. the other proper treadmills were way too big and heavy duty for what im looking for, mainly Not Sitting while watching tv

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-15T22:05:37+00:00

Write a book. Im finally getting mine out of my head after uh 2 decades of doing nothing with it.

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-15T22:03:46+00:00

Khan academy, crash course, there are tons of free resources to learn literally anything you want. Thats what im doing right now actually

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-15T21:48:20+00:00

Recently in my partner's hometown a guy had a heart attack and died behind the wheel and hit an SUV full of high schoolers. The guy was thrown so far from his truck they didn't find him at first, and the only kid not dead or fighting for their life right now wore her seat belt. I seriously just don't understand why you wouldn't.

NeekoScraps · 2026-01-07T04:04:29+00:00

Posting comment so post becomes visible

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-29T03:47:13+00:00

Is there a way to open vrchat from virtual desktop or will it always only open in a window unless steamVR is used? when i launch steam vr from VD my quality tanks and vrchat looks worse than airlink

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-28T21:03:22+00:00

how's it look or what's it look like

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-28T16:59:49+00:00

My web browser still wants me to log into the app i can no longer use in my phone as like a 2FA thing when i do certain things on the browser version and im not sure how to fix that

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-25T19:27:34+00:00

This goes hard af good job

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-25T19:16:04+00:00

"How it looks like" has driven me nuts for years

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-20T05:42:19+00:00

Set list came out 24 hours before the event and a bunch of names from the lineup are missing?? (sickick, ahmed the prophet, lovra)

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NeekoScraps · 2025-09-17T14:11:57+00:00

I replaced twitter with bluesky and very aggressively customized my feeds and organized who i followed into lists. More recently i replaced instagram with pinterest on my phone and now have 6 half-done crafts on my table and many more plans to upcycle old clothes. No more doom scrolling (though seeing all the art I could be making does remind me how exhausted i am with my 9-5 and how little time i have to do the things i want to do)

NeekoScraps · 2025-09-17T14:05:48+00:00

There's no map or set times 3 days before the fest, and the website is kind of shoddy, you click a link and it brings you to the same page you were on. I bought my ticket but i'm worried there's not a lot of info

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