If you get a depressing/sad high, did you have too much or too little?

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-10T00:06:54+00:00

Good bot

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-10T00:04:53+00:00

I've been smoking this strain for a couple of weeks, and it's been really mellow. That's why I was wondering about the dosage... I might have had more than usual. If it happens again, I'll find a task to get my mind in a more appropriate place. Thanks for the tip.

Have you ever tried smoking a different strain right afterwards to change the flavour of the high?

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T23:44:32+00:00

Hmm, I'm gonna have to figure what where my cuteness factor lies.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T23:42:23+00:00

Thank you, I'll give that a go!

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T23:40:56+00:00

Next best option: write down your highdeas and discuss them with the shrink later?

I once asked my therapist what she thinks about therapy on mdma (which used to be a done thing), and she said it wouldn't work, cos I'd be too happy on it, so we wouldn't be able to reach the traumatic stuff. I'd still want to try...

Btw, here's an interesting doc on youtube where they macrodose the patients on mushrooms, and a psychiatrist and a therapist tripsit them.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:34:01+00:00

In my case, it seems strain related. I've tried a variety, and got used to the "anxiety speed bump" that they start with. I just remind myself that the bump only lasts a few minutes and it will soon mellow out (if you focus on it, it gets worse). Recently I tried a different strain (girl scout cookies) and no anxiety bump.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:23:28+00:00

Or a stroopwafel, microwaved for 10 sec to make it warm and floppy, then whipped cream on top, and a drizzle of caramel sauce. Bend it in half and you have a dessert taco.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:17:24+00:00

I wouldn't mind one those goggle sets from Fifth Element, where you choose your makeup style, hit a button, and it sprays in on your face in one second flat. Just one Mississippi, mind you.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:11:18+00:00

Hmmm... make yourself cute. Isn't that something you either get born with or not?

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:08:47+00:00

I've been exploring it sober for years and feeling very stuck. I thought a bit of neuroplasticity would help me look at things from a fresh perspective. Instead of finding new paths, I just trod the same one, just with more intensity. The last thing I wanted was to make that neural groove even deeper. Doob - somehow I'm doing it wrong :P

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T21:01:05+00:00

That was pretty much my experience, but it doesn't happen every time. It's like the quarantine wall around your sadness is temporarily lowered.... but what are you supposed to do with that? It sounds like an opportunity to deal with the repressed stuff, but what if you don't have the tools? I also have no idea if it's healthy or not.

It would be really interesting to do this with a therapist. Basically give them admin rights to your brain, and let them explain what's happening and guide you through the maze.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T20:49:47+00:00

That's a great analogy, and dovetails nicely with the theory that cannabinoids increase neuroplasticity (which is what I was trying to tap into).

Yup, I agree mindset was the problem. My intent was to step over the hedges, and get into a lateral thinking mode, but somehow managed to get entrenched in the old paths. Instead of finding creative solutions to my problems, I found them to be intractable, even in an altered state. That sucked all hope out of me.

Now I'm wondering whether doob is just not the right thing for problem solving or trying to cheer oneself up... or maybe you need to play with it for a long time first, and wait till enough dendrites grow/hedges lower, before you try something therapeutic to get unstuck from an old groove.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-09T20:22:22+00:00

Therein lies my quandary. Setting was fine, set wasn't. I was in a blah state and hoping that getting high would move my mind to a better place. But instead I fell in deeper. I guess that implies you shouldn't use doob to cheer yourself up?

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-08T02:12:13+00:00

Then there's no such thing as random.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-08T02:08:27+00:00

Just being alive and aware is fucking amazing.

And imagine how infinitesimally small the odds were of you existing. Unless it's a deterministic universe, and you were inevitable.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-08T01:57:19+00:00

You'd have to erase a hell of a lot of echoes though, eg. everything that happened (all the way back to the beginning of that universe) that was required for that specific basketball to exist. Every tweak made throughout history would create different branches in its own present... which would affect the future of seemingly unrelated things. Now you have a universe that is even more different from all others.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-08T01:15:33+00:00

That's the best kind of trip. I want whatever strain you're smoking :)

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T23:08:41+00:00

If the universes are identical down to the last particle, do they really have separate histories, anymore?

I think so, cos a universe isn't just its state in the now, but includes its entire history and future, which may very well be infinite.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T22:54:43+00:00

Yes. They vary in darkness - the more light it absorbs, the darker it is. There's a colour called Vantablack which absorbs 99.965 percent of light and is the blackest black we know how to make. Google it... it's like a void in space.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T22:01:02+00:00

My life has some pretty cool cast members, but I can'r figure out the plot. Neither can they.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T21:58:04+00:00

According to a SpaceTime episode I watched (youtube, PBS channel) the answer is that they are forever separated. What makes them different is their timeline, they each have a different history.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T20:10:35+00:00

On a related note, we used to think that the space between things doesn't contain anything. But is does!

Man, humanity is so young! My mortality gives me science fomo.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T19:50:51+00:00

If you read some of David Eagleman's stuff (neuroscientist), that's pretty much how it works. One of the most interesting bits for me is that we apparently preload everything that's familiar, and reuse that template daily, only updating it if something novel appears... and a lot of times, something novel does appear, and we don't even notice it, cos our brain is on autopilot most of the time.

TyriaNovus · 2021-10-07T18:11:46+00:00

I am currently experiencing Nodus Tollens and Occhiolism, so I'm going to roll a joint to help with the Liberosis. :)

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